Hi, everyone! Hope you all had a wonderfully blessed Thanksgiving!
This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers is to find inspiration from the Horchow site......I fell in love with the purple, green, and white color combo of these gorgeous table linens. This week's Queen for the Day is Beverly aka ruby-heartedmom.....congrats, Beverly!!!! Her gallery is full of so many cool techniques, so I decided to try the stained glass technique as she did on this beautiful card. I tried a single image as she did, but it didn't turn out well, so instead I used the Ornate Background stamp from Our Daily Bread designs (available December 1st). The background was stamped onto white vellum with versamark, heat embossed with white embossing powder, then the entire underside was colored with a sponge dauber in light purple, then markers highlighted the ornate designs. The vellum panel was adhered to white cardstock using a Xyron Sticker Maker Machine, then matted, paper pierced and popped up with foam tape over light purple cardstock. Since this is a birthday card for a dear friend, I also added a sentiment from the "Ornate Borders Sentiments", stamped over the "Ornate Borders and Flowers" design, cut out with the custom "Ornate Borders and Flower Die Set" (all available Dec 1st). The leaves were cut out with the ODBD "Fancy Foliage" Die Set.
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Have a very blessed weekend!!!
Hi, everyone! Today's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is the extremely talented Julie Dinn aka Stampinjewelsd...congrats, Julie!!! I chose this beautiful card from her gallery to recreate. I really liked the sponging, the layout, and the five brads under the sentiment. The set I chose is from North Coast Creations (Our Daily Bread designs' sister company), called "King of the Road". This is a birthday card for my dad....I'm a couple of weeks ahead of schedule....yay!!
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Blessings,
Hi, everyone!! Today, we are looking back at the new stamps and dies which were released by Our Daily Bread designs on November 1st. For my sample today, I have used The Earth set, along with five different cutting dies from the new ODBD Custom Circle Ornaments Die Set...can you find all of the dies I used from the set shown below?
I have included two different photos, since metallics are so difficult to photograph. The first photo shows how awesome the copper embossed earth image turned out, but the 2nd really shows off the copper mirror paper, from which the shapes were cut. I couldn't decided between the two photos, so I left them both! :)
For added copper effects, after stamping the earth on the white strip with blue ink, copper embossing powder was sprinkled over the panel and heated from the under side of the cardstock to melt it to the paper. Why heat the underside, you ask? Answer: so that the embossing powder would not blow off from the gust of the heat tool. Please click on one of the photos if you'd like to see a close up of the sprinkles.
If you'd like to see more samples from the November sets, please visit my designer sisters below (and leave some love too!)
Grace
Julie
Angie...you are here!
Dawn
Chris
Cathy
Sabrina
Sandee
Lori
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Blessings,
Hello there! Today I would like to share a birthday card which I made for a dear friend.....this "Daisy" stamp from Our Daily Bread designs is my go-to stamp for so many cards....I love it!! After stamping the daisy image, I covered it with a mask (which I cut out from scratch paper), then sponged a soft purple around the outside edges to give it a bit of a glow. The rest was colored with markers. The sentiment is from "God Loves You" (retired set). Another fave of mine is the "ODBD Fence Die" ....I use it every chance I get! I will be submitting this card to the Central Theme "Gratitude" Challenge...a Fan Club Members Only challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.
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Blessings,
Hello!! Today I would like to share a sympathy card which I made using the Featured Stamper Challenge at Splitcoast. This week's Featured Stamper is Susan Conrad aka One4Joy.....congrats, Susan! Susan's creations have brought a smile to my face for many years......her "quirky" and "artsy" style is so creative and fun. After taking a long cruise through her gallery, I chose this beautiful card to re-create. I used the same layout, but used different dies and added pearls. The image and scripture verse are from "The Shepherd" and the card base was stamped with the "Vine Background", both by Our Daily Bread designs.
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Blessings,
Hi, everyone! This week's Queen for the Day is Susie Nelson....congrats, Susie!!! Her gallery at Splitcoast is chock full of beautiful cards! I finally decided on this gorgeous card to re-create.....I loved the stamped background and general layout of this card. The stamped background on my card is the "Vintage Pattern Mini 2" Background stamp and the sentiment is from "The Earth", both by Our Daily Bread designs. The ivory sentiment panel was cut out with the ODBD Custom Antique Labels and Border die set; the razzleberry mat was cut by hand after tracing the outside edge of the same die. The razzleberry ribbon was tied with a Bow Easy.
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Blessings,
Hello there! Happy Saturday!! I sooooo love Saturdays.....not just because I don't have to go to work, but I LOVE to play along with the Inspiration Challenge at Splitcoast each week. This week, we are to choose a photo from a Japanese blog, Nunu's House, about miniature houses and their decorations.....wow, talk about artwork!! I chose this pink cake with white flowers. I love this Sizzix embossing folder because it makes Clean and Simple cards so quick and easy! The pink cardstock was embossed with the folder, then the flowers and stems were colored with an SU Chalk Pen. I was going to add some white ribbon, but decided that the pearls and paper piercing were the only embellishments needed. The sentiment is from the Our Daily Bread designs "Sentiments Collection 2" set, heat embossed with white embossing powder.
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Have a beautiful weekend!!
Blessings,
