Time With Diana!

Hello friends!  I hope you all enjoyed a happy Mother's Day! 

I am thrilled to introduce you to one of our Challenge Team members who is sharing her very first Time With project with us today.  I think she has a totally fun and creative idea, and something that would be so great to do with your kids or grand kids!  So sit back and enjoy, and be inspired!!!

Hi!  My name is Diana and I am excited to share my little project with you.  I am a mother of four little boys (8, 7, 5, and 3) so my project (and much of my life) is geared more towards them.  But it can easily be used by anyone with a large number of people to pray for.  It is a prayer bucket!  With a few stamps, craft sticks, and mod podge, it works wonderfully as a prayer tool during family devotional time.

As you can see from above, we have a LOT of people we pray for and while we would love to pray for each by name every day, that's not a realistic option.  We have in there aunts, uncles, grandparents, our home church group members, teachers, 23 first cousins...

I started with a little wooden pot I picked up from ACMoore and used black (but of course any color would work) acrylic paint to cover the inside and the edges. 

Then I labeled and traced out the sides of the pot because the sides are not all equal.

I used several images from my collection of ODBD stamps to decorate each side.  I lightly stamped the images and then in black ink I used verses that I thought would go well with the prayer theme.  I cut out the sides and sponged the edges with black (not shown) so it would blend in with my pot. 

ODBD Stamp Sets Used:

Light of the World

Anchor Set

Keep Climbing

You Will find Refuge

Faith

A light layer of mod podge to glue the paper on

and then another layer on top to keep little fingers from trying to peel off my work. It also seals in the paper and gives it a nice polished look.

For the craft sticks, I put the names on the sticks but then the kids had a hard time knowing who they were praying for with extended family members they only see once or twice a year.  So I added pictures of their cousins using mod podge to the other side of the stick - that will help when we get together for family reunions!  Every night, we each pull out a stick and pray for those 6 persons by name and lay that aside until we've gone through everyone.  Then we start over! 

I hope you find this project useful!  Thanks so much for looking!

Thanks so much Diana!  I think this is so creative, and a great way to teach our children to pray for family and friends daily, and a great reminder for those of us who are older as well!  I love projects that are not only pretty and fun, but truly useful as well, and this one certainly is!!! 

Please leave Diana some love here, and then stop by her SCS Gallery to see her other beautiful work!  

Thanks so much for stopping by and spending time with us today!

Blessings,

Week 2 with May Guest Designer...Karen Wallace!

Welcome to our 2nd week with the May Guest Designer, Karen Wallace!

Make sure to visit Karen's blog:
Karen's Kreations!

This week Karen focused on our May newly released stamp set and dies! Her first card was made wth the Cathedral Window & Border Dies, looking through to some pretty designer paper!
 

Karen's next card was designed by stamping the Cathedral Window - Wood set and than cutting out the window pieces with the coordinating dies! The added pearls are so pretty! Beautiful cards, Karen!

 

 Make sure to stop back next Wednesday for more of Karen's cards!

Blessings,
Kelley

ODBDSLC154 Wood or Stone

Thanks to everyone who participated in the "Spring Word Challenge" challenge last week!! There were so many beautiful creations. We so enjoyed viewing your interpretation of the challenge.

The Award and Prize Winners for last week's "Spring Word Challenge" challenge:

Shelia

Darla Rants

Chris Gualazzi

Congrats Ladies !! Please grab the Shining the Light Award Badge and display it with pride. Please link the badge to http://ourdailybreaddesigns.com/.

Thanks to some of our Design Team members for their gorgeous entries for this challenge:

Grace Nywening

Lisa Somerville

Angie Crockett

This week's random prize winner of the $15 dollar gift certificate toward stamps is:

13. Chris Gualazzi

Congratulations !!  Please email Kelley at kelley@ourdailybreaddesigns.com
for more information on how you to claim your gift certificate. Please let her know you won ODBDSLC153 within two weeks.

This week's challenge is: 
Include an image or product with wood or stone.

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, May 19 at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Challenge. 

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have 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 or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday,  May 19 at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword  ODBDSLC154.  When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Now on to our challenge teams inspiring creations for this challenge:


Please note the designers link, challenges used and the stamp set they used is listed under each creation. If you take a moment to leave the girls some love at their blogs, I am sure they would greatly appreciate it.

Guest Designer:

Gloria Stengel

wood item: trees, wood grain background

ODBD Stamps Used: Quote Collection 1, Mini Tags 3

Chris Olsen

wood item: Ship

ODBD Stamps Used: The Waves on the Sea, Fishing Net Background

ODBD Dies: Elegant Ovals

 

Jan Marie Ennenga
Stone item: Fortress image
ODBD Stamps Used:  Fortress and With Heartfelt Sympathy

Diana Nguyen 

wood item: Ship, background panels

ODBD Stamps Used: The Waves on the Sea

ODBD Dies: Recipe and Tag Dies

Kathy Roney
Wood item: Wooden Heart
ODBD Stamp Used: Sweet William Mini Set
Coordinates with Spellbinders Blossom 3 Dies



Audrey Hiltke
Wood Item: Card Frame

ODBD Stamps Used: Spread Light

Thanks for stopping by!! We hope you will join us for this week's challenge.  We can't wait to see your creation!!

blessings,

For the Love of Patriotism and Service- Special Feature with the Alumni

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Design's Alumni feature of For the Love of Patriotism and Service!!  This month the Alumni team will be sharing creations made with sets that focus on Patriotism and Service!  While we are including the cards and sets used by the designers for their creations, I know the designers would appreciate if you would click on the links below to leave them a little love as well.



Enjoy all the beautiful designs featuring Patriotism and Service.







Here are the cards created by our exceptionally talented Alumni Team!!!!

Deb 

God Bless America 

Tosh

In God We Trust

Tosh

God Bless America

Lisa

Old Flag Background, Not Forgotten, God Bless America

Silke 

Serve the Lord

Betty

I Pledge Allegiance

Connie

Old Flag Background

I Pledge Allegiance

Thanks for stopping by!! We hope you were inspired by these creations.

blessings,

Welcome to May Guest Designer Karen Wallace!!

Please welcome Karen Wallace as our May Guest Designer!! 

Make sure to visit Karen's blog:

Karen's Kreations!
 

My name is Karen Wallace and I live in the Midwest.  I’ve been stamping for about 12 years and love everything about it!  I love the Our Daily Bread Designs stamps because they are so versatile and I make a lot of cards for church type functions.   I’m retired and loving it so I have lots of stamping time now.  I’m so honored to be a guest designer for ODBD this month, I love getting the new stamps and creating something special for you.  I get so much inspiration from the design team each month and can’t wait to see the new designs each month.  I hope your enjoy my creations and thank you so much for allowing me the privilege of being part of the team this month.  

Karen's cards have been created with the Hyacinth stamp set.  I just love the shaped card and the purple card is such a great color! So beautiful, Karen! 

Stay tuned next week for more cards from Karen!

Blessings,

Kelley