Acknowledge Him

 

Hi everyone!  I wanted to share the card I made for the Shabby Tea Room challenge this week.  I made my first flower with lace and ribbon and an old button!  I just did a straight stitch along the edge of the lace and also on the ribbon and then pulled it to create the flower!  I glued the ribbon flower to the lace flower and added the old button from my stash for the center!!!  To shabby it up a little I sponged it with ink.  How cool is that?  I know most of you have probably already done this but I am just so excited about this!  LOL!  Anyway, hope you all have a great Friday and I'll see you Saturday morning for the 

ODBD May Day Blog Hop!  Thanks for visiting!  

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

ODBD Scripture Collection 2

Neenah Cream cardstock

SU! Soft Suede cardstock

the Paper Studio designer paper

Cuttlebug Textile embossing folder

Spellbinders Ovals and Scalloped Ovals

Stazon ink

Tim Holtz Antique Linen ink

Zva pearls

Lace and ribbon and button for the flower

I also received the sweetest award today from a new blogger friend, Mariam!!!  

Thank you so much Mariam!  I appreciate it so much!  

I will be passing this along sometime next week, when I have a little more time! 

Our Daily Bread designs May Sneak Peek

Hi there!!!  I've got a sneak peek for you today!  It's almost May if you can believe it and so it's almost time for more ODBD stamps!  Yay!!!  This card features one of the new sets called As You Graduate.  The image and scripture are stamped with Stazon ink onto vellum paper.  I layered this onto a Kraft piece and then framed it with a punched border.  I stamped the image again onto Kraft and cut out the butterflies to add to the image. They are sprayed with Suede Glimmer mist and it's such a great match to the Soft Suede cardstock!  Can you believe there is no embossing and no ribbons or pearls on this card?!!!  LOL!!  I just added the photo corners to finish it off.  Now, don't forget to come back on Saturday for our release day hop! Can't wait for you to see all the new sets!!!  Thanks for stopping by!

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

ODBD As You Graduate

Soft Suede, Kraft and Black cardstock

Vellum

Suede Glimmer Mist

Stazon ink

SU! border punch and photo corner punch

Scor-Tape

Be Inspired Wednesday #81

Good morning!!!  It's another Be Inspired Wednesday here!!!  For our Cuttlebug Challenge this week we are creating purses.  I used my ProvoCraft Cricut to cut out this sweet little purse using the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge.  I ran the die cut through my Cuttlebug too, with the Tiny Mosaic embossing folder.  To give it that look of leather, I sponged it with two Tim Holtz distress inks and then spritzed it with two shades of Glimmer Mist.  The tag is stamped with a word masked from a sentiment from Our Daily Bread designs set called Mom.   Thanks for joining us this week!  Go check out the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has to show you today and then become a follower!  There is so much inspiration on that blog, that you can't help but find something to that speaks to you!!  And this is the last week to enter to win the ProvoCraft Cricut Cake Machine!!!!   Thank you for visiting with me today!

Here are the supplies I used for this project:

ProvoCraft Cricut Machine and TBB&M cartridge

ProvoCraft Cuttlebug and Tiny Mosaic embossing folder

Our Daily Bread designs stamp set Mom

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo and Antique Linen inks

Memento Black ink

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists Suede and Pearl

Pretty little Prima flowers

Ribbon

SU! Tag punch (I was able to make tag a little longer so the word would fit)

Beacon Zip Dry adhesive

Anna Griffin Designer paper

Challenges:

Cuttlebug Challenge Blog-Purse-onality

Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenges- Project for Mother

Our Daily Bread Blog Challenges-Project for Mother

Strength and Dignity

I played in the Tea Room yesterday!  The Shabby Tea Room that is!  

Debbie and her team provided a sketch inspiration for this week's challenge.

Go check it out!

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

ODBD Mom stamp set

Neenah cream Cardstock

Anna Griffin Designer Paper

Translucent Vellum

Prima Flowers

Versamark and Black Embossing Powder

Stamp-a-ma-jig

Scor-Pal and Scor-Tape

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo and Antique Linen ink

Cuttlebug Flourish Borders

Zva Pearls

Velvet  Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Be Inspired Wednesday #80

Good morning!!! Hope your day is starting off great!  

We've got some great things to show you today over at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog. 

It's Be Inspired Wednesday, and the design team was challenged to decorate Shadow Boxes!  

I found a green 5x7 shadow box at Hobby Lobby for half price to use for my project.  

I painted it with a cream colored acrylic paint.  For my background, I ran a piece of designer paper

from the Paper Studio through my Cuttlebug with the Damask embossing folder

and sponged it with SU! Chocolate Chip ink.  

I cut the Chocolate chip cardstock oval with a Spellbinders die and it is also sponged.  

Then I layered all four of the Spellbinders Crosses using Neenah Cream cardstock for 

the center of the oval.  I added a pearl to the cross.  Then on the outside of the glass, 

I added the Cuttlebug Vintage Corners and added little pearls there too!  What do you think?  

Now, head on over to the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog for some more inspiration!  

And don't forget to check out the Cricut Cake give-away!  

I can't wait to see who wins this fantastic new product created by ProvoCraft!!! 

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Blue Roses and Birthday Blues

Hi everyone!  I've got two cards to share with you today!  

Both cards use the same simple layout and colors but both are very different.  

If you know anything about me, you know that I struggle with the clean and simple concept of card-making.  And so, I've been studying some of my fellow ODBD sisters and practicing!  

Although, as you see, I can't get rid of my layers!  

This first card is very feminine.  I colored the image from the new Mother's Day set called Mom, 

with copic markers and paired it with a scripture from the Love One Another set.  

I added teeny tiny white dots in the center of the large flower with a white gel pen.  

And then finished it with a pretty bow and a lovely cross charm.  

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

ODBD Mom and Love One Another

Neenah Cream and SU! Blue Bayou Cardstocks

Anna Griffin Designer Paper

Cuttlebug Victoria embossing folder

Copic Markers G85, Bg93, BG72, BG75

White Gel Pen

SU! Vanilla Ribbon and Silver Cord

Bow Easy

Cross charm

Spellbinders Square Nestabilities

And here is my clean and simple masculine card using the two new Father's Day stamp sets!  One of my favorite ways to stamp is to scribble some re-inker onto an acrylic block and dab it onto the stamp before stamping.  When you ink the stamp this way, it seems to really soak into the cardstock and you can feel the impression of the ink in the paper!  I'm not sure how to describe it!  

Just adding the brad that looks like a screw finishes this masculine card!  

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Happy Father's Day and Dad

Neenah Cream Cardstock

SU! Blue Bayou Cardstock

Basic Gray Designer Paper

SU! Not Quite Navy re-inker

Spellbinders Square Nestabilities

Thank you so much for visiting with me today!  

Have a great Tuesday!

Happy Birthday Boy!

Today is my grandson's 4th birthday!  And he is all about all super heroes and transformers and who knows what all!!!  I googled free transformer coloring pages and I found this transformer thing, guy, whatever it is!  I followed the sketch on the Midnight Madness blog for this card.  I printed the image and colored him with copics and cut him out with a cuttlebug puzzle die.  I also cut out some thin chipboard with the same die and then glued the cardstock pieces to the chipboard pieces.  Well, he loved it and told me the name of the transformer, but do you think I remember what it was?!  No!  Oh well, he loved the card and that's what counts!  Happy Birthday sweet boy!  Grammie loves you!!!

More Vintage Mother's Day Cards

Good morning!!!  I have totally gone vintage lately!!!  But I love it!  

This card follows yesterday's SCS sketch and today's Dirty Dozen Vintage Theme.  

The Our Daily Bread designs images are colored with copics.  

I did 're-arrange' the flowers a little bit to better fit the design.  

I did lots of sponging for that aged look.

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Happy Mother's Day, Mom, Vine Borders

Anna Griffin designer paper

Neenah Cream cardstock

Pretty in Pink cardstock

Copics G20,RV32, RV34,YG95, YG97

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Martha Stewart border punch

EKSuccess border punch

Cuttlebug Textile embossing folder

Zva pearls 

Tim Holtz Antique Linen ink

Memento Black ink

For this card I used the challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room!  The challenge was to use squares in your shabby design.  And so I did!  She provided a beautiful photo of a vintage quilt for our inspiration.  This also fits this month's Dirty Dozen Vintage Theme!  I cut the designer paper into squares and attached them to the cream cardstock with my little Xyron sticker maker.  Then I ran it through the cuttlebug with the Textile embossing folder to get that quilted look.  And again I sponged it to get the antique feel.  

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Happy Mother's Day, Mom

Pretty in Pink cardstock

Neenah Cream cardstock

Anna Griffin designer paper

Cuttlebug Textile folder

Spellbinders scalloped circles

Zva pearls

Prima flowers

Pretty in Pink ribbon

Bow Easy

Memento Brown ink

Tim Holtz Antique Linen ink

Be Inspired Wednesday #79

Good morning!  

Today is Be Inspired Wednesday over at the Cuttlebug Challenge blog and today we are showing you how you can decorate plain, inexpensive t-shirts using your cuttlebug!  I had never tried anything like this before so I chose to keep it simple.  I used felt that is stiff instead of the regular felt.  

It's very easy to get a clean cut with your cuttlebug. 

I cut the flowers with the 2x2 flower die #1 and sewed them on, attaching a button too.  

Here is a little closer view of the shirt.

 And of course, I had to make a card to go with the shirt, right? 

Here are the supplies I used:

Pink t-shirt from Michael's

Provocraft Cuttlebug Flower die

Provocraft Cuttlebug Welcome Baby Combo

SU! cardstock and birthday stamp

yellow buttons and floss

pink felt

Don't forget that this month, we are giving one lucky winner a Cricut Cake!!!!  Sign up to be a follower of the Cuttlebug Challenges and find out how you can win this fabulous prize created by Provocraft!

Cricut Cake Give-away here

Shabby and Pink

 

Hope you are having a great night!  I'm still working on Mother's Day cards!  This is one I did for the Our Daily Bread designs sketch challenge!  Go check it out and play with the Challenge Team!  They have some incredible inspirations to share with you!  Thanks for stopping by tonight!

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

ODBD Happy Mother's Day

Neenah Cream cardstock

SU! Pretty in Pink cardstock

Anna Griffin designer paper

Zva pearls

Prima Flowers

Cuttlebug Victoria embossing folder

Tim Holtz Antique Linen ink

Spellbinders circle and scallop circle

SU! Pretty in Pink ribbon

Bow Easy

Vintage Roses for Mother

 

Hi everyone!  I played in the Shabby Tea Room today!  What a fun blog!  Unfortunately I didn't read the challenge very well, because I was only supposed to use one other color with my cream or white card!  But I did use all very muted pale colors so hopefully I won't be disqualified completely!  This Our Daily Bread designs image is colored with copic markers and the oval is sprayed with Pearl Glimmer Mist.  I sponged Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress ink on the edges of the Anna Griffin designer paper.  I added lace and Zva pearls to complete the card!  Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great week!

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Mom and Happy Mother's Day

Neenah Cream Cardstock

Anna Griffin designer paper

Zva pearls

Lace

Spellbinders Oval and Scalloped Oval

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink

Memento Brown ink

Copic markers:

E000, E31, E41, R00, R20, R83, G20, G21, Y21, YR21

Glimmer Mist Pearl

Blessed is the Man

 

Happy Saturday Night!  I started this card several nights ago and finally finished it tonight!  It was one of those that I had to stop because I wasn't sure what to do next.  This evening I ran across this Copic Color Challenge Blog and decided to play!  The colors for the challenge are YR16, BG49, and E18.  I don't have YR16, so I used YR18.  I also used E77 and N3.  I had already heat embossed this great tool box from Our Daily Bread designs so just filled in with the colors.  The YR18 doesn't show up very well against the brown on the tool box but the BG49 really brightened things up a bit!  This copic color prompted me to add the Taken With Teal layers and accent oval to match which made a drab card so much better!  

Thanks so much for looking and hope you have a great Sunday!

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Happy Father's Day and Dad

SU! Kraft, Taken With Teal cardstocks

SU! designer paper

Cuttlebug Moroccan Screen embossing folder

Spellbinders ovals and square

SU! Photo Corner punch

Cotton Twill

Bow Easy

Versamark, Memento Black ink and Black embossing powder

Heat Tool

Glue Glider Pro

SU! Basic Gray ink

Screw brad

Another Word For Love

 

Hi everyone!  Hope you are all doing good!  I wanted to show you this card I made for the Midnight Madness sketch and the Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge this week.  The challenge at the SSCC is to include the word Love on your card.  Well, in my humble opinion, Mom is another word for Love!  

I used a  new stamp set from Our Daily Bread designs, appropriately called Mom.  

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Mom

Neenah White cardstock

Anna Griffin scrapbook cardstock pack

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Spellbinders Ovals

Spellbinders Labels Ten

SU! pink ribbon

Bow Easy

Pink jewels

Glue Glider Pro

Thanks for visiting!!!

Be Inspired Wednesday #78

 

Happy Spring!  It's  been so beautiful here this week, even with the pollen!  Achoo!!

This week, over at the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog, we are focusing on Baby Shower projects.  If you haven't checked it out, today is the day!  I promise you will find some wonderful projects to inspire you.  For my card today, I chose to use this wonderful Noah's Ark stamp from Our Daily Bread designs.  I chose the Houndstooth Embossing folder because I think it looks like I quilted baby blanket!  The words are from the Welcome Baby combo set.  Hope you have a wonderful day and thanks for visiting with me today!

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Noah's Ark

Provocraft Cuttlebug Houndstooth embossing folder 

Provocraft Welcome Baby combo die

SU! So Saffron, Taken with Teal, Chocolate Chip cardstock

SU! designer paper

Neenah Cream cardstock

Spellbinders Labels 6 die

 Memento Brown

So Saffron ink

SU! Slot punch

Bow Easy and ribbon

Buttons

 

Will The Real Sandee Card, Please Stand Up!

We had so much fun playing our little April Fool's Day joke on Kelley!  

She was such a good sport and she worked hard all night long guessing 

who made what and she prevailed!!!  

If you have been following along, the DT at Our Daily Bread designs, 

cased each other's cards and posted them with a Guess Who watermark!  

I had the wonderful opportunity to case one of the amazing Grace's cards!

I used the new Father's Day set that was released yesterday. 

Hope you got to play along too!

Here are the supplies I used:

Our Daily Bread designs Happy Father's Day!
Memento Tuxedo Black and Tim Holtz Vintage Photo
Chocolate Chip, Kraft cardstocks and Parisian Breeze dsp
Neenah White cardstock
copics
Cuttlebug Diamond Plate folder
Manly Brads ( I cut off the brad part and attached them with glue dots)

Thanks for stopping by!

April Fool's Day Fun!

 

Good morning!

If you landed here from the Our Daily bread Blog, then you are going the right way!  Today is April Fool's Day, and the ODBD team has been up to a little mischief!  But before we get into that, here are the basics on today's release and how you can win a gift certificate to purchase some of these fantastic new sets!

For today's New Release at Our Daily Bread designs, we are not doing a "formal Blog Hop", but the team has all posted a card using the new sets and are linking each other in their posts.  There are no secret words or letters to collect. However, just like in a blog hop, there will be prizes for viewing every DT's blog, leaving comments on all those you can, and returning to the ODBD Blog to tell us you have done so.  Two winners will be randomly chosen from those who do this, and they will each receive a $15.00 Gift Certificate toward stamps from the ODBD Store. (Note: the ODBD Blog can now take anonymous comments so everyone should be able to do this and if anyone cannot make a comment on any designer's blog, just state that in the comment at the end on the ODBD Blog) You have until 8PM Eastern on April 2 to complete these requirements.

Now for the fun part!!!  Today being April Fool's Day, we decided it would be fun to play a little game with the new release sets.  We each cased another DT member and then sent our card to that person to post on their blog today.  The fun is going to be to see how well Kelley really knows her team, because she is being asked to guess who created which card.  She is being asked to make a list of each DT member and write next to their name who she thinks made the card they posted.  It's all just in fun, but if you'd like to play along, we'd love to have you!  You can email your guesses to Grace at: gnywening@yahoo.com up until 8PM Eastern on April 2.  ONLY ONE email please!  The one or ones (in the case of a tie) who correctly guesses the most will be given recognition on the ODBD Blog when all the entries have been checked.

Here is the recipe for the card above:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs Mom (Image) and Happy Mother's Day (Sentiment)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo black, Brilliance Galaxy Gold (book pages)

Paper: Bazzill Green, BasicGrey Lemonaide Designer Papers

Technique: Colored image with Copics

Accessories: Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Edgeability, Spellbinders Label 7, Cuttlebug Swiss Dot Embossing Folder, Cuttlebug corner die cuts, ZVA Creative Satin butterfly, 1/4"pink satin ribbon, Stickles

Now to continue the fun, here are the next three designers after me:

Connie

Chris

Grace

Thanks for taking part in our fun today!