Happy Birthday Single Layer!

 

Hello everyone!  Today I'm joining the Challenge Team over at the Shining the Light challenge on the ODBD Blog!  

This week's challenge is:  Create a One Layer card!!  This is one layer as in one piece of card stock or one layer on a base (this includes die cuts).

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, September 8 at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see 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, however, you must  have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday,  September 8 at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword  ODBDSLC169.  When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

I thought I would have a very hard time doing a single layer card but this one  was fun!  I used the split image technique from SCS and this is what I came up with.  I used the butterfly image from the ODBD Faith set, and the sentiment from Happy Birthday.


I am trying to restock the card rack at church and it seems I have a big need for certain categories more than others, and this is one of them, so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to make an easily mailed birthday card.  The technique is a lot of fun.  You draw two lines in which your desired sentiment will fit, using a marker or score line, or something to delineate it.    Then you take a mask and place it over the lower line, and stamp the chosen image so it comes up to that lower line but it won't go beyond it because of the mask.  Then you move the mask to the upper line, masking off the sentiment panel below, and stamp the image again.  You now have a split image, with a sentiment space going through it.  Simply stamp your sentiment and you are done!  Easy as pie!  I will definitely be using this one again soon!

For more inspiration, please be sure to stop by all the other challenge team's posts!  

Chris,  Jan Marie,  DJ,   Cheryl,  Linda, Diana, and our Guest Designer, Linda

 Thanks so much for stopping by!!!

Hugs & Blessings,

ODBD Sept. New Release!

Hello friends!  Welcome to the ODBD  New Release for September!  With Christmas just around the corner, it's time to begin planning and creating our Christmas cards now!  So I'm super excited about this month's release!

 Today Kelley is releasing some awesome new sets...not only stamps but some gorgeous new dies as well!!! You won't want to miss visiting my dt sisters for some great inspiration and a chance to win a prize!!

Prize Details:

Kelley will be choosing one random winner from one of the designers blog comments to receive a $50 Gift Certificate to the ODBD Store  to be used towards the purchase of stamps.  You have until September 3, 2013 at 9:00pm EST to leave your comments on the designers blogs.  The Winner will be posted on the ODBD Blog on September 4th, so be sure to check back there to see if you have won.

Now on to my card details....

For my first sample,  I used a sentiment from the Jingle Bells set, and paired that with three of the GORGEOUS Fancy Ornament Dies!  I used blue metallic paper, silver metallic paper, and blue card stock from Hobby Lobby, on a white base.  I also embossed a layer of white with a Spellbinders EL-009 embossing folder.   I embellished with a punched glitter pine bough edge punch from  Martha Stewart, and a tiny silver bow.  The sentiment is stamped with Memento, and cut with SU! punches. 

For my second sample,  I used O Little Town of Bethlehem Backgroud.

I used a periwinkle card stock and white embossing powder, and heat embossed the image on the blue.  I matted that with a white layer, and added greenery from the ODBD Custom Fancy Foliage Dies, and the flourish, from the same die set is cut from white glitter paper from my local big box craft store.  I love the dimension this added!

I used a prima flower from my stash but to make it more sparkly, I added crystal effects to the tips of the petals and then added chunky glitter.  A May Arts ribbon finished it off.  This really was a pretty quick card to make!  It's simple enough to be made in mass, and yet has enough "extras" to make it elegant and festive.

Here are the ODBD products I used today:

I hope in some small way you have been inspired today!  Thanks so much for stopping by and for taking the time to say hello!  It makes my day to know you were here!!!

Here are the links to  my dt sisters ~ enjoy the inspiration and leave a comment to be eligible to win!

Sandee * Grace (me)* Julie * Sabrina * Chris * Cathy * Dawn * Lori * Silke * Angie * Lisa * Audrey *Tosh

* ODBD Blog

Blessings,

A Bushel and a Peck, and a Hug around the Neck!

Hello friends!  Today I'm happy to be sharing another sneak peek at the ODBD's Sept. release - Apples.  What says fall is just around the corner any better than a  basket of apples? 

 I used a couple of the sentiments from this set as well... including the word "apples" which fit perfectly in my designer paper rectangle that seemd to be just screaming for a stamp!  The image is stamped with Memento and colored with Copics.  The designer paper is Little Yellow Bicycle from Acorn Hollow, and the red dot paper is from We R Memory Keepers.  The embossed panel is a SU! folder. The tag is cut with the ODBD Custom Recipe card and Tags die, and the apples were cut with a SB Lattice Rectangle die.  The twine is May Arts.  I did run my brown ink pad over the raised part of the embossing folder, and sponged all my panels with distress inks.


I don't know why, but as I'm posting this card I'm finding myself singing "A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket..."  Anyone else remember that?  Gee where did THAT come from?  lol!!!  WAY back there somewhere!  Anyway... it's an ear worm now!  The other day we were talking about ear worms, and had a lot of fun coming up with fun tunes and giving each other ear worms.  Don't know what an ear worm is?  Here's the definition:  An ear worm is a catchy piece of music that continually repeats through a person's mind after it is no longer playing.  So my question for YOU is... what ear worms do you find yourself singing?  I'd love to hear... and of course I'll be singing them all!

Hope it's a happy walk down memory lane!

Before I go, just wanted to let everyone know that there is a big sale going on at Our Daily Bread designs until August 31.  No code needed, but all stamps and dies are 20% off!!!!   Check it out on this post!  

I am linking this to:

Aud Sentiments Challenge #88 - Anything sentiment

Delightful Challenges - Make the Cut, die cuts, punches...

Happy Campers Challenge #21 - Use a Stamp

Paper Crafting Journey Challenge - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes with a Scripture or encouraging sentiment 

• Copic Marker Europe -  must use Copics Favorite Color(s)
• Scrap it With a Song -  Take me home, country road

Blessings,

A sneak peek - Ring Christmas Bells!

 

Hello friends!  

Today I'm sharing a card that gives you a sneak peek of  one of my favorite of the September release from ODBD.  This set is called Jingle Bells.  I love this image and of course... the sentiment is wonderful!  I used a base of black and layered white and brushed gold, embossing the white layer with a Cuttlebug holly stripes folder.  The lower edge is cut with Spellbinders A2 Scalloped Borders, and the sentiment is cut with an ODBD Elegant Oval, and matted with a Spellbinders Lattice Motifs die.  I stamped the image with Memento ink and colored with Copics.  I stamped two images so I could pop up one set of bells over the first for dimension.  I then tucked them in around the sentiment.  The white snow has glitter added.  A simple sheer red ribbon finished it off.

Thanks so much for stopping by~  I love knowing you were there!!!

In a Pickle?

Hello friends!  Today I have a card that I made for a couple SCS challenges.  One was to make a window card and put the image and sentiment on the inside!  Well I thought that might work out perfectly with this cute pickle image from this month's ODBD release, Pickles.  I ran a layer of white card stock through my e-Bosser with this leafy vine embossing folder, and cut my aperture with a classic circle lg. by Spellbinders.  Then I matted that with this cute gingham dp from Paper Studio.  I cut that opening with a scalloped circle large.  On the inside of my card, I added another layer of gingham paper, stamped the pickle image with Memento ink, colored with Copics, and cut with the same scalloped circle, and mounted in the center of the card.  I added a tag that I cut with the ODBD Canning Jar Dies set (small jar used here), and I stamped the sentiment from Pickles, the Jar from Blue Ribbon Winner, and a couple pickles from the Strawberries and Pickles set.  I tied that with a piece of bakers twine.  On the front, I decorated the white with a flourish die from the new Fancy Foliage Dies, and added some tiny blossoms from the wedding dept. at Michaels.  

Here is the inside:

So this was a fun one!  I think the sentiment is a hoot.

Here are the ODBD dies and sets I used:

 

I also wanted to let you know that ODBD is having a Dog Days of Summer Sale!  Check it out HERE!



A word for today:
"The Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away His face from you." 2 Chronicles 30:9

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Thinking of You from my Garden!

Hello friends! I hope you are enjoying a wonderful Lord's day!   Today I have a fun card to share with you.  This was created for a couple challenges on SCS but I wanted to share it with you here as well.  I used this month's release Blue Ribbon Winner and the ODBD Custom Canning Jar Dies as well as past releases Daisy, All Occasion Sentiments, and the Elegant Ovals Die Set.

I stamped the flowers with Memento and colored them with Copics, and fussy cut them out, adding a couple from a second stamping.  I stamped the canning jar twice.... once on card stock, and once on acetate with Stazon Jet Black ink.  I then cut both out with the custom Canning Jar Die.  How fun!  I then drew in a few stems in my jar, and added some leaves from the second image I had stamped, and colored a light blue tone on the card stock layer. I then added the acetate layer on top, giving the jar a glass shine, and putting the leaves and stems "behind" the front of the jar.  I cut my sentiment with the second smallest Elegant Oval die, punched holes in the sides and tied baker's twine around the jar.  I embossed my white layer with a Sizzix folder, and matted with denim and gingham dp from Making Memories.... these were from my stash and were fairly old.  I added another sentiment from the All Occasion Sentiments set at the bottom, and called it done.  This card is 5 x 7, larger than I usually create, but to use the sketch with the images I chose I needed a larger base.  It's hard to get a picture that shows the acetate, but here's a close up of the details:

I hope you like my project.  It was a lot of fun!

Have a wonderful week!

Blessings,

A Look Back at the ODBD August Release!

Hello friends!  Today we are taking a look back at Our Daily Bread Designs.

I decided to can some peaches for my sample (lol) and then I shared a favorite "quick" recipe for Peach Cobbler.  I used Blue Ribbon Winner for my canning jar, along with the Custom Canning Jar Die to cut it. I then stamped the small peach image from the Garden Mini set twice on a sticky note and cut them out to use as masks.  To "can" my peaches, I didn't want the leaves and stems in my jar, so I used a T Holtz marker to color just the outline of the peach, and began stamping on the jar image, using the masks to mask off prior stampings so I could overlap  images without having the overlapping lines show. This technique gives you the opportunity to have one front image, and then add more images "behind" it without overlapping lines. I colored all my peaches and jar with Copics.  To finish off my canning jar, I stamped the word "Peaches" from the Peaches Set on a label of designer paper from my Basic Grey Songbird pad.

The card itself is made on a base of craft, and the designer paper is MME Stella Rose.  Because I wanted to include a recipe with this card, I used the ODBD Recipe Card Lines stamp and the Custom Recipe Card and Tags Die to create a recipe card on craft card stock.  I used the Peach Cobbler stamp from the Peaches Set and hand wrote my recipe, and added a colored peach from the Garden Mini Set.  The pocket that holds my recipe is die cut with a Spellbinders A2 Bracket Die. 

I added some lace trim and small lace tied around the jar lid, and a small piece of dark burlap.

And... if you would like it, here is the recipe.

Here are the NEW ODBD products I used:

     

And here are other ODBD products I used:
  


Thanks so much for taking a look back at this month's release with me! I hope that if you have not gotten these sets yet, that you will give them a try, because they are really fun to work with and the possibilities are endless!


For more inspiration using the August Release be sure to visit the ODBD Blog  and/or my dt sisters: 
  Chris  * Julie * Sandee * Lori * Cathy * Sabrina * Dawn



Blessings,