'Sending Love and COURAGE' Birthday Card

Be strong and COURAGEous, and do the work.

 Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord God, my God, 

is with you.

 He will not fail you or forsake you

until all the work … of the Lord is finished.

I Chronicles 28 : 20

 

Welcome to Digi Desserts Fridaze in connection with My Paper Crafting !    We, on the Design Team, are to create a project using a Digital File from the vast selection at MyPaperCrafting.com every Friday, share them with You and encourage You to visit over there, get the FREE Digi File for today, make a project with it and link it for all to see.  The ‘winning’ designer is highlighted next week as a Guest Designer!   It’s an easy and fun thing to do on the weekend! 

For this week’s project I made a Birthday Card for my Special ‘Baby’ Brother.  He has unfortunately been unemployed for quite some time – as I have been – and he FINALLY became employed this past week!  That’s the ‘Good News.’   The ‘Bad News’ is that the job is in New York State for 7 months and he has had to move there, leaving his family back in MI.  It’s going to be hard on all of them, so I wanted to send him some Love and EnCOURAGEment for his birthday this week.  Remembering how as children we would watch the ‘Wizard of Oz’ on TV each spring – and that my brother is great at doing ‘voices and dialects’ (as am I…it runs in the family!) - I decided to send him a Cowardly Lion and a bit of ‘COURAGE!’  He already has Brains and Heart!!  *smile*

 I used the ‘King of my Heart ds’ from MPC.  Here’s the original file –

*  I put the file into my ‘Perfect Effects Free’ program and applied the Dreamland Action 2 times and then the Earth Action to get to the desired effect – making it look like real fur on the lion.  I then put it into my PSE 10 program and printed it from there onto cream parchment.

*  I added Glossy Accents to the eyes, nose and mouth.

*  I distressed the edge of the oval on which the lion was printed.  I added faux-stitching around the edge.

*  I adhered the oval – and a dark brown shadow oval – to the front panel of the card.  The card is 4.25 x 11” cardstock, folded at 2.75” and 5.5” and mountain and valley folded.

*  I typed the front sentiment and the inside verse in my PSE 10 program and printed them on cream parchment.  I adhered the front sentiment with PopDots.

 

*  I added brown gems to the corners.  I attached the Prop Holder with a brad.  I covered the back of the brad with a remnant of paper and added a note about how to prop it.

 

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Be sure to visit Melin at MPC and sign up for her blog and Newsletters, join us on the Blog Hops at various times of the year and check there weekly to see what’s offered in her Store!  She offers Amazing Digi and Cutting Files and I’m SURE that you will find lovely items to enhance your paper-crafting projects!  As always, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about what or how I have done on here -  Happy Crafting!  ;-}

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Here is the FREE digi-file for this week at My Paper Crafting.  Be sure to stop over there, if you haven’t already, see all of the other creative projects, get the file, make a project of your own using a digi-file from My Paper Crafting and then link it there so we can see it, too!

FREE file  -  

I'm also excited to tell you about a new twist this term.  We invite YOU to participate in our Digi Dessert Fridaze weekly posts.  Just create something using a digital image and link up at the end of the post. If you use a Paper Crafting World image, you will receive 2 chances to win.  That's right!  One lucky project will be selected each week to receive a digital image from Paper Crafting World.  If you use a PCW file, please add PCW after your name.   And, it will be so much easier to participate with our Link Up because there's a tab on the home page that will bring you directly to this DDF page.  You'll have until next Thursday 12 noon (EST) to link up.  The lucky winner will be announced in the next PCW post on Friday.

Be sure to come back here often as I showcase other Paper Crafted Projects and Photo Digital Restorations that I make – several days each week.  Sign up to receive my Posts so you’ll know when I’ve posted something – usually 3 to 4 times weekly.  Tuesdays every other week are Cutting files from MPC – Thursdays are Tags and ATCs – Fridays are Digi Files from MPC -  Other days may be other projects! 

Check out my Tabs in the Header above to see what else I do and can do for you!  Let me know if you have questions on anything here – or if I can do anything for You!  Have a Great Week!  See you again soon!

B’ Bye!

(You can take the Gal out of the Sky, but You can’t take the Sky out of the Gal!)  ;-}