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ODBD May Release!

Posted on May 1, 2015 7:58 AM by Julie 50 Comments

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs May Release! I know you’re going to love these images and dies!

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 May 2, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. EDT to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win! The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on May 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

On my first card, I white embossed the Belles Vignes on white card stock that was die cut using the largest of the Flourished Star Pattern dies. Then I used a rainbow pad to sponge on the colors. I also white embossed, die cut & sponged all the beautiful butterflies from the Trois Papillon & Butterfly & Bugs sets. The greeting, from Spread Your Wings, was done the same way & I added a few die cut flowers from the Birds & Nest dies.

Here’s a look at the inside. Since I didn’t use designer paper, I sponged & stamped then added one leftover butterfly.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Belles Vignes, Trois Joile Papillions, Butterfly & Bugs, Spread Your Wings

Paper: Neenah white, white linen (for greeting panel)

Ink: Colorbox frost white pigment, Kaliedacolor Riviera ink pad

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Butterfly & Bugs, Trois Papillons, Birds & Nest dies, Spellbinders labels 4 & gold labels 4 dies, white embossing powder, crystals

My second card uses the beautiful Spread Your Wings set along with the Dogwood Mini. I already had it in my mind to do a window opening with the nest inside & I wanted it to look like the nest was resting in a dogwood tree. After coloring & die cutting the birds (I colored them to look like bluebirds), I colored & fussy cut the dogwood branch 3 times. I also fussy cut an extra front facing wing on each blue bird & popped it up for a little dimension.

I added a large piece of the ODBD Shabby Rose paper behind the window and also around the greeting circle. A few single dogwood flowers were sprinkled on the lower right and I added some stickles to the flower centers. These are the Copics I used for this card.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs –Spread Your Wings, Dogwood Mini set

Paper: Neenah white, X-Press It white, ODBD Shabby Rose collection

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (for greeting)

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Birds & Nest dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & pierced rectangles & circles dies, Copic markers, stickles

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit & comment on all the DT blogs so you’ll be entered to win!
Lori * Julie * Sandee * Dawn * Amy * Cathy *

America * Chris * Angie * Audrey * Sabrina *

Grace * Silke * Loretta * Lisa * Wanda

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I’m also entering the first card in the Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge – Spring!

Best Blossoms

Posted on April 22, 2015 6:01 PM by Julie 6 Comments

Since I didn’t have a chance to do the Color Challenge (CC527) on Splitcoast yesterday, I’m combining it with the Sketch Challenge (SC537) today. When I started out, I wasn’t sure I would be able to work these colors but I found one piece of a sand card stock which is a dead ringer for the sahara sand. Other than white, that’s the only card stock I used. I white heat embossed the flowers & greeting on the sand card stock. On the flowers, I used Prismacolor pencils to add the other 2 colors…wasabi & pink. For the sketch, I turned the square to better fit & the die cut border serves as my long horizontal panel.

After I die cut the sand card stock, I colored a narrow strip w/ a pink pencil & attached it behind the cut out to act as the ribbon element on the sketch. The flowers were fussy cut & attached on my square/diamond shape. I also used the pink pencil around the border of the sand layer & added a fussy cut butterfly.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs –Dogwood Branch, Special Day Wishes, Three Butterflies

Ink: Colorbox frost white pigment

Paper: Neenah white, sahara sand clone

Accessories: Spellbinders square, A2 matting basics A, Anne Border strip dies, Lil’ Inkers stitched rectangle die, Prismacolor pencils, white embossing powder, sequins

I’m entering this in the Curtain Call Challenge- Bouquet.

And also in these challenges:
Simon Says Monday Challenge.
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenges #89 ~ Use A Die Cut

Daisy Smile

Posted on March 20, 2015 11:10 AM by Julie Comment

This is for two challenges on Splitcoast today…MIX112 & QFTD254. For the QFTD, I chose THIS card of Lee Ann’s..I kept the layout & spring colors, but used flowers instead of butterflies & moved the greeting. for the MIX, I used dye inks to sponge the colors on my side panel, then I spritzed it w/ gold shine spray and I also heat embossed the flowers, greeting and splatter on the right side.

After sponging, spritzing and edging the left side panel w/ a gold leaf pen, I gold embossed a dragonfly on it. The larger white panel was die cut, the greeting & splatter were also gold embossed along w/ another dragonfly.The flowers were gold embossed, fussy cut, added on top & a crystal added in the center of each. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge...this week it’s a color challenge. DRS images are not required & there’s a nice prize for one lucky winner!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Daisy Bloom, Daisy Basket, Splatter Background, 4 in 1 Garden bugs, Sending a Smile greeting

Ink: Encore ultimate metallic gold pigment, Kaliedacolor fresh greens, Distress inks worn lipstick & spun sugar

Paper: Neenah white

Accessories: gold leaf pen, gold detail embossing powder, Heidi Swapp gold shine spray, Spellbinders pierced rectangle dies

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