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

Our Daily Bread Design's Shining the Light Challenge - ODBDSL102 - Favorite ODBD Stamp Set

Happy Saturday everyone!

It's time for another challenge at ODBD!

This week's challenge:

 Today marks the last March Anniversary challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs.  Since we are celebrating the Anniversary of Our Daily Bread Designs, why not end our Anniversary challenges with your favorite stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs!!!  We can't wait to see your ODBD creations!!
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 6th 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 most of our challenges, this month it is an Our Daily Bread Designs only challenge month in honore of the ODBD 4th Anniversary.  Three or more of our participants will be chosen 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 6th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC102. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here is my card for the challenge! It's hard to pick just one stamp set (I love them all), but this one has been on my mind lately. I love this quote! I decided to make a slider card using the Fleur de Lis Shapeabilities Pendants Die. It's small and delicate, but I like the way it came out!   I love these violet blue colors too!  I think I'm just going to keep it at my craft desk for a pretty reminder of God's Love. 

For ingredients used:

Stamps: God's Love (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Paper: Almost Amethyst, Pear Pizzazz (Stsmpin' Up), Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Onyx Black(VersaFine), Almost Amethyst (Stampin' Up)
Accessories: Sponge, ribbon (Michaels' Celebrate It), piercer, flower(Recollections), charm(RAK from Sabrina), brad, adhesive pearls(Recollections), burst punch (Fiskers), Frond punch (Martha Stewart), Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn Designs), Spellbinders' Dies: Labels One, Fleur de Lis Shapeabilities Pendant, Parisian Accents, Floral Ovals

For more inspiration on the challenge, please visit my DT Sisters and see their awesome creations!

Jan Marie Ennenga

Lori Ulrich

Sabrina Jackson

Rosemary Dennis

Jan Keen

I'm also submitting this the to latest Stampin' Sister's in Christ Challenge #132 .  Here is the Bible Verse.

SCRIPTURE:

Romans 8:31b-32 "If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him?”

CHALLENGE:

create a card or project that uses everything! The opposite of a CAS - toss on the embellishments and/or different papers, textures.

I can't do CAS anyway, so this one is EASY!!! 

That's it for now! I hope to see you join in the challenge! There's lots of beautiful ODBD stamp sets to choose from!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Blessings!

Kathy

Treat Holders - You Bless Me!

Hi there!

After doing the tutorial yesterday, I had the urge to make some for some special people in my life!  These are people that "Bless Me!".  I found the perfect stamp that I just received from Our Daily Bread Designs for the March Release, "Sentiments Collection".  I have a feeling I'll be using this set a LOT!

For some reason, I just don't like doing the same thing over and over, so each one of these is different.  I can never decide which one I like the best, so I just do a bunch of different ones!

I used the basic tutorial I did yesterday, but didn't do the "base" part.  I also used Spellbinder's Dies instead of a punch.

For the ingredients I used:

Stamps:  Sentiments Collection (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Paper:  The Watercolor Bouquet Collection (K & Co), Tea Party Designer Series Paper, Certainly Celery Pattern Paper (Stampin' Up), White (Georgia Pacific), Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Ribbons (Michael's & Really Reasonable Ribbon), 3 x 4 Treat Bags (Wilton), Crop-a Dile, Scor-tape, Modern Lable Punch (SU), Doily Lace Edge Punch (Martha Stewart), Classic Scallop Ovals Large Dies, Labels 20 Dies (Spellbinders), Arrow Border Edge Punch (E K Success).

That's it for now!  I hope you have a chance to try these treat holders out, they are super easy and make a cute gift!

Blessings!

Kathy

Easter Treat Holder Tutorial - My First Tutorial!

Hi there!

For a long time, I've been wanting to try writing up a tutorial.  Before I was a Mom,  a loooong time ago, I use to write training manuals and create new procedures at an insurance company.  So I figured I should be able to do tutorials!!!  Yesterday, someone asked me about the Easter Treat Holders I did a couple of years ago, so I thought the time was right and I would give a tutorial a try!  Here's what I came up with!

There's lots of different treat holder tutorials out there, but this is how I did mine a couple of years ago.   I used one from "The Ultimate Paper Crafts Collection's" "Valentine Treat Bags" by Linda Beeson for the bag base.  These are cute for any type of treat bag you need.  These are the Easter Treat Bags that I originally did and posted a couple of years ago.

Supplies:

One 2 3/4" x 9 1/2" piece cardstock
One  2 3/4" x 3" piece cardstock or coordinating paper (optional for bottom of bag)
One 2 3/4" x 2" piece cardstock or coordinating paper (optional for topper on bag)
Scor-Pal or scoring tool
Punches for border and window
Stamps
Ink
Ribbon
Crop-a-dile or other hole punch (optional)
Treat bags 3" x 4" (I used Wilton's)
Chocolate eggs or other treats


Step-by-Step

Step 1
Score the 2 3/4" x 9 1/2" piece cardstock at 3 1/2",  4 1/4",  5",  8 1/2".

Step 2
Fold cardstock in half at 4 1/4" score line.

Step 3
Fold the 3 1/2" and 5" score lines in opposite direction to form the bottom of the bag.

Step 4
Fold the cardstock at the 8 1/2" score line for the top flap.

At this point, you can decorate however you want.


For my Easter Treat Bags, I did the following:

Step 5
Score the 2 3/4" x 3" cardstock/designer paper at 3/4",  1 1/2", and 2 1/4".  (Note: If you use an edge punch, the length can be anywhere between 3" - 3 1/4" depending on the "waste" the punch creates.)

Step 6
Fold score lines as shown to fit bottom of the bag as it was done with the bag in steps 2 & 3.

Step 7
Punch border on one edge for the front of the bag.

Step 8
Adhere bottom mat to bottom of bag using scor-tape or strong adhesive.  Make sure pieces stay together well when folded.

Step 9
Punch window opening on front center with wide oval punch or other punch.

Step 10
For topper, score 2" x 2 3/4" piece cardstock at 1" and fold.  (Note: Picture shows piece 2 1/4" x 2 3/4" piece adding 1/4" for punch waste that I ended up cutting off.)

Step 11
Punch border on one end.

Step 12
Adhere to top of bag with scor-tape or other strong adhesive.

Step 13
Fill treat bags with treats, but not too full.  Add score-tape as shown.

Step 14
Fold in sides of treat bag to fit without sticking out on sides and adhere to score-tape on flap.

Step 15
Then adhere to front of bag to completely close.

Decorate as desired! 

On this one, I did 2 holes on top with a Crop-a-Dile and put ribbon through it.  There's tons of different things you can do with this basic bag!

Well, that's it, my first tutorial for my Blog!  I did this the same way the Split Coast Stamper Tutorials are usually written up to give myself something to go by.  I hope you find this useful and have lots of fun with it!  Lots of pictures and steps, I am a little detailed...hope I included everything though!

If you wanted to make a bunch of these, you could get 3 bags from one sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock.  I would probably try scoring first and then cutting the main piece for the bags the next time I did a bunch of these.

Let me know how I did, if it goes well, maybe I'll do some more!


Blessings!

Kathy

Almost Easter - Flourishes & Cheery Lynn Challenges

Hi there!

This is a very quick card I put together for Easter using one of my most favorite dies, Fanciful Flourish by Cheery Lynn Designs.  The colors on this look blue in the photo, but are actually more lavender.  I'd like to sponge some Almost Amethyst around the sentiment with the die in place, but a little late now!

I'm submitting this to the Flourishes' FTTC161 Sketch Challenge and the Cheery Lynn Designs' Challenge #20 for Easter.

For ingredients used:

Stamps: Well Scripted (Stampin' Up)
Paper: Natural White (Neenah), Almost Amethyst, Pear Pizzazz (SU)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn), Floral Oval (Spellbinders), Ornate Flower Embossing Folder (Sizzix), Rose Leaf Punch (Martha Stewart), adhesive pearls, rick rack (Recollections), flower & satin trim (RAK from Sabrina), pearl string (? old, old old).

That's it for now!  Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! 

Blessings!

Kathy

Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge - ODBDSLC101 - Silk or Faux Silk

Happy Saturday everyone!

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

This week's challenge:

Today marks the third March Anniversary challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs. . One of the traditional gifts is silk for the fourth anniversary. This week's challenge is to use silk or faux silk on your creation with your Our Daily Bread Designs stamps. Angie has created a wonderful tutorial here for the faux silk technique.

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, March 30th 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 most of our challenges, this month it is an Our Daily Bread Designs only challenge month in honore of the ODBD 4th Anniversary. Three or more of our participants will be chosen 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, March 30th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC101. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Now for my take on the challenge:

For this card, I used the Scripture Series 2 Stamp Set from ODBD using 1 Timothy 6:17, "God richly gives us everything to enjoy."  Beautiful verse, beautifully designed with the fonts.

Instead of doing Angie's faux silk technique, I decided to use this luscious silk ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon, this ribbon is gorgeous and rich!  I did 2 other challenges with this, SC377 Sketch Challenge and F4A108 Monochromatic Challenge borth at Split Coast Stampers.

For some reason, I struggled this week with this challenge and finally gave up and asked God to HELP me!  I promised Him I would give Him ALL the Glory!  So here you have it, this is what He came up with!!!  Thank you Lord!!!  :-D

For all ingredients used:

Stamps:  Scripture Series 2 (Our Daily Bread Designs)

Paper: BM - Hermit, Iced Cocoa (Core'dinations), Ancestry Designer Paper 12x12 & Mat Pad (K & Co)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Amaretto (Powder Puffs - for sponging edges)

Accessories: Silk ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Adhesive Pearls (Recollections), flower (RAK from Sabrina), head pin/pearls/beads (Michaels), sponge, Classic Scalloped Ovals Large #5, Floral Ovals #3, Elegance M-Bossibilities (Spellbinders).

For more inspiration for the challenge, please visit the other design team members and see their gorgeous creations.

Chris Olsen
Jan Marie Ennenga
Lori Ulrich
Sabrina Jackson
Rosemary Dennis
Jan Keen
Debi Southard

That's it for now!  Hope to see you join in on the ODBDSLC101 Challenge this week!

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On another note....If you like my creations, please see my sidebar for a contest I'm currently in!  You can also read more about it in my March 21st post here.  Thank you so much!

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Blessings!

Kathy