Celebrating 10 Years With Our Daily Bread Designs!

I am pleased to take part in the 10th Anniversary Celebration with Our Daily Bread designs! The Breadbasket {aka Design Team gals} Reunion includes many past designers for ODBD. I was the Design Team Coordinator from 2008-2009. Thank you, Kelley, and Lisa, for asking me to be a part of the special celebration! 

Today I am sharing cards made with the new Filigree Circles and God Verses 2. You can see the entire new release, and all of the amazing projects from other past designers on the ODBD blog. 

I chose the Blooming Garden Collection to use for its lovely floral (and bee!) patterns. This is my favorite from the collection.

Aren't those little flowers precious? And the background is beautiful. I have a thing for bees too.

I embossed my sentiment from God Verses 2 using Gold Encore Ink, and then Gold Detail Embossing Powder. I cut one circle from the deep purple paper, and then another from vellum. I hand cut the banner behind the sentiment. This card is about 5 inches square. 

My second card is larger, as I wanted to use the entire patterned paper design. It is a full 6 inches square. I embossed this sentiment using VersaMark Onyx Black and Clear Embossing Powder. I added black enamel dots around the base of the back circle and along the middle panel for embellishment. 

Here are the complete sets of each of the dies and stamps that I used:

Be sure to check out the ODBD Blog for great projects, the complete release, AND a coupon good through the end of March!
Happy 10th Anniversary!

Challenges:
Fashionable Stamping - Springtime
Crafter's Castle - Anything Goes+ optional: Share Your Favorite Technique (heat embossing)
Brown Sugar – Spring or Easter

Black and Blue

I adore this teal shabby rose flower from Prima. In fact, I designed my entire card around it! You can purchase these flowers in as little as groups of three or by the yard from The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. See all of the shabby Prima flowers Sharon carries here.

My sentiment is from Scripture Collection 2 by Our Daily Bread designs. I stamped it using VersaMark ink and then embossed with White Detail Embossing Powder. After cutting with my Circle Nesties, I pierced around the edge of the circle an then attached it to my paper doily with Scor-Tape. My designer paper background is from the Prima Zephyr 6x6 collection. I added three kinds of textured trims: Black Chevron Twill, 1/8" Teal Velvet, and Lace. The leaves for my shabby rose are cut from a Prima paper flower from the Puccini A Collection. I added pearlized stick pins and black rhinestones for the small embellishments.

Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to stop by The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store to see all of the fabulous things that Sharon carries!

Stamps: Scripture Collection 2 (Our Daily Bread designs) 
Paper: Basic Black, Zephyr 6x6 (Prima) 
Ink: VersaMark ink
Accessories: Black Rhinestones (Kaisercraft), Teal Shabby Rose and Puccini A Paper flowr (Prima), White Detail EP (Stampendous), 1/8" Teal Velvet & Black Chevron Twill (May Arts), Lace trim (Kaisercraft), paper doily, Circle dies (SB), pearlized pins (Dritz) 
Techniques: Heat Embossing - heat gun available here

Challenges for this card:

• Fairy Tale - Recipe: something round, something old, rhinestones
• Inspire Me Fridays – Anything Goes
• Quick Quotes - Anything Goes

 

Dare to Reach Out

Beginning today I will be sharing each Friday my creations made using lots of goodies from The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store. I am thrilled to be one of the new designers on Sharon's team, as she was one of the first people I "met" online when I discovered Splitcoast many moons ago.  What a sweetheart!

My card today is made using a variety of trims that you might not think would work together, but I surely love the look! I started out my choosing my background designer paper from the Prima Zephyr collection. I love all of the papers that Prima makes; the patterns are so unique.

I then stamped my sentiment from one of Our Daily Bread designs stamp sets, Keep My Lamp Burning. My favorite embellishment to add to any card is pearls, and this Kaisercraft Pearl Flourish was perfect. I layered Turquoise Ric Rac with Tangerine Seam Binding and fancy Lace with pearl center, and then added some beautiful Prima paper flowers to my seam binding bow.

Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to stop by The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store to see all of the fabulous things that Sharon carries! Everything you could want for your designs!





Challenges for this card:
Brown Sugar – Anything Goes 
Card Crafter's Circle - Ribbon and Lace 
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes!

First Featured Stamper Gig

This past Sunday was my first official post as one of the new Splitcoast Featured Stamper Challenge Hostesses. I chose a beautifully talented stamper for this week!

Congratulations to Vickie Zimmer {redlynny} for being our SCS Featured Stamper this week!

I cased this beautiful card of Vickie's. I have had this pretty black flower for a long time, but just never found the right occasion to use it until this week!

I changed the color scheme, and layout slightly, but kept her overall theme and design. Added a trio of pearls in the corner. My image is from the Scripture 1 Collection by Our Daily Bread designs.

Come play along!

Stamps: Scripture Collection 1 by Our Daily Bread designs

Paper: Rose Red, Basic Black, Whisper White, Annalee DP by Prima

Ink: Purely Pomegranate

Accessories: black silk rose and white tulle filler (HL), Spellbinders dies, Snow pearls (Kaiser), pewter stick pin (Maya Road), wine velvet and black satin gathered ruffles ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon)

A Happy Birthday and Goodbye ---

Happy Birthday to Kelley Holland! Kelley is the owner of Our Daily Bread designs. The Bread Basket Design Team has some fun birthday cards for Kelley today, so check them out!
*Angella* *Angie* *Chris* *Connie* *Dawn* *Deb* *Debi* *Grace* *Lorelie* *Sandee* *Silke*

Here is the card I made to celebrate Kelley's birthday. I used May God Hold You, one of my favorite ODBD sets.

I have had the pleasure and opportunity to work with so many wonderful women on the ODBD team, but today is my last post as part of the Bread Basket. I am stepping down from the team to free up my schedule a bit for my family. I have so appreciated the wonderful scripture verses and images that Kelley carries, and I have loved getting to know the women (both ODBD alums and current Breadsticks!) that have been a part of the team with me!

This Irish blessing is for Kelley's birthday, but also for all of my team member friends as well! I wish them all God's blessings and thank Kelley for the wonderful opportunity I had to be a part of her company!

Out of the Box

For SCS Ways To Use It Challenge 237 . . .
We were to do something Out of the Box - different with our style, or something else.

I am not even sure what my stamping style is to do something different that way, so I decided to do a different fold. I always just do regular folds, so my "out of the box" is a different fold.

Stamps are by Our Daily Bread designs from two September releases: Get Well and Thinking of You.

The inside sentiment says "Thinking about you in my heart; remembering you in my prayers."

I used Kraft paper for my base, and then K & Co.'s Madeline DP. My images are stamped with VersaFine Sepia ink - it matches perfectly!

Thanks for stopping by today! What is "out of the box" for you?

Stamps: Thinking of You and Get Well (ODBD)
Paper: Madeline DP (K & Co.), Kraft
Ink: VersaFine Sepia
Accessories: pink pearls, pink organdy ribbon

Be Well

Isn't it nice to know that someone is thinking of you when you don't feel your best? I can always use Get Well cards!
I made this card today for the SCS Color Challenge 237: Crushed Black Razzleberries. I love these rich colors together!

My images are from two sets by Our Daily Bread designs: Doodles 1 - Get Well and Sing to the Lord. This week at ODBD you can get in on a great sale on Basic Grey brads and buttons. Click here for details and to see a beautiful sample from fellow DT member, Angella Crockett!

Thanks for stopping by today!


Stamps: Get Well (ODBD), Sing to the Lord (ODBD)
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Crushed Curry, DP by My Mind's Eye
Ink: Palette Noir Black
Accessories: Nestabilities, bird punch (MS), pearls (Kaiser), Crushed Curry ribbon (SU!), border punch (Fiskars)

Kraft + Anything = Love

I so love Kraft paper. It just goes with anything! Today I used Basic Black, Real Red, and Whisper White with Kraft. Take a look:

I made this for SCS Featured Stamper Challenge 136 . . .

Congratulations to SHANNAN!! Shannan has SUCH a marvelous gallery -- so many are in my favorites, but I finally chose THIS ONE.

I kept her colors, layout and theme, but changed images, number of embellishments, Cuttlebug folder, left off the background stamping, and added a Spellbinders flourish. This is a standard A2 card.

Images are from the September release Doodles 2 - Thinking of You by Our Daily Bread designs. Thanks for stopping by today!!


Stamps: Thinking of You
Paper: Kraft, Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red
Ink: Memento Black
Accessories: SB Nestabilities and Flourish, metal dots, Cuttlebug EF, white gel pen

Healing Touch

For today's SCS Color Challenge 235:
Basic Black, Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive

I love these colors together, and although I have a cute Halloween card in the works too, I wanted to start with this pretty image and sweet sentiment from Doodles 1 - Get Well from Our Daily Bread designs.

I was inspired by Amy's card HERE.
Thanks for the visit today!

Stamps: Get Well (ODBD)
Paper: Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant, Basic Black, DP by K & Co.(Madeline), DCVW (Old World Mat Stack)
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, PTI Chai
Accessories: pearls, satin stitched ribbon, distressing tool, paper piercer, sewing machine
Techniques: piercing, distressing, sponging, sewing

Three for Thee!

The Bread Basket for Our Daily Bread designs is doing a challenge with the THREE new fun September releases from the Doodle Collection. Here are the challenge details:

1. Make a pocket card of any style, shape, with as many pockets as you want. There are numerous tutorials on SCS in the Resources Section that you can use, or come up with your own design.
2. Link your card to the ODBD Blog by Thursday, September 17, 8 PM EST. Winners will be announced on the ODBD blog on Saturday, September 19.
3. Anyone can play along, but only those using ODBD Stamps as the main focal point will be eligible to win the fabulous prize! Kelley is giving away one of each of the three new sets and they are just fabulous!

Here is my pocket card empty. Click on any photo for a close-up view.

You can find the tutorial for the Double Pocket Card HERE.

I made a little tag using Nestabilities and one of the set's verses from Proverbs 17:17, and added a restaurant gift card for a friend.

I used Doodles 3 - Friendship. The dragonfly image is stamped with VersaFine Black Onyx ink and then embossed with Black Sparkle embossing powder.

I sanded the edges of my paper for the SCS Ways To Use It Challenge 234 today.

Take a look at what these Bread Basket Sticks made for the challenge today:

Silke
Betty
Grace
Deborah

You can find all the Bread Basket links in my left sidebar!
We hope you will join us and play along!

Three New Sets From Our Daily Bread Designs and Some News!

Today is the first of the month and you know what that means! New releases at Our Daily Bread designs! Today there are three new stamp sets that are so versatile for brightening someone's day! Take a look at the Doodles Collection:

Doodles 3 - Friendship

Doodles 2 - Thinking of You

Doodles 1 - Get Well

There are so many wonderful sentiments to mix and match with all of the ODBD stamp line!

I made my card with the Friendship set. I love the beautiful flourished dragonfly! And I have just the person to send this to today!

There are so many beautiful samples for you to see today from other Bread Basket members!
Check these out: *Connie* *Dawn* *Deb* *Grace* *Betty* *Lorelie* *Sandee* *Silke* *Angie*

Did you see any new names in that list? Well, today I have some news. I am stepping down as ODBD Design Team Coordinator and handing the reins to Grace Nywening so I can spend more time with my family and more time stamping! She will do a wonderful job! I have thoroughly enjoyed being the DTC since January, but know that Grace has things fully under control!

And check out our new Guest Designer for the next few months: Dawn Lusk!!
Dawn is a talented stamper and you will LOVE what she does with ODBD stamps!

Thanks for stopping by today!! I will have some more fun news soon and another Chicken Girl Design later today!

Always

I made this card today using some of my favorite things from Our Daily Bread designs. The images are from the August release: Jesus. I stamped the image of Jesus in VersaFine Sepia ink, and the verse in ODBD Turquoise ink. The card base is Copper Metallic by Prism, and has such a beautiful sheen. The flowers are Prima Artistry flowers.


Thanks for stopping by today!


Stamps: Jesus bu ODBD
Paper: Making Memories Journaling Page, Copper Metallic (Prism), textured turquoise (Paper Studio), unknown DP
Ink: VersaFine Sepia, Turquoise (available at ODBD)
Accessories: Prima Artistry flowers, chocolate satin ribbon (SU!), brown brads (Paper Studio), photo corner punch

Beads and Blessings

I love it when I can play in Saturday's SCS Inspiration Challenge. It is so much fun to see what everyone comes up with from looking at something else. Today (#194) we had a great whimsical site for a NYC boutique called Pylones.

I chose the beaded ring HERE for my inspiration. My orange button is reminiscent of the center of the ring, and the tag and spiral paper edge remind me of all the beaded holes.

My images are from Happy Birthday by Our Daily Bread designs. I only needed a part of the sentiment to fit in my tag, so I colored the "Blessings" with a Basic Black Stampin' Up! marker and used that portion. The flowers and watering can are colored with Copic markers.

There are Crystal Stickles on the butterfly and the nozzle of the watering can.

For more inspiration using this set, check out these beautiful designs:
Betty
Deborah
Loretta
Silke

Thanks for stopping by today!

Stamps: Happy Birthday (ODBD)
Paper: Kraft, Very Vanilla, Ruby Red, Wild Saffron DP by K & Co., Making Memories Journaling Book
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics, Camomile Distress Ink (PTI)
Accessories: Prima flowers, orange button, RHR striped ribbon, sewing machine, Wild Saffron tags by K & Co., Crystal Stickles

What Time Is It?

Thank you to those who "checked" up on me this week to see if all was well. All is well -- just different! It has been a week since I have posted - certainly unusual over the summer. But all has changed this week here in Nebraska. We are Back To School!

I teach music part-time in an elementary school here, and it is time for my regular job again. Sad, isn't it? I will definitely miss stamping every day, but do have to pay for my hobby (and college tuition!) somehow, so work it is!

And it is exciting to arrange my room, and unpack things, and get ready for a new school year. My daughter and I took an overnight trip earlier this week to buy some school clothes and supplies and that was fun. Saw a great chick flick - "The Proposal" -- I recommend it for some fun and laughs and awesome scenery!

So what do I have today? Well, a BLOG CANDY winner for one -- keep reading!
And a card using this week's SCS Inspiration (#193) and Sketch (#241) Challenges.


I chose this embroidered work by Jessica Polka for my inspiration. And HERE is the sketch, which I turned sideways.

I stamped one of the verses from Jesus (Our Daily Bread designs) in Not Quite Navy ink and cut and embossed with the Large Rectangles Nestabilities. The border along the bottom is the Grand Illumination Border from Spellbinders. It is 12 inches long, so I just cut what I needed. I sponged Bashful Blue ink on the border before I took it out of the die.

The designer paper on the top is by My Mind's Eye, and the bottom is K & Co.

I love blue and white together!

You can see more designs using this set from two ODBD Design Team members:
Connie
Lorelie

And now for a long-awaited Blog Candy winner! Last Sunday I posted the two new sets from Chicken Girl Design Stamps, and was offering Hugs From a Bug as blog candy. I used random.org to choose my winner. Congratulations to PEGGY!!

Here are your random numbers:

31 

Timestamp: 2009-08-15 15:19:31 UTC

WOOT WOOT! Peggy, I will email you the information on how to get your set!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Stamps: Jesus by ODBD
Paper: Papertrey White, NQN, Bashful Blue, DP by K & Co. and My Mind's Eye
Ink: NQN, Bashful Blue
Accessories: Pretties kit, Offray ribbon, Nestabilities, Borderabilities, pearls by Kaiser, Prima flower
Techniques: sponging

Pure in Heart

For SCS Inspiration Challenge 192 . . .

I chose this vase as my inspiration and used the colors to design my card.

I used a verse from one of the August releases from Our Daily Bread designs: Jesus.
I stamped the verse with Encore Metallic Gold ink and then embossed it with Ranger's Queen's Gold embossing powder.

To see other samples using the two August releases, check out these Bread Basket designs:

Becca
Deb
Jane
Lorelie
Loretta
Sandee

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Jesus by ODBD
Paper: Rose Red, Basic Black, Whisper White, white embossed handmade DP
Ink: Encore Metallic Gold
Accessories: Queen's Gold EP (Ranger), satin ribbon (May Arts), Nestabilities, pearls (Mark Richards), Primas
Techniques: embossing

It's Something New!

Wow! Where does the time go? August is here and that means new releases at Our Daily Bread designs! Today Kelley is releasing two new sets: Happy Birthday and Jesus. My card today uses a portion of one of the Happy Birthday sentiments.

This card was made for SCS Limited Supplies Challenge 231, hosted by my friend and ODBD August Guest Designer, Wendy Weixler! We were to use a die cut as the focus of our card, and could also use a sentiment. I inked up the two words I needed with VersaColor Bark and Pinecone ink, and then cut them out with a Spellbinders die.

The Spellbinders Pendant is a beautiful new die cut that looks so elegant! I added a Prima flower, and that became my card focus for the challenge!

To see another of my creations with Happy Birthday, click HERE.
And to see the images from both new releases, and to order, click HERE.

Now to share some fantastic designs,
check out what these Bread Basket members have in store for you today:
Deborah S.
Sandee S.
Jane W.
Wendy W. - New Guest Designer!
Loretta L. - New Guest Designer!

And now for more new stuff! When I became a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, my Stampin' Up! upline was a marvelously fun and talented person that I got to know online. I finally met her last January at CHA. Many of you know her as the owner of i {heart} papers -- Kate Baldwin!

Kate asked me awhile ago if I would help her launch her new stamp line, and of course I said yes!
I am pleased and proud to announce that I will be a Guest Designer for Chicken Girl Design Stamps!

I am joining a host of extremely talented stampers and am excited to help Kate with this new venture, as she helped me as a demonstrator and friend! Tune in later this week for a peek at the new sets! You can read all about it HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today to share some NEW stuff!


Stamps: Happy Birthday (ODBD)
Paper: DP by K & Co., Kraft, watercolor, Whisper White
Ink: Bark and Umber VersaColor
Accessories: Spellbinders Pendant and Tag Dies, Prima flower, May Arts ribbon, Hero Arts pearls, sewing machine

Disaster Averted - Somewhat!

Today's SCS Color Challenge 229 was perfect for this new image from Happy Birthday by Our Daily Bread designs. This set and another (come back Saturday to see that one!) will be available August 1 from ODBD.

So I haven't stamped in several days and knew today's challenge was just what I needed! I stamped the water can and flowers in VersaFine Onyx Black ink, and set to using reinkers and an aqua brush to paint my image. I loved the result and the colors look so end-of-the-summer-ish.

I got out my trusty Nestabilities to cut and emboss, and this is what happened:

I was NOT happy! So I left it alone and went and took a shower, played Farm Town on Facebook for awhile (Won't You Be My Neighbor?) and then came back to it to see what I could do. I tell you, by the time I got it figured out I could have painted another one. But I didn't want it to go to waste, and figured since I had mixed some of the colors, I wouldn't get it the same.

So -- now you know why there are three little Primas there, and why the edge is cut off. I hope that you will use your mistakes to your best advantage too! You can still see a bit of the embossing on the side, but I think it works!

Be sure to come back on Saturday to see both of the new August releases and hear some FUN news too!!
Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Happy Birthday (ODBD)
Paper: watercolor, Wild Raspberry DP by K & Co., Apricot Appeal, Certainly Celery
Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Apricot Appeal, Pixie Pink, Certainly Celery, Kiwi Kiss
Accessories: pearls by Hero Arts, flowers by Prima, ric rac by American Crafts, Nestabilities by Spellbinders
Techniques: watercolor

A Crooked Detour

This is a little detour from my normal style, but I sure had fun with it!

I stamped one of the quotes from Let Us Begin (Our Daily Bread designs) in Brocade Blue on vellum and then embossed it with Clear Embossing Powder. After tearing the edges, I adhered it to my brand new K & Co. DP and then sewed the edges. A little ribbon, my favorite pearls, a punched EK Success Wavy border, and it was done!

Click on either photo for a close-up!

My fellow DT members on ODBD will tell you that I am a pretty straight-edge kind of girl. I normally do not put anything on at an angle, or purposely crooked, so I did today just to be a rebel. And no straight stitching! And a wavy edge! The vellum has a diamond pattern on it -- more angles!

Thanks for stopping by today! Tomorrow is a special day! Come back and see why~



STAMPING ITEMS I HAVE FOR SALE

Trust

I am at the end of my five day ODBD week and I have one more project to show you!

I used images from the new release Mother Teresa and my three ODBD ink pads for this project as well: Spring Green, Sunflower and Raspberry.

I stamped my lotus flower with VersaFine Onyx Black and then watercolored using an Aqua-Flo brush.

I love the Wild Raspberry paper from K & Co. It goes so well with these colors and images. I added Angel Wings Shimmerz to the middle of the flower and on the water. Here is a close-up that shows that (click for an ever closer view!). Shimmerz is 25% off through tomorrow!


The quote says "I know that God will not give me anything I can't handle; I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." This Mother Teresa quote is probably my favorite in the whole set -- it just seems to fit life right now for a lot of people! I think it also shows Mother Teresa's sense of humor - and we certainly need a lot of humor to get through a lot of life's bumps and hills and obstacles!

The frame around the lotus was actually a mistake! I was cutting out the frame with my Nestabilities and it didn't quite cut. I couldn't re-do it, as the paper came out of the metal frame. So it is what it is, and I ended up liking it embossed!


Thanks for sharing this release week with me! I hope you will join in the Guest Designer contest that ODBD is having this week! You can read about that HERE!

Thanks for coming by!