Though You are Little...

Welcome to another Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge! Today our challenge hostess is Peggysue. She has chosen a wonderful verse for this Christmas season! Micah 5:2

"But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting."

Peggysue's challenge is to make a project using inchies.

What a great verse for this time of the year!!! Have you ever thought about how with God... so often the little, the humble, the poor are the ones He exalts? Bethlehem was just a little town but God honored it as the place in which His very own Son would be born. Years later, when Jesus had begun His ministry His disciples asked Him who will be the greatest in heaven. Jesus' answer was whoever humbles himself as a little child will be the greatest in heaven. (Matt 18:4) As humans, our tendency is to be impressed by wealth, power, position... but God is interested in inner qualities... qualities like humility, mercy, peacemaking, gentleness, purity. These are the things that impress God! Sometimes you and I may feel like little fish in a big sea... what can we do to make a difference in this world? Well... I have a feeling that God is honored by the little things we do that no one else even knows about! He tells us we already have our reward if we receive praise here on earth... but our reward is in heaven for those things we quietly do or say that have eternal value that no one might even know about but Him! So lets never forget that even the little things that we can do daily are very important to God! He can use us in the simplest of ways! When you think about it that way... it's pretty cool to be a little inchie, don't you think?

For my project I needed a tag for a package I had wrapped in this pretty snowflake paper. So in keeping with the "little" idea, I used my inchies on a little tag. I used the smallest snowflake from the Our Daily Bread designs set "Peace and Joy" and I cut it with the custom made die. I stamped my snowflakes with Baja Breeze on Gina K Pure Luxury Ivory. I died my seam binding to match.

Our sponsor this week is Our Daily Bread designs.
The prize is a $15.00 Gift Certificate!


For more inspiration, please visit my dt sisters:

Chris, Linda, Peggysue, Randi (on break), Meisje, Rebecca, Lisa (on break), Patti

For the full devotional and challenge details please visit the Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge. Thanks for visiting and I can't wait to see what you come up with!


Have a Merry Christmas!

I'm entering this in the following Challenges:

Craft Your Days Away - Punch It Out

One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes
Crafty Emma - Anything Goes

Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Sugar Sweet Paper Treats - Anything Goes

Order of the Opus Gleui - Show Anything You have Made

Crafty Catz - Your Choice (I chose 60)
AiFactory : Anything goes
Cupcake Craft Challenges : Non-traditional Christmas
Allsorts : Anything goes
Fussy and Fancy Friday : Show us some snow
CES Challenge : Anything goes
The Pink Elephant : Winter Wonderland
Crafty Sentiments : Anything goes
Polly Craft Monday : White Christmas
Stamp with Fun : Christmas
Stampin 'for the weekend : Christmas

Hodge Podge : Blue and silver