He Is Risen! Alleluia!

Happy Easter! Hope you had a blessed day of worship and thanksgiving :) This is from our Festival of Flowers service today....everyone brings flowers to church and adorns this ugly old chicken wire stick cross into a beautiful symbol of our new life in Christ :) It's a church family tradition to take a picture of your kids in front of it....I have many through the years :) Alas my grown-ups were scattered today...but I did enjoy time with them in one way or another. God is sooooooo good <3

Good Friday

We had an awesome Good Friday service tonight. Our choir did the "Weeping Tree" Cantata. It is just so moving and humbling to understand what Jesus did for me. And just to remind me again how amazing God is, He is lighting up the sky with a beautiful full moon tonight. Really, there has to be a better word for my gratitude than *thank you* Lord...but it's all I've got for now ><>

palm branch cross

As promised in the earlier post...here's what one of the palm branches from our Palm Sunday service looks like made into a cross ><>

Hosanna!

Happy Palm Sunday tomorrow :) I love how we celebrate it at my church...we have real palm branches to wave around ( *don't poke someone's eye out with that thing* ) and then during the service people sit and transform them into a cross. Hmmn. I'll have to take a picture to show you. Since I haven't made any Palm Sunday cards this year...I'll have to post this other Easter one :) As usual, it looks somewhat better in person. The Stamp is a Studio G clear one, that I just colored over with pencils. The rest is pretty basic. *Blessed is He Who comes as King!* ><>

He is Risen Indeed ! :)

This card uses one of my *favorite* Heart & Soul images ~ the big cross :) I inked it up right from the pad, choosing here and there what colors to use. The words are also Heart & Soul. Love that Sizzix Tim Holtz embossing folder ~ it just seems like it was MADE for alleluia work :) ><>

Goodbye Ralphie :)

This is for an awesome lady who is retiring today from my kid's alma matter. She is the best security guard on the planet! ( we used to kid that she had eyes in the back of her head....) Always a smile for us, and all over anything that was going on that shouldn't be :) I'm praying that her next life adventure will be blessed beyond measure...'cause she was such a blessing to PHS :)

oops. stamp credits: balloon is super vintage DOTS, words are Rubber Soul, and the school mascot is one I made (with permission from school) ><>

Lenten Centerpiece

Here we are two weeks into the Lenten season already, and I keep forgetting to post a picture of the centerpiece mobile in our sanctuary. It's meant to represent the somber journey to the cross as we walk with Jesus on His journey. Lots of purple for repentance/royalty. I like it :) ><>