By His stripes. . .

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:56-58

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #148

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenge is titled, "He is Risen" and you are to craft a project with pastel colors and displaying a cross, verse, or sentiment about the true meaning of Easter. This is a two-week challenge!

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, April 7 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

When I Survey The Wondrous Cross

Isaac Watts, 1707

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.

See from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Stamps:      ODBD Fifth Anniversary Release Scripture Collection 10;
                    Never Give Up and Grunge Cross Die
Ink: Gold, Brown
Designer Paper: Prima Sun Kiss
Accessories: Twine, gold thread, pearl

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Thankful for you. . .

 I have not stopped giving thanks for your and remembering you in my prayers. 

Ephesians 1:16

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #147

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges YOU to make a card celebrating the Lord's beautiful creation as it emerges forth in spring renewal.
 

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 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

Project Details

Stamps: ODBD Chalkboard Birthday and Thanks

Ink: Ranger Distress Worn Lipstick, Tea Dye, Crushed Glass

Paper: Aqua, Repurposed box liner

Designer Paper: Prima Madeline

Accessories: Seam Binding, Wild Orchid Mulberry flowers, floral pins, doily and embossing powder.

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Anniversary bouquet. . .

A woman who fears the Lord is greatly to be praised. Proverbs 31:30

ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #146

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges YOU to an ANNIVERSARY CHALLENGE. Since this week mark's the Fifth Anniversary of Our Daily Bread Design and the gift for a fifth year anniversary is silverware we would like to see your anniversary projects that have silver (or silverware!)

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 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 

Project Details

This is an anniversary bouquet for Kelley, founder of Our Daily Bread Designs. The base is a 6x6 tile from our local home improvement store. It is topped with a sheet of designer paper with the edges torn and sponged and then decoupaged to the tile. The bouquet, actually a tussy mussy (tussie mussie) was made separately. The flowers were made with the Spellbinders Spiral blossom die and a scallop circle punch.

And the silver. . .the silver is the vintage button that is perched atop the seam binding bow!



Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 4

Ink: Versamark, VersaMagic Wheat

Paper: Repurposed brown packaging paper

Designer Paper: Sheet music, Prima Nature's Garden, SU

Accessories: Vintage SILVER button, Cheery Lynn French Pastry Die, vintage lace, vintage doily, seam binding, Spellbinder Rose Creations and Spiral Blossoms dies.

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

Love of a friend. . .

A friend loves at all times.Proverbs 17:17

 ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #145

This week, the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team challenges YOU to a sketch!
 
 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 10 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 Friendship

Ink: Memento Cocoa Brown, MS Turquoise

Paper: Sage

Designer Paper: Bo Bunny Gabrielle

Accessories: ODBD custom Spellbinders dies: Ribbon Tag Trio Spellbinders Rose Creations and Spiral Blossoms Die; seam binding and linen thread; embossing folder.

Blessings! jme ~ SDG

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