Winter City Skyline

Hi, everyone! This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from The Photo Argus......I chose this awesome city scape photo as inspiration.  For my card, I have used the following ODBD Custom Dies: Diorama with Layers, City Skyline, Icicle Border, Brick Gate Border, Curvy Slopes, Jesus Loves You Stamp/Die Duos (star), and Log Cabin Quilt Die (sentiment panels).  The sentiment from 'Christmas Card Scriptures' was split between the two stitched panels. The designer paper is from the ODBD Christian Faith Paper Collection...I thought that the medallion design looked like snowflakes to match the winter scene.  The inside panel of the diorama was sponged in blue and yellow and the star die cut was added to go with the sentiment.

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!!

Children of God Diorama

I love this new set, Children of God, from Our Daily Bread Designs! I couldn't resist but pair the verse and Jesus image with the scene from Path of Life....I thought it was a perfect fit!!! I made this diorama for this week's Splitcoast color challenge of Bashful Blue, So Saffron, and Close to Cocoa....this new SU dp, Bella Birds, was a fantastic match. I started to follow the Diorama instructions on the Resource page at SCS, but decided I only wanted two layers and a bigger window. I cut my two pieces 6"x8" each and scored 1" from each end. I cut out the square with a ruler and exacto knife, punched the scalloped border with a SU punch. I painted Jesus' robe with Pearl Shimmerz, however, my camera will just not pick it up....darn! I didn't want to take away from the image or verse, so I chose not to embellish it much.

Thanks for stopping by! God Bless!