Happy Winter Christmas Card---There's an Awesome New Release Called "Create Joy" this Month at Simon Says Stamp!

Good morning, everyone!  Yesterday, Simon Says Stamp released new products featuring Holiday and Winter.  There's also a Blog hop (chance to win a prize parcel valued at over $50) happening at their site today featuring many artist that made great projects from the new release.  I am honored to try a new die called "Happy Winter Christmas" featured in this "Create Joy" collection so, here's the card I made with it.  I don't really make lots of Christmas themed projects except for some that I send to love ones but I truly enjoyed making this one having combined Christmas and Winter theme in one creation.

For this Card, I also used an image from Sassy Cheryl Stamps called "Lucy Lou Princess on Ice" that I colored with my ProMarker/Prismacolor markers.  The base is a grey CS from Core'dinations, cut and scored to make a 5.5 inches square card.  The DP's are DCWV and Recollections.  The hills were created without using border dies---just good ole' pencil and scissors, lined with a DP, matted on a white CS.  I added some glitters on the image using Stickles (green), included some Liquid Pearls (White Opal), stamped and fussy cut the layered snowflakes using Fiskars stamps and added some white brads from Recollections.  Pretty happy with how this turned out.
 

HAPPY WINTER CHRISTMAS CARD:

 HAPPY WINTER CHRISTMAS CARD LAYERS:

HAPPY WINTER CHRISTMAS CARD SIDE VIEW:

HAPPY WINTER CHRISTMAS CARD INSIDE:

HAPPY WINTER CHRISTMAS CARD WITH ENVELOPE-BOX:


This Card is available for purchase at my ETSY STORE HERE****

This Card is entered into the following Challenges:

Art by Miran---ATG
Crafting with Friends---ATG
Crafty Catz---ATG
Creative Fingers---ATG
Jo's Scrap Shack---ATG
Simply Papercraft---ATG
As You Like It---Monochrome or Color?  (I love "colors" as I love the bright/vibrant effects it gives)
Crafting with an Attitude---ATG
Crafty Girls Creations---ATG
Creative Moments---ATG/Spots and/or Stripes
Fab 'n' Funky---Make it Square
Not Just Cards---ATG
I love ProMarkers---ATG
Crafty Addicts---ATG/Autumn Colors
Wonderful Wednesday---ATG
Artistic Inspirations---ATG
Mod Squad---Winter and a Die
Sweet Stampin'---Christmas Travel or Transport
Sisterhood of Crafters---Die-lirious and/or Punchy
2 Creative Chicks---ATG
Craftyhazelnut's---Christmas Theme
Craftyhazelnut's---Patterned Paper
CCC Digi Creations---ATG
Digistamps4Joy---ATG/Optional "B"  (Brads, Bird)
Natalie and Amy---Snow People
Petal Lu---ATG
Sweet Stamps---ATG
Sisters of Craft---ATG
World Wide Open Design---ATG
Your Scrapbook Place---ATG

But of course, this post will not be complete without the inspiration of God's Word.  I would like to share with you the message of the Holy Spirit through Apostle Paul that tells us that everything we have ever acquired or achieved of much worth in the world using our own talents and abilities are of no worth compared to what is in store for us in the knowledge of Christ.  True, we are destined to do good works but none of them is worth anything if we accomplished them outside of the Lordship of Jesus Christ.  To come under is to die from our affiliation with Adam (first birth, physical birth) and to be Born-again (New Birth/Second Birth, John 3:3) to the Kingdom of God.  Read John 3 if you wish to know more.  Everyone who places their faith in Christ no longer relies on things of this world but upholds the finished work of Jesus, the Gospel (death, burial and resurrection) as the only means by which we are able to deal with everything this world throws at us.  As the Lord allows us to live in this world, it is for the sole purpose of fulfilling His Will in our lives, that is to share the Good News we received to others and to transform each and everyone of us to the image of His Son. One day, we will be taken out of this world and come face to face with our Savior.  All of us who lived for Him in this present life/world shall be with Him for all eternity.  Be blessed and know you are destined for greatness through Christ! 

"Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless. But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."  (Philippians 3:1-14) 

 

Have an awesome weekend!