Last two weeks I'm bussy making cards for elderly people and people who are ill of our Church community. I was asked to do so by some ladies of the church. Once a month the cards are in the hall of the church so everyone can write his name on it. On the outside the cards have no text. And on the inside the cards have to be white. Thats why I used Hero Arts layering paper and Basic Grey paper for it. Those papers have one colored site and one white side. Perfect for this!

The flower is made with a stamp by Hero Arts from the set : CL495 Blossom Art. And the yellow dotted paper is by Basic Grey.

Another card with Papertrey Ink stamps. I used a Hero Arts note card and stamped it with the Rainbow background stamp also by Hero Arts. For the butterflies I used a Martha Steward punch.

Isn't he adorable? Makes me smile!

Recently I discovered that there's someone in my own village who is involved in stamping! She makes the most beautiful cards. And not that she makes the outside beautiful, but she always pays a great attention to the inside!

We already had some nice stamping time together. You know that I'm a Hero Arts fan, but she has great stuff from Papertrey Ink.

I was so lucky that I could make a card with her supplies as you can see here.

In the last week of 2010 we went to Amsterdam as we always do in Christmas vacaction. It has become a tradition wich I enjoy very much! Amsterdam is so nice with all the Christmas decoration and lights. But I also visited the Posthumus store and bought the new Hero Arts catalog and some new stamps. Besides that they have a lot of lovely stamps, the store itself is very beautiful as you can see here.

During the last week of 2010 we had two guests, young ladies from Germany, who came to participate in the "Taizé" conference in Rotterdam. Although I never met them before,and besides that I was not familiar with the "Taizé" movement, I can say that we had a wonderful week! For one day I joined them when they went to "Ahoy" in Rotterdam and saw thousends of young people together for praying, worship and to hear messages from the Bible. This was such a sign of Hope and very encouraging to me. What you see at the photo is the decor in one of the halls.Yes, we were sitting on the floor. The orange sails pointed to the harbour of Rotterdam. But it can be also an image of us sailing in our boat of life with the Lord.

Wish you a Merry Christmas !