Be Inspired Wednesday #96

Good morning!  It's Wednesday again and at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog this week we were challenged to be Clearly Creative!  I chose to use part of the packaging from some pretty little flowers I bought at Michaels.  They came in a package of three colors and each little section is great for shaker cards!  I used buttons inside my shaker!  I am so ready for Fall and cooler temperatures!  The heat lately has been unbearable!  The background and the center of the sunflower are embossed with the ProvoCraft Swiss Dots Embossing Folder #37-1604 and sponged.  To make the shaker, I cut three Spellbinders flowers and cut a hole in the center of one of them.  Then I used Beacon 3-1 glue to attach the clear packaging piece.  I did have to make some snips in the circle to get it to fit around the circle.  I added lace around the edge to help hide the edges that were unfinished looking.  The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread designs' new set called appropriately Happy Fall! I also sprayed Peach Delight Glimmer mist on the flower and the brown background.  

Here are the supplies I used:

Our Daily Bread designs stamp set called Happy Fall!

Provocraft Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder #37-1604

Spellbinders Flower and Circle dies

Martha Stewart Fence Border punch

TatteredAngels Peach Delight Glimmer Mist

SU! ribbon

Bow Easy

Beacon Adhesives

SU! Close to Cocoa, So Saffron and White cardstock

SU! designer paper

Buttons and Floss

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink

Thanks for joining me today!  To see what the other Cuttlebug Challenge designers came up with 

go check out today's Be Inspired Wednesday Challenge HERE!

Trust in the Lord With All Your Heart

Hi there!  I am getting this in just under the wire for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge this week to make a card with a bird on it!  See the pretty little hummingbird charm?  There ya go!  This is also for the Stamping in Time on Assignment on the ODBD blog to use one of your 'Go to' sketches.  I use a version of this simple sketch very often.  The scripture is from the ODBD set called Scripture Collection 2.  

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Scripture Collection 2

SU! Soft Suede and Vanilla cardstock

K&Co designer paper

charm

Organdy ribbon

Bow Easy

Zva Pearls

Spellbinders squares and scalloped squares

Tim Holtz ink

Stazon Black ink

Cuttlebug Victoria embossing folder

Midnight Worry

Hi everyone!  Here is a card I made with this week's Midnight Madness sketch and 

also the challenge in The Shabby Tea Room to use blues, creams, browns and whites

and/or a house image.  No house image here but I got the colors in!  

The images and sentiment are from Our Daily Bread designs' new set 

called Don't Worry.  I colored the images using a combination of 'painting' with 

Soft Sky re-inker, a Soft Suede Marker  and copic markers. 

I sponged a lot with Tim Holtz distressing ink and sprayed the background and the butterfly 

with Pearl Glimmer Mist.  The butterfly was stamped twice and I cut out one of the wings 

and the body and popped it up over the other butterfly image.  

The body is glued down and the wing is popped up with foam tape.  

I added little white dots with my white gel pen too.  

The ribbon is from my ribbon scrap stash and I made the bow with my Bow Easy.

Here is my supply list:

ODBD Don't Worry

SU! Soft Suede and Vanilla

DCWV Linen Closet Designer Paper

SU! Soft Sky re-inker and small paintbrush

SU! Soft Suede Marker

Copic markers

Ribbon and Bow Easy

SU! Border Punch

White Gel Pen

Memento Brown ink

Tim Holtz Antique Linen and Vintage Photo inks

Pearl glimmer Mist

Thanks for stopping by and see soon!!

Be Inspired Wednesday #95

Good morning to you!!!  

The theme this week at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog is Sympathy cards.  

We all need them at some time or another and I have found that it's best to have a few in my stash 

so when they are needed I don't have to worry about it during a difficult time.  

This card actually didn't take too much time to make.  First, I embossed a gorgeous piece of  

K & Co paper with the Provocraft Cuttlebug Victoria Embossing folder #37-1916.  

With a bit of luck, I positioned the designer paper where I could 'fussy' cut it with an X-acto knife 

around a couple of the flowers in order to slip the sentiment square behind them.  

The flowers on the top right were cut from a scrap and attached with Beacon Zip Dry glue.  

The pretty butterfly is from one of the new sets by Our Daily Bread designs, 

and is stamped twice onto a scrap of that same paper and cut out. 

I cut just the body and one wing from one of the butterflies, glued them together and 

used a little foam tape to pop up the wing a little.  I sprayed it with Pearl Glimmer Mist too.  

And then I just added the pearls to finish it!  

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

Our Daily Bread designs Don't Worry and With Heartfelt Sympathy

SU! Soft Suede and Vanilla Cardstock

K & Co Designer Paper

Provocraft Cuttlebug Victoria Embossing Folder #37-1916

Pearl Glimmer Mist

X-acto Knife

Beacon Zip Dry

Zva Pearls

Martha Stewart Pearl

Spellbinders Squares

Ribbon and Bow Easy

Thanks so much for visiting and hope to see you again soon!!!

Harvest Blessings to You

Good Morning!!! Welcome to Our Daily Bread designs' August release blog hop! 

If you arrived here from the extremely amazing Becca's blog, then you are in the right place!  

If not or if you get lost along the way or any links are broken, 

just return to the ODBD Blog for the full list of links! 

We hope you enjoy this months sets as much as we do!!!

This month Kelley is giving away THREE Gift Certificates of $15.00 toward stamps at the ODBD Store! To make it a little more fun ... the prizes are hidden on three different blogs and you won't know which ones, so be sure to leave a comment on each DT blog, because three blog owners will be choosing a winner from their commenters now through Aug 2, 8pm Eastern! 

So grab your favorite beverage and enjoy the hop! 

Be sure to return to the ODBD Blog and leave a comment there that you completed the hop and left comments for everyone, noting there if there were any you could not comment on.

The hop will close at 8pm eastern tomorrow night (Aug 2).

The winners will be announced Tues. on the ODBD Blog!

My card above is made with the new set called Harvest Blessings.  I just love this set!  Sunflowers are so pretty!  I masked three of the sunflowers from the five that are in the image and colored them with copic markers.  I did this twice so that I could cut out the flowers and leaves and pop them up a little bit!  I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to place the sentiment.  I made the cute little bow with my Bow Easy!  The cuttlebug backgrounds are Victoria and part of the Preserves Collection.

And here is my second card!

I used the new set called Don't Worry for this card.  Worry is something I struggle with so much!  I know the sentiment and scriptures will speak to many of you out there too!  I wanted to make this a happy card, so I used that cute Cuttlebug folder called Bloom Dots.  I colored the flowers with copic markers.  I stamped the sentiment over the blooms and then stamped it again with Versamark and embossed with clear embossing  powder for a little bit of a shadow effect.  Again I used my Bow Easy for the little bow, and I added brown Flower Soft to the flower.

Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoyed my projects today. 

From here, hop over to the superbly talented Chris to be inspired and blessed!

Four More Dirty Challenges!

Hi everyone!  Here are four more projects I made for the Dare to Get Dirty Challenges on Splitcoast!  This first one is one of those little pocket New Testaments that I covered with designer paper and this wonderful scripture from Our Daily Bread designs Scripture Collection 4!  I added a little ribbon bookmark too!

And here is a Lindt chocolate bar that I covered.  Just added a pretty bow and the birthday tag!  Easy!!

I have had this little band-aid box for a couple of years now and finally altered it thanks to one of the dirty challenges!  Yay!!!  Wouldn't all the above projects make a cute little gift for someone?  You could fill the band-aid box with candy or money or a gift card or... band-aids...LOL!

Here is the last one I am showing today!  The little flowers are cut out and attached with glue dots for a little dimension.  The last three projects use the StampinUp! set called Happy Moments.  

All projects use SU! cardstock and designer papers. 

Here are all of the challenges I used:

DTGD10debbiedee

DTGD10Toy

DTGD10Edna15

DTGD10LodiChick

DTGD10rainy

CHA CHA CHA...Wait, I Mean...ELVIS!!!!

Hi everyone!!!  It's Be Inspired Wednesday and we at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog 

are celebrating CHA this week!  Since most of us can't really be at CHA we decided to go 

with a musical theme.  CHA CHA CHA!!!  And really, wasn't Elvis just an incredible singer?!  

I decided to go with a simple layout and color scheme on this card.  

Black and white with just a touch of blue.  

The background was embossed with the Provocraft Cuttlebug Embossing Allegro Folder #37-1641.  

I stamped Elvis and the sweet sentiment both by Cornish Heritage Farms with Stazon black ink, cut it out and layered it with 

Spellbinders Ovals.  I added ribbon, thread and a musical charm.  

And then just for fun, I added a tiny rhinestone in the letter 'o' of the sentiment!

To see more musical inspiration, go check out the Be Inspired Wednesday creations at the 

Cuttlebug Challenge Blog!   We love having you visit!  

Hope you have a wonderful week and see you soon!