Hummingbird Card

Hummingbirds are my favorite.  Every year from April through October I get to enjoy their company.  This year we were blessed by the presence of a Leucistic Hummingbird.  That is a partial loss of pigment, often resulting in white or pale feathers but retaining dark eyes, bills, and feet.  Here's a picture of our little visitor...

The card that I'm sharing today I made before seeing our new friend.  I plan on creating one in its honor soon.  

Supplies:

>Honeybee Stamps Lovely Layers Hummingbird Honey Cuts Stand Alone Dies

>Honeybee Stamps Lovely Layers Cornflower Honey Cuts Stand Alone Dies

>Honeybee Stamps Blessings of Spring 

>12x12 Cardstock Shop Rainbow Mixed Size Pearl Embellishments Encore

>Various colors of Cardstock from Papertrey Ink & Concord & 9th

Birthday Card RAK - September

This month's card club includes cards from my stash that were made during the Stampin' Up card club days.  I always either wanted a copy for myself or didn't want to part with them.  From what I can remember and internet sluthe, they are most likely:  

>Giraffe Card: 

    Card Stock/Ink:  Pool Party, Basic Gray, 

    Stamp Set:          SU Zoo Review  

>BeachBird Card: 

    Card Stock/Ink:  Pool Party, Sahara Sands

    Stamp Sets:        SU Wetland, SU Work of Art

>Butterflies Card: 

    Card Stock/Ink:  Basic Gray, Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana or non-SU

    Stamp Set:          SU Papillion Potpourri, SU Hardwood Background

                                Taylored Expressions Sundry Sentiments 

Attention! What is that Sound?!

 (Picture from Tree of Life Bible Society)

Last night, Friday evening September 11, began the first of the Fall Feasts and the fifth on the Biblical Calendar.  

There is so much that comes alive when you dig in to the meanings of The Appointed Times, aka Moedim, aka Feasts.  

This Appointed Time focuses on The Day of Blowing/Shofar/Trumpets.  

“Speak to Bnei-Yisrael, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a Shabbat rest, a memorial of blowing (shofarot), a holy convocation." - Leviticus 23:24 TLV

You can find out more titles that can be connected here.  But today I wanted to focus in on the blasts that come from the Shofar.  The article I linked below by Tree of Life Ministries is what I wanted to share.  Here's some info from that article:

"Therefore stay alert; for you do not know what day your Lord is coming." - Matthew 24:42 TLV

"My sheep hear My voice. I know them, and they follow Me." - John 10:27 TLV

The four shofar blasts for Yom Teruah are:

>Tekiah: A long, loud blast that lasts about three seconds - "call to attention"

>Shevarim: Three medium-length broken blasts that sound like crying - "call to repentance"

>Teruah: Nine or more rapid staccato rings - "call to battle"

>Tekiah Gedolah: An extra-long blast that lasts about nine seconds - "call to announce the coming King"

When the Great Day comes, will you recognize the call of the coming King? ADONAI only asks us to spend one day a year learning His calls - one day out of 365 to know what His alert will sound like.

Yeshua says that His sheep know the sound of His voice. We forget that the shofar is one of the parts of His Voice..

Tree of Life Bible Society - May I Have Your Attention Please (article on the different blast sounds) (podcast located at bottom)

https://tlvbiblesociety.org/blogs/blog/may-i-have-your-attention-please

Four Traditional Shofar Calls or Blasts

https://youtu.be/grZDPCKORGg?si=ii9xanKm4xqOogal

Blow the shofar in Zion! Sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all living in the land tremble— for the day of Adonai is coming— surely it is near! -Joel 2:1 TLV

Shalom!

Magnolia Card #2

I finally circled back around to the magnolia card.  

I used multiple forms of the following inks to end at this final color.  I can say that I used the white pigment ink last.

You can find my first creation here.  

Loads of Birthday Wishes

Created a birthday card today for the hubby.  I've got to figure out a way to add 'here' under 'Push' because neither my hubs nor son thought to push the word.  May have to hand write it due to lack of space. 

I had Initially watercolored the truck, but didn't care for the way it looked and swapped to markers. 

Supplies:

>Honey Bee Stamps Big Pickup Cab Stamp Set (fussy cut)

>Pear Blossoms lights

Project: Chair Cushion Recover

Over the last month or so I have been "Spring Cleaning" my craft area.  Destashing items that aren't getting used and rearranging my craft space.  One item I decided to move from the dining room to my craft space was my secretary desk.  I've always admired these desks as they just have so much character (and hiding places 😊).  However... it is not the project in today's post, it is the chair I found to go with it. 

It was just a little bland, flat (ie uncomfortable) and weathered. 

What I wanted: light, airy, beachy, classy, fun, not too out there... I would know it when I saw it!

 A friend was headed to a fabric shop a few towns North and brought me some samples. 

After a long back and forth, I narrowed it down to the top middle, pinky fabic...

I really like this one.  The pattern felt classy and a little something more than just a solid color. My plan was to get this one after checking another fabric she had sent a picture but didn't really jump out at me.  The more I pondered it though (it had that umf I was looking for), the more it grew on me.  So, I wanted to see and touch it.

In person it just didn't make the cut.  I also scanned other fabrics.  However, a dear friend went with and showed me a pattern that she almost didn't show me.  One I had passed and didn't see.  

That was all she wrote...  

I said YES to the fabric!!!

It checked all the boxes.

It checked all my color boxes.

Many minutes, possibly hours, later... 

Fighting with the corners... the YouTube videos made it look so easy!  Not!

Here they are for a side-by-side comparison.

Just what I wanted!! 

With the left over fabric I plan to create a couple of items to balance the room off.  

Posting coming soon....

Lemons & Blueberries

Today's share is a card made from extra pieces I had in my stash. 

I had used these for a scrapbook page layout.

Can you see the shimmer?  So pretty.

Suppiles:

>Pinkfresh Lemons and Blueberries stamp set & die

>Waffle Flower Postage Collage die & stamps

>Gansai Tambi watercolors

Taylored Expressions Combo Club 2026.1

I've been a customer of Taylored Expressions for several years now.  This year I decided to sign up for the 3 month subscription to Combo Club.  

The first month included a quad stencil and clear stamp.  Quad stencils allow you to easily make 4 cards in one sitting.  I decided to give this a go for my SplitCoastStampers birthday cards for June.

Supplies:

>Taylored Expressions Picture Perfect Create-in-Quads 

>sentiment stamp old Stampin Up 

A First-Time Experience with Catherine Pooler Craft Supplies

Incoming card for May Birthday Random Acts of Kindness with SplitCoastStampers.  This month is Catherine Pooler focused.  First time customer. First time crafting with her products.  Impressed!  

I'm not usually a fan of foam pads, only one exception for VersaMagic, but these fall into the exception category for different reasons..  

1.) They are juicy and cover the stamps amazingly. Usually once is all it takes to Ink and get a good image.

(2) They are also great for background blending and reacting to water!  Think Distress Oxides.  I might venture to say CP reacts slightly better than DO to water.  I'm leaning towards CP as replacements for my DO.  Shocking, right!  (Example of background blending below)

(3) The other thing I really like are the color collections with corresponding color wheels.  She tells you how to read the wheels and which colors work best together.

Enough chitchat... on to the card.

Catherine Pooler:

>Filigree Background Stamp

>Polished Ink & Cardstock (Spa Collection)

>Maymay's Big Time Celebrations Stamp Set

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Blending background comparison:

Happy Crafting!

Using Pre-Made Elements to Design a Green-Themed Card

You know of all the colors of the rainbow created by God back in Genesis, green is not usually a color I gravitate to when creating a card or scrapbook page.  Well.. tonight I made this card from pre-made elements I had in my stash and absolutely love how it turned out.

>Maymay's His Name Is stamp set

>Versafine Clair Green Oasis

>Distress Oxides in several greens

>12x12 Cardstock.com - Encore Rainbow Mixed Size Pearl Embellishments