Keeping It Simple

Greetings!  My schedule continues to be very hectic, but at least it's been productive and fun.  This Thursday, I'll be taking my 5th Grade GT students to Mo Ranch, over in the Texas Hill Country.  Although we will be consistently on the go for 2 days, it will most likely be a marvelous experience and the beauty of the environment will makes it memorable for all.  My students and I are anxiously awaiting the day of our departure.

FAB
Greeting Card
Freshly Made Sketches 133
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Not so Mellow Yellow
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Keep It Clean & Simple
Try It On Tuesday - Springtime

Anyway, as to my collection of simple projects, I have the greeting card above, which was inspired by FMS 133 and the color yellow for SSSMC.  Since I also wanted to enter it to SSSWC and TIOT, I kept it clean, simple and spring like by making it airy and using the negative form of the flower die cut.  I used various scraps of paper, a scrap of linen, yellow staples,  and mini letter stamps, as well as the Tim Holtz picture wheel and Tattered Flower dies.

Israel
Logo
Eva & Kristin's Paint Party Friday
Alexandra's Sunday Sketches
Jenn's Artist Studio #104

This next piece, is a logo I was commissioned to design for a Jewish group that is going on a pilgrimage to Israel this coming summer.  They will be imprinting it on their group's t-shirts, so they wanted it to be a black line design to keep production costs down.  Having Father Abraham in common, I'm sure they'll visit many of the same places that I would love to be see as a Christian.

Moorehead Cawley Recipes
Calligraphy Labels
Lorik's Mandarin Orange Monday #91
Julia's What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday
Maria's Orange You Glad It's Friday

Baby Jurado
Simple Gift Tag
Ramona's Inspire Me Monday #121
Denise, Roger & Leslie's ABC Wednesday - P is for Pacifier
Karen's Word Art Wednesday - Challenge 130
Jen's In the Studio
Manon's Paper Saturdays

The two projects above involved some simple calligraphy work, which I always enjoy doing.  The first one was for some family recipe albums that my Mother-in-Law is working on and asked me to make the labels.  The second one is a quickie gift tag that my wife asked me to do on a short notice for a colleague of hers.  After punching a pacifier shape at the end, I used a calligraphic marker to write the baby's name and add border.  I think calligraphic work can be beautiful on its own.

Well, that brings me to the end of my post.  In closing, I'd like to leave you with a Bible verse found in 1 Timothy 2:1-3, that I believe is very apropos to my current post, "The first thing I want you to do is pray.  Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.  Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation.  This is the way our Savior God wants us to live."  Thank you for all your thoughtful comments on my last post and blessings!