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  • Sail Away ODBD Alumni Hop!

    Posted on by Julie 27 Comments

    Welcome to Our Daily Bread Designs  Alumni Team’s bi-monthly For the Love Blog Hop.   You may want to start at the ODBD Blog so you won’t miss a thing! This week the Alumni team along with some of the ODBD designers are featuring a hop For the Love of ODBD  embossing plates! 

     

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    Embossing plates are a little different from embossing folders, but there are a number of techniques to really show them off. I love distressing the embossed card stock with a sanding block to bring out the little embossed fish. I made sure to use a white core card stock so that when embossed and sanded, the embossed fish would really show up. Before I embossed it, I also added a little ink to the c/s and afterwards, I really roughed up the edges.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    I paired the embossed fish panel with this wonderful new ship from Surging Sea and sentiment from Smooth Sailing. Water colors were used on thin water color paper (think kid’s w/c pad), then the image was stamped and bleached. Since I was into distressing, I continued on w/ roughing up the edges and even tore a bit off one corner. The sentiment was die cut w/ a little pennant die and also distressed. The white x’s on the orange dp were added w/ a white gel pen. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

     

     

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Surging Sea, Smooth Sailing
    Paper: thin water color paper, blue textured (DCWV mat stack), teal, orange dp (Basic Grey -Lauderdale collection)
    Ink: Ancient Page coal & calypso blue
    Accessories: Spellbinders nested pennants die, ODBD Fish embossing plate, Peerless water colors, bleach & acrylic paint brush, Tombow markers, water brush, sanding block, Grand Calibur, white gel pen

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  • Nautical Vignette

    Posted on by Julie 5 Comments

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    I loved today’s Inspiration Challenge (IC324) site and I was so happy to make a sample for Stef! I chose This for my inspiration. Instead of the beautiful colors they used, I just went w/ a more distressed look but I really loved the triple vignette layout.

    All images are Our Daily Bread designs. I stamped the lighthouse twice and selected different areas of it and also the mighty sea scene. I used circle dies to cut them out and for the maroon frame, I used two sizes of circle dies to cut out the “porthole” frames.
    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    I stamped portions of the hymn on the crackled looking dp and distressed the edges w/ a tool and also w/ the tea dye ink. The netting was added on the left and the finished card fits in a #10 business envelope.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD- The Mighty Sea, All is Well Hymn, Keep My Lamp Burning
    Paper: vanilla fiber, dp (very old paper pad from ProvoCraft)
    Ink: Ancient Page cobalt, Distress Ink tea dye
    Accessories: Spellbinders circles dies, Tombow markers, netting ribbon, distressing tool

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  • ODBD July Release Blog Hop!

    Posted on by Julie 134 Comments

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    Welcome to the ODBD July 1 release blog hop! If you arrived here from Sabrina Jackson’s blog, you are in the right place! If not, you might want to start at the ODBD Blog where you will see the entire list with links just in case any are broken along the way!

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    These new Sweet William images are just wonderful! They were made to coordinate with the Spellbinders Blossom 3. I stamped all the sizes on gold and purple tissue papers and also on some wide gold tulle ribbon and then die cut them.  After stacking them, I put a gold brad through the center and wrinkled and distressed them within an inch of their lives, lol. I added another piece of the tulle behind the flower then had to get creative with the gold embossed sentiment. This is one BIG flower and I didn’t have much room left on my 5.5 x 4.25 card. I used a border punch across the bottom of the gold layer and backed the flower with a gold embossed fancy label.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!


    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Sweet William lg and small,  Large Scrapbook Words, Fancy Labels
    Paper: gold & purple tissue papers, dp (Old World Mat stack DCWV), textured amethyst (DCWV), brushed gold
    Ink: Archival grape, Encore Ultimate Metallic gold pigment
    Accessories: detail gold  embossing powder, Spellbinder Blossom 3 & label 17 dies, Martha Stewart hydrangea  border punch, wide gold tulle ribbon, lg gold brad, Grand Calibur

     


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