~ You're the Coolest ~

Happy Thursday!  Today, I have a fun birthday card to share using a few items from North Coast Creations.  I love these fun dinosaur images...  They make sure cute kids cards!

Layer by Layer...

1.   Black Card Stock 4.25 by 11 inches, folded and scored at 5.5 inches
2.   Yellow DP from our sister company Our Daily Bread Designs, Birthday Brights Paper Pad
3.   ODBD - Double Stitched Rectangles Die and Birthday Bash Paper Collection
4.   Black Card Stock - ODBD - Double Stitched Circles Die
5.   ODBD - Birthday Brights Paper Pad and Circles Die
6.   Banner - ODBD - Birthday Brights Paper Pad and Double Stitched Rectangles Die hand trimmed and adorned using coordinating paper from the DP mentioned and ODBD's Numbers Die
7.   Image and sentiment from Dino-Mite stamp set and coordinating Dinosaurs Die

Copics - C1, C2, C3, C5, C7, R43

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessings!

Love is Patient (Part 2) Side Step Card

Good morning!  Today I have a side step card to share using a few items from Our Daily Bread Designs' August release.  It is hard to believe the month is almost over!  In just a few short days we will have another fun release to share.  But in the meantime, I want to show this fun project using the Birdhouse stamp set, Flower Lattice Die and Pierced Squares Die.

I love this scripture so very much and couldn't resist using it on yet another step card!  ***And if step cards make your nervous...  you can buy all sorts of fancy folds pre-cut and scored at ODBD!  Here's the LINK!  

Here are the items you see today...

and a few old favorites...

and for my Copic loving friends...

Birds - Y11, Y13, C7

Cherries - R24, R27, R29

Limb - E55, E57

Leaves - YG61, YG63, YG67

Blossoms - E50, R21

Birdhouse - C1, C3, C5

Thanks for stopping by!  Check back tomorrow as we have a special look back at ODBD's mid-month release.  And look out Thursday for the new September release and blog hop!  It promises to be a busy week!  

Blessings...

~ Our Daily Bread Designs ~Heartfelt Counsel~

Good morning friends!  Hot weather has given way to rain showers in my part of the world.  This is a welcome relief for my parched backyard.  Cracks in the earth are drinking in sweet provisions from heaven and the Saints...  they are loving the reappearance of mud puddles! 

Rain allows me to focus on inside chores like laundry and cleaning.  I have been working on a few minor changes in my dining room and hope to add a fresh coat of paint in the coming days.  It is amazing what a bit of rearranging, refinishing and restoring can do to a space.  After 12 years in our home, I find myself longing to mix things up a bit.  So as I spruce up the house and slather on some new paint, I wonder when was the last time I added some "fresh paint" to spruce things up in my spiritual house.  When was the last time I did an in depth Bible study, read a great Faith based book, watched a family movie or spent dedicated time in His word?  I guess a fresh coat of paint is always in order.  Paint on Master, paint on...

Today's card featuring Our Daily Bread Designs' 

Sweet as Perfume stamp set and Vintage Borders Die...

Here are a few items from the July release you see...
Sweet as Perfume stamp set

Vintage Borders Die for my sentiment panel...

and a few old favorites you see...

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Until next time...
Blessings...

~ No Weapon Formed Against Me... ~

You may remember a song Frank Sinatra recorded called "My Way."  The lyrics were written by Paul Anka and were based on another song.  While on vacation in France, Mr. Anka heard a popular pop tune and negotiated to get the rights.  He then promptly went to work creating lyrics for his own version.  Mr. Sinatra recorded the song in 1968 and it went on to become his signature song.  It was so popular in fact that many other acts recorded their own version of it, including Elvis Presley.  I read in an interview given by Mr. Sinatra's daughter that as famous as the song was, Frank grew to dislike it.  

It is funny to think that a song with lyrics that famously say, "I''ll do it my way" was actually a copy of another song...  I know I am guilty of trying to do things my own way often.  And that is when I get into trouble.  It is when I count on my Savior, Jesus Christ that nothing can hurt me.  I may take a few darts, but I manage to get up.  Are you trying to do it your own way?  Are you trying to copy the pattern of the world, just like Paul Anka used a pre-existing melody?  Are you a Milli Vanilli (from my song era) just pretending, instead of being real?  Are you following the most important instruction book of all, the Bible?  When you have the Word of God as your Shield, what can possibly hurt you?

Blessings...

I started with a white card stock base using ODBD's Pierced Rectangles Die to create my plaid and yellow matting.  The plaid and coordinating solid can be found in ODBD's new Birthday Bash Paper Collection.  I stamped my image on Copic compatible paper (Neenah Solar Crest) and colored it with Copics.  I used the Pierced Rectangles Die to cut it as well.  I stamped my sentiment on vellum (also in the Armor of God set) and cut it with the pierced die.  I cut one end to create a pennant and adhered it with spray adhesive.  

So here are the items you see today...

and a few other details...

Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black (image)

Stazon - Jet Black (sentiment)

Copics - Y11, Y15, Y26, E25 (cross)

E35, E55 (belt)

Armor - C1, C3, C5

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