Jazzy Inspirations #18 with Candy!

This week's inspiration piece is a photoprint of a Sonny Rollins CD Cover. The photoprint uses the colors Black, Gray, and White with a "pop" of Green. Here's a link to a YouTube video of one of Sonny Rollins' songs. My one and only love.

BE SURE TO ENTER THE CHALLENGE FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN COPIC MARKERS THAT TENIA WILL BE GIVING AWAY!!
I used the awesome sketch from the last Basic Grey challenge. The butterfly and green flowers are from SU's Reason to Smile. I heat embossed the butterfly and sentiment. I used a cuttlebug embossing folder on two panels. The DP is Bo Bunny Midnight Paisley.

I'm going to give this to my daughter for her 22nd birthday. Her birthstone is Peridot, so this matches quite nicely!

I'm including a picture of her as well. Isn't she lovely?

Jazzy Inspirations #17

Here is my card for our #17 challenge. This week we are excited about being sponsored by The Digi Shack. They have the cutest stamps! They offer a free stamp every Monday! Check them out. We had such a great turn out last week at Jazzy Inspirations! We hope to see another one this time!

I used a Spellbinders Impressabilities to make the lampshade and lamp base. I used a Spellbinders die for the red frame and white circle. I used a cuttlebug embossing folder for the red frame. The background text was done on my computer. I cut the lamp out and popped it up with foam backing.

Thanks for stopping by!

Jennifer

Mojo Monday #98

I am entering my lamp card in Mojo Monday's challenge this week. Their sketch is really great.

I used a Spellbinders Impressabilities to make the lampshade and lamp base. I used a Spellbinders die for the red frame and white circle. I used a cuttlebug embossing folder for the red frame. The background text was done on my computer. I cut the lamp out and popped it up with foam backing.

Jazzy Inspirations #16 Challenge and Blog Candy!

Good morning ladies! Happy Saturday to you. Today I made a card for the Jazzy Inspirations challenge this week. I love the color combo! The inspiration is a photographic print called Three Trumpets. See the picture above. If you haven't ever entered in our challenges yet, this would be a great time to do it because we have a new sponsor who will be offering two new stamps as a prize AND two of our DT members are offering HUGE blog candy! Stephanie is offering a $50 (yes, $50.00!)gift certificate to the shop of your choice!! And there's more!! Nicole is offering a wonderful assortment of goodies as well, including 3 of the so very cute stamps from Sunshine and Giggles, a Basic Grey 6x6 pad, Basic Grey brads, 3 bottles of Smooch, a bottle of Shimmerz Spritz, 1 bottle of Glimmer Mist, 1 pkg of Blue Moon Charms, 1 Fantastix Coloring Tool Brush Point, and Assorted Ribbon in Summery, Sunshiny Colors! Can you believe it?!? Hope to see you there!
P.S. There will be more blog candy connected to Jazzy Inspirations in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!
Hugs,
Jennifer
My card Recipe:
I used a cuttlebug folder to emboss my main panel. Cut three circles out using Nestabilites die cut, then did Iris Folding using mulberry paper. for embellies, I used ivory pearls and colored the three in the circles with a turquoise Copic marker.

JK Wedding Entrance Dance

This is one of the sweetest, craziest, happiest things I've ever seen!!

Whimsie Doodles First Challenge!

Isn't this stamp the cutest?! And guess what~it's FREE!

I made this card for their first sketch challenge using their free turtle digi stamp. This was a really fun sketch to work with. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss a couple panels, I colored the cute little guy with Copics, used Stickles for some sparkle, and I distressed the edges with my fingernail! Whimsie included a sentiment stamp, but my printer decided to die on me, so I hand wrote it.

I'll give this to my Uncle in Fresno who is recovering from major surgery.

Awesome Blog Candy and Jazzy Inspirations has a new Sponsor!

Hi, I am a proud DT member of Jazzy Inspirations and we have a new Sponsor!! It is Sunshine and Giggles Stamps.
You've got to check them out! See a sample above. They specialize in African-American children's stamps. They are so unique and awesome. I've never seen stamps like this anywhere! And for tomorrows Jazzy Cats Challenge, the winner will receive TWO of these stamps!! So check it out on 7/25!

Also, a member of the Design Team for Jazzy Inspirations is offering very generous and amazing blog candy: visit Jazzy Inspirations for the details on 7/25!

Words of Inspiration

Good Morning. Just thought I'd share an amazing commentary/devotion from the Chaplain of the Motorcycle Club that my husband and I belong to. Here is a picture of us in our leathers. It is a christian M.C. and we love it. Our Chaplain, Bud is a devoted man of God and brings us a biblical word every day. I would like to share them with you from time to time. Today's was especially good.

Daniel 3: 17- 18

If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.



The power that our God has is miraculously awesome. There is nothing that He is unable to deliver us from. It doesn’t matter how intense the fire in our lives becomes or how threatening those who are around us may seem, God is able to deliver. These guys stood strong in their faith that God would deliver them, if not from the fire then from this world. They didn’t question their faith and whether God delivered them from the fire or not was not the deciding factor of their worship and faith towards Him.. They were going to remain obedient to God even at the risk of their own lives. God is still God even when we don’t get the victory. He has the right to do nothing and His choice is fair. God is sovereign so however He chooses to do something is just and good. Can we bring ourselves to this same trust and discipline in our lives so that when it doesn’t go our way we can still trust God and be committed to following Him despite what we might go through. Do we only trust Him when it feels good? We are spoiled; we haven’t had to face any real life threatening situations for our faith in America although the day may be quickly coming upon us. These three guys recognized that whether their lives were spared or not wasn’t the point, God is their reward. And the same holds true for us, it doesn’t matter whether we live or die, God is our portion, He is our reward. God promises us a life that will be abundantly better and when we get to heaven I guarantee it will be, but to be honest, even now I would much rather go through the difficult times with God than without Him. We are servants of God and our faithfulness to Him makes it our duty to trust in Him no matter what the cost. It isn’t about whether He can save us from the fire or whether we live or die, it is about our faith and obedience to Him and our complete trust in Him over all circumstances.

Basic Grey is Back!

Here is my challenge card for their grand re-opening. They had a great sketch to use! I have used a small piece of Lemonade Doilies from their Lemonade line. The butterfly and green flowers are from SU's Reason to Smile. I heat embossed the butterfly and sentiment. I used a cuttlebug embossing folder on two panels. I used the colors based on Jazzy Inspirations challenge this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

Whimsie Doodles: Cute freebie Digi stamps and 1st Challenge

Hi, I found a fairly new blog called Whimsie Doodles. Their Digi Stamps are so very cute! I am going to enter their first challenge. Here's the sketch and a copy of their freebie digi stamp.