Blue Knight Rubber Stamps-Blue Birds

Good morning!

I have another beautiful image to show you from Blue Knight Stamps!!

I did this for the Sketch Challenge also the WT Challenge at Splitcoaststampers.

I used BKRS Blue Bird and Babies  and Bible Verses 2.

Coloring was done with my Copic Markers and I trimmed the image down just a tad to make it fit my sketch.

The flowers were die cut and formed and then centers filled with Prills from US Artquest.

I absolutely adore these birds and the definition in the stamp!! 

Thanks for visiting today!

I hope you will go visit Blue Knight Rubber Stamps HERE.

Robin

ODBDSLC280-Challenge Reminder

Good morning!

This is my reminder for our challenge this month!

It's a great sketch challenge but as you can see, it may be interpreted in your own way or direction.

ODBD stamps: Joys of the Season, Merry and Bright

ODBD dies: Vintage Labels, Vintage Borders, Christmas Lights, Holy Night

sketch

I decided to make my circle elements ovals and triangles (the tree) on this card. But basically this is the same sketch.

I used an embossing folder from Cuttlebug for my background and a previously made background panel was used to die cut the Vintage Borders, tree and mat behind the embossing. I made the teal panel with Color Burst watercolors. I die cut the string of lights and put Stickles on the bulbs.  The tree is white embossed.  My star for the top of the tree is from the Holy Night Nativity die set.

I just added a nice sheer teal ribbon bow on the side and Liquid Pearls to the embossed background to top it off.

Please visit my design team sisters for more inspiration

Chris, Diana, Julie

You may use any Our Daily Bread Designs, Artistic Outpost or NorthCoast Creations stamps to create you card and then submit it to the ODBD blog HERE.

There will be a $15 gift certificate  toward stamps for one random winner as well as one winner for the Shining the Light Award (you must use at least one ODBD stamp to be eligible for the Shining The Light Award).

ODBD produsts used. Find them HERE.

Psalm 95:1-2

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!

Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.

2 

Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;

Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.

ODBDSLC280-Sketch

Good morning!

Time for a new challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs.
A new sketch to inspire you!

ODBD stamps: Merry & Bright
ODBD dies: Christmas Lights, Snowflake Sky, Doily, Pierced Circles
I used the outer doily die to cut the scallop frame and the vellum. The background was sprayed with Dylusions spray inks on aluminum foil (or any non porous surface) and then sprayed with lots of water and my paper dunked into the inky puddles sort of speak.  When dry,  I cut the "Snowflake Sky" in white and glued it (and the frame that comes with it) to the top of the background that I made. I cut 2 strands of "Christmas Lights", colored them with a purplish color and glued them to my hand cut banner which is popped up with foam tape.  The sentiment is cut with a pierced circle then popped up and  matted with another pierced circle.
I added some rhinestones to the background for some extra bling.
In real life my bow and sentiment matches perfectly so I think the embossing powder and the shimmer of the ribbon must bounce light differently.

Please visit my design team sisters for more inspiration

Julie, Chris and Diana

Here is the sketch, have fun!

ODBD new products used:

There will be a $15 gift certificate  toward stamps for one random winner as well as one winner for the Shining the Light Award.
The participants have until November 27 to join us.
Please submit your entry to the ODBD Blog HERE.

Thanks for visiting today!
Robin

Ephesians 2: 8-10
 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

ODBDSLC277 Reminder-Sketch Challenge

Good morning!

Here is a second sample for this month's challenge.

ODBD stamps: Deep Waters, Many Blessings

ODBD dies: Pierced Squares, Pierced Circles, Doily, Log Cabin Quilt, Flower Lattice, Pierced Rectangles

ODBD paper: By The Shore

 I stamped and colored the die cut my underwater scene then die cut my doily from a piece of card stock the I had sprayed with Dylusions Inks. The background for the doily (part of the Doily set) was cut with the new paper called By the Sea. I then cut a turquoise Pierced Square and a Tan Pierced Rectangle that I then Embossed for a bit of texture.  I die cut the border with the new Flower Lattice die, laid it on the same color and cut it out around the outside.
Stamped the sentiment "Everyday is a" and die cut Blessings (cutting off the s at the end to make Blessing).
That's about it.
You may use any stamp or die from Our Daily Bred Designs, Artistic Outpost or North Coast Creation for this challenge.
There will be a $15 gift certificate  toward stamps for one random winner as well as one winner for the Shining the Light Award.
Check the ODBD blog for details on submitting your card and for seeing all the samples in one place.

Please visit my design team sisters 
Diana, Chris and Julie

 James 1:27New Living Translation (NLT)

27 Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.

Romans 12:2

 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

You have to read God's word to know who God is, to know who Jesus is and to know how to live for Him.  Start reading today!  If you don't like to read, you can get the word of God on Cd's...It is so fun to listen to especially one that is dramatized (different voices, music, etc).  Start today!

ODBDSLC277 It's a Sketch Challenge!

Good morning!

It's time for a new challenge from Our Daily Bread Designs!!

This month we are going with a sketch; I love sketches, they are like instant cards!

You don't have to follow it as is thought, you can turn it inside out, upside down or sideways...Whatever floats your boat!

Today mine follows as is!

ODBD stamps: Birdhouse

ODBD dies: Doily, Pierced Squares, Double Stitched Circles, Pierced Rectangles, Bitty Borders, Squares

ODBD papers: Pastel Paper Pack, Easter Card Collection

I just love the delicate prints in the Easter paper packs and the nice pastel colors so I chose to use them this morning. I incorporated the Bitty borders too, how fun!  Our doily die is perfect for a scallop circle and with all the pierced and stitched dies that we now have, making a feminine or shabby chic card is a cinch!

Isn't this little birdhouse adorable!  Look at all those mouths to feed!

There will be a $15 gift certificate  toward stamps for one random winner as well as one winner for the Shining the Light Award.

You must use at least one stamp or die from ODBD, Northcoast Creations or Artistic Outpost to join us. 

Please visit my design team sisters for more inspiration:  Chris and Diana

You can also visit the ODBD blog to find out more and to submit your card.

New ODBD Products

Psalm 139:13-17New Living Translation (NLT)

13 

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body

    and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 

Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!

    Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

15 

You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,

    as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

16 

You saw me before I was born.

    Every day of my life was recorded in your book.

Every moment was laid out

    before a single day had passed.

17 

How precious are your thoughts about me,[a] O God.

    They cannot be numbered!

Yes, the God who formed you and knew all your days before there was even one, He has a plan for your life.  Trust Him with it, He knows more than we do!

It starts by believing in Him and accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

Americana

Good morning!

How about the 200+ year tradition of Americana Quilts!

Today I am featuring two Log Cabin Quilt cards with the new Americana Quilt paper collection and the Quilted With Love stamp set from ODBD.

My first card is a "picture of" the whole quilt (in miniature) with lace edges and everything!  It is covered on one end with a floral bouquet made with the Birds & Nest die set, Fancy Foliage and Prills (white-by US Artquest).  I've added baby buttons on each corner dressed with white floss and my sentiment cut with Filigree Frames and embossed with blue foil embossing powder.

These quilts are so fun to make with each piece cut separately you can mix and match all you want to.

My second card is inspired by the Splitcoaststampers sketch challenge (4/13/16).

I made two Log Cabin Quilts next to each other on a piece of white card stock and then cut them down to 5 1/4" by 3 1/5 to fit in my element 1 space.  The rest I made with left over paper from my quilt cut outs and from red linen card stock and white.  This is just a portion of the "large quilt" in my mind anyway! LOL!  I made my flower with the Pretty Posies die set and white mulberry paper, scrunched and folded in quarters then glued together (two medium and one small).  The edges are tipped in Red Brilliance.  I used the Circles and Double Stitched Circles to cut my sentiment.

Thanks for visiting today and I hope this will inspire the inner quilter in you!!

 Robin

ODBD NEW products used

Verse for today

[ The Risen Christ, Faith’s Reality ] Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

1 Corinthians 15:1, 3-4 NKJV

ODBDSLC270-Sketch Mid month

Good morning!

Here is another card using this month's challenge sketch.  

This time I changed it up a bit.

I've used the new release Many Thanks

I also used the new release Pastel Paper pack, and the tiny flower in new release Easter Eggs as well as some favorites Pretty Posies, Double Stitched Rectangles, Rectangles, Stitched Ovals, and Ovals.

I shortened the rectangles by cutting twice, moving the die in a couple inches but making sure the stitch marks matched. For the flowers, I used the smallest Posy die and then sponged lavender ink on the ends, then I used the little flower that comes with the Easter eggs set, formed the flowers and added white Prills to the centers.  The embossing powder I used for my sentiment is a lavender confetti.

New, starting this month:

Participants can use ODBD stamps, North Coast Creations, and Artistic Outpost to  be spotlighted for the Shining the Light challenge and you can enter multiple cards during the month.

Please visit my design team sister Chris for more inspiration

To see all the projects created for ODBDSLC270 or to join the challenge click here.  You have until February 28, at 8:00 pm EDT to join us. By participating in the challenge, you have a chance to win a  $15 ODBD Gift Certificate good towards the purchase of stamps in the “stamps column” on the ODBD website, or to be spotlighted on the ODBD Blog at our next challenge. The random prize winner will be posted on our next challenge post. Please do not post on Flicker as many of us do not have the ability to comment on your cards nor can we spotlight your cards on the blog.

A song that is always going through my head these days is "Be Thou My Vision".  It is an old Irish hymn and it goes like this:

1) "Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; naught be all else to me, save that Thou art-

Thou my best thought, by day or by night; waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

2) Be Thou my wisdom, O Thou my true word; I ever with thee and Thou with me, Lord.

Thou my great Father; Thine own may I be, Thou in me dwelling and I one with Thee.

3) Riches I heed not, nor vain, empty praise; Thou mine inheritance, now and always;

Thou and Thou only first in my heart, high King of heaven, my treasure Thou art.

4) High King of heaven, my victory won, may I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's sun!

Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, still be my vision, O Ruler of all."

I love this song and the music that goes with it just sets my heart a flame with love and devotion for my God!  It reminds me to keep my focus upon the face of Jesus, where He makes me to even walk on waters and everything becomes still around me.  All the troubles of this world fade away when I am in His presence and looking to Him for my all. 

"Be still and KNOW that I am God!" Psalm 46:10
Thank you for visiting today!!

Robin

ODBDSLC Challenge #270 Sketch

Good morning!

Our month long challenge for February is a sketch (found below).

You can enter multiple times during the month!!

 ODBD stamps: Many Thanks
ODBD dies: Layered Lacey Squares, Ovals, Stitched Ovals
ODBD papers: Easter Card Collection, Pastel Paper Pack

This sketch is really fun and easy, come join in to be eligible for the prize! 

I've used the new paper from the Pastel paper pack for my lavender background and my inner square is made from using the Layered Lacey Squares die and the Easter Card paper pack.

The verse is from our new stamp set Many Thanks!

Please visit my design team sister for more inspiration

Chris, Diana, and Robin (you are here)

New, starting this month:

Participants can use ODBD stamps, North Coast Creations, and Artistic Outpost to  be spotlighted for the Shining the Light challenge and as I said above, you can enter multiple cards during the month.

To see all the projects created for ODBDSLC270 or to join the challenge click here.  You have until February 28, at 8:00 pm EDT to join us. By participating in the challenge, you have a chance to win a  $15 ODBD Gift Certificate good towards the purchase of stamps in the “stamps column” on the ODBD website, or to be spotlighted on the ODBD Blog at our next challenge. The random prize winner will be posted on our next challenge post. Please do not post on Flicker as many of us do not have the ability to comment on your cards nor can we spotlight your cards on the blog.

Give thanks to the Lord or He is good!

Thanks for visiting!

Robin

ODBDSLC262-Sketch Challenge

Good morning!

today we have a fun sketch challenge!  Come join us!

ODBD stamps used: You Will Find Refuge, Perfect Light
ODBD dies used: Layered Lacey Squares, Leafy Edged Border
ODBD paper used: Christmas Collection 2015

I die cut my Layered Lacey Square and then ran a VersaMagic pad over the edge and gold embossed the edges.  I did that to the other two red panels as well.

For the sentiment, I stamped with VersaFine Red and heat set it then embossed it and the other white panel with a poinsettia design embossing folder.  The gold and red background paper is from Our Daily Bread Designs Christmas collection.

I die cut the Leafy Edged Border with red and again with gold (the gold layer was die cut on both sides by the plain [small zig zag pattern] curved border that comes in the set).

My image was stamped with Memento so that I could use my usual Copic Markers to color the image then cut it out with a Spellbinders square nesting die.

Slowly but surely Our Daily Bread Designs is making their own dies so keep an eye out, they are coming in most shapes and sizes...I especially like the stitched dies.  

Lastly, I added a shiny gold bow!

Please visit my design team sisters to see more inspiration

Julie, Robin (that's me), Paula, Diana, Chris

To see all the projects created for ODBDSLC262 or to join the challenge click here.  You have until November 15th, at 8:00 pm EDT to join us. By participating in the challenge, you have a chance to win a  $15 ODBD Gift Certificate good towards the purchase of stamps in the “stamps column” on the ODBD website, or to be spotlighted on the ODBD Blog at our next challenge. The random prize winner will be posted on our next challenge post. Please do not post on Flicker as many of us do not have the ability to comment on your cards nor can we spotlight your cards on the blog.

Most of you probably don't know that my mom died from Alzheimer's Disease.  The reason I tell you this is because during the last year or so of her life she was in a vegetative state, like being in a cocoon.  It was such a hard thing to see happening to my mother and we actually started praying that God would take her home now.  When she did die, I went about  singing one of her favorite songs which was "His Eye Is On The Sparrow".  The chorus of that song goes like this, "I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm free, His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me".  The reason I sang that  song was not because I was happy my mom was gone but because I knew that my mom was now released from her earthly body, her cocoon.  She was free like a butterfly and she was happy because she was in the arms of Jesus her savior, awakened from a long sleep-like existance.  How do I know that she was now resting in the arms of Jesus?  Because she put all her faith and trust in Jesus for her salvation, she knew that it was nothing in her or that she could do anything for salvation herself, it was all God!  I know that I will see my mom again because I have Jesus living inside my heart and I trust Him for my salvation too!  What a joy to know where I will be, to know where my mom is. You can have that assurance too.  God wrote everything you need to know for life in His word, the Bible.  Email me, I'll tell you how you can have eternal life in Jesus Christ.

ODBDSLC254- Sketch Challenge

Good morning!

Time for our sketch challenge.

I've used one of my favorite verses for this card.  I know, I say that about every verse!! It's true, I love the word of God!

ODBD stamps used: Keep My Lamp Burning

OBDB dies used: Pretty Peony, Stitched Oval, Leafy Edged Border, Boho Background.

There is a bit of an optical illusion going on with my card because the border is a curved border but I assure you, everything is straight except the bottom curve.  I was oringinaly going to turn this sketch around but I liked the border at the bottom better, it has a lacy look to it.

The flower was die cut, sponged with purple then formed front and back to give it more shape.  The leaf was also formed after sponging with Jade and Lime ink.  I used an embossing folder to create my background then placed a pearl on each cross section.  The doily was cut twice, once from the background to make a hole then again with the outer part of the doily, to make a frame.  On the inside I popped up the background panel and placed the purple and Boho background underneath.
I cut the Leafy Edge Border twice, once white and once purple and I used my stitched oval in 3 sizes to make the sentiment and framing. One the Leafy Edge Border I also added lace, ribbon and a row of pearls.

Please visit my design team sisters to see their beautiful samples:
Julie, Diana, Paula, Chris and Robin.

To see all the projects created for ODBDSLC254 or to join the challenge click here.  You have until September 20, 2015, at 8:00 pm EDT to join us. By participating in the challenge, you have a chance to win a  $15 ODBD Gift Certificate good towards the purchase of stamps in the “stamps column” on the ODBD website, or to be spotlighted on the ODBD Blog at our next challenge. The random prize winner will be posted on our next challenge post. Please do not post on Flicker as many of us do not have the ability to comment on your cards nor can we spotlight your cards on the blog.”

God is my refuge!
Have you ever wondered why there is so much evil and bad stuff going on in the world, well, it is because God gave man (and women) free will.  Sometimes I wish He had not but I know that God wants us to come to Him of our own free will because that is what love looks like.  If we never had a choice we would be more like robots.  Yes, there would be no evil in the world, yes, there would be no disease but we would not be the humans He created to enjoy mutual love and fellowship with Him.   God allows the world to go it's own way because we chose to go our own way.   He does not like sin, diesease, disaster, that is not the world He created and wanted for us.
But the good news is that we are here for a very short time, then there is an eternity of joy, beauty, and love with Him in heaven.  He has provided the way through His Son, Jesus Christ.  Acknowledge that you are a sinner, ask God to forgive you and turn from your sin then ask Jesus to come into your heart and create in you a knew clean heart.  Believe in your heart that Jesus is the son of God, that He died for you and that God rose Him from the dead to live forever...that is God's free gift of eternal life for you. Romans 6: 23 and Romans 10:9. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me". John 14:6
Thanks for visiting.
Robin