Advent 2018 - Jesus is the Reason for the Season

Good evening. It's the 1st of December today and thus the start of Advent.

Here's a little definition from Dictionary.com

Advent

noun.

1. the arrival of a notable person or thing.

    "the advent of television"

    synonyms: arrival, appearance, ermergence, materialization, surfacing, occurence, dawn, origin,

    birth, rise, development.

2. the first season of the Church year, leading up to Christmas and including the four preceding  

    Sundays.

    Christian theology 

    the coming or second coming of Christ.

As a Christian, Advent is when we look forward to Christmas and  celebrating the birth of Jesus, the King, "God with us" who would "save the people from their sins" :) He has arrived and done this and will return again one day! 

Each day during the lead up to Christmas I'm going to share a picture and a Bible passage. I'll put the line art images here on my blog in case you or some children in your life would like to colour them in. Below is today's image ... I'll post a new one every day :) 

The Bible passage can be read HERE

I've also set myself the task of December Daily this year.. I've made a little handmade journal that I will record (with photos and journaling) the months happenings :) Do you do anything for Advent or December Daily???

My dreams TERRIFY me

Good afternoon.

Hope you have had a great week!  Today I'm sharing with you a card I made with my Lily Rose Fairy digi. I did a  lesson on colouring this image (focusing on shadows) at Copic Club last night  .. and this was the demo ...

I added the butterfly stamp/ sentiment today. It's a Prima stamp and Aussie friends, you can get it from my online shop HERE. I love this sentiment and it rings true at the moment.. this dream of having my own shop and teaching classes is currently terrifying my socks off - so I guess it's big enough then :D  

We have started (thanks for the idea and help GranMargaret) a progressive freebie challenge at the Mad for Markers Digi Creations facebook group HERE if you pop over you can read all about it but for the first month you are able to get this image - Lily Rose for free :D

The dream become reality does mean that I will be BLOGGING a lot more regularly so that I can use the products and show people the results :D And so I'm back to listing colours .... 

The Copics I used are:

Grass: YG91, YG95, YG25, YG17, YG41

Sky: 0, B00, B12

Mushroom: C-3, C-5, C-7, YR20, YR12, E34, R24, R46, R59

Skin: E00, YR20, E31

Hair: YR65, YR68, R24

Dress: V20, V25, 0

Wings: RV00. RV52, 0

Thanks for stopping by :)

Sammi

xoxo

Koala Hugs for Copic Australia's Koala Kids challenge

Good morning!! How are you going? Hope your week is going well! Just popping on to share a card I made as well as a FREEBIE Digi that I drew :D 

There is a card challenge being run right now by Copic Australia - HERE. The great news is that for every entry Copic Australia will donate $5 to Koala Kids :) Pretty cool huh! 

I thought that it would be fun to draw an image especially for the challenge and so that's what I've done... Here's a card I made (this one's not for the actual challenge... this is just for fun and to tell you about the challenge... my real entry will not be shown here tee hee!)

Now for something I  have not done for quite a while... I'm going to enter a few challenges (yay)! So they are:

Critter Challenge - to use flowers :)
The Cutie Pie Challenge - lots of layers :)
Artistic Inspirations - also lots of layers :)
Digital Tuesday Challenge - Distressing :)

Would you like to colour up this image?? I would love to know if you download it - so please do let me know :D And yup would love to see what you do with it too!! Oh ...And if you want to use it to enter the challenge then Go for it!! :D  

Just click on the image to make it bigger and then save to your computer. 

Thanks for stopping by! Have a lovely Wednesday!!!

Long awaited blog candy

Ok ... it's time for the blog candy.... Which I am going to make you work for :D

I am not showing you a picture of the prize yet... (will post one up next week).... but a little hint... will include some paper scrap packs, stamped images, embossed card..... + more??

1. I would like you to make a card... for any occasion you like, but please use one (or both) of the following image(s) for your card/ creation.
2. Post the card on your blog/ in a gallery (SCS/ PCP etc)
3. Then link back to this post when you have done so. Leave a comment so we can come look.
4. If you are already a follower of my blog I'll give you 2 more entries in the draw.
5. If you are not already a follower but decide you'd like to be then I will give you 1 extra entry! You do not have to become one though and still get one entry.

Open until Friday 12th Feb - 7pm (Sydney time - check the clock on my sidebar) ... winner will be announced on Saturday 13th Feb.... all entrants welcome ... will post internationally too :D

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If you could leave me a comment if you pick up these images that would be sweet! :D
Please do not redistribute these images and do credit me as the artist when you use these images. THANKS :D