Archive for November 14th, 2014
Today we are taking another look at the Our Daily Bread designs November release! Don’t you love those fabulous stars images & dies? And the paper collections are beautiful! I used a medley of images & dies from this release and previous releases…I love to mix it up!
Considering the number of image sets & dies I used, I’m surprised it looks as clean as it does, lol. These images just seemed to say “emboss me” so I used some pearly metallic blue powder on the star, snowflakes & greeting and a silver detail powder on the clock because I didn’t want the clock quite as prominent as the snowflake star centerpiece.
I used the Ornament circle & Matting circle dies to die cut the clock and the two circles in the white & shimmer navy layers. The beautiful silver & white dp was die cut using the largest outer rectangle from the Flourished Star Pattern die. I love how it leaves the pretty pierced edge. The snowflakes were fussy cut after heat embossing and the greeting was die cut. Add a different greeting and I think this would make a wonderful New Year’s card, too!
Please be sure to visit all the DT blogs for more beautiful inspiration!
Supplies:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Snowflake Stars, Sparkling Snowflakes, God’s Timing |
Paper: white, ODBD Winter Collection 2014 paper, navy blue shimmer |
Ink: Encore ultimate metallic silver & Colorbox midnight pigment inks |
Accessories: ODBD Splendorous Stars, Matting Circles & Circle Ornaments & Flourished Star Pattern dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, fancy framed tags & fancy tags dies, satin velvet & detail silver embossing powders |
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Welcome to the Serendipity Stamps November Blog Hop! We are showing off some beautiful new winter images & dies! If you arrived here from Jenny’s Blog , you are in the right place..if not, you may want to head over there first.
Prize info:
- A $20 gift certificate is up for grabs and the winner will be chosen randomly from one of the blogs.
- Commenters have until Monday 11-17 to leave a comment. The winner wil be posted on Marys blog on 11-18.
- For a SECOND chance to win a $20 gift certificate you need to LIKE Serendipity Stamps and SHARE on Facebook.
For my Christmas card in non-tradiontal colors, I started with a piece of water color paper, a handful of Distress Ink pads, a teflon craft sheet & water spritzer. I started by pressing the pink inks onto the craft sheet, spritzing with water then dabbing part of the water color paper onto it. I dried it w/ a heat gun, then did the same with the teal, blue & greens…one at a time and drying in between colors. Dabbing here & there and drying in between colors keeps them from blending together and making mud. Then I stamped the Poinsettia Background on top w/ the Versafine and used an opaque cream marker to color in the centers & a black marker around the edge.
I used the Poinsettia & Leaf to stamp the big single poinsettia a couple of times on ivory, colored them w/ Copics & fussy cut them. The small poinsettia (from the big background image) was done the same way. I thought it looked a little too busy, so I added a narrow strip of blue vellum down the side before adding the poinsettias. The Joy die was die cut 3 times out of the cream and twice out of black to shadow it. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used for the poinsettias.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit all the DT blogs! Here’s the order in case you get lost.
- Mary’s Blog
- Karen Amidon
- Marybeth Lopez
- Miriam Napier
- Vickie Zimmer
- Jeanne Jachna
- Jenny Gropp
- Julie Warner
Supplies:
Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Poinsettia Bg , Poinsettia & Leaf Outline , Wishing You |
Paper: water color, textured blue & cream (DCWV – pastel matstack), ivory, pale blue vellum, black |
Ink: Versafine onyx, Memento tuxedo black, Distress Inks spun sugar, Victorian velvet, tumbled glass, evergreen bough, broken china |
Accessories: Copic markers, Serendipity Joy die , Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, crystals, stickles, black Permapaque marker |