You Make Me Smile!

Hi, everyone!  This week's Featured Stamper is Melanie aka StichesandSmudges...congrats, Melanie!  I chose this super cute CAS card to case today.  For my card today, I have used the following items from Our Daily Bread designs: You Bless Me So (Stamp/Die Duo), ODBD Custom Bitty Butterflies Dies, ODBD Custom Pierced Circles Dies, ODBD Custom Matting Cirlces Dies (sun spokes), ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies, ODBD Birthday Brights Paper Collection, ODBD Pastel Paper Pack, and the ODBD Custom Clouds and Raindrops Dies (sponged clouds).  Other than cutting and embossing the sun spokes one at a time, this was a very quick and fun card to make. Instead of kites, I chose butterflies, but used the same color sequence as Melanie's card. :)

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Blessings,

The Simple Things In Life

Happy Saturday, everyone!  This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is all about shaker cards; one focus was to use a stamped image as the shaker piece.  I chose the doily frame from the Special Blend set and a sentiment from Little Things, both by Our Daily Bread designs.  The doily was stamped on ivory cardstock; the sentiment was stamped on a piece of acetate (from ODBD's stamp packaging), both stamped with Stazon Timber Brown.  The inside of the doily was cut out with a craft knife then adhered to the acetate window with double sided tape.  Double-stacked rows of foam tape were added to the back, microbeads were added, the foam tape backing was removed and a piece of ivory cardstock was adhered, locking in all of the beads.  The designer paper from the ODBD Cozy Quilt Paper Collection plus the ivory and poppy mats were all cut out with the ODBD Custom Double Stitched Squares Dies set.  Ivory seam binding and three brown pearls were added as embellishments.

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Have a blessed weekend!

Happy Birthday, Cowboy!

Hi, everyone!! I've combined this week's Sketch Challenge 594 with Color Challenge 584, which is curry, pumpkin, watermelon, plus your choice of green for dessert (I hope adding a neutral brown is okay).  Instead of circles, I changed the shaped elements to stars since they went with the cowboy theme.  This is a birthday card for one of my nephews.  I have used the following items from Our Daily Bread designs in the making of my card:  Ride 'Em Cowboy, Wood Background, ODBD Custom Sparkling Stars Dies, and ODBD Custom Double Stitched Stars.  The medium sized die-cut star was turned into a button with a hole punch and strip of leather.

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Blessings,

Boho Hello!

Hi, everyone!  This week's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is Sarah J Moerman....congrats, Sarah!!!  I chose this amazing card to case today since this is normally not a layout that I would think to use. I used the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies to cut out the designer paper (from the ODBD Beautiful Boho Paper Collection) and eggplant mat, adhered the layers to the card then trimmed the edges.  The ODBD Custom Hello Die was also cut from the eggplant cardstock.  It was hard to keep from adding embellishments, but it will be great to mail a card with only one stamp for once! :)

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God bless!

You Light Up My Life!

Happy Saturday, everyone!  I'm loving this week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast, which is all about decorative light switches and outlet covers....I chose this embossed line outlet cover as my inspiration piece.  I will save this card for my hubby's birthday (since he does a bit of electrical work as a hobby).....good thing he doesn't read my blog! :) I thought that this was going to be a simple card to make, however, the trial and error on the two outlets took over an hour...eek!!!!  I used several punches, a corner rounder, and my Scor-buddy to complete the outlet cover and plug-ins.  The following products from Our Daily Bread designs were also used: sentiment from 'The Light of Life' (retired), stars cut with the ODBD Custom Sparkling Stars and ODBD Custom Double Stitched Stars Dies, and designer paper from the ODBD Patriotic Paper Collection.

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Blessings,

Coral Birthday Wishes

Hi, everyone!  This week's Sketch Challenge over at Splitcoast should have been an easy one, but I have to admit that I struggled quite a bit.  My first card was a total failure, so I ended up creating a clean and simple version of the layout instead.  The designer paper is from the ODBD Cozy Quilt Paper Collection and the sentiment is from 'Medallion Sentiments' (cut out with the ODBD Custom Pierced Ovals Dies), all from Our Daily Bread designs.  The matching coral ribbon, paper piercing and pearls were added for embellishments.

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Blessings,

May Mid-Month Release for Our Daily Bread designs!

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to the May Mid-Month Release for Our Daily Bread designs!  Click HERE to see all of the new sets and dies together.  If you'd like to win a gift certificate to shop at Our Daily Bread designs, 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 May 18, 2016 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 May 19th, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

* Melissa * Julie * Sandee * Cathy * Dawn * Lori * Robin * Chris * Angie...that's me! *

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

My first card is a CAS and OLC design (Clean and Simple) and (One Layer Card), featuring the new "Howdy" set.  No one said that this silhouette has to be a guy, so I made this birthday card for my niece who is a horse lover and 100% country girl.  I made a mask by tearing a piece of scratch paper, temporarily adhered both sides to my white card base, sponged purple and pink, removed the masks and stamped the silhouette and sentiment in black.  Baker's twine and three pink pearls were added for embellishments.

My second card features both the "Howdy" set and "Ride 'Em Cowboy" set, along with the Wood Background stamp, ODBD Custom Fence Die, ODBD Custom Pierced Ovals Dies, ODBD Custom Ovals Dies, ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies and the ODBD Custom Circles Dies (to cut a mask to sponge the sun).  The large cactus from "Howdy" was stamped in green then fussy cut.  The scripture verse and half of the image from "Ride 'Em Cowboy" was stamped in green, cut out with the ODBD Custom Pierced Ovals Dies and matted with the ODBD Custom Ovals Dies set.  Using a die from the ODBD Custom Circles Dies set, a mask was created in order to sponge the orange sun.  The background panel (cut out and "re-sized" into a square with the ODBD Custom Pierced Rectangles Dies set) and green fence (cut with the ODBD Custom Fence Die) were stamped in green with the Wood Background stamp. Linen thread was sewn into the top corner (after piercing with a paper piercer) to coordinate with the thread woven around the fence.

Thanks for hanging out with us today!

Blessings,