He will answer!

Call to me and I will answer you. Jeremiah 33:3

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #102 ~ Favorite Set

Today marks the last March Anniversary challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs. Since we are celebrating the anniversary of Our Daily Bread Designs, why not end our anniversary challenges with your favorite ODBD stamp set!!! We can’t wait to see your ODBD (re)creations!!

Most times it is not required that you use ODBD stamps on your projects, but this month, because it's anniversary month, it is required. To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store! One surprise winner will be chosen for the gift certificate and  at least three participants will be chosen for the  Shining the Light Award. All entries  must be submitted by Friday, April 6 at 8 a.m. EST. The winners will be announced next Saturday.

If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC102. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Please take a bit of time to visit  my fellow challenge team members blogs, you'll be blessed!

Sabrina Jackson  *  Lori Ulrich

Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney

Project Details

I love Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collections. . .they are my favorites and that's about as close as I can get to picking one!! I've chosen this particular stamp as it highlights God's promise to hear and answer the cries of His children, those who are trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ. In those dark times when you think no one hears and no one cares, remember that the Lord most certainly does! He who is infinitely wise and infinitely good and infinitely holy is working all things toward a good and glorious end. . in which is really the beginning!

Let us see in every sorrow and trouble of our earthly pilgrimage, the hand of Him who gave Christ to die for our sins. That hand can never smite us except in love. He who gave us His only begotten Son, will never withhold anything from us that is really for our good. Let us lean back on this thought and be content. Let us say to ourselves in the darkest hour of trial, 'This also is ordered by Him who gave Christ to die for my sins. It cannot be wrong. It is done in love. It must be well.'  J. C. Ryle

"If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him?” Romans 8:31b-32

DETAILS
ODBD Stamps: Scripture Collection 5

Ink: Memento Black, Stampin’ Up Crumb Cake

Cardstock: SU Crumb Cake, Basic Black

Designer Paper: Prima Printery

Accessories: Cherry Lynn French Pastry Doily and Brocade border dies; Spellbinders Nestabilities Small Circles; Zva Creative flourishes; tulle, twine, buttons, metallic thread.

Challenges:

• Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge 102
• Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge 132 Romans 8:31b-32
• Little Birdie Blessings Scripture Linky Party #22
• Word Art Wednesday Challenge 22
  

Keywords: ODBDSLC102, ODBD, ODBDDT, Our Daily Bread Designs, Scripture Collection 5

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Send forth your light and truth. . .

 Send forth your light and your truth. Let them guide me. Psalm 43:3

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #101  ~ Silk

Today marks the third March Anniversary challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs. . One of the traditional fourth anniversary gifts is silk. This week’s challenge is to use silk or faux silk on your project with your Our Daily Bread Designs stamps. ODBD's very own, Angella Crocket (Angie) provided a very helpful tutorial last week ODBD's Faux Silk Tutorial. If you would rather not do this technique (although it really is not difficult) you can use silk (silk ribbon works).

You must use Our Daily Bread Stamps to link your creation.

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, March 30 at 8 a.m. EST.

 If you upload your creations to ODBD, Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBDSLC101. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge. Complete details are available on the ODBD blog.

Please take a bit of time to visit  my fellow challenge team members blogs, you'll be blessed!

Sabrina Jackson  * Debi Southard * Lori Ulrich * Chris Olsen

Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney

Project Details

Stamps: The Light of Life

Ink: Ranger Distress Tea Stain, Memento Black

Paper: Tissue paper (faux silk), Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Soft Suede, Naturals Ivory (base for faux silk)

Designer Paper:My Mind's Eye Lost and Found

Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 14, SU Lattice Embossing Folder, twine, button from Grandma's Tin, diamond shaped brads and embellishments, aida cloth

Notes:Faux Silk Technique

Challenges:

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Trust not in horses

 Some trust in chariots and some in horses,

   but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

Psalm 20:7

Our Daily Bread Designs Fourth Anniversary Hop

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs Fourth Anniversary Special Design Team Edition  Release Blog Hop!  If you got here from lovely Betty Wright's Blog , you are in the right place!  If not, you might want to start at the ODBD Blog so you are sure to not miss anyone!  If any links are lost along the way, you can always get the entire list of links from the ODBD Blog as well!

ODBD Scripture Collection 8 ~ Psalm 20:7

 The bread sticks are so excited to be celebrating this special milestone in the life of ODBD!  It is such a blessing to work for a company whose desire is to bring glory to God in every stamp set created, and offers us the tools we need to do the same with every card we (re)create!  If you are a long term follower of ODBD, then you know that each year, the Design Team submits a favorite Scripture for the special anniversary sets, and those suggestions have been the sum total of all the "Scripture Collection" stamp sets in the store.  This year, the special sets include our favorite Scriptures, and also quotes and sentiments that we feel would be great on cards or projects.  I think you will find some of the most encouraging and uplifting words available in stamps in these special anniversary sets!

So now, here are the Details of the Anniversary Hop:

• The Hop will run 8am EDT Saturday, March 17 until 8pm EDT Sunday, March 18.

• The winners will be announced on the ODBD Blog on Monday, March 19.

• FOUR  hoppers will win a FREE ANNIVERSARY SET and ONE blessed hopper will win The Complete Anniversary  Bread Basket Bundle!!!

Here is what you have to do to be qualified to win one of these prizes:

• Hop to each designer’s blog and leave a comment

• Return to the Our Daily Bread designs blog and leave a comment telling us that you completed the hop, making note if there were any you could not comment on.

• Along with your statement that you completed the hop, leave some Anniversary wishes for Kelley and the gang at ODBD! 

Next Stop:

Next up on our Anniversary Hop is the amazingly graceful and talented Becca Feeken!

Trust Not in Horses, Horseshoes or Four-Leaf Clovers!

On this day, we remember St. Patrick who brought the life saving gospel of Jesus Christ to Ireland, the country where he, after being kidnapped from his home in Wales as a youth, was sold into slavery. His ministry there is said to have rid Ireland of all snakes, a metaphor for the power of God working through the Gospel to save thousands of souls, freeing them from their bondage to sin and driving away Satan and his minions (at least for a time!). Tradition holds that Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to explain the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost: one God, three persons. 

In an attempt to hide the truth, the world has morphed this wonderful story to silliness, involving four leaf clovers, leprechauns and pots of gold; but we know the Lord is victorious and one day,  He will return!!

My card incorporates horseshoes to represent the horses and chariots in Psalm 20. Most everyone knows that you never hang horseshoes upside down, because all of the luck falls out. . .that's why ALL of the horseshoes are upside down on this card! There is no such thing as luck: God is sovereign in all things and all is working according to His perfect and holy will! I'm not trusting in horses, chariots, horseshoes, four-leaf clovers, leprechauns or pots of gold at the end of rainbows, I'm trusting in the Lord my God!!

  Psalm 20

May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble!
    May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!
May he send you help from the sanctuary
    and give you support from Zion!
May he remember all your offerings

     and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah

 

May he grant you your heart's desire
    and fulfill all your plans!
May we shout for joy over your salvation,
    and in the name of our God set up our banners!
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!

Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with the saving might of his right hand.
Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
     but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
They collapse and fall,
    but we rise and stand upright.

O Lord, save the king!
    May he answer us when we call.

For more details on the life of Saint Patrick, click here.

CARD DETAILS

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs, Scripture Collection 8

Ink: Stampin' Up! Early Espresso, Pink Pirouette, Crumb Cake

Cardstock: SU! Early Espresso, Pink Pirouette, Crumb Cake

Designer Paper: My Mind's Eye Lost and Found (fitting, don't you think?)

Accessories: Vintage Lace from Little Birdie Blessings, SU Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Horseshoe eyelets, Zva Creative Pearls, Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 14, SU Stripes embossing Folder, Sizzix Polka Dots embossing folder, store-bought rose with a touch of green, so NO pinching!!

Challenges:

•  Sugar Creek Hollow #3 Layers 
• Stampin Sisters in Christ #130 Ephesians 5:8-9  
• Little Birdie Blessings In His Time
• Word Art Wednesday Challenge #19

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Walk in the light

Let us walk in the light of the Lord. Isaiah 2:5b

The Light of Life

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:1-5

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:9-13

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. ( John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known. John 1:14-18

Walking in the Light
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.1 John 1:5-7

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #100

Today marks the second March Anniversary challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs. The anniversary stone given for the fourth anniversary is topaz and the birthstone for March is aquamarine. This week we want to see aqua or topaz (blue) with your favorite scripture or quote. You must use Our Daily Bread Stamps to link your creation.

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, March 23 at 8 a.m. EST. That's right! You have two weeks to play in this challenge because next Saturday is the big reveal and blog hop for ODBD's fourth anniversary sets!

 If you upload your creations to ODBD, Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBDSLC100. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge. Complete details are available on the ODBD blog.

For some really blue-t-full work, please take a bit of time to visit  my fellow challenge team members blogs. . .

Sabrina Jackson

Debi Southard

Lori Ulrich

Chris Olsen

Rosemary Dennis

Jan Keen

Kathy Roney

Project Details

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs The Light of Life

Ink: Stampin’ Up! Baja Breeze

Card Stock:  SU Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla

Designer Paper: SU Springtime Vintage

Accessories:  Spellbinders Lattice Pendants, SU Scallop Border Punch, Very Vanilla Seam Binding, repurposed button, stick pin from SU kit, pearls, Very Vanilla Smooch Spritz.

Challenges:

• Little Birdie Blessings Scripture Thursday #19

• Word Art Wednesday Challenge #18

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Anniversary flowers. . .

Her children arise and call her blessed! Proverbs 31:28

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #99 ~ Flowers

Since our March challenges are now beginning and this month marks the FOURTH Anniversary of Our Daily Bread Designs, all our challenges will focus on the ODBD's Anniversary! One of the traditional gifts for the fourth anniversary is flowers. We would like to see flowers on your creations. Not just flower embellishments but flower stamps.  

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, March 9 at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not enter more than once. Additional entries without using ODBD stamps will not be commented on or will they qualify for prizes.

If you upload your creations to ODBD, Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBDSLC99. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge. Complete details are available on the ODBD blog.

Card Opened

For some really beautiful work, please take a bit of time to visit  my fellow challenge team members blogs. . .it will be like a virtual garden tour so be sure to stop and smell the roses. . er, flowers!

Sabrina Jackson

Debi Southard

Lori Ulrich

Chris Olsen

Rosemary Dennis

Jan Keen

Kathy Roney

Details

Since I had such a hard time choosing one favorite flower from ODBD, instead I picked a set that has LOTS of flowers. I love spring flowers and the mix on this set contains some of my favorites (at least that's how I've colored them!) : dianthus, bachelor buttons, roses, lavender, cosmos and daisies. Praying that whatever season it is in your household, this bouquet carries with it a fragrance of sweetness to brighten your day and encourage your heart as you press on in the strength the Lord provides!


Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Happy Mother's Day
Ink: Memento Black, Stampin' Up Baja Breeze
Paper: Stampin' Up! Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilies, Scallop Ovals, Sizzix Embossing Folder, Recollections flowers and leaves, SU Pearls, Vanilla Smooch Spritz, Stickles, lace trim, Bic and Prismacolor markers.
Challenges:

• Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge 99: Flowers
• Stampin' Sisters in Christ: Challenge 128 Varigated/Multi-colors

Blessings! jme ~ SDG