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ODBD March Release!

Posted on March 1, 2014 7:58 AM by Julie 43 Comments

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs March release! And what a bee-u-tiful release it is! Flowers, bees, honeycombs, dies to match…you’re going to love these!

First, the prize details…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 March 2, 2014 at 9:00 p.m. EST to make your comments! The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on March 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

My first card features the fun Bee Happy set and Honeycomb Background. After stamping the beehive with deep lagoon chalk ink, I added a little yellow ochre with a Tombow marker. Normally I use a Copic marker, but they don’t play well with chalk inks. I did use the yellowish Copics to add color around the beehive, but I did so very carefully.I really wanted a hexagon die to mimic the shape of the honeycomb, but I don’t have one. So I die cut it with a square die then turned it 45 degrees and cut the corners to mimic a hexagon shape. The honeycomb embossed layer behind it was done by inking the embossing folder, embossing the vanilla card stock then die cutting with the square the same way. For the turquoise background, I stamped portions of the Honeycomb Background with teal, butterscotch and white pigment inks. The seam binding was colored with Copics to match.

Supplies:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Honeycomb Background, Bee Happy

Paper: vanila, turquoise dp (Authentique – Summer)

Ink: Colorbox deep lagoon chalk ink & frost white pigment inks, Adirondack butterscotch,

Accessories: ODBD Ornate Borders & Flowers dies, ODBD Zinnia dies, Copic markers, Spellbinders squares dies, seam binding, Quickutz/Lifestyle Honeycomb embossing folder set, yellow ochre Tombow marker, mini bowdabra

For my second card I’m using the beautiful Zinnia set and matching dies along with the gorgeous Blooming Garden paper collection. After stamping the large zinnia once and small zinnia twice, I colored them Copics then die cut. One of the small zinnias, I fussy cut smaller than normal then layered them together and added a little stickles in the center. The greeting was die cut with a circle die and attached to a floral die cut along with some little leaves from the Fancy Foliage set. The vertical white panel was die cut with the Daisy Chain die and a scalloped long rectangle die was added around it. A few colored gems were added for extra interest. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Zinnia

Paper: white, ODBD Blooming Garden collection paper, maroon

Ink: Colorbox black cherry chalk ink

Accessories: ODBD Zinnia dies, ODBD Fancy Foliage dies, ODBD Daisy Chain Bg die, Copic markers, Spellbinders circles & blossom 4 dies, gems

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to check out all the DT blogs for more wonderful inspiration

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

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

Enjoy the Lilacs

Posted on February 26, 2014 9:51 PM by Julie 1 Comment

For the Sketch Challenge today (SC477), I made this card. I like the easy layout and I thought it would work great with this beautiful lilac image. I colored it with Copics to match some of the beautiful new dp from ODBD called Blooming Garden collection. I also did a little search and found out that lilacs come in a range of colors, including reds. The lilacs were die cut using my out of the box technique. The long dp strip and the image were matted with a pale pink marble paper and I added a few sequins for more interest. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: North Coast Creations – Floral Sentiments 4

Paper: X-Press It, ODBD Blooming Garden collection, pale pink marbled

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Versfine onyx (greeting)

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders squares & circles dies, sequins

This entry was posted in Girly/Feminine/Mother's Day North Coast Creations Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges and tagged Copic flowers North Coast Creations Spellbinders Splitcoast

Framed Flowers

Posted on February 23, 2014 12:41 PM by Julie 3 Comments

Congrats again to Dawn, the newest Featured Stamper (FS368)! I actually started this one before my first one, but it took a bit longer to complete. While cruising Dawn’s beautiful, gallery, I noticed she uses THIS layout quite a bit…flowers framed and with a wide border around them. So I took that theme & layout but I loved the colors of THIS card so I combined them w/ the layout of the other.

This is also for the Sweet Stamps #157 Anything Goes Challenge and the SCS LOVEFEST2014J. I think this is in the Classy & Elegant category for that challenge.

This is one of those cards that the idea starts out simply enough, but as it develops, it gets more and more complicated. I’m sure that never happens to you! After stamping the image on a large white panel and coloring with Copics, I decided I really wanted to die cut it. First problem, none of my rectangle dies are big enough. Ok, so I used a larger square and resized it…not a problem, except I combined it with the out of the box techniquee, too. So it’s a little more complicated. But it worked and I liked the way the corner flowers pop against the navy blue paper. I used the same paper to back the greeting oval. I decided to repeat the daisy corners on the background and colored the lines and shaded the vines but the daisies themselves were fussy cut and added on top. Two extra daisies were added where the frames stopped on the sides, just to finish the line. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Sweet Stamps – Framed Daisies 3019, Special Day 9114

Paper: X-Press It, designer paper (Teresa Collins – Moments collection)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black

Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders squares & ribbon tags & labels 33 dies

This entry was posted in Birthday Girly/Feminine/Mother's Day Spellbinders Nestabilities Splitcoast Challenges Sweet Stamps and tagged Copic flowers out of the box resizing Splitcoast Sweet Stamps

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