ODBD Customer Linky Party - 5th Anniversary!

Hi there!

Just wanted to let everyone who loves Our Daily Bread Designs know about a Customer Linky Party that are having right now to celebrate their 5th Anniversary.  It sounds like a lot of fun!  Here's the information on it from their blog:

Sunday, March 3, 2013

ODBD Anniversary Customer Linky Party

Hello friends!! March is a very exciting month for Our Daily Bread Designs! Five years ago this month, Kelley began Our Daily Bread Designs. Now...five years later we want to celebrate with you, our fans and customers, with a 24 hour Linky Party beginning on March 10 at 2 pm EST. In order to participate, however, you must have a blog and use ODBD stamps.

All you have to do is....
1.... put a link to your blog on the linky below
2.... create a card with Our Daily Bread Designs stamps only and...
3. ... post it on your blog on March 10 at 2 pm EST with a link to the ODBD blog so others can see all the participants.

To make it even more fun...we will be selecting 3 random guest designers to be our guest for one month each from those customers/fans who participate in the linky party. If you are interested, please put the letters GDT after your name in the linky. The winners/guest designers will be announced on March 12.

The linky will remain open for sign ups until Thursday, March 7 at 8 pm EST. We would love to have you join us!!!

 

Hope you can join in the fun!  Here's the link to their blog to take you there!

 

Blessings!

 

Kathy

CottageCutz Birdie in Blossoms

Hi there!

Today I have a new card to show you using CottageCutz Dies.

For my card, I used the bird from the Bluebird Die, the flowers and branch from the Blossom Branch Die, and the frame from the Oval Doily & Frame Die.

I used a piece of designer paper (Secret Garden - Graphic 45) with a pretty bird and flower image and enhanced it with the dies matching the colors. The bird from the Bluebird Die, was cut with white paper and colored with Aegean Blue Chalk Ink and Vintage Photo Distress Ink. The beak and feet were inked with Red Brick Chalk Ink. The Blossom Branch was cut with peach cardstock for the flowers and green for the branch. The flowers were shaped with a mat and tool kit, inked with Red BrickChalk Ink, and dotted with Buttercup Liquid Pearls in the center. The branch was cut to piece around the lower corner of the image. The frame from the Oval Doily & Frame was cut with Natural White Cardstock.

I added a bow made with Natural Jute String from Really Reasonable Ribbon and the Bow-Maker. I didn't add a sentiment to this, but a small, short sentiment would be cute on the bottom right or as a tag hanging from the bow.

Here are pictures of the dies I used on this.

 

 

CottageCutz has a new release for Februrary called "This 'N That" that has lots of fun dies including envelopes, bags, tags and tabs.  You can see them all here at their store!

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #69 - Anything Goes

Thank you for stopping by!

Blessings!

Kathy

Heartfelt Creations Inspiration

Happy Wednesday!

It's time for a little inspiration from Heartfelt Creations!  This week I have a card and matching door hanger using the Timeless Amour Collection.

The card is quick and easy to make!  I used one of the sentiment blocks from the designer paper, added a burgandy mat, and popped it on an embossed card base.  Then I added a bow and flower to the corner.

The door hanger is just a $1 bin find at Target that I add the Timeless Amour Designer Papers to with Mod Podge and embellished with the heart shaped dies, bow, and flower.

I am submitting these to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #69

Thank you for stopping by!  Be sure to visit the Heartfelt Creation's Blog to see the designers beautiful creations this week and also a sneak peek of March's New Release!

There is also a Design Team right now call for Heartfelt Creations!  Here is a little exerpt from the Blog if you are interested:

Design Team Call: The time has come to do another open design team call. If you are passionate about stamping or scrapbooking, and love Heartfelt Creations products, CLICK HERE, for more details.

Blessings!

Kathy

Doorway to My Heart

Heartfelt Creations Products & Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3500 – Open Vintage Floret PreCut Set
HCPC 3502 – Mini Vintage Floret PreCut Set
HCD 728 – Timeless Amour Die
HCD 727 – Vintage Floret Die
HCPC1 228 – Timeless Amour Paper Collection
Product ID: 159223 - Paper BlossomsMolding Mat
Product ID: 459222 - Paper BlossomsTool Kit
Product ID: 159723 – Art InstituteGlue – Dries Clear
Product ID: 273900 - Zip Dry PaperGlue

Other Products Used:

Paper: Cream, Always Artichoke (SU), Brandy Wine (Bazzills), Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Victorian Velvet, Moss, Vintage Photo Distress Ink
Accessories: Framed Tulips Embossing Folder, door knob holder (Target $1 bin), Mod Podge, brush, Always Artichoke Seam Binding (SU), White Jute String (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Bow-Easy, adhesive pearls, craft knife, cutting mat

Instruction:

Card: Cut Always Artichoke cardstock 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", score at 4 1/4", fold.  Emboss front of card with folder.  Cut sentiment block from designer paper and mat with Brandy Wine cardstock.  Glue together and add to card base with pop dots.  Make bow with Jute String and add to card as shown.  With Solar White and Onyx Black Ink, stamp 1 small flower from Open Vintage Floret and 1 leaf flower from Mini Vintage Floret Set.  Color with pencils or inks, cut with matching dies, shape and add to bow as shown.  Add adhesive pearl to flower center.

Door Knob Holder: Ink edges with Vintage Photo Ink.  Adhere designer paper with door image as shown onto door knob holder with Mod Podge on both front and back of holder.  Dry complete and trim excess with craft knife.  Sand edges if needed and ink edges.  With cream cardstock, die cut hearts and ink edges as shown or desired.  Glue to holder as shown.  Make bow with Bow-Easy and add to holder.  Stamp one each of the 3 smallest flowers from the sets, color, and cut with matching dies.  Shape and assemble, add to bow and add adhesive pearl to center.

 

ODBDSLC144 - Black & White

Happy Tuesday!

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

This week's challenge is:

Black and White with Our Daily Bread Designs stamps only.

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 Sunday, March 3rd at 8 p.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 Sunday, March 3rd at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC144. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

 

Here is my sample for the challenge this week:




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I used the Ask, Seek, Knock Stamp Set from Our Daily Bread Designs for the focal image of Matthew 7:7.  Here is a picture of this set.

 

 

 

 

It was die cut with the Floral Oval and Elegant Oval Dies and popped onto the Enchanted Designer Paper.  To fit the die cuts and the lace, I made the card a little taller than normal.  It measures 6 1/2" x 4 1/4".  A very simple card to put together.

 

For more inspiration, please visit the other designers to see their beautiful creations this week for the challenge!  You can also see all the creations in one place on the ODBD Blog here.

 

 

Diana Nguyen

Audrey Hiltke

Cathy McCauley

Jan Marie Ennenga

Chris Olsen, CT Coordinator

 

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

 

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #68 - Anything Goes

 

Card recipe:

 

Stamp: Ask, Seek, Knock (Our Daily Bread Designs)

Paper: Black, White, Enchanted Designer Paper (Bo Bunny)

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)

Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder (Stampendous), heat tool, Melon Seam Binding (Really Reasonable Ribbon), trim, rhinestones, button, pearls, Elegant Ovals Die (ODBD/Spellbinders), Floral Oval (Spellbinders)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Blessings!

 

Kathy

CottageCutz Wedding Chapel

Happy Thursday everyone!

Today I have a center step card I made using two of CottageCutz Dies, Wedding Chapel and Blossom Branch.  I just love these dies, they are so much fun to work with!

I cut out all the pieces with white cardstock and colored them with inks using sponges and make-up applicators.  Some of the pieces were shaped a little with a molding mat and stylus.  Here's a close-up of the die pieces.   I love how the flowers came out with the blue ink and liquid pearls.

These are the CottageCutz Dies that I used.

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #66 - Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon #68 - Spring Colors & Ribbon
Cutie Pie Challenge #38 - Pretty Pastels & Cute


I hope you like my project and it give you a little inspiration!

Blessings!

Kathy

North Coast Creations Blog Hop

Hi there!

 

This is my second post for today, if you are looking for my Heartfelt Creations card please click here.

 

Welcome to the North Coast Creations Blog Hop!  If you got here from Julie's Blog, you're in the right place!  If not, you might want to start at the North Coast Creation Blog for all the details on the hop!


We are so pleased to announce the official grand opening of our new website! (http://www.northcoastcreations.com/) ; Our new product line focuses on cute, vintage and whimsical stamps, created by our team of artists and graphic designers. This is a way for us to express our creative and artistic abilities in a new and fun way!!

We will be updating our library regularly so check back often to see what is new!

You can sign up for our emails on our website! (www.northcoastcreations)

LIKE us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/NorthCoastCreations)

Follow us on Pinterest! (https://pinterest.com/nccstamps/)

Sign up for Blog Updates (http://northcoastcreations.blogspot.com/)

Now...on to the Blog Hop details!

• The Blog Hop will run from 8:00am EST February 20 - February 22 8:00pm EST
• Winners will be announced Feb 23 on the NCC Blog
• There will be Three prizes of $20.00 Gift Certificates for stamps at the NCC Store!
• Hop to each designer, leave a comment for each one, and return to the NCC Blog to let us know you completed the hop!
• Let us know in that comment which stamp from the store is your favorite!  

Now on to my creation for the hop...






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This cute little guy is call Cocoa Time Rosco!  Don't you just love his earmuffs and scarf!  I colored him with pencils and mineral spirits, fussy cut his image, and popped him up on an oval die shape.

 

Here is a picture of the stamp image:

 

 

 

 

Card Recipe:

 

Stamp: Cocoa Time Rosco (North Coast Creations), Holiday Ornaments (the sentiment) (ODBD)

Paper: Solar White (Neenah), Sugar Plums (Recollections), red

Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)

Accessories: Classic Scalloped Ovals & Classic Ovals (Spellbinders), heart punch, baker's twine, buttons, white gel pen, Aleene's Paper Glaze, mineral spirits, Prismacolor Pencils: Crimson Red, Mahogany Red, Olive Green, Black, Metallic Silver, Warm Greys

 

Next on the hop is the North Coast Creations Blog!

 

Blessings!

 

Kathy

Heartfelt Creations - Sunny Day Collection

Happy Wednesday!

It's time for a little inspiration from Heartfelt Creations!

For my project this week, I have a tri-shutter card made with the new Sunny Day Collection.  These papers are so gorgeous, I just love the soft colors on these!

I love making these cards as they look complicated, but are actually pretty easy!  There's lots a little areas to places elements if you want to also!  This card really shows the beautiful designer papers that go with the collection.  Here's a close up picture of the front of the card with the window image.  The image is fussy cut and then I place a piece of the designer paper behind it for a little scene.

Here are some more views of the card.

Please visit the Heartfelt Creations Blog to see all the designer's beautiful creations this week!

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #68 - Love/Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon #66 - Spring Colors & Ribbon
Crafty Card Makers Challenge #85 - Blooming Images
No Matter What - #6 - Ribbons & Bows
All Sorts - #194 - Things with Wings
Whimsy Stamps Inspirations #56 - Add some metal

Thank you for stopping by!

Blessings!

Kathy

You Are One In a Million

Heartfelt Creations Products & Products Carried by HC:

HCPC 3521 – Botanical Window PreCut Set
HCDP1 230 – Sunny Day Paper Collection
HCD 718 – Decorative Chateau Gate Die
Product ID: 159223 - Paper Blossoms Molding Mat
Product ID: 459222 - Paper Blossoms Tool Kit
Product ID: 159723 – Art Institute Glue – Dries Clear
Product ID: SF03598 - Prismacolor Pencil Set 48 pc.

Other Products Used:

Paper: Solar White (Neenah), yellow (DCWV Stack), Baja Breeze (SU), Olive Linen (Recollections)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine), Antique Linen Distress Ink
Accessories: Labels 13 (Spellbinders), pop dots, mineral spirits, sponge, cutting knife & mat, Bow-Easy, adhesive pearls, spacer (Michaels), Olive Wrinkled Ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Prismacolor Pencils: Light Umber, Dark Brown, Muted Turquoise, Kelp Green

Instructions:

Base: With Olive cardstock, follow Tri-Shutter Card instructions from Split Coast Stampers: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/trishuttercard/   Use the designer papers to make mats for the two large “T” shaped sections as shown leaving a 1/32” edge, ink edges with Antique Linen Ink, and glue to card base.  Cut journal blocks from designer papers as desired in pieces measuring 1 5/16” x 1 13/16”, ink edges, and glue to base.  Cut sentiment block “You are One in a Million”, ink edges.  Add Olive mat (3 3/16” x 1 15/16”) and yellow mat (3 3/8” x 2 1/8”).  Add to center, middle panel of card with pop dots.  With yellow cardstock, cut smaller Decorative Chateau Gate from Die.  Cut mat with Baja Breeze (2 1/4" x 1 1/2") and white (2 1/8” x 1 3/8”).  Glue as shown and add to back “T” section of card with pop dots.

Image: Cut Baja Breeze with Labels 13.  Cut both gates from Decorative Chateau Gate Die with yellow.  Add to Baja Breeze piece as shown.  Stamp window image twice on Solar White with Onyx Black.  Color one with pencils and on the second color only the large flower.  Fussy cut image and add additional flower with pop dots.  Cut journal image block for window image, place behind window, trim to fit, and glue as shown. 

Embellishments:  Fussy cut tiny butterfly from journal block and glue to window.  Add adhesive pearls, bow, and spacer bead as shown.

 

ODBDSLC143 - Easter

Happy Tuesday everyone!

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

This week's challenge is:

Easter – Make an Easter card or project.

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 Sunday, February 24th at 8 p.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 Sunday, February 24th at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC143. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Here is my card for the challenge this week...





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I used three different sets on my card, The Shepherd for the sentiment, Flower Border for the border, and Scripture Series 2 for the scripture.  I love using this flower border to frame images, especially scripture or quotes.  I thought this Scripture was very fitting for Easter and its' true meaning.

Here are pictures of the stamp sets I used:

Card recipe:

Stamps: The Shepherd, Flower Border, Scripture Series 2 (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Paper: Solar White (Neenah), Concord Grape Linen (Recollections)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Moss Seam Binding (Really Reasonable Ribbon), button rhinestone, pearl swirl (Recollections), charm, brad, square punch, Labels 18, Classic Ovals Large (Spellbinders), Scrollwork Embossing Folder, Bow-Easy

Please visit the other designers to see their STUNNING creations this week and leave them some encouragement!

Becky Egecrone - Guest Designer

 

Diana Nguyen

Audrey Hiltke

Cathy McCauley

Jan Marie Ennenga

Chris Olsen, CT Coordinator

 

 

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #67 - Love/Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon #66 - Spring Colors & Ribbon
Paper Playtime #4 - Use a sentiment
No Matter What - #6 - Ribbons & Bows
Whimsy Stamps Inspirations #56 - Add some metal


Thank you for stopping by!

Blessings!

Kathy
 

One Sheet Wonder 6x6

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I have a project that I have been working on for quite a while.  I have a lot of 6x6 designer paper pads that have small, pretty prints, so I decided to make a OSW I could use with them.  This is what I came up with.  The layout makes 6 matching cards.  Here are the cards all together.  (Sorry the photo is a little blurry.)

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I also made a matching box to put them in for gift giving.

This is the paper I used along with the cutting layout I created for it.




Paper from Blush by My Mind's Eye



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Here are some more photos, the box opened with the cards inside.

Here are the individual cards.  You can click on the photos for a better view.




Card #1



Card #2



Card #3



Card #4



Card #5



Card #6

These are the supplies that I used for this:

Stamps ( All from Heartfelt Creations):
Bold Vintage Floret (flowers)
Mini Vintage Floret (flowers & leaf flower)
Classic Message (sentiments)
Bella Rose Leaves (leaves on box)
Twining Roses ( rose swirl on card #6)
Brookside Manor (bird on card #5)

Dies (from Heartfelt Creations): Bella Rose, Vintage Floret

Paper: Blush Designer Paper (My Mind's Eye), Sage Shadow, Rose Red, Very Vanilla (Stampin' Up)
Ink: Sage Shadow (SU), Victorian Velvet Distress Ink
Accessories: Rose Petal Seam Binding (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Very Vanilla Seam Binding (RAK from Jill - SU), mauve ribbon, sponge, adhesive pearls, lace, fibers, Ornate embossing folder (Sizzix), Bow-Easy, McGill Tool Kit & Molding Mat, Prismacolor Pencils: Henna, Jade Green, Kelly Green, Magenta, Raspberry

The box instructions are from Split Coast Stampers' A-2 Box Tutorial.


I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday #67 - Love/Anything Goes
Really Reasonable Ribbon #66 - Spring Colors & Ribbon
Crafty Card Makers Challenge #85 - Blooming Images
Paper Playtime #4 - Use a sentiment
Addicted to Stamps - Bingo - Paper Piece/ Pearls/Love
No Matter What - #6 - Ribbons & Bows
All Sorts - #194 - Things with Wings

I hope you like my project!  I would love to hear what you think!

Blessings!

Kathy

All My Love - JustRite

Hi there!

Today I have a card I made for the latest JustRite Challenge #JRC090 which is a sketch.  Here is what I came up with for the challenge.





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The colors in the photo look more blue than they really are, they are actually turquoise/green.  I used the Plant a Little Love Set for the flower image, which is an older set and I used the With Sympathy Set for the sentiment.  This is colored with my pencils and mineral spirits and I colored and fussy cut a couple of the flowers to give some depth.

Card recipe:

Stamps: With Sympathy, Plant a Little Love (JustRite)
Paper: Rain (Bazzills), Solar White (Neenah), green (Recollections), The Guy Stack (DCWV)
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Accessories: Four Petal Flower (Sizzix), ribbon, lace, Champagne Microbeads (Recollections), Olive Wrinkled Ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Vintage Label & Banner Die, Nested Oval Medallion Labels Die (JustRite/Spellbinders), mineral spirits, Prismacolor Pencils: Kelp Green, Black, Muted Turquoise, Cobalt Turquoise, Cool Greys 10, 20, 30%

I'm submitting this to the following challenges:

JustRite #JRC090 - Sketch
Really Reasonable Ribbon #RRR66 - Spring Colors & Ribbon
Word Art Wednesday #WAW67 - Love/Anything Goes
Split Coast Stampers' F4A156 - Happy Colors

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings!

Kathy