Bible Verse Cards

I have a few inspirational Bible Verse Cards to share today.  All these cards were made with Colorful Blessings Card fronts which you can find on Amazon.  All you have to do is color them in and adhere them to a card base.  I have been making cards with these fronts for two years now.  You can see my first post HERE.  They are so fun and therapeutic to color.  I always try to mediate on the verse as I color.

I usually use gel pens when I color these fronts as the designs are so intricate they are hard to color with any other medium.

Even if you aren't into paper crafting just scrolling through this posts and reading these verses is relaxing, especially during these difficult times.  I absolutely love this first verse.

This is such a happy, cheerful design!

The next two verses are also so appropriate for these trying times.

This is a verse I need to keep repeating to myself as I struggle with depression over what this virus is doing to our world and my own life.

And finally a positive reminder to us all.

Have A Great Day!  Amy

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A Handmade Sympathy Card and More "Colorful Blessings" Cards

It's been awhile since I've shared some of my handmade cards with you so I decided to do a "card round up" post before the Easter projects begin!

Well, first I had the unpleasant task of making a sympathy card.  I don't know a card maker on the planet who enjoys making a sympathy card.  We just hope and pray our handiwork brings comfort to the recipient as we make it.  This card was made for a good friend of mine who lost her father-in-law.  

I used retired Stampin' Up! sets to make this card.  I kept it simple and elegant by stamping the images directly  onto the main card base and coloring it in with Copic markers.  I then matted it on a black piece of card stock to make everything pop before I adhered it to a white card base.

The rest of the cards I have to show you were all made from my "Colorful Blessings" Card fronts I purchased on Amazon.  These are all pre-printed card fronts that you simply color in and mount to a card base.

The designs in this kit are usually very intricate so I almost always use my gel pens to color them.  This results in very bright and vivid colors.

I almost always mount the card fronts to a dark base first to make the colors pop and then I put them on a white card base.

The card below however already had so much white space, I chose a coral card to mount it on.

All the messages in this kit are very generic but encouraging so you can use them for a multitude of occasions.

Sometimes when I'm done with my Bible Journaling for the day, I just like to pull out a card front and color.  Like I do with my Bible Journaling, I try to mediate on the verse as I color.  I then make a card out of the front even though I may not have a recipient for it, and just put it in my stash so I have a card ready when needed.

This would be a cheerful card to give to someone going through a hard time.

I hope you enjoyed looking at my cards today.  Easter cards are coming soon!

Have A Great Day!  Amy

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A Thanksgiving Card For A Little Boy

This past month I have been showing all the Thanksgiving cards I made for my family.  Today I have one more to share, my last one, the card I made for my beautiful grandson.

All the stamps were found in the dollar bins of a local craft store.  I stamped the main image, sentiment, and leaves directly on the main image image panel and colored them in with Copic markers.  The pumpkin and nut were stamped on a separate piece of card stock, colored in, cut out, then popped up on dimensionally.  I covered the pumpkins in Crystal Effects to make it shiny.

I stamped some grass under the fox.  Scrap ribbon from my stash was added to the upper left corner for some extra embellishment.  I adhered a leaf brad over the top to secure the ribbon in place.

I adhered the main image panel to a copper glitter panel, then I glued the two panels to an orange card base.

And here is the latest picture of the sweet little boy that received this card.  Babies change so quickly I thought you'd like to see a recent picture.  He still has the sweetest, most chill temperament.  I can't wait to see him and Alethea this Thanksgiving.

Have A Great Day! Amy

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A Thanksgiving Card For A Little Girl

The past couple of weeks I've been showing the fall/Thanksgiving cards I made for my kids.  I showed adult cards the first two weeks, now I'm moving on to the cards I made for my beautiful grandchildren.  This week I have a card I made for a little girl, my granddaughter, Alethea.

My image is an old MFT stamp.  I colored her in with Copic markers using all fall colors.  I made her a blond because Alethea is a blond.  Then I added some pretty leaf crystals because I knew Alethea would like that.

The sentiment was stamped directly on the main image panel then I adhered the panel to an orange card base.

Alethea was so cute when she got her card.  After she opened and looked at it, she immediately knew to put it on top of the bookshelf where it would stay safe but she could still see it.  Mom has her trained well. :)

Have a Great Day!  Amy

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A Handmade Fall Card “Fall Leaves”

This is a pre-scheduled post.  I am in Illinois helping my daughter with the grandchildren.  They do not have Internet service so I will not be able to respond to comments or visit your blogs until I return.

I am going to take a brief break from Bible Journal pages for the next few weeks so I can show you the fall cards I made for my family.  I don't make Halloween cards anymore, but I still love to give my kids and grandkids a holiday card and some treats, so I make fall cards instead.  

This card I made for my son.  I kept it as masculine as possible by using a plaid background in fall colors and leaf stamps.

All the stamps are old.  I really don't see the need to buy new fall stamps every years, so I just keep using the ones I have.  The sentiment is an old Inkadinkado sold stamp.  I colored the stamp with water markers to get the different colors in the image.  The leaves are from an old Stampin' Up! set.  I stamped them in a ink pad that has several different shades of ink in one pad.

I wrapped raffia around the main image panel and tied in a bow then secured a leaf brad on top.  The entire main image panel was popped up on dimensionals.

I matted the card three times before securing it to a white card base:  the plaid designer paper, the solid peach, and the solid brown.  The ovals was matted over the same brown card stock.

Have A Great Day!  Amy

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A Handmade Card For A Newborn Baby

I am thrilled today to show you the card I made to welcome my first grandson into the world.  In case you missed it, I shared Atticus' birth story from a grandmother's perspective in yesterday's post.

My daughter decorated Atticus' nursery with some cute animal photos, one of them being an elephant picture, so I decided to use my "Adorable Elephants" set from MFT. to make Atticus' card.   I don't normally buy new stamps anymore, because I have such a huge supply already, and frankly, most new stamps are just remakes of the old ones.  But every now and then a new stamp set pulls at my heart strings and I just have to have it.  This set has the cutest elephant images in it, and I love how versatile it is as well.  The sentiments that come with the set are birthday, thank you, or accomplishment related, but I ended up using it as a baby card by adding a sentiment from another old set.

I stamped the image on a separate piece of card stock and colored it in with Copic markers.  Then I fussy cut it using a pair of scissors.  The stamp set comes with an optional die cut set, but that cost $26.99.  Uh, no thank you.  A pair of scissors works just fine.  Why do those dies have to cost so much?  

I also stamped and fussy cut the butterflies that came with the set.  The white ovals were cut with a Cuttlebug machine and Spellbinders dies.  Everything was adhered to the white ovals.  The elephant I popped up on dimensionals.

I think the sentiment is from an old Stamping' Up set.  I cut a banner tag and leaves with MFT dies, and then adhered the sentiment over those.  I know hardly anyone uses Prima flowers anymore, but I still have a ton left in my stash, so I added that too.  I thought the blue polka dots in the flower went so well with the blue butterflies.

For the background I chose some pretty glitter paper from an old DCWV stack.  Everything was then adhered to a white card stock base.

Have A Great Day!  Amy

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A Get Well Card

Hello Again!   I'm back from my Holiday Break.  I had family over for two weeks, the last one left on Saturday morning.  Then my husband and I, who were so ready for a clean house and some type of "normalcy" again, aggressively worked together and had all the Christmas decorations down and packed away by 4:00 pm.  Yeah!  I had a nice Christmas, but at the same time, I just wanted it to be over.  I am so excited to start a new year!  I don't make resolutions, but I'm eager to get back to my normal healthy diet and exercise routine, and I'm in the mood to scrub and declutter my entire house from top to bottom.  What is about this time of year that makes everyone want to do that?  I bet the thrift stores get a boat load of items in January.  I know I will be dropping off a few trunk full of items myself!

For today, I want to show you a get well card I made months ago.  One of my husband's co-workers had a serious fall and broke her foot.  She was out of work for three weeks, so I sent her this card to cheer her up.

 The image if called "Hollyhocks" and it is from Flourishes (old).  I created a sun by placing a circle die in the corner and inking in and around it with different shades of yellow and orange inks.  I stamped the sentiment inside the "sun".

I colored the background with Copic Markers to create a sky.  After rounding the corners with a corner rounder I adhered the main image panel to a white card base (also rounded) and tied a pink string around it.  It was then attached  to a light pink card base.

 I punched out a paper heart and tied it to the bow.  I added yellow Stickles to the centers of the Hollyhocks.

Have A Great Day!  Amy

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30th Birthday Cards

My daughter and son-in-law both turned thirty this summer and these are the cards I made for them.  But first let me say, I can't believe I have a thirty year old kid!  Geez, I'm old.  Anyway, onto the cards!

This is the card I made for my daughter.  I used an old retired Stampin' Up! set called "Girlfriends" for the stamped image.  I thought her body expression expressed my feelings exactly.  haha!   I personalized the card using my Cricut Expression machine to cut out the "30".  The "Happy Birthday" sentiment is a MFT die, and the black circle is a Spellbinder's die.

 I added a few sequins for sparkle!

For my son-in-law's card I used the same dies and Cricuit cartridge to make the sentiment.  The balloons are a stamp.   

  I stamped the balloon image directly on the white card stock, then stamped one balloon separately, colored, cut it out, and popped it up on dimensionals.  I put "Crystal Effects" on all of them.  Also added some yellow glitter glue randomly in little dots in the background.

We had a little party for the kids at my house.  I hung a banner, cut some fresh flowers from my garden, and cut more balloon shapes and signs with my Cricut.  Of course, I forgot to take pictures.  haha!  I'm such a bad blogger.  In my defense, the party didn't quite turn out the way I planned because it interfered with Alethea's bedtime schedule, so that's probably why I wasn't in picture-taking-mode.  The kids seemed to appreciate it though.

Have a Great Day!  Amy

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"Congrats Grad!" Graduation Card

 This is a card I made for a young man who graduated high school.  I tried to use a masculine design and some of the colors of his school (red).

It was a very simple card to make.  The striped background is just designer paper adhered to a panel of chocolate brown card stock and then onto a white card base.  I then glued pre-purchased chipboard letters onto the designer paper.

The graduation hat was stamped, colored, cut out, and then attached to the letter "G".

The sentiment was stamped onto a Very Vanilla piece of card stock then cut out with a MFT die.  Then I used a decorative stapler and decorative red staples to adhere the sentiment onto the card.

Have a Great Day!  Amy

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Be sure to check the very last Between the Lines post HERE!

Soaring Away with "Adorable Elephants"

I made a scenic card using MFT's "Adorable Elephants" stamp set.

Rather than coloring a sky, I just used a piece of designer paper from Prima "Annalee".

The elephant and balloons were stamped on card stock, colored, cut out, and adhered to the designer paper.  I put Crystal Effects on the balloons to make them shiny.  The center balloon is popped up on a dimensional.

The clouds were cut with an MFT die.  I stamped the sentiment onto blue card stock, cut it out with an MFT banner die, then adhered it to the card with a brad.

I then scattered a few sequins around for embellishment.

Have a Great Day!  Amy

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Easter Bunny Cards

Easter is only a few days a way!  I heard there is a big snowstorm possibly heading our way which might affect our plans, so I'm hoping it goes somewhere else.  I knew with Easter being so early that snow would be a possibility.  I wish Easter had a definite date on the calendar and didn't move around so much!  Mid-April would be the perfect time to celebrate Easter!

I do have some cute Easter cards to share with you today.  I've had these adorable images in my stash for years, and this is the first time I have ever used them.  They are by Peachy Keen Stamps and called "Easter Bunnies".

Are they not the cutest Easter Bunnies you've ever seen?  There are three cute bunnies in this set, but I only needed two cards...it was hard to choose which bunny to use;  I love them all!

I kept my cards clean and simple and let the bunnies take center stage.  For this card, I just stamped this sweetie directly onto white card stock, and colored him in with Copic Markers.

 The only embellishment I used was a light blue organza bow and a strip of designer paper on the bottom of the page.

My next card is also clean and simple, but I put a little more work into it.

The bunny image was stamped, colored, cut out and mounted on dimensionals over the eggs.

The egg shapes came from retired Stampin' Up! "A Good Egg".  I simply stamped the egg shape onto three different colors of pastel paper ( Brocade Blue, So Saffron, and Pretty in Pink), then cut them out.  The flowers were cut with the same shades of paper using a Cuttlebug Flower die.

I then just glued all the eggs to plain white card stock and adhered that to a blue card base.  The sentiment on both cards is from the same retired SU! set.

Have a Great Day!  Amy

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