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ODBD May Release!

Posted on May 1, 2015 7:58 AM by Julie 50 Comments

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs May Release! I know you’re going to love these images and dies!

Prize Information: –

Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 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 May 2, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. EDT to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win! The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on May 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

On my first card, I white embossed the Belles Vignes on white card stock that was die cut using the largest of the Flourished Star Pattern dies. Then I used a rainbow pad to sponge on the colors. I also white embossed, die cut & sponged all the beautiful butterflies from the Trois Papillon & Butterfly & Bugs sets. The greeting, from Spread Your Wings, was done the same way & I added a few die cut flowers from the Birds & Nest dies.

Here’s a look at the inside. Since I didn’t use designer paper, I sponged & stamped then added one leftover butterfly.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Belles Vignes, Trois Joile Papillions, Butterfly & Bugs, Spread Your Wings

Paper: Neenah white, white linen (for greeting panel)

Ink: Colorbox frost white pigment, Kaliedacolor Riviera ink pad

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Butterfly & Bugs, Trois Papillons, Birds & Nest dies, Spellbinders labels 4 & gold labels 4 dies, white embossing powder, crystals

My second card uses the beautiful Spread Your Wings set along with the Dogwood Mini. I already had it in my mind to do a window opening with the nest inside & I wanted it to look like the nest was resting in a dogwood tree. After coloring & die cutting the birds (I colored them to look like bluebirds), I colored & fussy cut the dogwood branch 3 times. I also fussy cut an extra front facing wing on each blue bird & popped it up for a little dimension.

I added a large piece of the ODBD Shabby Rose paper behind the window and also around the greeting circle. A few single dogwood flowers were sprinkled on the lower right and I added some stickles to the flower centers. These are the Copics I used for this card.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs –Spread Your Wings, Dogwood Mini set

Paper: Neenah white, X-Press It white, ODBD Shabby Rose collection

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (for greeting)

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Birds & Nest dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & pierced rectangles & circles dies, Copic markers, stickles

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit & comment on all the DT blogs so you’ll be entered to win!
Lori * Julie * Sandee * Dawn * Amy * Cathy *

America * Chris * Angie * Audrey * Sabrina *

Grace * Silke * Loretta * Lisa * Wanda

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I’m also entering the first card in the Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge – Spring!

Featured Stamper Hostess Farewell

Posted on September 20, 2014 11:40 PM by Julie 5 Comments

Today is a bittersweet day. We (the Featured Stamper Hostesses) are having to say goodbye to one of our own…Bridget Finlay. We are sad she is leaving, but we understand that Bridget has an important mission.

For this card, I chose THIS card of Bridget’s. I really love the contrast of the turquoise & peach and her perfect layout, so I kept those. For me, the real challenge of caseing Bridget is I don’t want to change a thing! But change I must, so I used different images, a doily die cut instead of the heart and I used a stamped, die cut butterfly instead of the punched one Bridget used.

I started with a die cut white panel, attached some drywall mesh and sponged on the tumbled glass ink in a random rather than solid manner, then added a little splatter w/ the same ink & a water brush. After die cutting the doily w/ peach, I cut it apart & reassembled it a little smaller to fit the area. The big butterfly was stamped on dp & die cut. I really loved the shiny little teal leaf embellies Bridget used, so I made mine out of aluminum foil glued to c/s, colored w/ Copics and die cut. For the flower, I used a Prima on top and punched a larger one to go underneath.

To make the greeting, I die cut the letters out of turquoise twice, stacked them on top of each for dimension & glued them in an up/down manner to mimic the wonderful die Bridget used. The pretty little flower on top of the big butterfly was a gift from my sweet friend, Sabrina.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Butterfly

Paper: white, peach, turquoise, small piece of dp (Basic Grey -Hopscotch)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress ink tumbled glass

Accessories: ODBD Doily dies, ODBD Butterfly die, ODBD Fancy Foliage die, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies & Font One upper & lower case dies, Copic markers, turquoise gem, aluminum foil, butterfly multi punch (Martha Stewart), hibiscus flower die (Quickutz), button, Prima flower

Because I could spend a lifetime caseing Bridget, I made a second card in her honor.

For my card, I cased THIS card of Bridget’s. I just love the bright colors and spools of thread. So I kept those, but I used different images/dies and made my own backgrounds.

The big solid doily image was stamped w/ the yellow ink on the large bg and partials of it were stamped w/ the other ink colors on the side strip. The little thread spools were stamped, colored & die cut & on two of them I trimmed away the measuring tape. After stamping the 2 greetings, I pierced around the edge, added a punched button border & some colorful buttons. These are the Copics I used.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Birthday Doily, Spool Tape, Sew Special

Paper: white, turquoise,yellow

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, dandelion, tangelo, bahama blue, cottage ivy

Accessories: ODBD Spool die, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, Copic markers, piercing tool & mat, button border punch (EK Success), buttons

Thanks so much for stopping by! A fond farewell, Bridget, and may you be richly blessed in your future endeavors!

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Serendipity SSCB#32 – Window Card pt 2

Posted on June 18, 2014 12:00 AM by Julie 8 Comments

Best of 2014!
Welcome to the June Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is is Window Cards. The special at Serendipity Stamps this week is the ever popular 40% off coupon. Code “40fromhigh614” Good through 6/24. 40% off the highest priced item in your cart. The design team has the added challenge of making an accordion card with a window. You only have to make a window card. I love window cards…accordion cards, not so much, lol.

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I’m pretty sure I should just call this the energizer bunny card. It just kept going & going & growing! With so much real estate on this layout, I never know when to stop adding things, which is really at odds with my need for a clean layout. For the basics…I cut a letter size piece of white card stock to 5.50 x 11. From the left side, I scored at 2″, 4.5″, and 7″….so my separate panels measure (from left) 2″, 2.5″, 2.5″, and 4″. I used these sizes because when folded, it measures 4 x 5.50 so it will fit in an A2 envelope. When closed, it looks like the picture above. When open, it looks like the picture below.

I stamped and colored the Lg Geranium and Sm Geranium, then fussy cut the larger version for the front, die cut the smaller for the inside window. For the inside panels, I die cut larger frames, a bunch of the corner elements and frame elements from Floral Frame & Embellishment dies. All of the backgrounds are panels I made by “stamping” with an embossing folder. I sprayed different colors of Heidi Swapp shine spray directly onto one side of an embossing folder, placed white card stock inside and pressed. I did not emboss these panels so they are completely flat but have the image of the folder on them. In real life, the sprays are so shimmery but so hard to capture with the camera.

The greeting was stamped on the largest Labels 28 on the last panel, die cut, and with the die still in place, I sponged on some Distress Ink spun sugar along the inside edges. The Serendipity die cut small butterfly and dragonfly were spritzed with the Heidi Swapp sprays and added to the two smaller inside panels.

These are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to stop by all the DT blogs to be entered in the drawing.

Vickie Zimmer
Pauline Pollington
Jeanne Jachna
Jenny Gropp
Julie Warner
Karen Amidon
Marybeth Lopez
Miriam Napier

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Lg Geranium 1112J, Sm Geranium 1113D, Happy Birthday 093D

Paper: X-Press It white, Georgia Pacific white, vellum

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress Ink spun sugar

Accessories: Serendipity Floral Frame & Embellishment dies, Copic markers, Spellbinders matting basics A & B, Labels 28 dies, Heidi Swapp shine sprays, Lifestyle Crafts/Quickutz embossing folder (Dainty set), Wink of Stella (clear) pen

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