ODBD Sneak Peek - Plough the Fields

Happy Saturday, everyone!  I hope everyone had a wonderfully blessed Thanksgiving!!!  After a few days of "down time", I'm back in the stamping groove!!!  Today's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to choose a photo from your Favorites Gallery to recreate.  I picked this awesome card by Lois aka clownmom....I love the sponged panel with the silhouette....so striking!  I am using an upcoming set by Our Daily Bread designs, 'Plough the Fields', plus two new dies sets (ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies and ODBD Custom Double Stitched Circles Dies) which will all be available on December 1st.  I love this stamp set so much, especially since I'm always needing help in creating masculine cards.  I started by cutting the white rectangle, masked the top and bottom, sponged the center portion with rust, olive, blue, and purple, removed the masks and stamped the image in black.  Though Lois' card was very CAS, I added linen thread, the die cut circle for the sentiment, plus three metallic dots in the corner.

Thanks so much for visiting!

God bless!!

God Bless You

Hi, everyone!  This week's Clean and Simple Challenge is to choose an card from Harriet's gallery (hskelley) to case.....I chose this beautiful card.  I used ivory instead of white for this card, but kept the design the same. The sentiment I used is from the new "Rose" set, the butterfly is from the Butterfly Stamped-by Mini, and the designer paper is from the "Blushing Rose Collection".....all from Our Daily Bread designs.

Before I go, I wanted to remind you about the free shipping special  going on this week at both Our Daily Bread designs and their sister company, North Coast Creations....no special code necessary....woo hoo!  All US orders through 6/20/14 qualify for free shipping and international customers will receive $5 off of your orders instead!!!

Thanks for visiting! Have a great week!!

Blessings,

Burst Into Song, You Mountains!

Hi, everyone!  Happy Saturday!!  I will be working on taxes this weekend (ugh), but had to squeeze in the Inspiration Challenge from Splitcoast before I get started.  I chose this Biking book from Patina for inspiration.  This is a birthday card for a co-worker.  I wanted to make a CAS (clean and simple) card, so I went to the gallery at Splitcoast and searched for both "CAS" and "Masculine" and I discovered this beautiful card by Karen Dunbrook to CASE (copy and share everything)....thanks for the design inspiration, Karen!!

The stamps used are from the "Keep Climbing" set by Our Daily Bread designs.  I used 2 pieces of scratch paper (and non-permanent adhesive) to mask off the stamped and sponged area.  Some baker's twine and a button were all the embellishments needed.  I will definitely make more like this.....quick and easy!!!

Thanks for visiting!  Have a wonderful weekend!!!

It's a Grace CASE!!!!

This week's Shining the Light Challenge on the ODBD blog is to use your sentiment or verse as the focal point. Woo hoo....no problemo!!! I'm so blessed to have so many ODBD stamps to choose from for this!!

This week's Case Artist Saturday Challenge at Christian Paper Crafts is to re-create an item from Grace Nywening's awesome gallery!! Congrats, Grace!!!! Grace is not only an amazing paper-crafter, and my DT sister at Our Daily Bread designs, but she is truly an inspiration to Christian women everywhere!! Grace is the real deal and I love her dearly!!! Check out Grace's blog HERE, her gallery at CPC HERE or her Splitcoast Gallery HERE. I chose this gorgeous card to case....it's not easy to duplicate her works of art, but I gave it my best shot!!!

I am also using Jen's Color Monday Challenge, to use the Shabby Chic colors of either pink & brown or blue & brown....since this will be a graduation card for my brother's girlfriend, I will be using her fave color....blue!!! And this is the second card this week for the Bible Verse Thursday Challenge...the theme is "The Path".

Also, over at Splitcoast, the Inspiration Challenge is to choose a pic from Amy Atlas Events for your inspiration.....I chose this awesome dessert table.....the blues and browns just made me "ooh" and "aah"!!! Also at Splitcoast, the Free4All Challenge yesterday was to use buttons and bows!

Earlier this week I posted a wedding card which I made while doing the Product Review on Prima Flowers for Our Daily Bread designs. I explained how I de-constructed some of the "Alabaster Round Petal" flowers in order to use the small buds. The photo below shows one complete flower, one after the center bud was "extracted", and the small flower is one layer of the de-constructed flower cut apart and glued back together with a smaller diameter. I covered the center with a button for my card above. With a little thought, see how these flowers can be used in many different ways?

Other supplies used for the card sample: "Path of Life" stamp set by Our Daily Bread designs, Memory Box "Frond" designer paper, Spellbinders Square Nestabilities, Circle Nestabilities, and Labels Three. The button is Basic Grey, the gingham ribbon is by Ribbon FX by Hobby Lobby, the suede ribbon leaves are by May Arts, and there is lots of "Pearl" Glimmer Mist for a grand finale!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!! Stay tuned next week for sneak peeks on the upcoming releases from Our Daily Bread designs.....you're gonna love 'em!!! Have a very blessed weekend!!

Christian Paper Crafts- Case-ing Mary and Natalie!

Happy Monday, everyone!!! I was so happy to be able to enjoy some stamping this past weekend! For the month of December, our Design Team over at Christian Paper Crafts is being featured each week on Case Artist Saturday. My first card is a case of Natalie's awesome snowflake card. Check out Natalie's blog or CPC gallery!!! I used the snowflakes and sentiment from "Peace & Joy" from Our Daily Bread designs. Also, Jen's Color Monday challenge today is to use purple, white, and black optional. I stamped the snowflakes and sentiment with Elegant Eggplant, colored them with Almost Amethyst, then colored them again with a Stardust Gelly Roll Glitter Pen. Finished with some "Glacier" Glimmer Mist and Hero Arts Pearls This was so fun and easy!!!

My second card was also super fun to make!! Mary has been featuring the rest of the DT, so it was my pleasure to pay tribute to her as well!! I cased this gorgeous card from Mary's gallery....you can see her blog here. I used SEI "Jolie Chocolat" designer paper, May Arts pink daisy ribbon, the new Martha Stuart Monarch butterfly punch, EK Success Dotted Scallop border punch, Pearl Glimmer Mist, and Basic Grey Opaline Pearls to finish.

Thanks for stopping by today!! God Bless!!

Sing to the Lord Dini CASE

Woo hoo! Two cards in one day!!! Today Christian Papercrafts Magazine's featured artist is Dina Kowal aka "dini". Dina and her family live in Indonesia and are missionaries. Dina is also on the Design Team with me on Our Daily Bread Designs....she does some AMAZING work!!! I chose to case this gorgeous card because of the layout and how she framed the verse with flowers and butterflies.

I used my old stand-by, Sing To The Lord, from Our Daily Bread Designs. The dp is Basic Grey "Marrakech". Today's IC challenge over at Splitcoast was to choose something from Little Odd Forest. Though I already made one for this challenge, I couldn't help but do another because of all of the fun colors and designs of their handbags, etc. So, the reason I chose the Marrakech paper was to match the fun colors of this bag. The flower is from Prima, also found at ODBD.

Thanks for putting up with two posts today!!!! Have a blessed weekend!