Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Thanks and remembrance

I have not stopped giving thanks and remembering you in my prayers. Ephesians 1:16



ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #121: In Stitches

This week, the Our Daily Bread Design's Challenge Team challenges you to use stitching on your project!! And. . .the great news is that because of the Labor Day holiday coming up soon, this will be a two week challenge!
To make the challenge even more fun, 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, Sept. 9 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!
Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney
 Linda Lucas (August Guest Team Member)

Project Details

Stamps:Our Daily Bread Designs Thank You
Ink:  VersaMark, Early Espresso, Ranger Distress Antique Linen, Vintage Photo
Paper: SU Early Espresso, Naturals Ivory
Designer Paper: Prima En Francais
Accessories: Recollections Roses, Vintage buttons, lace and rick rack, Imaginarium chipboard, Stampendous PearlLustre Garnet embossing powder, twine. 

Blessings! jme ~ SDG 

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Do not be troubled. . .

Do not let your hearts be troubled, trust in God. . .John 14:1





ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #120

This week, the Our Daily Bread Design's Challenge Team challenges you to use a sketch!!

To make the challenge even more fun, 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, Aug. 26  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!
Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney
 Linda Lucas (August Guest Team Member)

Project Details

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Paper: SU Early Espresso, DCWV Summer Days lime and melon green
Designer Paper: Bo Bunny Vicki B Collection
Accessories: Spellbinders Scallop Circle and Circle Nestabilities, Michaels butterfly clothespin, Zva Creative Gems and pearls.
Challenges:

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Delight Yourself in the Lord. . Act 2

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37.4

I loved this verse so much that I wanted to use it again! That and I stamped this panel for last week's challenge, but it was TOO orange and since orange is one of the colors I have the most difficulty with, decided to give it a go for this week's challenge card! 

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #119: Sponging

This week, the Our Daily Bread Design's Challenge Team challenges you to use sponging on your project!!

To make the challenge even more fun, 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, August 19 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!
Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney
 Linda Lucas (August Guest Team Member)

Project Details


Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Series 2; Bird and Butterfly Labels
Ink: Tsunkineko Pearlescent Orange, Memento Black, Versa Fine Onyx Black.
Paper: Black, Natural and ivory
Designer Paper: Prima Almanac ~ Colored
Accessories: Spellbinders Label 18 die (matches ODBD Bird and Butterfly Labels), EK Success punch, Zva Creative Gems, buttons, Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Embossing folder
Techniques: Overstamping and embedded embossing.
Challenges:
  • Our Daily Bread Designs~ Shining the Light Challenge #119

Blessings! jme ~ SD

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Delight Yourself in the Lord

Delight  yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4


This scripture is just one of my favorites as it helps me to refocus when I get distracted and start looking to the things of this world to satisfy my soul. . .there is only one who can, and that is the Lord and He has opened the way with reconciliation through the Lord Jesus Christ. This scripture reminds me that only He can satisfy and that when I delight in Him, when I seek first His righteousness, when I store up my treasures in heaven, only then am I truly satiated. What I've discovered is that by delighting myself in the Lord, He truly gives me the desires of my heart, because my heart's desire is 1) to be known and loved by Him and 2) that He might receive all of the glory, honor, praise, worship and adoration that are His alone!! May you delight yourself in the Lord and receive the sweet blessings and desire of your heart! Lord bless!

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #118: Use Scripture

This week, the Our Daily Bread Design's Challenge Team challenges you to use scripture on your project!! (Not to hard, is it?)

To make the challenge even more fun, 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, August 12 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!
 Linda Lucas 
 (August Guest Team Member)

Project Details

This card was made based on the sketch challenge from the past couple of weeks (ODBD SLC117) with some modification and using the same designer series paper pack: Prima Almanac. Only this time, I colored the DP so that it would better match the color scheme of the card. I used a combination of Bic and Prisma color alcohol based markers and colored in the flower, the bird (in the cage, the butterfly and a few other areas. If you haven't tried this technique, give it a try!

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Series 2; Bird and Butterfly Labels
Ink: Blush Memento Black, Versa Fine Onyx Black.
Paper: Black, peach and ivory
Designer Paper: Prima Almanac ~ Colored
Accessories: Spellbinders Label 18 die (matches ODBD Bird and Butterfly Labels), seam binding, crochet lace, pearls, Prima Pearl Bebe Almanac flowers and Prima Vintage Trinkets.
Techniques: Coloring Designer Paper using alcohol based markers, Stampendous Black Embossing Powder.
Challenges:
  • Our Daily Bread Designs~ Shining the Light Challenge #118

Blessings! jme ~ SD

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Surely God is my help. . .

Surely God is my help; the LORD is the one who sustains me. Psalm 54:4


ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #117~ Sketch


This week, the Our Daily Bread Design's Challenge Team challenges you to use a sketch!!! And . . you have two weeks to enter!!

To make the challenge even more fun, 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, Aug. 5 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!

Project Details

Ink: Color Box Silver, Versa Fine Onyx
Paper: Black, Pink, Silver
Designer Paper: Prima Almanac
Accessories: Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles, Poppystamps Vintage Birdcate and Nestled Bird dies, seam binding, ribbon, vintage buttons, SU gem and framed tulip embossing folder.
Challenges:
Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge 117

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

 

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Clouds or sunshine. . .

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. 
Ecclesiastes 3:1

Sunny days or cloudy days; a season to rejoice, a season to mourn,. . .a time for every purpose under the heavens. . .just as the Lord has ordained.  May you bask in the light of the Lord this day and may you look forward to that eternal day when clouds and sun will be no more!
 "And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb." Revelation 21:23 

When the Roll is Called Up Yonder
James Black, 1893

When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more,
And the morning breaks, eternal, bright and fair;
When the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore,
And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.
 
On that bright and cloudless morning when the dead in Christ shall rise,
And the glory of His resurrection share;
When His chosen ones shall gather to their home beyond the skies,
And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.

Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun,
Let us talk of all His wondrous love and care;
Then when all of life is over, and our work on earth is done,
And the roll is called up yonder, I’ll be there.

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #116


This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team would like to see clouds or sunshine on your creation.  These can be on your designer paper, be cut or sponged or be part of your coloring or stamping.
To make the challenge even more fun, 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, July 22 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!
Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney
Sherry Kushibab (July Guest) 




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*PLEASE NOTE: Stamp set bundles and Gift Certificates are NOT included in this offer

  Project Details

There is a bright little sun in the upper left hand corner of this card; there are perky  SUNflowers peering out from under the scripture and beaming from the card's interior, and the designer paper is Prima's SUN-KISSED!
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 1
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Ranger Distress Antique Linen
Paper: SU Whisper White, Early Espresso, Cool Caribbean
Designer Paper: Prima Sun Kiss
Accessories: Memory Box Vivienne Butterfly  die, Cheery Lynn French Pastry Doily Die, Spellbinders Labels 21, Zva Creative Gems, lace, MS seam binding, Hallmark doily/

Challenges :

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Times of refreshing. . .

"Times of refreshing will come from the presence of the Lord. . ."Acts 3:19


ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #115

This week the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team would like to see tearing or distressing on your project!

To make the challenge even more fun, 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, July 15 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!

Project Details

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Porch
INSIDE
Ink: VersaFine Onyx, Ranger Distress Antique Linen
Paper: SU Basic Black and River Rock
Designer Paper: Prima Nature's Garden
Accessories: Pearlustre Sapphire Embossing Powder (Stampendous); Spellbinders Scallop Rectangles Nestabilities; Memory Box Attic Key, Wrought Iron Fence and Gate dies.
 Challenges:

Blessings! jme ~ SDG