Butterfly Card By Guest Designer/Host Paula-Kay BEAUTIFUL!

Thanks you so much Paula, for your beautiful work and words! Paula is a very experienced designer and she has always been so kind and sweet to me when we meet at card making events! I am very happy to have her as my guest and hope she will host again in the next few months!

Hi there!  This is Paula-Kay Bourland joining Debbie in helping friends “SEEK HIM DAILY”.  I’m honored to post a card for you to enjoy.

My card is made with a stamp set from Stampin’ Up’s Sale-a-Bration going on now until March 31, 2015.  It is called Butterfly Basics.  I’ve also used the Butterflies Thinlits Dies.  For this card I made my own background using stamps in the set.  The inks I used are Palette Jardin Moss, Boudoir Blush, and Raw Sienna.  I just stamped them randomly over the card.  The base card is green cardstock.  I stamped the sentiment in Palette Noir ink and matted it in the green cardstock.  A green ribbon was placed under the sentiment, which is popped up with foam mounting tape.  Lastly, I added two butterfly die cuts, one cut from the green cardstock and one from a multicolor dotted cardstock.

I love the sentiment with this set.  It reminds me of some spiritual truths.  We all are sinners in depravity before God saves us and makes all things new.  2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”  Our lives are completely transformed by Christ, just like the caterpillar is transformed into a beautiful butterfly.  As we look at people in our lives who seem to be caterpillars who do not have spiritual life and vitality, we cannot know what God plans for them.  We must love them and share the good news of salvation with them.  Perhaps they too can be transformed into something beautiful by His love and grace.

Have a blessed day!

SING HIS PRAISES SO ALL CAN HEAR EVERYONE NEEDS HIS LOVE!!

Hello my sweet stamp friends! I am so very excited and blessed today! My stamp friend Betty has shared my mission of helping others "SEEK HIM DAILY" and she was my first guest host/designer!  Her card was a beautiful Texas Howdy and I know it came from her heart as she has a great love of others, and knows the Lord, and goes to him often in prayer on others behalf! ( Often mine)  So be sure to scroll down and read past post so you can see all of the great stories that are being shared to glorify our Lord! And if you would like to be a host simply click on the word comment and send me  a post or and email to debsegler@gmail.com 

This card is called Bird Song! The sentiment says sing like no one is listening. I used a designer paper for the background that has some tree, leaves and flower, designs with some newsprint. I glued that to a chocolate brown card stock for the base of my card. ( Please remember that I sell Stampin' Up! let me know if you need anything) The brown dots are a strip of wash tape and it helped to give the card another color and layer. The bird is stamped and colored with Stampin' Up! markers. It was a gift from my stamp friend Nancy! I cut the bird out and fussy cut around the flower so that it would give the card a focal point and not another straight edge.  You could use any favorite stamp here, try to dig for a stamp that you have not used for a while as they get lonely! HA! There are so many lonely people that need us to share our love for the Lord and encourage them!  I tied some brown twine around the stamped image to add another texture to it. The two blue dots are some bling that comes in multiple colors that match our cards stock, I love to use them and they finish the card off in such a cute way! (order below) I know that sometime I think I am just a small little dot in this world and what difference can I make. Well, it is just like Betty said, a hello is so impactful as many people are on their phone rushing around and will not even make eye contact! It adds to the feeling of isolation and loneliness.  I am asking that you simply be more purposeful in your hello's from now on! Add to them,  and remember Jesus loves you very much!  Because he does! Your heart and theirs will be lifted, and  you will never know the encouragement that will get spread around.

HELLO TO MONICA from Germany she is going tot be a guest host/designer soon so keep watching daily to see what new things are to come.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it.  What seems like conceit, bad manners, or cynicism, is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there, where the spirit meets the bone.
Miller Williams


Kaleidoscope Designer paper ; #132995   $10.95
Retro Fresh Washi tape three rolls 133001, $4.95
Candy Dots Dots  Brights  1300931, Regals 130932,
Subtles 130933, Neutrals 130934    100 piece   $5.95
Label Bracket Punch  13215                              $15.95
Another Great year five stamps Happy Birthday!  $ 133041 $17.95 clear

NOTE**** if you order $50.00 in product you get a free set of stamps! go to www.stampinup to see Catalogue  debsegler@gmail.com 


BE BLESSED AND SEND A CARD TO SOMEONE THIS WEEK!

Guest Hostess/Designer

Betty Justilian Schaub Zack's Nana's Creative Imagination  Guest Designer

Howdy! 

Debbie Segler and I met in October 2008. It was at a Stampin' Up! Class. We hit it off right away. She was new to the area and hadn't made many friends yet. I had been here since 2001 and only had one really good friend. We know that day, God brought us together. 

Have you ever sat down in a public place and just smiled at people walking by? That's my "Howdy". Often times I have been on the receiving end of a "howdy". I don't know if those people realize how much that meant to me. Its my little pick me up. Better than my morning coffee! That little bit of kindness shown to me, well, it brightened up my day. 

God moves in mysterious ways. I've been hearing that since I was a child.  If you're moved... Next time you are sitting at the mall people watching, send someone a "howdy". You will never know how that "howdy" will move them.

Thanks Deb for this honor and privilege of being your first guest hostess/designer.