ODBDSLC158

I have been blessed to have a father with a servant's heart. He has always done those things God has put on his heart to do. He has organized Crop Walks, taught Sunday School, served many terms on the session of his church, and by his examples he raised two daughters who seem to have lovingly served the Lord as well.
His actions shaped our lives and we are so blessed to have had him in all 62 years of my life. I thought this quote from Mother Teresa pretty much was the lesson Dad is still teaching us. Happy Fathers Day to all those loving and faithful dads, who have honored and served their heavenly Father.

Basic Grey Challenge

This is for the Basic Grey Challenge this week with the theme
 "Fun in the Sun". 

The Basic Grey papers used are from Lauderdale collection. 

Hope everyone has a fun, relaxing, and safe summer. 

CTD245

I won this stamp set from Sweet and Sassy at their last blog hop challenge. It arrived yesterday, and I could hardly wait to try it out. So with the Color Throw Down challenge colors of kiwi kiss, melon mambo, barely banana, and groovy guava, I gave it a go.  I am always glad when the Throw down challenge includes some of those discontinued SU colors. It's a great way to make use of them, and they are colors I still love. I embossed the barely banana triangular panel just to add a little texture to this. The sentiment is from Sweet and Sassy, and I just love all the sentiments that are included in that set.

FTTC223

Some of the best peaches in Texas are grown in Fairfield, Texas at Cooper Farms. Every peach season I try to get somewhere that is selling these peaches alongside the road or in some of the stores. This image is from Flourishes and colored with copic markers. I freehanded my sentiment.

ODBDSLC157

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!

ODBDSLC156

For the ODBDSLChallenge this week, we were to use any Our Daily Bread Design stamps and any diecut. The little box is a diecut I bought at Dollar Tree, and the stamp set and butterfly diecut are from Our Daily Bread Designs. I colored the images with copic matkers, and I added some design paper from Graphics 45 to cover the inside bleed through of the markers. I added a purple organdy ribbon to the handle. Thought this could be filled with some kinds of goodies for a little end of year gift for a teacher.  The other side of the box is also stamped and colored as this side. Inexpensive but it's all about presentation!!!!

COF challenge for May

Jackie challenged the Crafters of Faith Blog this month to use things we love for this challenge.
I love House Mouse stamps and with this year being the year my youngest grandchild was graduating from preschool, I made this for him because he is one of the loves of my life. I attended his graduation ceremony last night, and he surprised us all by doing a solo in one of the songs his group sang. I was one proud grandma. On the way home he asked if he was good at keeping secrets. That one he kept well and until we read the program we had no idea he was going to be doing a special part. It was funny, when right after he finished he announced to everyone, "I really did well with that, didn't I?"

So, this was made for one of those milestones of life that is so precious. All of God's gifts are precious to us, but His Son was the most precious of all. "For God so loved the world, that He sent His only beloved Son..."