ODBD 7th Anniversay Scripture Challenge

Hello Friends! One of my two favorite stamp companies, Our Daily Bread Designs, is celebrating 7 years this month. In honor of their Anniversary they are having a Scripture Challenge. I thought this was more than appropriate and right up my alley because, their Scripture stamps is what made me fall in love with the company. Today is the last day to play along and I'm bringing up the rear as usual but, I have a good reason this time. I was waiting for my new Scripture stamps to arrive that I ordered from their Anniversary sale and they arrived today!

One of the new sets I ordered was Scripture Series 3. I wanted to use one of the Scriptures from that set on a card today because it has been a tough week. Two ladies from the company that I work for, lost their jobs this week because their positions were eliminated. These ladies had over 30 years of service in with the company and they were given no advance notice. My heart goes out to them and it reminded me that....

ODBD Scripture Series 3, Dreamy Leaves die from Verve

For inspiration for the overall design of my card I used an older Mojo Monday Sketch that I hadn't tried yet.

Mojo Monday 385

I would also like to share my card with the fine ladies over at Word Art Wednesday, who are all about spreading God's Word!

To Our Daily Bread Designs, Happy 7th Anniversary and Congratulations! May God continue to bless your company.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to be back later this weekend with more cards to share.

Distressing @ Sentimental Sundays

Did someone say "distressing"? Yep, that's what I heard. Distressing is one of my favorite things to do. In fact, I rarely make a card without it. So, when I saw that our challenge this week at Sentimental Sundays was distressing, I thought "easy peasy" for me!

Since that was an easy part for me I decided to give myself the added challenge of making a easel card. Now, keep in mind this is my first ever easel card so, please go easy on me.

This is a 6x6 easel card. I distressed the edges of my blue designer paper on the top base layer with my distressing tool and then I inked them with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Faded Jeans. My vertical layer with the seam binding ribbon was distressed and inked also. I also used the Faded Jeans ink to sponge in the center of the lacy circles. I didn't have any flowers this color so I decided to blot my white Prima on the distress ink pad. I think it gives it kind of a rugged affect.

A couple of close ups...

There is another thing I love as much as I do distressing and that is my Our Daily Bread Designs stamps. Their Shining Light Challenge this week is distressing so, I was more than happy to break out my stamps and play along.

Another reason I chose their stamps for this card is because I made this card to give to someone very special to me who is getting ready to embark on a journey for the next four months and could really use some encouragement. What could be more encouraging than knowing that without a doubt our Lord is with us every step of the way! No matter what we face each day, we do not face it alone. I don't know about you, but that makes it a lot easier for me to get up every morning and face the day.

I'd also like to enter this card into the challenge at Stampin' Sister's In Christ this week where they are challenging you to add some sparkle to your card. I think my blue bling counts as sparkle!

Last but not least is another challenge I have come to enjoy and appreciate is Word Art Wednesday where each week they challenge you to create something with Scripture on it or any encouraging words.

Be sure to stop by Sentimental Sundays  and see what my fellow designers created for this challenge. You are certain to be inspired.

Thanks for stopping by today. God Bless You!

Favorite Scripture/Quote + Sketch @ The Perfect Sentiment

We all have a favorite Scripture or Quote that holds a special meaning for us. I know that I personally recited Jeremiah 29:11 everyday during a very trying time in my life. I had just been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and had to deal with excepting the diagnosis and how it would affect my life when all these other medical problems kept coming out of nowhere. In the span of a year and a half, I literally had five surgical procedures to correct other things that were wrong with me. It was affecting my personal life, my job, and my mental well-being. So, I had to have faith and believe that God had a plan for my life and that I would come out of all this a stronger person. Jeremiah 29:11 is my "life verse".

My card was made using the 2-step stamping technique with a stamp set from Stampin' Up!® called Fast and Fabulous. I used Tangerine Tango and Cajun Craze Classic Ink. My ribbon and die-cut cardstock is Groovy Guava. I used Spellbinders Labels 18 for my die cut. After stamping my Scripture on the label, I distressed the edges with Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber in White. My Scripture stamp is a Plain Jane from Verve. For my bows I used a technique from Stamp TV called Cheater's Bows.

Our challenge this week at The Perfect Sentiment is to use your favorite Scripture/Quote on your card along with this sketch.

You can flip or rotate the sketch to make it work for you as long as we can still see the basic outline of the sketch in your card design.













We are being sponsored this week by Shelly's Images.


Shelly will provide one lucky random winner with a free digi of their choice.

For more inspiration stop by The Perfect Sentiment and check out what my fellow Design Team Members created for this challenge.


I am entering my card into the following challenges:

• Word Art Wednesday
• Make it Monday
• Tammy's Scrapin Corner
• That Craft Place

Thanks for stopping by my blog. God Bless You!