• Blue Ornaments

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    Best of 2011

    Terrific challenges for yesterday and today! Didn’t have a chance to do the Featured Stamper (FS244)  yesterday so I’m combining it w/ today’s Technique Challenge (TLC346). Congrats to Julie! Loved her gallery and I chose Lace Edges to case. I kept the layout and colors similar but used different images, added the ornaments and used some embossing down one side instead of the punched border.

    All images are Our Daily Bread designs. My stacked background was done by first stamping the snowflake bg w/ the sky blue ink. I stamped portions of the lg snowflake w/ sky blue & true blue pigment inks. The star like ornament was stamped w/ silver and the edges were sponged.

    The 2 ornaments & sentiment were stamped w/ the midnight ink and I added some color to the ornaments w/ markers & a silver gel pen. On the right side of the ultramarine layer, I embossed only the right side of a lg frame embossing folder.

    Originally, the crochet lace under the sentiment tag was white and it was going to stay that way. But I had a little mishap w/ an ink pad so I just colored the whole piece dk blue. Oh well. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

     

    Supplies:

    Stamps: ODBD – Holiday Ornaments, Snowflake Swirl Bg, Lg Snowflake
    Paper: white, ultramarine
    Ink: Colorbox midnight, silver, sky blue & true blue pigment inks, Memories sky blue
    Accessories: Tombow markers, Spellbinders ribbon tag trio 3 & holiday tags dies, crochet lace, silver ribbon, silver cord, silver gel pen, Sizzix Christmas 2 embossing folder

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  • 2 Birds, 1 Ball

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    Fun challenge on Splitcoast today! Make your own backgrounds (F4A85)!

    The weekend is almost here and some of you are probably planning on a friendly golf game. The only golf I’ve ever played is miniature, but there are a lot of golfers in my family. So I think this would be the perfect masculine birthday card for one of them. All except my aunt Mary, that it is, lol. She LOVES to play golf. You could use it for other occasions, but I used the Above Par Birthday Greeting on the inside.

    This golfer reminds me a little of my husband. A long time ago, in a city far, far way,  we lived in a partially finished subdivision and he was out in front practicing his swing. He used to hit balls across the several unfinished streets and pay neighbor kids to shag the balls. So he’s out there one day and my daughter and I are on the couch in the living room. All of a sudden, there is a big CRASH, my glasses fly off my face and this golf ball lands about 3 inches in front of the tv. I wish I had a picture of the look on his face. When he shanked that ball, it hit the curb across the street and bounced back through the front window of our house. I guess if he had hit it any harder, he’d have hit two birds w/ one ball. Me and the tv, lol.

    All images are DRS Designs. For my self made backgrounds, I used a little stack of pigment inks that comes in coordinating colors to stamp the Golf word repeatedly. I also used it to make the narrow woven plaid strip. Golfer Duff was colored with markers and given a little out of the box treatment.The finished card is 4.25 x 5.5.

    Thanks so much for looking!

     

     

     

    Supplies:
    stamps: Golfer Duff, Golf, Woven Plaid
    paper: white, moss
    ink: VersaFine onyx, Colorbox Pumpkin Patch Queue pigment inks
    accessories: Tombow markers, brads

    I’m also entering this is the Dolce Stamps & Cards –DSAC02  Fall colors challenge


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  • ODBD October Release Blog Hop!

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

    Happy October!

    Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs October Release Blog Hop! If you came here from Dawn’s fabulous blog, you are in the right place. If not you might want to start at the Our Daily Bread designs Blog and start from the beginning. If you get lost along the way, simply return there where the entire hop is listed with links.

    Julie Warner - justwritedesigns - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    For my long, tall red door, I colored it w/ markers and a water brush then used a Spellbinders square die and resized it to fit around my door. Since it’s not a standard or long rectangle size, this was the only way I could work it. I added a narrow dk red mat and some stickles on the pine boughs and wreath. The sentiment was stamped twice and I die cut them w/ a Ribbon Tag Trio 3, but turned and cut them in opposite directions. I used the one w/ the top curve above the door and the bottom curve below the door. The three little dots were leftovers after I used the Banners 2 for the trim and tassels. The scallop edge at the bottom is also a leftover from the same cutting. The finished card measures 4.25 x 9 and will fit nicely in a #10 business size envelope. The hardest part of this card was finding a layout for this long, tall card that would work w/ this dp! I only had this dp in a 6×6 pad so nothing was long enough. So this was my attempt to get the much shorter paper to fit a longer card! I think the little border strips really helped it out.

    From here, hop to Lorelie’s fabulous blog!

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

     

     

    Supplies:
    stamps: ODBD – Christmas Door
    paper: water color, dk red, dp (Basic Grey – Nook & Pantry collection)
    ink: VersaFine onyx
    accessories: Spellbinders squares,  banner basics 2 & ribbon tag trio 3 dies, Tombow markers, water brush, striped ribbon, Grand Calibur, stickles

     


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