60 New Items added to the Faithfully Yours Store

Yes, I went crazy shopping. 60 new items from Inspirational Memories by Brownlow Gifts!

11 Patterned Papers-12x12, only .25 each! I was skeptical at first, but pleasantly surprised when I found these are not cheap papers, but almost like cardstock!

Baby Boy Baby Girl Spring Summer Patriotic School/Wisdom Sportsmanship Family Friendship Faith, Hope, Love Travel/Postcards

17 Double Page Layouts:Left and Right sides, beautifully coordinate!

Love One Another Athlete This Child Boy This Child Girl Sea Birthday Commitment to the Lord Easter Jesus Loves the Children In Memory Make Music Whole Earth Two Become One School Days Girlfriends Grandchildren Fruit of the Spirit

12 Scripture Stickers: at .80 each, you'll want to stock up!

Beauty Sports Easter God's Word Comfort New Day Helping Household Joy Love Peace Marriage

2 Kits: 6 12x12 theme papers, 4 8.5x11 cardstock, ribbon with sentiment, stickers and 8 4x4 vellum quotes all for $7.00!

Becoming a Woman of Joy book and journal: Book back in stock and the journal is new!

Stop by the store today and check out all the new items just added! Use voucher code Blog and receive 20% off your order! But hurry, this is for a limited time only!

Faithfully,

Dawn

Scrapbook Layout by Anna Crandall

Designer Spotlight: Anna Crandall

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"I added a strip of pink paisly paper from CM to add a splash of color, and cut out the "Charlie's Angel's" silhouette from a sample I got off the site, with my own rendition of a forth Angel. Also, if you look closely, one Angel is pregnant! Hope you like it."-Anna

Materials used: Eternal Black Tie Paisley

Adding color to the black and white, really makes the layout "pop". I believe this layout is from the scrapbooking retreat Anna recently attended and wrote an article about. If you missed her article, you can read it here:

Scrapbooking Retreats Article

You can view more great layouts by Anna in the Faithfully Yours gallery.

Faithfully,

Dawn

Remembering God through Nature

As I've mentioned before, remembering God in the everyday, is something I hold dear to my heart. Today I would like to share an idea for remembering God through nature. A faithful member, Laura, has issued a "Something in Nature" challenge in the Faithfully Yours forum.


Laura has done a great job in explaining just how you can incorporate "God in Nature" in your scrapbooks.

1. Begin by finding photos from nature, animals(no people), vacation scenery, your flower garden, etc.


2. Look at the photo, what is it "saying" to you? What scripture comes to mind?

Layout by Laura

Journaling:

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. - Hebrews 11:1

Fall on Evensville Mountain shows evidence of God's art. Fall 2006

"For many, these photos are part of a vacation, but look beyond the photo you hold in your hand and look into the photo. What do you see? You see the very hand of God and what He created in all of HIS infinite wisdom, power, and glory. Those trees, those animals, those flowers, even the very sky, grass, dirt, etc. were all created by HIS Most wonderful power and majesty. HE is worthy to be praised! Praise The Creator in your scrapping! Future generations as well as those loved ones of yours now need to know of HIS Glory. "-Laura

Above is just one sample, visit the forum for more page ideas, title ideas and sharing with others! Thank you Laura.

Faithfully,

Dawn

God Stories

Recently I shared an article I found about remembering your God Stories. If you missed it, you can read it at http://www.FaithfullyYours.net/God-Stories.html

In the article, the author Jill Savage, discussed how she remembers God Stories with a shadow box displayed in her home. We, scrapbookers, remember God through our scrapbooks. I would like to encourage you to remember God in your everyday life. What has God done for you today?

In the God Moment Principle by Alan Wright, he mentions five kinds of God Moments:

• Amazing Rescue-a time when God rescued you or provided a way out
• Holy Attraction-a moment when God enabled you to resist tempation or led you down a better path
• Unearned Blessing-a moment when God gave you an unearned blessing
• Revealed Truth-a moment when God spoke to you through His word, inner peace or a message
• Valuable Adversity-a moment God sustained you in a difficult time or made you stronger through a trial

I invite you to visit the Forum and share your God Moments/God Stories with others. I would also love to see scrapbook layouts documenting one of your God Moments. Or even a project, like the shadow box in the above mentioned article. If you have a photo to share, please email me and I will feature it here on the blog or an upcoming Faithful Friday. Thanks for reading.

Faithfully,

Dawn

Dawn@FaithfullyYours.net

Faithbook Layout by Sabrina Tolbertson

Designer Spotlight: Sabrina Tolbertson




I used my favorite engagement photo for this layout. I love this verse and was I was so happy when it was included on the patterned paper by Crossed Paths. I cut up the paisley shapes (also Crossed Paths) and arranged them in a heart shape around my photo and enhanced the design with adhesive gems by EK Success.The metal "To have and to hold" embellishment is made by Making Memories. Saying by Crossed Paths.

You can view more great layouts by Sabrina and others in the Faithfully Yours gallery.

Scrapbook Challenge-ABC

If you have visited the forum recently, you are aware of an ABC scrapbook challenge going on. Each week we will be focusing on a new letter. This is a great challenge to work on with your kids or do yourself. Customize it to suit your needs and wants to get what you need out of it and bring you closer to God.


I, as usual, have fallen behind, but am now caught up. Yeah! I decided to do the challenge a little differently to best suit me. A little background...a while ago our family went out to eat and had to wait to be seated. With a large family it is sometimes difficult to get seated quickly and we were already hungry. To help pass the time, Katlynn came up with a game. We tried to come up with as many words as we possibly could starting with the letter "A" that are biblical in nature. Once we felt we had fully exhausted the possibilities with A, we moved on to B and so forth. This continued on while we waited for our food and in the van on the way home. It was a lot of fun and a great distraction! So, I decided to do this challenge as a family effort. We all sat down and brainstormed the words, then each child got to decorate their own letter. Here are are first four letters...

A by Kori, age 5.
B by Katlynn, age 12.
C by Kelsey, age 10.
D by Kimi, age 8.

I hope you enjoyed the first four letters on our journey. Stay tuned with more...I intend to compile these into a paperbag album and include the background story. I'll post pictures when it is ready.

Don't forget to visit the forum for more details on the challenge and the gallery for more samples from faithful members!

Faithfully,

Dawn