Praise His Glorious Name. . .

"Our God, we give you thanks and praise your glorious name." 1 Chronicles 29:13

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #131

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges YOU to craft a holiday project: Thanksgiving or Christmas, your choice!

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, Nov. 25 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!

Lori Ulrich * Chris Olsen *

Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney  
and. . November Guest Design Team Member Barbara Pace

Project Details

This year, for the first time in many, many years, Thanksgiving dinner will be at our home. I'm so excited (and a little bit nervous, too as this is the first time we've had "company" in our new home!) In preparation, I've made a few place cards for my guests. I wanted to have a bit of fun, but also properly acknowledge the source of all blessings: our sovereign Lord!
 
Before the Lord gave me a new heart and a new purpose in life, Thanksgiving was my least favorite holiday. It was always cold and dreary, the days were short, turkey was on the menu, and I'd eat too much and feel miserable.

So what's changed? Me, by the grace of God. The scales are removed from eyes; my deaf ears are opened; the heart of stone replaced with a heart of flesh: in short, I have been transformed and am a new creature!! Now I LOVE Thanksgiving, even though it should be our way of life as Christians and not reserved for a single day of the year, especially since there is no way to get through the list of things for which we are thankful in a single day!
There is certainly not room in this blog post to even begin my list, so I will include only that for which I am most thankful. I am thankful to the Lord for purposing to save a people unto Himself for all eternity, through Jesus Christ, the only mediator, the only Savior, the only way of reconciliation!! I am thankful for His amazing grace!! 

Wishing you a blessed Thanksgiving Day as you reflect upon the manifold goodness of the Lord!

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs: Randi's Song and Thank You

Ink: SU Dusty Durango, Early Espresso; Ranger Distress Antique Linen

Paper: Kraft, Old Olive, Dusty Durango, Naturals Ivory

Designer Paper:  None

Accessories: Spellbinder Labels 17 and Memory Box Tender Leaves dies, Cuttlebug owl embossing folder; computer

Blessings! jme ~ SDG 

No eye has seen. . .

  No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind conceived what God has 

prepared for those who love Him. 1 Corinthians 2:9

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #130

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges YOU to use gold or silver 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, Nov. 18 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!

Lori Ulrich * Chris Olsen

Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney
and. . November Guest Design Team Member Barbara Pace

Project Details

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Series 3

Ink: Versa Mark, Ranger Distress Antique Linen, Colorbox gold

Paper: SU Early Espresson, Naturals Ivory; metallic gold

Designer Paper: Bo Bunny Forever Fall, Paper Bliss Timeless Elements (vellum)

Accessories: Prima e. flowers, Tattered Angels gold glimmer mist, Spellbinders standard circles and labels 18 dies, Memory Box Vivienne Butterfly, Ava Creative Pewter Pearls, brads, Cheery Lynn French Pastry Die, Stampendous Pearl Lustre Champagne embossing powder. 

Challenges:

• Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge 130

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Great is thy faithfulness. . .

But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;  they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,“therefore I will hope in him.” Lamentations 3:22-23

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #129

This week, with winter on its way and maybe even some snow (somewhere in the world, but NOT in my desert town!) the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team wants to see your all white works of art!!

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, Nov. 11 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!

Lori Ulrich * Chris Olsen

Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney  
and. . November Guest Design Team Member Barbara Pace

Project Details 

The book of Lamentations is such a powerful book, written by the prophet Jeremiah as he mourns over the coming captivity of Israel (the northern kingdom) and the impending conquer of Jerusalem . Or, as Bible commentator Mathew Henry writes,

 . . We have this lamentation in which the miseries of Jerusalem are bitterly bewailed and her present deplorable condition is aggravated by comparing it with her former prosperous state; all along, sin is acknowledged and complained of as the procuring cause of all these miseries; and God is appealed to for justice against their enemies and applied to for compassion towards them. . .

 
I chose this stamp set for this week's winter white challenge because it reminds us that in the deep of winter, those who are the Lord's, are not without hope. Though we may be blinded and cold, we must admonish our souls and stand fast on the promises of the Lord, remembering that the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is His faithfulness! 

Randi's Song

 This set was produced a couple of year's ago in honor of ODBD Design Team member Randi Barrett who, despite many surgeries and treatments for the cancer that ravages her body, praises the Lord and rejoices in His goodness and mercies and is truly a testimony to the grace that is found only through the Lord Jesus Christ. Please do keep her and her family in your prayers.

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Randi's Song

Ink: Versamark

Paper: Metallic White

Designer Paper: None

Accessories: Cuttlebug Modern Wallpaper embossing folder, Spellbinders Lattice Border and Reverse Scallop Square Dies, Pearls, Stampendous Gold Embossing Powder.

 Challenges:  

• Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge 129
• Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #164
• Word Art Wednesday Challenge # 52

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

He alone. . .

He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. Job 9:8

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #128

This week the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges you to: Make one for the men!!


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, Nov. 4, 2012 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!

Debi Southard * Lori Ulrich * Chris Olsen

Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney
October Guest Team Member Bridget Finlay

Project Details

Stamps: The Surging Sea

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Vintage Photo

Paper: Black, Kraft

Designer Paper: Prima Almanac

Accessories: White Pen, brad, twine, Tim Holz distressed embossing folder

Challenges:

• Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge #128

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

  

 

Living forever. . .

The world and its desires pass away, but the man who dose the will of God lives forever. 

1 John 2:17

 

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #127

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges YOU to use a recipe and use at least three of the letters from the word LEAF!

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, Oct. 28 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!

Lori Ulrich * Chris Olsen

Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney
 and. . October Guest Team Member Bridget Finlay   

Project Details

L.E.A.F
 L=Layers E=Embossing A=Aqua F=Flowers

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs With Heartfelt Sympathy

Ink: MS Aqua; SU Early Espresso

Paper: Early Espresso

Designer Paper: Bo Bunny Forever Fall

Accessories:  Tim Holtz ticket; Spellbinders Scallop Circle Die, Memory Box Willow Dragon Fly die; Recollections flowers, glimmer brads, vintage button and seam binding, twill tape, lace, Stampendous clear embossing powder.

Challenges:

• Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge 127
• Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge 162 
• Word Art Wednesday #50

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Dwell in His shelter. . .

 He who dwells in the shelter of the most high will rest in the shadow of the almighty. 

Psalm 91:1

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #126

This week the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges you to follow 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, Oct. 21 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!

Lori Ulrich * Chris Olsen

Rosemary Dennis  * Jan Keen * Kathy Roney
October Guest Team Member Bridget Finlay 

Project Details

These fall color challenges stretch and up-end this summer girl, so I up-ended and stretched the sketch for this challenge. My card really does follow the design. . .really!! Can't you see it with the beautiful rows of roses and the flourish of gems?

Stamps: ODBD Sentiments Collection; Scripture Collection 2
Paper: SU Very Vanilla, DCWV Summer Days Rose Red, repurposed kraft
Designer Paper: Creative Imaginations Iron Orchid Designs Devotion Rose Vine
Ink: VersaMark, Ranger Distress Antique Linen
Accessories: Spellbinders Rose Creations and Romantic Ovals Dies, Memory Box tender leaves die, Prima gems, SU glitter brad, Stampendous Periodot embossing powder, EK border punch, SU Framed Tulips embossing folder.

Notes: Used Designer paper to craft the rose.
Challenges: 

• ODBD Shining the Light Challenge 126
• Word Art Wednesday #49 Be Ye Kind

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

A thankful heart. . .

A generous person will prosper. Whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. Proverbs 11:25

For the Love of Gratitude Blog Hop!

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Design's Alumni Team's bi-monthly For the LoveBlog Hop.  This week the Alumni team along with some of the ODBD designers are featuring a hop For the Love of Gratitude! Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, check the ODBD blog for full list of links.  One of the posts is a hop hot spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $15 ODBD store gift certificate.  So, all you have to do is hop along and see all the creations and leave a little love!  You have until Wednesday, October 24th at 6 pm.  Enjoy all the beautiful designs using For the Love of Gratitude!
Next up on the hop: Lori's blog!!

Project Details

This card was crafted for a work colleague visiting our desert town and  accompanied a gift of locally crafted stoneware.
 
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs You are the Potter, Thank You

Ink: Versa Mark, MS Aqua

Paper: Bronze Metallic, Ivory, aqua

Designer Paper: None

Accessories: Stampendous Aged Copper Embossing Powder, Bic pens, Spellbinders lattice rectangles dies, Recollections gems.

Blessings! jme ~ SDG