MOJO405 ~ Be Blessed ~

How do you plan on being blessed today?  Will you take a few moments to stroll and admire the Lord's creation?  Will you attend a worship service and sing praises to His name?  Will you delve into His word and ask Him to speak to you?  Will you spend time with friends and/or family soaking up those precious moments and filing away memories?  Whatever, it may be, I challenge you to bless someone else in your words and deeds today.  I guarantee you will receive the bigger blessing!

Today's card featuring the MOJO405 sketch...

I started with a black card stock base measuring 5.5 x 4.25 inches.  I used an embossing folder (Cricut's Kitchen Weave) to emboss a white card stock base.  I found my bandanna and farm paper in a fun paper collection from American Crafts.  I wanted to pick up the black so I found a complementary dot print from Teresa Collins.  I cut two 1 inch wide blue card stock strips (for a total of 24 inches) and scored them at half inch intervals.  I then used the scoring lines to gate fold the strips and used a glue gun to adhere them to around base.  I stamped my sentiment on a white die cut circle and added it with the Blessed sentiment to my page.  When I think of farms this time of year, I think of county fairs...  

So here's the sketch I used this week...

and the products...

Paper - Georgia Pacific (white & black); Bazzill (red & blue); American Crafts - Heartland Farm (bandanna & farm print); Teresa Collins - Hello My Name Is (black & white dots)

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black

Embossing Folder - Cricut Kitchen Weave

Die - Spellbinders Standard Circles Small

Stamps - Verve - The Buzz

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time, 

Blessings...

NCC ~ A Shabby Thank You ~

GOOD FRIDAY MORNING!  Are you as excited as I am?  I love weekends!  I have a bit more time to visit my craft room and do a few projects around the house.  Most recently, I have been cleaning out closets for a garage sale.  And even though, it is hard to part with some things (I'm really not going to wear that...) you just have to do it!  But the best part of cleaning out my scrap space is finding items I can re purpose.  Today, I found an old box in my storage closet.  And instead of throwing it away...  I cut off a bit of the card board and ripped it apart to show the corrugation...  I really think the cardboard was waiting to be LIBERATED...  lol

I started with a 5.5 x 4.25 white card stock base and cut my corrugated card board slightly smaller to fit.  I added the lacy frame (Layered Lacey Squares) blinged up with some glimmer mist.  I also found a stash of tissue paper.  So I shredded it to bits...  (a great way to take out your frustrations) crinkled it and added it randomly to the base with glue.  I stamped my images (North Coast Creations' June release Floral Sentiments 7) on white card stock with a rich brown distress ink and fussy cut them to fit behind my sentiment panel.  I die cut my star (also treated with glimmer mist) with ODBD's Sparkling Stars Die.  I then stamped my sentiment (also from NCC's Floral Sentiment 7) on the die.  A bit of randomly glued seam binding and pearl flourishes found their way onto my project along with a fun Kraft die cut bird from Our Daily Bread Designs' Birds and Nest Die.  

So here are the items you see today including North Coast Creations' most recent

 June release, Floral Sentiments 7...

and some items from our sister company

 Our Daily Bread Designs.com...

Layered Lacey Squares

Sparkling Stars Die

Birds and Nest Die

See, a trip down organizational lane can be quite liberating AND productive!  Until next time,

hugs and blessings....

additional supplies

Distress Ink - Ranger Gathered Twigs

Paper - Georgia Pacific, The Paper Studio, Tissue Paper, Corrugated Card Board

Pearl Flourish - Recollections

White Seam Binding

Pearl Glimmer Mist (Star & Layered Frame)

ODBD ~ Have a Blooming Birthday ~

I LOVE the new die sets from Our Daily Bread Designs!  I love to create dimensional projects and when I saw the new die sets this month...  WOW!!!  I couldn't wait to break out the card stock and DP and go to work!  The awning die just screams stripes!  And of course a lovely window scene needs a picket fence right?  For today's project, I actually cut out two of the window dies and placed them side by side to create a larger window scene.  I used a couple of circle die cuts (Matting Circles Die) cut and run through a paper crimper to create my faux curtains...

Basically, I created doubles of everything...  the window box, a bevy of flowers and individual blossoms layered on top plus my fun picket fence popped out for dimension.  You can find the sentiment in the Home Sweet Home 
stamp set. 
 
Here's a close up of my little window world...

Isn't it fun?  So here are the items I used from this month's release to create it.

Home Sweet Home

Welcoming Window Die
2 die cuts - white card stock

Window Shutter and Awning Die
2 die cuts (umbrella stripe DP)

Flower Box Fillers Die
Multiple layers of green card stock & misc single blossoms...

and some old favorites...

Fence Die
1 die cut in white card stock fit across my card (5.25 x 5.25 inches)

Matting Circles Die
1 die cut white card stock, cut and crimped

Thanks as always for stopping by!  Have a wonderful day!

additional supplies

Memento Tuxedo Black - Ink

Bazzill, Georgia Pacific, We R Memory Keepers Farmer's Market - Papers

Liquid Pearls - White Opal - flower centers

Stickles - Black Diamond - flower centers

NCC ~ I Miss You ~

Happy Tuesday!  I hope this post finds you rested after the July 4th holiday!  Or maybe it finds you beginning a well deserved vacation!  I will return to my job tomorrow after a 10 day vacation.  I wonder how many days it will take to get my mind back in the zone??  This year hubs and I elected to stay home.  I had a big test to prepare and take and a few health challenges kept us from traveling too far.  I did take one day to travel and visit a few of the covered bridges of Kentucky!  And I managed to take one day to visit my favorite Christian bookstore and stock up on some new books!  Now I just need the time to read them!  :-)  

PLUS I did get some time to craft.  For today's post I tried a new technique.  I created the background panel with a sheet of white card stock and black acrylic paint.  After the paint dried, I added my floral image North Coast Creations' (Floral Sentiments 8) with clear embossing powder and Versamark.  I heated them and after curing, added a bit of gold ink, bronze stain and a smidge of dark red distress ink.  I tried to add each as a layer and use a paper towel to lightly remove a bit of each layer before proceeding.  The final panel resembles a distressed leather...  kinda cool...  I embossed the floral image and sentiment on black card stock and used some Our Daily Bread Designs dies to cut and emboss each.  The base is black card stock measuring 5.5 x 4.25 inches with a layer of copper card stock beneath the faux leather/stamped panel.  I added a bit of black frayed hemp cord with a cork button after positioning my image and sentiment in the center.  The photo doesn't do this one justice.  It is so much better IRL!

So here are the items I used on today's project including the recent Floral Sentiments 8 release from North Coast Creations.

And a few items from our sister company Our Daily Bread Designs...

Vintage Labels Die

 

Vintage Flourish Pattern Die 

Pennant Die

Thanks as always for stopping by!  Come back later this week as I share a fun "double window" card featuring the new Welcoming Windows Die from Our Daily Bread Designs!  

Blessings...

CTMH ~ Land of the Free ~

For all of my friends in the United States, Happy 4th of July!  I hope this post finds you enjoying a day full of friends and fun!  I have a simple card to share today featuring an older Close To My Heart release.  I'm not sure if this was a special monthly set or just is no longer in the catalog.  I normally don't like to feature things that you can't purchase.  However, I REALLY wanted to use this stamp for a project this year!  So here it is!  It features Close To My Heart's Home of the Brave set.

I started with a 5.5 x 4.25 inch blue card stock base and added a red mat.  I stamped the Statue of Liberty image and added 3 inked images (red, blue and yellow) of my firecrackers.  I finished the card by stamping the sentiment in black ink in the corner.  

I took some time today to catch up on my daily Bible reading...  I have been studying for a HR re-certification course...  and sadly my Bible studies fell behind.  Today, I found myself in the book of Philippians...

"For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself."

    Phillippians 3:20-21 NASB (New American Standard Bible)

I have always been a proud American.  The 4th of July always brings a surge of patriotism for me.    This scripture brought a powerful truth home to me.  I am just passing through.  This place...  isn't my home...  I might be a citizen of the US of A...  but that is temporary...  I hold a citizenship that trumps all others....  Do you???  

Blessings...

Lori  

A Blog Hop and New Release at Our Daily Bread Designs!

 Welcome to Release Day at Our Daily Bread Designs!  The first day of each month is a special time for ODBD and the "Bread Sticks."  We get to show you all of the new products ODBD has cooked up for you that month.  Plus you have the chance to win when you hop along!  

For complete deets on how you might win check out the bottom of today's post.  In the meantime, I have a couple of cards to share featuring a host of new stamps and dies from Our Daily Bread Designs.  

First off, I have a soft and shabby project featuring the new set, You Are My Angel...

I started with a white card stock base (5.5 x 4.25 inches) and added a soft pink mat.  I selected the gingham print from ODBD's Shabby Rose Paper Collection  and distressed the edges before adding it to the pink mat.  A bit of dimensional foam lifts the die cut Quatrefoil Pattern Die off of the gingham for an added bit of dimension.  I stamped the angel wings (from the new You Are My Angel

set) with silver ink on white card stock and carefully fussy cut it.  I nestled it on top of the wing dies (Angel Wings) and added some greenery from a favorite die, Fancy Foliage.  This montage including flowers from the Birds and Nest Die rest upon the Antique Labels and Borders Die also in white CS.  I stamped the sentiment (You Are My Angel) with pink ink on white card stock and used the Pennants Die to cut and emboss it.  A few flat backed pearls in the blossoms add just a bit of refinement.  And if  you look closely you will see the bit of glimmer mist on the die cut wings nestled above the pearl flourish.  Whew!  There is a whole lot going on with this project!  ;-)

And here is the new set you see here today...

So for my second project...  I decided to go with an Americana feel...  Fourth of July is coming ya know!  

I started with a rich navy CS base measuring 5.5 x 4.25 inches.  I added a white mat and a red card stock base, scoring every inch to create a "clapboard" effect.  The new dies made the rest of the project a breeze.  I created my window, shutters and window box with the new dies, Welcoming Window, Flower Box Fillers and Window Shutter and Awning.  I created the flowers with the Flower Box Fillers die and added a bit of greenery from Fancy Foliage. 

 The curtains are white card stock and Layered Lacey Squares Die cuts, positioned to resemble curtains.  The "wallpaper" and awning are prints from the Patriotic Paper Collection.  I chose a rich navy ink and stamped the sentiment (Home Sweet Home) on white CS before using the Mini Tags Die to cut and frame it.  A bit of baker's twine and Flower Soft adorn the box.  

 

So here are the new items you see here...

 

 

Didn't I tell you this was a fabulous release???  SO FUN!!!  

Would you like to have a chance to select some ODBD stamps of your very own? 

Here's all the deets....

Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 gift certificate to the ODBD Store, to be used toward the purchase of ODBD Stamps found in the "stamps column" of the website just for commenting on the Design Team cards!  You have until July 2, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. EDT to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win!  The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on July 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

  ODBD Blog 

 

and the Bread Sticks

  Cathy * Julie * Sandee * Silke * Dawn* Chris 

 * Grace * America * Lisa * Amy * Lori(ME) * Angie * Sabrina

WAW190 ~ Fear Not ~

It's time for another fabulous, fun and inspirational challenge

at Word Art Wednesday.

  

Be sure to check out the Word Art Wednesday site for all of the details including this week's digital scripture, how to link your creation AND info on some fabulous prizes! 

We appreciate this week's sponsors so very much!  Please take a few moments to thank those who provided our prizes this week!

This week I decided to go with a bee theme featuring this powerful scripture from the Book of Joel...

I started with a white card stock base measuring 5.5 x 3.5 inches and added a black mat.  I used fun bee themed papers for the base and center panel and printed my scripture panel on white CS.  I stamped the bee image, coloring and die cutting before adding glitter glue to his wings. 
It's a clean design this week.  But I sure love the color combo! 

I decided to use the MOJO sketch you see here...

And the list of supplies...

Digital Scripture Image - Word Art Wednesday

Bee Image and Die - Verve Stamps - The Buzz Stamp Set & Dies

Paper - Bazzill, Georgia Pacific, Pebbles Homegrown Paper Pad

Challenges

MOJO404

Thanks for stopping by!