A Peek Into My Stamping Room

Our Daily Bread Designs Guest Designer Week 4!

Hello Friends!  This is my last week as the October Guest Designer for Our Daily Bread Designs.  I have had alot of fun creating with the beautiful stamps, dies and paper that Our Daily Bread Designs sent me and want to say a special thank you to Kelley and Lisa for having me as a guest designer.

For my last project, I created a scrapbook layout of two of my daughters.  I wanted to show off the beautiful doily stamp and die plus show that you can still scrapbook even if the patterned papers are small!

To start I found some coordinating 12 x 12 cardstock in my stash that matched the color scheme of the Soulful Stitches 6x6 paper pad.  I cut about 3/4" off of 2 sides of a piece of 12 x 12" ivory cardstock.  Then I distressed the edges and sponged some Tattered Rose distress ink.   Using Versamark ink, I stamped the Doily Blessings stamp and sprinkled on some white embossing powder.  After I heat set the embossing powder, I sponged some more Tattered Rose Distress ink around the stamped image.  Then I added the little bits of lace at the tear spots and glued the ivory cardstock to the burgundy base.  I die cut 2 of the Doily Dies from the same color of the base cardstock.  I also matted the photo with this same color cardstock.  I added some of the patterned paper and the doily die cuts into place as shown.  I made some rolled roses from the patterned paper and hand cut the leaves.  I glued these rolled roses onto some Melissa Frances Zipper ribbon.  Then I started putting everything down on my layout....including that wonderful flower from Prima.  Here are a few close-ups......

I have had a such a fun time creating with Our Daily Bread Designs and sharing my projects with you this past month!  Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I have created!

Here are the Our Daily Bread Designs Products I used:

• Stamps - Doily Blessings
• Paper - Soulful Stitches 6x6 paper pad
• Dies - Doily Dies

Our Daily Bread Designs Guest Designer Week 3!

Hello Friends!  This is my third post as guest designer for Our Daily Bread Designs.  This week, I have a fun tag that I made using some more of the products from the September release!

To create this tag, I used the Ranger #8 manila craft tags for the base.  I adhered the 2 different papers from the Soulful Stitches 6x6 paper Collection to my tag base and sponged Tattered Rose distress ink along the edges plus I used my distress edger.  I stamped a portion of the doily blessings stamp on the upper right portion of the tag.  I sprinkled on white detail embossing powder and heat set.  I added a small triangle of paper in the middle of my embossed doily.  I die cut the doily and sponged the edges and added it to my tag.  Using supplies from my stash, I created the tape measure ribbon bow with flowers.  I stamped the sentiment from Scripture Collection 8, cut it out and sponged around the edges.  I added a small doily die cut from patterned paper behind my sentiment.  To complete the tag, I added the lace, pearls/rhinestones and the metal key.  Here are a few close-ups....

 

I have one more post as the guest designer for Our Daily Bread Designs so check back next wednesday!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Our Daily Bread Designs Supplies Used:

• Stamps - G585 Doily Blessings, E337 Scripture Collection 8
• Dies - CSBD62 Doily Die
• Papers - Soulful Stitches Collection 6x6 paper pad

 

Our Daily Bread Designs Guest Designer Week 2!

Hello friends!  It's my second post as a Guest Designer for Our Daily Bread Designs.  I have been having so much fun creating my projects using their products!  This week I have a more simple card using distress ink to highlight the wonderful Doily die.

This card measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/2".  I used some base weight ivory cardstock for the base of this card.  I cut some of the Soulful Stitches patterned paper to 4 x 5 1/4" and  the I cut the ivory layer to 3 3/4 x 5".  I die cut the doily from the same ivory cardstock.  Using a sponge, I applied some Victorian Velvet Distress Ink onto this layer in a circle that was slightly larger than the doily.  Then I adhered the doily over my inked circle.  I cut the doily to fit onto this layer.  I tied some seam binding around the middle into a bow and added the pretty button.  To finish the card, I stamped the sentiment and cut it out with my scissors and layered it onto some patterned paper.  I added some small rhinestones to complete the card.

Here is a close-up.....

Check back next week to see a beautiful tag I created!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Our Daily Bread Designs Supplies Used:

• Stamps - Scripture Collection 10
• Dies - CSBD62 Doily Die
• Paper - Soulful Stitches Collection 6x6 Paper Pad

Our Daily Bread Designs Guest Designer!

Hello friends!  I am so happy to tell you that I have been chosen to be a guest designer for Our Daily Bread Designs for the month of October.  So every Wednesday in October be sure to check my blog for my latest project using some wonderful stamps, dies and papers from Our Daily Bread Designs.

As part of this guest designer gig, I got to pick out some really wonderful products from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I absolutely fell in love with the September release.......a doily stamp and matching die, beautiful papers and other wonderful stamps!  Here is my first project ......

This card measures 5x7".  The base of the card is made from Kraft cardstock.  I layered some of the Soulful Stiches papers onto a piece of ivory cardstock.  I distressed the edges of all the papers and sponged on some distress ink before adhereing them together.  I stamped the Victoria stamp onto some ivory cardstock and colored it with my copic markers then fussy cut.  I cut/embossed the doily die in two ways....first I die cut the big doily without cutting out the center, second I die cut just the center.   There are all kinds of looks you can achieve with this one doily die!!   I sponged around the edges of these die cuts, too.    I added some Petaloo flowers and some twine plus some cream pearls.  I also added some lace and seam binding from my stash.  Here is a close-up!

See what I mean?  Just lovely stamps, dies and papers to play with.......you can see the whole September release HERE.

Can't wait to show you the other projects I have created with these supplies.  Be sure to check back!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Our Daily Bread Supplies Used:

• Stamps - G585- Doily Blessings, G582 - Victoria
• Papers - Soulful Stitches Collections 6x6 Paper Pad
• Dies - CSBD62 Doily Dies

Other Supplies used:

• Cardstock - Kraft, Ivory Cardstock
• Ink - Rich Cocoa Memento Ink, Copic Markers, Antique Linen Distress Ink
• Misc - edge punch, twine, lace & seam binding from my stash, La Creme Pearls (Want2Scrap)

What Did You Make?

Yesterday was World Cardmaking Day!  Did you get to participate in some of the challenges that were happening all over the internet?  Or maybe you walked into your craft room to make something and almost screamed out loud because your desk was so messy?  I actually did both!  

First I had to straighten up my desk and re-arrange my ribbon drawer.  I tell you that I did actually scream out loud but not to loud because I didn't want to scare my family.  I will show you what my ribbon drawer looked like AFTER I cleaned it.......

 

After making my ribbon look all pretty, I got some of my Classic Sunflower Paper Collection from Heartfelt Creations and got busy making some cards!  Here is what I started with......

 

This isn't something I purchase very often but I was lucky enough to find this packet of 8 - 5x7" Kraft cards with matching envelopes in the clearance aisle on one of my shopping trips to Hobby Lobby.   To save myself some time, I used these as the base for all of my cards.  Here they are!

Here are a few more.....

 

I used the Classic Sunflower Paper Collection from Heartfelt Creations, various stamps from Our Daily Bread, JustRite Paper Crafts and Stampin' Up! Plus a bunch of ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon (which is what is in that very organized drawer!),a bottle of Diamond Stickles and Rich Cocoa Memento Ink pad.  I had alot of fun and I think my mom will enjoy sending them to her friends.  I would love to see what you made for World Cardmaking Day....so leave me a link and I will check it out!

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

 

 

 

 

Flower Soft & Our Daily Bread Designs Blog Hop!

Are you ready for a Blog Hop?  Come join us in a special blog hop with The Flower Soft & Our Daily Bread Designs Design Teams!  As you make your way through the hop make sure you comment on each and every post. There will be two prize winners chosen randomly among the blogs.

Flower Soft and Our Daily Bread Designs will each be selecting a winner for a $20 prize package!  The blog hop ends on August 30th. The prize winners will be announced on The Flower Soft blog and Our Daily Bread Blog on August 31st.

If you came here from Debi Southard's blog you are in the right place. If not please start at the beginning at the Our Daily Bread Blog.

My project for today's hop is a card using ODBD stamp set called Missing You.  I love the 2 bible verses and the sentiment plus I think the beautifully detailed fence with flowers is perfect to use with Flower Soft Sprinkles.  See what I mean?

To highlight the flowers going up to the birdhouse, I used Flower Soft Mixed Colors Summer and then added some Flower Soft Sunshine Yellow along the bottom.  For me, alittle Flower Soft goes along way in highlighting any project and I think this card shows that off perfectly! 

Here is a close-up of my main image:

Now it's time to hop on over to Lisa Somerville's Blog and enjoy!!  Have a great day!

What's VSN?

It's Virtual Stamp Night!  Over at Splitcoast Stampers they are hosting a "mini" Virtual Stamp night today/tonight.  Usually Virtual Stamp Night is a whole weekend kinda thing but the Minis are usually just one day to get you excited for the whole weekend.  The theme this time is Vegas!  If you would like to participate, just check out this thread.  Everything you make must be uploaded to the gallery by 10 pm Eastern Monday night.  You could win a prize, too!

I will be participating as much as possible because its just really fun.  Remember how to stamp for FUN?  Its a good thing!!  (Think a Martha Stewart voice when reading that last line, LOL) 

I will post my creations here (with links to the threads) as I get them done!  Go and get busy!!

Friday Night's Surprise Challenge!!  Bellie Up To The Buffet - use as many embellishments as you can!

 

Supplies Used:  First Holy Communion by Our Daily Bread Designs; Soft Sky, Very Vanilla, Whisper White Cardstock; Classic Vintage Paper Designs by Crafty Secrets; Memento Black ink pad; Copic Markers, Copic Airbrush system; Classic & Scallop Circle Nestabilities, Classic & Scallop Rectangles Lg Nestabilities, Classic 12" Lace Borderabilities; half pearls, Ivory satin ribbon

Okay, that might be all I post for tonight but I am still stamping!!  Talk to you soon.