Berry Sweet!

Congratulations, Our Daily Bread Designs! This month marks the sixth anniversary of Our Daily Bread Designs, and the Shining the Light challenge team is celebrating this anniversary with a series of special challenges. This first week's challenge is to use Metal or Sweets. Since the traditional anniversary gift is iron or sweets, let's see you use any image that is sweet or include metal on your creation.

I decided to go with sweet and chose the Strawberries stamp set for the focal image with a lacy border and my sentiment using the ODBD Elegant Oval dies. On top of my Kraft card base, I stamped Gingham Background in green and used a white embossed piece on the left. Then I finished it off with some jute and a red button...all to give it a country feel.

As I think of sweetness this week, I am reminded of a verse about how important our words are:

Pleasant words are like honey. They are sweet to the spirit
 and bring healing to the body.
Proverbs 16:24

What a precious gift we give to others when we guard our words and use them to encourage others at home, work, church, and anywhere God takes us through life. Sweet words can bring life and healing to people's hearts. What a wonderful opportunity to consider this week!

To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, please visit Our Daily Bread Designs Blog. You have until March 9 to join us. You may use any stamps to enter, but if you have any Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we would love to see you use them. If you participate, you have an opportunity to win a $15 certificate toward ODBD stamps or to be "spotlighted" for the Shining the Light Award (the SLC award is only for those who use ODBD stamps). We would love to see your creations!

For more beautiful inspiration ideas for this challenge, please visit my precious design team sisters:

Chris Olsen * Diana Nguyen * DJ Rants * Elizabeth Whisson
Linda Carson * Robin Clendenning

I have also entered this card for this week's Word Art Wednesday challenge.  

Thanks so much for "stopping by" and leaving a comment or sharing a thought. Hope we all enjoy the opportunities God gives us this week to encourage and lift up others by our sweet and kind words. Watch for a smile or two!

For His glory,

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Strawberries and Gingham Background (ODBD)

Paper: Solar White (Neenah), Kraft and Poppy Red (PTI)

Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Black (Versafine), Wild Wasabi (SU)
Tools/Accessories: Copic markers; Custom Elegant Oval Dies (ODBD); Circles dies, Lacey Circles dies, and Dainty Dots M-Bossabilities reversible embossing folder (Spellbinders); white gel pen (Signo); Perfect Layers; jute (May Arts); button (PTI); red tape; 3M dimensional tape
Card Size:  A-2