3M: Birthday Candles ...

Hi friends!

It's a little ironic that today's post features cards with a candle on them ~

as that's exactly what life is for me now in this moment :)

Burning the candle at both ends, 

each day blurring into the next with the busy-ness of our family life.

 

I'm holding fast to my year of Abide,

and with that, I'm embracing this busy time for us and learning to

 balance it with God's grace ♥

I take a few moments here and there to refresh ...

“Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

~Mark 6:31

and then I keep on going! :)

My card today is tons of fun!

It's the day the 3M post our cards ...

and that would be Barb, Jeanette and I whom all have this same image,

and we make a card without knowing what the others are making :)

Barb was our hostess and she sent us another interesting Tim Holtz image 

(you may remember this one with the coffee theme - yum!)

First, my card went off course.

Like.  Way.  Off.  Course!

You probably know that I'm a HUGE fan of watercoloring ~

I just love it!

I decided to go "old school" since I had school supplies out already

and use some good 'ol fashion 8 count Crayola watercolors.

{*Shout out to Office Max who had these paints on clearance for .10 cents!}

Unfortunately, I didn't count on the fact that the paper wouldn't hold

the weight of the water.

While I normally stamp/watercolor on watercolor paper,

this time it went in all kinds of directions from smears to major warping,

even with ironing.  Shucks!

 But I did get some really cool blending!

I made on in the 'cool colors' and 'warm colors' spectrums.

You will be delighted to see what Barb and Jeanette have made, too!

And here we are ~ aren't we purty?

                                 ↑ that's me!

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly