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ODBD January Release Blog Hop!

Posted on January 1, 2016 7:58 AM by Julie 54 Comments

Happy New Year!
Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs January Release! We have some beautiful images & fabulous dies for you this month! They will have y’all “Wishing” you already had them!

For my first Wishing card, I came across this white piece already embossed w/ the oval frame & thought it would work as a backdrop. I die cut 3 of each size of Aster then sponged 1 of each size w/ the stonewashed ink. The two little flowers are from the Bird & Nest dies & were already in my stash, so I sponged & curled them. The centers for all flowers were made by cutting a strip of white (about 1/2″ wide) & using fringing scissors all down one side (be careful not to cut all the way to the other edge). Then take tweezers or a quilling tool & roll. The longer your strip, the bigger around it will be. Add a drop of glue to the end & remove the tweezers & fluff a little. Then I sponged just the tips & added them to the flower centers.

I added white leaves & fronds from the other dies, then die cut one white Stitched Oval & one plain Oval out of the blue designer paper. I used the denim ink to stamp the Wishing on the oval & also the rest of the greeting on a separate piece I die cut using the Double Stitched Rectangles & Rectangles.

Here’s a look at the inside:

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Wishing Words, (Wishing Well – inside)

Paper: Neenah white, designer paper (ODBD – Christian Faith collection)

Ink: Adirondack denim & stonewashed

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Asters (retired), Pretty Posies, Lovely Leaves, Rectangles, Double Stitched Rectangles, Ovals, Stitched Ovals (retired), Birds & Nest (small flowers) (retired) dies, fringing scissors (Martha Stewart), Sizzix embossing folder (bird & wreath set)

I am adding the above card to Seize the Birthday Challenge – Anything Goes!

My second Wishing card features this wonderful Wishing Well set & the Wishing die. There are so many different greetings for just about any occasion using this set & the Wishing Words set. Add the Wishing die, & you are able to cover a multitude of occasions & always have the perfect card!

For me, it’s a little challenging to use so much brown on an image. Of course, you can color the stones any color you wish, but I’m always up for a challenge. So I used a lot of different browns so it wouldn’t all run together. And I used the blender pen to add the mottled look on the stones. After I colored it all in, I over stamped w/ the Versafine (the image was still in my Misti) then die cut it using the Circles & Double Stitched Circles. I sponged the vintage photo ink lightly around the edge of the image circle then put it back inside the stitched circle. For the white Pegboard background, I used my resizing technique to make a long rectangle die cut out of a square die then added the Double Stitched frame out of the designer paper on top. The Wishing die was cut twice & stacked for dimension.

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

(To explain the browns..I used the E13, E15, E19 on the roof of the well. E55, E57, E59, N2 & N4 for the beams. E30, E31, E35, E37, W1, W4, W5, W7 for the stone.)

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Wishing Well, (Living Water, Wishing Words –inside)

Paper: Neenah white, X-Press It white, designer paper (ODBD – Vintage Ephemera )

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx & sepia, distress ink vintage photo (for sponging)

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Rectangles, Double Stitched Rectangles, Ovals, Stitched Ovals, Circles, Double Stitched Circles, Pegboard dies, Copic markers, Misti

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Please be sure to visit & comment on all the DT blogs. It will be so appreciated & also increase your chances of winning!

Cathy * Julie * Dawn * Robin C. *Robin T. *

Lori * Sandee * Angie * Lisa * Chris *

Sabrina * Diana * Silke

Wishing Well	Wishing Words ICS61-139	Living Water	Double Stitched Rectangles dies CBD123	Rectangles dies CBD122
Flourished Star Pattern dies CBD75	Double Stitched Circles dies CBD136	Circles dies CBD142	Ovals dies CBD112	Pierced Ovals dies CBD172
Pegboard dies	Pretty Posies dies CBD108	Foliage & Leaves dies	Christian Faith paper	Leaves & Branches dies CBD225
Vintage Label dies CBD55	Vintage Ephemera	Copic Sketch Markers	MISTI	Memento Inks
Adirondack dye inks	Sizzix Bird/Wreath embossing folders 657086	Fringe Scissors	VersaFine Inkpads	Distress Inks
X-Press It Blending Card	Neenah Classic Crest white

Blooming Birthday Flowers

Posted on December 26, 2015 9:57 PM by Julie 5 Comments

A big congrats to Pat, the newest Featured Stamper (FS464) on Splitcoast! She has such a beautiful gallery & I chose THIS to case. I kept the technique of the brayered embossing folder & layout, but I used different colors, a different embossing folder & different flower dies.

To make my card, I brayered the inside of the embossing folder w/ the fresh greens ink pad then embossed the large white panel. Then I die cut it w/ the largest Flourished Star Pattern die to get the tiny pierced edges. The Asters, Posies & Leaves were all die cut out of white & I sponged a little yellow & orange ink (from the melon melody ink pad) in the centers. The butterflies were stamped w/ the same yellow/orange ink & die cut.

The greeting was stamped & die cut w/ a Mini Tag then all the flowers were assembled & attached. I added a bunch of die cut circles (from the Asters dies) to the centers of the embossed rings for a little extra punch.

Here’s a look at the inside.

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

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Tres Papillions, Butterfly & Bugs, Home Sweet Home, (Living Water – inside greeting)

Paper: Neenah white

Ink: Versafine onyx, Kaliedacolor fresh greens & melon melody

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Asters (retired), Pretty Posies, Lovely Leaves, Mini Tags dies, brayer, Quickutz/Lifestyle embossing folder (Dainty set)

Butterfly & Bugs	Tres Papillons	Home Sweet Home	Living Water	Flourished Star Pattern dies CBD75
Pretty Posies dies CBD108	Leaves & Branches dies CBD225	Mini Tags dies CBD63	Quickutz/Lifestyle Dainty embossing folders EF0004	Neenah Classic Crest white
Kaliedacolor ink pads	Speedball Pop-In Brayer Kit .

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Blue Fragrance

Posted on July 4, 2015 12:02 AM by Julie 3 Comments

For my card today, I’m combining 4 Splitcoast Challenges…Inspiration Challenge (IC500), I chose THIS for the colors, Free For All (F4A280) brad other than round, Mixability (MIX127) red, white & blue & the Sketch (SC547). I also have a one on one comparison I did showing how I used my MISTI. I stamped it first with Memento, colored with Copics, then overstamped with Versafine to get a deep, dark line image. And…a little picture tutorial showing step by step how I colored the blue roses. Remember, you can click on any picture to make it bigger!

After I stamped 3 of the roses images, they were all colored with Copics & fussy cut. I used just the center of one of the roses, shaped it & popped it up in the center of the rose on the right. The blue frame was made on watercolor paper using water colors then streaked & splatter with gold acrylic paint. When dry, I die cut it to make the frame. The white layers are the inside dies of the same Lacey Layered Square die set. The greeting was stamped, the cut flowers added & the diamond shaped brad for the Free for All challenge.

As promised..here’s the picture tutorial showing how I colored the roses. Using my Misti, I stamped them first with Memento.

Step 1: The B00 & B01 were added in the darkest areas.

Step 2: B14, then B16 & then B28 were added in the same, darkest areas. As the colors get darker, the closer to the center I stayed.

Step 3: I used B000 & B00 to very lightly blend, but I left a little white at the petal tips.

Step 4: I used G43 & G24 from the center of the leaves to near the edges, but left some white around the edges. G28 was added near the center veins then I went over the entire leaf with YG01. When I’m coloring leaves, no matter what shade of green, I usually add YG01 to finish…to me it just adds life and a little brightness to the leaf.

Step 5: For the flower centers, I probably wouldn’t use red normally, but it was a color challenge on the MIX & I needed to work that red in somewhere, so I used R12 to go over the entire area, then dotted R24 & R29 here there. To add a little brightness, I also dotted a little YG01 here & there. Little things can add a lot 🙂

Here’s the one on one comparison. Both were stamped first with Memento and colored with Copics. The one on the left is Memento only. The image on the right was put back into the Misti and overstamped with Versafine. The details really pop! Look closely especially at the flower center and the underside of the flower on the lower right.

And here’s the inside. I used the leftover flowers and part of the water colored background at the bottom.

Just for reference, here are all the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs –Fragrance, (inside) Home Sweet Home, Flourish Label Borders

Paper: X-Press It white, Neenah white, water color

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star Pattern, Lacey Layered Squares, (inside) Vintage Flourish Pattern, dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A dies, Copic makers, water colors, gold acrylic paint