Thursday, August 13, 2015

Christ the Savior is Born

I haven't been lost....I've been working on a house project.  My Dad is helping me with my porch which was a screened porch.  I have a wooded lot and the critters have made lots of holes in the screen so I no longer feel safe in letting my cats enjoy the space.  He is now going to convert it into a 3 -season porch with windows and a decent door so I won't have to replace the screen every other year.  Then since my husband died about a year and a half now, I need to clean out the house of some items and re-organize.  I have my daughter with me this week to help and she is wonderful at organizing.  It has been a lot of work as well as emotional.  I needed to stay awake tonight to work on a card to destress.
I made a Christmas card using one of my Verve sets, and this is what I came up with.



Patterned Paper:  Echo Park
Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections
Stamp & Die:  Verve - Unto Us
Ink:  Memento - Rich Cocoa
        Close to my Heart - English Ivy
Ribbon:  Michael's
Bling:  Me and My Big Ideas
Snowflake:  Hobby Lobby

Challenges
Viva La Verve - August Sketch Wk 1
The Glory of Christmas - Ch. 65 Silver or Gold (silver snowflake)
CHNC - Ch. 241 Something that begins with S (snowflake)
CHNC Extra - August
CRAFT - Ch. 324 Christmas - Animals
Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 196 Anything Goes


10 comments:

Desire Fourie said...

Lisa this is such a beautiful take on the sketch. Loving the traditional colours and the deer is just perfect in the design.
Hugs Desíre {Doing Life}

Brenda said...

Great take on the sketch, Lisa. I love your mix of patterned paper. Thank you for sharing with us at CRAFT Challenge! Brenda

Hazel said...

Thanks for entering The Glory of Christmas challenge 65 with your lovely crafting, Hazel, DT - thanks also for entering this into both of my CHNC challenges - hope to see you again soon. x

Karen Letchworth said...

Hello there! What a treat to see your gorgeous card linked to our challenge this week. I'm always SO grateful and so happy to see your wonderful creations shared in our challenges. I hope you're having a blessed week, and that you will stop by to join us again soon.
Karen
Word Art Wednesday

P.S. There's another fun challenge over at CropStop where you can share your cards. I would love to see you link there as well. I hope you will join us.
Blessings to you,
Karen
www.cropstop.com/blog

Penny said...

I would imagine that going through all of his belongings would be difficult. Glad your daughter was there to help!
Great take on that sketch for your Christmas card--love your embellies! :^)
Hugs, Penny

Pat K said...

Great Christmas card...I recognize some of those papers that I must be hoarding.
Love the green panel with the deer and wonderful sentiment.
Glad to hear your daughter and Dad are there to help you this week. hugs, Pat K x

sweet art designs said...

Great card. Thank you for sharing with us at The Glory of Christmas - Myrna DT

Julee (Vervegirl) said...

Such a lovely Christmas card. Thanks for playing along with Viva la Verve!

Jo Ann said...

Such a beautiful Christmas card. Nice sparkle! I'm so happy you joined our Challenge last week and would like to invite you to join us again with our Challenge this week at Word Art Wednesday. Just want to share God's Word to you coming from 1 Peter 1:24-25 which says, "For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you."

Have a blessed day!
JO ANN
http://jatterburycreations.blogspot.com

Suze said...

Lovely card. The DP works beautifully with the top layers of the card. Thank you for joining in the challenge at CHNC Extra for August.