Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Hello, Friends!! I hope today finds you well. With each passing day, the days are getting cooler and it is getting closer and closer to the holiday season.  Wow, how time flys.  I just love this time of year with the slightly cooler but not colder temperatures and the colorful leaves. Each season has their blessings.

Today I am sharing a Christmas card I created for the ODBD Shining the Light Color Challenge.

Hello, Friends!!  I hope all is well!! I am sure many of you are scurrying around preparing for Christmas as am I.  I can't believe Christmas is in just a few days.  Where does the time go?!!!!

I just love this time of year with all the beautiful Christmas decorations within our house and seeing all the lights as you drive along the road.  So festive.  The lights just make you feel so warm, comforted, and happy.

Today I am popping in to share a card I created for the Shining the Light Winter Inspiration at ODBD.  It is such a beautiful photo and it was such fun to create.  I tried to look at something others may have missed such as the snowy branches and the blue flourished Merry Christmas.

Hello Friends!! Today, the Bread Basket at ODBD is celebrating Christmas with a special Deck the Halls event.  Some of the team will be sharing ornaments, gift packaging, tags and etc. for Christmas!! You won't want to miss it!!  There will not only be lots of inspiration but also a $15 gift certificate toward stamps that can be won by one random winner.  Some of the team are also offering an ornament or special gift to a random winner (you won't know who or where it is).  You have until December 18 at 8pm EST to leave a comment on each of the participants blogs and on the ODBD post here.

Hello, Friends!! I hope this post finds you all well.  Christmas is just around the corner.  I can't believe how fast time is going.  It sure does not feel like that time of year here in Virginia.  The temperature is in the 70's during the day.  I sure hope that these mild temperatures now don't mean a harder or longer winter in the end.

Well on to my card for the day....

 Have you lacked imagination for a masculine card?  I sure do...I just love adding the details and to me masculine seems blah.  This is a card I created for one of our customers at Etsy using the sketch at Our Daily Bread Designs for the Shining the Light challenge.

ODBD Stamps Used: Covered Bridge
ODBD Dies Used: Double Stitched Rectangles, Beautiful Borders, Double stitched circles, Circle Ornaments, Rectangle 
ODBD Paper Used: Christmas Collection 2015
Embossing folder: Darice Snow swirled

What do you think?  Does it look masculine enough or does the border added create a more feminine twist?  I really love the added glitter for the snow more in real life in this photo.  It looks like shimmering snow that has and icy crust.

For more inspiration for the challenge, please visit my dt sisters:

Hello, Friends!! I hope this post finds you all well!!  The time just seems to be flying by and Christmas is now only a few weeks away!!  ...and yes I am still working on getting all my Christmas cards sent out.  It always seems like such a momentous task!

Today I would like to share a Christmas card I created using the new Living Water stamp set at ODBD and the colors from the ODBDSLC265 Color Challenge.

I had so much fun coloring this image up and adding lots of sparkle with my glamor dust.  After coloring the image, I cut my image out with the new Double Stitched Circles matted on a black circle from the Circle Ornaments dies.  The image is then layered on an embossed snowflake kraft panel die cut with the Vintage Labels die.  It is a little more simplistic than a lot of my cards, but I really felt the image did not need a lot of added detail.  The embossed Snowflake layer was perfect to add a more wintery feel. The panel along the bottom is cut with a Martha Stewart Eyelet Lace punch.


ODBD Stamps Used: Living Water
ODBD Dies Used: Vintage Labels, Double Stitched Circles, Circle Ornaments
Other: Darice Snowflake Swirl Embossing Folder, Martha Stewart Eyelet Lace (Around the page punch)

For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my dt sisters: Paula, Robin, and Diana!!  To join the challenge, you can find more details here and can hook your creation to the linky at the bottom of the page.  You have until Dec. 13 at 8 pm EST to link your creation.

Thanks so much for stopping by and for your comments!! They are so appreciated!!

blessings,

Hello, Friends!! I hope you all are well and are looking to a wonderful Thanksgiving (for those in the USA).  I know I am!!  I look forward to a long  weekend spent with the family!!!  We hope to begin decorating for Christmas soon thereafter.  I just love Christmas!!

Today, I am going to share a card created for the Shining the Light challenge expressing the True Meaning (religious) of Christmas. I had so much fun using a variety of dies to create all the texture. The beautiful sentiment is from the Perfect light stamp set. The corners of the card are created with a flourished leaf from the Christmas Candle Dies.  The sentiment is cut out with the stitched ovals and then mounted on top of the Ovals dies, Layered Lacey Squares and Flourished Star Pattern Dies.  Rather than just add a bow, I thought a white flower created with the Merry Mosaics die would be a beautiful touch.

The small candles are created with the Windowsill Candles and layered on an oval and Elegant Ovals die.



For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my talented Dt sisters:
Julie, Paula, Robin and Diana  

Today is Julie's last day as a guest.  I know I personally have thoroughly enjoyed working with her and was blessed not only by her amazing talent and inspiration but her faith and love as well.  I will miss having her!! I have so enjoyed chatting and getting to know you dear sister!! God bless you!!! HUGS!

If you would like to join us for the challenge, you have until December 6 to join us!!  You can link your creations or see more details here at the ODBD blog.

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments!!!  I am so encouraged by them!  

Hello Friends!! I hope all is well!!  We, in our household, have been extremely busy preparing for a craft show we have a booth at next week.  It is crunch time to get it all done.  We have been painting from dawn to dusk (when we are not at work or doing schoolwork).  I wake up each morning to a choir of snowmen staring at me since we have them stored in a variety of rooms where our darling Zoe (cat) can not chew on the greenery.

Today I would like to share a fun little gift box I created which was inspired by today's ODBDSLC263.  I was inspired by the white sparkly ornaments, all the greenery, and the candles on the mantle.

II Chronicles 20:6 “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.”

Hello, Friends!!  Well, the leaves are changing colors rapidly and falling here!!  Winter will soon be here.  While I love Fall, it seems Spring and Fall are the shortest seasons.  With winter comes Christmas!  I can't believe that in less than 2 months it will be here.  I am not near ready.

Today I am popping in to share a card I created for the Shining the Light ODBDSLC261 Color challenge...a Christmas creation using only dies and no stamps!!!

I just love the new foliage dies (Lovely Leaves) and the Pine Cones.  They really are perfect with the Merry Mosaic and Peaceful Poinsettia dies. I layered the pinecones with gold and brown.  The card itself if framed with gold metallic and white glitter cardstock.  The background was dry embossed with a Darice Snowflake Flourish Embossing folder.  The Vintage Labels and Vintage Flourished Pattern dies are layered to frame the Merry Christmas die sentiment.  The white background is also dry embossed.  The corner is created with the corner from the Fancy Ornaments die.  The poinsettia is created with the flowers from the Peaceful Poinsettia and the leaves from the Merry Mosaic.


Dies: Flourished Star Pattern, Merry Christmas, Merry Mosaics, Peaceful Poinsettia, Pinecones, Lovely Leaves, Vintage Labels, Vintage Flourished Pattern, Fancy Ornament 

Origin of the Poinsettia:


Verse Of the Day- The Gift of God's Son is of peace and a future.  God sent His son as a humble baby who would later deliver us from our Sins!!  Have you accepted His Grace?  It is not to be earned.  All you need to do is believe that you are sinner and He has died for you!! Surrender to Him.

John 14:27
For more inspiration, please see my dt sisters:
Julie Gearinger, Chris Olsen, Robin Clendenning, Diana Nguyen, Paula Bigelow

For more details or to link your creation, please click here to the ODBD blog.  You have until November 8 at 8pm EST to join us.

Thanks for your views and comments.  They are greatly appreciated!!

blessings,

Hello, Friends!! I hope you are all doing well!!  As time keeps fleeting by so does my preparations for Christmas!!  It is hard to believe that in less than 2 months, Christmas will be here!!

I have made a gift card holder for this week's Double Embossing ODBDSLC260- Heat and Dry Embossing challenge at ODBD!!
I was inspired by a gift card holder I got from my dear friend, Grace, last Christmas.  I used a similar design with the pocket in the middle but added an additional pocket for my bookmark.

Julie, Diana, Paula, and Robin

We would love to have you join us for the challenge!! You have until Nov 1 at 8 pm EST to add your creation to the links at ODBD here.  Anyone may join with any stamps on the first creation, but the second creation must use ODBD stamps. For more details on how to win a $15 gift certificate or to be spotlighted, click here.

Ephesians 2:8 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God.

Thanks for stopping by!! Have a blessed day!! Thanks for your comments.  They are so appreciated!!
hugs,
Chris

Hello, friends!! I hope you are all enjoying the week and all is well!!  Time certainly seems to be fleeting and fall is definitely here, you can just feel it in the air and the mornings are colder and darker!!

Today I am popping it to share another card that I made for the inspiration challenge at ODBD....a Christmas card that I really had a fun time creating with my ODBD ornament stamps and dies.


Our Daily Bread Designs Card Recipe:
Stamps: Elegant Embellishments, Christmas Carols, Snowflake background
Dies: Elegant Embellishments, Flourished Star Pattern, Elegant Ovals, Stitched Ovals, Ovals, Splendorous Stars

This card is just full of glimmer and sparkle as the ornaments are embossed in gold or holographic glitter and then the embossing resist technique was used. They are created using the Elegant Embellishments stamps and  Elegant Embellishments dies. The white background is cut from glitter paper using the Flourished Star Pattern and just sparkles in real life.  I just love the blue, gold and white together. The gold behind the Flourished star pattern is dry embossed as well.

Here is the inspiration photo


For more inspiration, please visit my dt sisters:
Julie, Robin, Diana, and Paula. Chris

To join the challenge or see more details about the challenge, please visit the ODBD blog here.  All entries must be linked by Sunday, Oct. 18.