My Peace I Give You

Hi, everyone!  I normally do not stamp much during my work week, but needed a few minutes of stamp therapy after a rough day at work.  Today's Color Challenge at Splitcoast plus our latest Queen for the Day Challenge.....(congrats to Lori McAree!!), both helped me to create this quick sympathy card which I need to mail to another friend this week.  The colors of cantaloupe, pistachio, pool party, and black were part of a "choose at least 3" challenge and the design was based on this beautiful card from Lori's gallery.   The main panel was dry embossed, matted in black, colored lightly with sponges, the verse from ODBD Scripture Collection 13 was stamped, then cut out with an oval die.  The oval was adhered to the card base and the main panel was popped up with foam tape.  The Hummingbird was stamped in black, then colored with cantaloupe, pistachio and pool party, and cut out with the ODBD Custom Hummingbird Die.

Thanks for visiting!  Enjoy the rest of your week!!

Blessings,

Heaven and Earth Sympathy Card

Hi, everyone!  Today's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is Penny Ward.....congrats, Penny!  I chose this beautiful card as inspiration for this sympathy card I will be sending to a dear friend this week.  Instead of using stamps around the edge like Penny's card, I chose to use a corner embossing folder.  The scripture verse is from a new anniversary set from Our Daily Bread designs, called Scripture Collection 12.  The corner die cut piece was cut out with the ODBD Custom Ornate Borders and Flower Die Set.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit!

Blessings,

Journal Inspired Birthday Card

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Today's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to choose a photo from Ruth Bleakley's flickr gallery......I loved the washi tape pattern on this journal book....though I don't own any washi tape, I created a similar pattern from the "Blooming Garden Collection", some new custom designer paper from Our Daily Bread designs.  The sentiment and bees are from "Bee Happy" and the little bees were cut out with the ODBD Custom "Zinnia and Leaves" Die Set.  This is a birthday card for my neice.....ideas are hard to come by sometimes, which is why I love Splitcoast challenges....they give me a starting point.  As in any task, taking the first step is the most difficult, but after that, no problem!

Thanks for stopping by!  Enjoy your weekend!!

Blessings,

Clean and Simple Congrats!

Hi there! My nephew was chosen as Employee of the Month, so I just had to make him a card to congratulate him!  The stamp set I used is Father's Day by Our Daily Bread designs and the designer paper is also by ODBD, called the "Blooming Garden Collection".  I was searching on Splitcoast last week for some CAS inspiration and came across this awesome card by Weekend Warrior, so I have used her design for my card here.

Thanks for visiting!

Blessings,

Sympathy Lilacs

Hi, everyone!  This week's Clean and Simple Challenge over at Splitcoast is to choose a CAS card from Loll Thompson's amazing gallery.....I chose this gorgeous card to case.  Instead of a dry embossed layer, I chose to use some new designer paper from Our Daily Bread designs, called The Blooming Garden Collection, along with a scripture verse from a new 6th Anniversary release called Scripture Collection 13.  In Loll's gallery, you will see many gorgeous cards on which she used dies to create cut out frames, so I did that here with the ODBD Custom Antique Labels and Border die set.  The top and bottom were cut with the border die in that same set.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Blessings,

The Lord Bless You and Keep You

Hi, everyone!!  This week's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is my dear sweet friend and design team sister, Diana Nguyen.....congrats, Diana!!!!  Diana is one of my all time fave CAS artists.....check out her amazing gallery HERE!  I chose this beautiful card to re-create......I didn't change much since I loved it so much and wanted to make a card just like it for my brother's birthday.  I used the Lighthouse Collage single from Our Daily Bread designs....it's the same image that's in the Keep My Lamp Burning set, but there are more graphics on the left side instead of an open space for scripture....now that I own both, I have more creative options!  The scripture, also one of my faves, is from Scripture Series 1.....did you know that you can get a slightly smaller version of this scripture in the Bookmarks-Scriptures set?!

The lighthouse image was stamped in mustard onto ivory cardstock, and stamped again in black, cut out the lighthouse, sponged the edges with mustard ink and adhered to the full image. Instead of using the three strands of cord, I chose to use up some of my mustard ribbon from my stash.  An extra compass was stamped, cut out and popped up for a little dimension.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Blessings,

Happy 6th Anniversary to Our Daily Bread designs!!!

Happy 6th Anniversary to Our Daily Bread designs!!!  Oh, how the time has flown since I joined Our Daily Bread designs back in 2008!!  I had no idea then about the family I was gaining by being a part of this wonderful company!  Thanks, Kelley, for taking a chance on an unknown stamper......you, Rick, and the entire team has blessed me so much and I am forever grateful!  Mwaaah!!!

Today, the Design Team, Challenge Team, and Alumni Team have joined together for a special blog hop to show off the new Anniversary sets.  Each year for ODBD's anniversary, the "Breadsticks" are each given an opportunity to choose a scripture, quote, or sentiment for a brand new stamp......hop to each of the blogs listed below to see what each of us chose for our new stamps, plus a preview of each stamp set as a whole.  From those of you who leave comments, three will win a $25.00 gift certificate and one will randomly be chosen to win the 2014 Anniversary Bundle....woo hoo!!!  You have until March 18th at 9 pm EDT to complete the hop.  The winner will be announced on the ODBD Blog on March 19th......will it be you?!  :)

Julie
Wanda
Chris
Stacy
Lisa
Grace
Dawn
Diana
Sandee
Sabrina
Silke
Cathy
Angie....you are here!
Linda
Lori
Cheryl
Audrey
Robin
ODBD Blog

For my stamp choice, I chose "Celebrate Life" since it could be used for many different types of cards or projects.  For my samples today, I used my stamp and one other from the Sentiments Collection 3 set shown below:

My first sample also features the Zinnia set, Honeycomb Background, ODBD Custom Circle Ornaments Die Set (balloon dies), and the ODBD Fence Die.  The Zinnias were embossed white on white, then sponged in purple and yellow.  Since balloons are generally round, instead of using the ODBD Custom Zinnia and Leaves Dies, which match the stamps perfectly, I chose to use the ODBD Custom Circle Ornaments Die Set, especially since there is a die in the shape of a balloon valve (what is the correct name for a balloon end anyway?! lol!!) 

My second sample features another beautiful stamp from Sentiments Collection 3, plus the new Bee Balm single, the bees from Bee Happy (cut out with the ODBD Custom Zinnia and Leaves Die Set), ODBD's Blooming Garden Collection Designer Paper, and the ODBD Custom Beautiful Borders Die Set.

Thanks so much for helping us to celebrate today!  Hope you enjoy the new sets and all of the gorgeous samples from my Sistah Sticks!

God Bless!