Bind It All CD Book

 Hello everyone! 

I have been having internet issues and have had tons of trouble keeping my connection, so my commenting, posting and everything has been put on hold for a bit here!!!

Today I wanted to show you a little gift I made for a friend for her birthday.  This is a CD book.  I know she has a very high end camera and takes great photos, so I thought a pretty place to keep her photos might be fun.

I  covered some chip board with  EK Success DP on the outside and inside covers.  I bound it with 3/4" O Wires, and used my Zutter Bind It All.  I made a little tag using a sentiment from Our Daily Bread designs Friendship set.    I added some ZVA Creative pearls and some Prima flowers, ribbon from my stash and the Zutter Heart Closure.

On the inside I added a little pocket with a paper I lined so she can list what is on each CD.  The CD pockets themselves came from a local fun store that sells a little of everything.

I am entering this in:

Cupcake Challenge - Friends

Gingersnap Color Challenge - Use 3 colors you love (pink, green, and tan)
Totally Gorgeous - Flower power
Lexi's Creations - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy - Touchy Feely
Practical Scrappers - Stamps
Totally Gorgeous - Flower Power
Cute Card Thursday - Touch of Metal

The Season for Singing has come!

Hello everyone!  I hope you are having a wonderful week! I have been so busy this week, but it's all good!  We are finishing off our basement, and we got to the carpet installation yesterday!  Whoo Hoo!!!  Now to build a desk and I will become a basement stamper!!! Vicky... here I come! LOL!

Today I'm giving you a sneak peek at two new sets coming out at Our Daily Bread designs Mar.1.  This image is from the set called Happy Easter and it is filled with wonderful Easter sentiments and Scriptures.  On the inside I used a Scripture from the set The Lord has Risen.  I used that because I made this card for several different challenges, including the Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge this week, which was based on Esther 4:4, and the challenge was to show the passage of time in some way.  I also used the Midnight Madness Sketch 42.  I tweaked it a bit in that I made my main panel an oval but this Daffodil just says oval to me!

Card Details:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs March release: Happy Easter, The Lord has Risen

Ink: Memento, Certainly Celery

Paper: DP- Lasting Impressions, Making Memories, Bazzill, GP

Accessories:  Copics, Air Brush, Spellbinders Classic Ovals and Scalloped Ovals, SB Fancy Tags, Sewing Machine, Stickles, Ribbon, ZVA Creative Pearls

I am also entering this in the following challenges:

Gingersnap: 3 Colors I love

Crafty Creations - Stitching

Fussy & Fancy - Dazzle Us (Stickles which don't show in the photo :(  and Pearl Bling)

Corrosive - Stitch it up

Incy Wincy - Add Texture (embossed ovals, scalloped ovals and fancy tags)

Practical Scrappers- Stamp

Sophistacates - Embossing

Stamp Something - A touch of spring

Pink Elephant - Add ribbon

One Stitch at a Time - sewing

A Spoonful of Sugar - Spring is in the air
Totally Gorgeous - Flower power

My Time to Craft Challenge - In the Frame
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - Use a flower

Be sure to check in at the Our Daily Bread designs blog on Monday, Mar 1 for our New Release Blog Hop and yes... there will be prizes!!!

Also I want to let you know that March 17 this Our Daily Bread designs Second Anniversary, and we are throwing a party!!!  Beginning on Sat. March 13.... check out the ODBD Blog every day for our challenges, all with great prizes, and then on the 17th our Blog Hop to reveal the Anniversary Sets being released  that day!  You do not want to miss these sets!  There's plenty of prizes, give aways and candy... so visit each of the DT blogs each day and you won't be sorry!!!

Thank you for stopping by and may your day be blessed!

Footprints in the Sand

Feel free to click on the image to enlarge it and be able to read this inspirational poem!

Hello everyone!  I hope your week is going well!  I was excited to be able to play in several challenges with this card!  I used the Midnight Madness Sketch #41, and  Our Daily Bread Designs Stamping in Time#3 , as well as Corrosive Challenge (sew it up), Sophisticat (sewing), OCC (something old from your stash) and this week's Cuttlebug Challenge (loads of sewing).

Betty challenged us to use ODBD Footprints in the Sand set and the challenge was to find a way to use buttons with it.  I started out with the Midnight Madness Sketch reversed, using elements of the Footprints background stamp for the panels on either side of the sentiment. I stamped them with River Rock onto Papertrey Vintage Cream  CS, and then sponged heavily with T Holtz Scattered Straw, Color Box Creamy Brown Chalk Ink, and True Thyme.  I stamped the poem with True Thyme and tore my edges, sponging lightly around the edges.  I tried to use regular buttons as the sketch and Betty's challenge both called for, and they just did not look right, so I made buttons out of shells and sewed them on with hemp twine.  My base is True Thyme,( the something old in my stash), then a unknown yellow marbled cs, also old from my stash.  I added fancy birds feet stitching up the two sides as well as I used my Cuttlebug edge ef in the upper left and lower right corners.  Inside I stamped lightly the background stamp and left room for writing my message.  I struggled with finding buttons for this, but once I poked holes in my shells and used the shell beads I had in my stash... I finally felt like it flowed.

Thanks for looking.... and be blessed as you read the words of this wonderful poem.  Remember, He loves you and will carry you through the difficult times... giving you just what you need when you need it if you will allow Him to!  Be blessed by that knowledge!

Sweet Peas for a Birthday

Hello I have been having a busy week!  I hope yours is going well! Today I'm showing you a card I made for a good  friend to give to his wife for her birthday. He wanted something special for her... feminine and pretty. I used Flourishes Sweet Pea set.  Their Timeless Tuesday Challenge this week is all about you... what you love, what makes you happy.  I love Sweet Peas and have wanted to play with this set for some time now.  The day finally came.  I stamped it three times and popped different blossoms up different amounts, and the entire image is cut out once and layered on to the pretty DP from BasicGrey's Porcelain Pack which I cut out with the Spellbinders Label #5.  I layered that onto Bassill Green Textured CS.  To make it a little more sparkly I painted the flowers with Shimmerz.  Love that stuff!!!  I used my new Martha Stewart Large Lattice Punch, ZVA pearls and ribbon from Papertrey on this easel card that was definitely inspired by one I saw some time ago by Cindy Haffner.  I also made this for the Fussy and Fancy Challenge this week to Dazzle them, and Paper Play's challenge to make a birthday card for someone special.

Thanks so much for looking!  I love knowing you stopped by!  Have a blessed day!

You're Always in my Heart

 

Hello everyone!  We're enjoying another snowy weekend and it's just beautiful out!  I've been taking pictures of the birds at the feeder and huddled together on the snow ladened tree branches!  Then I looked at the IC on SCS and the Etsy sit Geninne's Art Store was all about birds. I used many of the birds for inspiration but I loved the red berries on this on e(#10on this pg.).  I decided to make a masculine gift box for my hubby for Valentines Day, using this Able Gable Box template from Leigh Ann Baird.  I also used the Chickadee stamp from the Our Daily Bread designs new release, You Will Find Refuge.  I paired that with a Studio G sentiment and a hand written tag.  The dp is from a new K&Co pad and the base is Kraft, sponged on all panels with THoltz Walnut Stain Ink.  I colored the bird just a tad with Prisma Pencils.  These new images are so easy to color!  I just love them all!  This also fits this week's Our Daily Bread designs  Shining the Light Challenge #2, to include red or pink and bling on your creation.  Since this is a masculine gift, I had to keep the bling down, but used the red charm and brad.  I hope that counts.  I also used the household item twine, thus qualifying for the Saturday Spotlight Challenge.  Inside this box are my hubby's favorite candies... Lindt Dark Chocolate Truffles.  Yum!

 

Thanks for looking and have a blessed weekend!

Two Hearts become One

 

Hello everyone! This card was made for several challenges!  Hope I remembered everything!  I used the Midnight Madness Sketch 40 and the recipe from  Stampin Sisters in Christ 25, which was based on Mark 10:7-9  " 7. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife.  8. and the two will become one flesh.  So they are no longer two but one.  9. Therefore what God has joined together , let no man separate." NASB

The challenge was that whatever we used, we had to use two of... like if we used designer paper, we were to use two... ribbons?  Use two.  Not as easy as it sounds!

I used 2 designer papers, 2 ribbons, 2 embossing folders, 2 mats, 2 hearts in my image, 2 kinds of stitches... the only thing I used 1 of is the silver heart brad at the top, and that represents the ONE that the 2 have become.  After almost 39 years of marriage I must say you do even start to think as one!  Even when we go to a restaurant we usually end up ordering the same thing!  :)  It is my hope that you can enjoy this kind of union... there's nothing much better!

Anyway... my card is on a base of very vanilla, layered with My Mind's Eye Bella Rose and topped with K&Co Madeline.  My image and matting is all VV and I used 2 Sizzix embossing folders.  The edges of all layers are sponged with Creamy Caramel, and there is zig zag stitching around 3 sides, and straight stitching across the top.  I used a Fiskar punch to create the holes to thread my first ribbon through.  I topped it with a sheer satin edged vanilla ribbon bow.  My image is from Our Daily Bread designs and is called Love One Another.  It is colored with Prisma Pencils and then Shimmerz.  I can't get a good photo of the shimmer but it's there!

I am also entering this in to the following challenges:

Crazy4Challenges - Valentines

Pile It On -  To the one you love..Valentines

Double Dutch Challenge -Be My Valentine

 Raise the Bar: hearts
Creative Belli: Ribbon
CCEE stampers - Heart
Fussy and Fancy - Hearts
Pixie Dust -Decorative Border
Crafty Calendar - Love/Friendship with option of Hearts
ABC Challenges-New- paper, image, brad and embossing folders
C.R.A.F.T - Love
Paperplay - Love notes
Penny's - Valentine
Charisma cardz - I love you
Delightful sketches - Love
Stampin for the weekend - Love is in the air
Stamp something - Love
Creative Card Crew- Valentine


Thanks so much for stopping and your comments sure do lift my spirits!!!

Color Challenge: Dusty Shadow Chips

 

Hello everyone!  I hope your week is off to a wonderful start!  When Betty first contacted me and asked me to make a sample for her color challenge on SCS... I was honored, but when I heard the colors I thought yikes!  This is going to be tough!  Well... I actually like what I ended up with, although I'm quite sure I would never have thought of it~  I do not have Dusty Durango so I used a Rusty Bazzil paper that I think comes close.  The Chocolate Chip and Sage Shadow are among my favorite color combos, so I just had to work in that rusty dusty color!  I should have just taken pictures of my floors because THEY are dusty! LOL!  My hubby was sanding the stairs this weekend and boy what a mess!  Anyway... on with my card...

I made another easel card, and therefore can enter Flourishes FTTC53 as well.  Once I made one I found them addictive!  My friend and DT sister Chris has inspired me so much with all of her beautiful creations I have taken the leap and am in love with this layout!  So I started with a base of Chocolate Chip, layered Sage Shadow, my Rusty Bazzill, and then the dp is from The Paper Studio.  

My image is the newly released Our Daily Bread designs set, Nest, and the sentiment is from a coordinating set, You Will Find Refuge. I stamped my image on Papertrey Cream and colored with Copics.  I cut the image with a Spellbinders Label #3, then masked the image and spritzed the background with the airbrush while still in the die, using BG000, BG10 and a touch of BG72.  The sentiment is stamped in Chocolate Chip and then I  masked the edges, and spritzed with the Airbrush, using BG10 and BG72. I cut a SB Fancy Tag, embossed then cut in half so I could stretch it to fit the verse.  

For my nest, I stole one of my cat's toys (shame)...I  took a little piece of a feather!  I took little bitty pieces of it and glued it around the nest.  I thought the Scripture was perfect with the nest image... like the mother bird covers her babies and shelters them under her wings, our Heavenly Father covers us with His feathers and under His wings we find refuge. What a comfort is that!!!

 

The" dessert" option Betty gave with the CC was to bring on the patterns.  I used this paisley patterned dp and then I used a Sizzix die to create more pattern and interest in the mat for my nest.  It's hard to see in the pic but the pattern reminds me of feathers as well.  I finished my card by sewing fancy stitches, adding three strands of hemp and a feather charm, and some chocolate pearls.  I resisted adding lots of pearl swirls so that this could be a masculine card.  I hope you like this card.... and I hope you stop by Our Daily Bread designs to see these new sets before they're gone!  I know that the DT is having a blast with them and this nest is sooooo easy to color!  It's done in a flash!  

Have a blessed week!