Hello on this rainy day..........

here in Southern Arizona.  Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! I have some exciting news. Remember that very shabby chick card I shared with you all on Friday? Well, it was amongst the Terrific Top 3 at the CR84FN Color Challenge  ....YEAH!!!  This was my first time playing and I think I found a challenge that I will be playing quite a bit now. ;D  See, Mona chooses colors that you would usually not necessarily use together and for me that is one more reason to get out of my comfort zone. :D:D 

As a Terrific Top 3 you'll get this badge right here

I will display it on the sidebar, but wanted to share with you all!! :D:D

Also, I have a card to share with you that I made last week and totally forgot to post.

I am still using my Basic Grey Curio paper...I tell ya, I can't get enough of that stuff. It is just too awesome to put out of sight!

So here we go, this is my

Oh sing to the Lord......

card. And these are the  ingredients I've used to put it together.

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Rustic Cream, Dark Chocolate, Lemon Tart, Basic Grey Curio

Stamps: ODBD Sing To The Lord

Ink: Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Vintage Photo, Tea Dye

Accessories: Spellbinders Neastabilities Lacey Squares, Labels 16, May Arts brown crochet lace, scalloped lace from my stash, Prima Winter Rose Vanilla Ice, handmade stick pin, Studio 112 (Joann's $ bin) half pearls, foam tape

I know I have been making a lot of my stick pins again, but they just feel right with this yummy Curio paper! :D:D

Well, this it is for today. Thanks so much for stopping by to make my day.

Remember tomorrow is "New Release Day" over at Our Daily Bread Designs, you sure don't want to miss these amazing new stamp sets. Some of my Design Sisters have shown sneak peeks and if you are struggling with masculine cards, this release will change that forever!!!!  Oh, before I forget, there will be some AWESOME prizes to win as well, so mark you calendar. I will be hopping along side you as I can't wait to see what these super talented ladies have come up with!

Have a fabulous day my friends!!

Hugs,

ODBDSLC46..........Blue, blue everywhere

Hello and happy Saturday my stamping friends!! Are you in the mood for a blue card today?

This week's Challenge:

ODBDSLC46 “The blues” Now that the holidays are over and winter is beginning to drag on…we want to see blue on your creation (not just a little…a lot…as a main color)


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, February 3rd 2011. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not enter more than once. Additional entries without using ODBD stamps will not be commented on or will they qualify for prizes.


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 February 3rd 2011, at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC46. When creating your posts on blogs please include a direct link to the challenge.

All right, are you ready? I went all out and decked my card with anything blue I could get my hands on ;D;D.

Have a look and see for yourself


Let us therefore.......

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Soft Stone, True Black, SU Bordering Blue, Basic Grey Boxer

Stamps: ODBD Lift Up Our Hands 

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Broken China, Weathered Wood

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels  16 and 17, Fancy Tags, ZVA Creative soft blue pearl flourish,  Prima Belle Artes Aquarius Flower, roses, Dark Blue Dew Drops, hand dyed seam binding, handmade stick pin

I've decided to show you two  shots of my card so you can actually see all of the depth this card has. It is REALLY bulky ;D;D.  I think I need to make a enve-box for this one,hehe!!

Would you like to see what my Design Sisters have come up with? Let me just say "awesome" have a look and see what

Chris

Fran

Pat

Silke

have created!!

Remember you can find all of the details on the ODBD Blog  as well and what else that is going on at ODBD!

This is it for me for today!  Thanks so much for stopping by and making my day a happy day!!

Some of you might have noticed that the count down to my 2nd Blog Anniversary is going down, down down!

Stay tuned to find out what this years "Blog Candy" will be. ;D;D

Have a blessed and super creative day!!

Hugs,

Happy Friday.....

my stamping friends!!! Today I have a card to share with you all that I made for this weeks "CR84FN12" challenge.  This is my first time playing in this challenge...can't believe it took me this long as I, as often as Mona posts anything on her Blog , I am there to gaze at it forever!!  This weeks colors really spoke to me and I went for it. Here are the colors

and here is what I came up with



Missing You......

Recipe:
Paper:  PTI Kraft, Memory Bpx Gossamer

Stamps: ODBD Missing You, Waltzing Mouse Very Vintage Labels 10

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Studio G pink pigment ink, VersaCraft Sand

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacey Circles, Labels 10, SU embossing folder Vintage Wallpaper, MayArts pink crochet lace, hand dyed seam binding, Prima light pink flourish, Prima lavender ice rose, light pink roses, handmade stickpin,

What do yo think? Does this qualify for the above challenge?

Well, this is it for me for today, make sure you'll come back tomorrow for a new Shining the Light Challenge over at ODBD!

Thanks for stopping by and making my day!!

Hugs,

It is Thursday and that means.......

it is time for a new Stamping in Time Challenge (SNTODBD27) over at Our Daily Bread Designs!!! 

The assignment is Our Daily Bread Design stamps. The challenge this rotation is "All about Love!" Love can be conveyed in many ways. You can use sentiments, stamps, or designer papers that use the word love or have a heart on them! You can use scriptures that actually use the word LOVE! Or, you can come up with your own idea about LOVE! Just let us know what you use to convey love!


Now on to what I came up with

Love one another.....

Recipe: PTI Rustic Cream, Dark Chocolate, SU Pretty in Pink, S.e.i. With all my Heart

Stamps: ODBD Love one Another,  Brocade Borders

Ink: Memento Ink Rich Cocoa, Palette ink Moulin Rouge, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Worn Lipstick

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 14, Classic Scalloped Hearts, Cuttlebug embossing folder (don't know the name it is one from a 6 piece set I bought at HSN), Martha Stewart Heart Lace border punch (used on the inside of my card), silver heart charm with rhinestone, Wilton paper doily, chocolate satin ribbon from my stash, red loop trim from my stash, Basic Grey Bling it rhinestone flourish, pink felt birds (they are felt confetti I found at the $ bin at Michael's) the little hearts are the punch out from the MS heart border which I added some red glitter glue to


What do you think? I've pulled all the colors used from the S.e.i. DP. Are you inspired? If you need just a little more inspiration check out what my Design Sisters

Angie

Betty

Fran

Grace

Pat (Guest Designer over at the Shining the Light Challenge for Jan/Feb)

Patter

have come up with, you will want to grab yourself a cup of coffee or tea and sit back and enjoy, because these ladies have created masterpieces!!


Now, it is your turn to play! Here are the guidelines!




•You must use ODBD Stamps! Other stamps allowed, but ODBD images need to be the focus!


•Use keyword codes SNTODBD27 when linking to SCS or public gallery.


•Be sure to use the LINK to be eligible for the gift certificate drawing!


•If you use either your blog link or online gallery, please give a link back to this challenge page.



The challenge runs from Thursday 9 am EST (January 27TH) til Wednesday (February 9th) at 6 pm EST. You have two weeks to enter. You can enter as many times as you like!



We are looking forward to see what you will be creating, make sure you'll add your wonderful creation to Mr. Linky on the ODBD Blog.


Well, this is it for me. Thanks so much for stopping by and making my day a happy day!!

Have a blessed and very creative day!!

Hugs,

Happy Hump Day......

stamping friends!!! I hope you all are having a fabulous week so far!!  I have a card to share with you all today that I made last week for Christian Paper Crafts and totally forgot to share here :C.  Angella Crockett, who is part of the Our Daily Bread Design Team is hosting a Bible Verse Thursday Challenge over at CPC every Thursday and she had such an amazing theme going last week, I had to play along. Angie chose for CPC BVT90 "Beautiful" and this is the card I made for it

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Ripe Avocado, Basic Grey Curio

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 1 , Brocade Borders

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Tea Dye and Vintage Photo, ODBD Olive

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 5, Fleur De Lis pendant (only the middle part), Recollections Rhinestones, Blue Moon head pin, glass beads and pearls, antique brass spacer beads, Prima Tea Rose Quarry, May Arts silk ribbon antique gold

I sure had tons of fun participating in this challenge, plus I was able to add just one more card to my stash of emergency cards ;D.

If you wish to find out more about this challenge head on over to  CPC and check it all out. This challenge does not have a time limit, so you can anytime you wish!!


Well, I'd better go and get some chores done. I wish I could just head on upstairs into the stamp cave, but laundry is still calling my name ;D.

Thanks for stopping by today my friends. I will see you all tomorrow, so make sure you come back :D.

Have a blessed and fabulously creative day!!

Hugs,

It's a Sketch.......

for this weeks Shining the Light Challenge # 45 over at Our Daily Bread Designs!!! Good morning my stamping friends, I hope you all had a fabulous week and are ready for the weekend and possibly some stampin' time ;D. This week we are having a super fun sketch for ya and I hope that all of you out there get to play!! Here is this weeks sketch

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, January 27,2011, 8 PM EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not enter more than once. Additional entries without using ODBD stamps will not be commented on or will they qualify for prizes.



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 January 27,2011 at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC45. When creating your posts on blogs please include a direct link to the challenge.

Now on to my creation :D. Let me tell you, when I saw the sketch my head started spinning and I already knew it was going to be one of those the more the better kind of  cards,hehe!!  Have a look and see for yourself


It is such a blessings.......

to see the card close up, please click on the picture

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Rustic Cream, Dark Chocolate, Basic Grey Curio

Stamps: ODBD Friendship

Ink: SU Close to Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Vintage Photo, Tea Dye

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacey Circles, Labels 4, Petite Ovals Large, Petite Scalloped Ovals Large, hand dyed seam binding, MayArts crochet lace, ZVA Creative Pearl Flourish
paper roses, Maya Road  Trinket Pin which I colored with a Copic marker, assorted glass beads, antique brass spacer beads

What do you think?  Oh, let me tell you, if you play along you will have lots of fun and remember there is the chance of winning a $15 gift certificate ;D;D. Need some more inspiration? Well, we have just that for you....check out what


Chris Olsen

Fran Gumprecht

Silke Ledlow

and our Guest Designer  Pat Smethers

have come up with. I am positive that you will dig those ODBD stamps out and play along ;D.

To see who won this weeks Awards and gift certificate head on over to the ODBD Blog.

This is it for me for right now. Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Have a blessed and very creative weekend my stamping friends!

Hugs,

Happy Tuesday evening.......

stamping friends!!  I hope my American friends had a wonderful holiday yesterday. We did not do much, my oldest has been sick :C.   Anyhow, I was able to make a card the other day and did not post it, so today I am taking a few minutes to share a very Vintage card with you :D!!

Have a look and see for yourself

Faith.....

Recipe:
Paper:  PTI Vintage Cream, Ripe Avocado, Dark Chocolate, Basic Grey Curio (can I say that I am in LOVE with this paper :D:D)

Stamps: ODBD Faith

Ink: Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Vintage Photo, Studio G pigment in Bark

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 4, handmade flower using the new Cricut cartridge Mother's Day Bouquet, May Arts crinkle ribbon in brown, ZVA Creative pearl flourish, Maya Road Antique Pearl Trinket Pin, antique brass spacer beads, glass beads, Studio112 half pearls, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, Glimmer Mist Iridescent Gold


This card was so much fun to create and came together rather quick too!  Don't you just love when you have an idea floating around in your head and you start looking for the right paper and embellishments and the next thing you know the card is done....love it!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by and making my day!

Have a great and creative week my stamping friends!!

Hugs and blessings,

Good Saturday morning...

stamping friends!!  I hope you all had a fabulous week and are ready for a new Shining the Light Challenge.


This week's Challenge: Wing your creation...your image, embellishments, or DP must contain anything with wings.



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, January 20, 2011. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not enter more than once. Additional entries without using ODBD stamps will not be commented on or will not qualify for prizes.


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 January 20, 2011 at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC44. When creating your posts on blogs please include a direct link to the challenge.

So, lets move on to my creations. Yes, you have heard right, I have two creations to share with you today. For my first card I combined a new and an old stamp set. The new one is Single Butterfly  and the old one is from Scripture Collection 3


Be still...........

Recipe:
Paper: PTI Vintage Photo, Dark Chocolate, SU Certainly Celery, Prima Fairy Flora

Stamps:  ODBD  Single Butterfly , Scripture Collection 3

Ink: Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Vintage Photo

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Beaded Circles, Standard CirclesLarge, Cuttlebug embossing folder Victoria, Recollections golden half pearls, yellow paper roses, ODBD Butterfly die, MayArts leaf chain ribbon, MayArts cream cotton crochet lace, Sakura Gel pen, Copics: R02,R20,RV43
Tim Holtz Distressing Tool


and on to my second card, I just love that Prima Fairy Flora paper and had to use it again ;D

Your love o Lord.....

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, Ripe Avocado, Prima Fairy Flora

Stamps: ODBD Single Butterfly, Faith

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Tea Dye, VersaMark, golden detail embossing powder

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilites Labels 5, Big Scalloped Ovals Small, Fancy Tags, ZVA Creative pink rhinestone flourish, paper roses in pink, light pink and ivory, MayArts leaf ribbon cut up and used as leaves under the roses, ODBD Butterfly die


All right, what do you think? Doesn't this awesome butterfly fit perfectly in this fun challenge this week? It was tons of fun creating both of these cards and I hope that you will join us and share your creations as well. If you get to play remember we have a Mr. Linky tool on the ODBD Blog where you can add your creation and please make sure that you'll put your name  and not the name of the picture as your description. We love coming by to see you. :D

Do you think you need a little more inspiration? Well, we have just the thing for you. Have a look what

Chris

Fran

Pat

Silke


have come up with. These ladies will blow you away, seriously!!!

All right, this is it for me for right now. I hope that I will get to play a little today, but with my DH home that usually does not happen ;D

Thanks so much for stopping by and showering me with your comments. I do not take any of them for granted and truly enjoy reading each and every one of them!!

Have a blessed and creative weekend!!

Hugs,

Welcome to our first Shining the Light challenge.......

for the New Year!!!! Hello stamping friends, today is the first challenge for the year at Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge. If you missed our last winner's post, you may not know that we have two new players. The ever so talented and sweet Silke Ledlow is back as a challenge team member for Our Daily Bread Designs!! Welcome back Silke!! And can I just say, I am very happy that I am not the only alien here anymore,hehe!!  For those of you that don't know yet, Silke and I are both German and it is kind of fun having someone other than my family back home to talk German to. ;D;D
But back to business, we are doubly blessed since the ever so sweet and inspiring Pat Smethers will be joining us as a guest for the next two months. Welcome aboard Pat!! We are so excited to have them join us!!!!




This week's Challenge:

A new year has begun and an old year has ended....use something new and something old from your stash.



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, January 13. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not submit more than once. Additional entries without using ODBD stamps will not qualify for comments or prizes.


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 January 13 at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC43. When creating your posts on blogs please include a direct link to the challenge.

All right, let me tell you real quick what my old is, I've had these MayaRoad chipboard flourishes for ages and very seldom use them and for my new, I am using some Prima DP called Fairy Flora, which I just got last week.

And here is my creation


Yesterday is gone.........

Recipe:
Paper: PTI Rustic Cream, Dark Chocolate, Lemon Tart, Berry Sorbet
           Prima Fairy Flora

Stamp: ODBD Let us Begin

Ink: Studio G Bark Pigment Ink

Accessories: Spellbinders Lotus Pendant, Nesties Labels 3, Recollections golden half pearls, MayaRoad chipboard flourishes, Glimmer Mist Autumn Leaves, Prima flowers, handmade flower, paper roses (Nont Prima)

On my card today I opted out not to use ribbon as I wanted to really show off this fabulous paper ;D

What do you think, are you inspired to play along in this fun challenge or do you need a little more inspiration?

I tell you, you probably want to get a cup of coffee or tea and sit back and enjoy what my fellow teammates have created.  Have a look and see what

Chris

Fran

Pat

and Silke

have come up with!!! 

I hope you all get to play along and show off those ODBD stamps that you have. We always love coming by to see what you  have created!!! If you would like to see what else is going on at ODBD head on over to the ODBD Blog to read all about all of our other challenge.

Well, this is it for me for today. We are having a Fellowship Dinner at church tomorrow after service and I need to make a couple of Pound Cakes and Baked Beans.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Have a blessed and very creative day!!

Hugs,

It's a ribbon challenge......

and I just had to play along!! Hello my stamping friends!!! I hope all of you are having a good week. I had some time and while browsing in blogland the other day I saw the Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #15 where the theme is "something new plus ribbon" so you know I just had to play along!!! 

My something new is some awesome Prima Fairy Flora paper I just got last week and this is what I came up with


Count your blessings.......

Recipe:

Paper: PTI Rustic Cream, Kraft, Prima Fairy Flora

Stamps:   ODBD Full of Grace Collection  Blessings

Ink: Studio G Pigment Ink Rust, Tim Holtz Distressings Ink Tea Dye

Accessories: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 16, cream cotton crochet lace, seam binding which is weaved through my lace and then tied into one of those full bows, half pearls, MayaRoad chipboard flourish which is sprayed with Glimmer Mist in Autumn Leaves, shades of yellow paper roses (not Prima), ivory paper rose, butterfly, antique gold cheer up from my stash


I had so much fun getting this card together, I think I will be playing along in this challenge a lot more ;D;D

Well, this is it for today, I'll have to go and help my 5 y.o. with homework.

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Hugs and blessings,

Happy New Year......

my stamping friends!!! I hope that you all started your New Year out well! You might be surprised that I am posting on Tuesday, but I have some very special reason to do so. As you might have read on the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog  there is now a Scrapbook Team!!! Yep, Kelley, the wonderful owner of ODBD is reaching out to all of the scrappers out there and the people that would like to be scrappers, like ME!!! ;D. Kelley, chose Patter Cross and Chrissy Dickinson to be on this team, so they left the Shining the Light Challenge Team and now are part of the "Let your Light Shine" Scrapbook Team. I am still part of the Shining the Light Challenge Team, but when I saw the Scrapbook Teams first sketch, I just wanted to try it out, so today my friends, you will see yours truly very FIRST real scrapbook page. I have only made one page before, but it did not include a picture, it was just more of a experiment if you will ;DD. In other words, it was bad!!!

So, after I read the requirements I just went for it and I must say, it was really FUN!! Here are some more details for this new challenge

"Each challenge will run for the entire month, and we will display new pages from Patter and Chrissy, and/or the Breadsticks every Tuesday!!! How is that for inspiration? We will also try to add tips along the way. Okay, so are you ready for your first challenge? We have decided on a sketch challenge to help ease you into your first page.

Here is the sketch







and here is what I came up with


Sisters

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

Stamps; ODBD  Scripture Collection 1, Fleur De Lis Borders

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Tea Dye, Shabby Shutters

Accessories: Cricut Expressing, Cricut cartridge  Paper Lace (butterfly cut at 2"), Lyrical Letters (sisters cut at 3/4"), Accent Essentials (leaves), Spellbinders Peony die for the flower, Nestabilities Labels 14, half pearls, cream cotton crochet lace, ZVA Creative flourish, Glimmer Mist Iridescent Gold

So, what do you think about my FIRST real page?  I think I will try to play in this fun new challenge more often!!! ;D;D

If you want to play here are some guidelines (this is copied from the ODBD Blog


**You must use ODBD stamps on a scrapbook page of any size!
**Other stamps allowed, but ODBD images need to be the focus!
**Use Keywords ODBDLYLS1 and ODBD when linking to SCS or other public galleries.
**The same keywords will be used for this entire month of January!
**To be eligible for the $25 gift certificate, leave a link to your creation here using Inlinkz.
**All entries for the entire month must be linked to this first post of the month using Inlinkz.
**If you use either your blog link or online gallery, please give a direct link back to the challenge page.



The challenge runs from today, Tuesday, 4. Januar 2011 through Monday, January 31st, at 6 pm EST. You have all month to enter. You can enter as many times as you like, just remember to link your creations to this post. We will select a winner from ALL of the January scrapbook challenges for a $25 gift certificate to the ODBD Store!

Does that sound like fun or what? I am sure glad I gave this challenge a try it was actually awesome to step outside of my comfort zone!! 

Make sure that you stop over at Patter's Blog, she is this weeks host and made an awesome page!!

Well, this is it for today, I will be back for sure this Saturday with our FIRST Shining the Light Challenge for this year!!!  Make sure you come back to see me :D

Have a blessed day my friends!!

Hugs,