ODBDSLC166: Sketch

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs.


This week we are challenging you to use this sketch to inspire your card design:

Here is my take on the sketch:

Oh, I had such fun playing with the new Garden Mini Set and Garden Sentiments from Our Daily Bread Designs! These images went so perfectly with some Spring Market Designer Paper from Webster's Pages that I have been hoarding.

As soon as I saw the sketch I knew that I wanted to use my French Pastry Doily Die and French Pastry Mini Doily Die from Cheery Lynn Designs.

I found that great doily border punch on sale at Michael's this week! It's by EK Success and it's one of the deep edge punches.

My corners are Lace Deco Corners A also by Cheery Lynn Designs.

I loved distressing all the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink and it seemed to pull everything together nicely.

I hope that you will join us in our challenge this week. To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, August 18, at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see them!! As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs Stamps, we will be choosing three or more participants for the Shining The Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, August 18, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBSLC166. When creating posts on your blogs, please include a link to the challenge.


I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs/galleries and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

DJ Rants

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

ODBDSLC162: White or Ivory and Your Choice of One Other Color

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Shining Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs.

This week we are challenging you to use white or ivory and your choice of one other color in your card design.

ODBD Stamps Used: Daffodil Corner, Birthday Blessings

 

I had such a blast creating my card this week. I was able to incorporate lots of things I love like, bling, glitter, and beads! 

I started with a 5.5 x 5.5 card base made from Calypso Coral. To that I added a smaller square panel of Whisper White.  On the left side I added a strip of double sided Tacky Tape and then sprinkled on some Stampin' Up! ® Stampin Glitter. I stamped my Daffodil Corner and then colored it up with Copic Markers. Then I fussy-cut it out and adhered it to a lacy circle of Calypso Coral. Using an EK Success border punch I created a diamond border to which I added another strip of Tacky Tape and then covered it with seed beads. After I had my sentiment adhered to the card and the coral bling in the upper right hand corner, I went back in with my Viva Decor Pearl Pen and added some white pearl drops to the lacy circle. 

I hope that you will join us in our challenge this week. To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Sunday, July 21 at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see them!!

As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing three or more of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday,  July 21, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword  ODBDSLC162.  When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

I hope that you'll stop by my fellow designer's blogs and see their lovely creations for this challenge:

Cheryl Scrivens

Jan Marie Ennenga

Diana Nguyen

Chris Olsen

 

Thanks for dropping by today. God Bless You!

 

CDS: March New Releases

Happy Friday Everyone! It's the 15th at that means it's time for new releases at 

I'll be showcasing 2 of the new releases right here on my blog and you can see the rest at the Clearly iStamp Blog.

First up is Everyone is a Genius:

Supplies: Everyone is a Genius Digital Stamp Set by Clearly Digi Stamps; computer generated sentiment; EK Success Waves border punch; Photoshop Elements.

 


Next is Josephine Clematis...

  

Supplies: Josephine Clematis digital stamp set by Clearly Digi Stamps; K&Co. Watercolor Bouquet designer paper; Queen & Co. felt border; Spellbinders Lacy Circles; Concord Crush Distress Ink. 

 

I printed out the extra pieces that came with this set and fussy-cut all of them out and layered them from the base up with pop-dots to create a 3-D effect.

There are a ton of new digital sets being released today so be sure to stop by Clearly iStamp to see all the releases and fabulous samples from the Clearly Digi Stamps Design Team.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a blessed day.

The Perfect Sentiment: Piece it Together

It's Wednesday and time for another fun challenge at The Perfect Sentiment! This week we are challenging you to use your scraps of paper to build your background for your card. The ladies on the team did a fabulous job with this challenge and it's really quite inspiring so, I hope you will stop by the challenge blog and give it a peak.

Using my scraps from a recent card and my square and leaf punches this is what I came up with:

Supplies: scraps from Basic Grey, leaf punch and square punch by EK Success; decorative label punch from SU; River Rock cardstock; Thank You stamp from Gina K Designs.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Craft Room: Punches and Die-cuts
• Scrap Creations: Give Thanks
• Oldie But Goodie: Anything But Christmas and use something older than 6 mo. (I've had my square punch since I began scrapping back in 2006.
• Shopping Our Stash: Thank You or Thanksgiving
• Use it Tuesday: Be Thankful and use your stash (I made my card with scraps left over from a previous card and I pulled out my punches which I haven't used in forever!