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ODBD Favorites from 2015!

Posted on March 20, 2016 7:58 AM by Julie 33 Comments

The Our Daily Bread designs Anniversary Week continues! Today some members of the Design Team are sharing with you their own top 3 personal favorites from 2015! I’m anxious to see what everyone picked, aren’t you?

For my favorites, I tried to pick a variety & also some that didn’t use a lot of the same images the rest of the team picked. So while I may have a couple of other top faves, these 3 fit that bill.

This is one of my favorites because it’s a little different & I just like the way it turned out. For all the details, closeups & inside, please click this title & it will take you to that post. Under the Sea.

This is another I just liked the way it turned out. It uses one of my favorite techniques, embossing resist. I like the monochromatic color & mix of images. For all the details, closeups & inside please click this title. Time to Fly.

My last favorite I like because of the unusual color combo & the slightly tricky way I had to handle the lilies & greeting oval. For all the details, closeups & inside, please click the title. Beautiful Lily.
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Beauty H663156	Tres Papillons	Belles Vignes	Under the Sea	God’s Timing
Butterfly & Bugs	Flourished Star Pattern dies CBD75	Sparkling Stars dies CBD79	Sunburst Bg die CBD140	Circle Ornament dies CSBD45
Vintage Flourish Pattern dies CSBD56	Foliage & Leaves dies	Leafy Edged Border dies CSBD103	Pierced Ovals dies CBD172	Ovals dies CBD112
Bitty Blossoms Dies	Shabby Rose paper	Christian Faith paper

Red Christmas Truck

Posted on December 19, 2015 10:52 PM by Julie 3 Comments

A big congrats to Cheri, the newest Featured Stamper (FS463)! She has such colorful, vibrant gallery & I chose THIS to case. I kept the snowy winter scene & most of the layout, but I used different images, different colors and used a window instead of the snowflake border. This also uses the Sketch Challenge (SC571).

I used a large image for my card, but I split it in two & put the top part inside the window & the truck below. Everything was colored with Copics & I had to do a little out of the box to keep from cutting off some of the branches & the front of the truck. The greeting circle was stamped, die cut & added on the upper right.

Here’s the inside & the Copics I used.

Congrats again, Cheri! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampendous –Truck of Gifts, Merriest Wish (inside), Greeting (old clear set)

Paper: X-Press It white, textured pine green

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (to over stamp after coloring)

Accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, Copic markers, Misti

This entry was posted in Best of 2015 Christmas/Holiday/Winter Scenes/Landscapes Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Stampendous and tagged Christmas Copic out of the box Spellbinders Splitcoast Stampendous trucks

ODBD December Another Look & a Tutorial!

Posted on December 18, 2015 7:58 AM by Julie 5 Comments

Today we are taking another look at the Our Daily Bread designs December release! Aren’t you over the moon with these beautiful images & fabulous dies? As a special treat, I’m including a little tutorial on how I did the double die cutting. The stitched circle around the horses is part of the white stitched frame. Tricky, huh? It’s actually a combination of out of the box & into the window. I will mention, I do both of these techniques on a regular basis so I don’t have a problem coloring my image first. If you’re trying this for the first time, you may want to color afterwards. That way if you have to try again, you won’t be out a lot of time & effort coloring it.
This is also for IC524 Inspiration Challenge & THIS was the button I was inspired by.
After I stamped my image w/ Memento onto a 4.25 x 5.50 piece of X-Press It, I colored it w/ Copics. The horses were colored to resemble Indian Paints. I still had the image in my Misti, so I over stamped it w/ Versafine to really sharpen the details. Now comes the Double Die Cutting how to…(click any picture to make it bigger.)

To finish, I stamped the mill scene onto textured chocolate using the sepia ink twice then added the highlights w/ a white Prismacolor pencil. The leftover outer stitched circle frame was colored w/ a Copic & put back around the image. A punched fence was attached behind the image & the oval stitched greeting added on top.

Here’s a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs–Saddle Up (retired, replaced w/ Horses), Living Water

Paper: X-Press It white, textured chocolate

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (to over stamp after coloring), Versafine sepia (greeting & background)

Accessories: ODBD Double Stitched Rectangles, Rectangles, Pierced Ovals,Double Stitched Circles, Flourished Star Pattern dies, Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies, Misti, Martha Stewart fence punch, white prismacolor pencil

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Please be sure to stop & visit all of the DT Blogs. You’ll find so much inspiration on ways to use this fabulous release!
Julie * Amy * Cathy * Robin * Sandee *

Dawn * Lori * America

Living Water	Horses	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Rectangles dies CBD122	Double Stitched Circles dies CBD136
Pierced Ovals dies CBD172	Flourished Star Pattern dies CBD75	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Picket Fence punch M284101	X-Press It Blending Card
AC color card stock	Memento Inks	VersaFine Inkpads	Prismacolor Pencils