Jan. ODBD Release BLOG HOP!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the January Our Daily Bread designs Release "Taking a Leap of Faith" Blog Hop! If you got here from Angie's Blog then you are in the right place! If not you should go to the Our Daily Bread designs Blog to start from the beginning so you don't miss anything! The Hop will run from 8am Eastern Jan. 1 to 8pm Jan 2. The winners will be announced on the ODBD Blog on Jan. 3. There will be 5 prizes. Kelley has very generously offered to give five prizes of YOUR CHOICE of one set!!! The prizes are hidden on various blogs along the hop, so it is important that you visit and comment on each one!

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

Visit and leave a comment on each blog on the hop, then return to the ODBD Blog and leave a comment:

* Telling us you completed the hop and noting any blogs you could not comment on

* Answer the question that is posted on the ODBD Blog (You only need to answer on the ODBD blog)

* Be sure to check the ODBD Blog on Jan 3rd to see if you won! :)

All of us in the Bread Basket have had so much fun playing with these new stamps and die cut! Who doesn't love butterflies? They are symbolic of HOPE and new life... and they are one of God's most beautiful creations! You will love the sentiments and the font on the Faith set! Just wait until you see how many Spellbinders dies you can fit these sentiments in! Don't delay.. I think these will sell out quickly!

So Now on to my card details:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs "Full of Grace Series - Faith" (sentiment), "Butterfly Corner"," Butterfly" and "matching Die Cut", "Faith" (Butterfly design on Bookmark).
Card Stock: Bazzill, Gina K Pure Luxury Layering Weight
Designer Paper: Prima Fairy , Pink Vellum
Ink: Memento, Our Daily Bread designs Olive Green
Accessories: May Arts Silk Ribbon, K&Co Crystal Bling, ODBD Tag Die Cut, Ornare piercing template and tools

I colored the butterfly corner image with Copics and then cut out. I cut a piece of pink vellum and adhered it with Vellum adhesive to give the softness to the design to make the sentiment on the bookmark pop more. I attached the corner to the card top making a pocket for my sentiment bookmark. I made the bookmark using the ODBD Tag Die to cut the shape on the top, then just didn't run it all the way though the machine so I could hand cut a longer length of cs. I matted the bookmark with Black and used May Arts silk ribbon for the ties at the top.

I hope you enjoyed my card today!

From here, hop on over to Debi's Blog to see what inspiration she has for you! Thanks for stopping and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

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Beautiful Butterfly

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Hello everyone! I am back from visiting family...and ready to start blogging and crafting again! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to a happy new year!

Today I got to play in the sketch challenge over on SCS, and I used the color challenge from yesterday as well. This is a sneak peek at one of the new sets being released Jan. 1 by Our Daily Bread designs...Butterfly and the matching die cut. I just love how quickly these custom made dies cut! I colored this butterfly with Copics and added some ZVA Creative pearl flourshes in Midnight. The ribbon is May Arts silk. The punched panel is EK Success Lattice punch. My card base is Coredinations and the designer paper is Webster's Pages. I kept this one CAS and finished it very quickly. You are going to love all the new sets coming your way in just a couple days! Don't miss our Blog Hop on Jan 1 for a chance to win! See you then!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

For Fun Challenges - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes

Aly's Sunday Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Anns - Anything Goes

OSAAT - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Anything Goes

Stamps R Us - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Crafty Emmas - Anything Goes

Moving Along with the Times - Anything Goes ('cept Christmas!)

Digi Doodle Shops Best - Anything Goes

Creative Crafts - Anything Goes

Fab n Funky - Quick n Easy

Craft your Days Away - Punches/Diecuts (diecuts)

Sew Many Challenges: Anything Goes!
The Beary Scrap Challenge: Pearls or Gems

MERRY CHRISTMAS and BLOG CANDY!

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Hello dear blogging friends! I prescheduled this post because I am with family this week, enjoying happy times and making treasured memories.... and most of all thanking God for His indescribable gift! To think that even in my rotten sinful state, GOD... the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End... the Creator of the universe, and the Sustainer of all things was mindful of me... just amazes me so much, I really can't fully fathom it! But I stand on His Word as true, and thank Him for so great a love... so great a plan that He would give His one and only Son, and that that Son would humble Himself and become a man so that He could pay the price for the sin of the world... WOW! He did all this because He loves us... you and me! No matter how sinful we have been, no matter what we have done, no matter how far from Him we are... He loves us and wants to have a personal relationship with us! So on this Christmas day... many of my thoughts and prayers will be in thanksgiving for His ultimate gift... Jesus... Emanuel... God with us! I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a new year filled with God's richest blessings!

I made this card using Layers of Color Poinsettia Frame cling art stamp and the Spellbinder's Label Sixteen. I love these beautiful frames and having them match the spellbinders dies just makes them even sweeter! LOC is excited to be a Spellbinder's Preferred Company! The designer paper is Graphic 45 and the cs is Gina K.

To see the other cards made by the talented Layers of Color Design Team, please visit their blogs:

Layers of Colors Art Stamps

Linda
Janice
Jennie
Jessica
Melisa
Nina

My Design team sisters on the Stampin Sisters in Christ team have also left special Christmas cards for you, and you can see their creations on their blogs as well:

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

To See My Gift to You... BLOG CANDY, please click HERE

Christmas to Birthday BLOG CANDY!

Merry Christmas to my Blog Followers!

I have decided to offer up some blog candy for my blog followers as a way of wishing you a Merry Christmas and to thank you for this past year of your faithful visits and comments that mean so much!
This candy will run from today through my birthday (Jan. 20) Random.Org will then select a winner and I will announce the winner on my blog in a new blog post soon thereafter.

Here is a list of what is included in the candy:
Spellbinders Label Four
2 packs Spare Parts Flower Brads
1 K&Co Flower Brad pack
2 QuicKutz Embossing Folders
1 Cuttlebug Embossing Folder
Assorted Charms
ZVA Silk Flowers and Butterfly
1 jar Christmas mix Flower Soft
1 Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist
1 BasicGrey Pack of Brads
3 Wood Mounted Stamps
1 Pack of 3 Jars of Stickles
1 Our Daily Bread designs Ink Pad
2 Martha Stewart Punches
2 Packs of ZVA Pearls
Assorted Ribbons
1 Making Memories 6 x 6 Paper Pad
1 Marths Stewart Bird Stamp Set
1 Pack Prima Flowers
1 Pack of Fibers
1 SU! Pack of Door Knob Hangers
1 Cloud 1 Rain Dots
1 Pack Paper Clips

Who knows... I might be adding a few more goodies as time goes on! To enter to win, please add your link to the linky tool below AND leave a comment just in case the Linky Tool goes down.... I want both please! Since this is for my followers, if you are not currently a follower I'd love to have you become one! I'd love your help in spreading the word by posting my candy in your side bar! Thank you and good luck in the drawing! And most of all.... MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Note: If you don't have a blog, you can just enter using your email address as the link and then your name and email again in order to fill the blanks in. Best of luck in the draw!

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

Crystals in the Snow

Hello everyone! Today I'm sharing another Christmas card I made with this month's release by Our Daily Bread designs, "Ornament". I am just in love with this ornament! I love how perfectly it fits the Spellbinder's Heirloom Ornament die and how versatile it is!

I used Midnight Madness Sketch 84 for this layout. If you haven't checked out Midnight Madness this month, you should! All the sketches are up for the whole month and you can make any one as you are able! We had a little snow Sunday here and it was blustery cold all day today, so this made me think of white and sparkle. This is what I came up with. I stamped the ornament in Stazon Silver and colored lightly with Copics. I matted the ornament with two of the same size die cuts from silver that I had left over from another project. This gave just a little depth to the ornament. I used a Cuttlebug ornament embossing folder from the Winter Wonderland Bundle, May Arts Silver ribbon and the dp is ADT Momenta Specialty Collection "Jack Frost". It's a sparkly paper. The base is Martha Stewart and the white is Gina K Pure Luxury. The bling is from Micheal's.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Catch The Bug - winter wonderland
2 Sisters - twas the night before christmas
Allsorts - last minute christmas projects
Craft Your Days Away - punches or die cuts
Just Us Girls - sparkly stained glass
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - monochromatic
Mami Doodles - anything goes
Stamp Man - christmas and only 3 colors ( blue, white, silver)
Stampin With The Dragon (2 weeks) - make it sparkle
Winter Wonderland - CHRISTMAS and baubles
AiFactory - holiday / Christmas
Delightful Challenges - embossing
Sassy Studio Designs - Christmas in non traditional colors
Freshly Brewed - sparkle and shine
Little Red Wagon - die cuts
Penny's Paper-Crafty (2 weeks) - Christmas
Simon Says Stamp - Christmas but no red or green
Stampavie and More - Christmas
Stampin' Royalty - winter holidays
The Crafty Pad - embossing heat or dry
Let's Ink it Up - Christmas twist, add bling
Creative Inspiration - Anything goes Christmas
Cupcake Craft - Non-traditional Christmas
Incy Wincy - Non- traditional Christmas colors
Stamp with Fun - Christmas
Stamp R Us - Anything Goes

Encouragement the Moxie Fab way!

Happy Sunday and welcome to another Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge! This week our hostess is the sweet and talented Patti! The Scripture Patti chose for this week's challenge is "Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them." ~Ephesians 4:29 NLT

Patti's challenge is "A Way with Words". Create a card or project that will compliment, encourage, or cheer someone in need of uplifting.

I wanted to play this week's Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World as well, so I made two cards that fit both of these challenges. The Moxie Fab Tues. Trigger is "All that glitters" and is based on this gorgeous inspiration photo:

Aren't these colors and this ring amazing? I won't even tell you what this baby costs! But here is my second take on the trigger:

The top card is made with Layers of Color Granny's Jewelry clear art stamp set, stamped in Stazon Silver, and Gina K Fanciful Tags (by Nina Brackett) for the sentiment, heat embossed in white. The second card is made with Our Daily Bread designs "God Loves You" set, stamped in Lavender Lace (SU!). Both cards are on a base of EK Success Craftstock (Purple Heliotype) and use designer paper by Kaisercraft (Airy Fairy). The ribbon is from my stash, as is all the bling. Both cards were made in a snap... REALLY CAS for me, but I do like them and know I have many uses for Praying for you cards!

Our Sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp
We want to thank them for their continued support and generosity! Please visit their store for the widest selection of stamps around!

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!

I am entering this in the following challenges:
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - animals or insects
Southern Girls - it's heating up (heat embossing top card)
Freshly Brewed - sparkle and shine
Tuesday Throwdown - clean and simple
Craft Your Passion - anything goes
There She Goes - bling