Lent - Preparing for Easter

The last week has been one of those where you kind of go "ah!" or maybe "ah-has!" for me. I'm not sure how this relates to Lent, but it is food for thought. I hope this all makes sense to you as I bring together some of the things from my weekly readings...
My word for 2013 is LISTEN. I've not been doing a very good job of it however up to this point. But this week has changed everything; God has been putting things in my path at an unbelievable rate and giving me quite the challenge to put my listening into full gear.
First off over at Gotta Pixel I am in a book club. This month we are reading "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein. It is a book written through the eyes of a dog which is in itself an interesting idea; it is about loyalty & family and having troubles; it is about a race car driver - not something I would pick up & read for that idea; but it is so much more. I can honestly say that I look at Nikki in a whole new light. Some of it I'm not sure about - like reincarnation, but on the whole it does give one a new perspective of the idea of reincarnation. Mostly though I learned that a race, whether it's a race with cars or a race through life, must be met head-on with your eyes focused on what ever path that you find yourself on.
Then on Sunday I got my journaling prompts which I mostly just read & meditate on rather than journaling. Bud Katter's website is here. And here's a link to his newsletter from this week. Look especially at the poem in the art journaling section -- that was what truly inspired me.
Pastor Jean got in on the act with her sermon on Sunday entitled "Unveiled Understanding". Sunday was Transfiguration Sunday and we read in Exodus 34:29-35 about how Moses had to veil himself when he came down the moutain after talking with God because he literally glowed from being in God's presence. Then the sermon scripture was II Corinthians 3:12-4:2 where Paul is urging us to transform into the image that God has planned; follow the path He leads you down; be transformed into His image.  We live in the valley, don't ignore them. Sure we have mountaintop experiences, but we need to make the most of the valley of everyday life. We need to continually seek God's grace and His face as we train for eternal life. As we do this we do not lose ourselves, but we become more like Him as we travel up the mountain to meet Him. Do you feel the "Holy Glow"? Are you working your way up the mountain?
And one last thing was from today's Simple Truths -- Finishing Strong.

Chinese New Year

Sunday, February 10 is Chinese New Year & Anmarie of ABCreations has just released her newest kit - Chinese New Year Snake. EWWW, I don't like snakes, but her snakes in this kit are so cute! I was honored to be a part of creating with this kit before release & now I'll share my layouts with you...

 



You can get Anmarie's kit at Wilma4Ever, find it here along with her other Chinese New Year kits (the one I used was "Snake") You'll see the quick page that I made offered FREE there as well. Here's what I did with it -- so simple, just drop it behind the QP layer & you've got an instant layout!

I also have a little cluster for you made from this kit -- click on the cluster to download it & enjoy.

Happy Chinese New Year to you all!

 

 

 

AprilTheScrapaholic - New Year's Eve Kit

I just finished up another assignment at Wilma4Ever using AprilTheScrapaholic's New Year's Eve kit.

You can find the kit here.

Here's the three layouts I did for April:
A Heritage LO:

Another heritage LO:

 

And a Quick Page LO:

 

To download a free copy of this quick page click here, It is a 12x12 in 300dpi png file without my photo, but with a spot for you to insert your own.

Be Mine Kit by PattyB Designs at Wilma4Ever

I've been as busy as a beaver the last few days and have done two layouts and two clusters with Patty's kit. You can find her kit at the Wilma4Ever store found here.

Here's the first layout (one of my favorites!) This one was also done for the January sketch challenge at Wilma4Ever.



And here's the second layout:




And now for the free clusters . . .

And now for the two clusters  . . .
Here's a link to download this cluster for free!










Here's the other cluster:

And here's a link to download the second cluser - also free.
Enjoy!

Busy and Inspired

We're starting a new thing at Faithfully Yours. It's called Topical Tuesday. I know I'm a little ahead of myself here by posting this (you will be able to see the topic a little early!)
I actually did this layout a while ago, like as soon as I found out the topic.



Then this week my devotions (In Touch by Charles Stanley) really made me think about my word for the year "listen" and how I go about listening to God.

Here's the two-page layout:



You can check out the Topical Tuesday information on Tuesday at the Faithfully Yours Blog.

And I'm going to do another post in a little while with some more layouts from this weekend.
Hoping your Sunday has been filled with the love of God!

Aged to Perfection Cluster Freebies

I have a couple of freebie clusters for you. Both were made with the Aged to Perfection kit by Wilma at Wilma4Ever. You can find the full kit here. Here's the first one:

You can download it here:












And here's the second one:

And you can download this one here: Enjoy!

New Aged to Perfection Layout - plus new kit to work on

I just finished another scrapbooking page with Wilma's Aged to Perfection kit. This one is so much different than the others I did with it; truly a very versital kit.

Here's the LO:

You can find the kit here.

I also just got a new kit to work with...PattyB Scrap's Be Mine kit...

And the new kit by PattyB Scraps can be found here.