More Thanksgiving Cards and Day #2 - Thankful For. . .
Hello Friends! Happy Sunday to you all. Remember yesterday I talked about how people on FB are commenting on a daily basis what they are thankful for. Well, today I'm thankful that God helped me to recognize my mistakes so that I won't repeat them again. He felt I was worthy enough for second chances and for that I am very grateful!!
I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. . .nothing really bad but I've made a few. . .don't we all? I've always felt that there's a guardian angel watching over me. I've made at least 3 mistakes in my life that I shiver when I think about how lucky I am or how blessed I am that God was watching over me. I'm not an overly religious person but when I look back I really believe it wasn't luck but some divine power that took over.
When I was about 10 years old, I climbed a very high tree to the very top. It was late in the afternoon and I wanted to see the sun set. After the sun set, it was obviously dark and it was getting a little windy. I soon realized that I could not really see the branches to climb down. OMG! Nobody knew where I was so I was in big trouble! LOL!!! I can laugh about it now because I did manage to make it down without killing myself! Ugggh, until this day, I can't believe I did that!
My second situation was when I was a teenager, I decided to swim at this beach called Sandy Beach in Hawaii. Sandy Beach is notorious for their rip currents and it is easy, even for a strong swimmer, to drown in the rip current. I didn't have a boogie board to help keep me stay afloat, just me. . .and not a strong swimmer at that. There were at least a hundred people around me and I was DROWNING! I was only a few feet to the shore but the current was so strong that no matter how hard I swam, I did not move an inch. Finally, someone noticed that I was screaming my head off and was holding my arm out for someone to pull me out! It was one of those OMG moments. . ..I seriously thought I was going to drown at that very moment. Well, I never, ever swam there again! LOL!
Finally. . .this situation shows how naive I am and at that time, there was no such thing as CourtTV to scare the silliness out of me. I think I was 20 years old and my car died on me on the freeway. I was in my work clothes with a 2 inch heel shoes and I began walking. This was during a time when cell phones did not exist. . .well, about 1/2 mile of my walk to the closest phone, a car stopped along side of me and asked me if I needed a ride. My feet hurt and the nearest phone was probably 4 to 5 miles further so I did a crazy thing and got into the car. The man didn't look crazy or anything but after a while, I started to get worried about my decision. Luckily, all the man did was drop me off at the service station but what if he was a crazy rapist or psycho! When I watch CourtTV, I see all these missing girls or murdered girls because they got into some one's car. I didn't really think about it back then but wow, when I think about it now. . .I think how CRAZY I was to get in that car. So, with that said. . .I feel I am blessed that nothing bad happened to me.
Did you make any mistakes that may have been detrimental to your health or life? Share it with me by commenting, I would be interested in hearing them.
Okay. . .enough with the rambling! I do that a lot. . .if you haven't noticed yet. I made this Thanksgiving card yesterday with images I colored a while ago. I colored the image with my Copic Markers, punched the autumn leaves using an old SU punch and added a little Scribble Iridescent Paint to the punched leaves.
Card Details:
Stamps: Don't know the brand of the main image, SU Teeny Tiny Wishes (sentiment)
Paper: SU DSP, SU Old Olive, Only Orange, Real Rust
Ink: Prismacolor Pencils, Scribbles Iridescent Paint
Accessories: Hemp cord, SU Word Window Punch, Nestabilities, CB embossing Folder, JoAnn Brads, Jolee's By You Sticker
This is another card I made using an image that I colored with Prismacolor Pencils. Again, like yesterday's card, I don't know the brand of this stamped image. I had unmounted the stamp without labeling it so I can't share the brand information with you. The dots on the image was crated using Scribbles Iridescent Paint in Copper.
Just to let you know, I colored the background of the image using Prismacolor Pencils. It took a lot of blending but I like the effect.
I didn't create a sketch for this card because the layout is fairly simply and similar to many other layouts I created in the past.
Anyway. . .I hope you all have a fantastic Sunday. . .I think I'm going to spend part of my day crafting!!!
Card Details:
Stamps: ?, SU Teeny Tiny Wishes (sentiment)
Paper: Not sure of the brand of the DSP. . .it was a scrap piece, SU Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Prismacolor Pencils, Scribbles Iridescent Paint
Accessories: Borderbilities, Nestabilities, Grosgrain ribbon, SU Word Window Punch
9 comments:
Beautiful cards! I've made more than my share of mistakes, and am thankful as well that things worked out.
Beautiful cards Maria thanks for sharing your stories
Love the first card Maria, but the second one is in a class of it's own!!! Fabulous colouring. Your background is incredible!
Mistakes! WAY too many to mention! LOL
Amazing cards Maria. I just love that pumpkin patch stamp. Your work is always gorgeous. Thanks for sharing it.
xoxo, Christine
WOW -- both of these are gorgeous
Wow! your cards are beautiful! as usual! I love the coloring on the pumpkins!
Gorgeous cards! Enjoyed your thoughts. One thing that I did once that was rather stupid was to drive my car up a narrow gravel mountain road (no guard rails) right as the sun was starting to set. It blinded me so that I really couldn't see the road that well so I had to go super slow so as not to drive off the edge. I made it down okay but it was scary.
I think we all do things like that from time to time.
I love your cards! You are so talented! I have a story thats almost the same as your tree story only my mother had to climb up to guide me down! Talk about stupid and embarassing! Took me a long time to live that one down, especially from my 4 brothers! lol
Tracy Thomas
Tvthomas717@aol.com
Hi Maia your cards are GORGEOUS.
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