Hello, everyone! My heavy birthday list is finally winding down......I keep telling myself that if my list gets any longer, I may have to start going to Hallmark again.......NOT!!!! :D The day I learned about stamping, Hallmark lost one of their best customers! There is something so very special about making a hand-made card for someone.....a personal touch, you know?
Today's Color Challenge at Splitcoast was perfect to create a masculine birthday card. Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler, and Crumb Cake.....who says those have to be used for Christmas?!
Card 'Ingredients':
Our Daily Bread designs 'Father's Day';
Cardstock: SU Crumb Cake and Whisper White;
Designer Paper: SEI 'Silver Valley';
Ink: Crumb Cake and Stazon Olive Green;
Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 18 and Circle Nestabilities Dies, May Arts Cotton Twill Ribbon, SU Grosgrain, Antique Brass Brads, Stamp-a-ma-jig stamp positioner, paper piercer and template, foam tape, sponge dauber;
Size: 5-1/2 x 5-1/2.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! God Bless!
Happy Sunday, everyone! This week's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is Peggy McCurry......wowza, you should see her gallery! I chose this gorgeous card, first of all, for the interesting clean and simple design, plus the dahlia blossom won me over!
Since I didn't have any heavy weight white cardstock, I decided to change up the design a bit and use some new SU 'Wisteria Wonder' cardstock instead. The "Dahlia" stamp from Our Daily Bread designs was stamped in Stazon Jet Black ink, colored with a sponge dauber in Almost Amethyst, highlighted with a Wisteria marker, then cut out and popped up with foam tape. The leaves are May Arts Faux Suede Leaves. The scripture verse, also from Our Daily Bread designs, is from the "Porch" set. The bottom of the card was punched with an EK Success punch, the pearls are from Zva Creative, and there are several sprays of "Pearl" Glimmer Mist, which thankfully showed up really well against this color....yay!!!!
Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs' 'Dahlia' and 'Porch';
Cardstock: SU Wisteria Wonder and Whisper White;
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, SU Almost Amethyst inkpad and Wisteria Wonder marker ;
Accessories: May Arts Faux Suede Leaves, Ruler, Zva Creative Pearls, 'Pearl' Glimmer Mist, sponge dauber, foam tape, Stamp-a-ma-jig stamp positioner;
Size: 6 x 4 -1/2.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a blessed week!!!
Happy Saturday, everyone! This week's Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast is a great one.....lots of beautiful products from the Ten Thousand Villages online store....I chose this gorgeous Batik Decorative Fan as my inspiration. When I saw it, I knew I had some designer paper with the exact colors in it. I still have several birthday cards to make for this month, so this makes one checked off my list....whew!
To bring out the colors in the designer paper by My Mind's Eye, I used SU Rich Razzleberry and Early Espresso.....yummy....chocolate raspberry! :) I haven't used my Cheery Lynn Designs cutting dies in a while, so I was happy to use them for this card. The Fanciful Flourish was cut into pieces and placed around the French Pastry Doily Die Cut....I cut it apart since I couldn't bear to hide any of the swirls under the doily! The sentiment from the "Little Things" set by Our Daily Bread designs was stamped on a Spellbinders Circle Nestabilities die cut, then using the die as a stencil, the border was sponged with Razzleberry ink and a sponge dauber. Though the square panel was pierced using a template, the circle was pierced by hand.
Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'Little Things';
Cardstock: SU Rich Razzleberry, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla;
Designer Paper: My Mind's Eye 'A Beautiful Day';
Ink: Stazon Timber Brown and SU Rich Razzleberry;
Accessories: Cheery Lynn Designs French Pastry Doily and Fanciful Flourish dies, Spellbinders Circle Nestabilities, 'Pearl' Glimmer Mist, Bow Easy, SU Rich Razzleberry satin ribbon, Stamp-a-ma-jig stamp positioner, paper piercer and template, foam tape, sponge daubers, Zva Creative Pearls;
Size: 5 x 5.
Thanks for stopping by today! Have a very blessed weekend!!
Hello, everyone! Just wanted to share a fun card I made for the Splitcoast Sketch Challenge this week.....I couldn't pass up this sketch....I have trouble coming up with simple layouts for cards, so this helped me so much! This sketch gave the perfect opportunity to use the new "The Word of God" set by Our Daily Bread designs....this scripture verse from John is one of my all time favorites!!"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1
The Bible image was stamped in Versamark and heat-embossed with Ranger Fine-detail Gold Embossing Powder, cut out with paper snips and an exacto knife, colored with SU Markers and popped up over the three panels cut from My Mind's Eye designer paper. The scripture verse was gold-embossed as well.Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'The Word of God';
Cardstock: SU More Mustard and Whisper White(image);
Designer Paper: My Mind's Eye 'Sunshine';
Ink: Versamark, SU Markers;
Accessories: Ranger Detail Gold Embossing Powder, heat tool, paper piercer and template, May Arts Crocheted Lace, Zva Creative pearls, Exacto Knife, foam tape, 'Irridescent Gold' Glimmer Mist;
Size: 5 x 6-1/2.
Thanks for visiting with me today! God Bless!
Happy Thursday, everyone! This week's Shining the Light Challenge on the Our Daily Bread designs blog is to create a bookmark. I made a ribbon bookmark with some May Arts Crocheted Lace and Satin Trim (yummy!) plus some SU Pink Pirouette cardstock to match. The butterflies and scripture are from the "Faith" set by Our Daily Bread designs. These were stamped on Spellbinders Circle Nestabilities, stenciled with Pink Pirouette (The Ways To Use It Challenge at Splitcoast is stenciling, BTW), then matted with Spellbinders Lacey Circles. To hide the ribbon, I cut two of each Lacey Circle to "sandwich" the ribbon inside.....I used Scor-tape to adhere the layers so that they wouldn't come apart. A little tip if you'd like to try one of these.....use one layer of flat ribbon unless you want the ends to be a bit "lumpy"! :) I am also entering this in the Papertake Weekly Challenge, which is "Anything Goes" this week...yay!!
'Ingredients' List:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'Faith' set;
Cardstock: SU Pink Pirouette and Whisper White;
Ink: Stazon Timber Brown, SU Pink Pirouette and Early Espresso;
Accessories: Spellbinders Lacey Circles and Circle Nestabilities, May Arts Crocheted Lace and Satin Trim, Spooled Pearls by Modern Romance, Scor-tape, sponge dauber;
Techniques: Bookmark, Coloring with Sponges;
Size: Approx 18 inches long by 2-1/2 inches wide.
Thanks for stopping by! Have a blessed day!
Happy Sunday, everyone! Hope your weekend has been blessed!
Oh My, Moxie Fab!!! I haven't played in the Moxie Fab Trigger Tuesday challenge for quite some time. When I saw the current challenge, the photo at the left, I just had to play along! Today is the last day, so I'm squeaking it in just in time! The wood elements drew me in, and I don't make near enough red cards, so thought this would be a great opportunity!
I couldn't find my barn wood designer paper, so I used some wood print from the Basic Grey "Life of the Party" 6x6 paper pack. The daisies are from the new Our Daily Bread designs "Daisy" set. I stamped the daisy bouquet image on scratch paper, to create a mask, then stamped the image several times, using the mask so that the images would not overlap. The daisies were colored with Real Red, Summer Sun, and Old Olive markers, then the cut around them to show the wood paper underneath. The Mother Teresa quote and honey bees are from the "Simple Things" set, along with the ODBD Fence Die, are also by Our Daily Bread designs. 
Some extra flowers were stamped, colored, cut out, and popped up for extra dimension.
Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'Daisy' and 'Simple Things';
Cardstock: SU Real Red and Whisper White;
Designer Paper: Basic Grey 'Life of the Party';
Accessories: ODBD Fence Die, Bow Easy, Michael's Gingham Ribbon, SU Corduroy button, paper piercer and template. foam tape, sponge dauber;
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, SU Markers and ink pads;
Size: 4-1/2 x 6.
Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit! Have a very blessed week!!!
Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs December New Release Blog Hop!!!! I cannot wait until you see what the other Breadsticks have in store for you today....so much gorgeous-ness, I can barely stand it myself!!!!! If you haven't seen the full December release yet, check out the New Release post HERE.
If you have hopped here from the Our Daily Bread designs blog, you are right where you want to be! If you have stopped here for a visit, please head to the ODBD blog now and soak in all of the deets on how to participate in the blog hop and qualify to be one of six winners of a free ODBD stamp set!!!
I had such a blast creating my sample for the hop! First thing, I chose Basic Grey "Max & Whiskers" designer paper for the fun pattern and the coordinating solid. The "Honeycomb Background" stamp was stamped in SU Vanilla Craft Ink, then Ranger clear embossing powder was poured over the ink while it was still wet, then heat embossed. Using the "Emboss Resist" technique, I sponged different variations of peach and brown ink to shade in the honeycomb sections, then rubbed the excess ink from the embossed image with a rag. ***Now here is the fun part: since I love all things tedious, I used a stylus and hand-embossed each section of the honeycomb to give it lots of texture and a life-like look! It took about an hour to do this, but I love how it turned out!! The edges were then torn and inked heavily for a distressed look. The scripture from the "Little Things" set was overstamped with the "Honeycomb Background" and framed with Spellbinders Labels 22. The honey bees are from the "Simple Things" set and the button I made from the embossed honeycomb paper.....Psst...I'll tell you a secret: I punched out a circle from the honeycomb paper from behind the scripture panel to make my button!!!! If you'd like to learn how to make your own 5-layer buttons, check out my tutorial HERE.
Card 'Ingredients':
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs 'Honeycomb Background', 'Little Things', and 'Simple Things';
Cardstock: SU Chocolate Chip and Whisper White;
Designer Paper: Basic Grey 'Max and Whiskers';
Ink: Stazon Timber Brown, SU Vanilla Craft Ink, Apricot Appeal, and Chocolate Chip;
Accessories: Ranger clear embossing powder, heat tool, Spellbinders Labels 22, Circle Punch, Cropodile hole punch, Making Memories scrapbooking thread, Ranger Glossy Accents Glaze, sponge daubers, stylus, distressing tool, foam tape, paper piercer and template, brass brads;
Size: 5 x 6.
Now, the moment you have been waiting for.....on with the hop!!!!!!! You have until Friday, December 2nd at 8 pm EST to complete the hop.....winners will be announced on Saturday on the ODBD blog. I can't wait to see who the winners are!!Your next stop is super sweet and uber-talented Teresa Kline.....be ready to be amazed!!!!!Happy hopping to you! God bless!!!!!
