Under His Wings

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from the 'Altered Diaries' Etsy site.......I thought that this journal was very cool and it reminded me of one of the new Bible Journaling stamps from Our Daily Bread designs, 'Find Refuge'.  After my card was finished, I realized that I should have used banana cardstock instead of ivory for a better match to the inspiration photo, but what's done is done! :)  Since the journaling stamp is 5-1/4 tall, there was not room to put designer paper at the top and bottom, so I put the strips down each side instead.  The designer paper is from the ODBD Vintage Ephemera Paper Collection; the feathers were watercolored to coordinate with the paper. Some baker's twine was added to mimic book binding.

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Have a blessed weekend!

Whimsical Wildflowers Birthday

Hi, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge is to choose a color palette from Design Seeds to inspire our projects.....I chose this floral collection with the yummy purples and yellows.  My card was super quick and easy to make...yay!  First, I cut a panel from a design from the ODBD Whimsical Wildflowers Paper Collection with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies, cut a curved section out with the ODBD Custom Leafy Edged Borders Dies, sponged the edges, adhered to the yellow card, then added the sentiment cut with the ODBD Custom Happy Birthday Script Die. Purple pearls were added as the only embellishment. I will also be submitting this card to the CAS-ual Friday's ''Celebrations'' Challenge.

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God bless!

Inspired Sympathy Cards

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from a ceramics Pinterest board.  Unfortunately, I have several sympathy cards to make so I chose two different ceramic pieces for two different cards.

For my first card, I chose this photo since the flowing petals reminded me of a calla lily.  The set I used for this card is 'Loving Memories' by Our Daily Bread designs.  The image was stamped onto a panel cut with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies set, colored with markers and water-coloring, then masked the image and sponged a blush color around the image.

This beautiful vase inspired me to create the second sympathy card, on which I used the 'Dragonfly' single, along with a sentiment from 'Loving Memories'.  The ivory panel was cut out with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies, stamped the dragonfly in Stazon Jet black, colored with markers, then clear-coated with a Glaze pen for a resist effect to keep the wings light.  The panel was sponged with green and gray to match the inspiration piece, then piercing was added instead of embellishments so that it would be easy to mail.

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Blessings,

Blush Beatitudes

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge is to find inspiration from the Anthropologie site....the soft blush color of this throw pillow won me over!  For my card, I started by stamping the 'Chalkboard Vine Background' in Blush Blossom ink (retired), over-stamped in black with 'The Beatitudes' stamp, then cut out the panel with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies.  The mat was cut from white with the ODBD Custom Lavish Layers Dies, stenciled with the same blush ink, then adhered onto the Blushing Bride card base.  I did not want to take away from the powerful words, so the only embellishments added were pearls in the corners.  Please click on the photo for a better view.

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Have a very blessed weekend!

Be Joyful!

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from Audrie's Journal Art Pinterest Board.  I fell in love with the colors and flower of this photo and incorporated the polka dots, eyelets, flowers, and embroidery thread into my card.  I have used the following items from Our Daily Bread designs: 'Be Joyful' stamp set, ODBD Birthday Brights Paper Collection, and the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies.  I was happy to use the eyelets and thread, which have been in my stash for many years!  I am a proclaimed pack-rat, but I know I will use up my stash eventually! LOL!! :)

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Blessings,

Warm Winter Night

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from the creative packaging ideas from the Dieline Packaging website....I fell in love with the colors and snowflake design of this Bath and Body Works packaging! For my card, I began with a rectangle panel cut with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies; cut snowflake masks from post-it paper with the ODBD Custom Snow Crystals Dies and placed them on the white panel.  Rich Razzleberry and Blackberry Bliss inks were sponged over the masks.  Once the masks were removed, tiny snowflakes were stamped and the sentiment from 'Snowflake Sentiments' was silver embossed.  Both the mat (cut out with the ODBD Custom Snowflake Sky Dies) and silver snowflake were cut from silver mirror paper.  A glitter pen was used to add a bit more sparkle. (Note: the snowflakes and frame die will be available on November 1st.)

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Have a blessed weekend!

Inspired Sympathy Cards Times Six

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to choose one of the projects from Audrie's Inspiration Genius Board over at Pinterest......I am so tickled that quite a few of my cards have made it there in the past!!!  Unfortunately, I have many sympathy cards to make, for two different losses in the past week.  I chose this gorgeous card by Julia Aston as inspiration.....I loved it so much that I used the same design for six different cards.  The flourish vine is from 'Belles Vignes'; the sentiment is from 'Loving Memories'; the die cut birds are from the ODBD Custom Birdcage and Banner Dies set; the rectangles were cut from the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies (the black die-cut panels were re-sized to match Julia's design).

Here is a view of all six cards together and then separate photos of each color.

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Have a very blessed weekend!

Fly Like A......Turtle?!

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from the 'Digital Pencil Too' site....so many fun digi images there!  I bought this cute turtle stamp from Hobby Lobby to make my nephew's birthday card (since he requested a turtle theme), but had no idea what I was going to do with it, UNTIL I saw this adorable digi set from the inspiration site!  Making this card actually made me giddy!!!  Three balloons were cut from the ODBD Custom Balloons and Streamers Dies set; the clouds were sponged over a template cut from the ODBD Custom Clouds and Raindrops Dies set; the sentiment is from an ODBD set, Keep Climbing, and was cut out with the ODBD Custom Ovals Dies set, matted with the ODBD Custom Pierced Ovals Dies.  The olive frame was dry embossed then cut out with two dies from the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies. A clear glaze pen was used for the eyes and sections of the shell to make them shiny.

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Have a blessed weekend!!

Golden Autumn Days

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from the Village Hat Shop......I fell in love with the fall colors in this Flores Rancher's Hat.....if I were a hat person, I would buy this one!!!!  For my card, I have used the 'Seasons Change' set by Our Daily Bread designs along with the ODBD Custom Wheelbarrow Die to cut out the image.  The grass layer was cut out with both the ODBD Custom Grass Hill Die and the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies set to shape the bottom.  Since this month's Fan Club theme is book related, I created a subtle script background with the Ecclesiastes scripture stamp from the 'Randi's Song' set, then stamped the 'Sunflower Mini' to coordinate with the wheelbarrow image.  Some black embroidery thread was added to mimic the band around the hat.

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Have a blessed weekend!!

What's the Scoop?

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge is to create a project based on one of the delicious items from Harry and David....I chose these fun cake pops as inspiration to create this birthday card for my nephew.  I loved the cake pop cones and fun sprinkles, so I created an ice cream cone which looked the same.  This fun set from North Coast Creations is called 'What's the Scoop?'.  The cone was stamped on caramel cardstock; the ice cream scoop was stamped on dark brown cardstock, cut out, covered in Glossy Accents, then beads were sprinkled over the top to mimic the cake pops. The designer paper is from the ODBD Birthday Bash Paper Collection.

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God bless!!

Wings of Time

Happy Saturday, everyone!!  I had a blast playing in the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge this morning!  We were to choose a photo from the Retro Color Block Pinterest Board and I chose this stunning dress due to the striking color contrast.  To create the same color pattern from the dress, I started with a piece of copy paper, adhered the colored cardstock in strips, then die cut the panel using the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies set.  The same set was used to frame the 'Woodpecker' image, but for the sentiment sections, I used the ODBD Custom Log Cabin Quilt Die since some of its sections were just the right size, plus the edges were stitched also.  I chose to separate the sentiment since it added more of the color blocking element.

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Have a blessed weekend!!

The Mountains Sing

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from the Total Wall Covering store.....I fell in love with the stunning colors of this African sunset, so incorporated them into this birthday card for my brother-in-law. The image panel was cut out of ivory cardstock with the ODBD Custom Rectangles Dies set; the mountain image from 'Keep Climging' was stamped several times across the panel; a circle mask was temporarily adhered while the panel was sponged in So Saffron, More Mustard, and Cajun Craze; the panel was matted with black cardstock  cut out with the ODBD Custom Stitched Rectangles Dies, paper pierced, then popped up with foam tape over a Cajun Craze card base.  After the mask was removed, the scripture was stamped.  This will also be submitted to the Fan Club central theme gallery for 'Songs From The Heart' and the Word Fun challenge: T = trees, U = uncolored sun, N = nature, E = eagle.  The basic card layout was cased from this gorgeous card created by my Sistah Stick, Lori Ulrich....thanks, Lori!!

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Blessings,

Precious Little Boy

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Today's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to choose a photo from the Nail Art Pinterest board.  I was searching for inspiration to help me create a baby shower card and my 'Aha' moment came when I saw the blue and white polka dots in this photo.  Okay, I didn't go with the snowman theme, but I built the card around this blue polka dot (and coordinating light blue) designer paper from the ODBD Pastel Paper Pack.  Usually, I make baby cards (and name-frame gifts) to match the nursery theme, however, my brother and his wife just moved and haven't decided on a theme yet (or a name!), so I used the lamb image from 'The Shepherd', cut him out with the ODBD Custom 'Little Lamb' Die, and popped him up with foam tape over a background sponged using a template cut from the ODBD Custom 'Clouds and Raindrops' Dies. The sentiment is actually two stamps combined from the 'Little Boys' set...with three paper-pierced holes to connect one stamp to the next.  The little blue hearts were cut using the ODBD Custom 'Clouds and Raindrops' Dies set.  The basic layout of the card is from the ODBD Shining the Light Sketch Challenge.

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Blessings,

Let Faith Be The Bridge

Hello, everyone!  Today's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from Polly's button board on Pinterest.  When I saw this cute house with the red roof, it reminded me of the 'Safe Travels' set from Our Daily Bread designs.  I am fortunate that I live in an area abundant with covered bridges.....we love to drive through the countryside each fall to see the pretty leaves and the awesome bridges!  Plus, the fall festivals everywhere are a blast.....can you say "apple dumpling with ice cream?!  YUM!!  For my card, I used the following items from Our Daily Bread designs: Safe Travels (image and quote), Wood Background, ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies, ODBD Custom Rectangles Dies, ODBD Custom Double Stitched Circles Dies, and the Faith Hope and Love Dies set. From the leftover background, I created three 'faux brads' with a small hole punch.

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Blessings,

Who Loves You? I Do!

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Today's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is all about hearts....we were to choose a photo from the Hearts Pinterest Board and I chose this beautiful wedding photo because I loved the foliage wreath.   My niece requested a purple birthday card, which is why I threw the purple in there with the greenery.  For my card, I first cut out a heart using the ODBD Custom 'Ornate Hearts' Dies, sponged clouds all over it using the ODBD Custom 'Clouds and Raindrops' Dies, then added the tree branch and adorable owl from the North Coast Creations 'Who Loves You?' set, cut out with the NCC Custom 'Owl Family' Dies.  The greenery was cut from the NCC Custom 'Flourished Vine' Die and the little hearts were cut from ODBD Custom 'Umbrellas' Dies. The purple satin bow was tied using a Bow Easy.

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Blessings,

Hope Anchors the Soul

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Today's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from one of the abstract paintings on the Osnat Fine Art Etsy store.....I fell in love with the gray and teal colors of this painting. There were so many paintings about the sea, so I went with a nautical theme.  For my card, the image from 'Anchor the Soul' by Our Daily Bread designs was stamped in gray, then overstamped in teal with the 'Fishing Net Background' (after stamping the card base, I huffed on the stamp to get a lighter impression of the net over the image.)  The anchor was fussy cut, a hole pierced, then baker's twine was threaded through it.  Other than cutting out the anchor, this was a very easy, quick card.

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Have a blessed weekend!!

Zentangle, anyone?

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Today's Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast is all about Zentagle.....I have to confess, I nearly went into a panic since I am no artist and don't have much of an imagination.  I like math, rules, and problems which need to be solved, etc.....coming up with something out of thin air is quite difficult for me.  However, after watching the video provided by Lydia, I realized that there was no need to panic and that I could do this!  This piece of zentangle art gave me the added inspiration I needed. I started out cutting a white panel in two with the ODBD Custom 'Leafy Edged Borders' Dies, paper pierced the top layer, used the Zentangle technique on the bottom panel and sponged it green.  The lady bugs were stamped with the 'Butterfly and Bugs' set then cut out with the ODBD Custom 'Butterfly and Bugs' Dies.  The sentiment is from 'Mini Tags Sentiments' and was cut with a word window punch. 

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Have a very blessed weekend!!

Two Wheels Move the Soul

Happy Saturday, everyone!!!  Today's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from a Pinterest board of custom cakes......I chose this awesome Harley Davidson cake for inspiration to make a birthday card for my uncle. I used the North Coast Creations Custom 'Happy Birthday' Die and 'King of the Road' set, also by NCC.  The Harley was stamped onto the white circle, covered with a scratch paper mask, then flames were stenciled over it (while the circle was still in the die).  The NCC Custom 'Happy Birthday' Die and embossed banner were cut from metallic gray paper.  So that this card could be mailed with one stamp, I used a hole punch and made three black 'faux brads' as an embellishment. I feel a bit of satisfaction knowing this only took one stamp to mail....yay!!! :)

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Have a wonderfully blessed holiday weekend!!

Boho Butterfly Blessings

Hi, everyone!  Today's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from the Best Business Cards Pinterest board....I chose the paisley design in this group. I chose to use the following products from Our Daily Bread designs for my card: butterfly and sentiment from 'Boho Blessings', ODBD Custom 'Fancy Fritillary' Dies, ODBD Custom 'Stitched Ovals', ODBD Custom 'Ovals' Dies, and the ODBD Custom 'Boho Background' Dies set.  I used some swirly pearls from my stash for a little flair.

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Blessings,