The Joy of the LORD

 Nehemiah 8:10 tells us that, "The joy of the LORD

is your strength."

Because this is one of my favorite scriptures

I decided to use an Our Daily Bread stamp 

as the basic template and make my own in PSP X.

If you don't do PSP or Photo Shop you can

definitely get some wonderful scripture stamps

from Our Daily Bread Designs.

The top scripture has been die cut with a

Spellbinders tag die. The one on the 

bottom card is simply cut using a click blade 

and a quilting ruler then layered over dark

purple card stock that was cut to a narrow

border using a Perfect Layers ruler.

The blue card has a background of pale blue 

polished stone (alcohol ink on glossy card stock)

that has the edges sponged in black ink.

The flower images are from Hero Arts and

have been stamped with VersaMark and

heat embossed with fine line black embossing powder.

The lavender and purple card has polished stone

used on the oval and the holes in the lacy scallops.

There background is a lavender card stock 

that has been textured using an embossing folder.

The oval and the scallop borders are from

Spellbinder dies.

I matched the lavender polished stone to the

holes in the scallops by simply cutting plain scallops

in the polished stone (no holes in this one) and

gluing the dark purple lacy scallop over.