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Archive for May 16th, 2014

Today we are taking a look back at the Our Daily Bread designs May Release! Don’t you just love all the dies, images and pretty papers? 

For my card, I wanted to feature some of the beautiful paper in the Rustic Beauty collection, the Key to Heaven set and the keys from the Angel Wing die set. Since I don’t have the matching Glory set, I used the Morning Glory set which also fits perfectly with the papers. I stamped the morning glory frame, masking out the center, then stamped the sentiment inside. I stamped some extra morning glories to cut out and attach on top of the frame for more dimension. I kept the colors of the flowers low key to go with the paper, but I also added a little extra color to the flowers and leaves in the paper to better coordinate. Since the paper is 6×6 and my card is 5.50 x 4.25, I also fussy cut the lower section of flowers from the paper and added them in the lower right corner. The keys and key ring (a circle frame) were cut out of metallic gold paper and looped around one of the popped up morning glories.

 The layers behind the morning glories and the paper were colored with Copics to coordinate with the papers and flowers. These are the Copics I used.

Supplies:

Grace * Julie * Stacy * Dawn * Sandee * Lori * 

Chris * Cathy * Sabrina * Wanda * Silke

You can also find the links and pictures on the ODBD Blog! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Welcome to the Serendipity Stamps Blog Hop!  Today we are featuring a bunch of brand new word dies! You are really going to love these. Something for everyone and every occasion. 

First, the prize details:

For my cards, I chose to use the Dream and Imagine die cuts words for my cards. On this card, I used the Dream die and the first thing that came to me was a Dreamcatcher. Somewhere I saw a dreamcatcher that had an owl for the centerpiece and the owl was so similar to this one, I thought this little owl would be perfect. I die cut him out of  black and the solid owl version out of white. I also cut another detailed owl out of white paper to place on top of the solid backing so I could see where I wanted to color. After coloring the solid backing, I attached the black owl on top. I used some of the same markers to color a piece of white in bands before I die cut the Dream word. The feathers were stamped, colored and fussy cut. For the dreamcatcher, I die cut a sunflower and backed it with a circle die cut. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Feather Background 448L

Paper: X-Press It white, black, Bazzill white textured

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black

Accessories:  Copic markers, Serendipity Dream, Owl & Solid Owl dies, Spellbinders squares, circles dies, Perfect Paper Crafting mini rulers, Memory Box wild sunflower die

I stamped the Toadstools & Violets, colored them then die cut them using a little bit of my out of the box technique. I had some left over pieces of violet, lavender and rust that coordinated nicely, so I used the closest sizes of matting basic dies to give them a little polish. I die cut the Imagine, corners and top bracket  out of white and added them for contrast.

The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Toadstools & VioletsPaper: X-Press It white, violet, lavender, rust, grass green

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black

Accessories:  Copic markers, Serendipity Imagine, Floral Frame & Embellishement dies, Spellbinders labels 22, Matting basics A & B dies, neon yellow gel pen (for violet centers)

My final card features the Floral Frame and Embellishments along with the larger Floral Dragonfly & Solid Dragonfly dies.

I had some spritzed, water colored background left over from another project with these bright red/orange colors so I die cut the dragonflies and Dream out of it. The larger background behind the floral frame was made by sponging on a variety of pink, red, yellow and orange inks. After I die the floral frame out of white, I used a slightly smaller square die to trim down the left over square center in order to leave some of the red/orange border around it. This card measures 5″ square.

Supplies:

Stamps: none

Paper: X-Press It white

Ink:  Memento love letter, Kaleidacolor desert heat & melon melody rainbow pads, Distress ink worn lipstick

Accessories:  Serendipity Dream, Floral Frame & Embellishment , Floral Dragonfly, Solid Dragonfly dies, Spellbinders square dies, Perfect Paper Crafting mini rulers

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to visit all of the Design Team blogs so you’ll be entered to win! 

Mary’s Blog
Miriam Napier
Pauline Pollington
Vickie Zimmer
Anya Schrier
Jeanne Jachna
Jenny Gropp
Julie Warner
Karen Amidon
Marybeth Lopez