Card Classes

We have been taking our young interns here at The Pleasant Times through a card class.  We are going through the book, "Rubber Stamp Celebrations" from Personal Stamp Exchange, and trying out different cards to learn different techniques.
Here are the results from the first class. The techniques learned were using torn paper, layering papers, coordinating prints and colors, and choosing themes. Coordinating envelopes were made for each card.

This student's card, and the one in the top photo, use a scrapbook paper of an old map to set off the images they chose.

A gazebo in a garden is rubber stamped and colored on the front of this card.

 This student chose a water theme (those are huge fish on the background papers!).

These cards are made with scrapbook papers as the centerpieces, with rubber stamps as accents.

The cards were used as thank-you notes after Christmas. These classes also help the teacher use her much-neglected rubber stamps.
Below are some of the class attempts at pop-up cards (I have since seen some fantastic examples of these cards from a friend who also has this book, using fabric or stickers for different looks, and placing a patterned background on the card). I am not sure that the class wants to re-visit a pop up card until some more simple ones have been practiced on!

(this one uses clip art from Graphics Fairy for the base, and rubber stamped flowers)

(this is one rubber stamp, done many times and elements cut out of the image and layered)

(This is several rubber stamped images)

Modern Devices Fall Short Of This

Why did we ever give up this kind of telephone? I had no idea it could do so much for someone-- it sounds so convenient! I wish my modern telephone could run errands for me. I wonder how they programmed it?

Text in above ad says:

“Advantages of a Residence Telephone.
Makes engagements;
Invites your friends;
Friends can call you;
Does your shopping;
Reserves theatre tickets;
Orders your groceries;
And corrects mistakes;
Calls the plumber;
Hastens the delivery of goods;
Saves letter writing;
Calls your husband;
Saves time and steps;
Runs your errands;
Calls the doctor;
Calls the fire department;
Calls the police."


image from wikimedia commons

Romans 6, Literally

~Pleasant Words~

You have to read this slowly and carefully, since is it slightly different than what you are used to! I find Young's Literal Translation close enough to the KJV to help me understand it, but different enough in stating things to make me pay extra attention to it. What should we not be "ignorant" of?

Romans 6
1 What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?
2 let it not be! we who died to the sin--how shall we still live in it?
3 are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?
4 we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.
5 For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of the rising again;
6 this knowing, that our old man was crucified with him , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;
7 for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.
8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him,
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;
10 for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;
11 so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;
13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
14 for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!
16 have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and--were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;
18 and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.
19 In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness--to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness--to sanctification,
20 for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,
21 what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.
22 And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit--to sanctification, and the end life age-during;
23 for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.




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