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Green is Lucky!

Posted on March 12, 2015 9:34 AM by Julie 3 Comments

Today’s Ways to Use It Challenge (WT522) is to include something “Lucky” for yourself on your project. For me, green is it! And little green gems & a shamrock are icing on the lucky cake!

On my lucky St. Pat’s Day card, I stamped the frame, colored it w/ Copics, die cut it using the ODBD Vintage Label dies, then used a Copic to edge it w/ yellow. The greeting was done the same way on a smaller label die & popped up a bit on top of the frame. After die cutting al the layers w/ the matting basics dies, I used a bracket border to cut the lower edges. Somehow I cut my card to the wrong size so I had quite a bit of white space at the bottom. To compensate, I used one of the inset dies from the brackets and added a green strip behind it. I guess that was lucky, too. Love it when it looks like it was in the original plan all along!

The finished card is somewhere in the neighborhood of 5.50 x 4.0 & these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a lucky day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – St. Patrick’s Day

Paper: Neenah white, X-Press It white, dp (Basic Grey – Lauderdale)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: ODBD Vintage Labels die, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, Bracket border dies, Copic markers, gems

Serendipity SSCB#41 – Spring Fever!

Posted on March 4, 2015 12:00 AM by Julie 9 Comments

Welcome to the March Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is Spring Fever! You can get all the details over on the Serendipity Challenge Blog. For the Design Team, we have the added challenge of making a St. Patrick’s Day card. And as always, we have a have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

My card today is a little simpler than normal and the finished project has very little in common with my original idea. Everything except the little green owl with hat was pretty much reworked. Sometimes you gotta go where you gotta go. After I colored & fussy cut the little owl, I made a hat for him using a couple of punches. For the hat, I used a long neck vase punch, then cut off the vase part. Another cut was made below the curve & I turned the strip around to make a hat brim and added a yellow strip for the band. A clover punch was used for the 4 leaf clover addition.

I added a big yellow sun/moon behind the owl, the greeting in the lower right and a couple of die cut corners to balance things out. These are the Copics I used.

And here’s a look at the inside with a leftover frame and a second owl I fussy cut. He was a test drive for the colors on the other owl and I didn’t want him to be left out 🙂

Please be sure to stop by and comment on all the DT blogs to increase your chances to win! And we have a special Guest Designer this month…my friend, Karen Dunbrook! You’re going to love her card!

Marybeth Lopez
Miriam Napier
Vickie Zimmer
Jeanne Jachna
Jenny Gropp
Julie Warner (you are here)
Karen Amidon

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Retro Owl, Happy St. Pat’s Greeting, Sending Lots of Love (inside)

Paper: Neenah white, dp (MME)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress Ink mown grass (inside)

Accessories: Serendipity Floral Frame & Embellishment die (corners), Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, circle dies, Copic markers, clover punch, vase punch (for hat)

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ODBD March Release!

Posted on March 1, 2015 7:58 AM by Julie 40 Comments

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs March Release! We have some beautiful St. Patrick’s Day & Easter images & dies for you this month!

Prize Information: –

Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 gift certificate to the ODBD Store, to be used toward the purchase of ODBD Stamps found in the “stamps column” of the website just for commenting on the Design Team cards! You have until March 2, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. EST to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win! The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on March 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

For my first project, I’m using the fabulous new St. Patrick’s Day set. I was in a real gold embossing mood, and I used a lot of gold embossing powder on both of my cards. But I just love gold embossing with the spring greens on a St. Patrick’s Day card. Since as a general rule, embossing powder & Copics don’t play together well, I stamped the frame first with Memento cantaloupe ink, figuring that the color would blend in with the gold. I added the greens in the frame with Copics, then used a stamp positioner to line up the frame again, stamp it with gold pigment ink, then heat embossed w/ the gold powder. The Irish Blessing was gold embossed inside the frame, die cut, then added to a green fancy die cut.

For the largest green & gold layer, I gold embossed the Vintage Pattern Mini 2 then sponged on two green inks & die cut w/ the largest of the Flourished Star Pattern dies. The metallic gold rectangle was die cut using the same die, but I had to resize it to make it smaller. I also did the clover image the same way as the frame, cut it the added it under the frame. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used (the violets were used on the clover flowers, but are very hard to see).

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – St. Patrick’s Day, Clover, Vintage Pattern Mini 2

Paper: Neenah white, metallic brushed gold, textured green

Ink: Memento cantaloupe, Encore ultimate metallic gold pigment, Kaleidacolor fresh greens (for sponging the lg background)

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star pattern die, Spellbinders labels 4 & gold labels 4 dies, gold detail embossing powder, Copic markers, Candi dots, Stamp-a-ma-jig

My second card uses several new ODBD sets…Floral Egg, Blessed Easter & Basket of Blessings sets. I started by making a large water color background with Twinkling H2O’s in pastel colors. It’s almost impossible to capture the subtle shimmer, but it adds a lot in real life. I then gold embossed the Floral Egg & smaller eggs; die cut the smaller eggs & fussy cut the large egg. The grass was die cut using the fabulous Grass Border die and I made a frame out of the left over background & gold embossed the greeting on it.

The pink gingham (from the gorgeous new ODBD Shabby Rose paper collection) was die cut using the Flourished Star Pattern die (do you think I LOVE this die?) & the remaining twinkling background was added underneath. I used some leftover eggs and pieces for the inside.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs –Floral Egg, Blessed Easter, Basket of Blessings

Paper: Neenah white, dp (ODBD Shabby Rose paper collection)

Ink: Encore ultimate metallic gold pigment

Accessories: ODBD Flourished Star pattern, Grass Border, Eggs dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, petite oval dies, gold detail embossing powder, Twinkling H2O paints

Please be sure to visit all of the DT blogs & comment to increase your chances of winning!

Julie * Cathy * Lori * Dawn * Sandee * Grace *

Angie * Lisa * Sabrina * Silke * Chris *

Wanda * Audrey

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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