Did someone say.......

it's Saturday? Yep, it sure is and this means that it is time for a new Shining the Light Challenge over at Our Daily Bread Designs .

This week the team is challenging you to"wing it". Include anything with wings on your creations...this can be birds, angels, butterflies, bugs, etc. It need not be your image...it can be embellishments as well or on your paper.



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 Thursday,
October 7. One random winner will be chosen and announced on Saturday 9.October 2010, since the Challenge Team is taking a break next week due to "New Release" day on next Saturday!!!!


While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them.As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by October 7, 2010, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC31. When creating your posts on blogs please include a direct link to the challenge.

Shall we have a look at what I came up with this week? I have to warn you ;D, this is a very CAS card for me, but I thought I challenge myself a bit and go outside my box of lots of embellishments,hehe!!

Are you ready? 

Recipe:

Paper:     PTI Vintage Cream, DCWV Mariposa Designer Paper and Mariposa card stock pad

Stamps: ODBD Peace   from the Full of Grace Collection

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black,

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 6, Petite Ovals Large, Recollections half pearls, Filigree gold tone butterfly (purchased at FireMountainGems), May Arts ribbon, foam tape


What do you think?  I think this card would actually fit in a regular envelope ;D.

Are those creative wheels turning yet or would you like some more inspiration?  Check out what


Chris

Chrissy

Fran

Patter

have come up with.

Well, this is it for me for today, we have a big day for the "Women" of our church today. We are having a "Day at the Pool" just for the ladies. Since we are having it at a hotel and not at a local pool we had quite a few ladies sign up. I'll let you all know how this event turned out....I am so looking forward to fellowship with these ladies.

Oh, a quick reminder....remember that this challenge will run for TWO WEEKS!!! More details can be found at the ODBD Blog

Thanks for stopping by today and have a fabulous and creative weekend!!

Hugs and blessings,

Hello on this beautiful Thursday......

my stamping friends. I have been running errands all week and needed some "Therapy Time" so this morning I've decided to sit down for a few minutes and make a card for the "Bible Verse Thursday" challenge 73 over at Christian Paper Crafts Magazine  . This weeks challenge is "Good News". This was real easy for me as I consider God's word "good news" .  Have a look and see for yourself.

If you remain in me...........

Recipe: 

Paper:    Stampin Up  Bordering Blue, Brilliant Blue, Designer Paper by Basic Grey "Boxer"

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs    Scripture Collection 4, Fleur De Lis Borders

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Studio G Blue, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Faded Jeans, Broken China, Weathered Wood

Accessories: Spellbinders Nesties Labels 16, Recollections half pearls, ZVA Creative half pearl flourish, ZVA Creative paper roses, Prima flower from the Roosevelt Collection, Dark Blue Dew Drops, foam tape, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, Scor-Pal


What do you think?   Doesn't this scripture give us the best promise and good news ever?

Well, this is it for me for today, my girls have their last day of school tomorrow. They will be home for the next three weeks. We are in a year round school district and they are already on their Fall Break...goodness...time just flies.  

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope I was able to inspire you.

Enjoy the rest of your day and be blessed!!

Hugs,

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness......

is this really true? Hello friends, I am super duper excited today, as I will be sharing something very special with you all today!!! You all know about the "Time with" that is happening every
Tuesday over at Our Daily Bread Designs, right? Well, I am the guest, so today I will be sharing a special little project I have been working on ;D. Do you ever sit at your desk and you run out of something....may it be glue or you are on your last piece of a certain color card stock and you don't have anything around to write down what you need to reorder or go out and buy? To be honest this happens to me all the time, so I have decided to make myself a decorative "note board" so to speak. It all started with a $ 3.00 picture frame from Walmart that I had bought on clearance a while back that was sitting in the closet of my guest/stamp room, some awesome DWCV Mariposa Designer Paper, an assortment of paper flowers, ZVA Flourishes and off course Our Daily Bread Designs stamps and don't let me forget some amazing May Arts silk ribbon. I cut the 12x12 Designer Paper to fit my frame, making sure I took full advantage of those amazing butterflies on it. Since I wanted the "white board" frame to be easily identified as such I cut the word "Notes" with my Cricut Expression and the Storybook cartridge at 1 1/4" and distressed them with some Tim Holtz Distressing Ink in Old Paper. To adhere them to the Designer Paper I used a Quickie Glue pen. Now that the inside was done I concentrated on the outside of my frame and wow, did I go for it ;D!!! I have never ever done a real Scrapbook page, only cards, but I looked at this frame as a Scrapbook page to have my "notes" all dressed up. I added bunches of flowers in one corner and one of my handmade stick pins on the opposite side I stamped one of the sentiments of the Full of Grace stamp collection Peace unto some Rustic Cream card stock and to dress it up a little more I stamped one of the brand new Brocade Borders around it and since I also bought the matching Brocade Borders dies, which ODBD now carries, I cut it out within seconds. To make it stand out even more I've added another layer underneath in form of the Spellbinders Labels 1 which I added with some foam tape to give it more dimension. To make the Brocade flourishes stand out a little more I colored in some parts of the border with some Copics in colors to match the DP and color scheme already going. Some ZVA Creative pearl flourishes were also added. This all was easy so far, right, now the real deal began by adding more of the flowers. Since this is supposed to be a "usable" frame I did not overdo it. ;D To give the upper left corner of the frame some attention too, I added some of this totally amazing May Arts silk ribbon in Antique Gold, but it felt that it was not complete yet, so I got out the "Don't Worry" stamp set and stamped the butterfly from it twice unto the same rust colored card stock I cut the word "Notes" out of and colored it in with a Sakura Pen in a metallic blue and popped it up with some foam tape right next to N. Viola, a fancy and pretty decorative "Note/white board frame" was born! :D:D. I will be using a regular pen size whiteboard marker and since the glass of the frame is a slick surface the whiteboard marker comes right off when I need to add some more notes. Have a look and see if this would be something fun to have sitting on your table or desk.





Recipe:

Paper: DCWV Mariposa, PTI Ristic Cream, Ripe Avocado, rust colored card stock

Stamps: ODBD Peace, Brocade Borders, Don't Worry (only the butterfly)


Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Old Paper

Accessories: Frame from Walmart, Nesties Labels 1, Brocade Borders Dies, ZVA Creative Pearl Flourishes, Prima Hydrangeas and other assorted paper flowers, mini roses (not Prima) foam tape, 3D glue dots, Prima Flower Centers, handmade stickpin made out of MayaRoad Crystal Trinket Pin, antique brass spacer beads and Jesse James glass beads, Sakura Gel Pen


Here are a few close up views of all of the dimension going on




























And here is a view of the frame for you to see how well the whiteboard marker works on it ;D























Well, I hope you have enjoyed visiting with me! I truly had a blasting good time being part of ODBD's "Time with" today. Get out those old frames that you might have and fancy them up and make yourself a "Note Frame".


Take care and be blessed!!


Hugs,

Did someone say it's.........

Saturday? Oh my goodness, this means it is time for a new Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge.......and wow do we have a good one for you !!



This week the team is challenging you to make your creations white and bright. Use all white on your card except for your stamped image and embellishments. That means no designer paper unless it is all white.

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 Thursday, September 23.



One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by September 23 at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC30. When creating your posts on blogs please include a DIRECT link to the challenge.


Are you ready to see what I came up with? I truly had to think out of the box ;D. You all know that I love Designer Paper and lots of different embellishments, but I made it work. I had this thing in my head and just went straight for it,hehe!! Most of the time I just go with the flow, but have a look and see for yourself




Get Well



Recipe:

Paper: PTI White

Stamps: ODBD Get Well
Ink: ODBD Dusty Rose
Accessories: Nesties Lacey Circles, white Venice lace with white satin ribbon weaved through, Sizzix embossing folder Damask, pink mini roses which I sprayed with Iridescent Gold Glimmer Mist, pink half pearls, pink May Arts ribbon


So, what do you think? I must say, I am very pleased with the way this card came out ;D. I hope I was able to inspire you some, if you need to have a little more inspiration you should head on over to my Design Sisters. They have come up with some masterpiece, let me tell you!

After your visit with me make sure you check out what

Chris

Chrissy

Fran

Patter

have come up with. I promise, you will not be disappointed at all!!

Thanks for stopping by today and making my day a happy day!

I hope you will have a blessed weekend and find some time to be creative. I am sure looking forward to see what you come up with. Make sure you add your creation to Mr. Linky on the ODBD Blog I can't wait to see!!!

Have a blessed day!!

Hugs,

Good morning....

stamping friends. Hope you all are having a fabulous Thursday so far.



It is time for Our Daily Bread Designs Stamping In Time Challenge(SNTODBD18)! The assignment is ODBD stamps. We have the super talented Cheryl Walker http://sweeetdesignsbycheryl.blogspot.com/2010/09/odbd-stampin-in-time-challenge.html as our challenge host this time. Cheryl is challenging us to use ribbons and lace! When you think of ribbon and lace you are not just limited to the fabrics. If you have die cuts, punches, or even stamps that have a ribbon or lace look, name, or design, those can work, too. However, you do have to use both! We would love to see what you create using Our Daily Bread Design stamps!





To keep it interesting there is also a prize to be won. ;D If you add your creation to Mr. Linky by Wednesday, 29. September 2010, 8 PM EST, you have a chance of winning a $15.00 gift certificate to go toward your stamp purchase over at the Our Daily Bread Designs Store. You can find all of the information over at the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog .



Are you ready to see what I came up with? Most of you know I LOVE lace and I LOVE ribbon, so this one was really not that hard for me,hehe. Have a look at my lacey and ribbon creation





And we know that in all things.......









Recipe:
Paper: PTI Kraft, Spring Rain, Rustic Cream, K&Company Blue Awning

Stamp: ODBD Scripture Collection 1 Romans 8:28

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Tea Dye, VersaCraft Sand

Accessories: Nesties Lacey Circles, Standard Circles Large, handmade ribbon flower, hand dyed seam binding, cream crochet lace, ZVA Creative Taupe half pearl flourish (cut apart), Maya Road Trinket Pin (which I colored with a Copic marker to match my project better ;D) antique brass spacer beads, glass beads, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, foam tape

Wheew.....do you think I have added enough ribbon and lace to make the cut for this challenge? :D:D

This week quite a few of the ODBD Design Team and Challenge Team have joined in in this super fun challenge make sure you head on over to them after you leave here to see what

Angie

Fran

Chris Dickinson

Grace

Connie

Chris Olsen

and our Guest Host Cheryl Walker

and last but not least Betty

Well, my friends, this is it for me for today. I hope you have enjoyed your visit today. Make sure you let me know that you came to visit...you know it makes my day a special day!!

Thanks for stopping in and have a fabulous and creative day!

Hugs and blessings,

Hi there and Happy Hump Day.....

my stamping friends!!! Hope you all had a great week so far! I have a card to share with you all today. I needed some therapy time yesterday and decided to make a card for this weeks The Shabby Tea Room Challenge where the theme for challenge # 27 is "Fresh Living"

taking the inspiration from this awesome picture

and to create a card or project inspired by NATURE and/or using GREEN! I went straight for my stash of green Designer Papers and settled on some awesome K&Company paper I just LOVE ;D. Here is my interpretation of this weeks The Shabby Tea Room Challenge

Psalm 46:10

Recipe:
Paper: PTI Rustic Cream, Ripe Avocado, K&Company Classic K Bailey

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 3

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Old Paper

Accessories: Nesties Labels 3, Cricut Expression and the Home Accents cartridge for the butterfly which I cut at 2 1/4" , MayArts white silk ribbon 1.5" wide, ZVA Creative Topaz Rhinestone Flourish, white pearl Dew Drops, Sizzix embossing folder Damask, foam tape, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, Glimmer Mist in Iridescent Gold for the butterfly, Maya Road Vintage Pearl Trinket Pin to which I added some antique brass spacer beads and some Jesse James glass beads in green

So, what do you think....does this card qualify for this challenge? :D:D

All right, I will keep it short today, got some running around to do. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a fabulous and very creative day!!

Hugs,

Happy Saturday......

my stamping friends!!! Are you ready for a fabulous new Shining the Light Challenge? Today
the Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge Team is challenging you to make is "SPARKLE"!!!! Yep, Challenge # 29 asks you to get out the Rhinestones, glitter or whatever you think makes your creation "SPARKLE"!!!!!





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 Thursday, September 16. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by September 16 at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC29. When creating your posts on blogs please include a direct ink to the challenge.





Would you like to see what I came up with? Off course you would, that's why you are here, right? I did not have any glitter...not a glitter girl....only have some Christmas glitter my girls used, but it was not gonna work for my card, so, I had to use some of my beloved ZVA Creative Rhinestone flourishes :D:D:D.





Have a look





"SPARKLE"

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Rustic Cream, Basic Grey Cappella

Stamps: ODBD Don't Worry

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Vintage Photo and Antique Linen

Accessories: Nesties Lacey Squares, ZVA Creative Taupe Rhinestone Flourish, Studio18 (Michael's $ spot) moss colored rhinestones, handmade stickpin using a Maya Road Crystal Trinket Pin as my base and adding a pearl, antique brass spacer bead and a topaz colored glass bead to it, handmade flower (made with the SU scalloped circle punch) , May Arts brown 1.5" crinkle ribbon (gorgeous stuff ;D), Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, foam tape

So, whatcha think? I know the "sparkle" does not really show up that well in the photo, but IRL it's pretty sparkly! :D:D:D

Would you like to see some more awesome creations and different interpretations of "sparkle"? My Design Sisters have created masterpiece that for sure will get those wheels of yours turning, if you don't already have been inspired ;D. When you are done visiting with me check out what

Chris

Chrissy

Fran

Patter

came up.

All right, this is it for me for today. Thanks so much for coming to visit with me.

Have a fabulous and very creative weekend my friends.

Hugs and blessings,

Say it ain't so..........

goodness, it is already Thursday!! Where has time gone? I have a card to share with you all today. Well, actually two! :D:D



For my first one I went with Fall colors. Don't know why I love Fall colors so much, but they have such warmth to them.




You encourage me.........

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Kraft, Dark Chocolate, Ripe Avocado, SU So Saffron, K&Company Classic K Bailey

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 2, Psalm 138:3

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Vintage Photo

Accessories: Labels 4,5, ZVA Creative Topaz Rhinestone flourish, May Arts Antique Gold silk ribbon, handmade stick pin, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, filigree butterfly

What do you think? Aren't those colors just so warm? On to my second card. This one is a little lighter in color ;D. I've got to use some awesome paper I bought a few weeks back called Queen Bee and it is by Pink Paislee. I tell you, every sheet of paper in this 6x6 pad is gorgeous!!

Are you ready? Here is my

Don't Worry card

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Lemon Tart, Ripe Avocado, Pink Paislee Queen Bee paper pad 6x6

Stamps: ODBD Don't Worry

Ink: ODBD Olive, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Antique Linen, Old Paper, Shabby Shutters

Accessories: Nesties Labels 5 and 14, May Arts Antique Gold silk ribbon, mini roses, handmade stick pin, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, foam tape

So, tell me, do you like it? I know I have been making a lot of these stick pins again lately, but I just can't get enough of them. They are addicting and with all of the supplies I bought over the past year or so, I will be making stick pins forever ;D;D.

Well, this is it for right now. Thanks so much for stopping by I will be back on Saturday when the Challenge Team over at Our Daily Bread Designs will have another awesome challenge for you, make sure you come back to see what we have come up with....you won't be disappointed!!

Have a fabulous day!!

Hugs,

Ready set go.........

for a new Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge! Today we are challenging you to use those "Forgotten Embellishments". You know we all have them...eyelets, brads, tons of buttons that we bought but never really used. Well, today you can get them out and use them. :D:D




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 Thursday, September 9. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday.


While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them.As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by September 9 at 8 p.m. EST.If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC26. When creating your posts on blogs please include a DIRECT link to the challenge.



All right, are you ready to see what I came up with? I have to tell you, I had tons of brads and eyelets, but I gave most of those to my oldest DD, who is 9 y.o. and loves card making almost as much as her mommy ;D;D, but I also had A TON of buttons. I very, very rarely use buttons on my cards, ever so often when I made a masculine one, so I got my bag of PTI buttons out and went for it,hehe. Wanna see?



Check this out




Thinking of You






Recipe:
Paper:PTI Rustic Cream, Kraft, Pink Paislee Queen Bee paper pad

Stamps:
ODBD Thinking of You

Ink: VersaFine OnyxBlack, Tim Holtz Distressing Inks Old Paper, Antique Linen

Accessories: Nesties Petite Ovals Large, Labels 9, PTI buttons, Recollections half pearls, Maya Road Trinket Pin, Prima Flower The Rosevelt Collection, Jesse James Sentimental Journey glass bead, antique brass spacer bead, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, foam tape, May Arts silk ribbon (which IRL does not look this brown...I could not get it to photograph right...sorry!!!!)

Oh, am I glad that we did this challenge......it was about time I got rid of some buttons ;D;D. To attach the button I added a strip of red liner tape which I totally forgot I had as well.

Would you like to see what my Design Sisters have come up with? All right, let me give you the links to these ever so talented ladies, but before you leave, let me me know you came by ;D.



Chris



Chrissy



Fran



Patter





Well, this is it for right now. If you want to read more about this challenge head on over to the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog. I hope I was able to inspire you and you have enjoyed my creation.


I wish all of you a very relaxing and happy long weekend.





Hugs and blessings,