Our Daily Bread Designs 10th Anniversary Celebration!

Hello everyone!!  I'm stopping in today with some cards that I created using items from Our Daily Bread Designs' 10th Anniversary celebration!!  Sending a huge congratulations to Kelley (the owner of ODBD) and to ODBD for reaching this milestone!  Today and tomorrow ODBD will be showcasing cards from past design team members on their blog.  Back in late 2011 I had the honor of being  asked to become a part of the ODBD challenge team.  Of course I said yes and remained on the team through the end of 2012.  If you don't know ODBD creates beautiful faith based stamps and dies and for this 10th anniversary they are releasing a beautiful scripture based stamp set called God Verses 2 and a stamp set that focuses on faith based quotes called God Quotes 2.  There are also two die sets being release as well.   I was given the opportunity to work with the God Verses 2 and the newly released Filigree Circles die set.   As everything is being released today I am sharing what I created for the ODBD blog here on my blog.   When I received the stamps and dies I immediately knew I wanted to try to create a circle card with the dies.  To be able to cut all the little bits out of the largest die I made sure to use a metal shim and to run everything through my Big Shot multiple times.  Then I die cut the largest die from a piece of patterned paper from the ODBD Christian Faith paper pack and adhered it to the card base.  Then I had to decide on a verse to use.  I chose the Romans 8:31 verse because it is one of my favorites.  Instead of using white cardstock to stamp my verse on I used a soft gray that was similar to the gray in the patterned paper I used.  I die cut the sentiment with one of the medium sized dies from the set and then backed that with the second medium sized die using a dark purple cardstock.

My second card was created with a friend of mine's daughter in mind.  She is current dealing with a pretty debilitating health issue and the verse I chose really spoke to me about how despite everything she is going through right now God will not let her fall.  I kept things really simple on this card to keep the focus on the beauty of the verse.  I simply cut a piece of paper from the Christian Faith pack and adhered it to a white cardstock panel.  I used the same two dies that I used in the previous card for the verse and the mat.  This time I did stamp the verse on white cardstock and used a light blue for the mat.  The panel was then adhered to a cardstock base made from the same light blue.   I love how the pattern in the paper I used is similar to the set of dies that I used.

Finally my last card uses an older ODBD stamp set called Chickadee.  When I saw the verse that I used for this card I immediately thought about the Chickadee set and pulled it out of my stash of ODBD stamps.   I stamped the little bird on some off white cardstock and colored it very simply with Prisma color pencils.  I then trimmed down the panel and added a stripe of paper from the Christian Faith paper pack along one side.  For the verse I decided to stamp it in watermark ink on vellum and heat emboss it using platinum embossing powder.  Then I die cut the vellum using that second largest die from the Filigree Circles die set.  I attached the sentiment to the card using glue dots place behind the embossing so they would be hidden.  The panel was then adhered to a light blue cardstock base.  Again, a very simple design, but I really wanted simple to put the focus on the beautiful verses I was using.  Here are photos of the products I used:

Thanks for sticking with me through this long post!  I just want to say again that I am so honored that Our Daily Bread Designs asked me to share these wonderful new products with you!  You can find them in the ODBD store along with some specials that ODBD is running like saving $10.00 on your order at ODBD!   All three cards were given to the daughter of my friend to hopefully provide her with some encouragement during this difficult time she is walking through!

Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Supplies:  Cardstock: white, light gray and light blue; Paper:  Our Daily Bread Designs Christian Faith; Stamps and dies:  Our Daily Bread Designs; Inks:  VersaFine Onyx Black, Smoky Gray and VersaMark watermark ink; Coloring medium:  Prisma Color pencils

as you graduate...

Hello!!  Quick post of a card that I made for my friend's daughter who graduated this last weekend.   I combined the beautiful floral image from PTI's Garden Grace with a sentiment from a stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs called appropriately... As You Graduate.  I used my mini MISTI to stamp the floral image.  Because the die that matches the large floral image from Garden Grace is not open in the middle, but solid I had to die cut the piece first.  I then use some repositionable adhesive on the back so that I could have it stay in place as I did the stamping and it worked like a charm!!  I trimmed down a panel of white cardstock and stamped the sentiment off to one side.  A strip of gold glitter cardstock was adhered to my card base and then I attached the panel and the floral piece.   I think I will add this to the current Flower challenge of anything goes.   I'm also going to add this to the current Time Out challenge to be inspired by a quote.

Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white; gold glitter; Stamps:  PaperTrey Ink and Our Daily Bread Design; Dies:  PaperTrey Ink; Inks:  Stampin Up!

life is a journey...

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Hello friends!!   Hope all is well in your part of the world!  Have a little card that I made for a couple of challenges, Less is More:  Hexagons and CAS(E) This Sketch.  I received a slight knuckle rapping from Chrissie for last week's LIM card.  My transgression?  I used paper piecing!  I have to admit I was a bit surprised that she took me to task (in a nice way!) for the paper piecing because it is pretty much flush with the card base and in my estimation does not necessarily constitute a second layer.  But to each his own, lol!!  

For my card today I decided to use my distress ink and a honeycomb background stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I inked up the background with Wild Honey distress ink, laid the cardstock on top and then pressed lightly.  The piece was then trimmed down and the edges distressed a bit.  I punched out the circle, stamped the sentiment (from PTI's YOF: Gladiolus) in black and tied the twine around the piece.  Once that was done I adhered the piece to the card front using foam dimensionals.  The punched out piece was then adhered flush with the card base.  A little bee from a  old Cornish Heritage Farms set was stamped using Scattered Straw distress ink, trimmed out and adhered with a pop dot.  Some Diamond stickles was applied to the wings and I was done.  A very faithful interpretation of the CTS sketch, don't you think? 

Thanks for stopping by...

Supplied:  PTI Rustic White cardstock; Ink:  Ranger Wild Honey and Scattered Straw distress inks; Memento Tuxedo Black; SU! 1 3/4" circle punch; May Arts twine; Diamond Stickles; Stamps:  PTI, ODBD & CHF

He will rise....

Hello friends!! Easter is almost upon us and I have a card to share that I will be entering in the current Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge.  This card is a version of a card that is in the Spring 2013 issue of Card Maker magazine (that card can be found on page 34 of CM).  I was so very happy when Card Maker picked the card for publication because it gave me a chance to showcase ODBD stamps in a widely read papercrafting magazine.

For the card I used two different ODBD sets:  Loving Memories and He Will Rise.  The card base and the ribbon are PTI's Spring Rain.  The calla lily image was stamped using Memento's Summer Sky and the sentiment using Memento Tuxedo Black.  After tying on the ribbon I added a beautiful little cross charm that I received from the super sweet Sabrina.  Sabrina is one of the uber talented ODBD "sticks".  

Thanks for stopping by... I hope that you have a wonderful Easter with your families and are able to spend some time reflecting on what our savior, Jesus, did for us all!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Spring Rain & white; Stamps:  Our Daily Bread Designs; Inks:  Memento; Ribbon:  PTI; Cross charm:  unknown

life is like....

Hello friends!  Well it is still stinkin' cold here in Western Washington... like down in the low 20's cold, but thankfully NO SNOW!!

I have  a card for this week's Less is More challenge.   As I normally do on a Saturday morning I checked out what the new challenge would be and my heart sank a bit... the challenge was to make a card with a sports or exercise theme.  Once, again, I don't have many stamps that fit into that category.  Then I remember this fun Our Daily Bread Designs set I have called Bicycle.   People use bikes for exercise all the time and I have been wanting to make something using that set for ages.  So...since time was short (the boys and I had a hair appointment in the early afternoon and then church after that) I got to work, but I forgot one little thing... this week is the dreaded ONE LAYER week at LIM.  As I drove away from my house I suddenly realized that my card did not fit the challenge because it was more than one layer... darn!!    With the stamp set still out on my counter this morning I got to work.  The idea for the card came from a fellow crafty blogger, Christine, who made a lovely card using a bicycle.  She colored only portions of her image, which is exactly what I did here.  I stamped the bike and sentiment using Tuxedo Black ink and then colored only the flowers in the basket using the following Copic markers:  G20, G21, G24, R81, R83 and R85.   Probably took me about ten minutes.   

Thanks for stopping by and thank you Christine for the inspiration!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Our Daily Bread Designs, Ink:  Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers

Two Roads....

Hey there!!  Happy Sunday... I'm here with my card for this week's Less is More challenge.  Chrissie and Mandi have challenged us this week to use a "recipe":  find three previous Less is More challenges and combine then on your card.  

As I pondered the extensive list of past LIM challenges I knew that whatever three challenges I chose, they must work with the quote I wanted to use.   Last week Our Daily Bread Designs released its 4th Anniversary collection of scripture, quotes and sentiments.  As a member fo the ODBD challenge team I got the opportunity to contribute to this collection.  My contribution was the beautiful quote from Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken", which can be found in Quote Collection 1.  I absolutely love the way Kelley, the owner of ODBD, designed the stamp and the font that she used.    For my card I wanted to just let the quote take center stage and shine.  So, the three LIM challenges I chose are:  Week 15 - embossing; Week 49 - predominately purple and Week  55 - die cuts.   The image was stamped on white cardstock using dark purple ink and die cut using a Spellbinders plain rectangle die.  The largest die from the same set (I think large plain rectangles) was then used to emboss a frame on to the front of the purple card base.  I chose to use a purple card base because I felt it would allow the sentiment to stand out even more than on a white card base.  So... instead of lots of white space, I have lots of purple space...hee!!  The sentiment panel was then adhered using foam dimensionals.   Super clean and super simple!!

Thanks for stopping by....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & Royal Velvet; Ink:  Close to My Heart Pansy Purple; Stamps:  ODBD; Dies:  Spellbinders