Versatility

 

I love trying to find ways to use ODBD sets in ways other than they were intended.  I have used two of the new Christmas sets this month to make this 'Love You' card!   I followed the sketch challenge #411 today on SCS for my layout.  The papers are Prima.  I distressed all the layers with my fingernail and inked the edges.  I stamped the chickadee from the Chickadee Ornament set, cut him out and sponged ink on him.  He is popped up with foam tape and has a layer of Glossy Accents that has not quite dried as you can see in the photo!  I used a black SU! marker on the word Love from the same set and stamped it.  Then I did the same technique with the word You from The Babe set!  I made the seam binding (Hug Snug) bow with Becca's Peg Bow Maker gluing it down with Beacon 3-in-1 glue and then added the little Prima flower on top!  The pretty lace and the strip of pearls were a gift from a sweet friend!  I am also submitting this to Word Art Wednesday!

So glad you could stop by and I hope to see you again soon!!

For the Love of Winged Things

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Design's Alumni Team's bi-monthly For the Love Blog Hop.  This week it's all about winged things!   Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, check the ODBD blog for full list of links.  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, June 20th at 6 pm.   Enjoy all the awesome inspiration using For the Love of ODBD Winged Things!

If you landed here from the wonderfully talented Lori's blog then you are in the right place!!!  

We are so happy to have you join us today!!!

I chose to use the ODBD set called He Watches Me.  I love this image with it's coordinating scripture and quotes!  And the sparrow has a custom sparrow die to match!  How cool is that?!

  

 

 

I colored the image with copics and then cut it out with the die.  I stamped the quote and cut out a banner to stick inside the frame.  The frame is sprayed with Blue Glimmer Mist to match the Prima paper and Prima flowers.  The seam binding bow was made with Becca's Peg Bow Maker.  I finished the card with some pearl flourishes!

 Now head on over to the blog of the super sweet and talented Jan Keen for more inspiration!!! 

Enjoy the hop y'all!

See you again soon!

Blessings and Prosperity

Hi there!  I have been having a serious case of creative block!  Finally, I have something to show you!!!  

This is for the following challenges:

SSCC138-Something real like twine, shells, sand, burlap

WAW26-Scripture or encouraging word

WT373-Don't Stress, Distress!

This image and sentiment is from the new ODBD set called Happy Retirement.  I stamped it in black and stamped the image again so I could cut out the hammock and pop it up.  Ahh!  How nice it would be to be in a hammock on the beach under the shade of palm trees blowing in the wind .......Oops, sorry for the little daydream there!!  LOL!!!  I distressed the edges and used black ink on the distressed edge.  I colored little areas with copic markers and added Flower Soft Sand to the beach.  I added hemp twine and black rhinestones on the trees.  Done!

You will eat the fruit of your labor,

blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Psalm 128:2

Thanks you so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful day!

Friend

Hi there!!  Got a couple of cards to share today!  This one is for the following challenges:

SSCC129-Things with Wings

CLDC18-Doilies

I used the new ODBD set called Faithful Friend.  The designer paper in the background is embossed with a SU! folder and I rounded the top corners.  I glued down two types of lace and then added the Cheery Lynn Designs doily, the sentiment Spellbinders circle and the CLD flourishes.  Then I glued down the Bow Easy bow and the pretty Prima flower.  I stamped the dragonfly and colored it with copics before cutting it out and gluing to the card.  Then I added stickles to the dragonfly!  

And this card is being entered to:

Sentimental Sundays 92- Words of Encouragement

WAW17-Word Art Wednesday

TLC367-One Color, No Color

I used the Faithful Friend set on this card too.  The designer paper is Prima.  I sliced off part of the Cheery Lynn Doily and stamped the sentiment.  Added velvet ribbon and lace and pearls to the edge.  a Bow Easy lace bow and Prima flower along the side more pearls too.  Stamped the dragonfly with the same brown ink as the sentiment and cut it out.  I had to add stickles on him so hope that counts for the no coloring challenge!  

Thanks for visiting!  See you again soon!

 

It Is Well With My Soul

Good morning!  Hope you all have had a wonderful week!

Got a little sneak peek of a new stamp coming out Feb 1st from Our Daily Bread designs!  

Sheet music to the beautiful old hymn, It Is Well With My Soul! 

I wanted to try the Belleek technique that I enjoyed so much earlier this week!  I inked up my Cuttlebug Textile Texture folder with pink ink and then sponged off a little of it to help make it more muted.  Once I ran it through my bug, it was still a little too pink.  So, I went about trying to tone down the piece by painting it with white acrylic paint using a very light touch.  Then I also painted it with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist.  And then I even sprayed it with Pearl Glimmer Mist!  I finally had the shade and look I was going for.  

So then I did the same applications to each die cut.  I've used the Cheery Lynn Designs Fanciful Flourish, Spellbinders Squares, Fleur de Lis Squares, Blossoms Tags and Accents and the angel wings are from an old Spellbinders ATC die set.  The heart is made of wood and is also painted.  I stamped the music on the back ground of the card, stamping if off first on scrap paper and then also did the same painting technique to this piece.  You should have seen my hands!  After it had all dried, I put everything together, and added the little silver bow and tiny pearls. 

Here is a little tip:  I got a little too much paint on the sentiment tag, which covered up the song title too much.  So I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp it again which helped a lot!  What a wonderful tool!!!

I am sharing this card in the following challenges:

SSCC123-Heart

Sentimental Sundays #86-Die Cuts and Sentiment

TSTR98-Sparkly and Bright (Cream, Silver and a Touch of Pink)

Word Art Wednesday #12

Thank you so much for looking and I hope you have a beautiful weekend!

To the Fullest

Hi there!  Hope you are enjoying your evening!  I have a card to share tonight which features four of the new sets from Our Daily Bread designs this month!!!  The sentiment is from the Full of Grace collection and is called Each Minute.  To create the background, I stamped the new Dahlia several times, then stamped the Crocheted Background with Antique Linen ink.  I sponged the edges and then embossed it with the Vintage Border embossing plate!  The sentiment oval is also stamped with the Crocheted Background.  The crocheted lace border is from the new set called Serve the Lord and is cut out with the coordinating die!  

Here is a list of my supplies:

ODBD Serve the Lord

ODBD Crocheted Background

ODBD Dahlia

ODBD Each Minute

ODBD Vintage Border Embossing Plate

ODBD Crocheted Lace Border die

Neenah Cream card stock

SU! card stock

Stazon Brown ink and Tim Holtz Antique Linen ink

Spellbinders dies

Martha butterflies

Pearls and bling

Thanks so much for visiting with me this evening!  I'll see you again soon!

Sneak Peek Time!!!

Hi everyone!!  Have you had a great week?  I hope so!  And I hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!  I wanted to share a little sneak peek of a new stamp that will be released from Our Daily Bread designs on June 1st.  It is called Save Time and is part of a new collection called The Blessings Collection.  So how many of you remember this song?  I know I sang it over and over again once upon a time!  One of my favorites!!  This particular verse from the song is beautiful!  Kelley has some really gorgeous sets coming out so be prepared!!!  You're gonna love 'em!!!

Ok for my card, I went a little button crazy!  Sorry, I couldn't help myself!!  If you don't like buttons, turn away, turn away!  LOL!!!  I followed the Midnight Madness sketch this week and also the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge to create a card of encouragement with touches of silver.  The designer paper is embossed with the ODBD Vintage Border embossing plate and inked up with a distress ink pad.  After the seam binding, lace, butterflies, pearls and massive amounts of buttons (and the touches of silver!),  I sprayed the whole thing with Glimmer Mist in Simply Khaki and Dazzling Diamonds! 

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Save Time

ODBD Vintage Border embossing plate

Neenah Cream card stock

SU! card stock and designer paper

Lace and Seam Binding and Bow Easy

Spellbinders Dies and Grand Calibur

Buttons, Pearl Swirls and Martha Butterflies

Silver Elastic Thread

Glimmer Mists

Thanks so much for stopping by!  See you again soon!!!

Encourage Someone Today

 I seem to be giving this type of card a lot in recent years.  When I am going through sad or stressful times in my life, the more I hear of others that are in need of encouragement and prayer.  Please make some time today to encourage someone you know.  Everyone is going through something...

This is for the Passionately Artistic Blog Be Inspired Wednesday post today.  The background is a piece of designer paper (I'm sorry but I can't remember the manufacturer) adhered to a piece of card stock and then embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder using my Cuttlebug.  

Here is a list of supplies I used:

Our Daily Bread designs Easter Blessings Set (sentiment)

Our Daily Bread designs Butterfly Single and Matching Die

Neenah White card stock and SU! Mellow Moss card stock

Unknown designer paper

Sizzix Embossing folder and Cuttlebug Machine

SU! Pearls

Spellbinders Oval and Scalloped Oval

Lace

EKSuccess Border Punch

I hope you have a wonderful day today!  Thanks for stopping by!

Grace's Frame and Lavender Roses

Hi there!  I was playing again late last night and made this card with the Anchor set by Our Daily Bread designs.  I just love this sentiment as it is perfect for encouragement cards!  I used a base of Neenah Cream card stock and then topped it with White.  The background is embossed with the cuttlebug Grace's Frame embossing folder.  I then added the lace from my stash.  The sentiment is stamped and then cut out with a Spellbinders circle and layered with a Spellbinders Lotus pendant.  This is popped up over the lace and I added a pretty Bow Easy bow and three pretty little lavender roses.  Pearls complete the card!  I really like how this Grace's frame looks with the Spellbinders pendant!  This will make a great encouragement card but this design would be pretty for a wedding card I think!  Thanks for popping in today for a visit!  See you again soon!

The Restless Sea Around Me

Good morning to you!  Happy President's Day!  I am enjoying a beautiful day off!!!  And what do I do on my day off?  Duh!!!  LOL!!!  I made this card for the Midnight Madness #91 sketch and the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge #76 to use green.  I used a beautiful sentiment from the Anchor set released this month by Our Daily Bread designs and also one of the little Fleur de Lis borders! **And look!  This is a sneak peek of a new and beautiful die that Spellbinders created just for Our Daily Bread designs!  How cool is that?!!!  And just wait because, ODBD has a stamp set coming out very soon to coordinate with this die set!  You are gonna love it!!!**  For my background, I ran the Core'dinations card stock through my cuttlebug with the ODBD Fish embossing plate and sanded it to show the green core.   I used the copic air compressor thing to get the green inside the die.  My first time trying it, and I didn't do that great of a job.  I used an EKSuccess border punch for the lacy border at the bottom.  The seam binding is SU! and the snip of lace is from my stash.  I added tons of Zva pearl swirls as well as Zva green pearls for accents! Thanks for stopping by and see you again soon!!!  

Be Inspired #104

Good morning!!!  

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this week

the Cuttlebug Challenge Team has created cards to honor 

those who have been affected with this cancer!  

Here's is another reminder to go get your yearly mammograms!!!  

Don't forget!  

For my card today,  I embossed the Anna Griffin designer paper with the Provocraft Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Kassie's Brocade #20-00215, and sponged it with SU! Blush Blossom ink.  The cardstock is Neenah Cream and SU! Blush Blossom.  The sentiment is from a set by Our Daily Bread designs called Pray and the ribbon is from ODBD's set called Hope.  I used a Spellbinders oval to cut out the sentiment and layered it with a Spellbinders scalloped oval.  I stamped the ribbon onto a coordinating piece of designer paper and cut it out.  Do you see the gorgeous pink lace?  My Mom scored this recently at her local thrift store!!!  LOVE it!  I finished the card with pink pearls and a pretty bow I made with my Bow Easy.  I also added a pearly pink brad to the bow center!!!  

Thank you so much for visiting with me today!!!   

Be Inspired #92

Good Morning!  Hope you all are doing good!  

Today, our challenge at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog, is to create something inspired by garden creatures or creepy crawley's!  See the little bee?  That's as creepy crawley as I wanted to get!  LOL!  I am using the LeLovely Collection of Designer Papers and Chipboard stickers from Cosmo Cricket!  So cute!!!  The background layer is embossed with the Provocraft Cuttlebug Floral Fantasy Embossing Folder #37-1806.  The little bee is cut with the Provocraft Cuttlebug 2x2 Garden Creatures Die #37-1212.  I thought this wonderful scripture from the Our Daily Bread designs stamp set called Get Well, was perfect for this card.  Thanks for visiting with me today!  

To see more creepy crawley inspiration, visit the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog!  

We love to see you each week!!!

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

ODBD Get Well stamp set

Ga Pacific White Cardstock

Cosmo Cricket DeLovely designer paper and chipboard stickers

Provocraft Cuttlebug 2x2 Garden Creatures Die #37-1212

Provocraft Cuttlebug Floral Fantasy Embossing Folder #37-1806

Spellbinders Circle Die

Spellbinders Inverted Circle Die

Organdy ribbon and Silver Cord

Foam Tape

Stazon Black Ink

Be Still

Good morning!  It's time for another Cuttlebug Be Inspired Wednesday!  

Our challenge this week is to make an easel card!  They are really easy and fun to make!  I am using gorgeous designer paper from My Mind's Eye!  It's so pretty!  

And I think it is so fitting for these beautiful stamps from Our Daily Bread designs!   

 

 

 

The background layer is embossed with the Cuttlebug Victoria Folder and then sponged. 

I added lots of tiny flowers from the Cuttlebug Floral Borders Dies.  

I ended up sponging everything, even the lace and gingham ribbon! 

I am a spongaholic after all! 

Here is what the inside looks like!

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Scripture Collection 3 and God Loves You

SU! Naturals Vanilla Cardstock

My Mind's Eye Designer Paper

Provocraft Cuttlebug Victoria Embossing Folder #37-1916

Provocraft Cuttlebug Floral Borders Dies #37-1114

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Ink

Stazon Black Ink

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Spellbinders Oval and Scalloped Oval

 Pearls

Lace and Gingham Ribbon

Bow Easy

Distressing Tool

So glad you visited with me today!  

You can see what the rest of the Cuttlebug Challenge Team made here!

Their cards will WOW! you for sure!!! 

God's Word Stands Forever!

Hi everyone!  Here is a card I made this morning for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge 

this week to make a card using only a sentiment or verse, no images.  

It's very similar to another card I made recently,

but I really HAD to use this Lotus Spellbinders die again!  LOL!!!

I did make some changes from the last one though! 

This verse is from one of this month's Our Daily Bread designs 

releases called Scripture Series 1.  

Isn't this a powerful verse?  God's Word Stands Forever!  Wow!!! 

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Scripture Series 1

Neenah Cream Cardstock

Anna Griffin Designer Paper

Cuttlebug Victoria Embossing Folder

Cuttlebug Vintage Corner Dies

Spellbinders Lotus Die

Spellbinders Lattice Border

Spellbinders Cross Collection Die

Spellbinders Circle Die

Zva Pearls

SU! Ribbon

Bow Easy

Stazon Black Ink

Thanks for stopping by today!  See ya soon!

His Face Shine Upon You

Hi everyone!  Here is one for the Dirty Dozen Monthly challenge theme and sketch. 

I colored this gorgeous image from the new set From Me To You just released by 

Our Daily Bread designs with copic markers.  I cut it out to fit the rectangle in the sketch design.  

The sentiments are masked from a scripture from the Scripture Series 1 set.

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD From Me To You and Scripture Series 1

Neenah White Cardstock

SU! Black Cardstock

Anna Griffin Designer Paper

Memento Black Ink

Copic Markers

Spellbinders Lattice Die

Spellbinders Long Rectangle and Scalloped Long Rectangle Die

Spellbinders Circle Die

Stamp-a-ma-jig

Ribbon

Bow Easy

Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

Zva Pearls

Thanks for stopping by!

From God Our Father

Hi there!  I have another card to share with you today!  

This time I used this week's Midnight Madness sketch.  I just love this verse from the new

Scripture Series 1 set from Our Daily Bread designs!  

And this is my first time using the Lotus Spellbinders Die!  So pretty!  

I don't know if you can see it very well in the photo but on the cream colored strip across the middle 

I scored a lattice design with my Scor-Pal too.  

Well, hope you all have a great Friday and I'll see you back here on Saturday!

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

ODBD Scripture Series 1

Neenah Cream Cardstock

Anna Griffin Designer Paper

Spellbinders Circle Die

Spellbinder Lotus Die

Cuttlebug Damask Embossing Folder

Cuttlebug Vintage Corner Die

SU! Ribbon

Bow Easy

Zva Pearls

Scor-Pal

You Are Never Alone

Hi everyone!  Hope you are all doing well!  I have another card to show you using two of the new sets this month from Our Daily Bread designs!  The beautiful fuchsias are in the set called From Me to You, and the sentiment is from the God Loves You set.  I did the Out of the Box Nestie technique, which is always fun!  These flowers are just so beautiful and easy to color!  Thanks for visiting with me!  

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD From Me to You and God Loves You

Neenah Cream Cardstock

SU! Sage Shadow Cardstock

Basic Grey Two Scoops Designer Paper

Copic Markers

Cuttlebug Floral Screen Embossing Folder

Spellbinders Squares

Spellbinders Lattice 

Zva Pearls

SU! Sage Shadow Ribbon

Bow Easy

Stamp-a-ma-jig

ODBD June Blog Hop

 

Hi everyone!  Welcome to the June Release Blog Hop!!!  Kelley has some awesome sets for you this month and the Design Teams have been having a blast playing with them!!!  So today, our hop is all about these fabulous sets!  There are no secret words to collect, no email to send... just a fun blog hop.  I am the first stop on the hop today but you may want to check out the ODBD blog and start from there!!!

 

 Here is what you have to do to be eligible to win one of the prizes:

• Hop to each blog, leave a comment on each one.
• Return to the ODBD Blog Hop post and leave a comment there telling us that you completed the hop and left everyone comments.
• If for any reason you cannot leave a comment, please give us the name/s of the designers you were unable to leave comments for... and you'll still be qualified for the drawing.

Here's the fun part!  There are THREE prizes of $15.00 Gift Certificates to the ODBD Store, but they are hidden on three different designer's blogs, and even the designers don't know themselves who has them yet!!!

• The Blog Hop will run from 8am Eastern  June 1 through 8pm Eastern June 2.

• At that time the three designers with the prizes will be notified and they will randomly select their winner from their commenters. (So be sure to leave comments on all their blogs!)   
• They will check the ODBD post to be sure the person they draw has left their comment there, stating that they have completed the hop....
• Then they will give the name to Grace, and the winners will be announced on Sat. the 5th along with the Shining the Light Challenge! 

The sets I am using today are another fabulous border set called Fleur de Lis Borders and  a wonderful scripture set called Scripture Series 1.  Kelley had a little contest and asked for submissions from her customers and then she chose 6 to be used for this set!  How cool!!!  

I decided to make a little Scripture book, using all six of the scriptures in the set.  I've used thin pieces of chipboard saved from packaging and cut with Spellbinders dies.  Pretty papers, ribbons and embellishments complete this fun little project.  Kelley, this one's for you!  

Here are the supplies I used for this Scripture Book:

ODBD Scripture Series 1

ODBD Fleur de Lis Borders

K&Co Designer Paper

Neenah Cream Cardstock

Stazon Black ink

Spellbinders Long Rectangles and Long Scalloped Rectangles

Spellbinders Classic Circle,Classic Scalloped Circle

Spellbinders Classic Square,Classic Rectangle,Classic Scalloped Rectangle

Spellbinders Cross Collection

Spellbinders Classic Oval and Big Scalloped Ovals

Spellbinders Labels 7

Cuttlebug Victoria Embossing Folder

Cuttlebug Just My Type Embossing Borders

Cuttlebug Floral Borders Die

Hero Arts Flowers

Glimmer Mist (on some of the flowers)

Zva Pearls

Bow Easy

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink

Bind-it-All

A button and a charm from my stash

Tons of bits of ribbon

Zip Dry Paper Glue

I thank you so much for visiting with me today!  Hope you enjoyed your first stop of the hop!  

Now head on over to see what fabulous creation Kathy has to share with you! 

She never disappoints us with her amazing talents! 

Good luck!!

Midnight Madness #54

Hey y'all!  I had a chance to play with this week's Midnight Madness sketch!  That always makes for a good day!  And I just love what buttons and pearls can do for a card!  And look at this pretty vintage-y flower that Priscilla sent to me as part of my Midnight Madness Princess award goodies!  Thank you Priscilla!  This Corrie Ten Boom quote is so beautiful and is part of the new set from Our Daily Bread designs called As You Graduate.  I used Spellbinders dies to cut out the quote and the mat and then I used another Spellbinders die to emboss the designer paper underneath the ovals.  

Thanks for another great sketch Priscilla!  

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD As You Graduate

Neenah Cream Cardstock

K&Co Designer paper

Spellbinders Petite Oval,  Petite Scalloped Oval and Labels 10

Zva Pearls

Flower from Priscilla

Ribbon, Lace and Buttons

Bow Easy

No Safer Place

Good Thursday morning to you!  Hope your week is going great!  As usual I've been playing!  I made this card for the Shabby Tea Room Challenge to use chipboard and for the Stampin'Sisters in Christ Challenge to use the colors, brown, blue and white.  I just love this set from Our Daily Bread designs called God's Hands!  The image is so powerful, I think!  The surrounding frame is made from chipboard covered in designer paper and then sponged with ink.  The middle part of the largest flower is also chipboard covered in designer paper.  The little center of the two other flowers are colored with a copic marker to match the color of the paper!  Thanks for looking and have a great day! 

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD God's Hands

Neenah White cardstock

DCWV designer paper Linen Closet

Square Spellbinders

Scalloped Square Spellbinders

Cuttlebug Victoria folder and flower die

Scrap chipboard

SU! Pretties Kit and White ribbon

Memento Brown

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink

Bow Easy

Copic marker BG10