Hearts, Thoughts, Prayers

I'm back! I made this card this afternoon but just now getting it posted. I used this week's Midnight Madness Sketch and the current Dirty Dozen Monthly Theme, Winged Things. I combined two of the three October releases from Our Daily Bread designs, With Heartfelt Sympathy and With Deepest Sympathy. I never bought the Baja Breeze ink to match the Parisian Breeze designer paper, so I used Soft Sky re-inker to stamp the image. I used the re-inker because I also don't have that ink pad either but what I do is scribble the ink onto an acrylic block and tap the stamp into the ink and then stamp! It usually comes out a little fuzzy or dreamy looking instead of a crisp impression but I like the look! I then stamped the sentiment over this with Memento Brown. I pierced around the edges so that I could sew with linen thread. For the three corners, I pierced the holes and tapped a Chocolate Chip marker on the holes to give the look of eyelets and added the linen thread. For the dragonflies, I stamped again with the re-inker, sponged the edges and then sprayed them with Pearl Glimmer Mist. Then I added all the brown pearls to finish the card! Loved this sketch! Thanks MMSC!!! And thank you for visiting with me again tonight! Enjoy your week!

Paper-Kraft, Archivers paper that matches Baja Breeze, Parisian Breeze dp, White
Ink-Memento Brown, Chocolate Chip, Sof Sky
Accessories-linen thread, piercing tool, pearls, Glimmer mist

Baby Blessings Easel Card

Today is Columbus Day so I am off for the day! And, since it is raining cats and dogs, what better way to spend my time than stamping! The Technique Lovers Challenge today is to make an easel card! I had never made one before and I am surprised at how easy it is! Also, this week over at Stampin' Sisters in Christ, the challenge is to make a baby card. I started with white for my base and used a piece of Pink Pirouette designer paper, inside and out. I added a border along the bottom made with the Martha Loop punch and a cuttlebug embossed button border. I inked the baby shoes with Creamy Caramel and rock-n-rolled in Pretty in Pink before stamping. The sentiment on the front is from SU! God's Blessings and the inside sentiment is from Our Daily Bread designs set called Children of God. I wish that I had thought far enough ahead to sponge the edges of the designer paper and the little flowers before putting everything together! Oh well! I used Martha's loopy corner to do the thingie under the ovals. Just had to trim part of it off! Added the little punched flowers and brown pearls, and the button on the inside to hold the easel up! Fun technique! I will use this again! Thanks for looking and have a blessed day!

Paper-White, Pink Pirouette, Pink Pirouette designer paper
Ink-Creamy Caramel, Memento Black, Pretty in Pink
Accessories-Martha punches, Spellbinders, ribbon, pearls, SU! Flower punch, cuttlebug and eb border, foam tape

CASEing Chris!!

Today, fellow breadstick and a sweet friend, Chris, is the Featured Stamper on SCS! Way to go, Chris! If you haven't visited Chris before, what are you waiting for?! She does amazing work!!! I chose to case this beauty. I loved her design and the colors! So, I kept the Bermuda Bay, the birthday theme but changed the stamp sets to SU! Gods' Beauty, and God's Blessings and used Chocolate Chip for the base and accents color. I pierced instead of sewing. I used a different Spellbinders pendant and different border punch. For the butterfly, I stamped with Memento Brown, coloring some of the areas with Bermuda Bay marker before stamping and then cut it out. I sponged the edges with Chocolate chip and then sprayed it with Pearl Glimmer Mist. Loved your card Chris! Thanks for the inpiration!

Thanks for stopping by again y'all! Have a great week!

Paper-Chocolate Chip, Bermuda Bay, White
Ink-Memento Brown, Chocolate Chip, Bermuday Bay marker
Accessories- Spellbinders pendant, circle, scallop circle, tags and piercability dies, flower rhinestone, glimmer mist, ribbon, Martha border punch, cuttelbug embossing folder, piercing tool

Everyone Who Beholds

Hey everyone! Hope all of you are having a great weekend! I made this card for two challenges this week. The Ways to Use it Challenge and the Inspiration Challenge. For the WT, the challenge was to make a card using our world as the inspiration. One of my favorite places to be is in the North Georgia mountains with the beautiful trees and fresh air. This little scene reminds me of the little pond nestled in the mountain property that has been in our family for many, many years. My grandparents lived there in a wonderful little country home with a tin roof and huge front porch. I spent many happy summers there. Now, my parents live on this land and one day, we hope to live there too!! Can you just imagine the peace and quiet?! Anyway, back to the card! haha! I was also inspired by the beautiful greens of some of the jewelry from the inspiration challenge. I used two of the new October sets from Our Daily Bread designs, With Deepest Sympathy and Praying for You. I stamped the image and sentiment on white and sandwiched this piece between a layer of Always Artichoke and Mellow Moss. I cut frames from the moss layer with Spellbinders dies and ran this through my cuttlebug to emboss it before putting these three layers together. I outlined the image and sentiment areas with a copic marker #BG39. I added a nestie frame, cuttlebug corners and then I sprayed the whole thing with Glimmer Mist (Olive on the moss layer before attaching and then pearl over the whole thing including the stamped areas). I added teeny little pearls too to finish the card!

Thanks for looking! I appreciate your visits so much! Have a great week!

Happy Birthday Kelley!

Today is a very special day! Kelley, the owner of Our Daily Bread designs is celebrating her birthday! So I made this card for her. This beautiful ODBD image was released a couple of months ago and I really enjoy coloring it! I used copic markers to color it and then I used several layers of versamark and clear embossing powder to create the glassy look (not sure if you can see that in these photos!).


I embossed the SU! designer paper with a cuttlebug folder and sponged them with Riding Hood Red ink. I added an embossed border punched with a Martha border punch and finished the card with ribbon, brads and Martha butterflies. This sketch is from this week's Mojo Monday sketch. Also, the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge this week is to create a card showing how the earth rejoices. One way that God shows His love for us is in the beauty of flowers, butterflies and the colors of nature. With the craziness and ugliness in our world, we need to stop and take in the beauty that surrounds us. Smell the flowers, watch a butterfly, see the colors of nature and remember that God is still here.

Kelley, I hope that you have a wonderful birthday!
Love ya!

Stamps-ODBD Happy Birthday
Paper-Pink Pirouette, White, SU! Candy Lane designer paper
Ink-Memento Brown, Riding Hood Red, Versamark
Accessories-Martha punches, cuttlebug and eb folders, spellbinders nesties, brads, ribbon, brown pearls, copics, embossing powder

Featured Stamper, World Card Making Day, Etc!

Hi everybody! Hope your Sunday was wonderful! I've been busy this afternoon. I started with this card for the Featured Stamper challenge today. I had a great time going through Lois' gallery searching for a card to case. I found this one and loved it! I kept similar colors and used one of the new stamps from Our Daily Bread designs which is similar to the one Lois used. I added more layers, embossed the designer paper, and sponged. I only used one layer for the lacy border and added ribbon! Thanks Lois for inspiring me!



Yesterday was World Card Making Day! I was able to play in six of the challenges today! Yay! If you would like to see these closer, I'll have them individually added to my SCS gallery in the next few minutes!

I also wanted to say thanks to some very sweet people! Last week, I was given the Shining Star award from the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Blog and I was also featured on the Inspirational Blog! WOW!!! You all made my week! I thank you so much ladies!

Hope you all have a great week! Thanks for stopping by and see ya soon!

In Our Hearts

Good Morning!!! It's a beautiful day and I have another card using one of the beautiful new collection of stamps from Our Daily Bread designs to share with you! Kelley has added three new sets this month. All of the sets are great for those times when we need to let someone know we care and are thinking about them. Today I am showing you a card made with a set called With Heartfelt Sympathy.


I used this week's Midnight Madness sketch and this week's Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge to make a card to let someone know you care. I started with a base card of Kraft paper. I used my cuttlebug to emboss the designer paper. I used an EK Success border punch along the edge of the sentiment panel and added Kraft ribbon. Notice I tied only a half bow! First time I did that, (it was an accident) but I liked the way it looked! Then I added pearls in the corners to finish the card.

CANDY, CANDY, CANDY!

Now, today is Blog Hop Day too! If you arrived here from Grace's blog you are going the right way! If not, go back to the ODBD blog and start from there! Now from here, go check out the gorgeous creations by these ladies:

Dawn L
Connie
and
Angella C

CANDY, CANDY, CANDY!

Three winners will be randomly drawn to receive three prizes that are hidden along the way! Remember that after you have visited and commented on all the blogs,
you need to go back to the ODBD Blog and tell us:

1. That you have visited and commented on each blog on the hop,
and
2. What you liked best about these new sets!

This hop will be open for comments until 6PM EST Friday Oct 2.
Grace will announce the winners on the ODBD Blog on Sat. Oct 3.

So don't forget to check back on the ODBD Blog to see who won!

Here are the prizes:

A $5.00 Store Credit,

a $10.00 Store Credit,

and a $20.00 Store Credit!

These credits will be for any merchandise in the Our Daily Bread Designs Store!

How's that for great prizes!!!

WooHoo!!!

Hope you have fun hopping with us today! Can't wait to see who wins!!!

Paper-Kraft, Always Artichoke, Manchester dsp, Vanilla
Ink-Memento Brown
Accessories-ribbon, pearls, EK Success punch, slot punch, cuttlebug and eb folder, foam tape