Spiderman Birthday Card!!

Hey Everyone,
I hope you all are doing great today!! I'm doing pretty good. Yesterday, I had an amazing day!! All day yesterday, I got to spend in the presence of the the Lord. I had the day off so, I spent the morning reading scripture and studying the bible. In the afternoon, I spent doing a mixture of things, like reading the word and mediating on verses. Then last night, I went to a  Bible study with my sister and her sister in law. We have been doing the Beth Moore Inheritance Bible study. I have so much fun getting together with them and learning about God. Last night, my sister's sister in law downloaded some more bible studies on my phone. So when I got home last night, my sister called me to come watch my nieces while she ran an errand.  I watched another Beth Moore Bible study on my phone. I had such a pleasure spending all day with God. Sometimes, I don't get to spend much time in his presence so, it was so refreshing and I needed it so very much. He is my best friend and when I don't get to spend time with him I see a difference in my day and how it goes. He's my superhero!! : )

So today I'm going to share a Spiderman Birthday card I created last year for my nephew. I completed it 7/13/12. I hand cut out and pieced together the Spiderman. To give him that "Spiderman texture" I glued some black Tulle over him. I really liked how it turned out and made him look like the real deal. Then I had the Cricut 31st Cartridge and used it to cut out the web. I thought it would look cool if Spiderman was hanging from the web, so I put a hole in my paper and put the string through it and tied a knot and then did the same with the other end. Then I popped up Spiderman. The rest of the card I just chalked with black to give it a dirty kind of look. I hope you enjoyed the Spiderman card!! Look forward to hearing from you guys. Thanks for taking the time to view my blog.  God Bless Everyone!!

~Amanda~ : )

Dreams!!

“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets." Amos 3:7

I just love the song Even if it Breaks your Heart by the Eli Young band. My Favorite part of the whole song is when they say

" Keep on Dreaming even if it breaks your heart

Some dreams stay with you Forever

Drag you round and bring you back to where you were

Some Dreams keep on getting better

Gotta keep believing if you want to know for sure"

I've always had a close relationship with God since I was little, but over the past few years my relationship has gotten even closer. I've gotten to know him and realize that he is for me and not against me. About four years ago, I had an awesome dream. One that in a million years I couldn't have come up with it or even thought it could happen. I can't seem to get this dream out of my heart or my head. So for the past couple of years I struggled, was it just a dream, did I come up with it, is it from God. Finally a couple of years ago, I realized that the dream was not a dream, but a vision from God of something to come. After I got that I was so excited about it.
Now that I knew the vision was from God and that it would happen, things started happening to make me try to doubt or to give up. Last year at the end of January to the beginning of Feburary the attacks were pretty strong. At one point I thought about giving up and didn't know if I could go on anymore, but I had fought almost three years for this dream. I wasn't about to give up on it just because it had gotten harder for me to bear. It seems that I hear from God most when I sleep at night in my dreams. Last August I had, had a dream where a girl was afraid and she was about to give up and I was in the dream talking to this girl telling her that if she gave up that the enemy would win. I told her she needed to get up and dust herself off and smile and have fun and not let the enemy see he won. That she needed to just do it and do it even if she was afraid and to not care what others think about her. I feel that this was God speaking to me. That dream really helped me because I started getting afraid and I felt led to take some steps and do somethings that I'm not necessarily comfortable doing, but I knew that God was wanting me to do them. Sometimes you have to do things that you've never did before, in order to get the things that you have always dreamed about. So I jumped out of my comfort zone and I jumped into the faith zone. I got even closer to God because I needed to know I was doing his will and not my own. I've been pushing and pushing towards the goal. Sometimes you want it so bad and you feel a bit impatient and then other times you think about it happening and it freaks you out because you've never thought it was possible, but with God all things are possible.  Through it all though I've had one steady rock that just helps me to be patient and helps to calm my fears. That would my bestest Friend in the whole wide world God!! So the past few months there are times that it seems like it's about to happen and then something else happens to make my steps falter. At first I admit I was frustrated and it would tear me up, but the more I lean on God and trust him and his timing the less these things are affecting me. So for the past month or so I have felt really strongly that it's about to happen. Things are lining up and everything is looking good. So the other day another one of those things that are suppose to make me waver happened and it didn't even faze me. I'm so full of Gods peace and know without a shadow of a doubt that it's going to happen and that nothing is going to stop it from happening. The enemy fights hardest before the victory and I believe that victory is right around the corner. I have never fought so hard in my life for anything as much as I have this. It has been hard, but in it all I have learned about my best Friend God and got to know him so much!! : ) I have also learned how determined and strong I am!! Not only have I been dealing with just that dream, but struggling with many different things at once. When I felt as if I had victory in one area then something else would happen in another area. All those other things though, I've been having victories in lately!! I trust God and know that he has a good plan for me and that it will happen with his timing and it will be perfect! The whole point of this post though is to let you know that if you have a dream, whether it be a dream you dream of at night or a dream of something you want to pursue. (Like going to Hawaii lol I'm determined I will be going there someday!!! : )) Don't ever and I mean ever give up that dream. God puts dreams in your heart, so that you pursue them because he has given you the ability to achieve that dream. Speak positive words about that dream because your words have life and death. Never say it's not going to happen because then it won't. Always believe there is a way for it to happen. Trust that if God brought you to it, he will bring you through it. It might take a while for it to happen, but just keep pursing them and don't stop until you get your dream. It might get hard and tough, but dig your heels in and say I'm not giving up until it happens. And once you get your dream, dream another dream and purse it!!
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog!!
~Amanda~ : )
P.S. Keep on Dreaming even if it breaks your Heart!! ; )

Best Dad Father's Day Card!

Hey Everyone,

The card I'm showing you is my Father's Day Card for my dad. He loves Deer so lol I decided to make a deer card for him. I completed this card 6/16/12. I made the daddy buck and then the baby fawn. I used mulberry paper to make the deer and then I inked them to give them a more realistic look.
 I then swiss dotted the background and used a martha stewart doily lace punch!! With some camo leaf pattern paper. : )  I hope you enjoyed the card!!
Thanks so much for taking the time to view my  blog!!
~Amanda~ : )

Thank You Card!

Hey Everyone,

The next project I have to show you, is a project I did for my mom the last year. I completed it 6/4/2012. She has a friend that bought some tombstones from a memorial tombstone maker and he delivered them before Memorial Day. Her friend was really thankful that he did that, so she asked me if I had a little thank you card. I didn't have anything, so I hurried and put something together. I was lost at what to put on the cover and kept coming back to a tombstone. I just hope the guy wasn't creeped out, but being his profession is making tombstones for a livi ng he may like it. I sure hope he wasn't freaked out by it. Thanks for taking the time to view my card. Thanks for taking the time to view my blog.

~Amanda~ : )

Stevie Ray Vaughan Mother's Day Card!

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I hope you all are doing great today! I'm doing good. Ok today's card that I'm showing you is a card I made for my mom for Mother's Day last year. I completed this 5/13/2012. Originally, I wanted to make it for her, for her birthday, but I didn't think I had enough time to do it for her birthday. So I ended up making it for Mother's Day instead. And the funny thing is it didn't take that long to do at all. Anyway, my mom loves Stevie Ray Vaughan, she's constantly listening to his music. So as I noticed a couple of months back I tend to try to make cards that are based on things that, that particular person loves. So I set out to try to make Stevie Ray Vaughan. I hand cut out and made Stevie Ray Vaughan gave him a little necklace and a signature hat that he wore. Then I used the Indie Art Cartridge for the guitar and made the little music notes on his guitar strap.  (I put the music notes on without looking and put them on backwards lol) I chalked the background and cut out music notes.
My mom was speechless and absolutely loved it. I guess you can say I enjoy seeing my loved ones reactions when I give them a card. It's one of the ways I enjoy saying I love them by creating something that would mean a lot to them. Thanks for taking the time to view my creation.

~Amanda~

Breast Cancer Scrapbook page!!

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Ok my next project is a project that I did last May 4, 2012.  My sister called me up on a Monday Night and asked me if I could do a favor for her and my brother in law. There was a girl that use to work at O'Charley's with my brother in law and she ended up getting Breast cancer. She has stage 4 and she can't afford her medical bills, so the O'Charley's that he works at put together a Yardsale/Silent Auction/Bakesale for her. So my sister wanted me to make a scrapbook layout, but I only had till that Thursday at noon to get it done. She asked if I thought I could get it done and I said yah. So I had to rush and put together a layout when I wasn't watching my nieces. So I literally got done on Thursday at like 12:15. It was not what I would have wanted it to look like because I wasn't feeling the shades of pink that I found at Hobby Lobby. I guess you can say I'm a detail oriented person because it didn't have enough omphh for me. So they took it over and put it in the Silent Auction. 
The layout says Fight like a girl and features one of my handmade tear bears. I made her a boxer bear with boxing gloves like she is fighting Breast Cancer.
I have another project that I made last May for Mother's Day and I'll post that tomorrow.  Thanks for taking the time to view my blog.

~Amanda~ : )

Have a Rockin Birthday Card!!

Hey Everyone,

 I hope you all are doing good. The next project I made was for my Mom's Birthday last April 2nd .  I completed this 4/1/12.
 She loves guitars, so I decided to make a card with a guitar on it. I cut the guitar with the Indie Art Cartridge and then blinged it out with red glitter. I put some thread thru to make it look like an actual guitar. Then I put in little silver brads to make it look like it had the little knobs and stuff. I glittered up the Have a Rockin Birthday. I put the R crooked because I thought it would looked cool. For the background I used the cuttlebug and used the diamond plate folder and chalked it with red.
 I hope you enjoyed the card. Thanks for taking the time to view my post. I have more projects to show you, so come back tomorrow.

~Amanda~ : )