Hi,
I'm posting the beautiful cards made by the CDAC Peacock Feathers Group.  These were made for the Mother's Day Challenge and the colors are beautiful.

Here is Charlene's card.  I think the greens and purples look great together, and I like the way the lamp stands out from the back of the card.  The glitter is a great touch!

Elinor did a great job shading the hair in hers, and look at the hand stitching!

We have a new challenge up for summer, and the Peacock Feathers store on Etsy has a new set of digital stamps with summer themes.  More stamps are being added every day, so come by and visit.  Send your friends to join the Crafter's Digital group where we have a new challenge every month.

I hope you are having a great summer, and you get some beach time!
God Bless,
Ann

This year has been a year of transitions.  I started working again in graphic design, and I started applications to go back to school.  I've moved twice in the last 6 months, and now one job is ending and I'm wondering what the next job will be.

I keep asking God where I am going, but he only shows me what to do one day at a time.  I like the open endedness of the process, but I am still overcoming the anxiety.  It's a nonsensical anxiety, because I know God knows the end even before the process began, and I know he is always taking care of me.  In fact, he always makes sure I am well taken care of, not just a little.

So the process is in me, learning to give up the thinking and the control.  It's funny because I thought I had learned that at one time, but now, in new circumstances I have to learn the same lesson again.  I want so much to be able to live in that frame of mind.

So here is my picture of where I am.  I think it comes from the many verses in the Bible that say "Our God is a consuming fire."  It is God's burning Son, the one how purifies us by fire, and it is a wonderful process, and enjoyable if you can give yourself to the process and not the life situations.  It's a process of being purified in the fire like gold, seven times, and as long as my goal is to become more like him and not to be a great earthly success it is glorious.

This image is in the etsy store also, but I am putting it up for free for a month here.

Blessings,  Ann

This stamp is now available at the store only

Hi!  I want to share all the beautiful Easter Cards the Peacock Feathers Group made on CDAC.  They did a beautiful job of choosing colors, coloring, and designing their cards.  My favorite is made by Elenor.  She used my favorite colors and I love the white lillies.  But I have to say that I love the yellow in the other cards as well. And I love it when Jesus is the focus of Easter instead of eggs and bunnies, as cute as they can be.  Thank you Annette for highlighting the resurrection!

Thank you ALL so much for sharing your work.  Each one is beautiful.  I was moving this last week so it has taken me some time to get back to blogging, after packing, moving, and unpacking.

Congratulations to Charlene for joining and figuring out her new printer and making a beautiful card, as well as figuring out how to post on CDAC!  It can be a challenge learning all the technical ins and outs.

I invite all the blog visitors to come join our group.  It's new and is getting better every month!  Next month I'm going to choose a Mother's Day theme.  I have some digital stamps up on the Peacock Feathers Store already, so go take a look!

Hi,
I want to post the cards from the Peacock Feathers Group on Crafters Digital.  They did such a good job, and they are all so different from each other.  The challenge is still going on and the winning favorite will get to choose a digital stamp from my Peacock Feathers etsy.com store.

I you know someone that is interested in participating please send them to the Crafters Digital site to sign up!  We are getting more members, so that makes for a lot of variety.

Thank you to all those who have joined and have emailed me for the digis.  I love to see what you make!

This one is by Elenor Sandstom and says, "Heartfelt Congratulations" in Swedish!

This is a Happy Birthday with Spot, just right for a little boy!  It's made by Stacey.

And Lawren made this beautiful card for last months discussion.

Thank you to all of you!

Stay tuned for more crafts and digis for this Spring and Easter season.

Blessings, Ann

I've decided not to put up the third image from the CDAC drawing challenge, because I did another one I like better.  This is a little cowboy that's sad about something.  He lost his favourite horse, or his girlfriend left.  Anyway, I'm posting him as a freebee, so just right click on him and download him to your computer. 

Hope you enjoy him!  Remember to visit my store at etsy.com, Peacock Feathers.  I'm going to be putting more color prints up there soon, but I'm still working on that.

God Bless!

(This image is now available at my store.)

So the main reason I started this blog is so I can post images I've entered in groups on Crafters Digital Drawing Challenges that I don't have in my store. I'm sure I'll be using it for other things, and it gives me a place to talk about some of my drawings, so I think it will be fun.  I have "a lifetime" of drawings and some of them I haven't done anything with except save for some future use.  So here is a one I did recently.  It doesn't fit any particular category as far as digital stamping goes, but it is one of the drawings I did in church while talking to God.  He usually talks back to me by giving me images of himself and what he is doing :).

My church encourages this kind of drawing and calls it Prophetic Art.  Here is a prophetic drawing about what the Holy Spirit is doing, stopping us in our tracks and getting a hold of our hearts and changing our lives.  Here he is diving out of the sky to "arrest" us.

It's called "Arrested by the Dove."

Hope this blesses you and "gets a hold" of your imagination to see the Holy Spirit working in your own life.

Blessings,

Ann Fort

Hi,
This is my new blog for Peacock Feathers,my group at CDAC, and my on-line store at etsy.com.

I''ve been working on drawings for the Digital Drawing Challenge on CDAC, "Critter Comedy or Crazy Characters".  It's not my strongest subject matter, I don't think I'm so good at humor and animals.

So these are my entries.  The first one is available on my etsy.com store.  Here's Fluffy

I'll be adding the other two entries next.
Happy crafting!
Ann