Rockin' with Alcohol Inks!

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from Real Simple's online magazine.  When I saw this amazing cell phone cover in one of the articles, I instantly thought about alcohol inks and headed to my room!  I used eggplant, navy, silver, and pearl on glossy cardstock.  Once the panel was finished, I used the ODBD Custom Musical Notes Background Die to cut out the music score, then popped it up with foam tape.  I didn't want to waste the extra pieces which were cut out, so I created a second card with an eggplant frame to insert the cut-out pieces from the 1st background.  From the alcohol ink panel, there was enough leftover to cut out the guitars, guitar pick, and insert pieces with the ODBD Custom Guitar Dies set.  A clear glaze pen was used on the eggplant pieces since most guitars are super shiny.  The sentiments for both cards are from the 'Jesus Rocks' stamp set.  For this card, the following ODBD Custom Dies were also used: Sparkling Stars, Double Stitched Pennant Flags, Pennant Flags, Double Stitched Circles, and Circles.

The additional ODBD Custom Dies used for this card are: Sparkling Stars and Double Stitched Stars.

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Have a blessed weekend!

Love and Hugs

Hi, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge is to find inspiration from 'A Beautiful Mess'.....I was mesmerized by the colors in these DIY soaps so I used light green and blue inks with the Ink Spray and Smash Technique with plain white cardstock.  I didn't over-saturate with the colors so that there would be some white areas showing through...I am happy as a clam that it came out so well (even though I realized after the fact that I used the wrong shade of blue!)  I've been dying to do an inlaid die-cut design;  here are the steps from start to finish: once the inked panel was dry, it was cut with the ODBD Custom Quilted Background Die (plus another Quilt was cut from white to create the frame.) A cardstock panel was cut the same size as the frame and ran through my Xyron to make a sticker panel for adhering the frame and inked pieces together easily.  Once the quilt was finished, a heart was cut out from the quilt panel using the ODBD Custom Pierced Heart Die.  A light green heart was cut, inset and taped in place on the back side, then the 'hugs' die from the 'Hugs' Stamp/Die Duos set was cut out from the panel.  (Note: if you try this technique with a word die, be mindful of all of the tiny die-cut pieces you will need to save to insert back into the background.)  The 'hugs' was cut again from blue, stenciled, and inserted back into the panel, along with the little inside pieces from the first hugs cut from the quilt and heart. To keep the design simple, the only embellishments were three tiny hearts cut out with the ODBD Custom Clouds and Raindrops Dies set.

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Blessings,

Congratulations!

Happy New Year, everyone!  This week's Featured Stamper is Tara aka tkcspot......congrats, Tara!!!  I chose this super cute card to case so that I could try out my new ODBD Custom Congratulations Die from Our Daily Bread designs.  Since my die was longer than her congrats stamp, I flipped Tara's card design sideways, used stars instead of dots, but kept the same colors and basic design.  I also used red ribbon, but did not add a knot or bow so that it would be flat for mailing. The designer paper at the bottom is from the ODBD Patriotic Paper Collection, the stars are from the ODBD Custom Sparkling Stars Dies, and the top panels were cut with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies.

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Blessings,

Keep the Faith - Inlaid Die-Cut

Hi, everyone!!  For my card today, I tried the inlaid die-cut technique and it came out better than I expected....yay!!  Both the light blue paper from the ODBD Pastel Paper Pack and the floral paper from the ODBD Americana Quilt Paper Collection were cut out with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies, then each was cut to piece together for one panel.  The new ODBD Custom Faith Border Die was cut out of the light blue piece and cut again from red cardstock.  The red die cut was then pieced into the cutout on the blue panel.  The ODBD Custom Decor Border Die was cut from white cardstock and adhered below the Faith border.  The partial sentiment from 'Ornate Border Sentiments' was stamped, using masking to block the Navy baker's twine and navy pearls were added for embellishments. 

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Blessings,

Bluebirds and Butterflies

Hi, everyone!!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to choose one of the scrumptious color combinations from the Color Inspirations Pinterest board which was pinned by Michael's Stores.....I fell in love with the soft colors from this combination. My card design was inspired by this gorgeous card by this week's Featured Stamper, Brenda aka tessaduck....congrats, Brenda!!  This is my first try with the inlaid die-cut technique, where several die cuts cut into each other for an overlap effect.  I used the ODBD Custom 'Trois Papillons' Dies to cut the shapes from the cantaloupe cardstock.  The 'Belles Vignes' background was white embossed, cut out with the same dies, then sponged in cantaloupe, rose and plum.  The 3d butterfly was white embossed using the matching 'Trois Jolie Papillons' set and sponged in the same colors. The sentiment from 'Life is a Gift' was also embossed in white, taking care to not leave any white speckles on the cantaloupe background.

I loved Brenda's gallery so much, that I had to go back for seconds.  I loved this adorable birdie card with the sponged background and one of my fave sentiments.  For the background, I decided to use a stencil which I bought several months ago, but had not tried yet.  The bird and sentiment are from 'Spread Your Wings' and the birdie was cut out with the ODBD Custom 'Birds and Nest' Dies.

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God bless!