Posted on Thursday, February 13, 2014

Best Wishes

I would like to share a card I made for a family. It is simple, one layer card. I am inspired by a card at Muse Challenge #54, the flowers bunch with watercolor effect. I combine with the repeating stamping technique from One-Layer Simplicity Challenge #2.

I cut a piece of white daisy cardstock to make the card base 4.25x 5.5 (A2). Then I stamped the flower image from Card Chatter set (retired) repeatedly with Black Pigment Ink and I dried it with Craft Heater (retired), or you can let it air-dry for a couple of minutes. Then I stamped the sentiment fromBanner Wishes set with Cotton Candy Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad. I used 1″ X 3 1/2″ My Acrylix™ Block the sentiment fit perfectly on that block.

After the stamping process, I colored the flowers and leaves using American Craft color pencils and I added some glitter using Wink of Stella clear glitter brush. I added some black sparkles and punched one corner with corner rounder to finish the card.

Thank You for stopping by! I hope you like my card 🙂

Posted on Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Am I A True Follower?

I came to know Christ in 2001 when I was on my last day at collage before I took a year and a half off because my parents couldn’t afford to pay my school tuition anymore. It was hard days after that. Though this time I went through those hard days with Jesus. I am thankful.

I read the Bible every day, dug into deeper searching for what God really wanted to teach me. I follow Him since the very first day of I confessed my sins and pasts to Him, asked Him to forgive me and help me to live the new life He gave me in Christ.

I am a follower of Christ….

But what does it mean? What are the characteristics of a follower of Christ? And yesterday, I read this beautiful post from Roy Lessin at Meet Me In The Meadow.

He shared some verses that describe those characteristics of Jesus’ follower:

A follower of the Lord is led to do the right thing.
“Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the Lord.” Isaiah 51:1 NKJV

A follower of the Lord is motivated to do good.
Those also who render evil for good, They are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.Psalm 38:20 NKJV

A follower of the Lord makes Him known.
Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19 NKJV

A follower of the Lord counts the cost.
Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.” Matthew 8:19-22 NKJV

A follower of the Lord shoulders a cross.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. Matthew 16:24-25 NKJV

A follower of the Lord gives all (because the greatest Treasure has been found).
So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” Luke 18:22 NKJV

A follower of the Lord enjoys the Lord’s presence and favor.
If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor. John 12:26 NKJV

A follower of the Lord has a single focus.
Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?” Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “But Lord, what about this man?” Jesus said to him, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.” John 21:20-22 NKJV

A follower of the Lord knows His Master’s voice.
And when He brings out his own sheep, He goes before them; and the sheep follow Him, for they know His voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. John 10:4-5, 27 NKJV

A follower of the Lord identifies with his Master’s suffering.
But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps. 1 Peter 2:20-21 NKJV

A follower of the Lord places his feet in his Master’s footsteps.
These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. Revelation 14:4 NKJV

Reading all these truth, I ask myself again… am I a true follower of Christ? I am so thankful to know these truth! On these verses I build my life to live a life of a true follower. I pray God will help me to love him and to obey him. I pray God will help me to hear His voice clearly.

Posted on Sunday, February 9, 2014

A Baby Dresser Card

Since last year, I have been making cards and totally enjoy the process if making them. Today, I would love to share with you all this baby card I made for a friend of ours who just got a beautiful baby girl couple of weeks ago and she is so adorable! She was born premie but she is a fighter! She is now home with her parents and big sister.

I cut a piece of kraft cardstock, White Daisy Cardstock, and one Ariana Paper for the step card baby dresser with my Silhouette Cameo. After than, I just put them all together as it is seen on the picture using Memory Book Glue Dots™, Tombow® Adhesive runner and 3-D Foam Tape. To finish the drawers I added some Flamingo Dots and also couple of them on the sentiment banner.

For the sentiment, I picked one of the quotes from B Is For Baby stamp set. I stamped it usingSmoothie Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. I added it on top of the border I cut from Ariana Paper.

This card is done in less than 15 minutes!! And this card I link up for Joyful Stars February 2014 Blog Hop featuring Valentine’s Day theme project and/or CTMH New Products from Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Book. This blog hop starts at Joyce’s blog. Hope you will find this hope full of inspirations 🙂

Here’s the full list of supplies I used to make this card:

Ariana Paper Packet (X7179B)

12″ X 12″ White Daisy Cardstock (1385)

B Is For Baby (D1561) – Compatible with Cricut® Art Philosophy collection (Z1686)

1″ X 3 1/2″ My Acrylix™ Block (Y1002)

Smoothie Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (Z2196)

Flamingo Dots (Z1934)

3-D Foam Tape (Z1151)

Tombow® Adhesive (1514)

Memory Book Glue Dots™ (1772)

Silhouette Cameo

A2 Step Card Baby Dresser cutting file by Lori Whitlock

Recollections Kraft Cardstock from Michaels

Do you like making handmade gifts? What is it?

Posted on Tuesday, February 4, 2014

1000 Gifts Journaling Book

Today I would like to share with you my #1000 Gifts Journaling Book that I made. This journaling book I use to write every single Gift I receive every day in 2014 so that:

I will continue see and remember that God is my shepherd and He provides everything I need (Psalm 23)
Knowing that He continually be with me through the dark days and show me the light to follow His path (Psalm 23)
That I will dwell in His presence with praise every moment (Psalm 23)
My prayer is I ask God to teach me to number our days that I may get a heart of wisdom (Psalm 90:12)

I use this plain black Moleskine journaling book (my husband is a HUGE fan of this brand, he gave me some books to use).

Using Craft Paper Trimmer, I cut the Skylark paper (X7177B) into 5.5 x 8.25. I used my Xyron sticker maker to add the adhesive at the back of the paper. Then I added it on the journal cover, pressed gently all over it, then trimmed the extra edges.

After that, I cut the border arrow border arrow trim and added it slightly to the left side. Then I cut the stripe banner from the paper, and added it using 3-D Foam Tape to give some dimension to it.

I decorated it with big Aqua Dots. This is my new favorite too. There are 108 adhesive-backed enamel dots: 7mm, 5mm, 4mm; 3 aqua shades.

At the right bottom corner, I used the left over from the arrow border trim and a short peace of the other side of the paper, and added 2 5mm Aqua Dots.

And I added the name of my journal and the Bible verses using Keyboard Kraft Alphabet. This a handy alphabet stickers you can use for any projects! I finished it with sponged Chocolate Pigment ink from Basics Exclusive Inks™ Mini Pigment Pads Set using Sponge Daubers to give some vintage looking and I used white Signo Uni-Ball gel pen to make the “stitching” looking line 🙂

And….. here is my #1000 Gifts Journal:

I am so super excited to you see here today! Thank you so much for visiting 🙂 Hopefully this blog post give you a lot of inspirations to create beautiful projects for His glory!

I link this up at Close To My Heart New Products and Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Book Blog Hop and Linky Party!

Posted on Monday, February 3, 2014

The Sovereign Lord Is My Strength

Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord!

I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! The Sovereign Lord is my strength! He makes me as surefooted as a deer, able to tread upon the heights.

(Habakuk 3:17-19)

PRAY FOR INDONESIA & MANADO (picture credit)

Catastrophic flooding in Manado, North Sulawesi on January 15, 2014 has left many Christians in the area with out Bibles. One of the news reported at least 13 people got killed and thousands left with no homes. It was so devastated. I saw lots of pictures sent to me from my family and relatives that truly made me so sad.

PLEASE BE PRAYING for them as they recovering from the flood, they need a lot of helps and prayers. Ask God to send more helps for them. And ask God to strengthen them and give the families who lost their loved ones peace and knowing that God is faithful.

My husband and I were thinking what can we to help from here beside prayer. I am making cards for a while and thinking that I can raise some money by selling these cards for donations to help the believers there replace their copies of God’s Word. An Indonesian Bible costs only $6 – $8. All donations will be sent to Bible Translation Center in Manado and they will distribute the Bibles to the people.

Please visit my Album Here to see the card sets I am selling for this fund raising and you also can visit my Etsy Shop to buy cards.

If you feel led by God to donate monetary directly, you can go to this link to for donation – http://personal.thegulletts.info/

THANK YOU so much for all your prayers and supports for the people of Manado! I truly appreciate it and thank God for you!