PUBLISHED!! Sorta...

I think I shared a while back how excited I was that I was going to be published. (Maybe it was at my personal blog.) I was so very excited. Well, the magazine is out now. Well, sorta. It's the very first issue of Christian Paper Crafts Magazine. As far as I know, there aren't any stores that carry it yet. You can purchase it, or an electronic version of it from their website. I got the electronic version of it, and was quite flattered that they used my card for the Fall Section main page. Wanna peek?


I spent forever on this card back in April!

Honestly, I have mixed emotions about the whole experience. I love, love, LOVE, that the magazine is focused on Jesus. But I feel that since our cards were what gave the magazine it's substance, we should have gotten the electronic version of it free. It boasts over 160 pages, but a lot of them are blank pages which seems to me that they could have done a better job on that.

It is a brand new publication though, so I'm curious to see how God uses it. There are some truly beautifully done cards in it, and I'm not referring to mine! In fact, thanks to some of those cards, and my friend that stayed with me, I'm beginning to learn how to do paper quilling! It's a very time consumin craft, but I think the items made from it are beautiful! Hopefully I'll be using it on cards in the near future. :)

Getting Crafty...

I've spent a lot of today downstairs trying to force my creative flow. I know I have one, I used to use it all the time. But lots of stress and little spare time has drained my creative pool. I have a scrappin' party to host tomorrow, and I am sadly not as prepared as I should be. I do have a project for the ladies to work on, but I'm not 100% happy with it. While I was working on my own project, to have an example, I got side tracked. My creativeness decided to start flowing, but NOT on the project I was supposed to be working on! Doesn't it figure?

Anyhow, I thought I'd post a pic of the best thing I squeezed out today. I love making cards. :)



The picture is ever so slightly blurry. I really need to learn how to take great pictures of these things. The trick is natural sunlight, but unfortunately I'm all out of that right now!

Tomorrow is going to be packed, along with Sunday. I'm so far behind on things, I'm just trying to not panic. I'm seriously thinking some responsibility in my life needs to go, but I just don't see how I can trim anything out. *sigh* Here's hoping I'll get some good sleep tonight!