Happy 4th!

 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD;

and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. Psalms 33:12

I just thought I would post a Happy 4th to my USA readers!  This is a special anniversary of our independence as it is our 250th!  I am so proud to be an American and so thankful for my country.  Last Sunday in Church we sang some great patriotic hymns and I included the words on two of them:  

God of Our Gathers:  written to celebrate our 100th Anniversary by Daniel C. Roberts

Battle Hymn of the Republic: Written by Julia Ward Howe during the Civel War

America the Beautiful:  written by Katharine Lee Bates and originally titled Pikes Peak, 4th of July 1895

1 O beautiful for spacious skies

for amber waves of grain;

for purple mountain majesties

above the fruited plain!

America! America! God shed his grace on thee,

and crown the good with brotherhood

from sea to shining sea.

America: "My Country Tis of Thee" written by Samuel F. Smith 1832

1. My country,' tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing; land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside let freedom ring! 2. My native country, thee, land of the noble free, thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills; my heart with rapture thrills, like that above. 3. Let music swell the breeze, and ring from all the trees sweet freedom's song; let mortal tongues awake; let all that breathe partake; let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong. 4. Our fathers' God, to thee, author of liberty, to thee we sing; long may our land be bright with freedom's holy light; protect us by thy might, great God, our King.

I was crying by the time we got finished.  Despite everything that is happening, I love my country and am thankful we live here!

Since I am posting anyway, I thought I would post another card for the House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge: Water Fun Midway Inspiration.

I colored this House Mouse image with an assortment of brands of pencils and added Glossy Accents and stamped the sentiment from a SU! set on a MFT die cut cloud.  The wonky rectangle white panel is a die from MFT. (MY Favorite Things)

Here are some photos of how we spent the 4th of July in 2008:

Watching the 4th of July parade in Ketchikan, Alaska from our ship

And here is a scrapbook page of how we spent 4th of July in 2022.

This year, hubby is grilling hamburgers out for the two of us.  You can see that is my ticket to the TSFT party over at Altered Book Lover.

Happy 4th!

Thanks for stopping by!

See you next time.

T stands for Another New Technique and House Mouse

 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Hebrews 12:14

Good afternoon!  I hope you are all doing well!  I am celebrating the new House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge for Water Play or Anything Goes.

I am sharing with you my House Mouse card: Colored with assortment of brands of pencils.  I added Glossy Accents to the fishbowl and splatters of silver ink.

Next are cards I made with a new to me technique called Double Vision.  I used Graphic 45 Designer paper from By the Sea Pad.  These are from a scrap.  To make this card, I cut 1/2" strips of the part of the paper I wanted to use.  Then you glue every other strip down leaving room for the strips in between.  Then you put those on with dimensional tape.  I added a charm to the lighthouse scene and a stamp to the seaside one. 

Which of the three cards is your favorite?

The only thing left is to share a drink for the T party over at Altered Book Lover, hosted by Bleubeard & Elizabeth.  This is our drink of choice when we got out to eat.

Sorry to be a little late, but here it is still Tuesday! LOL

Thanks for stopping by; I appreciate you all.

T Stands for Still Tuesday here

 

 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

Hello, hello!  I hope you all are having a great week so far!  I thought I would do a quick late post.  I am joining TSFT and House Mouse and Art Journal Journey.

In reverse order, here is my entry for the Art Journal Journey Challenge this month with theme of houses or buildings.  I just finished a junk journal for a very dear friend who is very ill, and this is one of the pages with a windmill:

and here is the cover and some other pages:

Also, I am joining in with the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge for the first time, with this sweet image.  The theme was anything goes.

And, lastly, my ticket to the TSFT party over at Altered Book Lover where Bleubeard and Elizabeth host a blog hop every Tuesday. Just have a drink reference on your post.  Here is mine.  Do you think I was double dipping?  I just forgot that I had brought coffee home in the to go cup from Bible study this morning.  I was really just having tea while watching a video on you tube.

Thanks for stopping by!  Hopefully, you will post a comment so I will know you were here.  Love our little one sided chats. LOL

See you next time!

What's On Your Desk? Wednesday

  ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶ it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV

 It is time for us to share what is on our desks over at Miss Julia's Stamping Ground for WOYWW.  

I have been making a House Mouse card for House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge-Anything Goes.

As you can see, I stamped the House Mouse image of "Signing a Card -Muzzy."  I then colored with Copics.  I backed the image with red and cut out with my pinking shears to look like a postage stamp.  I ran my base through with an embossing folder then mounted the red panel with the image.  You see all of my tools and mess from making this card right there on my desk.  A few other things which I am not sure why they are out. LOL

So, here is the finished product.

Not only is this an entry in the House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge, it is also my submission for the VSN Mini One Word Blank challenge, and the CAS Challenge for no sentiment, both over at SplitcoastStampers.

I hope you check out the other deskers and these challenges.  Very fun to see what others are doing and to get inspiration.

Thank you so much for stopping by.  Have a great week!

T Stands for Terrific Weekend!

  ⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶ it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV

I did have a terrific weekend! I took part in the four-day Card Maker Success Summit!  A friend had sent me the info, and link to sign up for it.  Then, every morning I received an email for watching videos at certain times, and live stream presentations from people like Ellen Hutson.  I learned new alcohol ink techniques, and was reminded of techniques I had forgotten, like stacking die cut sentiments for depth.  I got freebies, like color charts, or handouts from the hostesses' with the measurements to make cards such as shaker cards or pop-up cards and slider cards. I saw new to me demonstrators such as Daniel West.  He demonstrated Copic techniques. I did all of this from home, sometimes in my pjs!  LOL This was my first summit.  I am already planning on the next one July 28thru the 31st!  Did I say it was free?  And did I say they drew for over 100 giveaways?

Here are a couple of the cards I made while watching a demonstrator.

For this card I used a technique I learned from watching Tiffany Solorio.  I applied drops of alcohol ink and 91 % isopropyl alcohol to a yupo panel.  After it dried, I ran it through with the SU! embossing panel, then sanded the color off the raised parts.  I just added a flower die cut to finish the card.  This is being submitted for the Flowers VSN Challenge on Splitcoaststampers, which was this weekend, also.

This is a card I made by blending Distress inks with a brush, and then spritzed with drops of water and after dry, spritzed with Shimmer.  

I didn't want to cover the background up too much, but went with this House Mouse panel I had colored.  this card is being submitted for our VSN Rainbow Challenge on Splitcoaststampers, also.  This is also being submitted for the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge, anything goes.   Check these challenges out.

So, it was a busy weekend!  But fun!

My ticket for today's TSFT (over at Altered Book Lover with Bleubeard & Elizabeth), will be a photo from Valentine's night.   We had a delightful time at a Sweetheart Dinner.

I don't know why, but with this formal dinner, they served my hot herbal tea in a Styrofoam cup. LOL We had a great dinner, grilled filet topped with stuffed mushrooms, twice baked potatoes, and mixed vegetable medley.  I had already eaten the mushroom and vegetables, before I remembered to take the photo.  For dessert we had Crème Brulee.  It was a great evening with great companions. And, can you see the roses on the table?

Today we had 70s for our temperature, so I was able to walk on the trail.  

Crazy weather, snow on the ground and 70s.  Tomorrow we start a week of cold, tomorrow 31, and Wednesday highs in the 20s!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you have a wonderful crafty week!