Today, I am expressing my "thankfulness" to actually get to post and not only post but to be able to post to the Link Party over on Sheri Whitfield's blog, Cards and More by Sheri! I am so thankful to Sheri for providing this opportunity to play along each month and taking the time to come up with a theme and invite us over for fun! Thankful for you today Sheri! :) This months theme is Fall/Thanksgiving! Yay for me because I never want to pass up an opportunity to be thankful!!!
As I have expressed so many times before in my blog, I have virtually no technology to really display my crafts except my phone. I'm thankful for my phone, but the pictures never seem to really convey what I see with my crafts. This tag was full of shimmer and shine, but sadly you can't see that in this photo.
I began this tag by brayering on several PaperArtsy Fresco colors and then a Daler Rowney cream color and then smooshed around further with a baby wipe. After I heat set it, I then sprayed Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Silver bells and Pearl over top.
I then used a stencil by Donna Downey called Create Truth and stenciled using Silks Acrylic Glaze in French Lilac on the tag. I further outlined the stencil for just a little more prominence. I then spritzed again with my Tattered Angels. When I finished I used my homemade texture paste through Jaime Echt's stencil called "Art Is" for some further texture.
I then went through my embellishments drawer and saw this great border sticker that had some sparkle to it to use on the edge. And then found this word set from Tim Holtz that had "remember" that I popped out and painted with Daler Rowney Acrylic Silver. It was still too dull for me so I then went back and painted the word black and sprinkled with Finnabair's art sugar in Antique Silver! I love, love that product! I then simply adhered with some Aleene's.
I have a beautiful stamp set from Quitefire Design called Give Thanks and I stamped using one of the sentiments on card stock and then spritzed it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Fully Purple. I then edged the sentiment and the tag with StazOn in Gothic Purple. I then simply painted another piece of card stock to put behind the sentiment in black and sprinkled with the Art Suger. I used double sided tape to put the two pieces together and then used pop dots to pop the sentiment up off the tag. Voila!
Not you traditional colors for fall and thanksgiving, but I guess I wanted to do something different! LOL But the sentiment is still the same in my heart! In God's Word in Psalm 95:2-3 it says "Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song. For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods!" Amen!!!! Any time I go before the presence of our Father, I make sure to go with thanksgiving and praise! As Matthew Henry said, "He is the author of our blessedness!" I am so richly blessed beyond what I deserve! My Father in Heaven never fails to provide for me and extend to me the fullness of His great love, mercy and grace!
God the Father is the One true Living God and is so worthy to be exalted, honored and glorified. He asks for nothing more! He definitely gets the short end of the stick when it comes to His children. We, as believers don't, or shouldn't, exalt Him for all the things He does (and He does many things for us daily) BUT simply because He IS!!! He gives ( and gave the One true eternal gift to us) and in return, He just wants our adoration! What love is this????? Mighty!
Won't you take time to step into His presence with praise and thanksgiving today? He deserves nothing less!
Bless you today! :)
Giving thanks for you and your willingness to share.
ReplyDeleteAwwwww Peg! You made my day! I needed that today! :) Many,many blessings to you and yours thisThanksgiving season! :)
DeleteThank YOU for sharing Felicia. Gorgeous tag, I didn't know about this linky party and may try and pop in. Its so important to keep a grateful heart, we owe everything to our heavenly Father and its good and right and does us good to thank HIM.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your sweetness, AS ALWAYS, Susan! Sheri's linky party is fun....do come along and play! I agree, it is IMPORTANT to keep a grateful heart. We may not always "feel" like it, but I'm so thankful that the Father doesn't operate on "feelings" and continuously lifts us up with long suffering until we actually get it! LOLOL He's a GREAT BIG God, with a GREAT BIG love! Blessings to you my friend! :)
DeleteThis is a truly scrumptious tag, Felicia! It is very difficult to show shimmer and shine in photographs even with the best cameras, so it's not your phone's fault! The sentiment is so true! I'm pretty good at finding joy in little things in life and be grateful for them. My husband, on the other hand, is a "cup-is-half-empty" kind of guy and he's constantly moaning about everything. It's sometimes hard to keep positive when that's going on around me (not to mention how tiring to listen to)! If I had a magic wand, I would make him see how much he's got to be thankful for!
ReplyDeleteThank you Zsuzsa, AS ALWAYS, for your encouragement! I will try to remember not to hate on my phone so much (it may decide to quit working...ha ha ha), but it's hard when I see all the gorgeous pix of other crafters goodies! You get great shots, by the way! :) I know all about being around someone with the "cup-half-empty!" My old boss used to be like that and it was "dooms day" just about every day!! Uggghhh! You just stay positive, my friend...IT DOES rub off! At some point you just have to ignore their short comings and just be the "light" in the room!!! We live in a dark world, that's for sure, that makes it hard for us to remain positive, but I would rather live positively with a smile on my face than waste energy on being a downer, you know? I always tell my girls that it takes a heap MORE energy to be a downer anyway!!! LOLOLOL Stay positive my friend! Thanks again and many, many, many blessings to you! :))))
DeleteLovely tag - and sentiment...gratitude is the best, yes?!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Win! YES, gratitude is the best! If I am ever not thankful for something, somebody better call 911!!!! LOLOL Thanks again Win! :)
DeleteOh my, this is lovely, and thank you so much for your kind words, Felicia! You are a gem!!
ReplyDeleteOh Sheri, thank you so much! You are most welcome...I mean every word! Thank you again, for challenging us! :))) Blessings
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