Happy New Year and Welcome to the January ODBD Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs January Release Blog Hop! 

We are so happy to have you with us today!!

If you got here from the Our Daily Bread designs Blog, you are in the right place. 

If not you might want to go there and start from the beginning. 

If you get lost along the way, simply return there, where the entire hop is listed with links.

Now, here are the Hop Details:

The Hop will run 8am EDT Jan. 1 until 8pm EDT Jan 2. 

The winners will be announced on the ODBD Blog on Jan 3. 

Five blessed hoppers will win a $20.00 Gift Certificate for ODBD Stamps! 

Here is what you have to do to be qualified to win one of these prizes:

Hop to each designer’s blog and leave a comment. 

Return to the Our Daily Bread designs blog and 

leave a comment telling us that you completed the hop,

making note if there were any you could not comment on. 

Answer the question on the ODBD blog when you leave your comment.

Now here is my first card!

This card was made using the beautiful new Birthday Blessings set!  I stamped the image twice.  I cut out one using the Out of the Box Nestie technique that my DT sister Julie taught me. You can see her tutorial HERE.  I colored the teacup and saucer with copic markers and cut it out and popped it up over the original image.  I stamped the image again onto the same designer paper as the background and paper pieced the tablecloth.  The SU! designer paper is embossed with an SU! embossing folder. 

 

I stamped the sentiment and masked off the verse to make the little tag to tie on at the end of the pearls and lace.  I punched lots of Martha Stewart flowers from the same designer paper and colored them darker with a copic marker before placing them on the card.  To finish the card I put little dots in the flower centers with a white paint pen and then sprayed the card with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist!

I hope you don't mind but I have another card to show you using one of the really cool grunge sets!!!  I love these grunge sets!!  So great for teens or for masculine cards or anyone for that matter! 

I stamped the butterfly image from the God's Love set all over the designer paper and hand wrote some of the verses from the set to mimic graffiti.  I tore strips of the same K & Co designer paper, glued them here and there before running the whole piece through my Cuttlebug with the cuttlebug folder (the name of which escapes me at the moment!).  I sponged the back ground with Tim Holtz distress ink too.  Then I stamped the main image on another piece of the same designer paper, heat embossed it with black embossing powder and cut it out with the Spellbinders Labels 18.  I sponged the edges before adhering with foam tape.  Then I attached the cross charm with a paper clip and added the brads.

This is the inside! 

This is what the designer paper looked like before I grunged it all up!  LOL!

Thank you so much for indulging me for such a long post!  

I can't wait for you to see what the rest of the team did with these sets!! 

Your next stop is to the

Amazing Paper Grace, Becca Feeken!! 

Enjoy!