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  • ISC April Inspiration Challenge

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    This month, ISC has an Inspiration Challenge for you! Betsy chose this wonderful picture for the inspiration piece. Don’t you just love the colors and images? Want to win a free sheet of ISC images? To be eligible to win, use the picture as your inspiration and create a card or other project using ISC images only, and link your creation to the ISC Blog by May 9th.


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    And this is my version. I really picked up on the orange colors, the flower and butterflies. Although it may look like there are layers or cut outs, there’s really only one layer attached to the card, three punched butterflies and one die cut sentiment. I started with a piece of white c/s slightly smaller than my 4.25 x 5.5 (A2) white card. I stamped the medium and small Bush Flowers with black ink, masking when needed. I added just a touch of color by lightly swiping sponges w/ yellow, orange and pink inks haphazardly across the flowers. I colored over all of the petals w/ a VersaMark pen and clear embossed them. A few specks of embossing powder were spread out around the flowers, but I like the splatter look so I left them and even added a few more.

    Yellow, orange, pink, ginger and cranberry inks were then sponged over the entire piece and I used more of the darker colors around the flowers to add more contrast. The excess ink was wiped off of the clear embossed flowers. The script from Odd Findings was stamped over the top with ginger ink.  I stamped a butterfly from  Friends are Special using the yellow, orange and cranberry inks on a scrap of white then I used a butterfly punch. The punch didn’t exactly line up w/ the image, but I like it anyway.  I traced around it on a piece of white and cut the inside out, leaving just a white frame of the butterfly. I used this as my base to attach to the card and popped the butterfly up on top. I added two more small punched white butterflies and the sentiment (also from Bush Flowers). I edged the entire piece w/ a black marker and added a piece of cardboard underneath for a little dimension before attaching it to my card.

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Your comments are always read and much appreciated!

    Be sure to check out the rest of the ISC Architect’s creations. Links are on the side bar. ———————>

     

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    Supplies:
    stamps: Innovative Stamp Creations
    paper: white
    ink: Ancient Page coal, Adirondack ginger & cranberry, Stamp It orange & pink
    accessories: black Permapaque marker, Martha Stewart monarch butterfly punch, small butterfly punch (All Night Media), Spellbinders mega oval set

     

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  • Mystique – FS168

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    Mystique - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

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    Congrats to Gloria (GloriousGreetings) , the Featured Stamper today at Splitcoast.  I picked a couple that I want to case and this is the first one. I chose her Heartfelt Sympathy for this one. I kept the brayered background, silhouette images and big main panel, but I changed the colors, the images and added another layer.

    All images, embossing powder, adhesives and glitters are from Sparkle N Sprinkle. After doing a brayered bg on a 1/4 sheet of white glossy c/s, I used the static pad and stamped this great Art Deco image in the center of the panel  w/ black pigment ink and embossed it w/ black ep. Sometimes I’m asked why I don’t use clear ep w/ the black ink or black ep w/ a clear ink. Almost exclusively, I use an ink very close to the color of the ep I want to use because it gives me a much deeper color. It also hides any flaws like when a tiny portion doesn’t get the ep. I stamped the lady portion of the image again on a scrap of  matte white c/s using black permanent ink. On this image, I used markers to color her, cut her out and applied glue and black glitter to her dress. Then I attached her to the base image w/ a little card board under her to give her just a little lift.

    I used a craft knife to cut the base image along the straight sides because I used the rest of the bg for my big layer. Some highlights were added w/ a white gel pen and  lavender and black layers were added underneath before attaching it over the main bg. Another black layer was added then everything was attached to a 4.25 x 5.5 (A2) white card. I used a Cuttlebug ornamental border die to cut the black scroll element, brushed glue over it and coated it w/ black glitter before attaching it below the image. I made 3 faux brads and coated them w/ glitter as well.  If you’d like to see just how I make these nice rounded brads, I just finished a new Faux Brad Tutorial. I’d love for you to check it out!

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Your comments are always read and much appreciated!
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    Supplies:
    stamps: Sparkle N Sprinkle
    paper: white, white glossy, lavender(this is actually a clone of Ballet Blue, it just looks lavender next to these colors), black
    ink: Colorbox black pigment, Ancient Page coal, Tsukineko Kaleidacolor pad in Riveria
    accessories: brayer, static pad, embossing powder & glitter (both SNS), Cuttlebug ornamental border die, brushable glue and glue pen (both SNS), 1/4 inch hole punch and stylus

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  • Our Daily Bread Designs Blog Hop 2010!

    Posted on by Julie 192 Comments

    Welcome to the First Blog Hop of 2010 for Our Daily Bread Designs! If you got here from Debi’s blog, you are in the right place! If not, you might want to go back to the Our Daily Bread Designs blog and start the hop from there!

    We are kicking off the new year with the release of three new sets,perfect for Baptisms, Confirmation, and New Baby cards! Three blessed hoppers will be chosen randomly to receive One Set of  THEIR CHOICE! All you have to do to be eligible to win is complete the hop, leaving comments on each blog and returning to the ODBD Blog and leaving your answer to the question there by Monday, Jan. 4 at 8PM EST. The question will be posted on the ODBD blog, but here’s a tip.. as you are hopping along, take note of your favorite set and what you like best about them! Did I mention there will be THREE WINNERS?!!

    One of the big changes that we are so excited about is that Our Daily Bread designs has accepted a position as a Member Company on Splitcoaststampers!

    Please visit the ODBD Welcome Forum and leave a comment by January 10! If you do, you will be entered into a drawing to win a $50.00 Gift Certificate to the ODBD Store! We have a many things planned including Challenges and a special Prayer Request area! I hope to chat with you over on the ODBD Forum on SCS! Speaking of Challenges, we will be having a weekly challenge! The weekly challenge will be posted on the SCS Forum as well as the ODBD Blog. That means more prizes and awards, and fun for all!!! More on that shortly… stay tuned to the Our Daily Bread designs blog and the SCS Forum for further details. For now… just be sure to be back on Jan 9 when our first Challenge of the New Year will kick off!

    OK… now on to my card: I used the new ODBD Confirmation set.  All the images were gold embossed and all panels were edged with a gold leafing pen. A little color was added to the image using markers and a blender pen. I used Spellbinders labels 4 to cut out my main panels and a border punch to punch down the sides of the ivory panel. I left the die in place and sponged on a little Brilliance gold ink. The beautiful background paper is from the Juliette collection from SEI.

    From here hop to Lorelie’s blog to see what great inspiration she has for you today!

    Have fun hopping, and Happy New Year from the Our Daily Bread designs Bread Basket!

    Thanks for stopping by!

     

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    Supplies:
    stamps: Our Daily Bread designs-Confirmation set
    paper: ivory, burgundy, velvet embossed dp (SEI- Juliette collection)
    ink: Encore UM gold pigment, Ancient Page bordeaux, Brilliance Galaxy Gold
    accessories: gold ep, Krylon gold leafing pen, Spellbinders labels 4 dies, EK Success Moroccan Lace border punch


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