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Sail Away ODBD Alumni Hop!

Posted on July 19, 2012 7:58 AM 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!

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.

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

Time for Dad

Posted on June 13, 2011 6:31 PM by Julie 17 Comments

Fun challenge Holly has today at Splitcoast (TLC329). I had a great time putting together my little crazy quilt. I almost got out the sewing machine then thought, nah…. pen is right here! So my little patchwork is faux stitched.

All images are Our Daily Bread designs. The big clock image and blue layer were cut w/ a Spellbinders circles. For the left two panels, I scribbled some markers inside the embossing folder before embossing. The middle section has the same phrase stamped in several different colors. The little right panels are dp aged slightly w/ ink.

I attached all my little patchwork pieces to longer panels of blue then faux stitched them down. The sentiment was split to fit the space and I added some little punched circles for faux button like elements.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: ODBD – Time, Happy Father’s Day

Paper: vanilla, blue bayou. scrap of dp (Dictionary from K&Co.)

Ink: VersaFine Onyx, Distress Inks stormy sky, ant. linen, faded jeans, Ancient Page saffron

Accessories: Tombow markers, Cuttlebug clockworks embossing folder, Spellbinders circles, 1/4 & 1/8″ hole punches, blue-black micron pen

I’m also adding this to these challenges:
Craft -#106 Father’s Day
Paper Play – Father’s Day/Man’s Card
Delightful Challenges – Father’s Day
Crazy for Challenges – masculine
One Stop Craft – Father’s Day
Sentimental Sundays – Father’s Day/masculine
Mark’s Finest Papers – Father’s Day card

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ISC May Reworking the Butterflies

Posted on May 25, 2011 6:00 AM by Julie 5 Comments

Best of 2011

Instead of a new release, this month we’re taking images of our choice and reworking, or using them again. Betsy says she gets a lot of request for more art using some of the butterfly images. We all buy images, maybe use them a few times, then move on to new stuff. So this month, we’re using images from our stash and let me tell you, I used a whole bunch of different images from a lot of different releases. And I’ll mention here that NO Designer Paper was used. A lot of background images and inks were used to create the different looks.

For inspiration on this first card, Betsy provided a link to a couple of pictures and I chose this Montage. I went very literal for my card. For the blue and green background, I used several texture background images from Textured Backgrounds and Dimensional Elements Edges 1. For the tan panel, I colored the inside of the embossing folder w/ a green marker and embossed it. All edges were sponged w/ the tea dye and chocolate inks. The frame was shortened to fit the central panel using a SAMJ and after coloring the butterfly w/ markers, I cut it out and attached it on top. The finished ivory card measures 5.5 square.

Supplies:

Stamps: ISC -Textured Backgrounds, Dimensional Elements Edges 1, Beautiful Butterflies III, Fruitful (frame), Tropics (greeting)

Paper: ivory, blue, sage, tan

Ink: VersaFine Onyx, Ancient Page chocolate, Distress Ink Tea Dye, Colorbox white pigment

Accessories: Cuttlebug Bird Call embossing folder, Tombow markers, brads, small pin, SAMJ (stamp-a-ma-jig)

On the second card, I used sponging and masking to create the main panel. A while back, I saw this card by TheresaCC when she was the featured stamper at Splitcoast. I loved the layout but didn’t have a chance to try it out until now. I stamped and masked the daisies and background leaves then stamped the daisies again on a separate piece of c/s. When I saw that the ribbon placement would cover the original images, I cut out the second set and attached them on top. The pink, blue and green inks were sponged onto the white panel w/ the image masks in place. The finished card measures 4.25 x 5.5.

Supplies:

Stamps: ISC – Oriental Nature Elements, Nature Silhouettes II, Nature Silhouettes III, Artful Décor, Silhouette Butterfly ATC, Marvels of Nature III (tiny butterflies)

Paper: Neenah white, baby blue, black

Ink: VersaFine Onyx, Memories soft baby blue & baby pink, Distress Ink shabby shutters, Colorbox baby blue pigment ink

Accessories: Tombow markers, wide polka dot ribbon

Thanks so much for stopping by!