MMTPT445 ~ Jan 31, 2017 ~ Shining Light of Hope

[Cook22]

WELCOME TO TEAPOT TUESDAY
THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING TEAPARTY
AND CHALLENGE #445

MMTPT445 Shining Light of Hope

Note: Anyone is welcome to play! You automatically become a Teapotter the first time you play in our challenge. Also, you do not have to write a story. You just have to be inspired by the teapot or by the story about this week's location! Have fun! If this is your first Teapot Tuesday Challenge, please mention that in your commentary so we can be sure to greet you properly, in pure Teapot Tuesday fashion! Your participation in Destination Station is 100% voluntary and not at all required. Just have fun!


I am your hostess this week, and as always, I am no great storyteller, so I'm sorry, no fun story this week. Following on from our last tickle of cosy, comforting quilts I am using the theme of lighthouses this time round for the first tickle of 2017. It always interests me that lighthouses seem to be such a powerful symbol not just of hope but also of peace and calm - at odds with pictures of stormy nights at sea and high waves, and the way they were so often built to mark navigational hazards. When I was still living in my childhood home, I could climb to the top of a tree outside my bedroom and see the lights of three different lighthouses flashing away in the dark. We used to hear the boom of the foghorn so often too, and while I no longer live near the coast, it seems to me that that's a sound of the past now, I can't remember the last time I heard one.


So, bring out your lighthouses this week to light the way through the coming year, whatever each one of us is facing we can enjoy the peacefulness or the light guiding us through darkness.


CHALLENGE TRANSLATION: Use a lighthouse on your card

DESTINATION STATION:
This week our destination is each other! Once a month, we send our cards to each other! A little payback and reward to the teapotters for always sending their cards to the recipient of the Destination Station.


I have started this new thread in the Teapot Tuesday Extras Forum. If you are participating in the card exchange please go to this thread and follow the instructions. Don't forget the Helping Hand!!!


Here is a Quick Link to the MMTPT445 Challenge Gallery

Here's my sample: MMTPT445 Be Still

Be sure to you use KEYWORD MMTPT445 in your upload and post a comment here so we can all see your card!


And while we're talking lighthouses, I just thought I'd share a photo of a lighthouse-themed afghan I knit last year as a gift for a special friend! Call it some extra inspiration. I bought the pattern thinking I would knit just one lighthouse as a cushion cover, but I couldn't decided which one to use :mrgreen:.





If you are confused about these challenges, see the first sticky post of this thread for more information. There is also a directory of individual challenges.

[One4Joy]

oh my goodness, You had me at the comfort of a lighthouse story, but this quilt...YOU are amazing! What a wonderful quilt! What a wonderful way to begin this years Tea Potters Swap. Love the theme.

[jacqueline]

BEAUTIFUL afghan Sabrina! You knitted that?? All those little anchors along the edges? WOW! Very talented. Your friend sure is lucky to have you for a friend!

[snietje]

Your quilt is just wow!! and I loved to make this light house card for one of the teapotters

lighthouse by snietje - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers


Snietje

[buddy'smama]

Sabrina your quilt is amazing!

Here is my card.


MMTPT445 Be The Light by buddy'smama - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[LeeBeth]

Your quilt is a treasure! The only 2 seaside places I like to go to are rocky beached-excellant shelling Montauk point with it great lighthouse facing east and Hecheta Head west facing lighthouse with its Keepers house bed and breakfast in Oregon.
Please count me in.

[Precious Kitty]

Sabrina this was a cool challenge!!

MMTPT445 The Lighthouse

[Margstamps]

Bright Stormy Morning by Margstamps - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Here is my card for the, MMPT445, challenge. I hope I did this right, I really wanted to do this challenge. I love lighthouses. Thanks for the fun challenge, and thanks for looking.

[annsforte3]

Here's mine!! Voice of the Sea!

[allee's]

I won't be able to get a card made and posted until late Friday, but I'm playing!

[Crafty Julia]

Combined the lighthouse challenge- paper piecing my images and sentiment- and added some coloring, using this week's color challenge selections. Created a ribbon/trim border for my sentiment. Perfect for a gift card holder for a dear friend. Here's Richly Blessed GC holder

[Crafty Julia]

Re-did my card above- did some masking for my "light" emanating from my lighthouse, and kept it all on one panel, using a die cut. Kept the ribbon and trim, adding some baker's twine. Here's Richly Blessed.

[Precious Kitty]

Sabrina you are one of those lucky multi talented individuals huh? I love your quilt it is beautiful -- your friend is a lucky lucky friend to get this from you!!

[stampingwriter]

Fun challenge. I think I got the digi used on my card specifically for a Teaparty because I only have a tiny rubber stamp of a lighthouse.

Sabrina, your afghan is beautiful. At first glance, I assumed it was a patchwork quilt, but knitting is even more impressive.

[redi2stamp]

Lighthouse and Lace by redi2stamp - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers is my lighthouse for the tickle.

[peeps321]

Of course I had to use my favorite lighthouse for this which is in my home state and I just happen to have a stamp of it! Here's my card and I'll attach a picture of the real thing to you can see what it looks like in real life...

North Shore Lighthouse

[Cook22]

Oh wow, Polly, that is beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing....Off to check your card now.

[Kemernow]

Here is my card. I'm practicing techniques so I used the one I learned today to make a vivid sunrise behind the lighthouse. I look forward to sharing cards with a fellow Teapotter!

You Radiate Beauty by Kemernow - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[yellowrose46]

Here is my lighthouse card.As Wide as the Sea by yellowrose46 - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[yellowrose46]

Quote:

Originally Posted by peeps321

Of course I had to use my favorite lighthouse for this which is in my home state and I just happen to have a stamp of it! Here's my card and I'll attach a picture of the real thing to you can see what it looks like in real life...

North Shore Lighthouse

Polly your photo is stunning! I want to go there!

[susie australia]

Sabrina your knitted quilt is amazing and so is your lovely story. I am away with my craft group and Internet is very hit and miss. I will be home on Sunday, I'm looking forward to seeing all the lovely lighthouses.

[Crafty Julia]

Decided to revisit this challenge, combined it with this week's bells challenge- did some direct to paper for my background, and added "rays of light" along with hearts and bells. Here's Love Shine Out

[Covington Crafter]

Sabrina, your afghan is incredible! I'm in awe of those with knitting talent like this. Thanks for the inspiration, here's my card Get Up and Glow!

Love all the beautiful cards in the gallery!!

[smadson]

Here is That Anchor Holds for a teapotter somewhere.

[wendy2512]

My Dream home and Lighthouse. Lovely quilt too I agree Sabrina...Here is My Dream Home.

[sleepyinseattle]

I will absolutely have to join in on this particular challenge and what perfect timing. We just got back a couple of hours ago from spending the weekend in a lighthouse caretaker's house. It was awesome. Had a private tour of the lighthouse with all of it's wonderful history this morning. (Point Robinson, Vashon Island, Washington). One of those things on our bucket list and a gift for my husband's birthday.

[Cook22]

Quote:

Originally Posted by sleepyinseattle

I will absolutely have to join in on this particular challenge and what perfect timing. We just got back a couple of hours ago from spending the weekend in a lighthouse caretaker's house. It was awesome. Had a private tour of the lighthouse with all of it's wonderful history this morning. (Point Robinson, Vashon Island, Washington). One of those things on our bucket list and a gift for my husband's birthday.

What a truly wonderful weekend getaway!

[jacqueline]

I finally had some time to get caught up for the week. Here's my lighthouse: Teapot Lighthouse by jacqueline - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

[allee's]

I finished mine just in time to get it in the mail.

Here is my card.

[yabbadodo]

This is embarrassingly late. I had trouble getting the card to upload but finally made it. TFL

MMTPT445, Lighthouse of Hope by yabbadodo - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers