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  • Featured Stamper Hostess Farewell

    Posted on by Julie 5 Comments

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.

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    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.
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    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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  • ODBD September Release!

    Posted on by Julie 38 Comments

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    Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs September release! You are going to love these images and dies as much as we do! Beautiful doilies and doily dies..lovely knitting and sewing themed images and dies..so many possibilities!

    Prize Information:

    • Three winners will be randomly chosen from the comments left on the designers blogs to 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. 
    • You have until September 2, 2014 at 9:00 p.m. EDT to leave your comments! 
    • The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on September 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

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    On my first card, I stamped the lovely doily image from Doily Blessings using a combo of the olive & pine inks then added color with Copics. I used the large doily outline die to cut it & added a peach “button” in the center using the smallest die of the set. The backing layers were cut w/ square die then embossed w/ fancy square die. The peach square layer was also stamped w/ the flower image from the Ornate Borders & Flowers images using the rose ink. It’s not really discernible, but adds a nice color variation to the layer. I stamped the flower again on white and stamped the greeting on top using the pine ink before die cutting w/ the matching flower die.

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

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Birthday Doily, Doily Blessings, Ornate Flowers & Borders 
    Paper:  white, dp (Basic Grey – Porcelain), peach, textured olive (DCWV)
    Ink: Memento northern pine, olive grove, Distress ink tattered rose
    Accessories: ODBD Doily dies, ODBD Ornate Flowers & Borders dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, squares & marvelous squares dies, Copic markers

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    For my second card, I die cut the beautiful doily out of some handmade ivory paper I’ve had for a long time. I die cut the center out of the ivory and again out of the dp and added the little flower centers of the navy dp into the ivory version. The dp was cut first with a matting basics die then w/ a curved border die and added on top of more of the handmade ivory paper. The bottom portion that was cut off was turned over (it’s double sided paper) and attached on the bottom. The greeting was stamped in the open section ( I had to mask off part as it wouldn’t fit). The knitting basket & yarn images were stamped, lightly colored w/ Copics and die cut w/ the matching dies. 

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    The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used for the knitting basket & yarn. 

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Hand Knit, Birthday Doily
    Paper:  white, handmade ivory, dp (Authentique -Something for all seasons)
    Ink: Memento nautical blue
    Accessories: ODBD Doily dies, ODBD Knitting Basket & Yarn dies,  Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, curved borders dies, Copic markers

    Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to visit & comment on all the DT Blogs for lots more inspiration & so you’ll be entered in the drawing!
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    Chris * Grace * Julie * Cathy * Lori * Sandee * Dawn * Paula *
     Lisa * Silke * Wanda * Angie * Sabrina * Audrey

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  • Birthday Time

    Posted on by Julie 1 Comment

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    Today’s Technique Challenge on Splitcoast (TLC495) sounded really interesting…use a stencil and stamp thru it. Well…hmmm…I tried a bunch of my stencils, plastic & brass, but nothing really looked right or recognizable. And I was getting pretty frustrated. Yes, I know I have a low tolerance for irritation. Hubby’s response to my frequent “this is driving me crazy” is “Short Trip.” So I’m pretty sure my finished card wasn’t done exactly like directed, but I like it anyway. And it looks much better than my other attempts. So it is what it is.
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    As my last resort, I die cut a big circle and used it as a stencil (or mask, if you will) and stamped a couple of silhouette leaf images using the desert heat rainbow pad inside the circle. The die cut clock was added on top. I removed a few of the center parts of the clock because I liked it better w/o them. The little matching section on the left, was a leftover part when I die cut the circle behind the clock and I stamped the leaves again to match then attached it to a black rectangle. I also added another matching strip under the lower edge of the card front. A fishtail flag die was used on the greeting and a couple of Candi dots added in the upper right corner to balance things out. 

    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Leaf Pop Negative set (new!), It’s About Time 308D
    Paper: X-Press It white, black
    Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Kaliedacolor desert heat rainbow pad
    Accessories:  Cheery Lynn Clock die, MFT fishtail banner die, Spellbinders grand circle dies, Candi dots

     


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