Crave The Rose

Happy Saturday!  Hope your weekend is off to a great start!  I made this card for the inspiration challenge on SCS today.  The inspiration is from Dry Goods and I chose this photo.  However, while I had good intentions of coloring with like colors from the photo, well I changed my mind and went with colors of roses from my yard instead!  But I did keep the floral theme with a black and white background!  

The rose image and sentiment is from the new North Coast Creations set called Crave The Rose.  I colored with copics and cut it out with a Spellbinders Oval using the out of the box technique.  A Spellbinders Scalloped Oval frames it.  I used a Cuttlebug folder to emboss the background and used the Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles for the card base.

Here is the full set:

Thanks for stopping by!  Enjoy your day!

Snowy Christmas Blessings

Hi everyone!  Hope you all had a great week!  Happy Friday!

I made this card with two of the new sets that ODBD just released!

Sparkling Snowflakes and Snowflake Sentiments

 

This is another CAS card which make them so much easier to mail!  The base and the tag are Kraft card stock.  The tag is a Spellbinders Holiday Tag die cut. 

 

I stamped a background of snowflakes with Ruby Red ink.  I stamped off the ink several times to get the lighter shade.  Then I ran the background through my Cuttlebug with a Snowflake embossing folder.  I used twine to wrap it up like a present and added a little rhinestone to the tag! 

I am linking this with Word Art Wednesday and SCS Ways to Use It challenge and CCC12!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend and see you again soon!

Five More Cards for the Christmas Stash!

Hi there!  The weather channel on my computer says the temp will be 110 degrees today!  Gee whiz wally, it is way too hot! Hope you are staying cool where you are!  

These are for my monthly commitment to the Christmas Card Challenge at SCS this year to do 5-10 cards per month!  My stash is growing!  Keeping it easy helps!  I used a Christmas cuttlebug folder to emboss the popped up square.  I added the snowflakes and buttons and a little bit of bling and that is it for this month! 

Please remember to join the ODBD designers tomorrow morning at 8 am for our new release blog hop!!!  Here is a link to the ODBD blog!

Thanks for stopping in and hope you have a blessed day!

It Is Well With My Soul

Good morning!  Hope you all have had a wonderful week!

Got a little sneak peek of a new stamp coming out Feb 1st from Our Daily Bread designs!  

Sheet music to the beautiful old hymn, It Is Well With My Soul! 

I wanted to try the Belleek technique that I enjoyed so much earlier this week!  I inked up my Cuttlebug Textile Texture folder with pink ink and then sponged off a little of it to help make it more muted.  Once I ran it through my bug, it was still a little too pink.  So, I went about trying to tone down the piece by painting it with white acrylic paint using a very light touch.  Then I also painted it with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist.  And then I even sprayed it with Pearl Glimmer Mist!  I finally had the shade and look I was going for.  

So then I did the same applications to each die cut.  I've used the Cheery Lynn Designs Fanciful Flourish, Spellbinders Squares, Fleur de Lis Squares, Blossoms Tags and Accents and the angel wings are from an old Spellbinders ATC die set.  The heart is made of wood and is also painted.  I stamped the music on the back ground of the card, stamping if off first on scrap paper and then also did the same painting technique to this piece.  You should have seen my hands!  After it had all dried, I put everything together, and added the little silver bow and tiny pearls. 

Here is a little tip:  I got a little too much paint on the sentiment tag, which covered up the song title too much.  So I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp it again which helped a lot!  What a wonderful tool!!!

I am sharing this card in the following challenges:

SSCC123-Heart

Sentimental Sundays #86-Die Cuts and Sentiment

TSTR98-Sparkly and Bright (Cream, Silver and a Touch of Pink)

Word Art Wednesday #12

Thank you so much for looking and I hope you have a beautiful weekend!

Blessings

Hi there!!!  I am playing in the Ways to Use It Challenge at SCS today!!!  There is a list of 2011 WT challenges and you are to use at least two of those challenges.  My card meets these past challenges:

WT346-Leaves

WT343-Pass me a Hot Beverage

WT330-Doily Deluge

WT329-Something Old/Something New (old Spellbinders Lace die and old Cuttlebug die)

WT-328-No White Card Stock

WT325-Die Cuts

WT316-Flowers

I colored this beautiful new image from Our Daily Bread designs called Birthday Blessings with copics. The card stock is vanilla.  The Cheery Lynn Designs Flourish is cut into several pieces to fit my design.  The tiny flowers are cut from a Cuttlebug die.  I added pearls to complete the card!!!  

Here is another card I want to share with you today:

This card uses the same image as the above card (Birthday Blessings) and is also colored with copic markers.  It is framed with Spellbinders die cuts and place on a background that is embossed with a SU! embossing folder.  I made the lace bow my Bow Easy and added a tiny button laced with crochet thread.  I colored the button with a copic marker to get a match to the image!

  

Thank you so much for stopping by today!  See you again soon!!!

Belleek Inspired

Hey y'all!   

What a fun challenge on SCS today!  The Belleek Pottery inspiration is amazingly beautiful!  So much beauty has been created so far for this challenge!!!  Here is my take.  I used the Cuttlebug Textile Texture embossing folder with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink for the background.  I sandwiched this piece between a frame made with two square Spellbinders and the Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Square.  The flourish is Cheery Lynn Designs and the tiny flowers are from a Cuttlebug die plate.  The butterfly is made from the Our Daily Bread designs 2-Step Butterfly and coordinating Butterfly die.  Just added pearls and a lace bow and then a few sprays of Pearl Glimmer Mist to complete the card!  This is also for the dry embossing challenge on the Cheery Lynn Designs Blog!  

Thank you so much for looking!  Hope you have a great evening!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Good morning!  I wish for you all a blessed and wonderful Thanksgiving Day!

Today, Our Daily Bread designs begins a special 'We Give Thanks to God' sale!  WooHoo!!!

Several of the 'Breadsticks' have projects with the theme of Giving Thanks to God to celebrate! 

 Head over to the ODBD Blog to check them out and from there, head on over to the 

ODBD Store to take advantage of this great deal!!!

I used the beautiful set called Give Thanks.  I colored the image with copics and cut it out with a Spellbinders rectangle.  The designer paper is embossed with a StampinUp! embossing folder.  I added some lace and pearls to complete the card!  Quick and easy!  

I am so thankful for all of you who take the time to visit with me!  

Thank you for stopping by today on this special day of giving thanks for all of our blessings!

  

Enjoy!

Thinking of You Today

Hi all!  I am late posting this as we had a family emergency but all is better now!  This is for today's Passionately Artistic Blog!  We are still doing summer inspiration so if you would like to link up your summer projects we would love to see!!!  

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

SU! set Elements of Style and Always in my Thoughts

Spellbinders Dies
Cuttlebug Preserves folder
Copics
White Elmer's painter pen
Really Reasonable Ribbon

I also used this week's color challenge at SCS!

Thanks for visiting and I will be back soon!!

August Sneak Peek

 

Here is a peek at a couple of new sets coming out August 1st from Our Daily Bread designs!  A beautiful floral border and a wonderful scripture from a different set!  The floral border was designed to fit in the Spellbinders Labels 18.  I colored the flowers with copics and popped up the scripture label with foam tape.  I used a copic to line the edge of the scripture label too.  The background paper is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.  I used glue to attach the two types of lace and then added the pearls border.  I made the lace bow with my Bow Easy and attached the bow and button with glue.  Added a few pearls at the top of the label and then sprayed the whole card with Glimmer Mist!  

We invite you to join us for our blog hop on release day August 1st!  

Y'all are gonna love these new sets!

Pink Butterfly, White Lace

Good morning!  Hope you are having a great week!  

I have another summer inspiration to show you that I made for the Passionately Artistic Blog! 

I cut out Cuttlebug Butterfly from sheet of Core'dinations cardstock and added it to the card base.  Then I turned the butterfly over and embossed it with a Cuttlebug Butterfly embossing folder.  I attached it to the cut out area of the card with Beacon 3-in-1 glue.  Then I attached the lace with the same glue, making gathers as I glued it to the card.  I glued the ribbon and bow to hide the 'seam'.  To finish the card, I added lots of pretty black rhinestones.  The swirls and tiny ones were not in their original packaging so I don't have the maker's information.  But the larger rhinestones are from Want2Scrap.

Thanks so much for visiting with me today!  Hope the rest of your week is full of joy!

God Bless Our Soldiers!

Hi there!  I hope y'all are having a great Saturday!  

My card today features two of the newest ODBD sets called Not Forgotten and Old Flag Background!  

I love these sets and they go together so beautifully!  I stamped each image and colored them with SU! inks, Not Quite Navy and Ruby Red and Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink,  using tiny cotton balls and one of those tools look like a pencil with an alligator clip on each end.  I am so sorry but I can never remember what those things are called!   I stamped the sentiment and cut it out with a Spellbinders Oval.  Then I layered each piece with SU! Soft Suede card stock.  You can see how the soldier image lines up with the flag background!   I added a strip along the left that is embossed with a row of stars.  I used one of the borders in a Cuttlebug Border set called Measure for Measure.  Then I added the brads and the ribbon.  The largest square layer is distressed with a distressing tool.  After attaching this to the card base, I sprayed the card with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist.  I used a couple of challenges for this card:

ODBDSLC67-Red, White and Blue It!

and

TSTR69-Red, White and Blue

Thanks for visiting! Remember to keep our soldiers in your hearts and prayers!

Sneak Peek!

Hi there!  I've got a quick sneak peek for you!  Our Daily Bread designs has some great sets coming out on the first!  This Sweet William is one of them and it coordinates beautifully with Spellbinders Blossom Three!  I cut the card base with the largest Blossom from SU! Blushing Bride card stock and cut one other to layer over the top of the base.  I ran this through my Cuttlebug with the Swiss Dots folder.  I stamped the flower onto some Basic Grey designer paper and detailed the flower with a SU! Pretty in Pink marker.  Recently, while making another card I used Martha's lace border punch to create a border of pretty circles from some scraps of SU! Blush Blossom card stock, but didn't use them.  I cut each circle out and added them to the larger blossom and to the center of the Sweet William.  The XOXO is from a new set perfect for scrap-bookers and card makers alike!  The set is called Large Scrapbook Words and will be available also on the first!  I cut this out with a Spellbinders tag and attached it to the flower along with some lace and those little things from the wedding section of Michael's (can't remember what they are called!) with a large pink brad from my stash.  The entire card is sprayed with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist.  

That's it!  Glad you stopped by for a peek!  See you again soon!!

A Blessing from God

 

Hope you are having a great week!  Here is my card for this week's Passionately Artistic Be Inspired Wednesday!  We are still using the theme of summer and what is more summery than a beautiful butterfly?  This card is kind of clean and simple for me huh?  The sentiment is a new stamp from Our Daily Bread designs called Each Minute.  The Oval and Lacey oval are Spellbinders dies and I used my Spellbinders Grand Calibur to cut them out.  The butterfly is also from Our Daily Bread designs.  It is stamped onto Core'dinations and cut out with the coordinating die.  The Core'dinations card stock background is embossed with Cuttlebug's Kassie's Brocade embossing folder.  I added vintage lace and beautiful black rhinestones from Want2Scrap.  That's it!  Thanks for stopping by!  See you again soon!!!

Kind Words are the Flowers

Hi everyone!  Here is another card with a new stamp from Our Daily Bread designs called Kind Hearts!  Such a great sentiment to use for a special thank you!  The background is embossed with the Cuttlebug Victoria folder.  The lace is vintage (love my vintage lace, courtesy of Mom!).  I punched all those little flowers with a SU! punch and smooshed them into a piece of foam with a stylus to make them perk up!  LOL!  

These are all glued to a Spellbinders Lacey Rectangle surrounding the sentiment.  I added pink stickles to each flower center.  The bow was made with a Bow Easy and I added little Martha twigs behind the bow!  

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a great night! 

For Eternity

 

Hi there!  I hope you all had a great weekend!  

I've got another card to share with one of the new stamps available this month from Our Daily Bread designs.  It is called Save Time and I love it!  I used to sing this song by Jim Croce over and over!  It is a classic!  A couple of things to note on this card, the swirls accents on either side of the frame are from the Spellbinders Floral Accents die set.  I hid the flower portion of the die cut under the lace and added the pink fuzzy brads over it.  The brads were 'smushed' into a Sahara Sand ink pad to dirty them up a little because they were a tad too pink!  I used pink pearls and white pearls.  And the whole card was spritzed with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist!  Thanks for looking and I hope you have a great week!

Here is my supply list:

ODBD Save Time

Various Spellbinders Dies

SU! White, Blushing Bride, and Sahara Sand card stocks

SU! Sahara Sand Ink

 Vintage lace

Pearls

Brads

Foam Tape and Beacon glue

Sizzix Embossing Folder

Glimmer Mist

Father's Day Inspiration

How are you this morning?  

The Passionately Artistic Team has a little Father's Day inspiration for you today!  

Here is a link to the Passionately Artistic Blog.  We invite you to visit with us!   

Here are the details of my Father's Day card:

1. The Our Daily Bread designs image and Dad sentiment is colored with tiny cotton balls and SU! inks.

2. Then inked image pieces with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo ink in a straight line over the whole image piece.

3. The BasicGrey designer paper is embossed with Cuttlebug Clock Works folder and inked with Vintage Photo ink.

4. The image layer and background layer are popped up on foam tape.

5. Finished the card with twine and buttons.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

Birthday Butterfly

Good morning!  

At the Passionately Artistic Blog this month we are featuring summer inspiration!  Here is my contribution for this week.  My background is embossed with a folder from the Cuttlebug Preserves collection and then inked with a Tim Holtz ink pad.  The butterfly is doubled and embossed with the Cuttlebug Victoria folder and also inked up.  The sentiment and the butterfly die cut are from Our Daily Bread designs.  Thanks you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a fabulous Wednesday full of inspiration!!

Here are the supplies I used:

Our Daily Bread designs Mini Tags 3 

Our Daily Bread designs Butterfly die

Neenah card stock and SU! card stock

SU! designer paper and Cuttlebug embossing folders

Various Spellbinders dies

Memento Black ink and Tim Holtz inks

SU! seam binding

Pearls

Glue Dots and Beacon 3-in-1 glue

Summer Dahlia

Good morning!  It's June 1st, can you believe it?  The Passionately Artistic Blog has some summer inspiration for you this month!  My card features a new stamp being released today from Our Daily Bread designs called Dahlia!  Stay tuned for ODBD's monthly blog hop later this morning!!  This Dahlia is so gorgeous!  I stamped it several times onto a scrap piece of designer paper, cut out the layers and then inked it up with a combination of Tim Holtz inks and SU! So Saffron ink.  I curled the petals with the help of a stylus too.  The whole card was spritzed several times with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist. 

Here are all the supplies I used:

Our Daily Bread designs newly released Dahlia stamp
Neenah Cream and SU! card stocks
K&Co designer paper
Cuttlebug and Cuttlebug Preserves Collection embossing folder
Stazon Brown, Tim Holtz Antique Linen and Vintage Photo and SU! So Saffron inks
Want2Scrap pearls
Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist
Button, lace, ribbon and Bow Easy
Glue Dots and Beacon 3-in-1 glue

Thanks for visiting!  I invite you to hop with us at Our Daily Bread designs beginning at 8AM today!

Christmas Card Challenge-May

Hope you all are having a great day!  I am enjoying the day off!  I have my May Christmas cards to show you today.  The SCS Christmas card challenge is proving to be such a help in keeping me motivated, so I will have them all done before Christmas!!!  All cards are the same except for the shapes that the sentiment is stamped on and the pearl treatments.  Thanks so much for coming by and I'll see you again soon!

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD His Gift stamp set

Neenah Cream and SU! Burgundy card stock

Hobby Lobby Designer Paper

Sizzix Embossing Folder

Stazon Black ink and Tim Holtz Distress ink

Various Spellbinders Dies

Pearls

Lace, Ribbon and Bow Easy

Encourage Someone Today

 I seem to be giving this type of card a lot in recent years.  When I am going through sad or stressful times in my life, the more I hear of others that are in need of encouragement and prayer.  Please make some time today to encourage someone you know.  Everyone is going through something...

This is for the Passionately Artistic Blog Be Inspired Wednesday post today.  The background is a piece of designer paper (I'm sorry but I can't remember the manufacturer) adhered to a piece of card stock and then embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder using my Cuttlebug.  

Here is a list of supplies I used:

Our Daily Bread designs Easter Blessings Set (sentiment)

Our Daily Bread designs Butterfly Single and Matching Die

Neenah White card stock and SU! Mellow Moss card stock

Unknown designer paper

Sizzix Embossing folder and Cuttlebug Machine

SU! Pearls

Spellbinders Oval and Scalloped Oval

Lace

EKSuccess Border Punch

I hope you have a wonderful day today!  Thanks for stopping by!