This is another card I wasn't totally pleased with so I was happy to have new Hero stuff to play with to do it over.  The new one looks totally different but uses the same techniques:

This card shows two ways to use the paint:  1.  Painting over an embossed/raised surface and then sanding it off.   I love the new card -- it has a really neat shabby chic look to it (tease!)   2.  Stamping with paint. The red part is sticky back canvas, painted fully with red. Then I painted white paint onto the stamp and stamped with it. Once it dried  I cut out the image.

MRI results are in and the tumor is still there.  Heartbreaking.  They have many difficult decisions ahead of them.  PLEASE keep praying.  Here is their post:

Our journey is very far from over. Kate is back in her room awaiting a popsicle. I had to leave as the emotions from the past hour feel strong enough to absolutely overwhelm me at any point. There are no words to express the feelings you have as a parent receiving news you once again hoped and prayed so desperately you would not hear. All the while our precious Kate is crying while waking up from the anesthesia. But we heard those words, cried the torrent of tears and felt our hearts being ripped from our chests. And now we will need to hear God's voice leading our next steps. 

As is obvious, there was still residual tumor. We reviewed the scan, both with tear clouded eyes. Our baby needs to have a lot more stamina to keep fighting. The positive news is the tumor has shrunk and there is most likely no new growth. I think that may be the only positive. At least that I can process at this point. The negative being, there is still a decent amount of tumor left. And blood vessels continue to run right through the middle of it. I thought I might throw up looking at the scan. Seeing the horrific tumor that threatens to take so much. I wanted to scream, hit the computer, anything. I just didn't want to hear anything concerning our Kate and brain cancer. 

So through filtered ears of sorrow here is a little of what we heard and what will proceed next. There is still residual tumor. The neurosurgeo

When Hero came out with all new stamps I just had to re-do the projects that I had planned for my upcoming Studio Line paint class.    So this WAS going to be a project but is no longer -- but I will still teach these techniques:

This card uses the paint two ways -- first, just straight out painting a stamped image to show how silky smooth this stuff is.  :-)    And the purple canvas strip in the back uses multi-medium and paint.   We'll do this in a new card that you'll have to come to the class to see!  :-)

Supplies:   Bazzill cardstock, Hero Arts stamps, gems; Studio Line paint, brushes, sticky back canvas and multi-medium resist; Bo Bunny dot paper, Creative Impressions ribbon, Corner Chomper

And if you want to see evidence that the white death is on its way to Cincinnati, check out my picture of the day here, on my new photo blog.

We will be posting lists here as we receive cards for the eight children in the drive.   You can check here periodically to make sure that we have received your cards.  Keep in mind that things do not get entered instantly (they are sent from Jennifer to me).   We are likely a couple of weeks behind due to the holidays.  We will update this list periodically and will post on our blogs (Jennifer, Kristina and me) when we post new lists here.     Follow these links for each of the kids:

Cards received for Kate

Cards received for Gavin

Cards received for Sami

Cards received for Meg

Cards received for Zach

Cards received for David

Cards received for Braden

Cards received for Emily

Since I designed the cards for the class I intended to teach last Fall, Hero Arts has come out with a whole lot of wonderful new products.  So....  You will be learning the same techniques in this re-scheduled February class but I'm revising all of them to use the newer products.  I was really anxious to play with the new stamps, note card colors and inks to match.   May throw a flower or two in too!   :-)    So here is the original sample that I posted here that shows you how to paint on canvas and then emboss on top of it:

OLD CARD

And here's the NEW CARD:

I'm loving the powder blue card stamped with the Hero Hues Cerulean color and the Friends cling stamp.   Ink up the edges with Ranger's Broken China distress ink?  And voila -- gorgeous blue combos.  And that new flower image may end up being one of my favorites.  Perfect size for cards and does it just beg to be colored in with pencils or Copics or what?    

The classes are February 2 and 4 from 6-8 pm (same class each night).  Hope to see you there!  Please call Stamp Your Art Out to sign up at 513-793-4558.

Another year behind us....  Hard to believe.  I have been giving alot of thought the past few days to what my word for 2010 is going to be.

My one word for 2010 is SURRENDER.  

The last part of 2009 was challenging with health issues, job uncertainty, etc.   And my only peace came from handing it over to God.  And I know I don't always do that -- seek His will, let Him have my burdens, bring Him in on the choices I make, on the way I use the resources he has given me,  etc.  But I want to.   Because doing it all myself is exhausting and not what He would have me do.   I pray that in 2010 I will increase my reliance on Him.  I don't mean to be preachy but somehow committing it to writing here makes it real for me.

I hope that if you are so inclined you have decided on your word for this year.  It will be great to see at year's end how this goes relative to setting resolutions (which of course I never keep). What is your word?