Sweet Snowglobe

I think the Sweet Snowglobe stamp from the Holiday Mini (120868) is darling. I made two versions, one using the treat cups from the Idea Book and Catalog (IBC) and the other using a window sheet. Using the window sheet preserves the snow globe effect, but allows for easier mailing. Use card stock vellum (also available in the IBC) when using Embossing Folders and the Big Shot to avoid cutting through the paper. Dazzling Diamonds and Basic Rhinestones add some sparkle. The 1 3/4" circle punch fits the globe perfectly. The Photo Corners punch completed that "it needs something". You can't see it in the photo, but I stamped snowflakes with Versamark on the Cherry Cobbler photo corners.  And the snow is a sprinkle from my Department 56 Dickens Village. All supplies except the snow are from Stampin'Up!

Devotional for today - Neighborly Kindness

Read: Luke 10:25-37

One of the major obstacles to showing compassion is making prejudgments about who we think is worthy of our compassion. Jesus told a parable to answer the question: "Who is my neighbor?" (Luke 10:29). Or, who qualifies as worthy of our neighborly acts?

Jesus told of a man who traveled on the notoriously dangerous road from Jerusalem to Jericho. As he traveled, he fell among thieves and was robbed, beaten, and left for dead. Religious Jews (a priest and a Levite) passed him, but they walked by on the other side, probably for fear of being religiously defiled. But a Samaritan came along and had unconditional compassion on the wounded stranger.

Jesus' audience would have gasped at this because Jews despised Samaritans. The Samaritan could have limited or qualified his compassion because the man was a Jew. But he did not limit his neighborly kindness to those he thought were worthy. Instead, he saw a human being in need and resolved to help him.

Are you limiting your kindness to the ones you deem worthy? As followers of Jesus, let us find ways to show neighborly kindness to all people, especially to those we have judged as unworthy. - Marvin Williams

Apply your heart to instructions, and your ears to words of knowledge. Proverbs 23:12

The Bible in One Year

·         Jeremiah 27-29

·         Titus 3

Holiday Craft Fairs Are Upon Us!

I'm going to be a vendor at my first craft fair along with another experienced Stampin' Up Demonstrator, Jenni. I appreciate her letting me tag along to learn how this works. Here are a couple of note pad folders I worked up. Everything but the vase stamp in from Stampin'Up.

Devotional for today

17I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better. 18I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, 19and His incomparably great power for us who believe.

Ephesians 1:17-19a 

Praise the name of the LORD! Father, may Your name be lifted up on every campus house across this nation.  As these campus houses shepherd young people in the faith, give them Your Spirit of wisdom and revelation so that they may know You better.  As they learn in classrooms every day, may they also learn at Your feet, to know the hope to which You have called them, the riches of Your glorious inheritance in the saints, and Your incomparably great power for those who believe.  

Apply your heart to instructions, and your ears to words of knowledge. Proverbs 23:12

The Bible in One Year

·         Jeremiah 24-26

·         Titus 2