Scripture Lessons and Lyrics Challenge with Patter Cross - #4 - Good Morning

Another song this time that I do not know. Please visit Patter's blog HERE so you can read her devotional thoughts and visit the links to the song.

When I saw the words in the song which I have shared on my little card ( CD case size as that is how I display it), "Wave away my yesterday 'cause I'm leaving it behind me"; the verse from Psalm 103 came to my mind.  Our sins are forgiven and removed from us as far as the east is from the west. We can say goodbye to yesterday and leave it behind as it is gone.
Like the words in another song, all we need to be concerned about is "one day at a time".

( for my digital part of my page  I used a kit called 12 Days of Valentine by Stacey Carlson)

Scripture and Lyric Lessons with Patter Cross - #3 - Always

This fortnight Patter has shared a song I had never heard before and the words are good ones.
Please visit Patter's blog HERE so you can read what she has shared and also visit the links to the song.

The line in the song "My God will come through always" stood out to me. Maybe because in life even our loved ones do not always come through for us but how wonderful to know and believe God does come through ALWAYS.   There are so many wonderful scriptures to remind us that He is our refuge and our strength.

For my  little piece of artwork which is mostly digital - I photographed it because scanning it did not give a very good result -  I printed an extra flower to attach to give a more realistic 3D effect and added a real brad to the centre.

( For my digital art I used a kit called "Soft and Pretty" by Trixie Scraps )

SCRIPTURE LESSONS & LYRICS CHALLENGE #2 - UNDO - WITH PATTER CROSS

Please may I encourage anyone visiting this blog if you have not read Patter's devotion for this fortnight's challenge to go to her blog HERE and read it.  It really spoke to me as lately I have been struggling in
feeling I was failing the Lord and not living as I ought to be.  My husband and I have yet to find a Christian fellowship to become involved in with our move to another state. Maybe I am lacking Christian fellowship why I have been feeling down lately but even so I should just trust in our Heavenly Father to do just as I have shared on my piece of art  -  "Turn me around - Pick me up".  These are the words from our given song that really spoke to me and the scripture is one that Patter shared and I felt it one I needed to take claim of - I need to stop living according to my sinful nature. I need to get my eyes back to being fixed on Jesus.

I created a slightly hybrid piece of art with having fun to make my own real washi tape by printing a digital paper over some masking tape.

(digital kit used - Everyday October by Jacqui Smith at Scrap Girls)

SCRIPTURE LESSONS AND LYRICS CHALLENGE 2014 - #1 - YOU ARE THE LORD

For the sixth year I am taking part in a challenge hosted by Patter Cross. This year Patter is teaching us through scriptures and lyrics from Christian songs ( sometimes it may be a hymn).
Please visit Patter's blog HERE to read what she has to share to start our year off.

The song the lyrics for this fortnight came from is You are the Lord by Jeremy Camp. If you would like to hear the song and see the words please visit Patter's blog and your will find a link to the song.

This year I hope to combine some digital art with some papercraft for my small pieces of art. These pages each fortnight will be displayed in a CD case.  When I went to start working on my art this time, I had been making YoYo flowers from fabric for some cushion covers I was making and thought - why not add a small YoYo flower to my scripture art. I had chosen to work with red, purple and grey so off to my stash of fabrics and I found the right piece to make a flower.

As I read the words to this song the two lines I have shared on my artwork stood out to me - how wonderful the life that our Lord does give us - from the moment we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour our eternal life begins. I was once shared this fact in a youth group many years ago. It is not when we die that our eternal life starts - it is when we become a true believer.
The blessings I am receiving from the change my husband and I made towards the end of last year just shows how the Father does provide for us. We moved from a large city to a small country town to be closer to my daughter and her precious family ( I have 3 adorable little granddaughters ).

Here is my hybrid piece of artwork:
( my photography is not that good - it is not really as crooked as it looks)

Digital pieces - paper and tag from Girl Joy by Laura Louie; heart  from Just B Play by Angie Briggs

HYMN SCRIPTURE CHALLENGE #22 - JOY TO THE WORLD hosted by Patter Cross

May I strongly encourage you to pop over to Patter's blog HERE to read her devotional thoughts for this the last challenge for this year.

I decided to centre my page on the first line of the hymn and have used Jesus own words from John 10:10.
How wonderful that He did come, He came as a helpless baby and grew to be a man who walked this earth and gave up His life so we who believe could have the wonderful life He promised us.

( for my digital art I have used a kit called " Silent Night" by Elisha Barnett)

Hymn Scripture Challenge with Patter Cross - #20 - I Need Thee Every Hour

Please visit Patter's blog HERE to read her thoughts based on this lovely old hymn.

What a comfort to know that our God is ever present - we need Him and call upon Him in our times of need but He is there all the time. It is us who move away. 

For my digital art I have used the kit "Music of the Heart" which is a collobrative kit by the designers of Go Digital Scrapbooking

Hymn Scripture Challenge with Patter Cross #19 - Immortal, Invisible God Only Wise

Please visit Patter's blog to read what she has shared about this lovely old hymn.

For my small 6 x 6 inch page I decided to highlight the words about the Angel's adoring our Immortal God. The time in history where they truly  worshipped  God was at the Birth of our Saviour - Jesus Christ.
May we also adore our Immortal God and give Him the praise He both desires and deserves.

For my digital artwork I have used a kit called First Noel by Creative Victorian Designs