Be Not Dismayed

Hi! Hope everyone is having a great weekend! I am finally getting a chance to blog this card I made for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge from last week. The challenge was to make a card or project that reminds me that God is always with me. Well, I focused on this beautiful scripture included in Scripture Collection 1 from Our Daily Bread designs. WOW! This verse is powerful, isn't it?! I used Spellbinders Oval dies, a Martha border punch, and cuttlebug embossing folders. The SU! designer paper is embossed with the new Victoria folder, I thought it looked a lot like the pattern in the paper! The cardstock I used is Bordering Blue, Not Quite Navy, and Vanilla. The ink is Bordering Blue and Night of Navy. I added ribbon, silver cord, silver pearls and a charm to complete the card!

Thank you Stampin' Sisters for another great challenge!
Thanks for coming by to visit tonight!
Have a great night!

Playing catch up once again!

Hi everyone!

I have two cards to show you for two of my favorite challenges from this last weekend! The first one is for the Inspiration Challenge on SCS. This time we took our inspiration from Franz Porcelain and I chose this gorgeous piece here! And of course I had to use the new Our Daily Bread releases to create this card.

I stamped and clear or white embossed bunches of poinsettias and cut and cut and cut! I lightly sponged the centers with Mellow Moss ink. I punched out several Martha Stewart twig thingies for my greenery. For the background I embossed with a snowflake folder, and I cut out an oval with a Spellbinders die. I white embossed the scripture. I sponged the edges with white ink and then I sprayed the background and the greenery with Glimmer Mist, Marshmallow for the background and Pearl for the greenery. And then I started 'building' my card. I added ribbon and red rhinestones to finish. I used Whisper White, Chocolate Chip and Bashful Blue cardstock. The Chocolate Chip layer is sponged with white so it looks gray! Anyway, I love layering these poinsettias! I used all three of the new sets for this card.

And Kelley is offering a 10 % discount when you order
The Poinsettia Collection (that's all three sets)!
Here is a link to the ODBD Store!

Also, don't forget to play in our
Show Us The Shimmer Challenge
for a chance to win a $30.00 store credit!!!

And here is my second second card to share with you today!

I made this one for the Featured Stamper Challenge. The honor this week went to the CAS (Clean and Simple) queen, Jen!!! She has an awesome gallery and blog! But of course, as you all know, one of my biggest difficulties is CAS! haha! So I chose this card to CASE and while this is CAS for me, it's not so CAS!!! I kept the same theme and colors but used a different stamp set, added an extra layer of Kraft, cuttlebugged my stamped background, changed the ribbon placement and added Martha's snowflakes with bling! I also made a square card instead of regular size because I can't stop making square cards!!! Congrats Jen on your special week!!!

Thanks everyone for visiting again today!

My First MMSC Guest Designer Card!

Good morning!!!

If you are here to follow Our Daily Bread designs November blog Hop,
scroll down to the post below or click here!

Yep, I'm still pinching myself over here!!! I am the newest Guest Designer for the Midnight Madness Blog and I am so excited to show you my first card! I loved this week's sketch and had so much fun putting my card together!

This month's Midnight Madness Sponsor is
Michelle's Scrapbooking & More

And our weekly sponsor is
Heather Ellis of Digi Stamp Characters

Heather provided us with some adorable images to use and
I chose one called Pure Innocense.
Thank you so much Heather!

I used White cardstock and a sheet of pink from Archiver's that is a very close match to Pink Pirouette. I used two different Cuttlebug embossing folders. For my corner circle, I traced a little china saucer, to get the larger size. I added pretty lace to the edge of this partial circle. I cut a pendant with the Fleur De Lis Spellbinders die to layer behind my Spellbinder Ovals. I colored the image with copics. I printed this twice and did some layering of the little girl image. I added Polar White Flower Soft for snow and their stocking caps. I finished with ribbon and white pearls! What do you think?

Now on to the winners from last week's sketch!!!

The Midnight Madness Masterpiece award goes to...

#58 Craftypagan

And our three Midnight Madness Remarkables are...

#3 Karen Wallace
#9 Karen Lynn
and
#40 Pam 124

Congratulations to all of our winners! And thank you all for playing!

I can't wait to see what you all do with this week's sketch!
Have fun and thanks for visiting with me today!

November Release Day and Blog Hop and a Challenge

Good Morning and Happy November to everyone! Today is the day Our Daily Bread designs releases it's newest collection of sets!!!! The Poinsettia Collection is here!!! And we are celebrating with a Blog Hop and a challenge! If you arrived here from Dawn's blog you are going in the right direction! If not, please visit the ODBD blog and begin from there. This is so important because along the hop each designer has a secret word or words for you to collect. Write down each designer's name and their word/words, remember to leave a comment and then go back to the ODBD blog to comment that you have this info ready. Don't give out the info there though! A special email will be given to you so that you can email the words and designer's names in the correct order. This is all you need to do to have a chance to win the entire Poinsettia Collection! That is three sets!!!! WooHoo!


All of the designers were given a challenge to make a project with lots of shimmer! I sure hope you can see the shimmer and shine on my card! I tried so hard to photograph this but shimmer and shine doesn't show up very well for me! Hopefully, you can see it in your imagination! :) For my card, I used some gorgeous SEI Peppermint Mint Foil paper for my color inspiration. For my cardstock, I used Sage Shadow, Pretty in Pink and Whisper White. I stamped the poinsettia image from the set called Blessed Christmas four times and water-colored each one with ODBD ink pads: Olive, Victorian Rose and Terra Cotta. I cut out three of the poinsettias in various ways in order to layer them all together. I cut out the main image with a Spellbinders Oval die and sponged the edges. Then I sponged around the image with Sage Shadow ink. I used my Cuttlebug to emboss the designer paper and then I sprayed the paper and all the poinsettia images with Suede Glimmer Mist!!! Seriously, I love this stuff! The Suede color is so pretty and sparkly but it also gives a Shabby Chic look that I love! It doesn't take too long to dry but you can always speed things along with your heat tool. I sponged the oval and layered this to a sponged Spellbinders Labels 4 die-cut. Then I put the poinsettia together. I love the way this gives it so much dimension! I punched a strip of Sage Shadow with an EK Success border punch and sponged. I lined up the sentiment with a Stamp-a-ma-jig and attached the strip to the card. Well, then I decided to glimmerize the ribbon! This just added to the shabby chic look! I finished the card with pretty pearls! What do you think?

Now, you can play along with our Shimmer and Shine Challenge! Just make a Holiday card with lots of shimmer using any type of shimmer and shine products you have. You do not have to use Our Daily Bread designs stamps but if you have them, we would love to see them! Link your card to the Latest Challenge Thread on the ODBD blog by Nov 15th at 8PM EST. You could be the winner of a $30.00 store credit!!!

Now head on over to Betty's blog to see what she has created and to get the next word you need to win the Poinsettia Collection! After visiting Betty, the next stop will be Silke's blog!

I suppose you would like to know my word now!
Ok, Ok!
My secret word is....

SAVIOR

Have fun today!

You will have until the 8PM EST on November 3rd
to email the DT names and their words!!

Good luck to all of you!!!!

Purple Thanks

Happy Friday night all! Well, this has been a stamper's dream week for me! Thank you God for this because my week otherwise was not so fun. But I am going to focus on the wonderful gifts He has given me this week!

First of all, I received the new Our Daily Bread designs sets for November and they are so gorgeous! I've already shown a couple of peeks, but please come back on Sunday to join our blog hop fun and new challenge! Then I found out that I had won one of the random prizes from the Midnight Madness Blog Hop!!! Thanks ladies!!! I also won a Taylored Expression stamp set from the Stampin ' Sisters in Christ Blog! Wow! Thank you all too!

And last but certainly not least, I was asked to guest design with the Midnight Madness Team during the month of November! Now is that a cool week or what?!!! I am still pinching myself!!!

So, I made this card for the Ways to Use It Challenge to use purple and for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge this week to make a card expressing my thankfulness for someone or something they have done. The scripture reference is this:

I Chronicles 16:34
“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
his love endures forever.” (NIV)

I used Almost Amethyst and Lavender Lace with Black and White. I scored a lattice pattern with my scor-pal. I layered several spellbinders diecuts, sponged the white circle while still inside the die. The images are from a stamp set by Inkadinkado called Fancy That. I outlined the sentiment and colored the butterflies with copic markers. I added lots of rhinestones and then sprayed it all with Glimmer Mist!

I thank you all for visiting with me regularly
and leaving me such sweet, wonderful comments!
I am thankful for YOU!

A Savior Has Been Born!

Hey again! I made this for this week's Midnight Madness sketch and today's color challenge of Kraft, Black and Melon Mambo! And, this is another sneak peek of the new sets being released on November 1st by Our Daily Bread designs! I first stamped and colored the poinsettias with a Melon Mambo marker. Then I sprayed them and the Mambo layer and Kraft strip with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist! I am so addicted to this stuff! The Marshmallow color sort of gives the poinsettias a snow glistened look. I wish you could see the glimmer and shine! My photography skills are so lacking! You can't even see the cute little bow with the black velvet ribbon! Well, maybe one day I'll figure it out! Anyway, I finished it with the black pearls. I wanted this to be a quick card so I didn't do the poinsettia layers like on my card yesterday, but I really wish I would have taken the time to do that. Maybe next time!

Mark you calendars for the first,
and come by the Our Daily Bread designs new blog
for our release day blog hop.
Hint, hint...there will be prizes!!!
So don't forget!!!

Thanks for stopping by! See ya soon!

Paper-Kraft, Black, Melon Mambo, White
Ink-Memento Black, Melon Mambo marker
Accessories-Cuttlebug and snowflake folder, Spellbinders square, Glimmer Mist, black pearls, black velvet ribbon

Glory to God

Hi!!! Here is a sneak peek of two of the fantastic new sets from Our Daily Bread designs! Kelley has done it again y'all!!! I have wanted a Poinsettia stamp forever!!!

Love, love, love this!!!

Now, if there's not a blue poinsettia, there should be right?! I used this gorgeous SEI paper along with a gorgeous piece of Prism Metallic copper paper to dictate my color choices. I embossed the sentiment with clear powder and layered this with a Spellbinders Label which is sponged on the edges with Not Quite Navy. The border is punched with Martha's lattice punch and sponged. I stamped and cut out the poinsettia on Bordering Blue paper and sponged with the Not Quite Navy . All of the flower layers are sprayed with Gold Glimmer Mist. Then I used Martha's punch for the little twiggy things. Gold organdy ribbon, gold cording and gold pearls finish this off! I really love these new sets and you will too!

Don't forget to check in on the first for a fun challenge and blog hop!
There will be prizes!!!

Also, I wanted to mention to y'all that I won one of the random prizes from the Midnight Madness Blog Hop! YAY!!!! I am so excited! Can't wait! Thanks MMSC Team!!!

Hope all of you have a great night! Thanks for coming by for a visit!!!

Paper-Bordering Blue, Not Quite Navy, Vanilla, SEI, Prism
Ink-Versamark, Not Quite Navy, Black