you're amazing....

Hello friends!!  A quick post with a card I made for the current JUGs challenge that uses the current Deconstructed sketch.   Haven't done a JUGs challenge in ages!  Not entirely sure why other than by the time I get around to thinking about doing the challenge it is over!   But this time I was determined that I would get something made before the challenge ended.  The challenge this week is to make a project based on a beautiful inspiration photo.  I was pretty literal in my intrepretation, I think.

Anywhoo... for my card I used the Taylored Expressions set "Make it Amazing" and the card stock and papers are from one of my Taylored Expression Key Ingredients kit (I don't remember which month).  That particular kit came with a pad of 6x6 papers from Echo Park, the This & That line.  The butterfly was stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black, colored with Copic markers and die cut using the matching TE butterfly die.  The little twiggy branch was also stamped and die cut using the matching TE die.  The zig zag piece was die cut using a die from My Favorite Things.   I finished off the butterfly by adding a bit of Diamond Stickles to the body and wings.

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Bazzill smooth cream, textured coral and green; PP:  Echo Park; Stamps:  Taylored Expressions; Ink:  Memento  & Stampin Up!; Copic Markers; Dies:  Taylored Expressions & My Favorite Things.

CCC #4.... Take Flight

Hello friends!!  Tuesday is here and that means it is time for a brand new CASology challenge!!  Yay!!  This week's cue word is "bird" and you can find all the details about the challenge here.

This week I decided to look for a sketch to help me get my card completed.  If you ever get stuck for ideas when you are trying to create your CAS style card, don't forget about sketches.   Clean and Simple is a great resource to turn to for inspiration, as well as Retro Sketches.   It is also possible to "CAS-ify" more complex sketches that you might come across.  Simply spend a little bit of time deconstructing the sketch and figuring out ways you can use your stamps or other supplies (like twine) to replaces those layers.    I chose to use the current sketch from Retro Sketches for my card as it is a great example of a CAS sketch.  

The papers I used are from a favorite 6x6 pad from Echo Park called Hello, Summer.  One of the papers has this fun cloud pattern on it and thankfully I still had a sheet of it that I could use for my card.  The little bird was created using my Stampin Up! bird punch.  The body was punched from some pink Bazzill cardstock and the wing from a scrap of yellow gingham paper.  I brought all the colors together by creating my little ribbon piece using some yellow ribbon, a blue button and pink baker's twine.  

Thanks for stopping by.... make sure you check out the cards from the rest of the design team:
Melissa, Tracey, Jen, Ardyth and this week's guest designer, Lindsey!   Can't wait to see what you come up with using this week's cue word!

Live in the....

sunshine!  Hello, friends!  Hope you are having a wonderful weekend.  We haven't had alot of sunshine this weekend, but that's okay with me.  I like it when things cool down a bit. I think many of my fellow LIMettes who live in the UK are finally getting some sunshine, though.  Just in time for the Olympics!  I had a chance to make a couple of cards one of which I'm going to share right now.   This card is for the current Less is More challenge, as well as the current Dynamic Duos challenge (Early Espresso & Crumb Cake).   This week Chrissie and Mandi provide us with a lovely CAS sketch to work with.

I went with a white card base and then added a piece of Crumb Cake that I stamped with an image from the Stampin Up! SAB set Fresh Vintage using Early Espresso ink.  I also added a little butterfly from another Stampin Up! SAB set Elementary Elegance.  Some really sweet daisy trim that I purchased from the Funkie Junkie's Zibbits store was added to the bottom of the stamped piece along with some Crumb Cake seam binding.   The sentiment (also from SU! - Pursuit of Happiness) was stamped using Early Espresso to finish everything off.   I think I will putting this into the current Sunday Share over at Frilly & Funkie.  I know I have said this before, but if you have never checked out the Funkie Junkie's Zibbits store you really should.  Linda has some really lovely items. 

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & SU! Crumb Cake; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Ink:  Stampin Up!; Trim:  Funkie Junkie; Seam Binding:  Stampin Up!

the earth laughs....

Hello, again.... its Friday evening for me as I type this post.  Have a quick card that I made using this week's ColourQ combo (Brilliant Blue, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Regal Rose and white) and the current ISpy sketch. 

I used a Stampin Up! set called Fabulous Florets.  When I saw the ColourQ combo this set is actually what first came to mind.   The ISpy sketch this week is super clean and simple and absolutely perfect for the Fabulous Florets set.    White strip was trimmed to fit the card base and then stamped with the stem using Kiwi Kiss.  The flower was stamped using Memento Danube Blue, trimmed out and adhered to the stem using foam dimensionals.  A bit of Regal Rose grosgrain ribbon was then tied around the piece and it was adhered to the card base.  Finished off the card with the sentiment stamped in Baja Breeze.  I really like this ISpy sketch.  I think you will be seeing me use this one again in the very near future!

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Stampin Up!; Inks:  Stampin Up! & Memento; Ribbon:  Stampin Up!

Super Duper.....

Hello and happy Friday, friends!! Yesterday I took a little trip to my local Joann's to see if they had anything new and exciting and to get that papercrafting necessity.... adhesive.   As I cruised the aisles I noticed that they had restocked their supply of two lines of BasicGrey that are apparently exclusive to Joanns:  Serendipity and Shine On.  And to make it even better all the items were on sale for 30% off!  So... I scooped up a 6x6 pad from each line and a package of these cute little banners.  When I got home I used my new purchases to make this fun little card using a sketch from the BasicGrey blog.

The card base is PTI's kraft  and the stamp is from the Hero Art/BasicGrey set "Life is Fun".   I finished everything off with some PTI Summer Sunrise ribbon and Rustic Cream twine.  I'm going to pop this into the current CASE Study challenge as I have created a little grouping of items with the banners and bow and there is a teeny tiny bird on one of the banners.  I do admit that this is a very loose CASE of Kristii Lockhart's lovely card!  Oh... and this will be going into the "Sunday Share" at Frilly & Funkie because I purchased that fun little doily border is a recent purchase from Linda's Zibbets store.

Thanks for stopping by.....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft; PP:  BasicGrey Shine On; Banners:  BasicGrey; Ribbon & Twine:  PTI; Doily Border:  The Funkie Junkie

No Charm Equal....

Hello, friends!!   Hope your week has been going well.  We have been enjoying some absolutely gorgeous weather here in Western Washington!   So... the boys and I have been spending as much time outdoors doing things as we can.  But, the unintended side effect of getting out and doing things is a complete and utter lack of desire to do any papercrafting.  However, I was able to push myself and make a card for the current CR84FN challenge (one of my most favorite challenges!).   I had also wanted to get something done using Chupa's current Sketchbook Saturday sketch and so I combined the two.

Lately I have been reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (can't believe it has taken me this long to finally get a copy of the book!).  It is my absolute favorite movie (the A&E version with Colin Firth) and when PTI came out with the Simply Jane stamp and die set I had to have it.  At the same time I purchased the Dearest Jane paper pack.   A challenge of sorts that I had recently seen asked for projects based on your favorite movie and it sparked me to use all these items to make this card.  The inks are all Stampin Up! (Cameo Coral, Crumb Cake & Chocolate Chip) as is the wide striped ribbon.   The card is not at all fussy and rather classic in design and I absolutely love how it turned out!
Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraf & vintage cream; Stampin Up! Cameo Coral; PP:  PTI Dearest Jane; Stamps:  PTI Simply Jane; Inks:  Stampin Up!; Ribbon:  Stampin Up!; Pearls:  KaiserCraft

CCC #3..... I'm Berry Sorry

{for my Shining the Light post, scroll down or click here}

Hello.... I'm back with my post for this week's CASology challenge.  Once, again, the design team was blown away by the response to last week's challenge!   You have no idea how excited we all are that everyone is enjoying this new challenge!! 

The cue word this week is "fruit". You can find out all the details of the challenge here.  This one was a bit of a tough one for me because I don't own many fruit stamps.  But I do have the PTI Fruit Fusion Berry stamp set and matching die.   I used that set along with one of dies from the PTI Half & Half  for my little banner. 

As I was putting my card together I had originally thought I would use a red card base, but as things started coming togther I realized that it wasn't the right way to go.  So, I opted instead for a kraft card base and I'm glad that I did.  I love the way the white banner just pops against the kraft card.  Once, again, I left alot of open or "white" space, one of the hallmarks of a CAS card.  And remember, "white space" doesn't necessarily have to be white.   If leaving alot of white space scares you at first its okay to add a little something like a few scorelines (as I did) or a few well placed pearls or rhinestones.   To help you out with putting together a CAS style card, Melissa put together a little checklist. 

Thanks for stopping by.... make sure you check out the card from the rest of the design team: 
Melissa, Tracey, Jen, Ardyth and this week's guest designer, Jenny!  I look forward to what you create using this week's cue word!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & kraft; Stamps:  PTI Fruit Fusion Berry; Dies:  PTI Berry die & Half & Half dies; Twine:  The Twinery; Ink:  SU! Cherry Cobbler & Wild Wasabi

ODBDSLC117.... A Sketch!!

Hello, friends!!  It's Tuesday and that means it's time for another fubulous ODBD Shining the Light challenge!   This week the challenge team is asking you to make your project using a super fun sketch.   This challenge will be running for two weeks so you will have lots of time to get those cards done!!    This is also the last week with our super amazing guest designer, Sherry!  I have been so completely wow'd by her absolutely stunning projects and I'm so sad to see her go!!

I went with a bright and sunny color palette this week and used a lovely Mother Teresa quote from the  ODBD set "Let Us Begin".  This card was so much fun to make for several reasons.  One reason is that I finally got to use a really fun new bow die set that I bought from Li'l Inker Designs.  I have had the dies for several months, but hadn't found a project that I could use them on.... until the SLC sketch.  The pattern paper is from the SU! dp pack "Beyond the Garden".  I die cut the bow and assembled it with a slight modification that involved cutting the "tails" piece in half so that I could position the tails the way you see them on the card.  Once assembled a orange button was added to the center of the bow.  The flower was made by inking some Prima canvas resist flowers with Rangers Squeezed Lemonade and Spiced Marmalade inks, spritzing them with Perfect Pearl pearl mist and then shaping them.  Once the flowers dried I shaped them a bit more and assembled my flower adding a yellow flower button to the center.  

As always, we will be giving out a prize, a $15.00 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, August 5th at 8:00 pm EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced on Tuesday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Design images and sentiments on your projects, we would definitely love to see them if you have them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use ODBD stamps we will be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, you must use ODBD stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, August 5th at 8:00 pm EST. If you upload to Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword: ODBDSLC117. When creating your post on your blog, please include a direct link to the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, Sabrina and this month's guest designer, Sherry! To join in the fun, please click here.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Lemon Tart & white; DP:  Stampin Up!; Stamps:  ODBD Let Us Begin; Ink:  Memento Tangelo; Dies:  Spellbinders plain and scalloped rectangles, Li'l Inker Designs bow dies; Flowers:  Prima Canvas Resist flowers; button:  unknown; ribbon:  PTI Lemon Tart twill

sew....

Hello friends!! Happy Sunday!  Here with my card for Less is More, as well as Retro Sketches.  Started this one last night, but didn't get it finished until this morning and wasn't even sure I really wanted to finish it.  However, I decided to emboss the card base using my PTI Quatrefoil Cover Plate and that did the trick for me, sort of....  Anyway, it is what it is.  The tag is a bit busy for a LIM challenge, but the rest of the card is clean and simple so hopefully it will past muster with the Divas!

The theme this week at Less is More is sewing.  So you can sew on your card or use sewing themed images.  I went with sewing themed images.  One because I don't own a sewing machine... although I have considered getting a small one just for sewing on cards and two, because I was rather tired last night and didn't feel like doing any hand-stitching on the card.  The images are from the SU! set Sew Suite and the sentiment from the Hero Arts set Sew Stylish.  The tag was die cut using my ODBD tag die.  The papers are also from SU!, the Sweet Stitches collection.  I stamped the dress form and pin cushion on the tag and then again on patterned paper, trimmed them out and adhered them to the tag.  the sewing machine was stamped on patterned paper, trimmed out and popped up over top of the dress form and pin cushion.   I added the buttons because that white space at the top of the tag looked just a wee bit too empty for me. 

Thanks for stopping by..... a big shout out goes to my CASology teamie, Tracey!!  She is guesting over at Retro Sketches!!  The layout for this week's sketch is based on one of her fabby cards!!  Woo hooo... YAY Tracey!!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  SU! & Hero Arts; Ink:  Memento; PP:  SU!; Buttons:  PTI; Ribbon:  PTI; Twine:  Twinery

what's the buzz???

Hello, friends!!  Once again, the week is flying by and the weekend is almost here!!  Have a little card that I made for a couple of challenges:  Retro Sketches and ColourQ.  

Once, again, I adhered very closely to the sketch.  Mainly because I have never made a card using hexagon shapes which are all the rage right now and I really wanted to use my The Craft's Meow Thanks Bee to Thee set which has hexagons in it.   I think the card is pretty self-explanatory.  I stamped the hexagon images, trimmed them out and then arranged them as you see.  The little bee from the set was stamped three times, trimmed out and Black Diamond stickles added to the wings.  Some kraft colored bakers twine was tied in a bow, adhered to the hexagons and then I added the bees. 

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white and red; SU! crumb cake; Stamps:  The Craft's Meow; Ink:  SU! Riding Hood Red, Pear Pizzazz; Memento Tuxedo Black; Punch:  SU!; Corner punch:  Fiskars

Don't Worry... Be Happy!!

{for my Shining the Light post, please scroll down or click here)

Hello!!  I'm back and this time I have a card for the 2nd CASology challenge!  Yay!!!  Wow the design team was completely blown away by the response to the first CASology challenge and I must say that each and every person who played along really hit it out of the park!!    Okay, enough chit chat from me... on to this week's cue word:

All the details regarding this week's challenge can be found here.  Now, on to my card...

When I saw this week's cue word I knew right way just what I wanted to do for my card.  But I had one small problem.  What I wanted to do required me to use a set of alphabet dies to create the word "happy".  Unfortunately, I don't own a set of alphabet dies.... yet!   I thought I could use one of the Cricut cartridges I had to cut the letters, but none of the alphabets were exactly what I was looking for.  What to do... what to do?   Well, what I did was dig through all of my supplies and I came up with these sheets of chipboard alphabets in a fun shade of bright green.  Problem solved!    I accented the word with a little bee that I stamped on some bright yellow patterned paper and then trimmed out. 

Thanks for stopping by... please check out amazing projects that the rest of the design team has for you: Melissa, Tracey, Jen and Ardyth and I look forward to what you create using this week's cue word!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Bazzill bright green & PTI white; Chipboard letters:  Creating Keepsakes; Stamps:  Hero Arts:  Be Happy; Ink:  Tuxedo Black

ODBDSLC116.... I Have Sunshine... on a Cloudy Day!

Hello, friends!!  Its Tuesday and time for another ODBD Shining the Light challenge!  This week the challenge team and our super fabulous guest designer, Sherry, are challenging you to make your project using clouds and/or sunshine.  I must admit when I saw what the challenge was going to be I was a bit worried that I was going to have a hard time coming up with something.  Then I took a look through my huge amount of supplies and came across a pad of papers from Echo Park called Hello, Summer.  And there inside that little pad of paper was exactly what I was looking for... paper with clouds and suns!   Yipeee!!  I was saved!   I just love the super cute and summery papers to be found inside the Hello, Summer 6x6 pad!   The layout for my card comes from this month's Sketch for You To Try and so I will be linking my card up to that challenge, as well.  I used the wonderful Helen Keller quote from the ODBD Quote Collection 1 set for the focal point of the card. 

As always, we will be giving out a prize, a $15.00 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, July 22nd at 8:00 pm EST.  One random winner will be chosen and announced on Tuesday.   While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Design images and sentiments on your projects, we would definitely love to see them if you have them!!  As a way of recognizing those who do use ODBD stamps we will be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award.  In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, you must use ODBD stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, July 22nd at 8:00 pm EST.  If you upload to Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword:  ODBDSLC116.  When creating your post on your blog, please include a direct link to the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by... please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, Sabrina and this month's guest designer, Sherry! To join in the fun, please click here.

And make sure that you check out the CHA special that is running all this week at the ODBD store.  You can find all the details here.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Bazzill light blue and green; Stamps:  ODBD Quote Col. 1; Dies:  Spellbinders plain circle dies; papers:  Echo Park Hello, Sunshine; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Embellishments:  Queen & Co. Goosebumps 

simply delightful...

Hello friends!  The weekend is ending and it is the middle of July!! Where oh where is the time going?  I have a card today for two challenges:  TCM's July sketch challenge and CR84FN's current color challenge (yellow, red and neutrals).   I'm pleased with the fact that I was able to get my TCM card done so early... usually I'm getting it done only days before the challenge closes.

I recently purchased some lovely items from the Funkie Junkie and one of the items was a length of sweet red ruffled gingham trim.   I just had to make something with it right away and the above mentioned challenges were the perfect opportunity.   I purchased some other lovely trims from Linda and can't wait to use them.   If you haven't ever checked out Linda's store, you really should.  She has some really lovely items for sale.   I followed the sketch fairly closely except that I did not add the sentiment flag as shown in the sketch.  I felt I had too much going on at the bottom of the card and thought simply stamping the sentiment on the card front worked much better.  I added some Buttercup Stickles to the center of the flower, but I now think that might of not been the best idea.  I will also be popping this into the current Sunday Share at Frilly & Funkie as I purchased the gingham trim from the Funkie Junkie store. 

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Crumb Cake; PP:  My Mind's Eye Dilly Dally; Stamps:  The Craft's Meow Simply Delightful & Beautiful Spring; Ribbon:  Yellow Grosgrain:  Stampin Up!; red ruffle trim; Pins:  unknown; Dies:  Spellbinders plain & scalloped oval dies; Ink:  Memento Dandelion & Tuxedo Black

Remembering...

Hello!  Well the pendulum has swung back in the opposite direction and I have a little CAS card to share with you, as well as a very CAS look to my blog.  I was getting a bit bored with the look of my blog and decided to go simple for awhile.   The challenge this week at Less is More is to make a one layer card and to use 3 of something on your card.  That could be three stamps, three colors, etc.   So many options for this challenge that I really couldn't decide what direction to go in.  I dragged out several different stamp sets and even some patterned paper, but nothing was gelling for me.  So I went back to take another look at my stamps and I saw my ODBD set Loving Memories.  The set was part of this month's ODBD release and has this beautiful calla lily image and five different sentiments.



As I looked at the set I remembered a card I had made a week or so ago for a color challenge on Splitcoaststampers using this set and how much I loved the way that card turned out (I have included a small photo of the original).  I decided to use the set for this card keeping the color combo, but taking it down to a one layer card.  So, my three items are the three flowers on the calla lily, three words in the sentiment and three rhinestones.   The first card is much prettier (in my honest opinion), but I do really like how this new version turned out.   Thought I would pass along that ODBD is have a sale running from the 16th through 20th of July.  Spend $100-$149.00 and you can save %10 on your oder (use code CHA10); spend $150-199.00 and you can save %15 on your order (use code CHA15) and on orders over $200.00 you can save 25% (use code CHA25).  I hope you will check it out!!

Finally I must say a very big thank you to Chrissie and Mandi for picking me as the over winner at Less is More for the month of June!   I can't tell you have excited and honored I was to see that they had picked me!!   Thank you so much, ladies!!
Thanks for stopping by...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  ODBD; Inks:  Stampin! Up!  Pear Pizzazz & Night of Navy; SU! rhinestones

Love is a fruit...

Hello, friends!!  Today I have a card that is not clean and simple, but more on the shabby chic side of things.  I love moving between those two styles of cardmaking (and you may just see me combine the two!).  CAS is my preferred style, but I do creating cards with multiple layers, lace, and embellishments.    My card is for the current Timeless Tuesday challenge to put the focus on your sentiment.   The layout is from the current Deconstructed Sketch. 

I used the Flourishes set "Mother's Words of Wisdom" and some sweet papers from Websters Pages (Western Romance).   Not much to say... all the cardstock and papers were distressed with my distressing tool.  The sentiment was stamped on patterned paper using Vintage Sepia ink and then punch out with an SU! tag punch.  I created the mat by adhering the tag to some kraft cardstock and then trimming it out.   The lace and twine are from May Arts and the flowers are from Prima. 

Thanks for stopping by... hope to be back later with my Less is More card.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Rustic Cream and Kraft; Stamps:  Flourishes:  PP:  Websters Page; Roses:  Prima; Twine & Lace:  May Arts; Punch: SU!; Ink:  Vintage Sepia

follow your dreams....

Hello friends!!  Wow... the weekend is almost here!  It is so exciting to see so many of you playing along with the first CASology challenge!  Everyone is knocking my socks off with their entries!!   Today I have a card I made for a couple of challenges that I like to do when I can get the chance.  I have been dialing back my participation in various challenges because I just don't have the time and I have way too many cards.  But I just couldn't pass up the happy and bright color combo over at ColourQ.  I also really liked the current Retro Sketches sketch and decided to combine the two.  I'm just squeaking this in for Retro Sketches as the challenge closes in a few hours!

I got out a couple of seriously neglected PTI stamp sets, Botanical Silhouettes and Fillable Frames 3 (in fact sadly all of my PTI sets are very neglected!), along with the bright and sunny designer paper from the Stampin Up! pack Beyond the Garden.  I also got out one of my favorite border punches, Upper Crust, and used it on the card, as well.  The notebook die is from PTI.   I was very literal in my interpretation of the sketch except that I left off the buttons and twine and used just three little green rhinestones.  I quite like how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI; DP:  SU!; Stamps:  PTI; Inks:  SU! More Mustard, Choc. Chip & Pear Pizzazz; Gems:  Hero Arts; Punch Fiskars

Here Comes The Sun.... And the Very First CASology Challenge!!

{For my Shining the Light post please scroll down or click here}

Hello, again!!!  I'm back with my card for the very first CASology challenge!!  YAY!!!  I can't tell you how excited I was when Melissa asked me to be a part of the first design team for CASology.   So here we go with the very first challenge!!   This is how it will work:

1. Every Tuesday, a cue card will be posted containing a single word.

2. Take that word and run with it! Interpret it however you'd like! Just be sure and keep things clean and simple!

3. Deadline is Sunday at noon (CST) to link up your project on the challenge blog. Be sure to provide a link to the CASology blog within your blog post!

4. Feel free to combine this challenge with other challenges.

A Winner and 4 Honorable Mentions will be announced Monday!

detail shot 

For my card I decided to keep things really, really clean and really, really simple.  When I saw the cue card for the first challenge I immediately thought of my Hero Arts Bold Pop Design set because the largest flower in the set could double very nicely as a sun.   I stamped the flower using Memento Dandelion ink and then die cut it using the die that matches the stamp.  A regular A2 size card base was made from white cardstock and then a quarter of an inch of cut off one end.  This allowed me to position the sun as I did, but still giving me an A2 size card.  I cut a piece of white cardstock to fit the card front and then punched out a semi-circle with a 1 3/4" circle punch.  The piece was then embossed using a Spellbinders Impressabilities template to give me the subtle embossed look I wanted (it is so subtle it doesn't hard show in my main photo so I took a detail photo so you could see it).  The sentiment (from a Taylored Expressions set Delightful Day) was stamped on white cardstock and then punched out using a 1 1/4" punch.  The embossed piece was adhered 1/16" foam dimensionals and then the sun was adhered using a 1/8" foam dimensional.

Thanks for stopping by... please check out amazing projects that the rest of the design team has for you:  Melissa, Tracey, Jen and Ardyth and I look forward to seeing your CAS creations!!

ODBDSLC115...Doing Some Distressing

Hello, friends!!  Its Tuesday and that means time for a brand new Shining the Light challenge!!   Are you liking the new day and time for the challenge?  I know I am although it was a bit strange this past Saturday when I didn't have to post.  Anywhoo... the challenge this week is to use tearing or distressing on your project.

For my card I decided to do distressing and tearing of my patterned paper, as well as the cardstock.  I used the ODBD set Sweet Friendship.  The papers are from a fun Stampin Up! paper pack called Attic Boutique.  All the papers have a vintage look for them which make them perfect for distressing.  The doily was die cut using a Stampin Up!/Sizzix doily die.  The ovals were die cut using Spellbinders plain and scalloped edge dies.  The flowers are various Prima flowers.   All the edges of the paper were distressed using my handy distressing tool form Close to My Heart.  I liked the tool so much I have two of them.  I also included some carefully placed tears and curled edges to finish off the card.

As always, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, July 15th at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced on Tuesday. 

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants  for the  Shining the Light Award . In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, July 15th at 8 pm. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC115.  When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

I'm going to be putting this into this week's Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge to follow a recipe.  The devotional is based on Jeremiah 29:11 my very favorite Bible verse!  

Thanks for stopping by...  please take some time to check out the beautiful projects created by my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Kathy, Chris, Sabrina and this month's guest designer, Sherry! To join in the fun, please click here.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream; PP:  Stampin Up!; Stamps:  ODBD; Ink:  Hero Arts Latte Chalk  ink; Dies:  Sizzix & Spellbinders; Flowers:  Prima

Golden Flower....

Hello friends!!  Hope your weekend is going well.  Feels like I haven't posted in ages even though it has only been a few days!   Anywhoo... got my card for this week's Less is More challenge finished this morning.  The challenge this week is a color challenge and Chrissie and Mandi have requested that we use gold.  So... gold isn't a color I use that often.  I don't really like gold embossing powder and I have no gold cardstock.  It is just one of those things... I love the look when others use gold on their projects, but when I try it I'm always a bit disappointed with the results.  However, that changed when I picked up a pad of Tsukineko's Delicata GoldenGlitz ink.  It is the first gold ink that I truly like.  The color is so rich and well... golden!

I'm also linking this up to Chupa's current Sketchbook Saturday sketch as it was perfect for the LIM challenge.  I stamped the Classic Tea Flower stamp using GoldenGlitz ink on Rustic Cream cardstock and then trimmed it out.  The two little butterflies are from the Hero Arts/Sizzix set Antique Flowers & Butterflies and they were also stamped using GoldenGlitz and then die cut using the matching die.   The text strip is from the PTI set Background Basics Text Style and it was stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  After adhering the images to the cardstock piece I inked the edges with additional GoldenGlitz ink and then adhered the piece to the card base.  As I also added the bit of text I will link this up to CAS-ual Fridays.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget the first challenge for CASology will be this Tuesday, July 10th.  I hope you will join us!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Rustic Cream; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Inks:  Tsukineko; Dies:  Sizzix

ODBD For the Love of ..... Christmas!

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Design's Alumni Team's bi-monthly For the Love Blog Hop. This week the Alumni team along with some of the ODBD designers are featuring a hop For the Love of ODBD Christmas sets! Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, check the ODBD blog for full list of links. One of the post is a hop hot spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $15 ODBD store gift certificate. So, all you have to do is hop along and see all the creations and leave a little love! You have until Wednesday, July 18th at 6 pm. Enjoy all the festive inspiration using For the Love of ODBD Christmas sets!

I hope everyone here in the US had a lovely 4th of July holiday!  I know we did (well... maybe not the dog or the cat... they aren't big on fireworks!).  If you got here from the blog of the supremely talented Sabrina then you are on the right track!  For the Alumni hop I'm sharing tags that I made using the following ODBD sets:  Holly Tag, Mistletoe Tag & Poinsettia Tag.  The great thing about the ODBD tag sets is that there is an matching ODBD tag die that makes creating your tags a breeze!  I stamped each tag image using Memento's Tuxedo Black ink and then colored the tags with Copic markers.  A Sakura Gelly Roll glitter pen was used to add a bit of sparkle to the tags.   The mat for each tag was created by placing the tag die on cardstock, tracing around the die and then trimming it out.  Each tag was finished with a sentiment and some coordinating ribbon and twine. 

You next stop is the blog of the amazingly talented and super sweet Grace.  Thanks for stopping by....


Supplies:  Cardstock: PTI Rustic Cream; SU! Old Olive and red; Inks:  Memento Tuxedo Black & SU! Riding Hood Red & Old Olive; Stamps:  ODBD; Dies:  ODBD & Spellbinders; Ribbon:  Stampin Up!; Twine:  PTI;