It is this time of the month again.........

release day at Innovative Stamp Creations and let me tell you...this release as many in the past is truly unique!!! Why, you wonder? Well, let's start with Friends Are Special , do you have one or a handful of important people in your life whom you are grateful for, for their unwavering support? Then wait till you see this stamp line....


Betsy, has challenged us to alter an item of choice as a gift for this special person in our life and this is what I came up with

Recipe:

Paper: DCWV Mariposa

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black


Stamps: ISC Friends Are Special


Accessories: $ 2.00 frame from Family Dollar (I removed the glass so I could add dimension ;D) Spellbinders Large Scalloped Oval Small, Fancy Tags dies,Prima flower, Recollections pearl brad, Kaiser half pearls in black, Recollections golden half pearls, EK Success Fleur De Lis punch, 3 D glue dots, foam tape










I was trying to get a decent picture of this frame but it just did not work. The "sweet friend" tag I made is not on there crooked...it's the way I took the picture :D:D. The frame actually has sort of a lip there and the tag fits right in.




Now on to, Destination, with Spring literally around the corner, are you planning a vacation? Here is what I came up with. It is an A2 card and has somewhat of a masculine feel to it.


Destination




Recipe:
Paper: PTI Dark Chocolate, Rustic Cream, Kraft


Ink:Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tea Dye, Vintage Photo

Stamps: ISC Destination , Time (suitcase, Travel Memories



Accessories: Circle punch, Nesties Ribbon Tags , EK Success Photo corner punch, Jute ribbon, cording, foam tape, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool











And the last line of this release, Time truly compliments not just Destination, which I incorporated ;D, but also images from past releases like Journey of Discovery or Men of Wisdom or even Birch Tree Painting imagine the endless creations you can come up with!!



Here is a look at my very masculine take



Recipe:
Paper: PTI Rustic Cream, SU Not Quite Navy, recycled cardboard ;D


Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Faded Jeans, Memento Tuxedo Black

Stamps: ISC Time

Accessories:
Assorted buttons, Twine, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, Cuttlebug embossing folder Diamond Plate
foam tape,glue dots, brad, photo dial

Well these are my creations for this month. I am sorry my post is up late today, but Blogger decided not to publish my scheduled post. It just disappeared so I had to start all over again.
I am sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you and I apologize sincerely!!!

Now if you want to see some more awesome creations head on over to my teammates


Julie

Kathy

Joanne

Wendy

Karen

and see what they have come up with.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Be creative, have fun!

Hugs,

It's a HOP......

Hello my friends!!! If you arrived here from Fran's blog you are in the right spot, if not please go to back to the ODBD Blog so you won't miss out on the letter you need to collect for the Hop ;D!

The big day has finally come...today marks the Second Year Anniversary since Kelley, the owner of ODBD has first opened her doors!! If you would like to read the entire story, please head on over to the ODBD Blog where Grace has spread it all out for ya!! Today's Blog Hop is special because it allows each of the Design Team Members to make the first card with their own favorite Scripture! We hope you will truly enjoy the hop.... and of course it wouldn't be a Blog Hop without prizes!! Today, Kelley is going to give 3 Prizes of your choice of one of these Anniversary sets!!! Below is the list of our Design Team and Challenge Team members who have all worked hard to create something wonderful and inspiring for this occasion. Here is what you have to do to qualify for the prizes:

• Hop from first to last, and collect the secret LETTER each designer will have.



• Leave a comment for the designer on their blog.



• Return to the ODBD Blog leaving a comment to tell us that you visited ALL the blogs.



• Email Grace at: gnywening@yahoo.com, giving her the secret message the letters spell out.

For all of this you have until 8:00 p.m. EST on March 18th, 2010 to complete the hop and e-mail Grace the message!!!!

If you cannot get on one blog, simply write that designer's name down and go to the next one ( you can follow the link from here). Usually if you have trouble, waiting a few minutes and trying again will resolve it, but if you can't get on, simply tell Grace that when you e-mail her that you have treid and she will enter you into the drawing.

Just one more piece of information...here is the winner of the HIDDEN Candy we were giving away yesterday. I was one of the designers that had some calorie free candy for ya. Here is what you are getting

• 1 package of Prima e-line flowers

1 bottle of Stickles in pink

• 1 package of Recollections half pearls



• 5 yards of pink satin ribbon

• 6 yards of white satin ribbon

• 6 antuque silver charms
  

How about that? And here is the winner....chosen by random

True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 28 Powered by RANDOM.ORG

So, # 28 is Lori

Lori, please contact me at sjbutterflydreams@gmail.com so I can get this yummy no calorie candy to you!!! Congratulations!

All right, this is that...on to my card for today. Since I am part of the Challenge team and don't have my own scripture I chose Grace's scripture. Have a look at my

Philippians 4:6 card

Recipe:
Paper: PTI Rustic Cream, Dark Chocolate, K&Company Roam

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 4

Ink: Chalk Box Toffee, SU Chocolate Chip, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tea Dye

Accessories: Nesties Labels 12, off white crochet lace, chocolate velvet ribbon, antique copper charm "pray"
leaf branch cut with my Cricut Expression and the Storybook cartridge, handmade flower cut also with the Cricut and the Accent Essentials cartridge cut in several different sizes, distressed and stacked, spcer bead and golden glass bead, Sizzixx embossing folder Damask
Copper Dew Drops

So, what do you think? I tell you, you want to hop along for a chance to win one of these new Scripture Collections or if you don't win, head on over to the ODBD store and buy them, they are awesome and so perfect for any kind of card you might need to encourage someone.

All right, this has been a pretty long post already and I will give you the list of Designers that participate in this hop so get your piece of paper and pen ready and grab a cup of coffee or tea and enjoy these wonderful carda each and everyone has created but one more tip, you need to start at the ODBD Blog to get those hidden letters.

The Designers are


Connie
Kathy
Angie C
Chris
Grace
Debi
Julie
Becca
Dawn
Deb
Chelsea
Lorelie
Angie Z
Sandee
Christine
Fran
Sabrina (that's me and you alre already here ;D)
Patter
America
Natalie


So are you ready.....yeah I know you are, here is my letter " O " .Now you'll have to hop on over to Patter . Make sure you write this down, best, next to my name on your list and remember you have to email the secret message you'll get out of all of the letters to Grace.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you'll have fun during this Hop!

Hugs,

Good morning......

an WELCOME to day 4 of the ODBD Anniversary Celebration!!! I hope you have had fun so far. Today's challenge is to use our/your "all time favorite" ODBD stamp set!!! As with all of the challenges so far you have until 8 p.m. EST tonight to link your creation to Mr. Linky on the ODBD Blog under the post for day 4!!! The winner will be chosen by random and will receive...drummroll please ONE Free Set of their choice from the Our Daily Bread Designs store !!! We will announce the winner tomorrow at the ODBD Blog when we issue you the instructions for the BIG REVEAL of the Very Special Edition Anniversary Release Sets and Blog Hop!!!! You won't want to miss it!! ;D;D;D




As some of you already know from the past 3 days, you have to make sure you visit ALL blogs that are linked below, and leave a comment for each designer, because there is HIDDEN candy on some of the blogs!! You will NOT know where it is, but if your name is chosen and you have left a comment for the designer...you will win it!!! How awesome is that? But to keep it interesting ;D;D you won't know how many of the designers have candy each day...so be sure to visit them all and leave some LOVE!!




Winners of the individual blog candy will be announced by the blog owner who had the candy on the next day on their blogs. There will also be a big announcement on March 19thon the ODBD Blog recapping ALL the winners....the challenges, the blog candy, and the blog hop winners!!! So be sure to check back at the ODBD Blog then!!!




Each design team/ challenge team member participating in the challenge will have the entire list of links that is listed on the ODBD Blog, so you can go there on yo can check here where to go next. So now have a look at my favorite stamp set creation and leave me some love.....you never know if I am the designer that has the calorie free candy ;D;D.

Fear not........

Recipe:
Paper: PTI Rustic Cream, Kraft, DCWV The Rustic Stack (awesome papers!!!)

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 1

Ink: Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Tea Dye

Accessories: Nesties Classic Squares Large, cream crochet lace to make the lace frame, Prima mini roses, Prima Nursery Tales Fancy Stix flowers, Kaiser half pearls Chino, Zva Creative Rhinestone Flourish, Kaiser half pearl in Copper, Spellbinders Cross Collection
3D glue dots, foam tape

So, my friends, what do you think? Isn't that a wonderful scripture to choose as my favorite? I don't know about you, but I can't get enough confirmation that GOD loves me and cares about me!! :D

All right, this is it for me for right now. Remember that if you upload your creation to an online gallery, let's say SCS, make sure you you remember to to please use the keyword ODBD2AC4, so we know your creation is for this challenge ;D.

But wait, before you head off make sure you visit all of my fellow sticks of the breadbasket



America
Christine
Chris
Fran
Julie
Lorelie
Natalie
Debi
Grace
Angella
Dawn
Sandee
Sabrina (well, that's me and you are already here ;D;D)
Connie
Deborah

Let me tell ya, these ladies have created some awesome eye candy for you...go and check them out and remember to LEAVE ALL of us some love, you never know who has the HIDDEN candy ;D.

See you all back here tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by and have fun creating!!

Hugs,

It's Party Time....

and we are celebrating the Second Anniversary of Our Daily Bread Designs . We will be focusing on gifts for Anniversaries during this time of celebration and since the Second Anniversary tradition gift is Cotton, we, the Shining the Light Challenge Team is kicking off the celebration by showing you some amazing creations done with just that, cotton!! You might wonder, how in the world, but it is really not that hard...think stamp on cotton fabric, use cotton ribbon, make a cotton flower ;D.....get creative and let the creative juices flow!!! And since this is a 5 day long celebration things are different as far as the posting of your creation goes!!!!! You will have ONE day to link your challenge creation and NOT one week!!!! As with all the challenges this week..this challenge was announced on March 7th on the ODBD Blog so you could get a head start, but if you did not get a head start don't get discouraged, you ladies rock and I am sure you will blow us away with your creations!! So, get your stamps out and get creating as you have until 8 p.m. EST tonight to link your creation to Mr. Linky on the ODBD Blog the winner will be chosen by random and will receive a $ 15.00 gift certificate for stamps from the ODBD store !!! The winner will be announced on the ODBD Blog post tomorrow when we issue the next challenge! Edit: I forgot to mention....and I am very sorry :C.If you upload to SCS or any other online gallery please use the code ODBD2AC1. Thanks, and please forgive me.

Wow, that is a lot of info...are you ready for my card?


Take a look at my take on the Cotton Challenge

Recipe:

Paper: PTI VerIntage Cream, Dark Chocolate, Kraft, DP unknown (came from my stash )

Stamps: ODBD Serenity Pryer

Ink: SU Chocolate Chip, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Tea Dye

Accessories: handmade flower out of 100 % cotton fabric, crochet flowers, both made with 100 % cotton thread by me ;D, Recollections large half pearl, off white antique crochet lace (sent to me by my Mom from Germany) Spellbinders Nesties Labels 4, flourish cut with my Cricut Expression, Butterfly in Ivory/chocolate, Kaiser half pearls in chocolate, foam tape

WOW, do you think I used enough COTTON? :D:D:D. See it is not hard to use cotton in some way, so after you leave me some love, yes, I love it when you leave me some love, you can click on over to see the other Challenge Team members and they came up with......shhhhhh, don't tell, but you'll have to go see all of us ;D, as we have some Blog Candy somewhere in there for ya,hehe!!! So, grab yourself a cup of coffee, I know it is early, and check out

America

Christine

Chris ( our awesome Team Coordinator)

Fran

Natalie

Patter

and also joining us this week some of the ODBD Design Team members

Dawn and

Debi

And don't forget, this week you have only one day to play, but a chance to win some Candy as well!!!

I know this was a long post, but I had to get you all awake so you can have some fun today!!

Thanks for stopping by and I will see you along the 5 day celebration!!!

Have a wonderful and creative day.

Hugs,

Good afternoon....

stamping friends!!! Hope you all had a wonderful and creative week. I had a lot of running around to do and had another migraine attack...hate those!! I usually don't talk about private stuff, but yesterday I found out, after visiting the dentist, that my oldest, the 8 y.o., has perfect teeth but has 3 or more extra teeth that are blocking one of her permanent teeth to come through. So, my baby needs surgery or she won't get that front tooth ever :C:C. If you could, would you please say a prayer that it won't be too bad as she is terrified. Thanks!!!




So, that was that ;D.
As I was going through my daily dose of blog land I saw Betty Wright had her new challenge up on the ODBD Blog SNTODBD5 and I just had to play,hehe!!




I only played a few time but did not play for the last 2 or 3 times as I did not have the required stamps, but this time I can, and guess what, so can you, as Betty has changed the rules a little ;D. You still schould use ODBD stamps but you don't have to have a particular one, any, yes ANY ODBD stamp can be used from now on, how cool is that? Well, I love it and I am trying to play every two weeks with Betty. There is only one requirement this time and that is to use something NEW!! This is not hard for me as I just last week bought some yummy paper and a new MS punch ;D;D.



Have a look and see for yourself


SNTODBD5 Thinking of You





this is the outside,







Recipe:


Paper: PTI Kraft, Rustic Cream, DCWV The Rustic Stack





Stamp: ODBD Thinking of You





Ink: Su Creamy Caramel, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tea Dye and Vintage Photo





Accessories: Nesties Labels 4, Nesties Fancy Tags, Prima Hydrangeas, ribbon flower handmade and zapped with the heat gun (thanks my friend Charlene for the inspiration ;D) Kaiser half pearls in Copper, Recollections half pearl, Maya Road Vintage Pearl stick pin, Tim Holtz Distressing Tool, Martha Stewart Monarch butterfly punch, foam tape, 3 D glue dot, tulle mini butterfly


This is the inside of my card





What do you think? For the NEW things I've used in this project, well, the DP is new and is from DCWV called The Rustic Stack, can I say that I absolutely LOVE it and I can't believe I did not buy it sooner, the MS Monarch butterfly punch is new, and that yummolicious May Arts ribbon, so is that little tulle butterfly which I was able to score at a recent Scrapbooking and Stamping Convention in town ;D. And not just that, I finally got to meet the ever so talented and totally sweet Connie McCotter. :D:D

This is it for me for right now. Make sure you'll come back tomorrow as the Shining the Light Challenge Team is kicking off the ever so AWESOME Anniversary Celebration that is taking place for the next 5 days over at Our Daily Bread Designs!!!! Make sure you'll come back tomorrow to see me to see what I have for ya!! You will love it, plus you can win, win, win some awesome stuff. Not just gift certificates, some of us also have some yummolicious not bad for the waistline CANDY for ya ;D;D. But, you'll have to wait until tomorrow!! So, I'll see you than, bright and early 6 a.m. ET. Yep, that is in the middle of the night for me, but hey, we've gotta celebrate!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving me some love!! I feed on it and it keeps me going!

Hugs,

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

for the month of March, yeah!!!! The Challenge Team is challenging to do a sketch challenge!!!! Chris, our wonderful Team Coordinator has come up with this awesome sketch and I am sure you will love it as much as we do ;D. Check it out







Is this a fun sketch or what? Well, as you know from the previous challenges we will make this weeks challenge a little more fun as we give out a prize, a $ 15.00 gift certificate to the Our Daily Bread Design store but in order to be win you must submit your creation by Thursday March 11, 2010 on the ODBD Blog .One random winner will be chosen and announced on next Saturday. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps on your creation, we would love to see them if you have them ;D!!!

As a way of recognizing those who do use ODBD stamps, we will again be choosing 1 or 2 creations to be spotlighted for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award you MUST use ODBD stamps and you must add a link to your creation on the ODBD Blog by Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 8 PM to Mr. Linky!!!!

If you upload your creation to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBDSLC5 !!!! If you create your post on a blog, please include a link to the challenge. Thanks so much!!!

Now, are you ready for my very humble creation this week? Here in Southern AZ we have had the mist wonderful weather, which is supposed to be changing over the weekend :C, but for those that still have that nasty cold and snow weather my card will remind you a little of what is to come SPRING!!!!!! I am using on of the new releases for this month and it is called "Happy Easter" . You might want to pull out your sunglasses as this card is a bit on the bright side :D:D:D. Very Spring like!!!

Happy Easter

Recipe:
Paper:PTI White, K&Company Life's Tapestry, textured yellow cs name N/A (came from my stash and was not in a wrapper anymore :C) SU Certainly Celery

Stamps: ODBD Happy Easter

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU mellow Moss, Chalk Box Yellow Cadmium, Blush Rose

Accessories: Corner Rounder, Nesties Scalloped Circle Large, antique cotton lace (from my Mom back in Germany, love you Mama) yellow satin ribbon also from Germany, Kaiser half pearls in Champagne, Flourish cut with my Crisut Expression and the Accent Essentials cartridge, Cuttlebug embossing folder Floral Screen

What do you think? Pretty bright and let me tell ya, it was so much fun doing this sketch...I truly don't do sketches often enough, but I have a feeling this is going to change,hehe!!

Well, are you ready for some more amazing creations done with this sketch? My team mates have come up with some absolutely breathtaking creations, so why don't you get yourself a cup of tea of coffee, sit back and get inspired as

America

Christine

Chris our team coordinator

Fran

Natalie and Patter

show you what they whipped up.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I just have to tell you that you guy absolutely and positively make my day when you stop by.

Have a wonderful and creative weekend.

Hugs,

Hi all.....

on this wonderful sunny day here in Southern Arizona!!! The other day, well, Tuesday ;D, I needed some "Therapy" and let me tell you, it was good to get my fingers a little inky and after I was done with my card I was feeling much better....keep on telling my DH that stamping is cheaper than Therapy,LOL!!


Most of you that come to visit me on a regular basis know I am sort of addicted to 5.5x5.5" cards...if I make that size card I don't have to cut too much off of my 6x6" Basic Grey paper pads and this card I am getting ready to share with you is no different. So, this is what I did



He who has the Son





Recipe:
Paper: PTI Vintage Cream, PTI Plum Pudding, Basic Grey Wisteria

Ink: SU Perfect Plum

Stamp: ODBD The Lord has Risen

Accessories: MayaRoad sheer ribbon, Nesties Labels 11, MayaRoad Vintage Pearl Pin to which I added a silver bead and a silver spacer, Recollections silver half pearls, Studio18 purple Rhinestones

What do you think? I was so glad the the sun was shining that day as whenever I try to take a photo of anything purple it does not look like it is purple when I take the photo inside...outside it is a total different story and looks so much better. Maybe I just need to tell my DH that I need a better camera ;D. Well, this is it for me for right now...make sure you come back to visit me on Saturday as the ODBD Challenge Team as another awesome challenge for you!!!

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

Hugs,