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  • ODBD April Release Blog Hop!


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    Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs April Release Blog Hop! We have some beautiful images & fabulous dies for you this month, no fooling!


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    For both of my cards today, I’m featuring the beautiful new Star Quilt stamp & the Star Quilt die. Now technically, they don’t fit together, but on this first card, I did use the die to emboss only on top of the stamped image. I stamped the Star Quilt image on heavy white c/s..once using the seaglass ink, twice using the celadon ink & once using the whisper gray ink. Please note, since I used pigment ink on these, I made sure to heat set it w/ my heat gun so it wouldn’t rub off.

    Here’s the part where I embossed the Quilt die on top of the stamped image.  I die cut one of the celadon stamped images using the next to largest Square die to use as my base quilt image.Star Quilt die 1 08788
    As I mentioned, the die & image don’t fit together for die cutting, but I noticed they do line up pretty well for embossing & I wanted that stitched fabric look. In order to line them up, I used a piercing tool to poke a small hole in the center of the image. 
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    Then I lined it up w/ the center hole in the die w/ the image face down on the cutting side of the die. In this position, I lined up the edges of the image so they would be square on the die. I placed it like this on the magnetic sheet & placed the rubber embossing mat on top & embossed it.
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    I repeated this embossing on the seaglass & other celadon stamped quilts. I fussy cut parts of the whisper gray version (the squares & triangles around the borders) then positioned them inside a Double Stitched Square die to get the stitching cuts. I know it seems like a lot of work, but that’s the look I wanted. The angled star quilt center was fussy cut & attached offset from the base star. I also die cut the Star & Double Stitched Star & buttons out of leftover quilt image parts. 
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    The polka dot paper was die cut first w/ the Flourished Star Pattern & that piece was repeatedly cut down using smaller Double Stitched Rectangles & Rectangles with one white layer inserted between them.

    Here’s a look at the inside using another fussy cut Star Quilt centerpiece. 
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Time to Mend, Star Quilt  (inside –Sewn with Love )
    Paper: Staples 110# white, Recollections heavy white, dp (ODBD – Christmas Collection 2014)
    Ink: Colorbox whisper gray, celadon & seaglass pigment inks, Versafine deep lagoon
    Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Star Quilt, Double Stitched Stars, Double Stitched Rectangles, Sparkling Stars, Double Stitched Stars, Squares, Double Stitched Squares, Rectangles, Matting Circles dies, Misti

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    For this quilt card, I went with a more dramatic color combo & I used the Star Quilt die and not the image this time. I die cut the Star Quilt in black (twice), and one each in 3 solid shades of tan/brown & 3 polka dot shades of tan/brown (all from the Ephemera Essentials paper). 

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    I also die cut one Star Quilt out of ivory to use as my base so I would have something to attach them all to. Sort of like doing a 100 piece puzzle, lol. After I arranged the pieces like I wanted & attached them, I attached one of the black grids of the quilt on top of the pieces. The other black grid fell on top at an angle, & I thought…hmmm..that looks pretty good! So just for fun, behind some of the pieces (the black ones & the one directly next to them) I added other tan colors to make a complicated paper piecing even more intricate! Then I attached this black grid on top, turned at about a 20 degree angle then trimmed off the corners that stuck out.

    Here’s what the angle at which the two were attached looks like. The polka dot would be the squared frame & the solid is the angled one. The corners that stuck out were trimmed off.
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    I added a Double Stitched Square frame on top to have a little bit heftier border then added it to my card. the tan sun shape & one of the polka dot centers were attached in place.
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    The greeting was rearranged a bit & I replaced the Q w/ a Flourished Alphabet Q. In order to die cut the greeting, I had to do a little resizing using a Double Stitched Square die.

    Here’s a look at the inside. 
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Time to Mend (retired), Flourished Alphabet (inside –Star Quilt, Sew Special )
    Paper: Staples 110# white, black, dp (ODBD – Ephemera Essentials) 
    Ink: Versafine onyx (inside -Memento desert sand)
    Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Star Quilt, Double Stitched Rectangles, Sunburst, Rectangles, Squares, Double Stitched Squares, Vintage Flourish Pattern dies

    Please be sure to comment on all the DT Blogs! It is so appreciated & will also increase your chances of winning! 
    Cathy * Dawn * Lori * Robin * Julie * Sandee 

    * Chris * Grace * Lisa * Sabrina 

    * Diana * Angie * Melissa (Guest Designer)

    Thanks so much for stopping by! 
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  • Hand Knit

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    Well…today’s Color Challenge  (CC497) is certainly challenging! I doubt that in a million years I would have ever put these color together. So they were definitely a challenge. The other challenging part is that I don’t own these colors (other than a vanilla) so I had to sub with what I had. I do have samples of these colors, so mine are pretty close..which is good since I couldn’t even find any dp in my neglected stash that used these colors. The vanilla doily was already die cut (from another project that didn’t get used) so at least I was ahead w/ that. For the blackberry-like bg, I stamped a pattern that reminded me of a quilt pattern w/ the elderberry ink on top. The yarn and basket were stamped w/ combos of the elderberry & plum inks then die cut.
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    The greeting is actually a combo of two that I put together then punched w/ a tag punch. A bow w/ just the right color of thread spool button on top was added w/ the tag. The narrow yellow ribbon was colored w/ a Copic to match.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Hand Knit, Pincushion Tag set (retired), Holly Pattern Mini
    Paper:  vanilla, blackberry, honey yellow
    Ink: Memento plum, elderberry
    Accessories: ODBD Doily dies, ODBD Knitting Basket & Yarn dies,  Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, yellow Copic marker, tape measure ribbon, thread spool button, tag punch (Marvy)

  • ODBD September Release -Another Look!

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    Today we are taking another look at the Our Daily Bread designs September release! The images and doily dies are well…to die for! Vintage is not a style I use very often, but these lovely antique dress form images just scream vintage. 

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    After stamping and coloring the Victoria dress form, I die cut it using the Antique Labels die, left the die in place and sponged on some antique linen ink. The Doily die was cut out of black and added behind the dress form. On the ivory panel underneath it on the left, I stamped the Birthday Doily image using the spun sugar ink.  The designer paper on right was much paler to begin with, but I added more color to the flowers and also stamped the Elizabeth dress form with the tattered rose ink randomly all over it. 

    I finished w/ some half pearls in different sizes and a seam ribbon bow I also colored with Copics to match. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs Victoria, Elizabeth, Birthday Doily
    Paper:  white, dp (Prima – Almanac), black, ivory
    Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress ink tattered rose, spun sugar, antique linen, vintage photo
    Accessories: ODBD Doily dies, ODBD Antique Labels & Borders dies,  Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, Copic markers, half pearls, seam ribbon, mini bowdabra

     Please stop by and visit all of the DT for more inspiration!

    Chris * Grace * Julie * Cathy * Lori * Sandee * 

    Dawn * Paula * Stacy * Wanda

     

    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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