Mens Jacket Card

Hello, i thought id share monday's class with you all. I had fun designing this card and like i said in the post for the mens ties ...to save your tie cut out ...well this is what it was for. I had 19 Ladies in my class on monday and i was glad my 2 dauhters came to help....school holidays for them at the moment. We've been doing mens cards as we always seem to struggle with those. below are some pics of the jacket without the tie and instructions to make it. Plus the other card we made in class......take care...Valita

and a last thought

Oh, revive us! then your people
can rejoice in you again.
Pour out your love and kindness on us,
Lord, and grant us your salvation.
Psalms 85:6,7

Prizes Won at the Annual Show

Hello, well what a weekend. Our Valley area has just had its Annual River District Show for 2008.
So this year we decided to enter some of mine and my Daughters creations in the pavlian. To our surprise we won quite a few.....My daughter in the under 12's won first in Sew bag section, First in Crochet artical, First in Jewellery, and second in scrapbook pages. heres her pics


I won First in Jewellery, First in scrapbooking, First in Any other article, which was a star book i made for my daughter. Second in cardmaking, Second in Jewellery, and Second in Boiled Fruit cake. which you can find my recipe here. Third in the Toy section with my kermit puppet i made. heres the pics.
It was fun to see them all on display with many other talented creations and i think my daughter has some more big ideas for next year. Our church also ran a Heath Hut where for free you can have your blood preasure and sugar levels checked by some nurses form our church and this year they also did stress tests. Its a great outreach to the community and many of the show workers use this to get their annual check. Our puppet group used there Charcter heads to walk through the people and promote the health hut. My husband was in the boy here and he did a fantastic job ...although he made some babies cry!! but charmed a whole lot of others!!! Our Pastors wife had a go in the girl i think she loved it!!!

It was a great weekend and our Pathfinder group(kids aged 10-16) did the show cleanup as a fundraiser today which helps pay for there trips camping through the year.Well i hope youve been inspired yet again as we all have been...until next time God Bless..and stress less!!....Valita

and a last thouht
I strain to reach the end of the race
and receive the prize for which
God is calling us up to heaven because
of what Jesus Christ did for us.
Philippians 3:14

Mens Tie

Hi all, its cold and rainy here today, perfect for another fun post for you all to try. We made this mens tie card at my lessons on monday and all the ladies had another great morning. When you cut out the tie save the shape for a post comming soon. Before attaching the finished front to the card i added a brad for the tie pin and punched some circle tags that were tucked under the card front. Below is a pic of the other card we made on monday and the patterns for the ties....I aslo won card of the month on the Busy Bec site for my spellbinder nestability dies card....got to choose a free large die as my prize, how cool is that.....hope your day is full of creativity...Valita

and a last thought
Scince the Lord is driecting our steps,
why try to understand everything
that happens along the way?
Proverbs 20:24

Arte y pico award

Hi all, another busy week has gone by with the bike camp going off great. All the kids rode really well and it was a happy day all round. I sat down at my laptop to catch up on email etc and found Chrissy had awarded me with the Arte y pico award....it was a nice surprise and thankyou so much Chrissy. Like Chrissy i only started my blog in november last year and to see so many hits and beatiful comments is fantastic....thankyou all for the support.



Here are the Rules
1. you pick 5 blogs that you think deserve this award for there creativity, design, interesting material, and also contribute to the blogging comuminty, no matter the langage.
2. Each award has to have the name of the athor and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by ever one.
3. Award winner and the one who has given the prize has to show the link of arte y pico so everyone will know the origin of this award.
4. to show the rules
the blogs I chose are Angela, Tracey, Sonja's, Papaer stamps sissors and Mels stampz
these blogs have all inpsired me and its great to be able to just say thanks......Valita

Cardmaking Lessons begin

Hi all, i hope you all had a great easter and stuffed yourself with that yummy brown stuff....i had some but can honestlly say ive ridden it all off on the bike as we have a 52km bike ride comming up and Dave and I have been in training...looking forward to it. Well monday kicked off my first cardmaking lessons and after much planning and buying and more planing and cardmaking...you don't realise how much there is to do !!!.... it all went really well. heres a pic of my son Ben and daughter Madaleine helping me sort card and stuff...Poor Ben we found out his collar bone was broken from his fall off his bike, but he's in there hepling just the same....luv ya mate!!
I had 15 ladies attended and they all had a lovely time and enjoyed the cards they made. So now its a matter of keeping the ideas rolling. I just thank my husband Dave and the kids for supporting me always in all the projects i take on they are my number one fans and supporters....luv'em to bits!...and Beth came home today on cloud nine....she had got 100% in her advance English assignment ...you go girl !!!!!!!!!so proud of you. Funny how the weeks sweep from everything going hay wire to some really great stuff! pays to trust God in all that life throws at us......God is Good!
hers some pics of my class.



and pics of the cards we made....this first one was made using mini patty pan wrappers, flatterned and cutting slits into the center to fan out to petals then layered up. I got this idea from a talented lady on the splitcoaststampers forum . the second youve already seen found here

thanks for looking and i hope you gain another cool idea to use. Ive got a heap of food shopping to do tomorrow for this bike day....feeding 24 of us a good breaky and lunch on the go. Valita

and a last thought
For this great God is our God forever and ever.
For He will be our guide even to the end.
Psalms 48:14

My Fresh Fold Pattern Blog

Hi all , just wanted to let you all know i have now finished setting up my Fresh Fold pattern Blog. I will be adding to these sets that are for sale as time goes by. Ive added links to this on the side bar so you can find your way there easily. So here are the to new flower sets. they are fun to do and with all the detailed instructions you will need to make them look great. Please contact me with any questions....Hope you all had a great easter break....Valita

and a last thought for easter

We have been forgiven and made
clean by Christ's dying for us once
and for all. Hebrews 10:10

Calling all Cupcake Lovers

Hello, sorry i havent posted for a while... for me it feels like ages. Its been such a busy week with organizing my new cardmaking lessons which will be starting at the end of this month and madly trying to finish my Fresh Fold Flower sets for sale. Inbetween that our son came off his bike in the skate park and hurt his shoulder Dave took him to casualty to have it all checked out..and a tetnus needle.. thank the Lord it wasnt broken. He's a bit sore, sad and sorry at the moment though. Our younger daughter was crying her eyes out last night because she sat on one of her baby mice while tring to nurse them all and our older daughter was up till all hours last night finishing an assinment (due today) for her Sutddies of Religion class and fell asleep when she'd almost finished. Woke up early this morning to discover she hadnt saved her work properly which had vanished and was distrort...well that woke us all up by then.
we spent the next 2 hours trying to recover her work and with alot of prayer and Bens computer skills we found the assinment 2 min. before they had to get on the bus. sigh!!!!!!!!!!! im stuffed now....so to take my mind off all this i sat down ...after id done the house work of course and made this card for you to enjoy... if you need help click back to the fold example post....call it letting off some steam.the pattern is below..oh and on top of all that our easter plans fell on there face. well sometimes life deals all sorts of stuff up for us i am just thankfull God cares.

and a last thought

God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble
Psalm 46:1

World Day Of Prayer

Hello....today is world day of prayer so i thought what a great excuse to create another fold pattern. Im please how it turned out but i must admit there were a few tricky folds and the hands seem to be hard to make look good...but i found a use for the cute little world die from cuttlebug and stamped a stamp of the world over the top . Below is the pattern and if you need help with the folds go here to learn more. Our church is the host church in our area for tonights service so ive had my son and his friend making palm leaf crosses to give out at the door.
My prayers go to you today as fellow crafters world wide...have a happy sabbath....Valita

and a last thought

My prayer for you is that you will overflow
more and more with love for others
and at the same time keep on growing
in spiritual knowledge and insight.
Philippians 1 :9

Birthdays for the seniors

Hello Just a quick post today as ive got Tea on the go and the kids are almost home from school. I like to feed them when they get home or they will graze until i do cook tea. I was asked to teach a card class with the younger youth in our church as this year they are making it one of there aims to get to know all the seniors in the church. So to help that along we made enough birthday cards for them all for throughout the year. We had 2 groups going 1 were doing the cards and the other were making birthday cakes then they swapped around. They had heaps of fun and licked out many mixing bowls....got some good pics of that...hheheheh.
Heres the sample card I made for them. They loved using all my toys ...who woud'nt! very easy to make cards but they came up realy great. And some pics of the groups with their faces blured for reasons you all understand.





I know the oldies will love this and pray it closes gaps and brings us all together as Gods children....have a lovely day...Valita

These cards were sent to me by Regina. Shes done a fantastic job. thankyou for showing me your works of art Regina i just had to share them with the rest of the world...Valita

and a last thought

Surely your goodness and unfailing love
will pursue me all the days of my life.
Psalm 23:6

3D Easter Eggs

Hello, well Autumn has started and im sitting here with cold fingers and toes already. We love this season the weather is cool enough to snuggle under the doona at night and warm enough to go for a swim in the day, Perfect! the stars are also very beutiful here at this time of year. Gods blessings are all around. Now to these 3D eggs.... these are not my original idea but i like to pay with ideas and see how i can tweek them.

You will need :
Oval punches or dies
printed paper of choice
stamping inks
ribbons
shape punches to decorate
double sided tape


to make the hanging egg i punched out 10 ovals inked around the edges folded each in half pattern side in. Using double sided tape start to stack then up in 2 lots of 5 ovals.



Until you have something that looks like this. I was looking at different ribbons one day and saw these hair ties thought they would be great for something....thinking of scrapbooking at the time and bought a whole bunch of them

Lay one half of your egg out and attach ribbon down the center leaving a loop at one end and tape both egg halfs together then tie a bow through the loop to hang with. Decorate with other shape punches or however you like.




Heres a card i made using the same concept but i used 10 smaller ovals and attached it to my card as a half egg to give it a really full look you could add more ovals to the above hanging egg also. Have a lovely start to Autumn or Spring where ever you are in the world...Valita

and a last thought
Your kindness has often refreshed
the hearts of Gods people

Philemon 7