It's Wednesday, time for our weekly word art. This week we have another quote from Mother Teresa...
This week has been a really busy one for me so I don't have a layout for you today, but you can get plenty of inspiration using this week's word art from the other design team members at the Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog .
I hope you join the Word Art Wednesday challenge this week. Be sure to check out the challenge guidelines to find out how you can
be eligible for the weekly prize drawing from this week's sponsor Shabby Cottage Studio.
We are celebrating the 4th Anniversary of Our Daily Bread Designs! All this
week we have special events going on at the ODBD Blog, so be sure
to check them out! Today we have something that we hope will be pure fun for
all! One dozen of the ODBD designers, also know as the Bread Sticks, have baked up a special game for you! We
decided to shower ODBD with a bouquet of flowers, since flowers are one of the
traditional gifts for a 4th anniversary. You will be collecting these flowers
along the way, and creating a beautiful bouquet for Kelley, the ODBD owner, and all of Our Daily
Bread Designs!
Each designer has created a special layout, card, or project using at
least one of our own personal ALL TIME FAVORITE ODBD sets. SIX of us will also
have a special blog button with a special flower on it! (It will be labeled as a
Designer's Flower Hunt Game, and will give the name of a flower.) Look for it in
the designer's side bars of their blogs. HINT: I just might be one of the
designers who has one... so look carefully! :)
To play the
game:
Visit each designer listed below
Leave a comment
Keep a list of each designer who has a special flower blog button. Write
down the designer's name and the name of the flower they have.
When you have visited all 12, left comments and found the 6 flowers, send an
email to Grace at gnywening@yahoo.com. Simply name the 6 designers
who had the flowers and the flower they had.
Winners will be chosen randomly from all who email Grace with their list by
9:00pm DST Mar. 15th!
Now on to my project details:
We were asked to list our FOUR ALL TIME FAVORITE ODBD sets, and to use at least one
on our project today. How can I possibly choose just 4? Well.... if I have to,
here are my four favorites, in no particular order :)
The first one is a no brainer. Since I'm a scrapbooker, Large Scrapbook Words is definitely on my list. I love the size of these words, perfect for any size layout, and the words are ones that I use a lot in real life and on my pages...Happy, Loved, Blessed, Beautiful, Amazing and Thankful. The word "So" is also included in the set which gives the words added meaning.
Never Give Up is another one of my favorites. I love the grungy look of this set, and being the mother of a teenage boy, this is perfect for a lot of his pages. I also love that the Grunge Cross is available as a separate stamp without the background grunge and it has a coordinating die. This makes for quick and easy 3-D embellishments on your layout.
Happy Birthday also makes my list. Although it's designed with birthdays in mind, the scriptures in this set go so well with everyday pages. The image stamp would make a great accent on a spring layout and there is a little butterfly that's just too cute.
And last but certainly not least... Grow in Grace. The name of this set alone speaks volumes. The scriptures and sentiments in the set speak of God's grace. And I have made great use of the flower image in this set.
For my project today I created an 8x8 layout using Large Scrapbook Words and Grow in Grace. I used the flower from the Grow in Grace set to create my background paper. I inked the top portion of the stamp with VersaMark ink and stamped it all over the cardstock. If you click on the layout you'll get a larger version so it's easier to see the background.
I used 2 words from the Large Scrapbook Words set for my title and stamped them on a die cut banner. The photo is of my mother in 1947 when she was 15.
Supplies: Bazzill Cardstock My Minds Eye Blush 6x6 Patterned Paper ODBD Large Scrapbook Words and Grow In Grace Stamps Recollections Gems, Pearls and Crocheted Flower Making Memories Alphabet Stickers Tim Holtz Tattered Banner Die Button Martha Stewart Punch VersaMark, VersaFine and Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Remember to check to see if I have a flower before you go on your way. Check out the other bread sticks in the bread basket
today:
It's Wednesday, time for our weekly word art!!! This week, instead of a scripture, we have a quote from Mother Teresa...
I can only speculate about what Mother Teresa's motivation was for this quote, but it does bring to mind Luke Chapter 16 and the Parable of the Shrewd Manager, particularly verse 10:
Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. Luke 16:10 NIV
I think what Jesus is telling us here is that if we cannot be faithful in the small things, the everyday stuff, how in the world can we be trusted with the really important things? Our faithfulness is not determined by the size or importance of the matter, but by our character and how we handle the task or situation. So as Mother Teresa said, be faithful in small things...because that is a true reflection on how we will handle the bigger things.
For my layout I used a couple of pictures of my 2 Tims raking leaves. We have lots of trees in our yard so that makes for an abundance of leaves. It's not a job the either of them particularly love to do, but they do it faithfully every year.
Supplies: Reminisce Patterned Paper Cheery Lynn Design Fanciful Flourish & SM Leaves #1 Dies Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch Fiskars Corner Punch Tim Holtz Distress Ink Copic Marker
I hope you join the Word Art Wednesday challenge this week. Check out the Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog to see what
the other design team members created with this week's art. Be sure to check out
the challenge guidelines to find out how you can
be eligible for the weekly prize drawing from this week's sponsor Whimsy Stamps .
Hi Everyone!!! It's time for the March Our Daily Bread Designs Scrapbook Challenge!! This month is ODBD's 4th Anniversary so there will be lots of fun things going on at ODBD all month. If you're not already a subscriber to the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog you should sign up and become a follower here so you won't miss out on any of the anniversary fun and lots of chances to win prizes.
Now for the scrapbook challenge....The traditional gifts for a 4th anniversary include fruit or flowers. So your challenge for March is to: create a layout of any size using fruit or flowers and ODBD stamps on your page. Use fruit or flowers as your embellishments, your patterned paper, your stamped images, etc. Think about something fun to do and have enjoy creating your page or pages.
For my layout I used a stamp set from the new March release, Sweet Friendship. I also used the flower image from the Grow in Grace set. The photo is of my son and his friends at our neighborhood's last day of school party in 2008. The boys are all now in high school and my son and the boy next to him are still the best of friends.
I had lots of fun creating this layout and pulled out some some supplies I hadn't used in a while...paint, corrugated cardboard, copic markers, and a corner punch. The little blue flowers were stamped from the flower stamp in the Grow in Grace set. I colored them with copics, cut them out, bent the petals a bit, and added some distress stickles to the centers. I die cut the large flower from corrugated cardboard, peeled off the top layer and painted it with white acrylic paint. I used the same technique for the mat behind the framed scripture. Here are a couple of close up photos of my embellishments.
Supplies: Bo Bunny and Flair Designs Patterned Paper ODBD Sweet Friendship Stamp Set ODBD Grow in Grace Flower Stamp Versa Fine Ink Tim Holtz Distress Stickles Copic Markers Ranger Acrylic Paint Button, Gem, Twine, Cardboard Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Die Stampin' Up Corner Punch
To see all the challenge guidelines and how you can win a $15 gift certificate
to the Our Daily Bread Designs store click here. Also be sure to check out Patter
Cross' inspiration for this challenge in her blog post here.
The challenge runs through Saturday March 31st, 6:00 PM EST.
I hope
you decide to join in this challenge. I can't wait to see what you create.
Happy
Friday!!! It's the first Friday in March and time for a new Gems of Inspiration
scrapbook challenge at the Our Daily Bread Designs Forum.When I was growing
up, people used to say…March comes in like a lion and goes out like a
lamb.I don’t know about that these
days.Yesterday was the first day of
March and here in Virginia the high was 80 degrees!!!The daffodils are already in bloom and spring
is in the air!So much for the lion, the
lamb is already here!
This
month's challenge is all about spring, with a little twist. Your challenge is to create a layout using an element that reminds
you of spring, but the layout cannot be about spring.For example, you could use flowers on a
winter layout, or use a spring color palette on a birthday layout.The combinations are endless.
For my
layout, I used the ODBD Sing to the Lord set as my spring element. Birds singing always remind me of spring.The layout is about my church’s youth choir,
of which my son is a member.
Supplies:
Creative Imaginations Patterned Paper Bazzill Cardstock ODBD Sing to the Lord Stamp Set Recollections Music Brads Making Memories Alphabet Stickers Me and My Big Ideas Alphabet Stickers Spellbinders Labels 1 and 8 Tim Holtz Distress Ink VersaFine Ink Stickles Stampin Up and Prismacolor Colored Pencils Gamsol
I hope you get a chance to play along this month.I’d love to see what you create.
If you are using Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, you are
encouraged to upload your page to the Scrapbook Pages Category in theODBD Galleryusing keyword ODBDGI04.If you
aren't yet registered there, sign up only takes a couple of minutes. If you do
not use ODBD stamps, you can post to your blog or another publicly viewable
online gallery.Be sure and to come
back here and share the link so we can see your beautiful work!
Looking for more scrapbook challenges??? Check out the monthly Let Your Light
Shine Scrapbook Challenge on the ODBD Blog!
Happy Wednesday!!!! It's time for our weekly word art! Today's word is from Psalm 9:1-2...
Praise...it's something we must do all the time. It's so easy to praise God when He brings us out of a difficult situation, heals us from an illness, provides an extraordinary blessing. But in our day to day life, when things are just going along smoothly, nothing out of the ordinary, we sometimes take God for granted and "forget" to praise Him. And even worse, when we're in the midst of a trial or tribulation, we might suffer from a temporary "brain freeze" and dare to think, if only for a split second, that we don't have anything to praise God for. Kind of hard to think about isn't it? But it does happen, even to the best of us. For times like these, I'd like to share with you the words from one of my favorite songs, "For Every Mountain" sung by the Kurt Carr Singers. You can find it on YouTube if you'd like to give it a listen.
I've got so much to thank God for, so many wonderful blessings, and so
many open doors, a brand new mercy along
with each new day; that's why I praise you, and for this I give You praise.
For waking me up
this morning, (that's why I praise You), for starting me on my way, (that's why I praise You), for letting me see the
sunshine, (that's why I praise You), of a brand new day. A brand new
mercy, along with each new day; that's why I
praise You, for this I give You praise.
You're Jehovah Jireh
(that's why I praise You), You've been my provider (that's why I praise
You),
so many times You met my needs, so many times You rescued me. I wanna thank you for the blessings You give to me each day; that's why I praise You, for this I
give You praise.
For every mountain You've brought me
over. For every trial You've seen me through. For every blessing,
hallelujah; for this I give You praise.
For today's layout, I used a photo of one of my church's praise dance groups, Women of Grace. This particular group is composed of "seasoned" ladies. They don't let their age hinder them when they minister to us through dance. Everyone in the room can feel their love for the Lord and their dancing is nothing but praise to Him.
Supplies: Kaisercraft Patterned Paper Cardstock Spellbinders Labels 10 Recollections Gem & Pearl Flourish Prima Flower Fabric, Button, Gems Tim Holtz Distress Ink
I hope you join the Word Art Wednesday challenge this week. Check out the Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog to see what
the other design team members created with this week's art. Be sure to check out
the challenge guidelines to find out how you can
be eligible for the weekly prize drawing from this week's sponsor Nicecrane Designs
Hi!! It's Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent and time for some new word art! Today's art is from Psalm 46:10....
Be still.....in this day and age, sometimes that's so hard to do. We seem to always be so busy, rushing here and there, always doing something. This past weekend I was feeling under the weather. But instead of pushing through like I always try to do, I decided to be still. A totally foreign concept to me, but I did it. I wrapped up in my favorite afghan, sat in my comfy chair, put my feet up, and did NOTHING. At first I felt a little guilty, after all there were so many things that needed to be done, but I tried to ignore that feeling. And I just sat... and thought... and reflected on the goodness of God and all that he's done for me and how he's continued to bless me over and over again, not because of what I've done, but because of who I am. I am his daughter, a child of the most high God. And you know what? At the end of the day, the stuff was still undone, physically I still wasn't 100%, but I felt really good.
Be still and know that I am God.
For today's layout I used a photo I took of the sunrise at our women's retreat last year.
Supplies: Lifestyle Crafts Patterned Paper & Cardstock Maya Road Ribbon Making Memories Baubles Martha Stewart Border Punch Spellbinders Scallop Rectangles Die Gems Memento Ink
I hope you join the Word Art Wednesday challenge this week. Check out the Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog to see what the other design team
members created with this week's art. Be sure to check out the challenge guidelines to find out how you can
be eligible for the weekly prize drawing from this week's sponsor Lisa's Altered Art .
