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  • Sail Away ODBD Alumni Hop!

    Posted on by Julie 27 Comments

    Welcome to Our Daily Bread Designs  Alumni Team’s bi-monthly For the Love Blog Hop.   You may want to start at the ODBD Blog so you won’t miss a thing! This week the Alumni team along with some of the ODBD designers are featuring a hop For the Love of ODBD  embossing plates! 

     

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    Embossing plates are a little different from embossing folders, but there are a number of techniques to really show them off. I love distressing the embossed card stock with a sanding block to bring out the little embossed fish. I made sure to use a white core card stock so that when embossed and sanded, the embossed fish would really show up. Before I embossed it, I also added a little ink to the c/s and afterwards, I really roughed up the edges.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com/

    I paired the embossed fish panel with this wonderful new ship from Surging Sea and sentiment from Smooth Sailing. Water colors were used on thin water color paper (think kid’s w/c pad), then the image was stamped and bleached. Since I was into distressing, I continued on w/ roughing up the edges and even tore a bit off one corner. The sentiment was die cut w/ a little pennant die and also distressed. The white x’s on the orange dp were added w/ a white gel pen. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

     

     

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Surging Sea, Smooth Sailing
    Paper: thin water color paper, blue textured (DCWV mat stack), teal, orange dp (Basic Grey -Lauderdale collection)
    Ink: Ancient Page coal & calypso blue
    Accessories: Spellbinders nested pennants die, ODBD Fish embossing plate, Peerless water colors, bleach & acrylic paint brush, Tombow markers, water brush, sanding block, Grand Calibur, white gel pen

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  • Smooth Sailing Wooden Ship

    Posted on by Julie 3 Comments

    Julie Warner-justwritedesigns-The Write Stuff

    Happy Friday! For today’s Free for All Challenge (F4A124), we are to use something ‘wood”, image or actual…whatever! So I’m using a “wooden ship” image. It’s new from Our Daily Bread designs and my new fave image.

    Julie Warner-justwritedesigns-The Write Stuff
    The ship scene was stamped on white, water colored w/ markers, trimmed closely and attached to a piece of vanilla c/s that I die cut and resized to fit the image. The sentiment was stamped on a piece of the dp w/ the indigo ink and the compass was stamped w/ the tea dye ink.

    The rest is all dp from a big 12×12 pad but the only name I can see on it is ATD but I liked the colors and textured papers and thought they went well w/ my vintage looking image. On the green section, I stamped the compass repeatedly with the bamboo ink then cut it in half so I could have the bands of color across the top and bottom. I hid the seam behind a striped band of dp, layered on the cranberry and a piece of gold (it’s the reverse side of the green).  The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps:ODBD – Surging Sea, Smooth Sailing
    Paper: Neenah white, vanilla, cranberry, dp (ATD)
    Ink: Ancient Page indigo, Distress Ink tea dye, Memento bamboo leaves
    Accessories: Spellbinders rectangle die, Tombow markers, water brush

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  • ODBD July Release Blog Hop!

    Posted on by Julie 83 Comments

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs July Release Blog Hop! 

    I can’t tell you how much I love this new ship image! I’ve been wanting a great looking ship for so long and when Kelley showed us this Surging Sea set, I was over the moon! There’s just something about old sailing ships and nautical images that just float my boat, lol.  And it’s perfect for masculine cards.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    For my card, I sponged on the rainbow of blues from a couple of Kaliedacolor ink pads, then stamped the image in permanent black ink. It was die cut using a rectangle die I resized to fit the image. These are some of my favorite colors and they work so well for a seafaring image. Since the Kpads are dye ink, they are highly bleachable. I used a tiny acrylic paintbrush to paint the bleach onto the ship and compass rose. After it dried, I added a little yellow to the flags. You have to wait until it’s completely dry before adding color w/ water based markers, or else it will just continue to bleach. You can help it along w/ a heat tool, but back away a little.

    The single compass rose was stamped on the vertical white strip and some netting from a bag of lemons was stretched over it (it looked like fish net to me). I used a circle punch for the little blue circles under the eyelets. The  greeting (from Smooth Sailing set) was die cut, but not embossed, using the Spellbinders nested pennant set. I cut to the half way point, then turned the die around and cut the flag point again on the opposite end.  The edge came about because I bent one corner of my 5.50 x 4.25 card and it looked funny. So I took one of the larger Labels 8 and cut the card edge and added some die cut strips of left over background.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!


    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Surging Sea, Smooth Sailing
    Paper: Neenah white, small scrap of cobalt blue
    Ink: Ancient Page coal, Kaleidacolor Caribbean Sea & Blue Breeze rainbow ink pads
    Accessories: Spellbinders labels 8, nested pennants, & rectangle dies, Tombow makers, lemon netting, yellow eyelets, 1/4″ circle punch, bleach & small acrylic paintbrush

     


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