Stamping Sisters in Christ Challenge 123, a FREE cutting file and more ice photos!

 

I’ve taken part in the Stamping Sisters in Christ Challenge # 123 – Proverbs 3:3

I especially enjoy the thoughtfulness that goes into each challenge, if you have not had an opportunity yet – grab a coffee or tea and soak in the wise words of Kris this week!  She sure made me pause and think by what she shared. 

On to our card for this week:

"Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart."

Proverbs 3:3

challenge:

Make a {HEART} stand out in your card/project.

Here is my odd and fun take on things – inspired by my husband, he likes quirky.  I actually made two color versions of this card so I’ll post both. 

Supplies:

designer paper: Addison Swirl Collage by K and Co, Love Letters by Little Yellow Bicycle and some Recollections Cardstock

The glasses graphic and the frame around the wording I downloaded and altered from Graphics Fairy. 

The gems for the irises are dollar store.

The tags and hearts are my own design, cut on my Silhouette SD.

I’m leaving the tag cuts here for you and will also tuck a copy under the PAGES tab up top so you never have to fear if you lose or misplace your originals!

download

 

The time of frost is the time for me!

When the gay blood spins through the heart with glee

When the voice leaps out with chiming sound,

And the footstep rings on the musical ground;

When earth is white, and air is bright,

And every breath a new delight!

 

And morning! – each pane a garden of frost,

Of delicate flowering, as quickly lost;

For the stalks are fed by the moon’s cold beams,

And the leaves are woven like woof of dreams

By night’s keen breath, and a glance of the sun

Like dreams will scatter them every one.

 

~ William Allingham~

 

And if you’re not actually tired of my ice photos by now, here are the last six in this series:

Ice builds up at the base of each reed

So pretty when there is a whole forest of them

and the sun hits the crystal clear ice.

Like something you would expect to see under a microscope.

Almost a “paisley” shape

Pretty columns tangled into the tiny roots under the ice

A fuzzy caterpillar looking frost formation

Breathtaking!