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Forever Friends

Posted on June 26, 2011 1:20 PM by Julie 12 Comments

Congrats to Claudia, today’s Featured Stamper (FS229) at Splitcoast! I chose Forever Together to case. I kept the general layout, sentiment as focal point, and monochromatic color. I changed the images, added some inking to age mine and rotated the layout. I was also inspired by Amelia Tunic from yesterday’s IC challenge.

All images are Our Daily Bread designs. I’m just loving this crochet bg image. For my card, I wanted to stay monochromatic but I also wanted it to show up. So I white embossed it on white vellum and inked the edges w/ the antique linen ink. When I attached to the front of my 4.25 x 5.5 ivory card, it was even more visible. I noticed the vellum warped a little at the top, but vellum can tend to stretch when embossed and to me, it looks more like real lace.

The sentiment was stamped on white, cut w/ an ODBD custom die label one, and aged the edges. The butterfly was also white embossed on vellum and die cut w/ a backing vanilla piece of paper (another ODBD die).

On some leftover embossed crochet bg, I used a double border punch and attached this over my white frame then attached the sentiment on top. I added the Jolee’s flower and some ivory and white punched branches.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: ODBD – Crochet Bg, Blessings (Friends), single butterfly

Paper: ivory, vanilla, Neenah white, white vellum

Ink: VersaFine Onyx, Distress ink Antique Linen, Colorbox frost white pigment

Accessories: detail white embossing powder, Spellbinder petite oval, ODBD label one & butterfly dies, flower (Jolee’s), pearls, EK Success border punch, Martha Stewart & Punch a Bunch fern leaf punches

ODBD June Release Blog Hop!

Posted on June 1, 2011 7:58 AM by Julie 154 Comments

Welcome the the Our Daily Bread designs June Release Blog Hop! If you got here from Lorelie’s incredible blog, you are in the right place! If not, you might want to start at the Our Daily Bread designs Blog and hop from there so you have a chance to win one of the FOUR fabulous prizes up for grabs this month!

Aren’t the June Release images beautiful? For my card I’m using the Dahlia and Crochet Border (from the Serve the Lord set) along with the Butterfly Single (& matching die) and a Birthday sentiment. The pink background and dahlia were done DTP (direct to paper) using pigment inks. After setting them w/ a heat tool, I went over it an Opalite ink pad then heat set again. I love the soft shimmer of the Opalite ink. The dahlia was stamped and black embossed several times, cut out and layered together for depth and color variation.

The crochet border was stamped on the DTP background panel and the white panel w/ the green ink and I used the matching border die to carefully cut just the outside edge of the white panel (I used the Sizxix machine for this). Even though this is a fairly large card (5.5 square), I ran out of room for the sentiment. So I stamped it on the ribbon and attached it across the corner.

Tip: If you don’t have the right ribbon (color or width), either color white ribbon w/ markers or turn the ribbon over to see if the back side will work. For this card, I didn’t have the right width of plain ribbon, so I turned a stripe ribbon over and saw the back side was a very pale pink and would work.

Thanks so much for stopping by!



 
Supplies:

Stamps: ODBD – Dahlia, Serve the Lord, Single Butterlfy, Happy Birthday

Paper: Neenah white, evergreen

Ink: VersaFine onyx, Archival library green, Colorbox pigments inks in Chiffon White, Shabby Pink, Rose Bud, Peony and Silver, Tsukineko Opalite in Crystal Blush

Accessories: ODBD crochet border die & butterfly die, Spellbinders circles & lacy circles, ribbon, lg pink rhinestone, heat tool, Grand Calibur, Sizzix original machine

I’m also adding this to these challenges:
Flutter By Wednesday#157
Fab ‘n’ Funky – What’eva!
A Spoon Full of Sugar – #154 (something floral)
Party Time Tuesdays PTT #18 anything goes

This entry was posted in Birthday Bugs/Butterflies/Dragonflies/Ladybugs/Bees Direct to Paper (DTP) Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges and tagged blog hop Divinity Designs/Our Daily Bread designs DTP flowers Spellbinders Splitcoast

Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog Hop!

Posted on May 12, 2011 6:45 AM by Julie 65 Comments

Welcome to our Not so Macho Masculine Blog Hop brought to you by the Sparkle Team of Sparkle N Sprinkle!

If you arrived here from Barbara Bruder’s blog, you are in the right place! If not, you’ll probably want to go to the SNS Blog and start from the beginning.

Best of 2011

I’m going to share two different cards made using the same set, 1900 Cars set 285. For the travel card above, I used two different map papers, a new banner die set and labels 17 from Spellbinders. The antique autos on both cards were colored using a combination of markers and Prismacolor pencils. For the Travel greeting, I used a bookplate die and bowed it slightly when I attached it.

On the Classic card below, I cut out the roadster and also an extra left side (facing the viewer) and layered it on the base image for a little extra dimension. The background scene was stamped, masked, sponged and then colored w/ markers. The white frame used a lg oval Spellbinders die and a dot border embossing folder which I used a stylus to hand emboss around the frame. Both cards measure 5.5 x 4.25. The Travel and Classic cards w/ full instructions are also on the SNS website.

Your next stop will be Jill Jacobson’s Blog, so hop on over! By the way, the product you can win from my blog is a jar of Berry Pudding Glitter Tinsel. If you haven’t tried it, please check it out. It’s fabulous! And this color is just scrumptious! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Sparkle N Sprinkle – 1900 Cars, Scenery set 349 (for Classic card)

Paper: Neenah white, dk red, 2 different designer/map papers

Ink:VersaFine Onyx, Kaleidacolor Melon Melody, Desert Heat & Riviera rainbow pads

Accessories:White gel pen, Prismacolor pencils, Tombow Markers, 1/2″ Double Sided “Tear-ific” Tape SAT04, 1/8” Tear-ific Tape SAT02, Spellbinders Labels 17, petite ovals & Banner Basics 2 dies, Sizzix bookplate die, Cuttlebug dot border embossing folder, stylus, sponges, Stamp-a-ma-jig (SAMJ)

More challenges for this:
Stamps R Us – masculine
SCS WT322 -trees, SCS FS223
Kaboodle Doodles – lots of layers
Cards for Men – someone special
Tuesday Throwdown – die cuts
Timeless Tuesday Challenge – anything goes!