Life's Roughest Storms

Hi, everyone!  This week's Color Challenge over at Splitcoast is to use Red, White (or ivory), and Blueberry.  I do not have the new SU Blueberry Bushel ink yet, so I used Ballet Blue instead.  The stamped images and sentiment are from the ODBD set, 'Anchor the Soul' and the designer paper is from the ODBD 'Nautical' Paper Collection.  The banners were cut with one of the smaller dies from the ODBD Custom Large Banners Dies set and the circle was cut with the ODBD Custom Pierced Circles Dies set.  This card is for my uncle who is recovering from a triple by-pass surgery.

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Blessings,

Faux Wood Birthday Wishes

Hi, everyone!  This week's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is Holly Brown aka hbrown...congrats, Holly!  I chose this awesome masculine card to recreate using the following items from Our Daily Bread designs: 'Living Water' stamp set, ODBD Custom Double Stitched Circles Dies, and the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies.  Instead of the crumpled background technique, I used the Faux Wood technique to create the background panel....started with mustard cardstock and swiped two different brown ink pads directly across the cardstock.  I also loved the interesting ribbon treatment of Holly's card, so I was happy to give it a try; I used a small circle punch at first for the ribbon slots, but the ribbon wouldn't cooperate, so I punched around the circles with a small square punch.  This will be a birthday card for my boss next week.

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Blessings!