Beauty and Faith Blog *Hop

Welcome to the Faith Blog Hopper's Beauty and Faith  Hop.... It is really great to have you hopping along with us. Here is the line up in case you get lost

1. Nana Campana: nanacampana.com 

2. Wendy Swenne: http://wendyscrappings.blogspot.com/

3. Nicole Griggs Brenna: http://scrapmethis.blogspot.com (You are Here)

4. Dolores Cancel: http://scrapperinnewyork.blogspot.com/

5. Marjolaine Simard Walker: http://twelvestonesscrapbooking.blogspot.com/

6. Tammy Bartlett: http://bbbm.weebly.com/

 The verse for this hop is Psalm 45:11"let the King be enthralled by your beauty; honor Him, for He is your Lord..".


This psalm is often called the wedding psalm.  This Psalm is one of many chapters in the bible that speaks of Jesus being the groom and us/church his bride. Psalm 45:11 directly speaks to the Bride... Christ thinks that we are full of beauty and value.  When we accept the Lord Jesus as our Savior he takes our lives and make something beautiful out of them.  It is only by his grace and love that He looks at us and doesnt see how we or others may see our selves but through the beauty he has given us.  He is wonderful God that loves us so much even more than a groom loves his bride.  He is are all in all... our consistent God that loves us unconditionally.... that died for our sins and rose from the grave.  Like we celebrate a bride and groom on their wedding day so should value and celebrate each other.  I am truly blessed to have so many wonderful Christian women in my life... 


I created this layout... of my husband and I when we got married... never did I feel as beautiful as I did on that day but God sees me each everyday as even more beautiful... just knowing that fills my heart with joy!

 Now you can head over to Dolores' blog to see what lovely project she created!

SEM Design Team Call

I want to let you know that we are having a Design Team Call over at Scrapping Everyday Miracles.  I would love for you to apply.  I love putting a new team together... and there are so many wonderful and talented women.  Here is the link to all the info you need to know!
http://scrappingeverydaymiracles.blogspot.com/2012/02/april-august-dt-call.html

My cards featured over at the Eyelet Outlet

Have you checked out the new brads over at the Eyelet Outlet_ I love all the new brads sooooo much!  I love making cards... Here are a bunch of cards I made using the new brads from the Eyelet Outlet.... I was also featured on the Eyelet Outlet blog so make sure you pop over there too and check out all the fun... http://www.eyeletoutlet.blogspot.com/2012/02/monday-design-team-inspiration.html#comment-form

Here are my cards....

This one is my favorite and I love it because I used ribbon from Paper Loves Glue.... and if you have never checked out Kim\s store you really should... I am totally addicted and the seam binding is sooo easy to work with with and looks so nice on projects... On top of that she seems to have any and every color you could ever want...

Scrapping Everyday Miracles Challenge #13

I really want to get back into posting regularly here... I have created so many layouts that I havent shared... 
First I will begin by sharing this month's challenge over at Scrapping Everyday Miracle's.... 


It is my month to come up with the challenge and here it is....


This months challenge is to scrap about something that you are passionate about.... something you are or did work at with all of your heart!  It is okay if you dont want to scrap about yourself... it could be about  anyone that has put all of their heart into doing something!

The scrap twist is to use a heart in or on your project.... 

If you think it sounds like a fun challenge and would like a chance to win a prize from Nikki Sivils head on over to Scrapping Everyday Miracles....

Here is my layout.... and a couple close ups....

My daughter always makes me so proud and I love to see her work at things.... to truly put her heart into doing something.  Karianne wanted a trampoline.  Her father and I said that she could but that she had to earn it.  We have a ton of marbles and we told her that we would give her a marble for every time she was good, kind and listened to her parents; when she filled a whole jar with marbles she could have a trampoline. She was so good amazingly good!  It took her 10 weeks and she never lost focus.  The day she dropped her last marble in while she was at preschool ... Lars and I went to the toy store and bought the trampoline.  It was pouring rain outside but Lars still set up so that it would be there when she got home.  We were just so very proud of her.  This is only one of the many many accomplishments that she will have in her life... but with each of them we will stand by her side the proud parents.  God has just truly blessed us!!!!!

We did let her jump in the rain for a few minutes on the very first day but due to the weather I couldnt really take any pictures... so this is actually a picture from the next day after the trampoline had dried.  Because of the net you have to shoot pictures from the top and I just love how the sun  reflected off of her face... There is also a picture of the marble jar all filled up!  I recorded the story on 3 labels that I stapled together and then glued to the layout... I wanted to create a grid layout but at the same time still have an unexpected kid like layout... Therefore I splashed the background with tea and waterdown paint.  I also included two sock monkey brads from the Eyelet Outlet that reminds me of my silly jumping little monkey Karianne....

You have until Feb. 29th to enter so it would be great to see what fun product you can come up with.... Here is the link again to Scrapping Everyday Miracles Challenge #13.