SC214 - John 3:16

I pulled out my He is Risen set by Our Daily Bread Designs to make today's sketch challenge SC214 over at Splitcoast :) The scripture fit perfectly with the design and still allowed me a little room to play with some twine and a cross charm.




I ended up choosing some old designer papers that were lying around because I wanted to mix and match the colours. I crumpled up one of the Inque Boutique papers into a ball and then smoothed it out to add some texture and a bit of an old world feel. I added generous amounts of sponging around all the edges of the cardstock and then took my craft knife to distress the paper.



I really love the effect of different twines and threads mixed with papercrafts so I took a little creative licence and added some eyelets to anchor my linen thread down that holds my little pewter charm in place (pretty clever huh?) lol I added the spellbinder's Doodle Die in the upper corner because it just seemed to be missing something there and my lovely doodle filled up the space quite nicely :D

Speaking of Our Daily Bread Designs, I'm a little bit sad to tell you that this is my last month on their FABULOUS design team. I wanted to say that it has been a wonderful experience to work with Kelley Holland and her truly extraordinary team of talented ladies who are every bit supportive as they are chatty :D lol (you should see my email box at the end of every day!) I had an amazing time meeting some of the team at CHA just a short time ago and I look forward to visiting everyone over at their blogs and SCS :) Thank you Kelley for letting me be a part of your team and I wish you all the best with your very successful company! :D

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - He is Risen!
Paper: PTI White, Basic Grey, Inque Boutique DP, Basic Grey DP, K&Co DP
Ink: Creamy Caramel, Basic Grey, Basic Black, Versa Mark
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Sewing Machine, Doodles Spellbinder's Dies, Twine, Charm, Eyelets, Sponges, Dimensionals, Embossing Powder, Craft Knife

OCCC - 2 or More Hearts

This is my Our Creative Corner card for today's challenge to use 2 or more hearts on one card :) I thought that I would play with this one a little since I didn't want to make a Valentine's themed card but something that could be for any occasion. As it turns out, with me just getting back from CHA in California and all my Clear Dollar Stamps sneak peeks...I forgot that I had to make a card for the challenge *said in a whisper* Oops!

I attended my sister in law's birthday/cocktail party last night and realized late into the evening that I had to get back home to start on my card! So here I am at 11:45 pm last night, just starting to pick out some papers to begin my card. Ugh! I am so never leaving it to the last minute again!!! I stayed up until 1:45 am trying to finish up the card...it took me almost as long to figure out why my sewing machine was giving me problems.

Earlier in the evening, my husband left the door to my craft room open to little fingers that magically sneak in when nobody is looking. Interestingly enough, the first things that these little fingers find are the dials on my sewing machine (tension and stitch length), bobbin spools and my cuttlebug! Sigh...so this is what I ended up with after a close examination this morning! lol Oh well...it should only take me a day to test and find the original settings!! Wish me luck!

Don't forget to pop by the Our Creative Corner Blog to see what all the other designers created and to see how to participate in the challenge :)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - Sing to the Lord
Paper: PTI White, 29th Street DP, Elegant Eggplant, Watercolour
Ink: Versa Mark, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Paint Brush, Tombow Markers, Gold Embossing Powder, Sponge, Ribbon, Dimensionals, Bracelet Embellishments, Corner Rounder Punch

Look who I ran into....

As a few of you already know, I'm at CHA in California and I got the privilege to attend the Cupcake Reception for Splitcoaststampers :D I ran into a few people that you might recognize...



Tosha Leyendekker (stamps4funinCA) and Laurie Schmidlin (Lauraly) - Two of my biggest stamping hero's!



And Shannan Teubner (steubner)...



And THE beautiful Jenn Balcer (jbalcer)... :D




And some of the crew from Our Daily Bread Designs! (Jane Wetzel, Kelley Holland, Lorelie Kim, Amy Sheffer, Laurie Schmidlin, and Judy Rozema)




And some storm troopers... (I have no idea why they were there!)



I did a make and take with Debbie Olsen at the Just Rite Stampers booth :) She is such a sweetie!!

I really didn't remember to take alot of photos while wandering the many booths at CHA but here are a few that I did remember to take....



These are some of the BEAUTIFUL new lines of designer paper from K&Co. and some of the gorgeous samples that were make with these luscious papers :D



Oh and I can't forget about these gorgeous flowers from Prima!




I have to end this post now...I'm staying in a condo with 5 other extremely chatty women and we all are armed with our laptops. However, nobody else but me is trying to concentrate on what they are doing! *grin* I have to stay plugged into the dinning room table where are ethernet connections are and with everyone else and they are sooo distracting with telling silly stories and trying to get me involved in the conversations! So I am off to join the animated surroundings that I'm in :D

I will be back tomorrow with more pictures and hopefully a better post that tonight :)

OCC Meets Our Daily Bread Designs

I am off to CHA in Anaheim today!! At 6:30 am I will be on the ferry over to Vancouver to start my flight to Las Vegas and then onto California :D I'm so excited and I want to be able to share that with you, so check back here for the next couple of days because I will be posting pictures and hope to meet a few of my stamping idols along the way ;)



Today is a sketch challenge over at Our Creative Corner and this is what I came up with. I pulled out one my my newest Our Daily Bread Designs sets called He is Risen to add to these wonderful paper flowers that I discovered at Dollarama. These flowers look remarkably like some of the ones that I have created in the past but the bonus here is that I didn't have to spend an extra few minutes of my time making them - score! lol



I made the fancy scalloped border with an EK Success punch that I took the corner guard off of and then centered some Kaiser pearls in the punched out circles. The leaves and branches are Martha Stewart Punches that I have punched on designer papers and then sponged to add some dimension. I have added some Cuttlebug embossing to the green layer of designer papers to give it more texture...if you know me and my cards, you know that they are never lacking in the texture department! :D

Wish me luck on my travels and be sure to pop by Our Creative Corner to participate in the sketch challenge! A little birdie told me that Jennifer has some blog candy to offer - A Custom Watermark and Blog Banner!!!!


Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - He is Risen
Paper: PTI White, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, K&Co DP, Sassafrass Lass DP
Ink: Note Quite Navy, Versa Mark, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug, EK Success Corner Punch, Martha Stewart Leaf Punches, Premade Paper Flowers, Kaiser Pearls, Clear Embossing Powder, Sponges, Dimensionals, Crystal Effects, Ribbon

Put on your sunglasses!

Because this card is bright! I decided that I was going to experiment with some shiny metallic gold cardstock and decorative gold foiled paper. My idea was that I was going to come up with one elegant gold and cream card and keeping my fingers crossed that some of Becca Feeken's talent rubbed off on me while doing so... :D (We all know that Becca creates some of the most elegant designs with gold metallic cardstock!)




So let me start by telling you the story of this card. It is a few days before I leave for CHA and I am in the process of getting all of my deadlines completed, which is why I haven't had a moment to post on my blog...besides you gotta wait until the 28th to see some of the fun things that I have been working on *wink* Anyhoo, I have been going out of my mind trying to get all my creations made, blog posts scheduled and company galleries posted to and trying to keep up with my kids. So what do I go and do? Experiment with something totally foreign (gold metallic cardstock) and hope for the best!...Not the best idea when you are so tired that you can hardly see straight! Well, on the other hand...it was pretty blinding when my Otte light reflected off of it and that woke me up enough to write this post! lol

I really don't know what I was thinking when I paired these papers up, but I think with the addition of the Riding Hood Red cardstock and a little sponging, it took the blinding effect down a notch to make this card more palatable. Don't get me wrong. I haven't given up on experimenting with this lovely rich cardstock yet...I might change my mind the next time I have to try and photograph it without getting a glaring reflection though! lol


Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - Lift Up Our Hands
Paper: PTI White, Very Vanilla, Metallic Gold Cardstock, Riding Hood Red, Gold Foil DP, Bella Rose DP
Ink: Versa Mark, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Gold Embossing Powder, Sponges, Dimensionals, Taffeta Ribbon, Mini Pearls, Corner Rounding Punch

Are you ready to win some goodies?

Want to win some Shimmerz? Here is how! Our Daily Bread Designs is having its first challenge, and our first challenge is a sketch challenge!


Three lucky winners will be chosen to receive a bottle of Shimmerz. All you have to do to participate is use ODBD stamps as the focal image on your card, and post a comment to the ODBD blog HERE with a link to your card. If you are uploading to SCS, please use these two codes (ODBDSC01 and ODBD) so we can find your cards there, too! As for the sketch, just remember that you can turn it, make it larger or smaller, or flip it – whatever works for your design. You have until Midnight EST Jan 23 to join in the challenge for a chance to win! We look forward to seeing what you create. To see what the rest of the Design team members have done with this sketch check out their blogs as they will be posting their creations either today or tomorrow :)

Dina Kowal

Angel Wilde
Laurie Schmidlin
Amy Sheffer
Angie Zublionis
Kelley Holland
Becca Feeken
Jane Wetzel
Judy Rozema
Jami Bova
Lorelie Kim
Betty Wright
Sita Mahadeo
Chris Olsen
Stacy Morgan - ODBD Guest Designer
Angella Crockett - ODBD Guest Designer
Cindy Motherway - ODBD Guest Designer

Be sure to check out ODBD blog January 24th to find out who won the shimmerz!!!!




And speaking of winning things...I think that it's time that I announce a winner for the Peace on Earth stamp set by Our Daily Bread Designs! And the winner is according to the Random Integer Generator....

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

28

...Before I did the draw, I went through and deleted any duplicate postings, so the winner will be counted down the list as the 28th comment. Here is the winning comment...

Rochelle said...

Your artwork is simply beautiful and the ODB stamps are truly lovely and inspiring. I don't own any but would surely love to - thanks for that opportunity! Thanks for sharing your talent through your wonderful blog.

January 10, 2009 10:08 AM

Congratulations Rochelle and thank you for the compliments! I will be sending you an email shortly to get your mailing address :)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - He is Risen, Sanded
Paper: PTI White, Basic Black, Watercolour, Basic Grey, Inque Boutique & Cosmo Cricket DP
Ink: Basic Black, Versa Mark, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Re-Inkers
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug, Pewter Photo Corners, Twine, Brads, Score Pal (ODBD) Craft Knife, Sponges, Aqua Painter, Clear Embossing Powder, Dimensionals, Stamp-a-majig (ODBD)

FS101 - Nowhere else to go...

Today we are honoring Judy (JayDeKay) as the Featured Stamper (FS101) over at Splitcoaststampers. Judy has such an amazing gallery that I had a really hard time choosing a card to CASE! She just happens to be a sweetie too and is always leaving the nicest comments on every body's cards :D This is the beautiful card that I found my inspiration in.



I chose to use this amazing quote from the new set called Lift Up Our Hands from Our Daily Bread Designs. I truly wanted to find just the perfect layout for Abraham Lincoln's quote and Judy had it sitting there waiting to be CASE'd in her gallery :D As per all Featured Stamper challenges, I had to change 3 things on this card. I changed the stamp, added some sewing and switched out the pine branches in the corner to add a 3D flower and some leaves and branches.



I just love how this card turned out! It's classy and not too feminine with a slightly vintage feel to it that is perfect for this sentiment. (At least, those were my intentions anyway) lol I would just like to add a little reminder that I am giving away an awesome Our Daily Bread Designs set tomorrow as blog candy! If you missed the original post, the feel free to check it out here.


Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - Lift Up Our Hands
Paper: PTI White, Basic Black, Basic Grey DP (Figgy Pudding)
Ink: Basic Black, Versa Mark, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug, Curvy Rectangle Nestabilities, Doodle Spellbinder Dies, Martha Stewart Branch and Leaf Punches, 5 Petal Punch, Boho Blossom Punch, Kaiser Pearls, Brad, Sponges, Dimensionals, Clear Embossing Powder, Mini Glue Dots

Lift Up Our Hands and Blog Candy!

Take a look at what my mailman brought for me yesterday :) After not so patiently waiting for the Christmas postal rush to be over they have finally made their way into my stamp room! This set is one of the new releases from Our Daily Bread Designs called Lift Up Our Hands and was designed by one of our own very talented designers and stamp artists Dina Kowal! You all have seen Dina's other wonderful set called Cross of Christ and man, this girl is on a roll!



Because I chose to emboss the image, you can't see the detail as clearly so you will just have to take my word for it or wait until you see another of my creations with this set! lol Dina has designed this stamp to have some flourish accents running through the background and some sheet music for the hymn Sweet Hour of Prayer. Of course I had to add my own sheet music as a decorative feature, just don't pay any attention that mine is actually Christmas sheet music!!! :D



I can see so many possibilities with this set already and I can't wait to show you more of my creations with it! But this is all you get for now...hee hee hee! Oh, no, wait! There is more...but of the blog candy variety! Yep. I said BLOG CANDY!!!!



Today I am offering up another Our Daily Bread Designs set called Peaceful Wishes. I actually offered this last year, but alas...it still remains unclaimed! So, you snooze you lose! lol Here it is in all of it's glory and it can be yours by just leaving me a comment and telling me which Our Daily Bread Designs stamp set is your favourite :) Please leave your email address with your comment and only one comment per person. I will draw the winner of this set on January 12th so be sure to pop back in to see if you are the lucky one! Good Luck to you!

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - Lift up our hands
Paper: PTI White, Very Vanilla, Basic Grey DP, Watercolour, Bo Bunny DP, Making Memories DP
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Versa Mark, Various Re-Inkers for Watercolouring
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug, Top Note Die, Ribbon, Brads, Aqua Painter, Sponges, Dimensionals, Clear Embossing Powder

FS98 - Paula's Church

This is just a quick little post today because I have to finish up some handmade Christmas presents and clean my house for company in a few days. Who am I kidding? I need to start making some hand made Christmas presents! Ack!



I made this card this morning to honor today's Featured Stamper Paula Tracy :) I couldn't resist because I love and admire her style so much! She is the queen of Prisma Color Pencils!!! I took the cowardly way out and brought out my watercolouring because my Prisma skills are less than stellar! lol

I chose this card of Paula's and put on my Our Daily Bread Designs Worship the Lord Christmas Church because I don't own any Bella's yet. I went with a vintage feel and made the button from scratch! Yep, that there is a shrink plastic button made to coordinate with my card :) I will be posting a tutorial on how to make them as soon as I have a free moment so stay tuned for that.



Now, wish me luck as I camp out in my craft studio until I gidder' done!...Hopefully I will be able to re-surface soon! :)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - Worship the Lord
Paper: PTI White, Baja Breeze Chocolate Chip, Watercolour, Cosmo Cricket DP
Ink: Versa Mark, Baja Breeze, Bordering Blue, Not Quite Navy, Re-Inkers
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities, Aqua Painter, Shrink Plastic, 1" Circle Punch, Crystal Effects, Cropodile, Gold Embossing Powder, Signo Gel Pen, Dimensionals, Sponges, Ribbon, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

FS97 - Worship America

Right now I'm watching the snow peacefully fall outside while sitting in the dark by our twinkling Christmas tree and enjoying a sleeping household :) Just a few of my favourite things this time of year :) I ended up spending most of the evening shopping because earlier today it dawned on me that there is only 12 days left until Christmas Day! Ahhhhh! Can you feel me panicking? Please, please, please tell me that I am not the only one who has barely even started their Christmas Shopping!

So after my non eventful and non productive evening of shopping, I decided to come home and dive into the Feature Stamper Challenge who happens to be America Kuhn! Earlier this year I had the opportunity to be on the Clear Dollar Stamps DT with America and her work is amazing! Congratulations America :)

This is the card that I used for my inspiration piece. I just love her layout with the peaceful winter scene :) I chose to add a little colour, change the shape of the card to a square and used my Worship the Lord stamps from Our Daily Bread Designs.

I chose to break up the images on the stamp so that I could add the little tree to the bottom corner of my card. This worked out particularly well and it left me enough room to add my Rejoice! shrink plastic button. I actually stitched it to the card because of the small space that I had to play with. This country church has been drawn with snow and I think that everyone knows how much I {heart} liquid applique, especially for adding that extra special snowy touch! What can I say? Snow puts a smile on my face :)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - Worship the Lord

Paper: PTI White, SEI DP, Chocolate Chip, Watercolour

Ink: Basic Black, Versa Mark, Chocolate Chip, Re-Inkers for Watercolouring

Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug, Nestabilites, Photo Corner Punch, Piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Liquid Applique, Dimensionals, Sponges, Aqua Painter, Shrink Plastic, Embossing Powder

First Snowfall

It's finally starting to feel like Christmas! We got our first snowfall of the year today in what started out as a miserable rain storm. Murphy's law suggests that when I need to go out and run the kids to school in the morning it rains...when I am in the warm comfort of my own home it snows and looks like a winter wonderland! I would rather be out in the snow than in the rain storms any day! lol

To honor the occasion of snow here on Vancouver Island, I wanted to show you a sweet little 4 1/4" square Christmas card that I made with my Joy to the World set from Our Daily Bread Designs. I just used the sentiment from the set to make a shrink plastic charm for my ribbon.


I was playing around with trying to get the charm to look not quite like shrink plastic, but I don't think it worked to well *grin* Before heated it I sponged some chocolate chip ink around the outside and then ended up wiping some off afterwards...I forgot that colours enhance through the heating process!


I used some of my new nestabilities to create the funky shape under the snowflake. The only problem being with these ones is that they don't offer a smaller set so that you can have a smaller "matting" for lack of a better term. I cut out my blue layer with my cuttlebug and then glued it onto the robin hood red cardstock. I then took my scissors and eyeballed it to cut an even edge all the way around. It looks OK I think! *wink*

I love the look of snowflakes. Everything from cartoon, to drawings, to the microscopic photographs of all the intricate details. I especially love when they begin to fall and I get to witness the joy on my kids faces when they look out the window to see the snow start to settle on the ground. That brings me to this...


They patiently waited for more snow to settle and then ambushed their daddy when he pulled into the driveway after a long day at work. They already had dressed themselves up and made sure that they had their bathroom call and even ventured into the deep dark depths of the garage to retrieve their sled. Wow! I have amazing children that plan ahead! My three and four year olds are pure genius! lol

Daddy was already dressed ready to go and so were they...but alas...I couldn't find my snow gear anywhere...darn...I...am...so...sad... *snort*

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - Joy to the World
Paper: PTI White, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, My Mind's Eye DP
Ink: Stazon, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Nestabilities, Dew Drop, Embossing Folder, Cuttlebug, Sponges, Shrink Plastic, Corner Rounder Punch, Taffeta Ribbon, Dimensionals, Linen Thread, Circle Punch