Week #145 - 5th March 2011 - Sponsored by Lisa B Designs

Morning and a big Happy Saturday to you all!!

This week it's my turn to host Sketch Saturday, I'm Cazza by the way! I do hope you like my sketch and can play along too? It's not a difficult one so don't worry - I don't do difficult!

We're sponsored this week by the amazingly talented Lisa Baker of Lisa B Designs!! Some of you may have seen Lisa demonstrating at the various craft fairs up and down the UK, she's also a regular in Making Cards magazine. I'm very lucky as she doesn't live far from me so I get to attend her craft classes every month :o)) Here's a little bit about her.....

Hi, My name is Lisa Baker and I have always loved playing around 'making things' from a very early age, one of my favourite programmes was 'Blue Peter' and I used to drive my mum mad with boxes of card, toilet rolls holders, tissue paper etc... Over the years I have tried my hands at sooo many different crafts and have found some pleasure in all, my favourites being jewellery making, silversmithing, teddy bear making and of course becoming totally addicted to paper crafting.

Many years ago I started collecting Artist Mohair Teddy Bears and it wasn't until I bought a teddy bear kit at a bear fair in Holland in 1996 that I had a go at making a teddy bear. I had a lot of fun making it and learnt from it the process of how to make a bear. Now being the typical Gemini that I am was not content with that and decided I would like to make my own teddy bears and critters and started putting pen to paper and designing my own. Hence Huggability Bears was born. www.huggabilitybears.co.uk

I am now a freelance craft designer and demonstrator and run my own classes and because of my love of stamps decided this year to put pen to paper again and recreate some of my bears and critters as stamps to enter the wonderful world of paper crafting. I hope you will like my critters as much as I do and enjoy creating some wonderful projects with them!

Big Hugs

Lisa.B.x

Told you she was talented!!

Lisa has very generously donated a prize this week of 4 of her fantastic stamps PLUS a Wild Rose Studio Paper Stack!! Thank you Lisa :o))

Onto the sketch and as I said earlier it's not a tough one!! Here it is...

I hope you likey??

Lisa has also kindly agreed to be our Guest Designer for the month of March so you can all get to see just how talented she is! Here's her card this week using Loopy-Lou... Just for ewe! from her range...

Gorgeous huh! :o)) And not forgetting the super talented DT's cards, most of whom are also using Lisa's stamps so you can see more of the range....

Jilli

Terry using Minx... Taking Time Out!

Maya using Snuffles... Just for you

San using Mika... Smelling a flower

Jo using Minx... What flowers?

Karita using Snuffles... Party Balloons!

Bente using Minx... Is this one for me?

Leonie using Loopy-Lou... Just for ewe!

Cazza using Loopy-Lou...Just for Ewe

Lisa

Simonne using Minx...Where's He Gone?

Wow!!

I do hope you can play along too? Please leave your entry with Mr Linky.....

Much love,

Cazza

xxx

Winner of challenge #144

The winner of 2 Sarah Kay Stamps of their own choosing, kindly donated by The Craft Barn is...

Hazel P (Just Add Glitter)

and here is her fabulous winning card...

Congratulations Hazel :)
Please choose TWO Sarah Kay stamps, then EMAIL ME with your chosen stamps (please tell me the name of them) and also your full postal address so that I can pass this onto Sandy, so that she can post out your prize to you. Thanks.

Jo xx

Welcome to Spiritual Sunday

Hello Everyone, I'm so excited that another week of Spiritual Sunday is  here. I hope that everyone had a good week. There are so many new people stopping by, we are all excited that your participating here with us. If anybody ever needs to know about our guide lines you can click on the link above and in that post it should answer any question you may have. Last week we had an unusual post and I

The Mass of All Time -a sign of our times.

Don Nicola Bux on the forthcoming
Instruction on the Motu Proprio:

Monsignor Nichola Bux is a consultant to
the Office of Liturgical celebrations of the Holy Father.

Here is one question from the interview he granted
to the Italian daily Avanti
which was published today and
translated from the Italian by
Rorate Caeli:

How many obstacles is the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum on the pre-Conciliar Mass facing?

I believe that, currently, the obstacles are becoming feebler than at the time in which the Motu proprio was issued, in 2007. Through the internet, one can see how there is a discreet movement of young people who look for and, as much as it is possible, go to the Traditional Mass, also called the Latin Mass or Mass of All Time. And this, I believe, is a very important sign to gather.

It is clear that the pastors of the Church, first the bishops and then the parish priests, although often saying that we must be able to grasp the signs of the times, an expression very much in use after Vatican II, often fail to understand that the signs of the times are not defined by them, but they happen and are regulated mainly by young people. I think this is the most interesting symptom, because, if [only] the elderly, the adults, went to the Traditional Mass, one might harbor a suspicion that it is nostalgia. The fact that it is mostly young people who seek and participate in the Latin Mass is completely unexpected and therefore deserves to be read, understood, and particularly accompanied by the bishops.

I think the Pope acknowledges this and that is why he intends to make a further contribution through an instruction on the application of the motu proprio, to help everyone understand that, in addition to the new form of the Roman Rite, there is the ancient or extraordinary form.

Thanks to Rorate Caeli.

Don Nicola Bux
after Mass in Coimbra, Portugal.

NEW winner for challenge #143

The original winner of challenge #143 hasn't come forward to claim their prize.
So I have gone back to Random.org to choose a new winner.

The NEW winner who gets to spend $10.00 at Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps is...


Debbie B   (Love Paper Crafting)

with this winning card...

That's a nice surprise eh Debbie? ;)
congratulations!

Please EMAIL ME so that I can pass this onto Jessica at Stitchy Bear, who will then send you details of how to claim your prize. Thank you.

Jo xx

Sator autem Christus.

...Sator autem Christus...
...and the Sower is Christ...


Semen est verbum Dei, sator autem Christus:
omnis qui ínvenit eum, manebit in ætérnum.
The seed is the word of God, and the Sower is Christ;
if any man find Him, he shall never be moved.

(Magnificat Antiphon: Tuesday of Sexigesima.)

The Norhern Lights

Tonight the Northern Lights showed in the sky. They were not as impressive as they have been in the past but none the less make a lovely sight.