Word Art Wednesday #22

Hi Everyone!!  It's Wednesday, time for some new word art.  This week's word comes from the Book of Psalms.

In this Psalm of David,  David expresses his love for the Lord and some of the things that the Lord is to him.  These attributes of God are not just for David,  they are for all of His children.  I think we as Christians know that God is all these things for us,  but do we really live our lives as if we do?  In times of trouble, do we fully rely on the Lord,  our rock, fortress and deliverer, or do we look for deliverence of our own strength or in wordly things.  Do we put all of our trust in God?

For my layout I used a photo of my brother and me, taken at the Garden of the Gods Park in Colorado Springs, CO in 1972.  If you click on the layout to enlarge it, you just might be able to see us.  We look like ants standing in front of one of the giant red rock formations.

Supplies:
Close to My Heart Patterned paper
Coredinations Cardstock
Jillibean Soup Journaling tag
Basic Grey Ribbon & Buttons
Queen & Co. Pearls
Spellbinders Labels 25
Die Versions Font Dies
Fiskars Corner Punch
Tim Holtz Staples
Tim Holtz Distress & VersaFine Inks

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 Isabella's Sketchbook.

Thanks for stopping by today. Be blessed.

ODBD April Scrapbook Challenge

Hi Everyone!!  It's time for the April Our Daily Bread Designs Scrapbook Challenge.  Spring is here and in April we celebrate “Lawn and Garden” month. So using the "Lawn and Garden" theme, your challenge for April is to use 3 of the following items from the April “lawn and garden recipe” below on any size scrapbook page along with ODBD stamps:

*Green
*Brown
*Grass
*Flowers
*Dirt
*Butterflies
*Leaves
*Wood

You can use these recipe items in your photos, color scheme, as part of your embellishments, etc. Have fun with it! You certainly do not have to do a garden layout just use 3 items from the recipe along with ODBD stamps in any theme you wish--think Easter, Spring, etc.! Enjoy!

For my layout, I decided to go with the lawn and garden theme and used some photos of early spring trees and flowers in my neighborhood.  After I finished my layout, I realized that every item from the recipe appeared somewhere on my page. :)

I used the butterflies from the ODBD Faith  set to create my own 3-D embellishments. I stamped them on cardstock and cut out the image with the coordinating Butterfly Branch die.  After coloring the image with Prismacolor pencils, I added some stickles and a little bling and adhered the image to the page with foam tape.  Two verses from Ecclesiastes 3, found in Scripture Collection 1 ,  stamped on diecut tags completed the layout. Here's a close up of my embellishments....

Supplies:
Sei Patterned Paper
ODBD Faith Stamp Set & Butterfly Branch Die
ODBD Scripture Collection 1
Making Memories Alphabet Stickers
Sei Die Cut Tags
Prismacolor Pencils
Stickles, Gems, Brads
VersaFine Ink

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 Monday April 30th, 6:00 PM EDT.

I hope you decide to join in this challenge. I can't wait to see what you create.

Our Daily Bread Designs April Blog Hop

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread Designs April 1 Release Blog Hop! I am honored to be representing the Scrapbook Team on the hop this month.  If you got here from Silke's  Blog, you are in the right place! If you just happened here, you might want to hop on over to the ODBD Blog and start from there so you don’t miss a chance to win any of the four great prizes this month, and receive lots of inspiration along the way!  To qualify to win one of these prizes, hop to each designers blog and leave a comment. After you have completed the hop, return to the Our Daily Bread Designs blog and leave a comment telling us that you have completed the hop, making note if there were any designers blogs that you couldn't comment on. In your comment include the answer to the question that appears on the ODBD blog. You have until Monday April 2, 8 PM EDT to complete the hop and the winners will be announced on the Our Daily Bread Designs blog on April 3.

I do have one announcement that I want to be sure you get!

ODBD is extending the Customer Favorites Contest! You now have until April 7th to add your submission to the Customer Favorites Contest for a chance to win a free ODBD stamp set and the chance to be a guest designer for the release of “your” set! So leave us your ONE choice of your favorite short Scripture, spiritual quote or spiritual sentiment, and YOUR submission might be in the next ODBD Customer Favorites Sets! Read all the details and leave your submission HERE!  ***PLEASE take time to see the Scriptures already in sets list here  so you don’t waste your one submission on one that’s already in a set!

Now… on to my creation:

For my layout today,  I used the Prayer of St. Francis stamp.  I stamped the prayer on white cardstock and cut it out with the Spellbinders Large Labels die. After distressing it a bit with Tim Holtz ink, I embellished it with twine, buttons and brads and used foam tape to adhere it to my page.

Supplies:
Recollections Patterned Paper
Bazzill & Coredinations Cardstock
ODBD Prayer of St. Francis Stamp
Jenni Bowlin Label Sticker
Spellbinders Large Labels Die
Spellbinders Crosses Two
Lifestyle Crafts Font Dies
EK Success Border Punch
Buttons, Brads, Charm
Tim Holtz Distress & VersaFine Inks
Ribbon, Twine

Thanks so much for stopping by, I'm your last stop on the Hop! Remember, to be entered into the drawing you need to leave comments on each designers blog, then return to the ODBD Blog  and leave a comment.

Faux Silk

One of the things I love about being on the Our Daily Bread Designs Design Team is that I get to learn new techniques from the stampers on the team.   DT member Angie Crockett did a fabulous tutorial on a faux silk technique that I just had to try on a scrapbook page.  You can view her tutorial here.  Using the technique, you can make beautiful background papers from tissue paper (ordinary gift wrap tissue paper) and cardstock.  Since I'm not sure if tissue paper is acid free, I did spray it with Archival Mist before I started.  Here's how my page turned out...

Supplies:
Butterfly Patterned Tissue Paper
Cardstock
Our Daily Bread Designs Sweet Friendship, Fleur de Lis Borders & Butterfly Stamps
ODBD Butterfly Die
Want 2 Scrap Gems
Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Lace Rectangle Die
Spellbinders Deckled Rectangles Large Die
Stickles
Tim Holtz Distress & Colorbox Chalk Inks

Check out the tutorial, give it a try, and enter your creation in the ODBD Faux Silk Challenge. 
I'd love to see what you create.

Word Art Wednesday #21

Happy Wednesday!!  Today's word art is from 1 John 4:19.

While looking for photos to use on my layout,  I thought, why not use a photo of myself?   So I found a photo that was taken on my first birthday many years ago (smile).  Seeing that photo brought to mind one of the first songs I remember learning...Jesus Loves Me.

Jesus loves me this I know, for the bible tells me so,

Little ones to Him belong, they are weak but he is strong.

Yes Jesus loves me, Yes Jesus loves me

Yes Jesus loves me, for the bible tells me so.

In the NIV translation of the bible, today's word reads...We love because he first loved us.  God is love and God loves us.  We are extremely valued by God.  Not because of anything we have done but because of His perfect love.  It is God's love for us that gives us the power to love others.  Love...His perfect love...that flows from Him to us, empowers us to love.

Supplies:

Sei Patterned Paper

Sei Tag and Die Cut

Recollections Brads

Tim Holtz Staples

Lace

Fiskars Corner Rounder

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 Shelly's Images.

Thanks for stopping by today. Blessings to you.

Word Art Wednesday #20

Hi!  It's Word Art Wednesday!!!!  Today's word art is from 1 Corinthians 13:13

Love...  just what is love?  The dictionary defines love as:

 (1): strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties   (2): attraction based on sexual desire (3): affection based on admiration, benevolence or common interests (4): unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another

Surely love is all this, but it's so much more.  The Word defines love as this:

Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.  1 Cor 13:4-8

1 John 4 tells us over and over that God is love.  God is love and He has shown his love to us by sending his son as a sacrifice for our sins.  He commands us to love one another as He has loved us. Love is the greatest because it outlasts everything.  After we no longer need faith and hope, love will still be the thing that controls all that God and his redeemed people are and do.

For my layout today I used a photo of my husband and I, back when we were dating during our college years.

Supplies:
Little Yellow Bicycle Patterned Paper and Embellishments
Gems

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 Eclectic Anthology .

Thanks for stopping by.  Be blessed.

ODBD's 4th Anniversary Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs 4th Anniversary Special Design Team Edition Release Blog Hop! If you got here from Angella's  Blog, you are in the right place! If not, you might want to start at the ODBD Blog so you are sure to not miss anyone! If any links are lost along the way, you can always get the entire list of links from the ODBD Blog as well!

The bread sticks (ODBD design team members) are so excited to be celebrating this special milestone in the life of ODBD! It is such a blessing to work for a company that brings glory to God in every stamp set created, and offers us the tools we need to do the same with every layout or card we create! If you are a long term follower of ODBD, then you know that each year, the Design Team submits a favorite Scripture for the special anniversary sets, and those suggestions have been the sum total of all the "Scripture Collection" stamp sets in the store. This year, the special sets include our favorite Scriptures, but also quotes and sentiments that we feel would be great on cards, layouts or other projects. I think you will find some of the most encouraging and uplifting words available in stamps in these special anniversary sets!

So now, here are the Details of the Anniversary Hop:

• The Hop will run 8am EDT Mar. 17 until 8pm EDT Mar 18.

• The winners will be announced on the ODBD Blog on Mar 19.

• Four hoppers will win a FREE ANNIVERSARY SET and One blessed hopper will win The Complete Anniversary Bread Basket Bundle!!!

Here is what you have to do to be qualified to win one of these prizes:

• Hop to each designer’s blog and leave a comment

• Return to the Our Daily Bread designs blog and leave a comment telling us that you completed the hop, making note if there were any you could not comment on.

• Along with your statement that you completed the hop, leave some Anniversary wishes for Kelley and the gang at ODBD!

Now on to my layout.  I used the scripture I submitted, Phil 4:13 (in Scripture Collection 8), and framed it with the square frame from the Fleur de Lis Borders set.   I also used a portion of the Grunge Butterfly stamp from the God's Love set to make my background paper.  The photos were taken the day I received my 1,000 workouts t-shirt at Curves.  I'm pictured with the owner of the Curves that I attend in the bottom left photo.

Here's a close up of the scripture...

Supplies:
Creative Imaginations Patterned Paper
Bazzill Cardstock
ODBD Scripture Collection 8, Fleur de Lis Borders, God's Love Stamps
Webster's Pages Bloomers
Want 2 Scrap Bling
Heidi Swapp Flower Gems
American Crafts Alphabet Stickers
QK Font
Fiskars Punches
Spellbinders Labels 1
VersaMark, VersaFine, Tim Holtz Distress Inks


From here you will hop to Kathy's  blog.  Thanks for hoping along with us. Enjoy the rest of the hop.