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Serendipity Stamps SSCB #28 -Typeprint or Music

Posted on February 5, 2014 12:01 AM by Julie 5 Comments

Welcome to the February challenge for Serendipity Stamps! We’re switching things up a bit in 2014…The challenges will now be MONTHLY so you have longer to play. The design team will still provide inspiration twice a month (every other Wednesday), but you will have the whole month to play along! The Serendipity Challenge this month is Type Print or Sheet Music. And for the Design Team, we’ve added the twist of a food theme with the print. You can find all the details on how to play along with us at the Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog. With each challenge we always have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player. The sale of the week is 40% Off Coupon – from now through February 12th get 40% off the highest priced item in your cart when you enter the code “40fromhigh214” during checkout.

For my foodie card using type print, I chose this sweet cupcake & candle die. I die cut the cupcake a few times out of white card stock, glued two together and attached them over a fussy cut cupcake. To know where to cut the solid version, I use the die to just emboss (not cut) another cupcake, then cut around the outside edge. The third die cut version I colored w/ yellow and pink Copic markers then attached it on top for a little more dimension. Then I added some stickles on the icing for a little sparkle.

The type print is all over the paper I used. I thought this collection of Basic Grey would be perfect as every piece has type print all over it. I die cut the pink layers around the cupcake and fussy cut the black print layer. The bottom of two of the larger layers were die cut with a border die and I used some Ranger black enamel to make the black dots. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to stop by and visit all of the Design Team blogs:
Jeanne Jachna
Marybeth Lopez
Miriam Napier
Pauline Pollington
Jenny Gropp
Vickie Zimmer
Julie Warner – you are here!
Karen Amidon
Anya Schrier

Supplies:

Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Everyday Words Small

Paper: white, dp (Basic Grey – Out of Print collection)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Serendipity Cupcake & Candle die, Spellbinders labels 22 & Classic inserts 3 edge dies, Copic markers, stickles, Ranger black enamel accents

ODBD February Release!

Posted on February 1, 2014 7:58 AM by Julie 52 Comments

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs February Release! We have some gorgeous images & dies this month and you are going to love them! First the details of the prizes:

Three winners will be randomly chosen from the comments left on the designers blogs to receive a $25 Gift Certificate to the ODBD Store, to be used toward the purchase of ODBD Stamps. You have until February 2, 2013 at 9:00 p.m. EST to make your comments! The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on February 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

For my first card, I started by sponging different colors of pink inks onto white card stock. I die cut the ornate heart, the center heart and all of the smaller hearts out of it. The Valentine greeting was stamped onto the center heart and to help set it apart a little, I added a die cut ribbon tag underneath it. The white panel was embossed w/ little hearts and the leftover rectangle (used for all the heart die cuts) was used to back the embossed panel. One of the beautiful ornate borders was used for the white lacy strip beneath the hearts.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Be Mine

Paper: Neenah white

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress Inks in spun sugar, worn lipstick, festive berries, Kaliedacolor Berry Blaze

Accessories: ODBD Ornate Hearts dies, ODBD Beautiful Borders dies, Cuttlebug Love Language embossing folder, Spellbinders ribbon banner die

On my second card, I used the beautiful Heart & Soul set. I love the patriotic theme to this set and since it has a bit of distressed look to it, I used papers that seemed to carry that over. I used a combination of inks on the image before stamping it on ivory and die cutting with the matching die. The smaller center heart was done the same way. The greeting was stamped with the same combination and die cut with a pennant die. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Heart & Soul

Paper: ivory, dp (Prima – Moulin Rounge, Bo Bunny – Timepiece Moments)

Ink: Distress Inks in fired brick, aged mahogany, stormy sky, chipped sapphire

Accessories: ODBD Ornate Hearts dies, Spellbinders nested pennant die, heart brad

Please be sure to stop by and see all of the beautiful creations with these fabulous new images & dies!

Stacy * Dawn * Grace * Chris * Cathy * Sandee * Julie * Sabrina

* Lori * Wanda * Lisa * Silke * Audrey * Angie

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Altered Book Pgs & a Love Letter

Posted on January 31, 2014 2:19 PM by Julie 3 Comments

Today, I’m combining a few challenges from Splitcoast…first my card is for the Free For All (F4A206), to have LOVE somewhere on your project.

For the big LOVE letters on top, I stamped the woven plaid in a couple of directions, using a couple of pink/red colors, then stamped the stacked love image on top and fussy cut the letters.

On the 4.25 x 5.50 card front, I stamped the heart background diagonally using the light pink ink. The fun mailbox is a die cut and I used a metallic silver, a metallic flecked gray and shimmery red card stock to cut it and assembled them together. On the little letter, I stamped parts of a new greeting (Hug a Nurse, You’ll Heal Better…coming soon!) and I used a stamp positioner to add the L in place of the B in Better to create the word Letter. The white scallop and narrow red frames were left overs and I stacked them and arranged the LOVE on top and the mailbox thru the frames.

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Stacked Love, Woven Plaid, Interlocking Heart Background

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, love letter & angel pink, Colorbox rouge & warm red chalk inks

Paper: white, shimmer red, metallic silver, metallic flecked gray

Accessories: Quickutz mailbox die, Spellbinders scallop rectangle & rectangles dies

For a couple of the following Altered Book pages, this first one is for the MIX53 challenge, Layers.

These are all pages from an altered book I made a while back for my sister’s birthday. Since we were born and raised in Texas, I chose to start with the book “Texas” by James Michener. I used quite a bit of text from it, but also a ton of pictures from magazines, especially Texas Monthly, clip art and stamps from a whole bunch of companies. I started by removing some pages and gluing other pages together for stability, then used a variety of colors of acrylic paints to base coat the pages. Then I would use a variety of ink colors and stamped images to create the backgrounds. Then the collage work started with all of the images. This is just a few of the pages…the entire book is around 45-50 double pages with all manner of pockets, fold outs, telescoping images, tags and pull outs. Some tell the history of Texas, some are on individual cities and regions of Texas..some tell about personal family history & experiences, recipes, music & some are just for fun.

I love all the fun images on this page..the only thing that always bothered me is the misspelling of “y’all” on the left page. I cut this out for the size, went ahead and used it, but it still bothers me. I guess the typist just had her contractions confused, since as every Texan knows, y’all is “you all” and the apostrophe goes after the y. And just to be clear, “y’all” is singular, “all y’all” is plural, lol.

And this page is also for the Ways to Use It (WT464), Horses as well as the Mix53.
This is a group of pages (see the angle cuts on the right?) that have a bunch of recipes and pictures of Tex-Mex food and restaurants.

This is a couple of fun stories about Texas Rangers and since we have an ancestor who was a Ranger, it was fun to include it.

Some Texas wildflowers, state bird and postage stamps.

Another page with pretty pictures but I don’t know if you can still buy a little piece of Texas as this ad says.

And here we have some Texas music! Is there anything better? I’ve been to the Kerrville Folk Festival and it was always fabulous! And just interesting to me, but one of my cousins lived down the street from one of the ZZ Top members (I won’t say which, lol) and Buddy Holly was a cousin of my dad’s (so I guess he was cousin too) and they were born on the same day, same year. How cool!

And this is the cover. Like I mentioned, these are just a few pages, but I hope you enjoyed them!
Thanks so much for stopping by!

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28