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I love one layer cards, which is what the challenge is this week over at ODBDSLC. I have been enjoying doing the printing with my embossing folders by rubbing ink on one side of them, spritzing it with water, and then placing the paper in between and pressing down on it. I did one side of my card like that and then added the ODBD butterflies and colored them with copic markers. Then I added the ODBD sentiment. I love flate cards that are so easy to mail and don't require extra postage.

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This is for the sketch that is the challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs this week.  I inked the background stamp that matches this cross and then spritzed it with water. I liked the watercolor effect that it has. I used Memento's sweet plum and teal zeal inks for this card.

Wow, this card got picked as one of the award winning cards last week. Thanks, ODBD for hosting these fun challenges.

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This is for the ODBDSLC which is a sketch challenge. I decided to use this butterfly stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs and mask it and repeat the butterflies. This plaid design paper had so many wonderful spring colors in it that I decided to use some of those colors as the butterfly colors. The purple flower is stamped from the Sweet Williams set from ODBD as well and diecut with the matching die. The lace is a lacey border trim from Spellbinders.

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I always look forward to the new weekly challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs. This week it was a sketch challenge which are always  more challenging for me. Getting things cut near the correct size and getting the placement just right. Isn't that what I do to God sometimes? I worry too much about saying things in the correct ways that I fail to speak the words that just come from my heart. God doesn't expect me to come up with the exact words or being in the most appropriate setting. That's why He sent the Holy Spirit. I just need to remember to let Him be my guide and provider. So, His daily blessing to me is the gift of the Spirit, which Christ died for us to have.

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I have a friend who lost her beautiful mother this past weekend to breast cancer. I find these words from a stamp by ODBD to be comforting of all the emotions  Anna will experience over the days ahead. These colors are the colors of the Splitcoaststampers color challenge this week, and they just worked perfectly into this design, offering a soft, tender touch to the words. Let our words be life and truth to all those we encounter this day. I am listening to the song, "Words" by Hank Nelson as I write this. A powerful song about the power of words.My favorite line said,
             "Let the words I say, be sound of Your grace
      I don't want to say a word unless it points the world back to you."
And with that sweet lesson, I say AMEN!

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I created this for the Our Daily Bread Design Shining Light Challenge. This week's challenge was to us wood or stone. My card used this pretty wooden cross by ODBD and I embossed the card base with a woodgrain pattern. Today is Pentecost Sunday, so Happy Birthday, Church!

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Winter white was the theme of the challenge. I pulled out the first stamp I ever purchased from ODBD. I used versamark ink and gold embossing powder to emboss it onto this oval. I dry embossed the cardbase cardstock. Cut out one of my diecuts 4 times to add behind the oval. Added flowers and leaves and pearls.

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This was a lovely layout for this week's challenge. The stamps are from ODBD. The dark brown side was stamped with the butterfly background stamp from ODBD as well. The left side is a piece of Graphics 45 design paper.

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I've been trying to get this challenge card done all week. Finally, I carved out a little time to get it done before the deadline tonight. I sponged the clouds and the image is colored with copic markers. Although it does not show up in the photo, the butterfly wings are colored over with a sparkle gel pen just to add a little shimmer to the wings. Hope you are having a blessed Sabbath!

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This is for the Our Daily Bread Design's Shining Light Challenge to use your favorite ODBD stamp.
I just love this cross and the background that matches it. I added this embossed edging and thought it complimented the stamps well.  I have learned how precious that cross is, and I can now boldly say I let it go before me in my good times and in the hard ones. I hope you find your blessings that Christ brings you every day.

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It's taken me all week to get around to this challenge, but I had a little time this morning so I did my something old (the ribbon), something new (the stamps), something gifted (I used my cuttlebug that my parents gave me for my birthday), and something blue (the color, of course). The embossing folder is by Sizzix, the stamps from ODBD, and the papers from Stampin' Up.  I added the doily behind the cross to add some depth to the color. This is my favorite shade of blue.

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The challenge this week was to GO  GREEN. I decided to do that literally in color. I used some fabulous Basic Grey design papers and this pretty butterfly from ODBD. The sentiment is from another set from ODBD as well. I added some diecuts from my newest Spellbinder set and used some Martha Stewart flowers and leaf punches. Here lately, I have been working with more greens in my creations and I love the yellow and mustard with it. The kraft strip reminded me of recycled cardboard which also went along with this challenge.Although the photo doesn't pick up the glimmer on the butterfly wings, after coloring them with copic makers, I went over them with a sparkle gel pen.

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What a fun challenge for the Our Daily Bread Shining Light Challenge this week. Using the letters in Spring for the card elements, I used Sweet Williams stamp from ODBD for the S. for P a pearl was used, for R ribbon was used, for I ink was used, for N numbers were embossed, and for G green leaves were used. The diecuts are are from Spellbinders. The embossing folder was from Cuttlebug.I made my bow with my Becca Bowmaker. I just love it.

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Saturday my new stamps I ordered from Our Daily Bread arrived. I was so happy that they are now selling some of their beautiful crosses and verses as seperate or smaller stamp sets, making them fit my budget better. The challenge's theme this week is "New Life." Christ has given me  a new life through Him. That is why I used this cross. I added the leaves and flowers because they represent the new life after winter. I used a white background for the washing away of sins that Christ's blood gave to us. I am so glad to serve a God who is a" God of do overs" and does not give up on us when we don't get it right the first time. His mercy is so great. No wonder we praise His holy name. Easter is the joyous celebration of the Resurrection, my new life in Christ.

The embossing folder is by Paper Studio and the leaf punch is from Martha Stewart. The flower punch is a mini punch from Creatve Memories. The border punch is Stampin' Up.