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Friday, November 27, 2009

Todays Featured Blog: Scrap World

While I have been posting mostly stampint related projects and blogs for some time, today, I decided to share one of my favorite scrap blogs! There are so many great blogs out there, I really love to get inspired by. Todays feature, Scrapworld is sure to inspire any scrapper or stamper! Be sure to stop by and give her some love!
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Another great one created by Wanda!

Snowy "Home for Christmas" Framed Art




Created by Terri Walker, this seasonal little frame with hand stamped artwork, will spread cheer throughout the holidays, whether you keep it for your own enjoyment or give it away! It's surprisingly easy to make, although it may take some time to complete.


SUPPLIES NEEDED

STAMPS: Christmas Punch 115366 (level 2 hostess set); Home for Christmas 111756

CARDSTOCK: Bordering Blue 102630 ; Real Red 102482; White cardstock 100730; Watercolor Paper 105019

INK: Black StazOn 101406; Real Red 103133; Classic Ink REFILLS: Real Red 103287; Bordering Blue 100940; Summer Sun 101231; Handsome Hunter 105227; Close to Cocoa 102444; Versamark Pad 102283; White Craft 101731

ACCESSORIES: Aqua Painter 103954; Big Shot Die-Cut Machine 113439; Perfect Details Texturz Plate 115962; Snowflakes #2 Sizzlit 4-pack dies 113449; ½" Real Red Striped Grosgrain Ribbon 110714; Iridescent Ice Embossing powder 101930; Photo Corners Punch 109042; Wide Oval Punch 112082; Stampin' Dimensionals 104430; Stamping Sponge 101610; Heat Tool 100005; 104332 SNAIL Adhesive 104332

OTHER: Dark Stand-up/Hanger Frame (one used is 7"x7" purchased at a dollar store)

INSTRUCTIONS (stamped image)

1. Stamp door image with StazOn ink on Watercolor paper. Use Aqua Painter and ink refills to color image.
2. Punch photo corners from red cardstock and attach to four corners of watercolor paper.
3. Cut Bordering Blue cardstock to fit back insert of frame. Run through Big Shot with Perfect Details Texturz Plate. Layer stamped image on top then set into frame behind glass.


INSTRUCTIONS (frame)
1. Sponge edge of frame all around with white Craft ink, leaving thin dark border towards center only. Cover ink with Embossing Powder and emboss (sets the ink and the Iridescent glitter at the same time)
2. Run white card stock through Big Shot with snowflakes (two different ones for interest); Press into Versamark ink, cover with Embossing Powder and emboss both snowflakes. Attach to frame with dimensional in center.
3. Stamp greeting with red ink on white card stock. Punch out using Wide Oval Punch. Sponge edges with red ink. Attach to top center of frame with SNAIL .
4. Wrap ribbon around back of frame to front-attach with SNAIL. Cut another piece of ribbon, tie a bow and attach with dimensional in center of ribbon.
5. Set on a table or hang on the wall-or give away as a gift!


Today's Project: Merry Christmas to You Card (Digital)


Built with My Digital Studio!

Stamps
• Christmas Jingle Designer kit numbers (Chocolate Chip; 15% opacity)

Paper

• Old Olive card stock

Embellishments

• Real Red grosgrain knot
• Chocolate Chip stitching
• Hodgepodge Hardware library clip
• Christmas Jingle Designer kit border 2
• Christmas Jingle Designer kit border dots
• Christmas Jingle Designer kit tag 5



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Scrapbooking Poems and Quotes

Thanksgiving is a time gathering with family and being thankful for what and who is in your life. Your scrapbook pages can reflect that simply by using the right poem or quote. Here are a few choices:

Seeing our Father in everything
makes life one long Thanksgiving
and gives a rest of heart.

______________________________________

Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed
sense of gratitude for having family and friends.

______________________________________

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T - Turkeys, tablespreads, being together,
H- Happiness and homes to protect us from all weather,
A- Aunts and uncles, a reunion in Fall,
N- Nieces and nephews, family members all!
K- Kind-hearted kin coming over for dinner,
S- Surely you'll have fun, but you won't get thinner!
G- Gourds and pumpkins, mouths open wide.
I- Indians and Pilgrims we remember with pride.
V- Very special times-there could even be snow.
I- Imagine what it was like at Plymouth long ago.
N- Never forget how the settlers led the way,
G- Giving thanks and blessing this special day.

______________________________________

God, we thank you for this food
For rest and home and all things good
For wind and rain and sun above
But most of all for those we love.

______________________________________

Colors of Thanksgiving

Orange is a pumpkin.
Yellow is the corn.
Brown is the turkey
With stuffing to adorn.
Red are the cranberries.
Green are the beans.
Five delicious colors
In a feast of my dreams.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer


If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart


Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ~E.P. Powell


So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving


As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy


Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher


Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin


Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
~Alexander Pope


What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981


Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron


He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd


Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner


For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck


For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet


Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert


The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher


Some hae meat and canna eat, -
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
~Robert Burns


It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke


Ah! on Thanksgiving day....
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.
What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?
~John Greenleaf Whittier


Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. ~J. Robert Moskin


There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry


Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~Theodore Roosevelt



We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder


Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)


Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast,
And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.
~Alice W. Brotherton


On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. ~Author Unknown


Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more:
Peace in the hearts of all men living,
peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
~Joseph Auslander


On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~William Jennings Bryan


It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron


Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land,
And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
Twice ten for one.
All this, and better, Thou dost send
Me, to this end,
That I should render, for my part,
A thankful heart.
~Robert Herrick


Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~Michael Dresser


Forever on Thanksgiving Day
The heart will find the pathway home.
~Wilbur D. Nesbit


Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear


We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Author Unknown


To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~Johannes A. Gaertner


A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero


But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie;
Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
~Margaret Junkin Preston


Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly


Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. ~Author Unknown


God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~Izaak Walton


I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. ~Ellen Orleans


Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. ~Kevin James


Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~A.W. Tozer


Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. ~Phillips Brooks


Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~Seneca


Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! ~Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November


For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.
~Odell Shepard


If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. ~G.A. Johnston Ross


O Lord that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
~William Shakespeare


None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. ~Fred De Witt Van Amburgh


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown


The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. ~Ted Allen


And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor


The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown


For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis


Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward


May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
~Author Unknown


Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821


But whether we have less or more,
Always thank we God therefor.
~Author Unknown


Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare


God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward


Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie


Thanksgiving-day, I fear,
If one the solemn truth must touch,
Is celebrated, not so much
To thank the Lord for blessing o'er,
As for the sake of getting more!
~Will Carleton


I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger


For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason


It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. ~James Smith


When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning


Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ~Johnny Carson


Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. ~P. J. O'Rourke


Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain


We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~Albert Barnes


Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. ~Robert Casper Lintner


Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin


If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen


Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser


Enjoy a few favorite Thanksgiving prayers, Thanksgiving poems and songs I've collected. Feel free to share them at your Thanksgiving celebrations with family and friends.

Thanksgiving Prayer

Heavenly Father, on Thanksgiving Day
We bow our hearts to You and pray.
We give You thanks for all You've done
Especially for the gift of Jesus, Your Son.
For beauty in nature, Your glory we see
For joy and health, friends and family,
For daily provision, Your mercy and care
These are the blessings You graciously share.
So today we offer this response of praise
With a promise to follow You all of our days.

--Mary Fairchild


A Thanksgiving Day Prayer

Lord, so often times, as any other day
When we sit down to our meal and pray

We hurry along and make fast the blessing
Thanks, amen. Now please pass the dressing

We're slaves to the olfactory overload
We must rush our prayer before the food gets cold

But Lord, I'd like to take a few minute more
To really give thanks to what I'm thankful for

For my family, my health, a nice soft bed
My friends, my freedom, a roof over my head

I'm thankful right now to be surrounded by those
Whose lives touch me more than they'll ever possibly know

Thankful Lord, that You've blessed me beyond measure
Thankful that in my heart lives life's greatest treasure

That You, dear Jesus, reside in that place
And I'm ever so grateful for Your unending grace

So please, heavenly Father, bless this food You've provided
And bless each and every person invited

Amen!

--Scott Wesemann


Thanksgiving

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)


We Gather Together

We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;
He chastens and hastens his will to make known;
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing,
Sing praises to his name: He forgets not his own.

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
Ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine;
So from the beginning the fight we were winning;
Thou, Lord, wast at our side, All glory be thine!

We all do extol thee, thou leader triumphant,
And pray that thou still our defender wilt be.
Let thy congregation escape tribulation;
Thy name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!
Amen

--Traditional Thanksgiving Hymn
(A translation by Theodore Baker: 1851-1934)


We Give Thanks

Our Father in Heaven,
We give thanks for the pleasure
Of gathering together for this occasion.
We give thanks for this food
Prepared by loving hands.
We give thanks for life,
The freedom to enjoy it all
And all other blessings.
As we partake of this food,
We pray for health and strength
To carry on and try to live as You would have us.
This we ask in the name of Christ,
Our Heavenly Father.



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