Confirmation: A renewal of Faith

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Dr. Seuss

Good evening ....

I made this card for my niece ... 

I am so proud of her and the person she is growing into.

She has a sweet heart and a ready smile and will do great things with her life out there in the world.

I have to say though, her confirmation was quite an emotional day for me.

... watching her stand there in front of the congregation taking ownership of her baptism and making her faith commitment to Christ, the Church, her family and herself.

I remember standing there at the front of that same church almost 16 years ago holding her little wee self in my arms while the pastor baptized and blessed her. I remember feeling as though I was being baptized all over again myself.

I felt such a deep connection with that baby I held in my arms start that day and although not mine, she became mine.

From that moment in time, she claimed and moved into a huge piece of my heart.

I often wonder if Joseph felt the same way the night Mary gave birth to Jesus and he held a child not his.

Did his heart open wide to take in that moment and that child?

Not because he was commanded too, but because his heart said, "Yes! This child is as much yours as any child from you - hold him, teach him ... love him ... always."

I like to think so

My card here is 5 x 7 in size.

I heat embossed the image onto watercolor paper. I misted it few times, then starting laying down colors with my crayons and water where needed for more blending. After it was dry, I took a tissue and lightly wiped away any residual watercolor from the image.

Supplies:

Card stock from The Paper Studio and Stampin Up!

Image " Romantic Rose", border punch, watercolor paper, white embossing powder and watercolor crayons from Stampin Up!

White pigment ink from Colorbox
Ribbon from my stash

Stick pin made with jewelry findings and beads from my stash.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cara

CHALLENGES ENTERED

Art By Miran

#19 - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenges

#120 - Anything Goes

Love to Create Challenge Blog

#141 - Anything Goes

That Craft Place

November 9 - Anything Goes

Crafty Little Fairies

November - Not a Square

The Outlawz: Feeling Thankful

Good morning!

Another glorious day to be alive isn't it? Another day to hug the ones you love, forgive the ones that hurt you and make amends to the ones you have hurt. 

November is traditionally a time of Thanksgiving in the United States, but I think it's something we should do every day of the year, regardless of where we live. 

We all have someone that we owe a bit a gratitude to ... that teacher who gave your child a little extra one on one time. The co-worker that covered for you at the last minute. Maybe the neighbor who fed your cat, walked your dog and watered your plants while you were out of town.

Just remember!

"Feeling Gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." Arthur Ward

Today is my posting day for The Outlawz Clean and Simple challenge and I would really like to see your CAS Thank you cards or projects this week.

My card is going to someone that possibly saved my mothers life...

My Mom lives some distance away so it is not possible for me to just drop by and check on her. But I do try and call her if not every day, at least every other day.

Recently she fell very ill and didn't tell me just how sick she was because she did not want to worry me (so like a mom right?!). A friend happened to stop by the house to check on her and found her in bed, almost too weak to stand.

The friend immediately called me to let me know that she and her husband were getting Mom to the emergency room and we were to meet them there.

Mom was lucky - She had not eaten anything in close to a week and could not keep fluids down. She was critically dehydrated and after several tests, it was determined she had a extremely bad case of salmonella poisoning.

She spent almost a week in the hospital recovering and it now home sassy as ever!

I really believe that if it has been one more day, we might not have been so fortunate!

So I am very grateful because my Mom is all I have left ... My dad and two older brothers are deceased ... and while I know that eventually she will also pass, I'm really not prepared to let her go just yet no matter how much we argue!

So here is my Thank you Card!

It is A2 and the layer is popped up on foam dimensionals

Supplies: 

Card stock - The Paper Studio

Flower and sentiment - "Many Thanks" from Hampton Arts

Ink & clear button - Stampin Up!

Scrapper floss - Karen Foster Designs

Photo corner - stash (colored with SU! ink pen)

CHALLENGES ENTERED

CRAFT HOARDERS ANONYMOUS
Challenge #19 - For all that you do, Thank you!

CREATIVE FINGERS CHALLENGE
#55 - Anything Goes

613 AVENUE CREATE
#97 Anything Goes (optional twist: Random Act of Kindness)

WORD ART WEDNESDAY
#157 - Anything Goes

SUNSHINE MAIL BLOG
November 1st - Anything Goes

TTCRD - Anything Goes with That Craft Place!

Hold on, man. We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title. ~From Scooby-Doo

Good afternoon ---

I am a day late getting this up and posted!

A new challenge week started at Through The Craft Room Door and our Sponsor this week is That Craft Place!'

And I am using an adorable Halloween Kitty Image called Twixie!

Card size is sA2

After printing Twixie on white card stock, I colored her up with my trusty Prisma color pencils and OMS. Then I glittered up her fur some. I fussy cut her out and attached her to the card with foam dimensionals. Added a Bit-O-Bling for the spider friend. The little bats are actually the leftovers from a bat border punch I have.

Supplies

Digital inage - "Twixie" - That Craft Place

Card stock - Bazzill & Stampin Up!

Web punch - Martha Stewart

Bat Punch - EK Success

Prisma Color Pencils

Odorless Mineral Spirits (OMS)

Classic Circle Die - Sizzix

Glitter - Oriental Trading Company

Bling - Stampin Up!

EF - Polka Dots - Sizzix

Thanks for stopping by!

(Hugs) Cara

CHALLENGES ENTERED

IMAGINATION STATION
#6 Anything Goes

THE STAMPING CHEF
#54 Anything Goes

CREATIVE MOMENTS
#55 Anything Goes / Celebrate

SUNSHINE MAIL CHALLENGE BLOG
November 1st - Anything Goes

CRAFTING BY DESIGN
November - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door Magazine Release

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”  ― Eleanor Roosevelt

Good Morning!

This is a month of new beginnings for me! I am so excited ... 

On November 1st, 2014,  I officially took over ownership of Through The Craft Room Door Magazine and Challenge Blog from Colleen Holmes, a very talented lady who worked hard to make the magazine the success it is today.

The Website is http://craftrmdoor.ning.com/

The Challenge Blog is http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/ and new challenges start every Tuesday!

November 3rd, 2014, I released my first on line magazine to our Subscribers.

It has lots of fun tutorials, some yummy holiday recipes from the team, some awesome images from both Sandi Huggett, the Featured digi artist, and Anne Fenton and so much more!

Plans are in the works for some changes in 2015 and we are looking forward to having some fun!

Come check us out! 

Cara

Winter Birthday

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz

Good Morning!

Today is the start of another Clean and Simple Challenge at The Outlawz!

Charlene celebrates a birthday this month so she is asking us to make Winter Birthday cards or projects!

What's funny is that I too have a winter birthday ... coming up next month actually ... so one would think this would be an easy card for me to make but not so much ... took me a good week to come up with this one ... I can't tell you how many I started and tossed ... *sigh* ... but I happened to be rifling through my embossing folders for yet another idea when I came across the snowman and the little light bulb over my head flashed on! (that happens now and again - sometimes it startles me!)

Quick and sweet - love this card and I hope Charlene does too because this is going out in the mail to her!

Happy Birthday Charlene!

SUPPLIES USED

Card stock (The Paper Studio), Sentiment (Inkahootz!), Glitter glue (Studio G), Prisma Color pencils, mini button (stash), Embossing folder "Snowman with raised arms" (Darice), Banner die (My Momenta), Aleens Paper Glaze

Thanks for stopping by!

Cara