Our Daily Bread Designs 4th Anniversary Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread designs 4th Anniversary Special Design Team Edition Release Blog Hop!

If you got here from Suzanne's Blog, you are in the right place! If not, you might want to start at the ODBD Blog so you are sure not to miss anyone! If any links are lost along the way, you can always get the entire list of links from the ODBD Blog as well!

The bread sticks are so excited to be celebrating this special milestone in the life of ODBD! It is such a blessing to work for a company that brings glory to God in every stamp set created, and offers us the tools we need to do the same with every card we create! If you are a long term follower of ODBD, then you know that each year, the Design Team submits a favorite Scripture for the special anniversary sets, and those suggestions have been the sum total of all the "Scripture Collection" stamp sets in the store. This year, the special sets include our favorite Scriptures, but also quotes and sentiments that we feel would be great on cards or projects. I think you will find some of the most encouraging and uplifting words available in stamps in these special anniversary sets!

So now, here are the Details of the Anniversary Hop:

• The Hop will run 8am EDT Mar. 17 until 8pm EDT Mar 18.

• The winners will be announced on the ODBD Blog on Mar 19.

• Four hoppers will win a FREE ANNIVERSARY SET and One blessed hopper will win The Complete Anniversary Bread Basket Bundle!!!

Here is what you have to do to be qualified to win one of these prizes:

• Hop to each designer’s blog and leave a comment

• Return to the Our Daily Bread designs blog and leave a comment telling us that you completed the hop, making note if there were any you could not comment on.

• Along with your statement that you completed the hop, leave some Anniversary wishes for Kelley and the gang at ODBD!

I selected one of my favorite scriptures from the Book of Psalms. This particular scripture reminds me of the power and majesty of our Creator. When things are difficult, we only have to look at the majesty of His handiwork to know he is with us. What a powerful reminder of his love for us! For this card, I embossed the DP before distressing the 4 edges and adhering to card stock. This layer was then popped up with dimensional foam to frame my verse. I then used coordinating card stock and cut a frame with a oval and scalloped oval die. When finished I added a layer of white card stock which I edged on the bottom with a lacey paper punch. The entire framed scripture Scripture Collection 9 was then adhered to a light cream card stock base. Final touches include a mulberry rose, burlap leaves and some lovely pearl bridal sprays I found and cut down to fit this project. I also added a white butterfly die with pearl accents!

Now I will send you to the next stop on the hop, Sandee. Thanks for stopping in!

Recipe

Stamps - Scripture Collection 9; Paper - Colorbok, Bazzill, Die Cuts With a View, Kaisercraft - Sweet Nothings Collection - Silver Lining; Ink - Close To My Heart - Cranberry; Embossing Folder - Sizzix - Sugar; Dies - Spellbinders, Cheery Lynn Designs; Rose - Recollections; Burlap Leaves - Prima; Pearls - Recollections; Bridal Spray; Paper Punch

Exploring Cricut Daily Post

If you are here for Our Daily Bread Designs Love of Backgrounds Hop click HERE.

Welcome to another daily project for Exploring Cricut. We will be having a little spaghetti get together in a few weeks so I took the opportunity to put some invites together.



I added some fun baker's twine to mimic spaghetti. Super cute! And here's the cut details...

Plate & Utensils - From My Kitchen - pg. 55 - 5.25 inches
Placemat - Elegant Edges - pg. 29 - 3 inches
Napkin - George - pg. 109 - 3 inches - scored and folded in half
You're Invited - Wild Card - pg. 37 - 7.5 inches

Supplies

Carts - Elegant Edges; From My Kitchen; George; Wild Card
Paper - Colorbok; Bazzill, Doodlebug
Accessories - Baker's Twine, Dimensional Foam

If you are a stamping fan don't forget to stop back by tomorrow. Our Daily Bread Designs will be releasing some fabulous new sets to celebrate their 4th anniversary! There will prizes, great projects and wonderful fellowship! Hope to see you then! Blessings...

ODBD Love of Backgrounds ~ Birch & Honeycomb

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Design's Alumni Team's bi-monthly For the Love of Blog Hop. This is a big week at ODBD! Kelley and crew are celebrating their four year anniversary! We're having a great big party! To celebrate, the Alumni team along with some other designers are incorporating some items associated with 4th anniversaries.....colors of topaz or aqua, flowers, fruit, linen, silk, etc., along with ODBD Background Stamps into our projects.

Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, go to the ODBD Blog for the full link list. One of the posts is a 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 March 28th at 6 pm. The winner will be announced March 29th!

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

My creation features Birch Background



and the Honeycomb Background shown here.



And now for my card...



I stamped the Birch Background stamp twice, selecting some of the birch trees to cut out individually and then placing them with dimensional foam on the base image. Notice how the branches stick out wildly? I thought it added to the "rustic" feel. I then stamped my sentiment from On Eagles' Wings and placed a sticky note over it to mask it before stamping with the Honeycomb Background. I then removed the mask and trimmed it down to the desired size. A simple jute bow finishes it off. Thanks for stopping in. Don't forget to pop back in again Saturday for the big reveal! Kelley has come up with some FABULOUS 4th Anniversary sets! I will send you on your way...

ODBD Blog
Kathy
Silke
Betty
Fran
Angie
Lori {you are here}
Rosemary
Julie
Jan
Connie
Chris
Patter
Grace
Sandee
Debi

Enjoy hopping!

DS42 & CLD19 ~ Faithful

Happy Wednesday!

Today's project is something I put together with the following sketch in mind...



I also took the opportunity to incorporate some flourishes in for the new Cheery Lynn Designs challenge...



For this project I selected papers by Basic Grey (Kissing Booth) and Fancy Pants Designs (Winterland). Even though some of the papers have tiny snowflakes on them, I felt the colors lent themselves well to a spring challenge! The doily is a Wilton doily purchased from a local discount store. I distressed all of the edges and even crumpled up the bottom floral layer before adhering to a card stock base. A bit of white lace peeks out from behind the sentiment panel. The red DP was hand cut and placed with dimensional foam. I stamped the sentiment (ODBD's The Word of God) with Versafine Onyx Black Ink. Both the flourish and rose are Cheery Lynn dies. A bit of Diamond Stickles top off the rose. Kinda fun! Roses AND snowflakes... lol... Have a wonderful day!

Supplies
Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - The Word of God
Ink - Versafine - Onyx Black
Papers - Bazzill; Fancy Pants Designs - Winterland; Basic Grey - Kissing Booth
Dies - Spellbinders - Standard Circles Large; Cheery Lynn Designs - Fanciful Flourish, Miniature Rose, Medium Rose, Large Rose

Challenges

Cheery Lynn Designs - CLD19 - Flourishes
Deconstructed Sketches - DS42

ODBD Designers Flower Hunt Game

We are celebrating the 4th Anniversary of Our Daily Bread designs!  All this week we have special events going on over on the ODBD Blog, so be sure to check them out!  Today we have something that we hope will be pure fun for all! One Dozen of the Bread Sticks have baked up a special game for you! We decided to shower ODBD with a bouquet of flowers, since flowers are one of the traditional gifts for a 4th anniversary. You will be collecting these flowers along the way, and creating a beautiful bouquet for Kelley and all of Our Daily Bread designs!

We each have created a special card or project using at least one of our own personal ALL TIME FAVORITE ODBD sets. SIX of us will also have a special blog button with a special flower on it! Look for it in the designer's side bars of their blogs.

To play the game:

• Visit each designer listed below
•  Leave a comment 
• Keep a list of each designer who has a special flower blog button.  Write down the designer's name and the name of the flower they have.  
• When you have visited all 12, left comments and found the 6 flowers, send an email to Grace at gnywening@yahoo.com.  Simply name the 6 designers who had the flowers and the flower they had.  
• Winners will be chosen randomly from all who email Grace with their list by 9:00pm EST Mar. 15th!

 

Now on to my project details:



For my project today, I used........

Stamps - ODBD - Blessed Christmas
Paper - Echo Park - Country Drive, Colorbok, Bazzill, Neenah Solar Crest
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic - R20, R21, YG06, YG17, YG67
Stickles - Diamond
Flower Soft - Autumn mix (yellow only)
Pearls - Recollections
Lace - Simplicity
Ribbon - Offray
Paper Punch

Grace asked us to list our FOUR ALL TIME FAVORITE ODBD sets, and to use at least one on our project today.  How can I possibly just choose 4? 

Here are my four favorites:

Blessed Christmas - I love Christmas time! And this set is one I pull out every year. It doesn't matter if you color it in traditional reds or non traditional pinks like I did today. This image is elegant no matter what!
On Eagles' Wings - This set is the very first ODBD set I purchased! It started my love of anything ODBD. The scripture is one of my husband's favorites. And did I mention he loves eagles?
Joy to the World Hymn - This is one of my favorite songs to sing at Christmas! I love how this stamps lets me incorporate music into any project!
You Will Find Refuge - My husband is not the only one in the family who loves birds! My favorite is the happy little chickadee. This image is another one I keep returning to. 

I can't believe I had to pick four! They are all my favs!

(Now, I'll send you on your way.  Here are the dozen bread sticks in the bread basket today:

ODBD Blog
Grace
Patter
Angie
Chris
Sabrina
Lori {you are here}
Fran
Lisa
Connie
Sue
Debi
Gemiel

Exploring Cricut Challenge #11 ~ Food Frenzy

Welcome to another fun challenge at Exploring Cricut. Thanks for stopping by to check out my project!

Diane's challenge this week..

Food Frenzy... Create a card, layout, or papercraft using any cricut cut of food. (This could include recipes, table decor or anything with food.) Let your imagination go wild!

My grandkids have been busy making mixes to give to family and friends. Somehow they layer stuff like flour, oats and nuts in a jar and when mixed with other ingredients and baked you have a wonderful treat. They gave me an assignment. They are making some sort of bread mix that requires apple butter and they wanted me to make a cute tag they could wrap around the jar. So I pulled out my Cricut and went to work. The base is a piece of 3 x 12 inch kraft card stock with a 2.5 x 12 inch strip of white layered on. I added an additional 3 x 3 kraft tab in the back for this jar so it would fasten. The key to this. You MUST use Scor Tape. It is the only thing I found that will really hold the wrap on! The cuts are all from Preserves.



Cuts
Apple - (2 inches) - Preserves - pg 30 - dark green; red; Layer - brown; Layer - white; Layer - light green
Butter - (1 inch) - Preserves - pg 30 - Word - red

Supplies
Card Stock - Bazzill, Colorbok - white, red, dark green, light green, brown
Cricut Cart - Preserves
Scor Tape

And here's the Apple Butter Bar Mix Directions...

1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups quick oats

1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup pecans (walnuts chopped)


1. Mix flour, baking soda, and salt together.
2. Cooking Instructions: Layer ingredients in a jar, in order given.
3. Press each layer down before adding next.

Instructions for Apple-Butter Bars Mix:

Spoon out nuts; set aside.
Empty bar mix into a large bowl.
Add 1 cup melted butter or margarine; mix well.
Press half of batter into a 13 x 9 x 2-inch greased pan.
Mix 1 1/2 cups apple butter with nuts.
Spread over batter in pan.
Add remaining mixture.
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 50-60 minutes or until browned.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Blessings...

SC375 ~ Over the Fence

Thanks so much for stopping in! I can't believe how quickly the weekend is passing me by. And as I write this, Daylight Savings Time looms... I REALLY dislike the idea of losing a hour of sleep. But those longer evenings sure do appeal to me!

Be sure to stop in this week and visit. This will be a very busy week here at Scrappin Saints. For my Cricut fans I will have two posts this week, Monday and Friday for Exploring Cricut. And Our Daily Bread Designs is celebrating their 4 year anniversary! There will be lots of fun things going on to celebrate! Be sure to check out ODBD's blog for a complete schedule. It's going to be a GREAT week!

Today I want to share a card I created for the weekly SplitCoastStampers Sketch Challenge...



I took the opportunity to use some fun new papers from October Afternoon and The Light of Life set from ODBD. Definitely a fun combo! Thanks for stopping in and until next time... Blessings...

Supplies
Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - The Light of Life
Paper - Kraft - The Paper Studio; October Afternoon - Sasparilla; Neenah Solar Crest
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Summer Sky; Copics
Spellbinders - Standard Circles Large, Petite Scalloped Circles Large
Jute

Challenges

SplitcoastStampers - Sketch Challenge 375