Thanksgiving Card

“We need a community to help us reach our goal.  Faith is not an individual journey; it’s a team sport.  We need each other.  We are on this journey together.”

~Allen Hunt

If you are reading this right now, thanks for being a part of the stamping community.  We have such a fun hobby that is connecting us with each other and with people all over the world!

Sometimes when we need a card in a hurry, it’s easy to let some designer series paper do the work for us.  This paper is from the “Come To Gather” series.  This color combo, inspired by the DSP, is Pretty Peacock, Pear Pizzaz and Cajun Craze.

Thank you for the comments, texts, emails and calls about our dog, Teddy.  He is doing great physically. Emotionally he is having his ups and downs adjusting to his “new normal.”  He was a little wary of the snow on the steps this morning!  It was snowing like crazy and I was out grocery shopping with some Scouts for our camping trip this weekend.  Crazy fun!!!

Have a stampin’ good weekend!

Peace,

Dawn xo

Time to Make Thanksgiving Cards!

“We are at our best when we are grateful.”

~Matthew Kelley

I am still playing with the beautiful “Come To Gather” Designer Series Papers! This stunning color combination above is Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie and the retired “Peek-a-boo” Peach.

This is a monochromatic card that we just finished making at one of the two stamping classes that I hold at my home each month.  We used the new “Day of Thanks” stamp set and the leaf was cut from the “Seasonal Layers Framelits Dies.”

Have a great weekend, hope you have fun plans.  I will be camping out with 300 Boy Scouts at Acadia National Park!!! : )

Peace,

Dawn

Come To Gather!

“Gratefulness isn’t hard.  Forgetting to be grateful is what makes life hard.”

 

Hello Stampers!  It has been a long time since I have blogged, because I have just a tiny bit of space left on this free blog (thank you WordPress!)  I hope you had a fun summer and are having a beautiful autumn (we are supposed to get a little snow tonight here in Maine!) : )

This is a card and treat box I made for the November Maine Stampers Blog Hop.  You can follow the monthly hops on my Facebook Business Page, which you can find by searching “Stamping Peace” on Facebook! Hope to see you over there!  I’ve started to post a few projects over there as well.

For the card above, the little leaves were stamped with a stamp from the “Colorful Seasons” stamp set.  The image in the circle is a piece of DSP from “Come To Gather”. The sentiment is from the “Gather Together” Stamp Set and the leaf is cut from a “Gathered Leaves” die.

The treat box is made from the fun new “Mini Curvy Keepsakes Box Dies”.  The leaves are cut from the “Gathered Leaves” dies.  There is a little chocolate treat inside. : )

Happy Stamping and please say a little prayer for our dog. He had a leg amputated last week due to bone cancer and he is still adjusting to a “new normal.”  He has made great progress in just one week…he can now go DOWN, and up, stairs, so that is huge!

Peace, Dawn xo

Happy Easter!

“The very first Easter taught us this:  that life never ends and love never dies.”

~Kate McGahan

 

Last night was the beautiful Easter Vigil, when new catechumens and candidates are welcomed into the Catholic (which means “universal”) family.  Welcome to our little friend Genevieve and Happy Easter everyone!  Have a wonderfully holy day! ❤

Hold On To Hope

“I am the handmaid of the Lord.  May it be done to me according to your word.”

~the Blessed Mother

 

Happy Feast of the Annunciation…only 9 months until Christmas! : )  This card was made with the Hold On To Hope stamp set from the Annual Catalog.  I’ve been wanting this set for a very long time, and got it just in time for the arrival of a friends baby.  (I got a call at 3:00 a.m. a few weeks ago to babysit while she went to have her second daughter…it was so exciting!)  Welcome to the family, little one! xoxo

This is the floor we sealed over the weekend with five of our Boy Scouts, among other service projects at the Transfiguration Hermitage here in Maine.  Hope you had a great weekend! xo Dawn

 

Florentine Filigree

“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you.”

~Psalm 143:8

It’s a crazy good Lent going on at our house this year.  If Lent is part of your life, I hope it’s bringing the changes you want to see!  So, this was my first try with the new Florentine Filigree set and I love the soft  “old-fashioned” look.  I changed the sentiment, replacing “you” with “God”…the card is for the Sisters at the hermitage where I am an Oblate.  We’re taking some of the Scouts to the hermitage this weekend to do some service work.  Can’t wait, it’s such a beautiful and peaceful spot. (100 acres of land).  Have a great weekend!

Peace, Dawn

P.S.  As of this post, I only have 2% space allowed left on this free blog.  Not sure what to do next…I’m not good with technology!  Any ideas?

 

Feast Card for As You See It Challenge #196

“We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.”

~St. Joseph

Happy Feast of St. Joseph! This is my second post today.  I wanted to make a card to celebrate today’s solemnity. (A Solemnity is a “high feast” in the Church).  A symbol for St. Joseph is a staff growing lilies out the top, so I wanted to try to reproduce that.  I think we came close?  This is the inside of the card:

I used the color challenge from this week’s As You See It Challenge at http://www.asyouseeitchallenge.com for this card.  Last week I was chosen as their Featured Artist with a Lent card I had made…that was a fun surprise! Thank you, As You See It!  This is the current challenge, which lasts for two weeks:

If you have time to play with it, have fun!

Peace,

Dawn

Flowering Desert

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I love the new Flowering Desert stamp set!  For me, it’s perfect for this season of Lent, where I go “into the desert” for 40 days.  Last night my women’s study group started back up for another 8 weeks and I made this recipe card to go with the refreshments.  I found the layout over at Song of my Heart Stampers, since I wasn’t too sure what to do with all the little pieces.  For the desert floor I used the old Work of Art stamp set.

I was so happy to see our group back together after a long winter break and I wanted to give them a little Lenten gift.  They each received a book, with homemade wrapping paper.  I masked the cross and then stamped the Gorgeous Grunge paint platters.

These were the little 3″ x 3″ cards I made to go with the gift.  The Flowering Desert stamp set is really getting a workout here in snowy Maine! : )

Peace and Happy Stamping,

Dawn

 

A Fun Fold for Fable Friends

“Let us love the world to peace.”

~Eileen Elias Freeman

Hi, and Peace, Stamping Friends!  For those that practice the exercise of Lent, I hope it is going well!  So far so good here at the MacKay home, but after a week into it, there are some things we are definitely missing!  We are looking forward to Sunday, a “mini-Easter”, when we will allow ourselves the day off!  And speaking of Easter, I made some of these cute Easter cards this morning with the new “Fable Friends” stamp set and the Stitched Labels Framelits.  As for the “fun fold”, one of our stamping friends brought this fold to me at our last stamping class and I tried to recreate it.  Start with a 12″ x 4″ piece of cardstock.  Score at 2′, 4′, 8″ and 10″.  Then using the diagonal score plate, score and “x” from 2″ to 6″ and from 6″ to 8″.  Fold in the “x”‘s so that everything is under the diamond in the middle.  It sounds complicated but it really is very easy once you do it.  I practiced with computer paper first.  The yellow square in the middle is 2 3/4″ x 2 3/4”.

Yesterday my 88 year old neighbor came over and asked it I would make her a card for her grand-niece, who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer.  I looked up the color for that particular cancer, and it is dark blue.  I used “Blueberry Bushel” cardstock and the Ribbon of Courage stamp set and very quickly made up this card.  I had seen one similar to this on Brian King’s website awhile ago.  I didn’t have time to look it up, but I’m sure it had more layers than this! : )

While I had everything out, I decided to make a purple version for friend Becky, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at Christmas.  Thank you for your prayers for her!  On Monday she had a CT scan and the spots on her liver are gone, the spot on her peritoneum is gone and the mass on her pancreas has shrunk.  She asked that we keep praying!

This is a card that I cased from crafty-rootes.com on the internet.  On the inside it says “Happy St. Patrick’s Day” and I wrote “May the luck of the Irish and the blessings of God be with you always!” in order to turn the “Good Luck” sentiment into a St. Patrick’s Day card.  : )  I used the “Amazing Life” stamp set and a die from the Wonderful Floral Romance Framelits Dies.

This picture is from last Saturday when we took Joseph (far left) and some of the Scouts snowshoeing at Sugarloaf Mountain.  We’re trying to enjoy all the snow before it leaves us. : )

Here’s view of Sugarloaf Mountain, a huge ski destination here in Maine, before we snowshoed into the woods.  It was a gorgeous day!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday!

Peace, Dawn

 

 

Lenten Card for As You See It Challenge #195

 

“Lent is a time for greater love.”

~Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Lent begins in just two days, on Ash Wednesday.  We’ve been planning the things we are going to give up as we go “into the desert” for 40 days, as well as things we are going to do.  I found a great planning sheet to help plan one cleaning project a day so that the whole house is clean for Easter.  If you need it, I can email it to you!

This card was designed with a sketch from the “As You See It” Challenge at http://www.asyouseeitchallenge.com.  I was shooting for a clean and simple card, but ended up using alot of different sets…the Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies, the Large Letters Framelits Dies, the old Crosses of Hope Stamp Set, the Labeler Alphabet Stamp Set, the Burlap Background Stamp and the Gorgeous Grunge Stamp Set.  This is the inside of the card:

And here is the sketch I used to design the card:

 

Yesterday my Scout Troop burned last year’s palms from the families of the six churches in our parish.  The ashes from the palms will be used on Ash Wednesday at the same six churches.  Here’s a few of the Scouts…

Hope you have a fruitful Lent, if it is part of your faith tradition.

Peace from snowy Maine!

Dawn