The Greatest of these is LOVE! Word Art Wednesday Card for February 1st

Welcome back for another Word Art Wednesday! 

I'm so excited to share this weeks card with you all.  The verse comes from my favorite chapter in the Bible and the theme allowed me to play with papers using some of my favorite colors.   I just had so much fun with this one! 

What a fitting verse for this time of year.   The word "charity" in this verse means love.  The love this verse speaks of is not a mushy, euphoric feeling such as the world would think of love.  This is a self-sacrificial love that is only found in Jesus.  He is our perfect example of that love lived out, and He paid the ultimate price to make us a partaker of His love.  

Only Christ could love us this much! 

The lovely Word Art is available for your personal use at the Word Art Wednesday Blog.  We'd love to see it used in your creations. But, it's not required to play along. 

Paper and stickers for my card are from Echo Parks' "love story" line.  Embellishments are from my stash. 

Remember, The challenge at Word Art Wednesday is as always "anything goes".  We love to see your creativity.  

You can find us on Instagram @wordartwednesday, come give us a follow. 

Also, if you share your entry on Instagram be sure to use hashtag #wawchallenge and we'll feature your work on our page. 

 I'd like to thank all of my readers for their continued support of Word Art Wednesday and to say that I love seeing your talents! 

My Lets Create Expo Haul 2016 and Hopefully, a Giveaway

Hi there,

I'm back from a very full, exciting weekend.  This weekend was my city's annual Lets Create Expo (formerly the Scrapbook USA Expo).  I'm don't know the reason for the name change, but I enjoy attending, whatever the name.  I've had the privilege of going the last 4 years.  I took some pictures of my Lets Create Expo Haul.  I just couldn't help but share them with you, dear readers.  

Here's the whole shebang!  Let me tell you, my bag was overflowing! 

The reason I like shopping the Lets Create Expo is I'm able to purchase the product for around 80% off the retail price.  The catch is it's all old product, no new releases.  Everything is 2015 or older, but it's all new to me. :)

As you can see, older collections.  I do try to choose the product that is still in line with the current trends, though.  What can I say, I've got to stay relevant. :)

I can't wait to begin creating using my new products, and to share my creations with you all! 

In other news, I would really love to do a fun giveaway to share some of the spoil. 

My problem is that I don't have enough readers to make the giveaway fun. So, here's the deal... I would love to get 20 more followers.  Once I've reached my goal, I'll do a giveaway worth $25!  You can help me to reach my goal by sharing my blog through social media.  You can follow anyway that you like... Bloglovin, email, or Google Friend Connect.  Just as long as I reach a total of 20 new readers.   I would really appreciate your help in this.  I can't wait to reward someone with some fun product!

I hope you all had a great weekend, thanks for stopping by today.

Blessings,

Echo Park 5th Avenue, Ikat Pattern, Hello Card

Welcome,

I really want to share my latest card with you.  I'm super excited about this card, because it was so easy to make, and you'll never guess where my inspiration came from!  A pillow!  Yep, that's right a pillow!  Echo Park's 5th Avenue paper was the perfect fit for my 'hello' card.  I just love ikat print, on pillows and on cards. 

The pillow that started it all.

Here's my pillow inspired card.  Don't you just love the pom-pom trim? Echo Park's Ikat pattern paper was the perfect fit.  This card was so easy to make, I think I'll make more in different colors. 

The inspiration for paper projects is literally everywhere!  Remember, the more you create, the more creative you become. Someone said that.  I'm not sure who, but I like it. 

What's the strangest thing you've drawn inspiration from?

Blessings, 

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Sweet Baby Girl Chipboard Album Part 3

Hello! I hope you've all been enjoying your holiday weekend. I know that I have. It's been great to spend so much time with my family. Playing games, shopping, watching fireworks, eating out, and working on home improvement projects together. I wish it could last just a little longer, but Monday is fast approaching. 

So, here I am.  Back to show you more pictures of the Sweet Baby Girl Album. If you've missed any of the previous posts then I should explain that this is a very large album, and I did not want to overwhelm anyone, particularly myself :) by sharing the entire album in one post. So I've broken it down into a series so to speak. :) You may view part 1 of the album here, and part 2 here. Enjoy!

Today I am sharing pages 7 thru 10 with you, here goes!

I used Echo Park Sweet Day, and Simple Stories Sn@p Papers for this layout. Along with some MME and hand made embellishments. 

In each album I make, I usually have a few pages that I really like, and a few that I am not so pleased with. This is one of the pages that I really like. 

I just really like the fun scallops. I made the scallops by using my 1/2 in. circle punch and punched out circles on various patterned paper from my scraps. I distressed the edges then layered them to resemble scallops, and finished it off with some red pearls. 

 pages 9 and 10. Once again using the same paper lines. 

I really like how this cluster came out, I wanted to use my jeweled butterfly so badly, and she just seemed to fit here. :) I've used floweres from petaloo, and recollections. the journal tag is a free printable from Tania over at the Wild@heart blog. 

 As usual I've used free printables to embellish my page. The label is from Tania's Wild@Heart blog.

and the 2013 ticket is found at U printables.

I used Prima, Petaloo, and recollections flowers in this cluster, I layered them over a MME Doilie sticker. I heavily distressed the sticker, and added pink pearls around the center. 

I will leave you with this for today. Thank you so much for your patience as I share this album over several posts. 

Happy Scrapping,

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Sweet Baby Girl Chipboard Album Part 2

As promised I am back to show you more pages from the rather large chipboard album. If you missed seeing the first part of the album then go here. And with out further ado I leave you with pretty pictures. :)

3rd and 4th pages. I used Simple Stories, and echo park country drive, and sweet day papers here.

The bingo card and polka dot paper is from Simple Stories snap collection, the chevron paper is from the DCWV Sunday Afternoon paper pad. 

This cluster contains flowers from my stash, a Prima Delightful day flower, pink pearls from Basic Grey, and lastly a free printable ticket found here. 

for this page I used Miss Magnolia (my sewing machine) to stitch together a pocket for placing journaling tags. Most of the tags are from the Simple Stories snap collection, I then stitched ribbon to the tops of the tags to make them easier to pull out. The sugar and spice tag at the top of the page is from Echo Park along with the paper for this page. 

I also could not resist using these two adorable free printable cards designed by Amy J. over at Delightful Distractions. 

 Here is the 5th and 6th pages. I used once again Echo Park and Simple Stories paper, with the exception of the photo mats. They're from MME.

I will leave you with a close up of the cluster. I used flowers from my stash, rub on hearts from my stash, and chipboard swirl from my stash. I painted the swirl green and covered it with Martha Stewart glitter. The pink doilie covered button is from Recollections at Micheals. 

That's all for today, I'll be back soon to share more this very large album! 

Thank you for stopping by today,

to see the next post for this album go here. 

Sweet Baby Girl Chipboard Album Part 3

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