ODBDSLC106 - No Designer Paper

Happy Saturday!

It's time for a new challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs!

This week's challenge:

No Designer Paper- This week we want to see creations created with your own backgrounds, embossing, or just plain cardstock….no designer paper.

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, May 4th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award . In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, May 4th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC106. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here is my take on the challenge this week...

I just loved this coral-pink flower and I pretty much did the rest of the card around it.  I found paper that match the color really well and lots of pretty cream color on the rest.  I embossed the background with an embossing folder for a delicate background.  Very, very simple card to make, and I love the way it came out!

For ingredients used:

Stamps: Birthday Blessings (ODBD)

Paper: Natural White (Neenah), Pink (Cardstock Matstack - DCWV), Palo Verde (Bazzills)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Sweet Blush (Palette)

Accessories: Labels Four (Spellbinders), Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn), Rose Leaf Punch (Martha Stewart), Charm (RAK from Sabrina), rose flower (Prima), button (Michaels), adhesive pearls (Recollections), Ornate Flowers & Frame Embossing Folder (Sizzix), seam binding & pleated ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon)

For more inspiration for the challenge, please visit the other design team members!

Jan Marie Ennenga

Sabrina Jackson

Lori Ulrich

Jan Keen

Rosemary Dennis

Debi Southard

Chris Olsen

I'm also submitting this to one other challenge:

Stampin' Sister's in Christ Challenge #136 - use soft pastel colors

Hope to see you join in on the challenge this week!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Blessings!

Kathy

For the Love of Flowers HOP!

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Design's Alumni Team's bi-monthly For the Love Blog Hop. This week the Alumni team along with some of the ODBD designers are featuring a hop for the For the Love of ODBD Flower sets! Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, go to the ODBD blog for the full link list. One of the post is a hop hot spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $15 ODBD store gift certificate. So, all you have to do is hop along and see all the creations and leave a little love! You have until Wednesday,May, 9th at 6 pm. The winner will be announced May 10th! Enjoy all the awesome inspiration using For the Love of ODBD Flower sets!

If you've come here from SANDEE'S Blog, you are in the right place, if not you may want to start back at the ODBD Blog so you don't miss any of the beautiful creations along the way!!!

I chose ODBD's Flower Border Stamp to make my card.  This makes a beautiful frame for Bible Verses, sentiments, and quotes.  The coloring of the flowers on it is really quick and easy to do.

This stamp matches the Spellbinders Labels 18 Dies which ODBD has in their Shop.

For my card, I made a 4 1/4" easel card in white.  I embossed the Black Iris paper with an embossing folder for the background.  I stamped the Floral Frame and colored it with Prismacolor Pencils.  I cut the frame using Labels 18 and then the center with Classic Ovals Nestibilities to create a frame.  I stamped the sentiment using the Sentiments Collection from ODBD and cut it with the Classic Ovals (one size larger than the frame opening).

For the inside of the card, I stamped part of the border on one side and cut it with Labels 18 using a smaller die, colored it to match the front, and popped it up on foam dots.

For ingredients used:

Stamps: Flower Border, Sentiments Collection (ODBD)
Paper: Solar White (Neenah), White (Papertrey Ink), Black Iris (Coredinations), Old Olive (SU), The Preppy Princess Stack (DCWV)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Labels 18, Classic Ovals (Spellbinders), Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn), Branches with Leaves and Flowers Embossing Folder (Spellbinders), flower (Recollections), ribbon (Michaels), Bow-Easy, adhesive pearls (Recollections), charm (Michaels)

Now you need to go to the sweet, talented GRACE!!!

Enjoy the HOP!

Blessings!

Kathy

So Exciting!!! New Heartfelt Creations DT Member!

Hi there!

I am so excited to announce that I have been selected to be a Design Team Member for Heartfelt Creations!!!  I love their stamps and matching dies and I can't wait to start creating with them!  I will be creating a project each week and posting them here on Wednesdays.  Heartfelt Creations releases their new products on the second Wednesday of the month.  My first project post for them, on May 9th, will be using the new May release!  I can't wait to see what they send me!

I'm so honored to be selected by them and to be working with this talented group of ladies and for such a wonderful Company!  Here is the announcement on their Blog showing the new DT ladies:

Thank you to each one of the talented semi-finalists. We would like to extend a warm welcome to 10 new design team finalists that will be joining the Heartfelt Creations design team for the next 6 months: Sarah Miller, Alissa Wells, Erika Selander, Emily Neihaus, Kathleen Rooney, Rachel Dluhy, Cynthia Llorens Renaud, Giovana Smith, Karin Zander, and Marisa Job.   
Blessings!

Kathy

ODBDSLC105 - Going Green

Happy Saturday!  It's time for a new Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs! 

This week's challenge:

Go Green- Either mostly green on your card/project or recycle something on your card/project in remembrance of the nature God has created for us!!

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, April 27th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award . In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, April 27th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC105. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here's my take on the challenge this week...I used mostly green.  This lantern image is from "The Light of Life" Stamp Set, which I colored with my Prismacolor Pencils.  I thought this made a nice masculine card for a birthday or Father's Day.

 

 

 

For ingredients used:

Stamps: The Light of Life (ODBD)

Paper: The Guy Stack (DCWV), Solar White (Neenah), Palo Verde, Truffle (Bazzills)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Wheat (VersaMagic), Amaretto (Powder Puff)

Accessories: Hemp cord (Darice), metal art (K&Co), Prismacolor Pencils, mineral spirits, Large Labels, Labels One Dies (Spellbinders), stylus, hole punch, charm (RAK from Sabrina)

For more inspiration, please visit the other design team members to see their gorgeous creations!

Sabrina Jackson

Lori Ulrich

Jan Keen

Jan Marie Ennenga

Rosemary Dennis

Debi Southard

Chris Olsen

I'm also submitting this in the Word Art Wednesday Challenge #24 which you can find here!  The verse this week if you choose to use it is:

Have a wonderful weekend!

Blessings!

Kathy

Rest, Strength, and Comfort

Hi there!

I'm back again with another card I made using the layered Crosses, this time making a Double Z-Fold card.  It's my first time doing one of these, pretty easy and fun.  I used the tutorial on Split Coast Stampers' Resources which you can find here. 

This card is pretty CAS compared to what I normally do, but it didn't seem to need anything more added to it.

Here's the card closed up.

Here it is opened up.

The sentiment on the inside of the card, is from the newly released Sentiments Collection from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I LOVE this set!  These are all sentiments that the designers at ODBD contributed!  So cool!

I'm submitting this to the F4A113 Challenge at Split Coast Stampers to use 2 or more pattern papers.

For ingredients used:

Stamps: Sentiments Collection (Our Daily Bread Designs)

Paper: Linen Closet, Cardstock Stack Pastels (DCWV), Natural White (Neeneh)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)

Accessories: Floral Ovals, Crosses Two, Moroccan Accents (Spellbinders Dies), adhesive pearls (Recollections), stylus, Petite Petals Punch (McGill), flower (RAK from Sabrina), ribbon (Really Reasonal Ribbon), Hydrangea Punch (Martha Stewart)

That's it for now!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Blessings!

Kathy



Purple Cross with Great Peace

Hi there!

I made this easel card using a few different techniques I wanted to try out. 

This is the card closed up.

The card itself is made using the Labels Twenty Dies to create the card base.  Angie Crockett did a tutorial on ODBD's Blog in January showing how to make shaped cards from Spellbinder's Dies.  You can find her tutorial here.

I also added a second purple Labels Twenty Die card to the back so that purple would show on the bottom and top of the card and enabled me to turn it into an easel card.  I just used the basic easel card instructions you can find on Split Coast Stampers' Resource Section here.

The mat on the front of the card, was done using the Faux Silk Technique where you use patterned tissue paper to create it.   I bought this tissure paper at a $1 store, and had adhesive paper sheets I bought from Papertrey Ink that worked perfectly for this.  Angie also did a tutorial on ODBD's Blog for this technique a few weeks ago that you can find here.  It's a fun and easy to do.

The cross is made using the Crosses Two Dies from Spellbinders that I recently bought. I loved the look of them matted together using 4 of the dies, and wanted to use them on a card.

Here's a close-up of the cross and the tissure paper mat.

The Bible Verse I used is from the Scripture Collection 8 Stamp Set from ODBD.  This particular Verse, Psalm 119:165, is the one I chose to contribute to the collection this year...so exciting Kelley at ODBD allowed us to do this!!!

I'm submitting this to the latest Word Art Wednesday Challenge #24 that you can find here.

For ingredients used:

Stamp: Scripture Collection 8 (ODBD)
Paper: Lavender Lace (SU), Solar White (Neenah), adhesive paper (Papertry Ink)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Tissue paper ($1 store), Crosses Two, Moroccan Accents, Labels Twenty (Spellbinders Dies), adhesive pearls (Want-2-Scrap), stylus, flower (Recollections), lace (Really Reasonable Ribbon)

That's is for today!

Blessings!

Kathy

Elphine House Australia - It's a Girl Thing

Hi there!

It's time for a new challenge at Elphine House Australia!  The new challenge is called "It's a Girl Thing", use pink and/or purple colors on your design.  This was a perfect time for me to use another new stamp from EHA called "It's a Girl"!  Isn't this cute?  Another wonderful image done by the talented Elisabeth Bell!

To join in on the challenge, you can use any Elisabeth Bell image.  The winner will be chosen randomly and will receive 2 Elphine House Australia Stamps of their choice...very generous!

For ingredients used:

Stamp: It's a Girl (Elphine House Australia)
Paper: Solar White (Neenah), Nana's Nursery Baby Girl (DCWV), Certainly Celery, Blushing Bride (SU)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Certainly Celery (SU)
Accessories: White gel pen, Floral Ovals Nestibilities, Classis Petal & Classic Decorative Inserts Four (Spellbinders), Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn Designs), lace (RAK & Jo-Ann's), Ribbon (my stash), adhesive pearls (Recollections), flowers (RAK & Michaels), Prismacolor Pencils, mineral spirits

I hope to see you join in the challenge this next 2 weeks!

Blessings!

Kathy

ODBDSLC104 - S-P-R-I-N-G

Happy Saturday!!!   It's time for a new Shining the Light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs!

This week's challenge:

Use three of the letters in the word “Spring” for your embellishments, materials, or your image. Example- s=stitching, p=pink, r=ribbon, i=ink, n=nestabilities, g=green Please let us know the letters and items you used.

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, April 20th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award . In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, April 20th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC104. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here's my take on the challenge this week, a center step card.  I used the tutorial from Split Coast Stampers which you can find here. 

I used this beautiful new stamp called "Prayer of St. Francis".    I love the words to this and the pretty font that's used.  You really don't need to add much to this to make a card.  I think this would be really nice to put in a decorated frame for a gift...which I think I may do!

Here's a close-up of the bow with that gorgeous silk ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  I'm already almost out of this and will definitely need to get more and maybe check some other colors.  Under the bow is black lace that I cut two sections apart and placed together to look like a butterfly.  I thought it looked pretty neat and only used a tiny bit of the lace!

Here's a picture of the inside, I cut out one of the butterflies on the designer paper, curled it a little, and glued it down to just add a little something.

For my SPRING ingredients, I used: 

S-Silk, P-Prayer, R-Rhinestones, I-Ink, N-New Stamp, G-Green

For all ingredients used:

Stamps: Prayer of St. Francis (ODBD)

Paper: Gabrielle Collection (Bo Bunny), Black (Stampin' Up), Natural White (Neenah), gold (DCWV Stack)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Turquoise Gem (VersaMagic), Midnight Confession (Powder Puffs)

Accessories: Silk ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon), lace (Jo-Ann's), flower (RAK from Sabrina), Fanciful Flourish Die (Cheery Lynn Designs), rhinestone swirls (Recollections), sponge, adhesive pearls (Recollections).

For more inspiration, please visit the other ladies on the design team and see their beautiful creations!

Jan Marie Ennenga

Sabrina Jackson

Lori Ulrich

Debi Southard

Jan Keen

Rosemary Dennis

Chris Olsen

I'm also entering this into two other challenges, the latest challenge at Word Art Wednesday Challenge #23 which you can find here.  This is the verse given for you to use if you choose.  What a beautiful verse and message this is.

Also, the latest challenge at Stampin' Sister's in Christ,  Challenge #134, which you can find here.  The challenge is to make a joy-ful card, something celebratory! This is the verse given to us.

SCRIPTURE:

"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." Hebrews 12:2-3

I'd also like to thank all of you that voted for me at Heartfelt Creations for their Design Team Contest.  Yesterday was the last day to vote, and I submitted my projects to them.  Now I just need to wait and see!  Thank you for supporting me!

That's it for today! Hope to see you join in on the SPRING Challenge!

Blessings!

Kathy

Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge - New Life

Good Morning & Happy Saturday!

It's time for a new ODBD Shining the Light Challenge! 

 

This week's challenge:

Since spring is now here and signs of new life are happening all around us we want to see creations symbolizing new life…this can be Easter, new baby, budding trees, flowers…..etc.

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, April 13th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, April 13 at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC103. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here is my take on the challenge...

Here's the inside...very simple...

This is my interpretation of "New Life",  a new creation in Christ!  I can't think of a better verse than this one to represent new life!  I am in Christ and I'm a new creation, and thankfully the "old" has gone!

This beautiful verse is from ODBD's Scripture Series 2 Stamp Set.  I decided on white and yellow, which I love this time of the year.

I'm also entering this in a new challenge for me, Word Art Wednesday. You can use a verse or quote that they post on their blog for you on Wednesdays, or use one of your own.

For the ingredients I used:

Stamps: Scripture Series 2

Paper: Solar White (Neenah), "yellow" (DCWV Cardstock), Meadow Lark Collection (Prima)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Banana Bliss (Powder Puffs)

Accessories: Labels 8, Large Labels Nestibilities (Spellbinders), sponge, adhesive pearls (Want2Scrap), Branches s/Leaves & Flowers Embossing Folder (Sizzix), Ribbon (my stash), silk flower (wedding spray - Michaels), stamems (Michaels), stick pin, crystals, and beads (Michaels & Pretties Kit - SU)

For more inspiration, please visit the other Design Team Members blogs for their gorgeous creations for the challenge:

Jan Keen

Lori Ulrich

Sabrina Jackson

Jan Marie Ennenga

Debi Southard

Rosemary Dennis



That's it for now, I hope to see you join in on the challenge this week!

Have a wonderful, blessed Easter!

Blessings!

Kathy

Our Daily Bread Designs - BIG SALE!!!

Hi there!

Just a quick post to let you know about a sale going on on Our Daily Bread Designs!!!  If there is something you've been wanting and waiting for the right time, here it is!  Here's the scoop...

Back by Popular Demand - Daily Dough Dollars!

Our Daily Bread Designs is having a fabulous inventory reduction sale! From now through April 9th, 2012 the sets listed below will be discounted 20% OFF! But that's not all! For every $50.00 purchase you make from the ODBD Store you will receive $10.00 in Daily Dough Dollars! These DDD's (Daily Dough Dollars) can be redeemed in our online store (or by phone order) from April 15th - May 31st, 2012! You will receive your Daily Dough Dollars code with your order!

Did I mention we are also throwing in FREE SHIPPING? Yes, the free shipping runs through April 9th, 2012, for all US orders placed either online or with Josh over the phone (877-451-4909)! International orders will receive a $5.00 credit on their shipping charge.

Below are the ODBD Sets included in the sale! They'll make a wonderful addition to your stamp collection or a great gift for the stampers on your list!

Ask, Seek, Knock
Bird Border & Corners
Bless this House
Blessed Virgin Mary
Children of God
Fishers of Men
Flower Frames
Flower Frames 2
Give Thanks
God Loves You
Happy Fall
He Will Rise!
Large Bird Background
Noah's Ark
Pincushion Tag Set
Small Bird Background
Spool & Tape Tag Set
Sweet William
Tiger Lily

Remember to enter the coupon code DOUGH in the bottom of the shipping page to receive these fantastic offers! (International orders use code DOUGH5)

Have fun shopping...I see some sets I really "need"!!!

Blessings!

Kathy

Elphine House Australia Color Challenge

Hi there!

It's time for another challenge at Elphine House Australia!  This time it's a color challenge using Easter or pastels colors.  You can use any Elisabeth Bell image for your creation, not just Elphine House Australia.  The winner will be chosen by random.org and will receive 2 stamps of their choice!

Here is my take on the challenge:

I decide to use one of EHA's new stamps called "It's a Boy".  Isn't this adorable, cute little man with a cute little one?  I colored the image with my Prismacolor Pencils and mineral spirits.  I had some fun with my stylus this time to create a little texture before I applied the pencil color.  I did lines on his hair and pants, argyle on his sweater, and dots on his tie.  I've had these designer papers from K & Co. for a long time, about time I used them!

For ingredients used:

Stamps: It's a Boy (EHA), Teeny Tiny Wishes (SU)
Paper: Itsy Bitsy Baby Boy Designer Paper (K&Co.), blue (DCWV Cardstock Pack), yellow & orange (Bazzill's Earthtones Mat Stack), white (Georgia Pacific)
Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine), Banana Bliss (Powder Puffs)
Accessories: Brads, star & wood buttons, ribbons (Michaels), Labels Eight Nestibilities (Spellbinders), square punch (SU), pearl cotton thread (DMC), stylus, Prismacolor pencils, mineral spirits, Bow-Easy


Hope to see you join in on the challenge this next 2 weeks!

Blessings!

Kathy