First of all, though, thanks to all who care enough to pop over  and say Hi. Things are very topsy turvy health wise this past month and look like being that way for a while. Sorry I wont perhaps be as active at returning comments,.    Dear Ones, well today is a day of great rejoicing as my title shares. Can you imagine the great sorrow of the women and disciples upon the first day of the week?  They thought all was lost - Jesus was dead upon the cross of Cavalry, and buried in stone tomb!  "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unt ..read more

  Hullo there everyone!  Hanging on my bedroom wall is a printed Illuminated text. A lot of my texts are similar to it as  is the book I learnt from see - here it is.  Isn't it a beautiful verse?  It is the true reflection of what occurred on Good Friday all those years ago. On a rocky hillside, in sorrow and pain, a young Man shed His blood on a cross - a shameful, sinful death. WHY? Years ago (over 50) I well remember my sister's teacher and I were on a beach hillside near where I live now, and she asked if I knew why Jesus had died?  I said, " No." .. and so ..read more

 Warning- photo overload... again! Well, true to my promise (or hopeful promise), this is my next monthly post! And believe you me, WARNING - loads of cards here, mostly so I remember what I've done! Lots of male cards early in year so try to use one idea as leaping off point, this time every card is different. Link each of techniques used. Several desks to share at Julia's WOYWW - What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday. Desk one with gessoed embossed foil (see link here) Don't have gesso so used watered down texture paste, worked just fine. The 3D EF was bought from Poppy Stamps, but was ori ..read more

 Warning! Photo overload!  Well, here is 2024! That happened in a blink?!! now rocketing through the 2020's, I decided, God helping me, was going to blog once a month. So here is January! I am not sure how long it will last.  As it is Wednesday & is desk day! See "What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday", over HERE ? at Julia's .. so where’s my desk!? This morning I was doing some old fashioned stamping with a Stamp-a-ma-jig, even though using an unmounted stamp (a very annoyingly made unmounted stamp - crooked on front image to back, but beautiful so I persist ..read more

    Christmas is a celebration of Christ’s birth, yet He is often banished these days out of hearts and homes, stores and public locations… some even substitute X for Christmas calling it Xmas.  X is an unknown quantity but Jesus is never that. For He is our LORD, our Saviour and coming King. There are many prophetic passages promising Jesus would come, starting with Genesis 3:15 - man sinned, so our loving God promised a Saviour. Another promised our coming Christ oft forgotten is of His second coming: the promise given by the angels when Jesus went back to heaven ..read more

(Warning - photo heavy post) Thought I'd pop in as its Wednesday (and WOYWW  - link below) and share this new technique I tried, and I love it too.  Saw it with some of the Seven Cardmakers I follow, popped across to their post here and thought, “Wow! I must try it”.  However I used Gansai Tambi watercolours, not reinkers as mine are not nice colours to use, the few I have. It worked well with Gansai Tambi as they're bright watercolours. One of the seven also used brushos, which is another possible alternative. Here are desks too… kinda step by step. The technique works but d ..read more

 Okay, when three bloggers in less than a week contact you to see if you’re okay, it’s a big prompt from the LORD to do a post. Update is below. First of all sharing multiple cards I’ve made for August birthdays, had a run of them in first month of August. This is my desk using some Gansai Tambi watercolours and making three female cards, they’re really all birthday cards but one is late so turned it into a bible verse card and as lady has dementia I made it a simple verse “the LORD is my Shepherd”... so belatedly linking over to Julia’s blog post on WOYWW.  Over at Julia ..read more

  (Sorry for silence - give personal update at end!)? Be warned photo heavy post.  Okay it’s WOYWW day again ie desk day, What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday, over HERE ? at Julia's .. so where’s my desk!? HERE is current desk… you can actually see some of it! My silence and unwellness found me doing some 2am spring cleaning. Shock, horror! I found on desk a lost die (AKA one from Miss Di of Snippets, which features thrice on this post), clear piece for Stamp-a-ma-jig, AND in box below desk, (now moved into drawer set) - MISSING -  mini stamp pad from a set ..read more

 Well, tis time for a Desky share for WOYWW - What is On Your Workdesk Wednesday, over HERE ? at Julia's. Today’s post is full of inky fun, and surprise - with new and old techniques. Desk 1: at 1am ? two nights ago, as was deciding the design finally for the Double Stamped Vellum technique.  The design eluded me .. so prayed and waited, and looked around.  And there it was. The other cards made up for butterfly challenge with snippets (inky pieces were all snippets) was a batik technique Loll did over here.  Tip: re folds in card to do the batik style ..read more

 Well, a desky share, two actually - many cards of varied techniques, I’ve been busy. To see other desks, please do pop over to Julia’s Stamping Ground and be surprised at how much you can learn .. all over the world!  The first desk is for a three year old.. had used this “Cheeky Monkey” stamp by Kraftin' Kimmie ten years ago here, but thought this card was passé now, so hunted for another idea and came up with this. My desk shows an assortment of pens for colouring on right, scissor for fussy cutting and shaker elements … however didn’t take photo of car ..read more