To all the people around the world who fight for their love

Matryoshka in love - freebie

Rainbow freebie

Happy Valentine's day!

Ps. Find more love freebies here and here.

Ps. 2 I have submitted this digital image to:
Craftitude: Anything goes or Valentines/Love
Digi Haven: Happy Valentine's Day (use a digi) 
Digitally Sweet: Inspirational photo

 

Heart 2 heart

It's time for a new challenge at {PIN}spirational Challenges.

Our Sponsors this week are:

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The Cutting Cafe

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Prize-3 digis

Here's my card for this week around.
I have used an image (Soul mates) by the Cutting Cafe.

The lovely couple comes from the Stamping Dragon. I have created the background template in Paint (lol). 

Ps. I have submitted this card to the following challenges:
Artistic Inspirations: Anything goes/Valentine's day 
Bunny Zoe's Crafts: Hearts/love
Eureka Stamps: Love is in the air
Fan-Tastic Tuesday: Romance
Papertake Weekly: With a heart
Paper Makeup Stamps: Hearts
Scrap-Creations: Valentines
The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog: My cutie valentine

The power of love (and cupcakes)

It's time for a new challenge at

{PIN}spirational Challenges

This week's pic looks delicious!

 The sponsors this week are:

~Meljen's Designs~

Prize-4 digis

~Stitchy Bear~

Prize-3 digis

~Whoopsi Daisy~

Prize-2 sheets of digis

This is my card for the challenge. I have used a digital stamp by Stitchy Bear. I've coloured the stamp with acrylic paint and Stickles.

The sentiment "Fight for equality" was created with the font Variety. I used the Gigi font to type "and have some cupcakes". 

The cupcakes were cut out from the paper sheet Bob appetit/Ta en kaka till by Landstoken AB. I then coloured the cupcakes with some acrylic paint in different colours.

I created some elements for this card, like the hearts. (They are freebies if anyone would want them.)

 

Ps. I have submitted this card to the following challenges:
Aud Sentiments: Any sentiment
Crafts and Me: Use a heart
Digi Sketch Challenge: One for the men 
Everybody Art Challenge: Hearts
Glitter n' sparkle: Bling it up
OLLCB: A man card 
Robyn's fetish challenge: Lots of glitter 
Simply Create too: Hearts
The Pink Elephant: Love

The plague that is killing our youth

Here's a card that I've made to show my support for the It Gets Better project - a project which works to prevent suicide among LGBTQ-youths. Their mission is to communicate to LGBTQ-kids that it gets better.

The child with a mirror comes from A Day for Daisies. I have coloured her with Promarkers and Stickles. 

For the card base I've recycled/upcycled an old post-card.

The text that I've chosen for this card comes from the song I was Married by Tegan & Sara:
I look into the mirror
for evil that just does not exist
I don't see what they see
(tell them that, tell them that)

When I got censored (3 times) in the crafting world last year for creating a LGBTQ-friendly card, I learned that there are grown-ups who think that bullying is their God-given right. Those people claim that their beliefs give them the right to bully or discriminate a vulnerable group of people. As far as I'm concerned, NO ONE on this planet has that right.


I have submitted this project to:
A day for daisies: Add yellow (I made the first background out of mostly yellow and green dots)
Aud Sentiments: Sentiment as the focus
Blog Quick Quotes: Bright and Shiny New Year
Creative Fingers: Anything goes 
Delightful Challenges: Patterned paper
Fairytale challenge: Recycling 
My Heart Pieces: Anything goes 
Polkadoodles and Studio 12: Anything goes/girly
Stamping with the Dragon: Anything goes

A lot to love

Just because the world needs more love. Not hate. No, we don't need that.

Love all freebie

Some parts are hand-drawn while others are made digitally. 
N.B. the font is named Cookie Monster by Des. 

Ps. I have spread some blog love here:
*Aud Sentiments: Any sentiment
*Creative Fingers: Anything goes
*Paper Crafting Journey: Bling it up 
*Word Art Wednesday: they removed my entry three times. They clearly need more love.

Gay couple digital stamp

Lesbian couple digital stamp

Ps. 2.  Apparently I managed to get a Christian Fundamentalist here: someone who abuses the words of the Bible from a wishful thinking to get simple, clear rules of complex moral issues. At first it amused me, but then it really infuriated me. I'm not going to sugar-coat it. I assume you were not brought up in Europe in the shadows of the Holocaust, and therefore didn't learn from an early age that prejudices against people are bad ALWAYS. Even if you didn't learn that lesson, you should at least be able to learn from the reality which you are living in today. In that kind of reality, hate crimes against LGBTQ-people take lives. Bullying takes lives. 

If you are really concerned about other people's salvation, then you should really know that you could become liable to Biblicism. Biblicism can at worst become a form of idolatry, which is a serious crime against the First Commandment.

The Bible is really a book about God and NOT a book about human sexuality. Also if you claim to be a Christian, then it's Jesus that you should follow and not Paul. (Unless you are a Paulinian.)

The Christians who condemn homosexuality, think they are morally superior and therefore within their right to impose their morals on other people. Reality check: they are not. They condemn a group of people, based on certain Greek and Hebrew words, which they do not even understand. Most likely they follow a translation of the Bible, which hasn’t taken into account recent (i.e. less than 150 years ago) discoveries of Greek text materials (including papyri and inscriptions) that shed new light on Greek vocabulary. How can it be just and Christian to condemn a group of people, based on words like malakos and arsenokoites/arsenokoitai (which can’t even been found in the Greek translation Septuaginta of the Bible, 300 BCE)? It can't be justified. 

Hate can never be justified. God was not hateful. God's love was for everyone. 

~Well, that is if you believe in that sort of thing.

Stamped with love

I'm a stepsister at the Sisterhood of crafters. I must say I'm very excited about that. :) We are sponsored by Shelly's images this time around. I wanted to make a love-themed card for a friend of mine since she is getting married to her fiance. I found Love by Shelly's images to be perfect for the card I had in mind. You know what else was perfect for this card? Stickles! Yes, lots and lots of Stickles...

...because I wanted to make a very colourful love card!

I have used the following Ranger Stickles: Cinnamon, Diamond, Eucalyptus, Fruit Punch, Green, Lagoon, Magenta, Mystic Green, Orange Peel, Starry Night, Thistle, Tropical Tangerine, Turquoise, Waterfall, Yellow

I found the borders and colourful people at Papercraft Inspirations (issue 59: paper 3, issue 77: paper 6). I have used the CookieMonster font for the black and red text.

I have submitted this card to the following challenges:
A Creative Romance: CAS 
Aud Sentiments: Any Sentiment 
CAS: Colours of rainbow
Charisma Cardz: Fancy Flourishes
Digitally Sweet: Anything goes
Glitter n Sparkle: Add a bow (see L in Love)
PanPastel: Glitz and glam
Robyn's fetish challenge: Must use yellow, blue and red

Ps. Do you want some ideas for LGBTQ love cards? Then why don't you check out some of my other LGBT cards: here and here. :)

With love and rainbows,
Wiola