Happy New Year!

Hi, everyone!  This week's Clean and Simple Challenge over at Splitcoast is 'New Year, New Stuff'.....today I would like to share one of 16 Happy New Year cards I mailed out last week.  I finally invested in a Misti (stamp positioning tool) and it is definitely a life changer!!  I was able to stamp all 16 cards in an hour...would have been quicker but I used the same snowflake so each card had to be stamped three times.  Gemstones were added to the centers.  The snowflake stamps are retired from Divinity Designs LLC (Snowflake Mini Set) and the sentiment is from the White As Snow Stamp/Die Duos set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings,

"Smooth Sailing" Sketch Card and Sneak Peek!

Happy Thursday, everyone! Today is our first day for Sneak Peeks of the upcoming July New Releases by Our Daily Bread designs!  I have used two new coordinating sets for my card.....'Surging Sea' and 'Smooth Sailing'.  We can't wait to show the full reveal on July 1st!!!

Along with the Splitcoast Sketch Challenge #391 (photo at left), I will be submitting to the following challenges:
Our Daily Bread designs "Shining the Light Challenge": Use three or more stamps (the ship, the sentiment, and the twill ribbon is stamped);
Stampin Sisters In Christ: use flags or banners;
Paper Play: Flags, Pennants, or Banners;
All Sorts: Any Die Will Do;
Sweet Stampin': Ribbons and Bows;
Sugar Creek Hollow: Circles.

Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'Surging Sea' and 'Smooth Sailing' (release date is July 1st);
Cardstock: Stampin Up Night of Navy and Very Vanilla;
Designer Paper: Webster's Pages 'Yacht Club';
Ink: Stampin Up Night of Navy and Ranger 'Antique Linen' Distress Ink;
Accessories: Stampin Up 'Square Lattice' Embossing Folder, Twill Ribbon, Spellbinders Oval Nestabilities and  'Nautical Frame and Accents' die set, Baker's Twine, painted brads, paper piercer and template, sponge daubers, foam tape;
Size: A2.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Hey, don't forget that there are two big sales going on at Our Daily Bread designs until Saturday night....check out the Garden Sets Sale HERE and the Christmas Set Sale HERE!

God bless!

Special Blend

 

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Today I would like to share a fun birthday card I made this morning, while using several challenges.  The Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to choose an item from the My Sweet Muffin store (kid's stuff)......I chose this adorable tea set as my inspiration so that I could open up my new 6x6 pad of Bo Bunny "Little Miss" designer paper which I received in the mail yesterday! The "Special Blend" set by Our Daily Bread designs was a perfect match!!

The doily image  and sentiment from the "Special Blend" set were stamped onto vanilla cardstock, then I cut the doily out.  I wanted to "stencil" the inside of the doily but not the outside lace, so I stamped the doily onto a piece of scratch paper (below), cut out the inside section with my craft knife, laid the mask over my vanilla piece, and sponged with pink ink and a sponge dauber.

Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'Special Blend';
Cardstock: Stampin Up Old Olive and Very Vanilla;
Designer Paper: Bo Bunny 'Little Miss';
Ink: Stazon Timber Brown, Stampin Up Early Espresso (sponged edges), and Pink Pirouette;
Accessories: Zva Creative Pearls, Spellbinders Mega Scalloped Ovals and Romantic Rectangles dies, Craft Knife, Crocheted Lace, Paper Piercer and Template, 'Pearl' Glimmer Mist, sponge daubers, foam tape;
Size: 5-1/2 x 5-1/2.

Note: The three little tea cups were cut out from the designer paper....aren't they cute?! :)

I will also be submitting to the following challenges:
The layout design of my card is from this week's Sketch Challenge over at The Sweet Stop;
Daring Cardmakers: Anything Sweet (I love my tea sweet!!!!);
Paper Play: Use a Die;
Fab N Funky: Polka Dots;
Friday Free4All at Splitcoast: Paper Piercing.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a very blessed weekend!!

Clean And Simple Thank You

Hi everyone! Today's card is another try at "Clean and Simple"....I used to be totally frightened at the thought of so much empty space and I would fill up every square inch.....and then some!!! Thanks to Splitcoast and Blogland, I have found so much inspiration from studying other stampers' work....I am grateful to all of the CAS artists out there who have helped me to de-clutter!!

Once I had a plan for my card, I knew that I wanted to sponge around the stamped image, so I created two different masks (below) out of scratch paper. One I cut around the outside, just inside the stamped line (this helps your sponging to come right to the edge of the stamped image with no white spaces); The second image I cut out the insides of the basket handles with my craft knife, so that I could cleanly sponge the blue in there too without ruining the coloring of the handles. **Tip: since the basket handles are very thin, before cutting them out, I placed some scotch tape on the backside of the paper to strengthen it, so that the thin strips of paper would not tear while I was sponging over them. Clear as mud?!

I will be submitting to the following challenges:
Our Daily Bread designs Shining The Light Challenge: Summertime;
Splitcoast's Featured Stamper this week is Emily Keaton......yay, Emily!!  Her gallery has so many different styles.....there were several CAS cards I sketched out which I will definitely be case-ing, but I finally decided on this beautiful card.....I love the simple design, plus she uses scoring a lot, which I thought was very cool, so I used my little friend, the Scor-buddy, to help with that...oops, I forgot to round the top corner!
Crafty Pad: Food Challenge;
Stampin Sisters In Christ: Reflection of yourself.....I love summer and picnics, I love to eat, and as far as card-making goes, I love tedious work such as using my craft knife and using masking;
Raise The Bar: Hello Summer.

Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'Thank You';
Cardstock: Stampin Up 'Confetti White';
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Stampin Up markers: Real Red, Creamy Caramel, Lucky Limeade, Really Rust, and a Bashful Blue Ink Pad for sponging;
Accessories: Scor-buddy scoring tool, scratch paper for masking, craft knife, and sponge dauber;
Size: A2.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a blessed day!!

Clean and Simple Sailboat

Hi everyone!  It's time to share another "manly" card! Masculine cards can be difficult at times, but luckily this one went together pretty quickly...yay! The sailboat was stamped and lightly sponged, then masked. The sky and water were then sponged, the scripture stamped, added some paper piercing, brads, and linen thread...that's it!

I will be submitting to the following challenges:
Splitcoast Ways to Use It Challenge: "Man Up!";
Fab-n-Funky: Father's Day;
Pink Elephant: Masculine;
Stampin Sisters In Christ: Action (Sailing);
Crafty Pad: Let's Hear It For The Boys;
Paper Play: Masculine with twine added.

Card details:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'Dad' (scripture stamp), and Stampin' Up 'Winds of Grace';
Cardstock: Stampin' Up Night of Navy, Crumb Cake (Kraft), and Whisper White;
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Stampin' Up Brocade Blue, Ruby Red, Apricot Appeal;
Accessories: Scratch Paper for masking, Stampin' Up Linen Thread, Antique Brass Brads, Paper piercer and template;
Technique: Masking, Coloring with sponges, CAS;
Size: A2.

Thanks for stopping by today! God bless!

Crazy For Cajun Craze and Shaped Cards!

Oh, how I love to make shaped cards!  They have so much more "character" than square or A2 cards, don't you agree?

This scene from "With Deepest Sympathy" by Our Daily Bread designs was stamped and colored while the cardstock was still in the Labels 8 cutting die, for the appearance of being matted without adding another layer.  Though this is a sympathy set, I love to use it often for masculine cards....I know I've said it many times, but Our Daily Bread designs entire stamp line is sooooo versatile!!!



I will be submitting to the following challenges:
Splitcoast Color Challenge#379: Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze, and Lucky Limeade;
Craft Your Passion: Anything Goes;
Paper Playtime: Die Cuts plus Vacation;
Pink Elephant: Masculine;
Papertake Weekly: 3-2-1: 3 pieces of linen thread, two pieces of cardstock, and 1 piece of designer paper;
Stampin Sisters in Christ: image only on front of card;
Crafty Pad: Lets Hear it for the Boys.

Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'With Deepest Sympathy';
Cardstock: Stampin up Cajun Craze and Whisper White;
Designer Paper: Basic Grey 'Pyrus';
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Stampin Up Ink Pads and Markers;
Accessories: Spellbinders Grand Calibur Die Cut Machine, Spellbinders Labels 8 dies, Stampin Up Linen Thread, Paper Piercer (for freehand piercing), sponge daubers, foam tape;
Size: Approx A2.

Thanks so much for visiting today!  God bless!

Flower Soft Scenic Windows Challenge Combo!

Happy Saturday, everyone!!!  I LOVE Saturday mornings....especially when there are some super fun challenges to inspire me!  The Shining The Light Challenge over at the Our Daily Bread designs blog got me in a flowery mood today with the Inspiration Photo collage at the left.  Then I went to Splitcoast and found another great Inspiration Challenge.....I chose these gardening gloves from the Hard To Find store, which reminded me of this Flower Soft 'Spring' Scenic Windows kit......I love all of the yummy flowers!! Also, this will be my 2nd entry for the Shabby Tea Room Challenge; 'Pretty As a Pitcher'.

If you haven't tried any of the Flower Soft kits, what are you waiting for?  All of their gorgeous pre-printed scenes and card kits make card-making so easy.....plus, Flower Soft is so unique...everyone flips out when they see the fluffy dimension that it adds to a card!  If you have some Flower Soft, but need some tips on how to use it, I have written several tutorials for Our Daily Bread designs.....check out all the ODBD Tutorials Archive Page HERE.

Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'Mini Tags 3';
Cardstock:  Stampin Up Pink Pirouette and Whisper White;
Designer Paper: Prima 'Simply Spring';
Accessories: Flower Soft 'Spring' Scenic Windows Kit, Flower Soft Sprinkles: Baby Pink, Daffodil, Ivory, Ultrafine Raspberry Fizz and Citrus Crush, May Arts Crocheted Ribbon, Pink Trim (brand unknown), Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Zva Creative Pearls, paper piercer and template, foam tape;
Size: 5-1/2 x 5-1/2.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a very blessed weekend!!!

Grunge Butterfly Birthday Card

Hi everyone! Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend! It has been so gorgeous here in Indiana, and though I have a bit of spring fever and wish to stay outside, I did take some time to play in a couple of challenges for a birthday card I need to mail out. The Featured Stamper at Splitcoast is Diane aka pinkberry.....what a fantastic gallery!!! I chose this gorgeous card due to the great layout! As Diane's card, I chose two different pieces of designer paper, but once I put them together, they look the same...oh well!


I have also used the Stampin Sisters In Christ Challenge, which is to incorporate something from the new season....butterflies and flowers!;
The Technique Lover's Challenge at Splitcoast today is 'Crop It'....instead of cropping my image by cutting, I left the panel inside the Spellbinder die and stamped over it;
The Inspiration Challenge from Splitcoast: I chose this vintage wallpaper from Johnny Tapete.



Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: God's Love, 2-Step Butterflies;
Cardstock: Stampin Up Coral Calypso and Very Vanilla;
Designer paper: Glitz 'French Kiss';
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Stampin Up Coral Calypso, Crumb Cake, and Early Espresso (sponging);
Accessories: ODBD 'Grunge Butterfly Die', Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles, Crocheted Lace, Zva Creative Pearls, Spica Glitter Pen (butterfly), Stamp-a-ma-jig Stamp Positioner, 'Pearl' Glimmer Mist, CM Corner Rounder, Paper Piercer and template;
Size: A2.


Thanks so much for stopping by! God bless!