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Christmas Cookies

Coloring has become a new found pleasure....I was warned about this by a few fellow card makers. While it has not become a love I did find it soothing. Last week while Abbey and I were sick we spent sometime coloring together. Today's card is from a digi image I bought for a card kit swap hosted by Angela Monkeymama on SCS. She is the queen of card kits in my opinion so if you ever get a chance join one of her swaps!

Oh and I also threw together this gift tag...

 

Sorry but I do not remember where I purchased this cute little image. If I come across the information I will be sure to share. Other products include: copics, paper studio and papertrey.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a blessed day!

Happy Creating!

J@

The Greatest Gift

Giving Christmas Away Part 2

There's not much I can do to repay all You've done
So I give my hands to use

This is my desire, this is my return
This is my desire, to be used by You
Oo yea
This is my desire, this is my desire
To be used by You
-Lyrics from Jeremy Camp's song My Desire

This year I'm giving my Christmas away (you can view the song that inspired it all here). Why am I giving it away you might ask? It's simply because I have already been given the greatest gift. To me Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, my Lord and Saviour. When he died on the cross it was for me...He took the punishment for my sins...He gave me life!  When I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour I became part of the body of Christ ( 1 Corinthians 12). My hope is that this Christmas season and throughout everyday I can be his hands and feet...that with each kind word, gesture or gift the world will see Him in me. So, this Christmas the money my husband and I would spend on gifts for each other will be given to someone in need....in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  I will also be creating simple gifts for family and friends. The money saved will be donated as well. I look forward to sharing more Christmas giving and crafty goodness with you all. Until then here are a few blogs I have found great inspriation at...

Study In Brown

(In)Courage

Have a beautiful day! God Bless!

Happy Creating!

J@

 

Outside my comfort zone!

I made this card for my secret sister. She loves the Greeting Farm Anya's and Gorguss girls from Sugar Nellie. I wanted to make her a card that reflected her style. Unfortunately that is beyond my comfort zone...LOL. One, I don't care for coloring images. To be honest I think most of the kid character stamps out there are kind of freaky looking. I did come across this digital image by CC designs that reminded me of my mom's Precious Moments....I think she's pretty cute. I even found some enjoyment in coloring her.

Products used: Sentiment,Paper, cardstock, ribbon, button and ink from Papertrey. Image from CC designs. Embossing folder cuttlebug. Die cuts are spellbinders.

Hope you have a beautiful day!

Happy Creating!

J@  

I'll Eat You Up I Love You So!

I bought these footed Max jammies for the kiddos because I STILL CAN....because they are still young enough to enjoy them...because someday soon it will be entirely uncool to match your sister or run around in a "boys" costume...so until that day comes I will still do things like this because I STILL CAN!

Let the wild rumpus start!

Have a blessed and beautifulday! Happy Creating!

J@

Happy Halloween!

Abraham has been up since 5:30 am because today is trick or treat day...ugh!! Anyway, I just wanted to share a few pumpkin carving moments...

Abbey absolutely loved the pumpkin guts...oh what fun she had!

This was Abraham's response to the pumpkin goo...LOL...He's such a boy!

Here they are with there personally designed Jack-O-Lanterns!

We hope that you all have a safe and fun Halloween!

Happy Creating and God Bless!

J@

Autumn Hearts

Hello, this will be another "quick" post. I've had a lot of crafty energy lately but no time to do anything. So, todays project is one I made last week. I finally tried covering the 1/2 size Jr. legal pads my friend Chris sent me ages ago! It was so much fun and many more will be made for quick gift giving. Love 'em!

Hope your day is filled with unexpected surprises!

God Bless and Happy Creating!

J@

Larry & Bob

Just a quick post today. I wanted to share the cookies I made last week for church. The kids latest Veggie Tale movie came with a Larry and Bob cookie cutter....so we had to give it a try! I love to bake but I do not care for roll out cookies and the frosting part is something I usually leave up to the kids. This time I found some joy in making the first 1/2 dozen.

I have now decided that my mom was a bit crazy to hand paint frosting on Raggedy Ann & Andy cookies (a fund raiser for church) with 3 (not always so well behaved) kids running around. I wish I had pictures of these beauties because from what I remember they were quite detailed. I just slopped some frosting and put faces on these guys. Anyway, my quick post is turning into a ramble...so here they are...Larry the cucumber and Bob the tomato. Wanna bite?

Have a delicious day! Happy Creating!

J@

Give This Christmas Away

I promise I haven't fallen off my rocker. I know October is kinda early for the Christmas banner...but I have good reason for the early switch. After hearing the song Give This Christmas Away (by Matthew West and Amy Grant) I decided that is just what I'm going to do....give my Christmas away. Over the next few months each week I'm going to share with you all ways myself, my family and others are doing this.

If this is something you have done in the past or already plan to do I'd love to hear thoughts and ideas. Please take a few moments and watch this heart warming video. I will keep this posted at the top of my blog for the next week or so.  

 

 

Many blessings to you all! Happy Creating!

J@

Jesse Tree

Papertrey October Blog Hop

It's time for our annual Holiday Hop!  Show us your best upcoming holiday plans for cards, gifts, wraps
or whatever else you have up your sleeve!  With everyone's cumulative efforts the participant list will be
an amazing resource!

 

Last year my family started the tradition of the Jesse Tree to help keep the focus of Christmas on Christ our Saviour. This year I wanted to create a box and some new ornaments that hopefully will last for a few years.

 

I wanted to keep the ornaments simple but elegant. Though I will have to draw some of the symbols I have found quite a few stamps that will work.

 

In case you are wondering what a Jesse Tree is it's an advent tree that takes you on a journey through the Bible starting with creation to the birth of Christ. It's a family tree of sorts showing the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Each night in December we read a passage from the Bible, talk with the kids about the connection it has to Jesus and pray. We then hang an ornament on a tree branch.

If you are looking for more information on the Jesse Tree here are a few sites I've come across.

Jess Tree.com

RCA Discipleship

Jesse Tree (when I save up my pennies I'd like their Heirloom set) 

 

Thank you for stopping by my blog. Enjoy the rest of the blog hop. If you are not visiting from the Papertrey blog hop you can find more Christmas crafting goodies here.

May your week be filled with peace, love and joy!

God Bless and Happy Creating!

J@

Pardon the dust...

Hello friends! I've decided to give my blog a facelift. Please pardon the dust while I update things. I hope to have it and my project for the Papertrey blog hop done by tomorrow.

Have a blessed day! Happy Creating!

J@