Father's Day Gears

Hi, everyone!  For my card today, I have combined the Friday Free4All Challenge (machines, tools, or gears) with today's Inspiration Challenge, which was to find inspiration from the Tim Holtz Inspiration Pinterest Board......I chose this tag for my inspiration to help me create one of three Father's Day cards.  I'm not very comfortable with grunge, but I did have fun using several colors of ink with the embossed background. I don't have any Tim Holtz products, so I improvised with what I had on hand.  The panels were cut out with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles, the gears were cut with the ODBD Custom Steampunk Gears Dies, and the scripture verse is from 'Good Man', also from Our Daily Bread designs.

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Blessings,

Letterpress Blessings

Hi, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from a Pinterest board focusing on letterpress.....I fell in love with the cheerful color and floral design of this wedding invitation.  I inked up a floral embossing folder with retired Summer Sun ink, embossed on watercolor paper, then cut out with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies.  The word die, little flower, and sentiment are from the 'You Bless Me So' Stamp/Die Duos set.  I chose watercolor paper since the stationery was textured; I chose this sentiment since the font type matched the stationery, and this was the closest color I could find to match. This was quick and fun....will have to try it in another color! 

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Blessings,

Case by Case!

This week's Case Artist Saturday challenge over at Christian Paper Crafts is for you to choose a card from Singing2Day's gallery to copy. I chose this beautiful card because I loved the Cuttlebugged background and basic layout of the card. The card I have made is a birthday card for my brother-in-law. I used the Our Daily Bread designs' set, "In God We Trust", and the "Inked Cuttlebug" technique using the Stars Embossing Folder. I have also used the Pile It On Challenge, called "Animal-rific"....check out the challenge and their fun site here.


This card I made for Splitcoast's Featured Artist from this past Sunday, Cathy aka Mutnik, who is my STAMPING HERO!! Kathy is not only a talented stamper, but a fantastic artist as well, who is clever, creative, witty, and sooooo much fun!!! She even draws her own comic strips for her cards sometimes!! There was noooooo way to pick just one card from Cathy's gallery, so I am basing this card on her ENTIRE gallery.....you want to see lots of creativity (and funny stuff too), check our her gallery! Anyhoo.....this is a birthday card for my nephew, Conner. Though I have never watched "Family Guy" and probably never will, he had asked for gifts with Stewey on them, so I made a card instead. I used a clip-art photo, traced the lighter parts and paper pieced each and every colored section......I wanted a very solid look, so I chose not to trace the whole thing and color it, but used colored card-stock for everything...this took quite a while. The sentiment stamp really says "With enough coffee, I could rule the world", but I replaced coffee with cake from another stamp. The background is the Cuttlebug Herringbone Embossing Folder.



Thanks so much for stopping by today!! Have a blessed week!!! (Stay tuned for another round of new releases by Our Daily Bread designs on the 1st!!)

CASE-ing Marcelle - Inked Cuttlebug

Hi everyone!! For the month of December, our Design Team members over at Christian Paper Crafts have each been featured for Case Artist Saturday. This card I CASED from my dear friend, Marcelle, who is also on the DT for the Cuttlebug Spot. I chose this awesome card to copy since I've been dying for a chance to try out my new "Stars" embossing folder. Today, over at the Our Daily Bread designs blog, you will see a Product Review article I wrote on the Cuttlebug embossing folders, plus some awesome samples showing different ways to use them.

For some of you, inking your embossed panels is a technique with which you are familiar, however, I thought I would show just how easy it is. Since I "exploded" my Cuttlebug machine earlier this year, here is the sandwich recommended for the Spellbinders Wizard: Bottom plate, Cuttlebug folder with paper, embossing mat, blue plate (from the Spellbinders Charm Embossing Kit). I have, in the past, used the two white plates only with the Cuttlebug folders, however, it takes a lot of force to crank the Wizard and I personally would rather not put that much pressure on it.

Once you emboss your cardstock, you can either use a stamp pad, sponge daubers, brayer, or even chalks to highlight the raised images. I used a small ink pad directly to the stars. To ensure a "clean" look, make sure your ink pad or brayer does not press into the debossed areas. I wanted a "dirty", or "rustic", look for this project, so I did not worry about keeping the ink just on the stars.

I then embossed and inked a smaller piece, in order to cut out one of the stars to embellish the ribbon. The sentiment is from the ODBD set, "Happy Birthday" ;the satin ribbon is by May Arts.

Thanks for stopping by today!!! Have a blessed week!!!