Circle Mania

I am late getting this posted for the new Word Art Wednesday challenge. My husband has been away and I've been swamped. He'll be home Saturday and I can't wait!! Anyway, back to the new challenge....our focus verse this week is Proverbs 16:9, "A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." This verse reminds me that while we may think we know the best way for things to work out, it's really God that is in control. I remember when I was unhappy where I was working and looking for a new job. Since some of the reasons I was unhappy were because of work conditions that I knew didn't please the Lord, I was sure that leaving immediately was the best thing for me to do. However, nothing opened up. I was convinced there was a black hole somewhere that was full of my resumes. But in God's time, the perfect job for me opened up and things fell into place so easily. We could see God directing things so clearly. I love my current job and looking back, I am so glad the Lord didn't let me have any of the others. I don't think it's wrong to have plans and goals as long as we surrender them to the Lord's leading. That's the only way we'll truly be happy.

On of our sponsors this week is All Dressed Up Digital Stamps. I was able to play with their A Cuddle Makes It All Better image. It comes with a sentiment but I chose to not use it this time. I colored the image with Copics. The dog was printed twice. After coloring her, I fussy cut her and glued her on top of the full image. This adds some dimension to the card (and covers up my coloring mistakes on the first one LOL). Her bow and the girl's dress were coated with two coats of Glossy Accents. The dogs nose was coated with a glaze pen. I used a fine tip black marker on the dog and girl eyes to darken them and then added a highlight dot with a white gel pen.

The sentiment circle was popped up with some fun foam. The patterned paper is an old piece of Echo Park paper. I believe it is retired. Faux stitching helps define the edges. Sequins and a few rhinestones were added to finish off the card.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Sweet Stamps June Challenge - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion Challenge #315 - Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #197 - Make Your Mark (I used Copics to make my mark)

Please be sure to visit the Word Art Wednesday Blog for your free digi and to see the rest of the projects by the design team. Have a good week!! Thanks for visiting with me today.

The products I used for this card are listed below. Affiliate links are used whenever possible.

WORDart by Karen	A cuddle Makes it all better	Bazzill Cardstock 100 sheet pack	Georgia Pacific White Cardstock
ink of Stella Clear Brush Tip Marker	Staedtler	Sakura CLASSIC GELLY ROLL 5 Set Medium Point Pens 37461	Uni-Ball Pen Signo Gel WHITE Two Pack 1919994
Copic Sketch Marker e00 COTTON PEARL Flesh Tone	Copic Sketch MARKER E11 BARLEY BEIGE	Copic Sketch MARKER E30 BISQUE Skin Flesh tone	Copic Sketch Marker E31 BRICK BEIGE Cream
Copic Sketch MARKER E33 SAND Beige	Copic Sketch Marker E35 CHAMOIS Light Brown	Copic Sketch Marker R20 BLUSH Pink Flesh Skin	Copic Sketch Marker R81 ROSE PINK Pastel
Copic Sketch Marker R83 ROSE MIST Violet Pink	Copic Sketch Marker R85 ROSE RED Medium Pink	Copic Sketch MARKER B14 LIGHT BLUE	Copic Sketch Marker B21 BABY BLUE
Copic Sketch MARKER b23 PHTHALO BLUE	Copic Sketch MARKER B26 COBALT BLUE	Copic Sketch Marker YR21 CREAM Light Pastel	Copic Sketch MARKER YR24 PALE SEPIA
Copic Sketch MARKER 100 BLACK	White 3mm Round Gemstone Embellishment Stickers | Hobby Lobby | 549550	Basic Grey Urban Luxe - Embellishment pack	Lifestyle Crafts QUICKSTIK Precision Pickup and Placement Tool 00745-4
Dahle Self-Healing Cutting 18x12 Mat 10671	Spellbinders Standard Circles Dies - Large	Spellbinders Standard Circles Dies - Small	Cuttlebug Machine
Fiskars 12 Inch SureCut Deluxe Craft Paper Trimmer	*Martha Stewart SCORING BOARD Score Craft Tool 42-05002	*Ranger PAPER CREASER BONE FOLDER Fold Cardstock & Cards Easily BON10029	Black 5mm Thick EVA Foam Sheet | Hobby Lobby | 330415
Ranger 1 OZ MULTI MEDIUM MATTE Jar With Brush INK41528	Double-Sided Adhesive Sheets for Foam | Hobby Lobby | 150144	Scotch Advanced Tape Glider (ATG)

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Thank You {Wolf}

I was asked to make a thank you card with a wolf on it. Since I didn't have a wolf digi or stamp, I got to go shopping. :) What a shame, right? Anyway, I found some really nice wolf digis at Stamp 'n Doodle. I ordered the wolf digi you see on today's card and they sent me a bonus digi of a trio of wolves. Great value for the price!!  The image was colored with Copics. I added clear Wink of Stella to his eyes for a little shimmer and Glossy Accents to his nose to help give him the wet nose look. I used a Mojo Monday sketch (MOJO414) for the card design. I was recently gifted a great outdoors 12 x 12 paper pack and used 4 of the papers in the stack on this card. The sentiment was heat embossed onto the fishtail banner. Some faux stitching, dry embossing and a twill ribbon finish it off.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Georgia Pacific (white- image), Recollections (kraft)
Patterned Paper: GCD Studios (The Great Outdoors 12 x 12 pad) 
Stamps: Stamp 'n Doodle (Wolf Portrait digital stamp), Inkadinkado (Chelsea Sentiments clear stamp set)
Ink: VersaFine (Onyx Black), Distress Ink (Tea Dye)
Copic Markers: W1, 3, 5, 7; YG0000; Y17, 32; B0000
Tools/Embellishments: Wink of Stella (clear), Glossy Accents, Cuttlebug embossing folder (Forest Branches), Stampin Up (Crystal Clear embossing powder, corner rounder), The Kraft Outlet (seam binding ribbon), Staedtler Triplus fine tip marker (brown)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Craft Your Passion Challenge #296 - Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #278 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

I'd like to encourage you to participate in Kathy Rac's 4th 30 Day Coloring Challenge. The purpose of the challenge is to encourage you to do a little coloring every day, even if just for 5 min. If you can't color every day that's OK too. Jump in and out of the challenge as you are able. You can use any coloring medium and images you choose. I've participated in the past challenges (not every day) and really had a lot of fun. It also has helped me build up my stash of colored images and given me the necessary push to try new coloring mediums. See the details on Kathy's blog, The Daily Marker.

Thanks for visiting with me today. I hope you'll come back soon.