Hello and Happy Saturday......

my stamping friends!!   It is Saturday and time for a new Shining the Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs. This weeks challenge will run for TWO weeks, so you will have plenty on time to play along ! ;D

This weeks challenge is a sketch, we know how much you love those ;D;D 
 

Each month we will be featuring a card from one of ODBD design or challenge team and creating a sketch that case's their card design. This month's featured designer is the talented and sweet, Grace Nywening, our DT coordinator at ODBD. The card we are featuring is this gorgeous creation:

And here is what I created. I CASED Grace almost down to the "T" ;D;D

Bless the Lord........



Recipe:

Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Bazzill textured Olive cs, Prima Botanical

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collecton 7, Fancy Labels

Inks:  Studio G Blue, ODBD Olive, VersaMagic Spanish Olive

Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 17, Flourish Accents, Cuttlebufg Embossing Folder Textile, handmade stick pin, cotton crochet lace, leaves cut with my Cricut Expression and the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge at .75 and 1", Wild Orchid Flowers, MayArts silk ribbon

Make sure you also check out what

Chris

Fran

Lori (this is the last challenge for our sweet Guest Designer sister :C)

Pat

and Silke

have come up with.


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 Thursday, May 5 . 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.


While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them.As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by May 5 at 8 p.m. EST.If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC58. When creating your posts on blogs please include a direct link to the challenge.

Please make sure that you check out the ODBD Blog for some exciting news ;D;D

Well, this is it for me for today, thanks so much for stopping by and making my day a happy day!

Have a blessed weekend and I pray that you will have a "Happy Easter" tomorrow!!!

Hugs,

Stamping in Time........

Hello and welcome my sweet stamping friends! I have a card to share with you all that I made for today's

Stamping In Time Challenge(SNTODBD33)!

The assignment is Our Daily Bread Design stamps. The challenge this rotation is paper piercing! This is an easy one. Just add some piercing to you card. You can go all out, ornate, or simple! We look forward to seeing what you create using ODBD stamps!

For my card I simply just pierced around the inside of a Labels 20 die cut...pretty simple, but I like the way it came out ;D.

 Have a look

Call to me.......

 

 Recipe:

Paper: PTI Kraft, Hawaiian Shores, Dark Chocolate, BoBunny Gabrielle

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 5

Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa, Studio G Aqua

Accessories:  Spellbinders Labels 18 and Labels 20, Prima lace, Prima flower, handmade stick pin, leaf was cut with my Cricut Expression and the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge, Zva Creative Taupe pearl flourish


If you have a minute head on over to the ODBD Blog.


Also, make sure you pay Angie a visit as she went all out and created a masterpiece....you all know how much Angie loves piercing. Oh, and don't forget Betty, the super talented host of this fabulous challenge.

The guidelines are pretty simple and are a follows:

Now, it is your turn to play! Here are the guidelines!

• You must use ODBD Stamps! Other stamps allowed, but ODBD images need to be the focus!
• Use keyword codes SNTODBD33 and ODBD when linking to SCS or public gallery.
• Be sure to use the LINK to be eligible for the gift certificate drawing!
• If you use either your blog link or online gallery, please give a link back to this challenge page.

The challenge runs from Thursday 9 am EST (April 17th) til Wednesday (May 4th) at 6 pm EST. You have two weeks to enter. You can enter as many times as you like!

All right, this is it for me for today. Thanks so much for making a stop at my humble Blog.


Have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Blessings to you......

my stamping friends!!  Good morning and welcome to this weeks Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge! This week the ever so talented and super sweet PeggySue is hosting the challenge and she chose

               Matthew 16:23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan!"

as her scripture and here is what the challenge is

Use Versamark or same color ink on the same color of paper (e.g., purple ink on purple paper) for a tone on tone background somewhere on your card.


For my creation I chose the same color ink as paper and this is what happened ;D


Blessings to you.....

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Vintage Cream

Stamps: ODBD Mother's Day

Ink: PTI Vintage Cream and SU Close to Cocoa

Accessories:  Spellbinders Lacey Ovals, Fancy Tags Two, SU embossing folder Antique Wallpaper, Recollections half pearls, handmade stick pin, MayArts ribbon, cream cotton crochet lace

Well, what do you think, did I get you interested in trying this challenge out or do you need a little more inspiration?

If you'd like to see more creations and the different interpretations of the other Design Sisters head on over and see what

Chris, Grace, Kristine, Lisa, MariLynn, Miesje, PeggySue, and Rebekka 

 

have created!

For all of the details about this wonderful challenge and this weeks prize is head on over to the Stampin Sisters in Christ Blog.

I am sorry I am keeping this short today, I have been having a migraine for last couple of days, so please forgive me!

Thanks for stopping by today and have a blessed day!!

Hugs,

Hello and good Saturday morning to you......

my stamping friends!!  It is indeed Saturday and that means it is time for a new Shining the Light Challenge over at ODBD and this weeks challenge is


Make a card or project without any coloring. You may sponge a background or use colored ink to stamp an image but NO Coloring!!

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 Thursday, April 21. 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.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them.As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by April 21 at 8 p.m. EST.If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC5. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

 

And here is what I came up with!! You all know me...I love my scripture stamps, so I did just that..use a scripture stamp.

The Joy of the Lord.......

 

 

 

Recipe: 

 

Paper: PTI Dark Chocolate, Aqua Mist, BoBunny Gabrielle

 

Stamps: ODBD Brocade Borders, Scripture Collection 6 (Nehemiah 8:10) 

Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa, Studio G Aqua

 

Accessories:  Spellbinders Labels 18, Fleur De Lis Squares, Zva Creative pearl flourish small, Recollections half pearls, Prima flower, leaves cut with my Cricut Expression and the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge, Offray Brides Mother lace 

 

This is it for my first creation, but since I could not really make up my mind, I made a second one ;D

Your Love of Lord....

Recipe:

 

Paper: PTI Rustic Cream, Pure Poppy, Dark Chocolate, Basic Grey Curio

Stamps: ODBD Faith

 

Ink:  Palette Moulin Rouge, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Tea Dye, Vintage Photo

 

Accessories:  Spellbinders Labels 18, Fleur De Lis Motifs, MayArts brown cotton crochet lace, Prima lace, handmade leaves cut with my Cricut Expression and the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge, handmade ribbon flower with bead center, burgundy rhinestones from my stash

All right, those are my two card....what do you think? I hope I was able to inspire you so yo can get your stamps out and get creating!! :D:D  

In case you need just a little more of that inspiration head on over to see what

Chris

Fran

Lori (our sweet guest-designer)

Pat

and  Silke

have come up with. To see all of the detail and to find out what else is going on over at Our Daily Bread Designs head on over to the Blog.

Well, this is it for me for today!!  Thanks so much for stopping by my sweet friends!!

Have a blessed weekend and I hope you'll get to play along in this fun Shining the Light Challenge!!

Hugs,

Come and check this out......

Hello my stamping friends!!  Check this out, Our Daily Bread Designs is sponsoring the Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge and you will LOVE it!!  The challenge theme is:

                                             Violets and Lilacs and Plums, Oh My!

No, they are not talking about the flowers and the fruit :D:D......it's the colors!

Some of the Our Daily Bread Designs Designers have created some pretty awesome creations with ribbons from the Really Reasonable Ribbon store and goodness, they were some YUMMY ribbons :D:D.

Have a look and see what I came up


He makes all things beautiful.......

Recipe:

Paper:  PTI Vintage Cream, Plum Pudding, Royal Velvet, Kaiser Kraft DP Utopia

Stamps:  ODBD Fleur De Lis Borders, Faith

Ink: SU Perfect Plum, Lavender Lace

Accessories: Spellbinders Kaleidoscope Borderabilities, Peony, Standard Circles Large, paper roses in ivory, Prima rose in purple, Prima leaves, Really Reasonable Ribbon silk ribbon, Really Reasonable Ribbon lavender satin ribbon with grosgrain edge, handmade stick pin

So, what do you think?  Do you need a little more inspiration? Well, we have just that for you. Check out what

Angie

Chrissy

Dawn

Debi

Fran

Grace

Lorelie


Patter

Sandee

have come up with, they will blow you away.....literally!! ;D

To see the wonderful creations of the Really Reasonable Ribbon Design Team and all of the details for this challenge head on over to their Blog.

Thanks for stopping by today!  We hope you'll get to play along!!

Have a blessed day!!

Hugs,

Hello there my stamping friends....

I hope you all are doing well today and are ready for me to share some more cards I made.
As I said yesterday I have a few cards made and totally forgot to post them so here we go with  a couple more ;D.

My first card is one I made after making a ribbon/lace flower just because I wanted to see how it would look and this is came out


Faithfulness....

and a closer look at the flower

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Fine Linen, Ripe Avocado, Bazzill textured cs from my stash, Basic Grey Cappella

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 6 (Psalm 85:11)

Ink: ODBD Olive, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Vintage Photo, Old Paper, Antique Linen

Accessories: Spellbinders Standard Circles Large, Parisian Motifs, Offray Brides Mother lace, Prima leaf, Crystal bead sprig, gold tone cross charm, Zva Creative Taupe pearl flourish, handmade ribbon/lace flower with bead center



For my second card I am sharing with you all today I some vellum, which I had forever. I have no idea why I don't use it more often as I really love the way it softens everything.  Have a look and see


May the Lord.............

Recipe:  PTI Vintage Cream, Lemon Tart, SU Certainly Celery, Basic Grey Wisteria, Vellum

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 5

Ink: SU Close to Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Vintage Photo

Accessories: Spellbinders Parisian Motifs, ODBD Custom Dies Elegant Ovals, scalloped lace from my stash, handmade leaves cut with my Cricut Expression and the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge, Recollections taupe colored  flourishes, Prima rose, Recollections half pearls

and one more. For my last card I used the ODBD stamp set Faith, which I absolutely LOVE!!

Check it out, but be warned, it is very rich ;D;D

Vintage Faith........

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Ripe Avocado, Basic Grey Curio (loves this paper :D:D)

Stamps: ODBD Faith

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Tea Dye, Vintage Photo

Accessories:  Spellbinders Labels 18, Parisian Accents, cream cotton crochet lace, taupe colored lace with ribbon, Prima Snow Rose, hand dyed seam binding, handmade stick pin, Recollections half pearls

Wheeew.....that is it!! Three cards I really wanted to share with you all. I hope you find the time to let me know what you think.....I love reading your comments!!

Thanks for stopping by today and making my day just a little brighter!!

Hugs and blessings,

Hello on this super sunny Hump Day......

my stamping friends!!  What a week it has been and I am happy to report that I have a couple of cards to share with you all!! :D:D

I just received some new toys and had to get them out of the package ;D

We all love Spellbinders, right? Well, I have just bought a truck load (maybe not that much,LOL) and just had to play around with them. I also bought some amazing new paper from BoBunny called Gabrielle and some PinkPaislee paper called Butterfly Garden. Most of you know I LOVE butterflies so I had to get them both!!

For my first card I combined the BoBunny Gabrielle paper with two stamps sets from Our Daily Bread Designs. The first one is "Faith" and the second Scripture Collection 7 and this is what came out

Faith......

and here is a shot of the inside where I used the Scripture Collection 7 stamp Hebrews 11:1



Recipe:

Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate, Aqua Mist, BoBunny Gabrielle

Stamps: ODBD Faith and Scripture Collection 7 (Hebrews 11:1)

Ink: SU Close to Cocoa, Tim Holt Distressing Ink Vintage Photo

Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 20, Fancy Tags Three, Standard Circles Large, rose colored cotton lace, Prima flower Roosevelt Collection Missus, Recollections half pearls, Cuttlebug embossing folder Victoria


I was trying to capture all of the colors in the Designer Paper, did I succeed, what do you think?

For my second card I used an older ODBD stamp set called Happy Birthday, and this super fun paper from the PinkPaislee paper pad Butterfly Garden.

Happy Birthday......

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate, Ripe Avocado, PinkPaislee Butterfly Garden

Stamps: ODBD Happy Birthday

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Tea Dye, Vintage Photo

Accessories:  Spellbinders Labels 20, Fancy Tags Two,  Recollections half pearls, Recollections Boutique Fleur skeleton leaf butterfly, handmade ribbon flower, Zva Creative pearl flourish, half pearl brad, lace, leaf cut with my Cricut Expression and the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge

And here you have it :D:D

I have a couple more to share, but I will post them possibly tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by today and saying hello, it truly means a lot to me!!

Have a blessed day!!

Hugs,

Good morning......

my stamping friends!! It is Sunday and time for a new Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge!! This week it is Kristine that will host and she has come up with an amazing challenge. Her scripture to focus on this week is:

MAIN VERSE: Mark 15:17 "They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him." CONTEXT PASSAGE: See Mark 15: 16-20 

and the challenge is to:

Use shades of purple as your main color AND/OR use wood paper or elements on your card. 

 Well, I went the easy route and chose shades of purple and this is what came out


Purple tulips.....

 

Recipe:

Paper: SU Pale Plum, PTI white, Perfect Plum, Basic Grey Wisteria

Stamps: ODBD Friendship,  Tulip Corner 

Ink: SU Pale Plum, VersaFine Onyx Black, Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 18, Standard Circles Large ,Recollections silver half pearls,  Martha Stewart Butterflies punch, Zva Creative rhinestone flourish (corner of it)

Very plain and simple, but I needed a card that I can send through the mail with no problem ;D

To see  what my Design Sisters have come up with make sure you visit

Chris, Grace, Kristine, Lisa, MariLynn, Miesje, PeggySue, and Rebekka 

Well, this is it for me for today. 

Today is a special day as I get to hear my  husband preach!  Our Pastor allows the Elders every other Sunday to preach, so he can get a rest. What a blessing it is to have a Pastor like that, plus I enjoy it when my husband brings the message...he studies so hard for it and is up most of the night to get his time with God and get ready to bring the word to us.

May all of you have a blessed Sunday!!

Thanks so much for stopping by.....it truly means a lot to me!

Hugs,

  

No ribbon oh my!!!

Hello and happy Saturday my stamping friends!!  I hope you all are ready for a new Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge.  This week the challenge is

"No Ribbons" You may use lace on your creation, hemp, cording or string...but no ribbons!!

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 Thursday, April 14. 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.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them.As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by April 14 at 8 p.m. EST.If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC56. When creating your posts on blogs please include a direct link to the challenge.

Yesterday is gone.......

 

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Ripe Avocado, Lemon Tart, Prima Annalee

Stamps: ODBD Let us Begin 

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, 

Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 16, Parisian Motifs,   Offray Brides Mother lace,paper roses, yellow half pearls

So, what do you think? I am so glad that I have tons of lace ;D;D;D.  To get some more inspiration check out what 

Chris

Fran

 

Pat 

Silke

and our guest  Lori

have come up with.

For all of the details and who won last weeks challenge head on over to the ODBD Blog.

Well, this is it for me for today, thanks so much for stopping by today.

I am looking forward to see what you will be creating and remember, you have a chance of winning a $ 15 gift certificate ;D.

Have a blessed weekend!!

Hugs,

Rise and shine......

Rise and Shine my sweet stamping friends!  It is Sunday and time for a new Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge. This weeks host is none other than Miesje.

Miesje has chosen the following scripture for us

Luke 18:17 "Amen I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it."

My thoughts on this wonderful scripture are going way back when I've got saved. I remember I was so hungry for everything that had to do with the bible and wanting to know it all!!!  I was studying hard and made lots of notes. See, me being German and English not being my first language it was hard for me to understand the King James Version of the bible. My then friend and now husband bought me a compatible bible, you know one of those GIANT bibles that has 4 different versions of the bible in one book.  Yes, I did have a German bible, but I was attending a Baptist church back then on a Military Base and I wanted to understand what they were teaching. One of the sisters and the pastor back then told me in the New Comers class I was only a babe in Christ and I needed to learn like a child. To make a long story short, I chose to study the New American Standard version back then and everything looked much easier. As I used to say: "the King James Version used mostly $25 words and I needed to feed on the 25 cents ones first". In other words I started with milk or formula if you will and made my way up to the more solid food just like children do. I am now after all of these words still sometimes have to go back to a version that breaks things down a little more, but that is all right, I am able to break things down and help other new believers out a lot more, since I've been there and done that ;D.

 We can't expect to be fully equipped when we first get saved, you have to learn to walk the walk. A walk that I am proud of walking and I hope that when that day comes that I will be one of those that will have their name written in the big book and GOD will  welcome me with open arms. I am not saying I am perfect yet, but I am striving to get there.

Well, by doing all of this talking today, I totally forgot to tell you what the challenge is:

                                                       Make a card/project for a child. 

And here is what I came up with


Sweet One.......

Recipe:

Paper:  PTI White, Lavender Moon, SU Pretty in Pink, Basic Grey Urban Prairie

Stamps: SU So many scallops, Victoria Bell stamp (I don't have the name for it, it was a gift)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Rose Bud, Studio G pink, Tim Hltz Disressing Ink Worn Lipstick

Accessories: white cotton crochet lace, pink loop trim from my stash, pink rhinestones from my stash, Zva Creative pink rhinestone flourish, Spellbinders Standard Circles Large and Standard Scalloped Circles Large, Petite Ovals Large and Petite Scalloped Ovals  Large , Sakura Glitter pen

To see the wonderful creations of my Design Sisters
 Chris, Grace, Kristine, Linda, Lisa, Marilynn, Miesje, Peggysue and Rebekka make sure you head on over to their blogs and leave them some love too ;D;D.

Oh, almost forgot, this weeks sponsor is


                      Clear Dollar Stamps

and they are giving away a $ 15 gift certificate than can go towards a stamp purchase.....how awesome is that?

Well, get those stamps ready and make sure you'll play along this week!! To find out all of the details you can also check out the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Blog and look for challenge # 83.

Thanks for stopping by today and making my day a happy day!!

Hugs and blessings,

Birds.....it's all about the birds for ODBDSLC55

Good Saturday my sweet stamping friends!!  As you can see in the title of my post it is all about the birds for this weeks Shining the Light Challenge over at ODBD!!

This weeks challenge:

-Use a bird image, punched bird, or birds on your designer paper.

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 Thursday, April 7. 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.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them.As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by April 7 at 8 p.m. EST.If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC55. When creating your posts on blogs please include a direct link to the challenge.

 And here is what I came up with


Sing to the Lord

 

Recipe:

Paper: DCWV textured card stock in brown, PTI Dark Chocolate, Rustic Cream, Prima Reflections

Stamps: ODBD Sing to the Lord  

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Broken China, Weathered Wood, Vintage Photo

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 10, ODBD Custom Die Elegant Labels , Parisian Accents, cream cotton crochet lace, rhinestones from my stash, Cuttlebug embossing folder leaf branches

To see what my Design Sisters have come up with head on over to

Chris

Fran

Lori (guest designer)

Pat

Silke

You can find all of the details of this challenge also on the ODBD Blog.

Well, this is it for me for right now. My DH has to work the entire weekend, so the girls and I will have a girls day, yeah!!

Thanks for stopping by today. Now get those stamps out and get creatin'......can't wait to see your creations!!

Hugs and blessings,