Hopeful

I looked up the word Hopeful and this is what I found.

hope·ful

1.	full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.

2.	exciting hope; promising advantage or success: a hopeful prospect.

What wonderful words for such a wonderful cause. I though would love to see breast cancer wiped out completely so we can say CURED, not hopeful when someone has cancer.
This is the beautiful set from Our Daily Bread Stamps. This was for the SCS color challenge this week; pink, black and white. The background was stamped with pink shadowed in black stamped off once. I use my stamp-a-ma-jig to line the words up so they'd be off a bit. The black butterflies were stamped with white ink on black polyshrink paper. The butterflies were cut close to the edge then heated with my heat tool. The pink butterfly was stamped in versamark then covered with iridescent ice and heated then cut out.
This is one of the sets I bought last weekend at the Stampingn Convention here in NE Ohio in Strongsville. I met the owner of Our Daily Bread Stamp company, Kelley Holland and told her what a great line of stamps she has for those of us who want Christian stamps to use. I have a Card Ministry at church and love to see what new things come out that we can use.

This was one of the hardest challenges I've ever done at Splitcoast. It is a sketch challenge. The middle circle was a full circle not a wreath, but I wanted to make a wreat of Hope. The papers were put through the Cuttlebug to give them texture. I didn't want anything taking away from the wreath. The stamped items were stamped on clear polyshrink and heated with my heat tool. The butterfly was stamped with versamark then iridescent ice heated. Dimensionals were behind the butterfly, half-circle and wreath

So I know I'm probably the LAST one to be making this type of pumpkin from oval punch cut outs, but here's what I did. I punched 6 large ovals out of designer paper. I folded them in half the wrong side out. I put sticky strip on one half of the shape and stuck them together. I attached the last two to make a pumpkin shape. The stem is green paper stuck between the ovals, and cut at an angle.

I'm off today for NEOEA Day, which stands for North East Ohio Education Association, Day. It's a day of in-service for teachers where you'd sign up for seminars around the area and go to them. In our district this used to be a mandatory in-service day. I guess so many people either called in sick or never showed up that they decided to make it a day off for all of us.
I have to take DS to the doctor today and DD has two friends who have stayed the night so we have to drop them off before we go to the doctor.
I have to tell you last night was the most fun night. The girls were in the basement and I was in my stamping room above them. I could hear wonderful laughter as they played games, yes the old-fashioned kind with plastic pieces, cards and game boards. Not an electronic gadget out all night! It was energizing listening to the continual laughter of girls having fun playing games! It did my heat good to hear it! :-)
Well, have to get another cup of coffee and some breakfast. Thanks for stopping by. May God bless your day and hold you close today and always.