RS217 ~ Put on the Full Armor of God ~

Happy Friday!  Today I have a card to share using
Our Daily Bread Designs' Full Armor stamp set.

I started with a white card stock base and added a bit of tropical blue card stock cut and embossed with ODBD's Pierced Rectangles Die.  I created my custom DP using ODBD's Medallion Background stamp.  I stamped the image on white card stock with Versamark Embossing Ink and added white embossing powder.  After heating and cooling, I gently added a soft green ink, tropical blue ink and a rich blue ink gently wiping away the excess.  I love the ombre feel to this panel!  I cut and embossed it also with the Pierced Rectangles Die.  I stamped my sentiment (Full Armor) with a soft green ink on white CS and used ODBD's Circles Die to trim it our.  I added a bit of coordinating blue CS cut with the Pierced Circles Die for my mat.  I added a few custom flowers made from white card stock and ODBD's Pretty Posies Die.  I inked each with a rich blue ink, spritzed with a spray bottle, blotted up the excess and distressed away!  After shaping and drying, I added the layers to together and placed them on my card over soft green foliage (Fancy Foliage Die).  I finished up with a few gold micro beads glued in each center.  And I added a cut little blue die cut butterfly (Bitty Butterflies Die.  

Here is the new set and die I used today...

and some old favorites...

and the link to this week's Retro Sketch Challenge and

the sketch itself...  My card was based on this sketch...

Thanks for stopping by!

F4A327~ You're Sweet ~

This week's Free 4 All Friday Challenge at SCS (Splitcoaststampers) is to make a card that reflects what you like to do, or wish you could do, in your free time.  Unfortunately, like many others, I have zero free time.  I keep telling myself that if I budgeted my time better...  but with job demands, life demands...  we've all been there, right?  

So for me, I would love to have time to have a real flower garden.  Specifically, I would like a heritage garden full of hollyhocks, sweet peas and roses...  lavender...  you get the idea!  I love the idea of having a beautiful garden like something my great grandmother would have had!

So for today's challenge I colored a couple of rose images from Our Daily Bread Designs' Tea Time stamp set and went to work.

layer by layer...

4.25 x 11 inch white card stock base, scored and folded at 5.5 inches

4.25 x 5.5 inch layer of polka dotted DP from ODBD's Old Glory Paper Pad

ODBD's Majestic Medallion Die & white card stock

ODBD's Pierced Rectangles Die; Old Glory Paper Pad & Medallion Background stamp (embossed with Versamark & White Embossing Powder)

ODBD's Pierced Rectangles Die and Old Glory Paper Pad

ODBD's Lavish Layers Die & white card stock

ODBD's Tea Time stamp set, Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics & ODBD's coordinating Teapot & Roses Die

ODBD's Flourishy Frame Die and white card stock

Medallion Sentiments stamp set - Indian Corn Blue (Close to My Heart) and Real Red (Stampin' Up)

and a bit of white seam binding...

Thanks for looking!  Don't forget to stop back by tomorrow for our look back at this months' Mid Month Release at Our Daily Bread Designs. 

A Look Back at Our Daily Bread Designs' May Release

Today we are taking a look back at Our Daily Bread Designs May Release.  Here is the card I created using Medallion Background stamp, Medallion Sentiments stamp set, Majestic Medallion Die, Flourishy Frame Die and Pierced Rectangles Die. For more inspiration using the May Release be sure to visit the Our Daily Bread Designs' Blog.

Let me peel back some of the layers on this ultra frilly card...

4.25 x 11 inch White Card Stock; scored and folded at 5.5 inches
ODBD - Pastel Paper Pack - (light blue) - 5.5 x 4.25 inches
Silver Poster Board - ODBD - Majestic Medallion Die
White Card Stock - ODBD - Majestic Medallion Die (frilly overlay layers perfectly under the next die by ODBD - Pierced Rectangles Die - on embossed paper from ODBD Pastel Paper Pack
Embossed stamp design - ODBD - Medallion Background - stamped with Versamark and White Embossing Powder on light blue DP
1 Silver Poster Board - Flourishy Frame Die and white Card Stock Flourishy Frame Die (offset one another)
Medallion Sentiments stamp set - Greeting and Design on sentiment panel (also embossed on ODBD Designer paper); die cut with ODBD' s Flourishy Frame Die
Flowers created with white card stock, Scattered Straw Distress Ink and Faded Jeans Distress ink and ODBD's Pretty Posies Die 
Perfect Pearls - Perfect Pearls added to blossoms; pearls by Recollections
Foliage (silver & white) ODBD - Fancy Foliage Die

and some of the new items you see today...

and a few old favorites...

Don't forget to stop by our BLOG if you get lost along the way...

And the Design Team affectionately known as the "Bread Sticks"

Robin * Melissa * Julie * Sandee * Cathy * Dawn 
* Lori * Lisa * Sabrina * Grace * Jan (Guest Designer)

Thanks for stopping by!