Healing, in the Name of Our Lord

Today I am sharing a card with you that was inspired by two challenges.

First, Our Daily Bread Designs Shining Light Challenge 231: Easter/Spring Religious Inspiration

Second: Viva la Verve March Week Two Sketch

For The Shining Light Challenge, I chose to go with a religious theme and add a few flowers for spring.

Using Hope stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs

I needed this card to be somewhat masculine as I was creating it for my brother who was diagnosed with lung cancer this week. So, I chose to stick with neutrals. I used a lot of white because that is the awareness ribbon color for lung cancer. It originally was a clear ribbon to symbolize air being clear but many people did not notice the ribbons so they changed it to white. I like the white because to me it symbolizes the purity of air the Lord will fill my brother's lungs with when He HEALS him!

The cross-cut out background was created using my Cricut Expression and a new cartridge called Edge to Edge. I was really excited to find this because I am loving all those intricate die-cut backgrounds that I am seeing everyone use but, I'm not really wanting to make an investment in those just yet. The long banner was also cut with Cricut using the Phrases cartridge. I then ran it through a Spellbinders embossing folder that has gorgeous crosses and swirls in it.

I'd also like to share this with the fine ladies over at Word Art Wednesday.

Thanks for blessing me with your presence at my little corner of the web.

Our Daily Bread Designs Shining Light Challenge 224: Love

Happy Sunday to you all! Hope you have had a wonderful weekend full of God's Blessings.
I'm popping in really quick to meet the deadline for the ODBD Shining Light Challenge this week which is anything goes.

I would have been here much sooner except I was going to do this really cool 'thingy' with my seed beads until...wait for it...

I dropped them on the floor! Yep! All of them! Every single color I own that was separated into this case with dividers. Not anymore. What a nightmare. All I could do was laugh because, there is no point in crying over spilled milk as my Mama would say.

Anyway here is my card...

I used 1 Corinthians from Our Daily Bread Designs. I had fun playing with a hearts, stars, and circles stencil from Heidi Swapp and some new molding paste I found at Michaels. I only used the heart part of the stencil. The molding paste is called Art C produced by a company called Momenta. You can't tell in the photo but the paste is a hot pink color. Of course I bought every color!

Thanks for dropping by!
God Bless,

Trust in the Lord: ODBD with Cheery Lynn Designs

Hello Friends! I've had a very crafty weekend and am super excited that I was able to complete a card for the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining Light Challenge as well as the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge!

For ODBD the challenge was to be inspired by this photo...

For Cheery Lynn Designs this week is Anything Goes.

When I saw the inspiration photo, all I could think was roses and the first thing that came to mind was my Lady Rose Designer Paper by KAISERCRAFT.

I got all distressed-out with this card! To qualify for the Shining Light challenge I used ODBD Scripture Collection 2.
For Cheery Lynn Designs I used Sentiment Tag 1 and Fanciful Flourish.

Card Recipe:

• Cardstock: Purely Pomegranate, Groovy Guava, Early Espresso, Garden Green
• Designer Paper: Lady Rose-KAISERCRAFT
• Dies: Cheery Lynn Designs-Sentiment Tag One, Fanciful Flourish
• Ink: Walnut Stain Distress Ink
• Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 2
• Embellishments: Ivory Cotton Cluny Lace, Viva Decor Pearl Pen-Salmon, Mini Rose Buds

Thanks for stopping by. God Bless,

ODBDSLC168: Sketch

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs.


This week we are challenging you to use this sketch to inspire your card design:

Before I share my card with you this week I would just like to take a moment to thank all the lovely ladies over at Our Daily Bread Designs for having me as their Guest Designer for the past two months. Today will be my last challenge with them as a Guest Designer and I have been so honored to have been chosen to play along with them for two months. Wonderful bunch of ladies and so encouraging in every way. 

For my final challenge I decided to get out one of my favorite sets from ODBD: Hope; and with good reason too. Someone very near and dear to my heart is a Kidney Cancer Survivor and this person recently had a scare that immediately had them thinking the worst. So, some tests were run and while the individual was waiting for results, many people were praying. About two days before my friend was to return to the doctor for the results, they told me, I know I'm going to be okay. Something changed last night after I prayed and I can just tell you that whatever it was is gone. Well, Glory to God, when my friend went to the doctor for results, all scans came back clean! Still Cancer free! Praise God!

So in honor of the wonderful healing God has bestowed on my friend and the blessing God gave me by giving me the opportunity to be a Guest Designer with Our Daily Bread Designs... I created this card...

Orange is the color for Kidney Cancer. I used Tangerine Tango from Stampin' Up!®

I hope that you will join us in our challenge this week. 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 Sunday, September 1, at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps, we will be choosing three or more participants for the Shining The Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, September 1, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBSLC168. When creating posts on your blogs, please include a link to the challenge.


I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs/galleries and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

DJ Rants

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

ODBDSLC167: Sketch

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs.


This week we are challenging you to use this sketch to inspire your card design:

Before I show you my take on the sketch, I just have to admit what a challenge this sketch was for me. It looks pretty straightforward and simple, right? Well, after my third and final try, I decided to go with that old rule of thumb I've heard about sketches: flip it, rotate it, change out shapes, add a layer, or skip one as long as you can still see the basic outline of the sketch in your design. 

ODBD Stamps Used: Blessed Christmas

I hope that you will join us in our challenge this week. 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 Sunday, August 25, at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps, we will be choosing three or more participants for the Shining The Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, August 25, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBSLC167. When creating posts on your blogs, please include a link to the challenge.


I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs/galleries and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

DJ Rants

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

ODBDSLC166: Sketch

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs.


This week we are challenging you to use this sketch to inspire your card design:

Here is my take on the sketch:

Oh, I had such fun playing with the new Garden Mini Set and Garden Sentiments from Our Daily Bread Designs! These images went so perfectly with some Spring Market Designer Paper from Webster's Pages that I have been hoarding.

As soon as I saw the sketch I knew that I wanted to use my French Pastry Doily Die and French Pastry Mini Doily Die from Cheery Lynn Designs.

I found that great doily border punch on sale at Michael's this week! It's by EK Success and it's one of the deep edge punches.

My corners are Lace Deco Corners A also by Cheery Lynn Designs.

I loved distressing all the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink and it seemed to pull everything together nicely.

I hope that you will join us in our challenge this week. 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 Sunday, August 18, at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps, we will be choosing three or more participants for the Shining The Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, August 18, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBSLC166. When creating posts on your blogs, please include a link to the challenge.


I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs/galleries and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

DJ Rants

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

ODBDSLC165: Sketch

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs.


This week we are challenging you to use this sketch to inspire your card design:

Here is my take on the sketch:

 

ODBD Stamps Used: Faith

I hope that you will join us in our challenge this week. 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 Sunday, August 11, at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps, we will be choosing three or more participants for the Shining The Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, August 11, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBSLC165. When creating posts on your blogs, please include a link to the challenge.


I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs/galleries and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

DJ Rants

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

 

ODBDSLC164: Stamped Fluttering or Flying

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs.

This week we are challenging you to use some form of stamped fluttering or flying on your card designs. For example: birds, butterflies, etc. 

I had these two ODBD stamp sets that I have never used yet so I thought this was the perfect challenge to show them off:

Butterfly Corner

Bird and Butterfly Labels

Birthday Blessings (sentiment only)

 

I started my card with 5.25 base of Wisteria Wonder CS from SU. To that I added a layer of the coordinating DSP in the polka dot pattern. Next I stamped the Butterfly Corner in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and then colored in with copics using clear rhinestones for the flower centers. Then, using the fussy-cutting technique I cut out the corner and adhered it to the bottom right corner of my card base. 

Next using the largest Birds and Butterflies Label and Memento Ink I stamped the label onto Wisteria Wonder CS. Using the matching Spellbinders Label Eighteen I die cut the label and adhered it to my card slightly behind the butterfly corner. Using the "Happy Birthday" sentiment from Birthday Blessings, I stamped my greeting in the small oval in the label. Then I went in with the Liquid Pearls and created a lilac pearl border around the label. At this point, I felt if I did anything else I would be over-doing it. So, I had to force myself to stop there. I will be honest and say that this card is not what I would call my best work. I'd love to know what you would do to make it look better. 

I hope that you will join us in our challenge this week. 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 Sunday, August 4, at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps, we will be choosing three or more participants for the Shining The Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, August 4, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBSLC164. When creating posts on your blogs, please include a link to the challenge.


I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs/galleries and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

ODBDSLC163: Inspired by Cake

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs.

This week our challenge is Inspired by Cake. Create your design using inspiration from either one of these beautiful wedding cakes...

I drew inspiration from the blue cake. I loved the swirls of branches and blooms and the icing pearls outlining each layer.  I also am very low on my stash of birthday cards so, I decided to turn all this into a birthday card.

I started my card with a vertical base of Retired Bordering Blue CS from SU. I think this was my last sheet and luckily I had enough to make the card base and other layers out of this one sheet. Next, using my Birds & Swirls Cuttlebug embossing folder I embossed a smaller layer of bordering blue and then sponged on Ivory White Folk Art Acrylic Paint to make the embossing stand out more.

Since I knew I wanted to make a birthday card, I pulled out Our Daily Bread Designs Birthday Blessings Stamps Set.

Using my Cricut and Elegant Edges cartridge I cut out a 3 1/2 inch label to stamp the pitcher and bowl on and then a 3 3/4 inch label to mat it on. The cut that I used is called "Leaves".

I stamped the image on the white label and colored it with Copics. Coloring is not my specialty so, there is just basic coloring done here with a little bit of the blender pen.

I needed something to place my sentiment on so I cut out a Spellbinders Grommet Tag.

Once everything was adhered to the card the way I wanted it, I began to add the liquid pearls in Opal White and Baby Blue. For finishing touches I added a pre-made butterfly embellishment from K & Co.

I hope that you will join us in our challenge this week. 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 Sunday, July 28 at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps, we will be choosing three or more participants for the Shining The Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, July 28, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBSLC163. When creating posts on your blogs, please include a link to the challenge.


I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

ODBDSLC162: White or Ivory and Your Choice of One Other Color

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs.

This week we are challenging you to use white or ivory and your choice of one other color in your card design.

ODBD Stamps Used: Daffodil Corner, Birthday Blessings

 

I had such a blast creating my card this week. I was able to incorporate lots of things I love like, bling, glitter, and beads! 

I started with a 5.5 x 5.5 card base made from Calypso Coral. To that I added a smaller square panel of Whisper White.  On the left side I added a strip of double sided Tacky Tape and then sprinkled on some Stampin' Up! ® Stampin Glitter. I stamped my Daffodil Corner and then colored it up with Copic Markers. Then I fussy-cut it out and adhered it to a lacy circle of Calypso Coral. Using an EK Success border punch I created a diamond border to which I added another strip of Tacky Tape and then covered it with seed beads. After I had my sentiment adhered to the card and the coral bling in the upper right hand corner, I went back in with my Viva Decor Pearl Pen and added some white pearl drops to the lacy circle. 

I hope that you will join us in our challenge this week. 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 Sunday, July 21 at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see them!!

As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday,  July 21, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword  ODBDSLC162.  When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

 

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

 

Our Daily Bread Designs Shining Light Challenge 161: Love, Wedding, or Anniversary

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs and I am super-honored to be Guest Designing with these incredible ladies for the next couple of months!

ODBDSLC161 Love, Wedding or Anniversary: Use a prayer, blessing, or Scripture on your card. 

Here is what I came up with...

I was so excited to use one of the new releases from July for this challenge: Anniversary Blessings. 

I used designer paper from My Minds Eye that I had been hoarding for awhile. Using VersaMark and white embossing powder I heat embossed the cake. I just love how crisp the images and sentiments from ODBD come out. I also love working with coral tones and you might recognize that lacy circle as Groovy Guava from SU. The lace was in my stash and it just happened to pull it all together perfectly. 

I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

Everything Beautiful

It's been a long while since I've been able to play with my rubber stamps! I've been doing a lot of digital designing and I think I was starting to go through withdrawals from the lack of rubbah.

This card was inspired by two specific challenges:
ODBDSLC144: Black and White or Cream
Cheery Lynn Designs: Die Cut Flowers

I started with a 6x6 base of Bazzill Bling Cardstock in Black Tie. To that I added a distressed layer of designer paper from the Prima Printery Collection. On the right side I added a rectangle layer of the designer paper matted with the Black Tie CS. Using Very Vanilla CS from SU and my Cheery Lynn  Dies I cut out 2 Sweet Williams flower sets and a Fanciful Flourish. I added black pearls to the centers of the Sweet Williams. I wanted my Scripture to be the focal point of the card so using my Spellbinders Lacy Ovals I cut one oval out in Very Vanilla and the other one in Black Tie. I stamped my Scripture from the ODBD Scripture Collection 1 onto the Very Vanilla oval. Once I had the ovals adhered to the card base I accented each one with pearls. For finishing touches, I couldn't resist using my Cheery Lynn Lace Corner Deco E dies with the Black Tie CS.

I had such a blast making this card! Thanks to Our Daily Bread Designs and Cheery Lynn Designs for the inspiring challenges.

Tuesday's Testimonial 10

Happy Tuesday! It's time for Tuesday's Testimonial Linky Party where I share a project with Scripture on it and invite you to share any kind of paper crafted project with Scripture on it. We do this to encourage one another and to Glorify God.

Today's project design was inspired by two challenges:

Shining Light Challenge 126 Sketch

Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 50 - Corner Adorners: must use a corner embellishment

In order to succeed in life, we must abide in Christ, must have union with Him by faith. True Christians find by experience, that any interruption in the exercise of their faith, causes holy affections to decline, their corruptions to revive, and their comforts to droop. We should seek to live more simply on the fullness of Christ, and to grow more successful in every good word and work, so that our joy in Him and in His salvation will be full.

Supplies: Cheery Lynn Designs Lace Deco Corner E; Cheery Lynn Designs French Pastry Doily Die; ODBD Scripture Collection 4; Spellbinders Lacy Circle Die; Fiskars Diamond Border punch; Prima Ceylon Garden Collection; Lace from SU.

If you would like to share a project with me that you've made using Scripture please use the inlinkz tool below. I'd love to see what you've made using the Word of God!

Sentimental Sundays: Black & White + One More Color

Sunday Blessings! It's time for a new challenge at Sentimental Sundays. This week we challenge you to use Black, White and one more color.

I chose to go with Pearlustre Carnelian Embossing Powder for my extra color.

Supplies: God's Love Stamp Set by Our Daily Bread Designs; Whisper White and Basic Black CS; Pearlustre Carnelian Embossing Powder. 

I would like to enter this card into the Shining Light Challenge @ Our Daily Bread Designs to use fall colors and a verse. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Have a blessed week.

Classy Cards N Such: Remain In Me

Hello Everyone! It's Jennipher and I am most delighted to be back designing for Classy Cards N Such. I had such a blast last time I couldn't resist coming back.

My card today is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 square. I started with a base of pale pink cardstock. To the base I added a sheet of designer paper from the Glitz Designs Pretty In Pink Collection. It has such a lovely musical background with just a hint of pink in it. I distressed the edges of my paper and then sponged on Spun Sugar Distress Ink.

Before adhering that layer to the pale pink base I added a strip of May Arts Textured Two Tone Ribbon in Fuchsia/Pink across the top.

I used my Spellbinders Labels Eighteen largest die to cut out a matching flower border stamp for the Scripture I planned to use. I colored in the tiny flowers with Copic Markers. I just love how they are making coordinating stamps to work with these Spellbinders Dies. It's so much fun! I also used the Spun Sugar Distress Ink around the die cut edges.

For finishing touches I found the perfect shade of a pink/fuchsia flower in the Flowershop De Soie Collection by Prima. I added that to the lower right corner of my card.

I hope you are inspired by what I created today and will give some of these fabulous products a try! Use my discount code to take 10 percent off your order: JENNIPHER-10.

Supplies not mentioned above: Flower Border Die from Our Daily Bread Designs; Scripture Stamp from Our Daily Brad Designs. 

I would like to enter my card into the Our Daily Bread Shining Light Challenge: Something Musical. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. God Bless.