A happy mail arrived today from Neat and Tangled that I ordered on Black Friday. And I just cannot wait to make something with the Box – Nice and Neat Die. This die is fresh out of the padded envelope and straight to my Evolution Advanced diecutting machine 🙂
I diecut the box out of Kraft cardstock and it is very easy to put it together (and fun!) Danielle showed how to create the box in a video here.
The background papers are from Old Hymnal Book and one of CTMH retired Christmas paper packet, Sparkle and Shine. I added some Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress ink on the edges. I finished the card with wrapping it with White Ribbon Twine from American Crafts and a Star wood chip from Frackled Fawn.
A simple card for a joyful giving this Christmas.
So, do you give giftcards or prefer actual gift for Christmas?
The first week of Advent has started. We as Christians observe Advent in many different ways but for only one purpose: Waiting for the coming of the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.
Advent means waiting. We wait for the appereance of someone so special who worth to be waited for. We wait for the special event that will change everything. We wait for something amazing to happen.
We wait for Jesus.
We wait with hope.
We wait with faith.
We wait with joy.
We wait with thanksgiving.
But for most of us waiting is not our favorite thing to do. I remember I am not good in waiting too long. But I have been learning to wait in the Lord and waiting for Him. In this waiting moment, I learn to submit myself, my ego, my will, my hope and my dreams to God. It is not as easy as I say it or write it here. But by submitting all of ourselves to Him we will be transformed and will see the works of God in our lives.
We do Advent reading every night with both of our daughters who are 6 years old and 3 years old. The Big Girl told us that she couldn’t wait ’till Christmas Day because of she wants to open her presents. The Little Girl wait until the reading is done. She just cannot sit still for longer thant 5 minutes! Both type of waiting happen to us too, right?
But our waiting in the Lord won’t be wasted, but it will bring the eternal fruits in our lives to glorify Him. The gift we will recieve is more than we are expected to get. The gift we will recieve is priceless and eternal.
Isn’t that worth it to wait for God and for what He will do in our lives?
During this Advent season, let’s we wait in the Lord and with the Lord. Ask Him to teach us to focus and to set our heart just for what He will reveal to us.
Today, I also would like to share with you some Advent devotional resources. These Bible Studies are designed for you and your family to do together. You can click on the image to go directly to their website to grab them. I hope these Bible Studies will prepare you and your family for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ!
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This Christmas I would love to send out handmade cards to family and friends and for sure it is a challenge. I am so thankful to be able to learn some new cardmaking technique from amazing card designers at Onlice Card Classes – Holiday Style class past week.
Today I’d like to share some cards I made in the class.
Day 1: Clean And Simple Cards
Day 3: Classic and Elegant Cards
Day 5: Cute and Whimsical Cards
I skipped this session because I do not hav any cute and whimsical stamp set but I LOVE all the tutorials from the teachers 🙂 Defiently in the future I will make some cards.
Day 7: Shimmer and Shine Cards
Day 9: Soft and Subtles Cards
Day 11: 1 Stamp, 5 Ways
And in this class, the teachers amazed us with their fabulous cards by only using 1 stamp. They show us how to show the “WOW effect” from making Holiday cards this season.
I have so much to catch up with this class but in there are LOTS of gorgeous inspirations from the students as well. And I have 2 more weeks to get all cards ready to mail out.
Hope you all have an amazing weekend after Thanskgiving!
