Faith Based Friday

Hello, friends!

I thought this scripture from Lamentations was a great way to start today's Faith Based Friday post.  Lately I've had a lot of opportunities to see God's un-ending love for me and others.  It's comforting to meditate on this scripture ... "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases" ... He will love us no matter what.  He won't love us more because of our good deeds and He won't love us less when we fall short.  His love is steadfast ... "resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering".  Praise God!

I made today's card to send to my up-line, Ronda Wade, after her recent medical emergency with her daughter.  (I'm hoping she has received it before this post goes live.)  Ronda experienced a great deal of love from people as she supported her daughter and she absolutely enjoyed God's steadfast love as she never even had fear.  She knew He was there and that His will was best, no matter what! 

 

In keeping with this week's "Project Life" theme, the rich razzleberry polka dot background is one of my project life cards.  Other than that, this was a quick and easy card to put together. 

 

Thank you for stopping by today.  Have a safe weekend and until next time, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very Blessed day!

 

Kim



Project Life Week ... FORE!

Hello again, friends!

Today I have a Project Life page to share with you.  As I was getting ready to write this post, I realized that I had already posted this page on my blog once, but since it was part of a two-page spread and the picture wasn't the best, I decided to go ahead and post it again.  I love this page!

 



I love that my Project Life kits come with cards that have some phrases printed on them.  This one I thought was perfect for this page!  There's no question my baby is happy when he's playing golf ... actually he's happy when he's doing ANY sport.  I love that Project Life by Stampin' Up! makes it easy for me to document these moments.

Tomorrow I have a Faith Based Friday Project Life card to share with you.  Until then, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very Blessed day!

Kim

Project Life Week ~ A get well card

Hello friends!

Welcome back to Project Life Week!

Today's post is a special card for a special girl.  If you read my Faith Based Friday post last Friday, you saw my post about my up-line Ronda's daughter and the scary medical ordeal she recently went through.  I'm happy to report she is home recovering now!  God is good!  I wanted to send Erica a card and when I saw this Project Life card in my pack, I knew it was perfect!

 

I just added a sentiment and some framing with complimenting colors and "voila!", I had a cute card ready to go!  I'm loving making cards with my Project Life supplies!

 

Tomorrow I will have another scrapbook page to share.  Until then, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very Blessed day!

 

Kim



 



Project Life Week! ~ Vacation Book Complete!

Hello again, friends, and welcome to day two of Project Life week!  Today I have a scrapbook page to share, but before I do, let me tell you a little about it.  My family took a cruise vacation to Hawaii in December of 2013.  I took over 1,000 pictures and was planning a fabulous scrapbook.  I got home, loaded them on my computer and they sat there ..... for six months!  The Stampin' Up! introduced Project Life and I KNEW that was the way I would get my Hawaii scrapbook done!  As luck would have it, my friend, Michelle, hosted a scrapbook retreat one weekend and I took advantage of that time to get my scrapbook done.  I took my project life supplies with me and worked on it Friday night and most of the day Saturday and I WAS DONE!!  Over 1,000 pictures and I WAS DONE in two days!  It was awesome and I was hooked!

So anyway ... here's one of the pages from my Hawaii Project Life scrapbook:

 

Quick and cute!  Definitely my kind of scrapbooking! 

 

Tomorrow I'm back to creating a card with Project Life.  I hope you'll stop back by.  Or, make it easy on yourself and just subscribe by typing your email address in on the top left of my blog (under my picture) and my blog will arrive in your email everyday for you to read when you're ready.  (You may need to add my blog to your "approved" list so it doesn't go to spam.)

 

Until next time, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very Blessed day!

 

Kim

 



Kicking Off Project Life Week!

Hello, friends!

We had such a fun time doing the Blendabilities week a couple weeks ago that I decided I want to do a week of posts featuring Project Life.  Project Life is primarily a memory keeping tool.  In brief, it's pocket pages that you just slip photos and coordinating Project Life cards in to and create beautiful scrapbook pages in no time!  I made scrapbook pages for my son's class for a back-to-school gift and I made 18 pages in about an hour and a half!  That's my kind of memory keeping!  I realize, however, that not everyone is in to scrapbooking or memory keeping, so while I WILL feature a couple memory album pages this week, I will also feature a few CARDS I created using Project Life cards.  I hadn't really played with making cards with the project life card, but now that I have, I LOVE IT!  I can create really cute cards in a really short amount of time. 

So anyway  .... here we go ... let's get Project Life week started.  I decided to start the week with a card just to show that it's not JUST memory keeping:

 

I love that cute little Koala and it was super easy to put this card together with my project life kit.  The card the Koala is stamped on is a Project Life card (the circles were pre-printed on it).  I just framed it with a layer of blackberry bliss card stock.  And the cute little glittery flag on the top of the card is a wood element in one of the Project Life accessory kits.  I just colored it with my Rich Razzleberry Blendabilities marker and added a little glitter.  This card came together so fast and easy!  I love it!

 

Check back tomorrow for a scrapbook page featuring project life.

 

Until then, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very Blessed day!

 

Kim



Faith Based Friday

Hello friends!

If you are a regular follower of my blog, you probably know that Faith Based Friday is my favorite day on my blog!  I look forward to it all week!  And so Thursday night (as I type this), I have absolutely nothing stamped that goes along with "Faith Based Friday" and so I thought about just not doing a Faith Based Friday post this week, but then I decided I would share a little bit with you of how I saw God this week and how my faith was strengthened through a terrifying experience of a friend.

My up-line, Ronda, who has a heart for Jesus like few I've ever seen before had a very scary situation this week that involved her young daughter being hospitalized with an aggressive bacteria that was attacking her skull and brain.  When I got the prayer request, I was immediately TERRIFIED for Ronda and her sweet girl and I prayed so hard so many times during the day for them.  I was distracted most of the day by thoughts of Ronda and Erica and was anxious to hear that everything was okay ... but all along, I was so scared for her.

Long story short, GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS and Erica came through surgery well and they believe they got all the bacteria and that it did NOT penetrate her brain which is just amazing!  I KNOW without a doubt that there were literally hundreds (if not thousands) of people praying for that little girl and I know without a doubt that God was in complete control the entire time. 

I mentioned that I saw God in this situation and, of course, I saw God in answering the prayers and bringing this little girl through this ordeal with a very positive prognosis.  But the biggest way I saw God was in Ronda's reaction.  I knew Ronda was a prayerful and faith-filled woman, but honestly, in that situation, with your child being threatened by a scary bacteria, who WOULDN'T be terrified and worry and cry and beg God to help their baby!  I know I would.  But in one of Ronda's messages to me, she said "I did not feel one ounce of fear or worry...almost supernaturally. I had so much faith and trust because I knew there were thousands of prayers going out for her. God was listening and I knew whatever happened it was the best."  WOW!!  Ronda's faith is just OVER-FLOWING!  I read that message and I thought "man, I want to have THAT MUCH faith in God" ... it made me realize that my faith is still probably in its infancy in comparison.  But I grew just in that moment in my faith.  Ronda, in one of her biggest challenges in life, unknowingly handed out a little lesson in faith.  I was reminded just how BIG our God is!  Obviously, I really can't even find the right words to express the impact Ronda's faith had on me, but I am definitely changed by hearing even her very brief testimony about her sweet girl.

I saw this picture on Pinterest and I thought it applied beautifully to this story:

There's no question Ronda's faith was so much bigger than her fear!  I am praising God for the answered prayers in her family and for all the blessings in my life.  God is good ... all the time!

Until next time my friends, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very Blessed day!

Kim

What's Up Wednesday

Hello friends!

It's time, once again, for "What's Up Wednesday" ... the day I give you all the latest and greatest updates from Stampin' Up!  So let's dive right in:

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Stampin' Up! has really been coming up with some awesome weekly deals!  I plan on scooping up those square framelits myself!  That's a great deal!  You can shop the weekly deals by CLICKING HERE

And speaking of good deals ... we are in the last couple weeks of the Big Shot promotion.  You can get any of the following stamp and framelit bundles for FREE when you purchase the Big Shot through the end of August.  Or, if you already own a Big Shot, you can save 15% on any of these bundles.  CLICK HERE to take advantage of that deal!

That's all for today, friends!  Until next time, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very Blessed day!

Kim