Category Archives: Thinking of You

ODBD Old Rugged Cross

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ODBD Old Rugged Cross

Hello, and thanks for stopping by Guneaux Designs!!  Today’s Splitcoaststampers “Ways to Use it Challenge” involves including music notes or instruments on cards, or to show the kind of music we love.  This challenge gave me the opportunity to showcase a recent stamp I purchased from Our Daily Bread Designs, the Old Rugged Cross.  My favorite music is old hymns.

Luke 23: 20-25 & 33

“Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again.  But they kept shouting, “Crucify him!  Crucify him!”  For the third time he spoke to them:  “Why?  What crime has this man committed?  I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty.  Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.”  But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed.  So Pilate decided to grant their demand.  He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will. ….When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him, along with the criminals — one on his right, the other on his left.”

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United We Flourish Because We Are Better Together

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United We Flourish Because We Are Better Together

Hi, my friends!  I hope you are having a wonderful Monday!   This card features the technique of blending alcohol inks and distress oxide inks, which fit the “Perfect Blend” theme of the Dirty Dozen monthly theme for fan club members.  My card features the stamps and dies set that Hero Arts made for Ellen Hutson as part of her United We Flourish Campaign. The stamp and die combo is called United We Flourish Because We Are Better Together, and it is an exclusive limited-edition stamp and die set for Ellen’s campaign.

1 John 3:16-20

“This is how we know what love is:  Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.  And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.  If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?  Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.  This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us.  For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.”

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Altenew Build A Flower – Hibiscus

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Altenew Build A Flower – Hibiscus

Know what I love?  This sentiment on my card with a question mark fit nicely into the Dirty Dozen May Theme, “Mother May I?”  What I love, among many other things, is my Hibiscus plants that have started blooming so beautifully.  To that end, my card features Hibiscus flowers that I made using the Altenew Build A Flower – Hibiscus stamp set.

Psalm 68:19

“Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.  selah”

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Penny Black Crimson Blush Rose

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Penny Black Crimson Blush Rose

Welcome to Guneaux Designs!  I love the Penny Black Crimson Blush Rose stamp, and I am featuring it on my card today.  I stamped the rose image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto a piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock.  Using Copic Sketch Markers, I blended shades of light to dark pink alcohol ink onto the roses, and shades of green onto the leaves.  Afterward, I used a dark pink Prismacolor pencil to add more color to enhance the image.  Then I blended the pencil coloring with Gamsol.

1 John 3:11-15

“This is the message you heard from the beginning:  We should love one another.  Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother.  And why did he murder him?  Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.  Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.  We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers.  Anyone who does not love remains in death.  Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.”

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Altenew Clear Stamps Peony Bouquet

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Altenew Clear Stamps Peony Bouquet

Welcome to Guneaux Designs, special friends!  Today I have a card share for you that features the Altenew Clear Stamps Peony Bouquet.  I made the card to submit to a Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge this week.  The hostess of the challenge selected the colors of Pink Pirouette, Black, and White.  A dessert option was to include vellum.  I chose to pass on the dessert.

Titus 3:5-7

“He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.  He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.”

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Penny Black The Bunch!

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Penny Black The Bunch!

Hello, my friends!!  Thanks for stopping by.  I have not posted many cards this year and I want to explain why.  I was asked, and I accepted, to become a member of the Splitcoaststampers (SCS) Dirty Dozen last December.  I began my duties as a member in January, which is designing cards for SCS following themes.  One of the rules for new members of the Dirty Dozen (DD) is that any card you make for the DD monthly themes cannot be posted anywhere for six months, except on SCS.

To that end, I have been creating cards, and if you are a “club member” of SCS, you can see the cards when they go live, which is on the 15th of each month.  If not a club member, you will be able to see them here on my site after the six-month period expires.

Now, on to Penny Black The Bunch! card I created.  The Penny Black image on my card is from a stamp set newly released.  When I saw the new stamp, I had to have it as I think the image is darling, and it will serve as a great card for my three-year old granddaughter.  Don’t you just love the look on her face?  She looks so sweet!

1 Thessalonians 5:16

“Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

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