The Apple of God's Eye

One apple basket card for a friend...
and a second card for another ...

and the inside of each:

Since stamp kissing was so much fun the first time, I came back for MORE! The apples in the baskets are kissed with a mini-heart.

A favorite song is "Psalm 17" --

the source of my sentiment inside the card.

Give ear to me

And hear my prayer

Show me the wonder of Your great love.

You who can save by Your righteous hand

Those who take refuge in You from their foes

Keep me as the apple of Your eye

Hide me in the shadow of Your wings

Give ear to me and hear my prayer

Show me the wonder of Your great love

You who can save by Your righteous hand

Those who take refuge in You from their foes

Keep me as the apple of Your eye

Hide me in the shadow of Your wings

Copyright 2003 Words and Music by Brad J. Kittelsen

King David wrote in Psalm 17:8:

"Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings."

(Other references to "apple of Your eye"

include Deuteronomy 32:10 and Zechariah 2:8.)

"Apple of His eye" literally means "little man of his eye," a reflection of you and me in God's own pupil when He looks at us as His dear children.

(The Hebrew word transliterated is ee-shone, and meant “the little man of the eye”, or “the middle of the night” or the “blackness” of the eye.)

The reference here is the pupil of the eye. It's the part of the eye which reflects what you are looking at.

We are in God's eye because He is always looking at us!

Out of His great love, God cares for us and protects us

because we are so important to Him!

Remember that He gave us His best Valentine

when He gave us Jesus. That's how much He loves us.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I used CTMH products:
Red and Colonial White cardstock
Hemp (braided)
Ink pads: Olive, Hollyhock, and Holiday Red
Marker: Topiary
Stamps: Playful Lowercase, September Word Puzzle, Be Mine

Stamp Kissing H2H Challenge

This week the Heart 2 Heart challenge has been "stamp kissing" -- a fun technique doing exactly what the name suggests! Muuuu-wah! Put those inky stamps to-getha for a smooch!

(I love the CTMH awesome, wonderful MyAcrylix stamps from Close To My Heart so much I would gladly kiss them! ... so much more fun than kissing a frog!)

To learn more about how to "kiss" with stamps, watch Tresa Black's great tutorial here. Then try it! It's fun!

After stamping the kissed stamps together, I stamped the image on cs and then cut each out. Some have foam squares behind them to add dimension.

Here's the inside sentiment:



I like to stamp the envelope too! The recipient might think "she really planned this duo!"

I used CTMH products:

New Mayberry Paper Packet Level 2

Ink Pads:

Honey, Olive, Smoothie

Stamp Sets:

Be Mine D1116 (little heart)

Heartfelt B1297 (polka dot heart)

Dream Big W329 (tulip)

Delight in Everything D1204 (flowers)

September Word Puzzle D1310 (sentiments)

Hollyhock Ribbon

Crocheted Ribbon

Olive mini-brads

Thanks for visiting my Heart 2 Heart entry and for leaving your comment! Now hop on to see the other great stamp kissing posts too, and then take the challenge!