Winter Blessings To You!

Hi, everyone!  This week's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is Di aka DiHere....congrats, Di!  I need to make some clean and simple Happy New Year cards, so these two beautiful cards supplied the inspiration I was looking for for my assembly line stamping.  The sentiment is from 'White as Snow' and the ODBD Custom Dies used are: Neighborhood Border, Double Stitched Circles, and Double Stitched Rectangles.  Stickles were added at the end for snowy sparkle. This card also fits the DEC18VSNJ challenge, so I will be submitting this to that gallery as well.

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings,

Our Daily Bread designs October New Release!

Hi, everyone! Welcome to the new release party for Our Daily Bread designs! To see all of the new stamps and dies, more designer samples, and prize info, check out this post!

Here are the new and previously released items featured in my projects today:

My first project is a diorama card.  I used to make these from scratch and it was very time consuming with all of the measuring and cutting.  Now, the ODBD Custom Diorama with Layers Dies set cuts all of the pieces perfectly plus gives instructions on how to assemble it.....woo hoo!!!! Once assembled, the diorama folds to fit into an A6 size envelope...pretty amazing!  I used burgundy cardstock to cut out the diorama frame, City Skyline border and Oval Die (mat) for the scripture verse. All of the white layers (Icicle Border, Snow Crystals, Curvy Slopes, and windows of the buildings) were cut out of Shimmery White cardstock....the camera did not reveal the shimmer unfortunately.  Both the snowflake paper, scripture panel and backdrop to the city scene were all from the ODBD Christmas Paper Collection 2015.  The scripture verse stamped onto the ODBD Custom Pierced Oval is from the 'Christmas Card Scriptures' set.  Tiny yellow gemstones were added to coordinate with the gold tones in the paper.

Two borders were cut with the ODBD Custom Icicle Border Die....one was adhered to the inside and one to the outside of the diorama.

Next up is a nameframe which I made for my niece's birthday, using the new ODBD Custom Cloud Borders Dies, ODBD Custom Neighborhood Border Die, ODBD Custom Large Letters Dies, and the tiny hearts from the ODBD Custom Clouds and Raindrops Dies set.  The gingham paper used for the letters and houses is from the ODBD Shabby Rose Paper Collection.  To create the hillside, the Neighborhood Border was cut from the same piece of green cardstock twice.  I just lined up the die with the first cut and used temporary tape to hold it in place for the 2nd cut.  The die was used twice with the gingham designer paper, then the little houses were trimmed by hand and glued on top of the green panel.  Since the trees were already green, I just highlighted them with markers.  I used the same resizing technique with the clouds border so that it would reach across the frame in one continuous panel.

Here is a matching birthday card to go with the framed gift.  I used the same ingredients as the frame, plus the ODBD Custom Large Numbers Dies, 'st' from the ODBD Custom Numbers Dies, and the HB sentiment from the ODBD Custom Happy Birthday Dies set.  Once the scene was adhered together, the panel was cut out with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us today!

Have a happy, blessed October!!

Mother's Day Blessings

Hi, everyone!  This week's Friday Free4All Challenge over at Splitcoast is to make a normal card for you, but with less layers....a more simple version.  I went very CAS with my Mother's Day cards this year, but I really like how they turned out.  The kraft card base was stamped in Versamark with the Pussy-Willow Background; the buds were painted with Pearl Glimmer Mist.  I cut three strips of white cardstock, sponged kraft and aqua ink over them, then created the borders by cutting them with the ODBD Custom Flower Lattice Die (since the die cuts' edges are a bit delicate, I sponged the colors before cutting so I wouldn't bend the edges.) The die was adhered to aqua cardstock then the edges were trimmed with paper snips. The sentiment is from 'Mother's Day'.  (All stamps and die are from Our Daily Bread designs.) Three brown pearls were added for a simple embellishment.

Thanks for visiting!

Blessings,

Inspired Faith Collage

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge makes me want to go shopping for clothes, which I normally hate to do!  We are to choose an ensemble from Audrie's Conference Attire Pinterest Board for inspiration.....I fell in love with the colors and patterns in this photo.  Since I did not have an alphabet embossing folder, I clear embossed the 'Chalkboard Word Collage' background stamp on Lucky Limeade cardstock, then cut it out with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies.  I didn't want to cover up the embossed background, so I cut out the ODBD Custom Faith Border Die for a sentiment.  The border strip was cut with the ODBD Custom Flower Lattice Die since it looked so much like the black lacy cuff in the inspiration photo. Some gold cording and gold metallic dots were added since there were touches of gold in the photo.

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings,

Dare To Get Dirty Week Begins!

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Saturday is my fave day of the week to stamp, but today is extra special....the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges begin today...yay!!!  All Fan Club members at Splitcoast get to "rub elbows" with the Dirty Dozen alumni and participate in a boat load of challenges for a full week!!!  Every Saturday brings along my favorite Splitcoast Challenge each week, the Inspiration Challenge.  This week's challenge is to find inspiration from the Paper Art Pinterest Board....I loved the butterflies carved from the book HERE (2nd project down).  To begin, I stamped the Prayer of St. Francis (from Our Daily Bread designs) onto cream cardstock, then positioned the butterfly dies from ODBD Custom 'Butterfly and Bugs' Dies and ODBD 'Tres Papillons' Dies over select parts of the script.  After cutting, they were sponged with Ranger Antique Linen ink and popped up over the black card base.  The fancy strip was cut out with my brand new ODBD Custom Flower Lattice Die. The die cut word and sentiment are from the Thanks for Everything Stamp/Die Duo.  I had planned to have an ivory background like the inspiration photo, but when I saw how cool the die cut looked against the black, I changed in mid-stream....that's a stamper's prerogative, right?! :)  Along with today's Inspiration Challenge, I will also be submitting this to Dina's DTGD challenge.  One down, forty-some challenges to go!

Thanks for stopping by!  Get ready for extra posts from me for the next week....lots of stamping to do!

Blessings,