Time with......yours truly!

Hello and good Thursday morning sweet stamping friends! Today I have the honor of sharing some time you you all over at the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog. You know that every two weeks one of the Designer gets to share a special project and today it is my turn. Since I have received a few questions on how I go about on arranging the yummy flowers I like to use on my creations I thought this would be the perfect time.

So grab a cup of coffee or tea and sit back and enjoy a few minutes with me over at the ODBD Blog.

Here is a little sneak peek on what is waiting for you over there. ;D

From this.........

to this

If you have any additional questions please feel free to contact me, I would love to hear from you!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope that the tutorial over at Our Daily Bread Designs will help you to add lots and lots of flowers to your creations. :D

Have a blessed and super creative day!

Hugs,

It's my turn......

Hello and happy Thursday stamping friends!  Today is my turn to share a special little project with you all that I have created for the "Time with" post over at the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog. With Christmas fast approaching I thought it would be fun to share a quick and easy little gift idea. I don't know about you, but every year I seam to need just one more last minute gift that I somehow forgot about or I decide to give to someone unexpectedly. Usually I go to my local grocery store to pick up a gift card, but not this year. I came across this fun little project and decided to give it a try.  It is fairly inexpensive, which is another plus, but it sure does not look inexpensive ;D;D

So, let me share a little sneak peek of my project. For the entire tutorial and description, please visit the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog.

It would be nice if you would let me know what you think about my little tutorial.

Thanks for visiting me and make sure you'll check out the ODBD Blog to see the entire project!

Hugs and blessings,

Time with.......

Good morning my stamping friends!!! It is Thursday and that means that bi-weekly one of the members of the Design Team is sharing a little special something over at the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog  and this week it is me that has the pleasure of sharing that little something with you all. :D:D

I will be sharing a little project with you all that comes in handy when you want to give a little something to a friend. I was at Michael's a few weeks back and they had these cute little boxes

not bad, but a little bland for my taste. So I thought, if I just add a little Designer paper and some flowers this could be a fun gift box. So I've got my paper and flowers out and off course I had to use some lace and this is what came out

front view

Recipe:

Paper: K&Company , textured cs from my stash



Stamps: ODBD Friendship, Mini Tags 3



Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black, Chalk Ink in Prusian Blue



Accessories: Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Squares, Parisian Accents, Labels 20, Zva Creative small pearl flourish, Wild Orchis Crafts flowers, Prima rose, leaf was cut with my Cricut Expression and the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge, fabric lace and cream loop lace are from my stash, Recollections half pearl



So, what do you think? Doesn't this make a fun little gift box or even keepsake box?
With very little effort you can turn an ordinary box in a gift on it's own with just a little paper and some embellishments.  I hope you've enjoyed your time with me today.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and making my day a little brighter by just saying "hi"!

Have a blessed and super creative day.

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,