Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Happy Hump Day!!  I can't believe we are halfway through the week already.  Where does the time go?

Today I am posting a card using the new WOJ sketch designed by Karina for the Whiff of Joy challenge.
I have missed joining the team for this challenge and am happy to be able play this week since time allowed and I also found some of my WOJ in packed boxes after searching for an angel stamp for last week's Stampin Sisters in Christ "Angel" challenge last week.  Funny I found an angel charm in time for the challenge but not a stamp until on Monday.  So I just had to use one of WOJ beautiful Angel stamps today!!!

Anywho, here is my card using Praying Angel (WOJ) and Karina's sketch:


The designer paper is Christmas K and Co. I found at Michaels.  The Ribbon is from May Arts and it is silk taupe ribbon.  The flourish is a Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish.  The image is framed with a Blossom Tag Accents from Spellbinders which I embossed in gold embossing powder.  The tag is created with Spellbinders Banner Labels.  I stitched the panels with gold metallic thread.  The lace is from a RAK from one of my dear friends. The image is colored with copics.  The shape of the card is created with the Spellbinders Grand Labels die. The edges have been distressed with embossed gold. The sentiment is computer generated.

Here is a copy of the sketch:


For more inspiration for the Whiff Of Joy Challenge, please visit my dt sisters:   Jane, Kathrin, Colleen, Beate, June, Julie Gio and Karina


 To join our challenge, please link your creation here.  Remember to use the sketch AND a WHIFF OF JOY image or sentiment.

Happy Monday All!! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend!!  It is hard to believe a new week has begun.  Where does the time go.  Weekends especially seem to fly by.  Before you know it, it will be Christmas!!!

Today's project is one that I made in preparation for the holidays....a gift for a friend.  I have been so preoccupied and busy with the move and selling the house, I have not been able to create as much as the past.  It feels good to be able to join my fellow Stamp and Create team this week!!!

Anywho...this project focuses on this week's Product Spotlight at Stamp and Create....THE BOW EASY!!  If you don't have one, you really must invest in one.  Now is the time since they are up to 25% off!!!  I know I should invest in a few more...it is one of my tools that I always seem to misplace...go figure!!  I just love it!! It makes perfect bows every time!!!

Since it is a new month, it is also time for a new challenge.  This months challenge at Stamp and Create is "VINTAGE".  The challenge will go until January 8!!!

The project I created for you today uses the Bow Easy, Ivory Silk Ribbon (May Arts), and
Whiff of Joy Henry Angel Mouse  from the Stamp and Create store.

 The box is created using the Tea Tabbed Box Template created by Lauren Meader available at My Time Made Easy.  The paper is Bo Bunny Snowfall.  It's kind of hard to make a treat box with Henry Angel Mouse vintage so I gave it a somewhat Victorian flair with the bells, lace, and pearls.

Happy Sunday Everyone!! I hope you have been enjoying the weekend!!  It has been a very busy weekend for our family with so much going on.  Yesterday we had a mother/daughter  Christmas craft day at church.  It was fun and quality time with my girls.


Today I am popping in to share the new Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge.  


This week's host is Lisa.

Lisa chose the verse:
Matthew 1:20-22, "But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, 'Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.' All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 'The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel' which means, 'God with us.'"


This verse is what Christmas is all about.  God sending His one and only son who was perfect and without sin.  He made Him human so one day He could pay for our sins.  What a miracle!! What Grace!!!!  Can you imagine how overwhelmed Joseph and Mary must have been to know that God was using them for the biggest gift ever!!  What an awesome responsibility!!  Yet they were so humble!  God uses each one of us for His purposes.  Are you following God's plan for your life?  Are you truly thankful for the awesome gift God has given us this Christmas or are you thinking about family, presents, decorations, festivities...At this time of year it is so easy to get so bogged down with all the holiday happenings and not put the true emphasis on what is most important about the "holy-days".  Merry Christ-mas!!!!


Lisa has challenge us to:
Make a card/project depicting an angel


Here is my take on the challenge using the Ornaments 2 stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs and the Spellbinders Holiday Tags 2 die. Since most of my Christmas stamp sets and anything with angels are packed, this challenge was a real challenge for me.  Unpacking boxes and finding this one angel charm took me much more time and mess then actually creating these tags.  I wish I had found my angel stamps...boohoo.

Happy Saturday all!! I hope you are all enjoying the start of your weekend!! Today is going to be a busy but fun day for us since my girls and I are going to church for a mother/daughter craft day.  It will be nice to have quality time with my darling girls!!  My hubby has been working on the Christmas lights and outside decor.  We won't do up the lights and festivities as much as past years with all that is going on but it will be nice to put the manger scene up!!

Well today I am popping it to share this week's Shining the Light challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs.