You Make Me Happy

Hi, everyone! This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration the Inspiring Tables Pinterest board.....I am always a sucker for royal blue, so I chose this awesome table setting.  I used two of my neglected Stampin Up sets, Bitty Buds and So Many Sayings, along with the Blossom 3 SB Dies. I haven't made a shaped card in a while so this was fun. To help keep the outer flowers somewhat lined up, I traced a circle die with a blue marker and then began stamping.  I did not use a stamp positioner....I just "went for it"...it's not perfectly symmetrical but I can live with it this time!  The sentiment was stamped in blue and punched out with the Word Window punch.  A tiny gingham bow, tied with a Bow Easy, was the finishing touch.  This will go into my birthday stash.

Thanks for visiting today!

Blessings,

Summertime Cocktail

Hi, everyone! What a happy, summer-y Color Challenge at Splitcoast this week...pineapple, coral, and pear....yummy! For my card today, I have combined the Color Challenge, Misti's 'Pool Party' VSN challenge, and the July Fan Club Central Theme Challenge since I used watercoloring on the summertime cocktail image.  The image has been in my stash for at least five years....it's from Inkadinkado and I picked it up either at JoAnn's or Michael's.  The image was stamped in Stazon Jet Black; a clear glaze pen was used on the clear parts of the glass and the air bubbles to act as a resist against the watercoloring.  The shaped card and layers were cut out with the ODBD Custom Large Banners Dies and the image panel was cut with the ODBD Custom Pierced Circles Dies and sponged with yellow. Baker's twine and three green gems were added for simple embellishments. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Blessings,

Send Forth Your Light

Hi, everyone!  This week's challenge over at the "Less Is More" blog is to use candles or anything depicting light.  Since I needed to make a card for my Dad's birthday, I chose to use the "Light of Life" set by Our Daily Bread designs.  The kraft card base was cut out with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rounded Rectangles Dies.  The image was colored with markers and the edges were sponged for a little dimension.

Thanks for visiting!!

Blessings,

Our Daily Bread designs February New Releases!

Hi, everyone! Welcome to the February New Release party for Our Daily Bread designs!  Wow, what an amazing release this month....my designer sisters and I have fallen in love with the new dies and stamps!  After all, this is the month of love!  You can see the entire new release HERE!

If you'd like a chance to win some goodies, please follow the instructions below:

Prize Information: 

Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 Gift Code to the ODBD Website  just for commenting on the Design Team cards!  You have until February 2, 2017 at 9:00 p.m. EST to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win!  The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on February 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

* Kathy * Lisa * Sandee * Dawn * Angie (me) * Julie * Cathy *                    *  Grace * Chris * Robin * Diana * Lori * Helen * Sabrina *

Here are the new and previously released items featured in my two projects for today:

Instead of creating a treat box, I used the new ODBD Custom Glorious Gable Box Dies to make a paper lantern, which why I chose gray cardstock.  After cutting out the two halves of the box, the ODBD Custom Heavenly Hearts Dies were used to cut out the pretty flourishes, then the ODBD Custom Layering Hearts Dies were used to cut out the heart openings and small white heart.  Before assembling the box, I used vellum to line all of the die cut panels except for the front, so that the tea light would be visible.

The white heart on the front was stenciled in gray and the sentiment from 'To My Favorite' was stamped in black.  The accent flower was cut with the ODBD Custom Bitty Blossoms Dies and ODBD Custom Fancy Foliage Dies.

The matching card was cut out with the ODBD Custom Tulip Heart Die.  The shaped card was cut out with white; a gray heart was cut out with the ODBD Custom Layering Hearts Dies for the back of the card and the flourished top panel was cut with the ODBD Custom Tulip Heart Die.  When gluing the top heart to the white card, I intentionally offset them so that some of the white would show through.  The sentiment panel was cut with the ODBD Custom Mini Labels Dies and was stamped with a sentiment from 'Let Love Grow'.

Thanks for hanging out with me and my Sistah Sticks today!

Blessings,

Our Daily Bread designs March New Releases!

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to the March New Release party for Our Daily Bread designs....if you haven't seen all of the new stamps and dies, you can see them all HERE!!!!  Would you like to win a gift certificate from Our Daily Bread designs?  Follow the instructions below for a chance to be one of three winners:

Prize Information: 

Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 gift certificate to the ODBD Store just for commenting on the Design Team cards!  You have until March 2, 2016 at 9:00 p.m. EST to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win!  The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on March 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

* Cathy * Julie * Dawn * Sandee * Robin * Lori * Angie (that's me)*     * Lisa * Chris * Diana * Sabrina * Melissa *

Here are the new and previously released stamps, dies, and papers which are featured in my projects below:

My first card is a copper metallic shaped card which was cut out (and embossed) with the new ODBD Custom Double Stitched Stars Dies.  I also used the coordinating ODBD Custom Sparkling Stars Dies for the layers and tiny star accents, along with two stamps from the 'Superstar' set. The navy blue and sentiment stars were both popped up with foam tape for extra dimension.

My next card features the new ODBD Custom Double Stitched Squares Dies, coordinating ODBD Custom Squares Dies, the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Stars Dies and the coordinating ODBD Custom Sparkling Stars Dies.  The polka dot design from the ODBD Vintage Ephemera Paper Collection was cut out with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies, then the bottom edge of the panel was cut with the ODBD Custom Leafy Edged Borders Dies in order to leave room to stamp the sentiment from 'Superstar' on the white mat. To create the quilt pattern, many squares and stitched stars were die cut, then each square had a star cut out of it and each stitched star had a smaller star cut out of the center.  All of the die cut pieces could then nest together into one quilt pattern.

Thanks for hanging out with us today!

God bless!

Our Daily Bread designs September New Release Party!

Hey, everyone!  Welcome to the September New Release party for Our Daily Bread designs!!!  Though I only have one new stamp set to show you, check out the entire new release HERE!  If you'd like to be one of three who win a gift certificate to spend at Our Daily Bread designs, please follow the instructions below:

Prize Information: - 

Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 gift certificate to the ODBD Store, to be used toward the purchase of ODBD Stamps found in the "stamps column" of the website just for commenting on the Design Team cards!  You have until September 2, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. EDT to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win!  The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on September 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

* Julie * Cathy * Grace * Chris * Amy * Sandee * Dawn * Lisa *                                  *  Loretta * Sabrina * Silke * Lori * America *

Here are the new and previously released items from ODBD which I have used for my samples today:

My first card started as a shaped circle card (with the fold un-cut at the top); a small strip was trimmed and adhered across the top edge then the baker's twine camouflaged the added strip. The bottom edge of the card base was trimmed straight across.  Two of the clown fish from the 'Deep Waters' set were fussy cut out of the underwater stamp scene.  The coral was cut from the ODBD Custom 'Fancy Foliage' Dies and the other plant-life was cut from the ODBD Custom 'Asters and Leaves' Dies.  Two little heart pearls and some glimmer mist was added as a finishing touch.

My second card features the same stamp set, 'Deep Waters', but this time I made a shaker card.  When you order stamps from Our Daily Bread designs, the cling-mount stamps are on a clear acrylic sheet, right?  Did you know that those are perfect to make windows on your projects?  They die cut very easily....woo hoo!!  So, I cut a navy blue frame with circle dies, added silver eyelets, then adhered the acrylic circle to the back using Scor-tape.  While the window was face down, several layers of foam tape were added around the edges, then beads were added, the foam tape was stripped and the image panel was adhered to the back to seal everything in.  Since I had to use several layers of foam tape so that the beads could move around, the shaker was inset into the white panel which was embossed with a striped folder.  Paper piercing, silver brads, and denim ribbon were added as finishing touches.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us today!

God bless!

Shabby Showers

Hi, everyone!  Our cruise vacation was a blast (will share some photos soon), but now I've got some stamping to catch up on!  For this card, I've combined quite a few challenges from the past week at Splitcoast:
Inspiration Challenge: I chose the top postage stamp from this photo;
Technique Lover's 'Line Up' Challenge:  doodle by hand or draw lines around your image;
Clean and Simple 'April Showers' Challenge:  baby or bridal showers, rain showers, etc.;
Color Challenge of Wild Wasabi, Pink Pirouette, and Sahara Sand;
Featured Stamper Challenge: belated congrats to Mary Johnson aka maryj68....I chose this beautiful card from her gallery to recreate.
I will also submit this to the Shining the Light 'April Showers Inspiration' Challenge over at the Our Daily Bread designs Blog. 

Since I have no Wild Wasabi, I started off with some Prima papers from my stash which had both green and pink for the color challenge, for the background and the sections of the umbrella.  The sentiment is from 'Shower of Blessings'.  The umbrella and (lots of) pink hearts were cut out with the ODBD Custom Umbrellas Dies, the pink borders were cut out with the ODBD Custom Beautiful Borders Dies. The edges were sponged with Sahara Sand, then hand-doodled. Lining up the tiny pink hearts took a little while, and though they are a bit crooked, I just had to follow the theme from Mary's card.

My second card is also for the Inspiration Challenge......I chose this gorgeous Amethyst stamp for my inspiration.  The shaped card was cut out with the awesome new ODBD Custom 'Layered Lacey Squares' Dies, layered with the Romantic Floral Designs frame cut out with SB Labels 26 dies, stamped in lavender,  and lyric from 'How Great Thou Art' stamped in eggplant.  The floral spray was cut from the ODBD Custom 'Fancy Foliage' Dies and ODBD Custom 'Ornamental Crosses' Dies.  Note:  the three shades of purple did not photograph well.....they look much better in the real. 

Thanks for visiting!

Blessings,

Rock Star Thank You!

Hi, everyone! Today's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is Claudia aka cjzim.....congrats, Claudia!!  Check out this cool star-shaped chipboard ornament from her gallery....love it!  Instead of an ornament, I made a shaped card with the ODBD Custom 'Sparkling Stars' Dies, then puched a hole and made a tag for this plate of  'Thank You Cookies' for a friend.  The image from 'Rock Star' was stamped in navy onto kraft, cut out with the same die set, then popped up over the designer paper from the ODBD 'Patriotic Paper Collection'. 

Here is a close up of the front of the card/tag:

I used the ODBD 'Patriotic Paper Collection' on the inside also, along with a sentiment from the 'Mini Tag Sentiments' set.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Blessings,

Doily Blessings / ODBD Sneak Peek!

Hi, everyone!!  Today is the first day for sneak peeks of the September 1st new releases from Our Daily Bread designs.....woo hoo!!!!  My shaped card and popped up doily were both cut out with the upcoming ODBD Custom Doily Dies Set.  The scripture is from 'Doily Blessings', the designer paper is from the ODBD 'Blushing Rose Collection', and the ivory seam binding bow was tied with a Bow Easy.  The general card design was based on this shaped card by Jenn Cochran, who is this week's Queen for the Day, along with our new QFTD hostess......congrats on both accounts!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a fabulously blessed weekend!!

On The Beach

Hello!  I have another "funky" but fun card to share today!!  The triangle shaped card's fold is at the top and opens from the bottom.  I have combined a couple of Dare To Get Dirty Challenges along with today's Color Challenge of Cherry Cobbler, Wild Wasabi, Pool Party, and Daffodil Delight (plus no focus on flowers or sentiments).  The sentiment stamp I used is from 'Flip Flop Fun' from Our Daily Bread designs and the other stamps in the scene are from an 'oldie' stamp set from Stampin Up, 'On The Beach'.  The waves and sand were colored with sponge daubers and ink; the detailed items were colored with markers.  This will be a birthday card for my nephew, Ethan, who saw the ocean for the first time recently and was transformed into a totally different kid...he loved it!!!!

Thanks for visiting!

Blessings,

Happy Birthday to Kelley!!

Hello, everyone!!!  Today the "Breadsticks" and I are celebrating the birthday of owner and founder of Our Daily Bread designs, Kelley Holland!!!  Happy Birthday, Kelley!!!!  Hope you have a fabulous day.....hope your family treats you like a queen!! :)

If you would like to help us to celebrate, hop along with us and see the birthday cards which we have made for Kelley:






Here is the card I made for Kelley....her favorite color is pink, so I paired fuschia pink with Kraft and white, using the "Romantic Floral Designs" set, coordinating Spellbinders Labels 26 dies, and the sentiment is from "Flourished Verses".

Thanks for hanging out with us today!

Blessings,