It's black and white . . .

  Jesus Reigns!!

Shout for joy you heavens; rejoice you earth; burst into song you mountains! Isaiah 49:13

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #144

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges YOU to a black and white challenge. . .what could be more clear? 

To make the challenge even more rewarding, we will be giving out a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! And, if you use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing one to two creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. All submissions must be added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, March 3 at 8 p.m. EST. 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!

Chris Olsen * Kathy Roney

Diana Nguyen * Audrey Hitlke * Cathy McCauley       

Project Details

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Keep Climbing

Ink: White pigment/craft ink

Paper: Black, ivory

Designer Paper: homemade from a photocopied hymn

Accessories: Vintage button, twine, Spellbinders dies, gem
Technique: Chalkboard (For a great tutorial, click the links below)

• Blog Tutorial
• YouTube Video 

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

His Only Son. . .

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

 

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #143

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges YOU to make an Easter card or project.

To make the challenge even more rewarding, we will be giving out a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! And, if you use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing one to two creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. All submissions must be added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, February 24 at 8 p.m. EST. 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!

* Chris Olsen* Kathy Roney

Diana Nguyen * Audrey Hitlke * Cathy McCauley     
  and. . February Guest Design Team Member Becky Egecrone (BeckyTE)

Project Details

There would be no Easter, no spring, no hope if it were not for Jesus; for God's gift of His only eternally begotten Son, creator of heaven and earth and Savior of all of those who will turn to Him in faith! Fully God and fully man, he fulfilled every dot and tittle of the law doing what our forefather Adam (and every one of us since) failed to do: living a life of perfect obedience to His Father. And. . then the sinless, perfect One paid the penalty that was our due, enduring on the cross the Father's wrath: the just for the unjust; and died. But He is not dead, He is risen!! Death could not hold the sinless Son of God, and on the third day, He rose victorious over sin and death, proving that He was exactly who He said He was. . .and that He did exactly what He came to do. . .and by His stripes we are healed. He bore the sins of His people, and in exchange gives all those who will call upon Him, His perfect righteousness. Our sin soiled rages of scarlet, for His pure and radiant robe of righteousness!Amazing love, how can it be. . .

And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Savior’s blood?
Died He for me, who caused His pain?
For me, who Him to death pursued?

He left His Father’s throne above,
So free, so infinite His grace;
Emptied Himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam’s helpless race:
’Tis mercy all, immense and free;
For, O my God, it found out me.

Excerpts from the hymn "And Can It Be, Charles Wesley'

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Chalkboard John's

Ink: Memento Black

Paper: White, black, green

Designer Paper: Prima Nature's Garden

Accessories: Memory Box Dies, flowers, SU butterflies, doily, Zva Creatiave pearls, flowers.
Technique: Chalkboard (For a great tutorial, click the links below)

• Blog Tutorial
• YouTube Video 

  

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

No eye has seen. . .

No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived, what God has prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #143 ~ Animals

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges YOU to use an animal on your creation. It can include birds. It does not have to be the image, it can be on an embellishment or on designer paper as well.

 

To make the challenge even more rewarding, we will be giving out a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! And, if you use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing one to two creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. All submissions must be added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. EST. 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!

  Chris Olsen* Kathy Roney

Diana Nguyen * Audrey Hitlke * Cathy McCauley      and. . February Guest Design Team Member Becky Egecrone (BeckyTE)

Project Details 

For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
(Romans 8:19-23)

I love critters. . .large ones, small ones, feline, canine, equine, bovine, ovine and so on, but with this love there is inevitably loss. The death of our beloved animals is a poignant reminder that our sin has affected the whole of God's marvelous creation. By disobeying God, Adam brought death and suffering into a world, which only a short time before, God had declared very good.  
I am most thankful that our Savior has reversed that curse, that creation is being renewed and that He is victorious over death! There will be a new heavens and a new earth and there will be no more sin, no more death, no more pain and no more sorrow. All things will be made new! What does a creation that is very good look like? I can’t even imagine what this really means, but I know that it is good and that I am looking forward to that day! Until then, though, we must press on and fight the good fight and by His grace persevere to the end.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God: and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away. (Revelation 21:1-4)

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Series 3

Ink: Rose Pink, Brown

Paper: Pink, White, Dark Brown

Designer Paper: Prima Nature's Garden; Homemade by photocopying and old hymn.

Accessories: Cheery Lynn Designs Dainty Dutch Deco Frame, Memory Box Nestled Bird, Vivienne Butterfly and Picket Fence; Spellbinders Floral Ovals, Prima Flowers, Zva Creative Gems

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Be Joyful. . .

Be joyful for the joy of the Lord is your strength," Nehemiah 8:10

 

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #141

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges YOU to a Secret Admirer challenge: Case a card of any designer you admire. 

To make the challenge even more rewarding, we will be giving out a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! And, if you use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing one to two creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. All submissions must be added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. EST. Complete details are available on the ODBD blog.

This week we welcome a new guest design team member for the month of February, and say THANK YOU to Sabrina Friel (Cook22 at SplitCoast Stampers) for blessing us with her lovely work the month of January! 
 

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

Lori Ulrich * Chris Olsen* Kathy Roney

Diana Nguyen * Audrey Hitlke * Cathy McCauley   
  and. . February Guest Design Team Member Becky Egecrone (BeckyTE)

Project Details

For this week's challenge, there are two dear sisters in Christ who use the diverse talents the Lord has given them for His glory as they encourage others. 

Both have first names that begin with the letter "M", both live on islands in the Pacific (though they are more than 4,000 miles apart) and both LOVE to try new techniques and various mediums (canvas, fabric, knitting. . .) Both have a love for the Lord, are faithful prayer warriors and have the gift of encouragement. I am blessed beyond measure that the Lord has given me such sweet sisters, though we have never yet met in real life. My card this week is honor of my dear friends, Marsha Fisher (CG Girl) and MaxineD (Kiwime's Kreations) and just for them, I tried a new technique for a single layer card. More specific links are provided below.

Artists Cased: 
Marsha Fisher(CG Girl)  and MaxineD (Kiwime's Kreations) 

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Be Joyful

Ink: Lots of it! Versamagic Wheat, pink, aqua, dark brown

Paper: Pink, Tan

Accessories: Seam binding, vintage button, floral pins, pearls.

Notes: Technique used is Retiform.
Challenges:

Blessings! jme ~ SDG