Deer Silhouette Birthday

Hi, everyone!!  This week's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is Jenney aka Sixclarks....congrats, Jenney!!  I chose this awesome card to recreate using the Deer Silhouette Greetings set by North Coast Creations (sister company to Our Daily Bread designs).  The image panel and mat were cut out with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies and ODBD Custom Rectangles Dies.  The images were stamped in Stazon Jet Black, then brown and aqua were sponged over it.  Matching baker's twine and paper piercing were the only embellishments.

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Blessings,

Kisses By Angels

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to create a tag or create a card with a tag using Audrie's tag board on Pinterest for inspiration...I chose this beautiful tag for inspiration in creating this birthday card for a dear friend. I have used the following items from Our Daily Bread designs in the making of this card: Sentiments Collection, ODBD Custom Recipe Card and Tags Dies, ODBD Custom Angel Wings Dies, ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies, ODBD Custom Clouds and Raindrops Dies (little hearts), and the ODBD Shabby Rose Paper Collection.  The ivory parts are actually a metallic cream cardstock, so it has some beautiful shimmer in the real.  Thanks to the stitching on the rectangle dies, I don't have to do as much paper piercing as I normally do, which saves some tension in my shoulders....yay!!

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Blessings,

Old Mill Birthday Wishes

Hi, everyone!  I'm back again, this time with a super simple birthday card.  The Friday Free4All Challenge this week is to 'Pick A Movie'.  I chose 'Old Mill' from 1937...this was an animated short movie produced by Walt Disney, which won the Best Animated Short Film award.  For my card, I used the 'Living Water' set by Our Daily Bread designs, along with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies and ODBD Custom Rectangles Dies .  This is my new fave set for quick cards, especially for masculine cards.  The image was stamped in kraft, sentiment stamped in black, edges sponged, corners pierced, and it's finished! My fave part about this card is that it only took 49 cents to mail...woo hoo!!!

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Blessings,

Minecraft Birthday

Hi, everyone!  This is a card I made for my nephew, who loves the video game, Minecraft.  Though I know absolutely nothing about the game, I found out that there are Minecraft movies on Youtube and also, was able to search and find some photos which helped me to create this pixilated 'Creeper' character.  Three different shades of green and some black cardstock were cut into 1/4" squares and adhered to a 3x3 square panel.  Ha, silly me, I thought that this would be an easy idea, but cutting and adhering all of those tiny squares took FOREVAH!!! :)  The sentiment is from 'Little Boys' by Our Daily Bread designs.  For embellishments, I used some square brads which have been in my stash for many years.

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Blessings,

Rustic Birthday

Hi, everyone!  This week's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is Laine Webb aka Crafterlaine....congrats, Laine!!  I loved the layout of this beautiful card and used the same layout to create a masculine birthday card.  My new "go-to" set for masculine cards is this new set from Our Daily Bread designs, 'Living Water'.  Coloring is not my forte, so I love sets that I can leave uncolored and over-stamp the sentiment.  The background panel was stamped with the 'Wood Background' stamp.  The panels were cut out with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies and coordinating ODBD Custom Rectangles Dies.  I had a scrap piece of burlap ribbon on my desk, so I trimmed off the stitched edge, pulled one strand from each edge for a frayed look, then adhered it across both panels, as Laine did on her design.  Instead of pearls, I used black metal brads.

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Blessings,

Birthday Pup!

Hi, everyone!  Today's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration at the Vera Bradley online store....I fell in love with the colors of this throw blanket. My card incorporates the aqua, caramel/rust, black, and a touch of gray (in the collar).  I have used the following items from Our Daily Bread designs: the adorable pup is from the 'You Are Pawsome' set, the sentiment from 'Little Boys', and the frame was cut out with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies.  This card is for a nephew who just turned one.

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Blessings,

Our Daily Bread designs December New Releases!

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs December New Release party!!!!  Kelley has done it again....there are four amazing new stamps sets and three new "got-to-have" cutting die sets as well!!!  Check out the entire release HERE!  If you'd like a chance to win some ODBD stamps, 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 "ODBD stamps column" of the website just for commenting on the Design Team cards!  You have until December 2, 2015 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 December 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

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

My two samples today feature these new and previously released items:

My first card features the Saddle Up set, the new ODBD Custom Double Stitched Circles Dies, ODBD Custom Matting Circles Dies, and the ODBD Custom Happy Birthday Dies set.  The background is real denim from a pair of jeans which has been in my fabric stash for many years.  When I saw the Saddle Up set, I knew I wanted to create a "dapple gray" look.  The image was stamped onto the die cut circle (cut with the ODBD Custom Matting Circles Dies and matted with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Circles Dies), plus again on scrap cardstock so that I could fussy cut them and pop them up with foam tape.  The white sections of the horses were highlighted with a clear glaze pen, then once dry, the gray was sponged on the bodies and the manes and tails were colored with a marker.  The glaze pen acted as a resist.  To create the dapple look, I dotted a white gel pen lightly plus added slight water marks all over with a paintbrush.  The 'Happy' was cut from the ODBD Custom Happy Birthday Dies set and the 'birthday' was cut by hand from the Happy Birthday sentiment in the Saddle Up set.

For my next card, the image from Plough the Fields was stamped in Stazon Jet Black, then watercolored.  Vintage is not normally my style, but I thought an old-fashioned tractor with faded paint would work well.  The ODBD Custom Rectangles Dies fit this image perfectly and it was matted with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Rectangles Dies set.  The background panel was stamped with the Wood Background in kraft ink, then the sentiment was overstamped in black.  Since the image was partly water-colored with artichoke ink, I added artichoke denim ribbon for an accent before popping up the image panel with foam tape.

Thanks so much for hanging out with us!!

God bless!!