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ODBD March Release!

Posted on March 1, 2015 7:58 AM by Julie 40 Comments

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs March Release! We have some beautiful St. Patrick’s Day & Easter images & dies for you this month!

Prize Information: –

Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 gift certificate to the ODBD Store, to be used toward the purchase of ODBD Stamps found in the “stamps column” of the website just for commenting on the Design Team cards! You have until March 2, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. EST to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win! The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on March 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

For my first project, I’m using the fabulous new St. Patrick’s Day set. I was in a real gold embossing mood, and I used a lot of gold embossing powder on both of my cards. But I just love gold embossing with the spring greens on a St. Patrick’s Day card. Since as a general rule, embossing powder & Copics don’t play together well, I stamped the frame first with Memento cantaloupe ink, figuring that the color would blend in with the gold. I added the greens in the frame with Copics, then used a stamp positioner to line up the frame again, stamp it with gold pigment ink, then heat embossed w/ the gold powder. The Irish Blessing was gold embossed inside the frame, die cut, then added to a green fancy die cut.

For the largest green & gold layer, I gold embossed the Vintage Pattern Mini 2 then sponged on two green inks & die cut w/ the largest of the Flourished Star Pattern dies. The metallic gold rectangle was die cut using the same die, but I had to resize it to make it smaller. I also did the clover image the same way as the frame, cut it the added it under the frame. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used (the violets were used on the clover flowers, but are very hard to see).

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – St. Patrick’s Day, Clover, Vintage Pattern Mini 2

Paper: Neenah white, metallic brushed gold, textured green

Ink: Memento cantaloupe, Encore ultimate metallic gold pigment, Kaleidacolor fresh greens (for sponging the lg background)

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star pattern die, Spellbinders labels 4 & gold labels 4 dies, gold detail embossing powder, Copic markers, Candi dots, Stamp-a-ma-jig

My second card uses several new ODBD sets…Floral Egg, Blessed Easter & Basket of Blessings sets. I started by making a large water color background with Twinkling H2O’s in pastel colors. It’s almost impossible to capture the subtle shimmer, but it adds a lot in real life. I then gold embossed the Floral Egg & smaller eggs; die cut the smaller eggs & fussy cut the large egg. The grass was die cut using the fabulous Grass Border die and I made a frame out of the left over background & gold embossed the greeting on it.

The pink gingham (from the gorgeous new ODBD Shabby Rose paper collection) was die cut using the Flourished Star Pattern die (do you think I LOVE this die?) & the remaining twinkling background was added underneath. I used some leftover eggs and pieces for the inside.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs –Floral Egg, Blessed Easter, Basket of Blessings

Paper: Neenah white, dp (ODBD Shabby Rose paper collection)

Ink: Encore ultimate metallic gold pigment

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star pattern, Grass Border, Eggs dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, petite oval dies, gold detail embossing powder, Twinkling H2O paints

Please be sure to visit all of the DT blogs & comment to increase your chances of winning!

Julie * Cathy * Lori * Dawn * Sandee * Grace *

Angie * Lisa * Sabrina * Silke * Chris *

Wanda * Audrey

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Ornaments 2 Ways

Posted on December 6, 2014 1:18 PM by Julie 1 Comment

Best of 2014!
For today’s Inspiration Challenge on Splitcoast (IC470), I chose THIS for my first card and THIS for my second. I’m actually using the same ornament image on both, just different techniques and I actually had to do “surgery” on my ornament image. I wanted a blank ornament but all I could find was this ornament which originally had a nativity scene inside, so I took a craft knife and carefully cut it out. On this triple ornament card, I saw a card Lydia posted on the SCS FB page of some free form water color ornaments and really liked it. I don’t remember who did it or how long ago it was, or I’d link it.

So after the image surgery, I stamped the ornament, masked & stamped twice more using pumice ink (after stamping off once) onto water color paper. This w/c paper isn’t my fave..it’s a little rougher & grainer than what I usually use, but I couldn’t remember where I put the other paper. Anyway, the pumice ink after stamping off 1 time, just leaves a bare outline that pretty much disappears when all the coloring is finished. Now the coloring took me a quite a while because the color has to be painted in layers & allowed to dry in between. I’m not one to appreciate watching paint dry, so I helped it a lot w/ a heat gun. The splotchy, free form look is intended to be that way & I’m pretty satisfied with it.

I added a little splatter & went back w/ a fine line paint brush to remove some paint for the highlights along the edges then stamped the greeting & drew the lines to the ornament tops. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

For this card, I stamped the same surgically enhanced ornament w/ the black ink & colored with Copics. The stars were stamped on top and I used a white gel pen to fill the large one in then fussy cut it. The pine branches were stamped w/ the evergreen ink then I die cut the panel w/ one of the matting basics rectangles. I took a curved border die and cut off the bottom & attached the two parts on top of a background I made a while back using distress inks, spritzing & w/c paper. I added another little curved border strip on top of the bottom section & stamped half of a greeting under it (the other half is on the inside). A die cut red bow was added on top & these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs- (1. Triple Ornament card) Nativity Ornament, Beautiful Holiday Greeting (2. Red Ornament card) Nativity Ornament, Pine Bough, Lovely Gifts Christmas Greeting, Retro Starburst, 3 Wisemen Peace (for small star)

Paper: 1. water color, red linen, 2. X-Press It, water color, red

Ink: 1. Distress Ink pumice stone, Versafine onyx 2. Memento tuxedo black, Distress Ink evergreen bough, worn lipstick, spun sugar, pistachio, tumbled glass

Accessories: 1. tube water colors, #10 round brush, #0 liner brush, Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B 2. Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, curved dies, white gel pen, Cheery Lynn Pretty Pretty Bows die

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Serendipity Blog Hop – Winter 2

Posted on November 14, 2014 12:00 AM by Julie 25 Comments

Welcome to the Serendipity Stamps November Blog Hop! We are showing off some beautiful new winter images & dies! If you arrived here from Jenny’s Blog , you are in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first.

Prize info:

A $20 gift certificate is up for grabs and the winner will be chosen randomly from one of the blogs.
Commenters have until Monday 11-17 to leave a comment. The winner wil be posted on Marys blog on 11-18.
For a SECOND chance to win a $20 gift certificate you need to LIKE Serendipity Stamps and SHARE on Facebook.

For my Christmas card in non-tradiontal colors, I started with a piece of water color paper, a handful of Distress Ink pads, a teflon craft sheet & water spritzer. I started by pressing the pink inks onto the craft sheet, spritzing with water then dabbing part of the water color paper onto it. I dried it w/ a heat gun, then did the same with the teal, blue & greens…one at a time and drying in between colors. Dabbing here & there and drying in between colors keeps them from blending together and making mud. Then I stamped the Poinsettia Background on top w/ the Versafine and used an opaque cream marker to color in the centers & a black marker around the edge.

I used the Poinsettia & Leaf to stamp the big single poinsettia a couple of times on ivory, colored them w/ Copics & fussy cut them. The small poinsettia (from the big background image) was done the same way. I thought it looked a little too busy, so I added a narrow strip of blue vellum down the side before adding the poinsettias. The Joy die was die cut 3 times out of the cream and twice out of black to shadow it. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used for the poinsettias.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit all the DT blogs! Here’s the order in case you get lost.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Poinsettia Bg , Poinsettia & Leaf Outline , Wishing You

Paper: water color, textured blue & cream (DCWV – pastel matstack), ivory, pale blue vellum, black

Ink: Versafine onyx, Memento tuxedo black, Distress Inks spun sugar, Victorian velvet, tumbled glass, evergreen bough, broken china

Accessories: Copic markers, Serendipity Joy die , Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, crystals, stickles, black Permapaque marker

Poinsettia Bg 1331BKK	Poinsettia & Leaf Outline 1322E	Wishing You 1336CL	Joy die 038DD
Copic Sketch Markers	Distress Inks	Memento Inks	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Stickles	AC color card stock	Water Color Paper
DCWV Pastel matstack	Rhinestones	Permapaque markers