A Cup of Tea

Happy Tuesday! Today's card is quick and easy card I cranked out with the help of Our Daily Bread's recent release, Special Blend.



I stamped the doily on ecru card stock and then followed up with the sentiment in a rich shade of red. I then took a pair of trimming scissors and cut the image out. I created the base from a 4 1/2 by 9 inch red strip of card stock. I then scored it at the 4 1/2 inch point and folded to create the card. I layered on some ecru card stock and this lovely gingham print by Graphic 45. I paper punched some ecru card stock and placed it on my card and adhered my sentiment with dimensional foam. I also added some jute and these cute tiny wooden clothespins from the craft section of my local discount chain. Kinda looks like I hung the linens out on the line! Thanks so much for visiting! Blessings...

Lori

Recipe

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - Special Blend
Paper - Bazzill, Graphic 45 An ABC Primer Collection - Games and Playtime
Ink - Memento - Tuxedo Black, Close to My Heart - Cranberry
Paper Punch - Martha Stewart Crafts
Jute, Mini Wooden Clothespins

Exploring Cricut # 8 Happy Birthday - A Color Challenge

Welcome to another bi-weekly challenge at Exploring Cricut! This time we want you to create a Happy Birthday project. But not only must it be a birthday project, it must include the following colors - red, blue, yellow, green and white only! For complete deets please visit Exploring Cricut!

And now for my creation...



For this project I selected the Cricut cartridge, Birthday Bash. Here are the cuts you will need.

It's Your Birthday (4 inches) pg. 22 Phrase Shift (1 cut yellow)
Ice Cream Cup (Blue 5 inches) pg. 57 IceCream
Ice Cream (White 5 inches) pg. 57 IceCream-s
Ice Cream Topping (White 5 inches) pg. 57 Layer 1 (Embossed with Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirls folder)
Leaf (Green 5 Inches) pg. 57 Layer 1 shift
Cherry & Sprinkles (Red 5 Inches) pg. 57 Layer 2 (cut twice for red cherry layers)
Cherry & Springkles (Blue, Red, Yellow 5 inches) pg. 57 Layer 2 (Additional Sprinkles

Card Base - Red - 5 X 10 inches (scored at 5 inch mark and folded)
Mat - Blue - 4.75 x 4.75, Designer Paper - 4.25 x 4.25 inches
Sentiment Background - Red 2 x 5 inches

1. Cut base out of red card stock (5 x 10 inches). Score at 5 inch point and fold.

2. Adhere blue and designer paper to base.

3. Place red sentiment background on card base. Adhere with dimensional foam.

4. Layer ice cream sundae together beginning with blue base. Add Ice Cream layer.

5. Glue leaf to base. Glue one red cherry to base. Use regular adhesive on both.

6. Emboss frosting with D'Vine Swirls folder and adhere with dimensional foam.

7. Glue "sprinkles" on with pen glue. Adhere final cherry layer with dimensional foam.

8. Place sentiment where desired and glue with dimensional foam.

Thanks for stopping! Blessings...

L

Recipe

Paper - Bazzill, Doodlebug County Fair; Die Cuts - Provocraft Cricut Birthday Bash Cartridge; Embossing Folder - Provocraft - D'Vine Swirls; Pen Glue; Dimensional Foam

I'm So Blue

Hey guys! I'm popping in for a quick hello! Hope you are having a wonderful Sabbath! Today's card was created for a few challenges. I selected the new God's Love set from Our Daily Bread Designs and I used a new technique. (It's new to me...) I covered three of the letters in LOVE with scotch tape and then inked the remaining letter. I removed the tape and then stamped the single letter! That's how I achieved the letters L-O-V-E on a banner! Cool, huh??? Thanks for reading and until next time. Blessings...

Lori

Recipe

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - God's Love
Paper - Bazzill, Colorbok, We R Memory Keepers - Cotton Tail Paper Pad, Prima - Romantique Paper Pad
Ink - Memento Summer Sky (inked around center panel), Close to My Heart - Dutch Blue (central butterfly image), Memento - Danube Blue - LOVE
Dies - Spellbinders Standard Circles Large
Pearls - Recollections
Ribbon - Close to My Heart
Mulberry Roses
Paper Punch - Martha Stewart Crafts
Wilton Doily
Stickles - Star Dust (butterfly trail)


Challenges

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C119 - Monochromatic Card in Blue
Southern Girls Challenge SSC35 - Sparkle (Stickles on Butterfly trail)
Stampin' Sisters in Christ SSIC122 - Something New Challenge (new technique - scotch tape for stamping individual images/letters)
Card Patterns 148 - Sketch

ODBDSLC92 - W-I-N-T-E-R Word Play

Happy Saturday All!! I hope you are all having a great weekend!! Today I am popping in to share this week's Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge!!

This Week’s Challenge-

Winter Word Play

The team challenges you to use three tools or embellishments beginning with three of the letters in the word W-I-N-T-E-R.

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, January 20th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. 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 or 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, January 20th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC92. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Now on to my take for the challenge:



I created the flowers with tissue paper and Spellbinders Blossoms Three die. The "bud" is actually a few pieces of left over tissue that I scrunched up and adhered to the card. After punching a stack of flowers (and yes, you can cut through several layers of tissue at one time) I ran a paper piercer through the center and placed the rhinestone brad. Then I scrunched, fluffed and moved layers until I achieved the look on each flower I desired. Easy peazy!!

N - Nestabilities
T - Tissue Paper
R - Rhinestones

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - Porch
Paper: Echo Park - Country Drive, Bazzill
Accessories: Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Ink Black Soot (edges); Dies - Spellbinders Blossom Three, Foliage; Rhinestone Flourish - Recollections

For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my dt sisters:

Jan Marie Ennenga
Debi Southard
Chris Olsen
Jan Keen
Lori Ulrich-Me!
Kathy Roney
Rosemary Dennis
Sabrina Jackson
Wanda Cullen

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!!

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments!!

TSTR96, MOJO223, TLC330 and a Heartfelt Thank You!

I feel so blessed! Yesterday I was notified not once but TWICE that I had won a prize! Thank you so very much to the kind folks at Mojo Monday for selecting my card, Righteousness in Bronze as one of their Mojo 222 Sketch Champions! What a wonderful way to celebrate the day! And then the wonderful folks at Word Art Wednesday notified me I had won a random drawing for some fabbo stamps from Whimsy Stamps! I'm still smiling! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

So today I am popping in to show you a card I put together for a couple of challenges. This one will be entered in Mojo's 223 Sketch Challenge as well as The Shabby Tea Room's Vintage Boudoir Challenge. Take a few moments to check out the links below and please play along!

Here's the Mojo Sketch...



And for my entry...



I created the rolled rose by using a 1 1/2 inch wide swath of burlap. The total length was about 10 inches. The process is pretty much the same as a fabric rolled rose but burlap is much bulkier. I used a hot glue gun to adhere the material as I worked. As always thanks for stopping in and don't forget Saturday's Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge! It will be fun! Blessings...

Lori

Recipe

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 6
Paper - Colorbok, Bazzill Kraft Paper; Graphic 45 Bedtime Stories, Iron Orchid Beach Cottage Paper Pad
Embossing Folder - Stampin' Up
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Ink - Antique Linen, Tea Dye
Dies - Cheery Lynn Designs Fanciful Flourish, Spellbinders Foliage, Standard Circles Large, Blossom Tags & Accents
Pearls - Zva
Lace, Sheer Ribbon, Burlap

Today's Challenges


Mojo Monday 223 Sketch Challenge
The Shabby Tea Room Week 96 - Vintage Boudoir
SplitCoast Stampers TLC330 Best of 2011

1 Corinthians

You knew I couldn't resist! After all, red is one of my favorite colors! Stands to reason I would crank out another Valentine card or two... or maybe three??? lol...

I received this single stamp by Our Daily Bread Designs a few days ago. This particular scripture is very meaningful to me. And probably not for the reasons you think! Usually people hear this particular New Testament passage mentioned during a wedding or around Valentine's Day. This particular passage took on a special meaning for me on Saturday May 4, 1996. It was on that day that my father's funeral was held after a short battle with cancer.

The central passage of the message that day was this one. Even though my Dad left this world to be with our Lord and Savior, I know his love still remains... Blessings...

And here is the card inspired by that passage...



Thank you as always for reading! Your comments and feedback are such a blessing to me! (Hugs)

Lori

Recipe

Paper - Bazzill, Colorbok; Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - 1 Corinthians; Ink - Memento Rhubard Stalk; Dies - Spellbinders Labels Seventeen; Paper Edger Punch and Individual Punches - Martha Stewart by EK Success; Mulberry Roses; Pearls - Recollections

MOJO 223 - Spring Has Sprung!

Yes, I KNOW I am pushing the seasons! But this lovely paper pad from Echo Park made me THINK spring! So with this week's sketch challenge at Mojo Monday in mind...



I came up with the following card...



I really like the bright primary colors! It is definitely not as "girly" as what I normally do but I likey!!!!! I really love the cute little birdies I cut out and popped up with dimensional foam. I hope you do too! Blessings...

Lori

Recipe

Paper - Bazzill, Echo Park Country Drive Paper Pad; Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - Birthday Blessings; Ink - Memento - Summer Sky (sponged around clouds), Cottage Ivy - Sentiment; Die Cuts - Cricut Cartridge - Pooh and Friends - pg. 36 - 2.75 & 1.75 inches (clouds); Ribbon; Paper Punch - Martha Stewart - EK Success


Challenges

MOJO223 Sketch Challenge