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  • Our Daily Bread designs November Release!

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    Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs November release! We have some fabulous images, dies & papers this month and I know you’ll NEED these in your collection! 

    Prize Information: 

    Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $15 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 November 2, 2014 at 9:00 p.m. EST to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win!  The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on November 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

    On my first card,  I used the fabulous Shine On with the coordinating Sparkling Stars dies. I’m seeing lots of uses for these in my future! I paired it with just the star pennant from Patriotic Pennant set and the coordinating Pennant Row dies along with paper from the Winter Collection 2014. I wanted the images to really sparkle so I used a red glitter powder on silver metallic paper and a silver glitter powder on the red shimmer paper then die cut all the stars, pennants and greeting. I die cut the largest star out of the Winter paper and attached the largest red star behind it. I had die cut one silver star using the largest die then made a frame out of it by cutting the next largest star inside. But I also used some tiny scissors to trim away a bit more from inside the frame before I nested it inside the background with all the other stars on top.
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    The greeting was die cut using the smaller pennant die, but I cut it to the mid point, turned the die around and cut the other half to get the flag points on both sides. I also had to do a little out of the box on the star at the top to keep from cutting it off. For the pennant row, I actually die cut it first and since I only wanted the star flag, I inked just one and stamped it inside each triangle while the die was still in place, removed the die, then sprinkled on the powder and heat embossed it. Since they are clear stamps, it was easy to see where to stamp it.

    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs  Shine On, Patriotic Pennants
    Paper:  metallic silver, shimmer red, ODBD Winter Collection 2014 paper, 
    Ink: Encore ultimate metallic silver, Colorbox berrylicisous chalk ink
    Accessories:  ODBD Sparkling Stars dies, ODBD Pennant, Pennant Row dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, firecracker embossing powder,  Aegean silver embossing powder

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    For my second card, I used the Snowflake Stars set along with dies from the Splendorous Stars, Shining Star, Flourished Star Pattern Background along with the Antique Labels & Borders for the greeting and some paper from the Christmas Paper 2014 collection. As Kelley said when she first debuted these dies to the team, you can make a gorgeous card with very little effort…just die cut everything and attach to your card!
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    I wanted just a bit of sparkle (can’t have too much sparkle for the holidays), so I heat embossed the Snowflake Stars with a glittery, silver mixed embossing powder before die cutting them. It’s not an overpowering sparkle but it goes so well with this lovely Christmas 2014 paper. This particular pattern has an ivory tint to the background so I used a pale ivory paper for my stars and background. I also used the powder for the greeting which was die cut with the Antique Label die and I used a mint blue Copic to add the border. A few extra little stars were die cut and attached on top of the stars in the background die cut.
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Snowflake Stars
    Paper:  ivory, ODBD Christmas Collection 2014 paper
    Ink: Encore ultimate metallic champagne
    Accessories: ODBD Antique Labels & Borders dies,  ODBD Splendorous Stars, Shining Star & Flourished Star Pattern dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, Tuscon embossing powder, crystal, mint blue Copic marker

    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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    Please be sure to visit all of the DT blogs and comment so you’ll be entered to win!

    Chris * Lori * Paula * Cathy * Dawn * Sandee * 

    Julie * Angie * Lisa * Wanda * Grace * Silke 

    * Sabrina * Audrey * Graciellie (Guest Designer)


  • Halloween Pair

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    Today’s Ways to Use It Challenge (WT500), has us caseing our own first uploads to our Splitcoast galleries. Yikes! Since that’s a scary proposition, I went with 2 Halloween cards I uploaded my first week as a member on Splitcoast. For this card, I cased THIS one of mine (below). 

    witch_shoesFor new card, I used a piece of glitter sticker back c/s for the upper section. It was silver but I used an orange Copic to color it then a curved border die to cut it.The little cat in the moon was also stamped on some of the glitter c/s & colored before fussy cutting. The witch legs were colored w/ Copics and I added some stickles to the purple stripes of her stockings. A few sequins were sprinkled around for more glitz. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 & these are the Copics I used.
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    On my second card, I cased THIS card from the very next day (below) which was appropriately, from the very first WT Challenge I did! 

    WT111 Fright NightFor my new card, I have no clue as to why I thought it would be a good idea to split the pumpkins image in two. After I did that, I spent probably an hour trying to figure out how to arrange them. 2 of something in most cases doesn’t look as pleasing as 3 of something. So I have a tiny little greeting underneath (no room for anything larger). 
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    After coloring & die cutting the pumpkins, I matted them on larger black squares and added a stacked die cut button to sort of “join” them. I had this fun orange/black polka dot ribbon but the orange was too light so I took a darker orange Copic and colored over the dots. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.
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    Well, that’s my updated cases of my early uploads. I don’t think I can take any more embarrassment today after looking at my first uploads, lol.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you haven’t, please head on over and check out the DRS Thursday Challenge…this week, Food (include an image, die cut, punch of something you can eat). DRS images are not required so be sure to link up your creation.
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    Stamps: DRS Designs-  Witch Legs cardWitching You Greeting, Silhouette Cat & Moon, Witch Feet       Jackolantern card – Peculiar Pumpkin Patch, Halloween Brewed by
    Paper: Witch Legs card white, black, silver glitter sticker back c/s   Jackolantern card– white, black, orange
    Ink:    Witch Legs cardStazon black, versafine onyx (for greeting) Jackolantern card– Memento tuxedo black
    Accessories: Witch Legs cardCopic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, curved borders dies,sequins   Jackolantern card- Copic markers, ribbon, Spellbinders squares & scalloped borders 3 dies, word window punch (McGill), button & scallop button dies (Memory Box)Copic markers, stickles, narrow olive ribbon, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, acorn confetti, Micron pen

  • Fall Flowers

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    My fall card today features a pretty little Autumn bouquet of flowers & wheat for the Color Challenge (CC499). I tried a technique on the flowers calledstamp etching.  I didn’t add too many little “etching” lines on the flowers today, but I like the depth they give. After coloring them, I added some gold stickles to centers of the sunflowers and orange stickles to the other 2 little flowers. A few leaf outlines were stamped w/ the rust ink, then overstamped w/ the solid leaf versions using a combo of inks & spritzing. After cutting them out, I wrinkled them so they’d look more realistic.
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    The argyle background was stamped w/ the peeled paint ink & the diamonds were stamped w/ the scattered straw ink, stamped one off so it wouldn’t be so dark.The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

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    Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t, please head on over and check out the DRS Thursday Challenge…this week, Twine (use twine or embroidery floss on your card). DRS images are not required so be sure to link up your creation.

     

     

    Stamps: DRS Designs- Med. Silhouette Leaf, Open Leaf, Fall Leaf w/ Acorn, Autumn Flower Spray, Scarecrows & Cornrows greeting, Argyle Background, Argyle Diamond
    Paper: white, olive textured (DCWV mat stack)
    Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress Inks in scattered straw, peeled paint, rusty hinge, ripe persimmon
    Accessories:  Copic markers, stickles, narrow olive ribbon, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, acorn confetti, Micron pen