April 16, 2014 Strength

I love you, O Lord, My strength.   Psalms 18

 

 Since this is the post before my Easter post I will keep it short. For us as Christians this is a joyous time of the year. The fact that Christ went though a great deal of mental anguish and struggled with his fate should give us strength and courage to face what we must. He did have a choice, as we do, to do God's will and receive the ultimate reward or not. Our trials are the building of our strength and of our resolve to follow Him. His call to us is no different than that which he faced. Our walk is in faith just as His was. His love for us is our strength to go forward and the shield that goes before us to protect and preserve us in all that we must face. What is required? 1 John 4:7-10 "My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God’s love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him."
The New Jerusalem Bible. (1985). (1 Jn 4:7–9). New York: Doubleday.

Had He chosen to do other than the Father's will we would have no hope. 

 That brings us to the card for today's post.

This was the first aperture card for me. The card itself is a 4 1/4" X 5" card. I cut a 1 5/8" hole in the upper left hand corner with Martha Stewart's Circle Cutter. I cut a matching disk from Glitzy Glitter Premium pack paper. I also punched an edging strip 3/4" wide with the Martha Stewart Swirling Lace edge punch that was part of a goody package from Grace at Th-INK-ing of You. I trimmed 1/2" from the right edge then used 1/4" Express IT tape to attach the swirling lace edge to the card. The same tape was used to fasten the disk inside the card and within the circle as shown.

A cross from Memory Big Ideas which has its own foam adhesive backing was place in the center of the disk so that when the card is closed it will look like this.

The ivy was stamped around the window using Rubber Tapestry Stamps to add interest. The image is from Our Daily Bread, "Children of God", and was colored with Copics. The colors used are E57, E59, C2, B16, B18, E11, E41, RV0000, E84, W1, W4 and E77. The image was fussy cut and attached to the card using small foam glue dots. This provided a low profile dimension to the image.

Originally I stamped a sentiment with an Our Daily Bread sentiment but it did not fit the card at all. We have few sentiment stamps of the proper size and configuration. The sentiment is computer generated in Microsoft Word.  It reflects the passage in the comments section of this post. I included an alpha symbol on top and an omega symbol on the bottom to help cover the stamped sentiment underneath. The symbols are also appropriate in that  they represent the beginning and the end.

That is it everybody. Just one card today. Friday I will post my special creation for the Easter weekend. It is done and it was a challenge. It does not look as good in photographs but I is striking. I will see you then....Hold on.... How can I see you when you aren't here? We will talk then? We will share then? Oh well! I will be there. Hope you visit and comment. Until then Do like I do and LOVE THE DETAILS.