ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #110 ~ A Color Challenge!

Happy Memorial Day weekend! Thanks to all of those who have served their country. We also remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Take a few moments this weekend to tell a veteran you love and respect them for the sacrifices they made. I promise it will warm your heart even more than theirs!

In honor of all of our veterans, all American and patriotic sets are 20% off at ODBD this weekend. And there is free shipping for orders over $20.00! International orders receive $5 off their shipping. Check out Our Daily Bread Designs blog for sale sets!

Wow! Its also time for another Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge! (This challenge will last for 2 weeks!) This week we are participating in a color challenge. The challenge...

Use the colors pink, black and/or grey and white/vanilla in your creation

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 Friday, June 8th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced Saturday, June 9th. 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 nor 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 Friday, June 8th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBDSLC110. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to our challenge.

For this project I used an Our Daily Bread classic, Lord is My Shepherd for both the central image and scripture. (I just love this darling sheep image!) I stamped the image on vanilla card stock with black ink and added my scripture. I then used Spellbinders' Large Ovals to cut/emboss the central panel. I added a SB Scalloped Large Oval in black CS to make my central panel pop. My base is black card stock with a layer of vanilla matting. I selected my DP from Prima's Nature Garden collection. I tucked a bit of lace behind the custom dyed seam binding. Isn't the cut little key charm darling? Thanks to my dear DT buddy Sabrina for adding that little gem to my stash! A cream pearl flourish (cut and placed on opposit corners) adds interest. For final touches, I placed some vanilla and soft pink roses around my panel with a few paper punched leaves.

So let's check it off..

Pink - Flowers
Black and/or Gray - Card stock and Designer Paper
White or Cream - Card stock, flowers, pearls, lace

Thanks for stopping in and be sure to check out what my other Sister Sticks have for ya... Blessings...

Jan Marie Ennenga
Debi Southard
Jan Keen
Kathy Roney
Rosemary Dennis
Sabrina Jackson

To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click here.
We hope you can join the challenge! We look forward to seeing your creations!!

Card Recipe

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - Lord is My Shepherd
Paper - Colorbok, Bazzill, Prima - Nature Garden
Ink - Memento - Tuxedo Black (ink pad & reinker for seam binding)
Dies - Spellbinders - Ovals Large, Scalloped Ovals Large
Misc. - Pearl Flourish - Recollections, Seam Binding (custom dyed), Blossoms, Charm, MS Paper Punch


Additional Challenges

Our Creative Corner - Shabby Chic
Southern Girls Challenge #45 - Dying to Die Cut or Punch (Spellbinders)

Exploring Cricut ~ Teacher's Gift

Good Friday morning to ya! I am popping in today to share the daily project for Exploring Cricut. The last few days have been chaotic and I am one tired pup! Please check back Saturday for the next Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge. So on to this project... a little something for your favorite teacher...

This project used Flower Shoppe. All of my flowers were cut at 3.5 inches and the leaves at 2.5 inches. To create the vase I took an old Prima flower tin and glued crayons around it. This project took exactly 47 crayons. I then tied a big checkered bow on the outside. I cut 2 of each color flower (this cut is the one with a hole in the middle) and ran a sucker through each one. I added some floral foam in the center of the tin and randomly placed my sucker (flowers) to look like a bouquet. I added a few sprigs of greenery for interest. Thanks so much for reading and until next time...

Blessings...

Lori

ODBD For the Love of Celebrations Hop

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Design's Alumni Team's bi-monthly For the Love Blog Hop. This week the Alumni team along with some of the ODBD designers are featuring a hop for the Love of ODBD Celebrations stamp sets! Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, go back to the ODBD blog for a full list of links. One of the posts is a hop hot spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $15 ODBD store gift certificate. So, all you have to do is hop along and see all the creations and leave a little love! You have until Wednesday, June 6th at 6 pm. Enjoy all the awesome inspiration using For the Love of ODBD Celebration sets!

If you arrived here from Angie's blog you are in the right spot! If not, head over to the ODBD's Blog for a full link list.

I decided to work with the Noah's Ark set pictured below...

And here is my project using this set... perfect for a new baby...

Now next on the hop is Jan. She has a beautiful project to share! Thanks so much for hopping along with us! Blessings!

Card Recipe

Stamps - ODBD - Noah's Ark
Ink - Versamark Onyx Black, CTMH Indian Corn Blue
Embossing Folder - Sizzix - Elegant Wreath
Paper Punch - MS Crafts
Misc - Pearls, Felt Dove

MOJO242, TSTR115 & SSIC140 ~ The Future

Happy Tuesday!  Can you believe the work week is almost half over?  I am looking forward to that nice long Memorial Day weekend, aren't you? 

Today I am popping in after a considerable dry spell to share a challenge card.  This time I actually was able to combine THREE challenges.  That is quite the feat since my creative energies have been at "low tide." 

So here it is...

This card is based on this week's Mojo Monday sketch...

And the inspiration photo "Garden Party" at The Shabby Tea Room...

The sentiment I selected is in Our Daily Bread Designs' Dreams set. I chose a soft blue Bazzill base and added a distressed floral print DP by Prima (Fairy Belle). I embossed/distressed a white panel of card stock adding soft touches of pink distress ink to the edges. Pinking shears added a bit of interest to the floral panel on top. The gingham sentiment panel was included in a lilybeedesign paper pad, Double Dutch. A bit of white lace and blue seam binding are tucked in behind the panel. A couple of pink pearl flourishes, white glittered rose and blue mulberry roses finish off the corner spray! So glad I finally came up with something I LIKE! It's been a while... lol... But aren't we always hard on ourselves? Have a wonderful and blessed day! Until next time...

Lori

Recipe

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs Dreams
Paper - Bazzill, Georgia Pacific, lilybeedesigns - Double Dutch, Prima - Fairy Belle
Ink - Versafine - Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Ink - Tattered Rose
Embossing Folder - Provocraft - Juli's Garden
Pearl Flourishes - Recollections, White Blossom - Prima, Lace - Simplicity, Seam Binding, Paper Punch - MS Crafts, Mulberry Roses, Corner Rounder, Pinking Shears

Today's Challenges

Mojo Monday 242 - Sketch Challenge
The Shabby Tea Room Week #115 - Garden Party
Stampin' Sisters in Christ #140 - Build Up Your Card (lots of layers)

Exploring Cricut ~ Cricut Choice

Welcome to another fun challenge at Exploring Cricut.

This week Diane has asked the team to try something new! Grab a cartridge that you have not used or used very little and create a card, layout, or papercraft. Explore the unknown! Have fun with this one!

I decided to used Independence Day and make some home decor...

Cuts

4 - Triangle Pennants (red, white and blue layers) cut at 3 inches
4 - Bunting Cuts (red, white and blue layers) cut at 2 inches

To assemble this project, you will need

5 - 4 inch coordinating pieces of ribbon
1 - piece of jute - 24 inches

Directions

1. Cut all Cricut cuts and assemble
2. Hot glue pennants (alternating designs) on jute.
3. Fold ribbon and adhere between cuts. I used glue dots for this part.
4. Trim ribbon as desired.
5. Trim jute to desired length and enjoy!

So easy and fun! This project will remain on my corner cabinet until after Labor Day! I love anything Americana (as you can see by the items in my cabinet...) Thanks for stopping in and until next time... Blessings...

Lori

ODBDSLC109 ~ It's A Sketch!

Woo hoo! Welcome to another Our Daily Bread Designs' Shining the Light Challenge. This week we are participating in a sketch challenge.

Here's the sketch...

To make the sketch 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 Friday, May 25th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced Saturday, May 26th. 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 nor 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 Friday, May 25th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBDSLC109. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to our challenge.

Here's my take on this week's challenge...

For this project I used Our Daily Bread's latest set, Dreams. My base is a rich red card stock with light cream matting. The DP featured came from a new My Mind's Eye set (Dilly Dally). I distressed all edges with my handy dandy distressing tool before adhereing to the base. I nestled a lovely satin bow (created with Becca's Peg Bow Maker) available at ODBD) under the sentiment panel. I opted not to color the images this time. I simply stamped them with Memento Rich Cocoa ink on the DP panel. I used Spellbinder dies (Floral Ovals and Ovals Large to highlight my stamping. A few simple pearls and presto!

Thanks for stopping in and be sure to check out what my other Sister Sticks have for ya... Blessings...

Chris Olsen
Jan Marie Ennenga
Debi Southard
Jan Keen
Kathy Roney
Rosemary Dennis
Sabrina Jackson

To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click here.
We hope you can join the challenge! We look forward to seeing your creations!!

Card Recipe

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - Dreams
Paper - Bazzill, My Mind's Eye - Dilly Dally
Ink - Memento - Rich Cocoa
Dies - Spellbinders - Ovals Large, Floral Ovals
Misc. - Becca's Peg Bow Maker in collaboration with Our Daily Bread Designs, Pearls, Satin Ribbon

MOJO241, SSIC139 ~ Trust

Good afternoon and thanks for stopping by to visit. I have a card to share. I created this one for the Mojo Monday sketch Challenge along with the weekly challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ.

Here's the sketch...

And my interpretation... (yes, I did rotate the sketch...)

This week's challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ calls for participants to include an animal, bird or bug of some sort. This request brought me to a stash of brads (shaped like ants) hidden away. And as often happens, God revealed something to me. I came upon this scripture in the Bible...

Proverbs 30:25

"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest."

Many of us have times of trials and suffering.  And this spring has been a brutal one physically and emotionally for me. The migraines I had every 6 months or so have now become almost a weekly occurrence. My creative energies have been at an all time low. Things have been stressful on many fronts and my doctor cautions me to reduce my stress load.  That can be a difficult thing to do with so many irons in the fire.  And I truly believe God wants us to be productive.  This scripture reveals so much!  You see, the ant works very hard... but the ant also works smarter!  It takes advantage of opportunity to provide for the future. She stays focused on her task and forges ahead.  She maintains the course.  The scripture I have on this card is included in Our Daily Bread's Scripture Collection 7 and I found it to be a great comfort.  Trust in the Lord. Stay focused on Him and forge ahead. And that perfect peace will come! Blessings...

Card Recipe

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - Scripture Collection 7
Paper - Paper Studio, Georgia Pacific, Prima Sun Kiss, lilybeedesign Double Dutch
Dies - Spellbinders - Standard Circles Large, Petite Scalloped Circles Large, Foliage, Sunflower Set Two
Embossing Folder - Provocraft - Wicker Weave
Ribbon - Offray
Brads, Jet Bead Flourish


Challenges


Stampin' Sisters in Christ - SSIC139 - Include an Animal, Bird or Bug (ant brads)
Mojo Monday - MOJO241 - Sketch Challenge