~ A Golden Happy Birthday ~

Yesterday was a huge milestone for my Mother.  She turned 80 years old!  So over the past few weeks, as we have prepared to celebrate her special day, I have been in the mood to create a bevy of birthday cards.  For today's project, I opted to go with a gold and white color scheme with just a dash of black (for the sentiment).  I used a few of Our Daily Bread Designs' new releases, including the Vintage Bird Labels stamp set and Trellis Die.  

I started with a white card stock base measuring 4.25 x 11 inches, scored and folded at 5.5 inches...

Layer by Layer...

Gold Poster board cut slightly larger than the next layer...

1. White Card Stock - ODBD's Pierced Rectangles Die
2. Gold Poster Board - ODBD's ***NEW*** Trellis Die; 3 adhered side by side with dimensional foam to white CS base
3. White Card Stock - ODBD's Ornate Ovals Die (white scallop you see peeking out below the sentiment panel...)
4. Gold Poster Board - ODBD's Pierced Ovals Die 
5. White Card Stock - ODBD's Vintage Labels Die - stamped and embossed with gold Embossing Powder using ODBD's ***NEW*** Vintage Bird Labels Die (image and sentiment stamped in black)
6. White Seam Binding Bow

Here are the new items you see used on today's project...

a closeup of the trellis die, side by side...  Isn't it lovely?

and a few old favorites....

Thanks for stopping by!  I appreciate your kind words and feedback!  I hope you have a wonderful and blessed week!

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes Challenge ~

Good morning and welcome to a new bi-weekly challenge at Word Art Wednesday!  This week we have a wonderful digital image featuring scripture from the book of Mark.  To find the scripture featured and details of how you can play along in the #242-#243 challenge hop over to Word Art Wednesday for all the details.  But before you check it out, take a moment to look at the card I created using our featured digi!

and using this week's MOJO #459 sketch shown here...

I printed my sentiment on DP (all papers are Pebble's Spring Fling Paper Collection).  I used a black card stock base (4.5 x 5.5 inches) with a white mat base for all three DP strips.  I framed my sentiment panel with black card stock, added a coordinating banner plus a fun flower created with ODBD's Pretty Posies Die and distress ink.  A Recollections pearl flourish finishes it off.  

Thanks so much for looking and don't forget to visit Word Art Wednesday for the digi and to play along!  Blessings...

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Designs' August Release and Blog Hop!

Welcome!  I am so happy and blessed to be with you today to share this month's August release at Our Daily Bread Designs!  I have been blessed to work with the most amazing design team at ODBD.  And each month, it is like Christmas...  unwrapping all of the beautiful projects my fellow Bread Sticks have created for you!  This month we have a wonderful assortment of stamps and dies to tickle your fancy.  And I must admit the new strip dies that Kelley has come up with are just FABULOUS!  I find myself wanting to put die cut strips on everything!  *** I think if hubs sits still long enough, I might just glue one on him! ***

And to make your hopping more fun there is a chance to win a prize!  Check the end of today's post for all of the deets PLUS the links for all of my DT sistahs!  SO I hope you have a hot cup of coffee or tea because I promise you will be captivated by all the beauty on this hop!  

SO READY, SET, GO!!!!

So let's start with this darling Birdhouse stamp set, Flower Lattice Die and Pierced Squares Die...  I just couldn't go bright and bold on this gem...  I opted to use a soft blue and white color scheme, coloring my image with Copics and softly sponging a soft blue ink around the image. 

And for the particulars of the card...  layer by layer...

1. White Card Stock - 4.25 x 11 inches, scored and folded at 5.5 inches
2. ODBD's Old Glory Paper Pad (Polka Dot and Solid Blue DP); White CS 
3. Two layers of DP and White CS cut with ODBD's Pierced Rectangles Die; Polka Dot and White CS then cut with Leafy Edged Borders Die and offset
4. Image ODBD's ***NEW*** Birdhouse stamped with Copic Compatible Black Ink on Neenah Solar Crest Paper, Colored with Copics; cut and embossed with ODBD's Squares Die
5. ODBD's Old Glory Paper Pad (Blue DP) and ODBD's ***NEW***Pierced Squares Die ***
6. White CS cut slightly larger than DP mat
7. White CS ODBD's NEW *** Flower Lattice Die *** cut and nestled behind double matted image, slightly above offset edging
8. White CS - ODBD's Layered Lacey Ovals Die and ODBD's NEW *** Birdhouse *** stamp for sentiment panel

And the Copic Recipe

Birdhouse - E31, E37, E57; Hook - W3

Limb - E31, E34, E29

Blossoms - RV00, RV02, BV02

Cherries - R24, R27

Leaves - YG61, YG67

Bird - Y38, B34, B24

Wasn't that card fun?  It was fun to color.  But I must admit this next one has a special place in my heart this month.  I just love the simplicity and colors...

Squeal!!!  Isn't it just the absolute yummiest?  ;-)  I admit I am a bit biased!  

Here are the particulars so you can recreate this card...

1. White Card Stock 4.25 by 11 inches, scored and folded at 5.5 inches
2. ODBD's Birthday Brights Paper Pad - lime green DP cut slightly smaller 
3. ODBD's Majestic Medallion Die - for background
4. ODBD's NEW *** Art Deco Die *** placed to the left of the MM Die Panel and cut out (using negative and positive of the die)
5. ODBD's Double Stitched Circles Die and www.ourdailybreaddesigns.com(lime green circle mat)
6. ODBD's Circles Die and white card stock for sentiment panel
7. ODBD's NEW *** Thanks for Everything Stamps/Die Duo with Birthday Brights Paper Pad - die cut Thanks and stamped sentiment 
8. ODBD's Pretty Posies Die, Birds and Nest Die (Paper Flowers) - white CS, distress ink, Perfect Pearls, Recollection Pearl Centers

Here's a closeup of the blossoms on this card...

What do you think?  I hope you enjoy both projects as much as I did creating them!  So here are the new items you see today...

From my first card...

and my second...

Remember I said you could hop along for the opportunity to win?  Well, three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 Gift Code to the ODBD Website  just for commenting on the Design Team cards!  You have until August 2, 2016 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 August 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

ODBD Blog - if  you get lost along the way...

ODBD's Design Team AKA "The Bread Sticks"

Robin* Melissa * Julie * Sandee * Cathy * Dawn 

* Lori (ME) * Chris * Grace * Lisa * Sabrina 

* Diana * Angie * Diane (Our fabulous Guest Designer)

And before you go, here are a few of the other favorites you see used on these projects today...

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...

Our Daily Bread Designs - A Friend Loves at All Times

Good morning!  It has been so hot here the last few days.  The Saints are determined to stay in.  They give me this look like...  hey Mom, we like snow not this...  So while they lounge under the nearest shade tree, I am working on cards...  

And here is one featuring Our Daily Bread Designs'  A True Friend stamp set and Ornate Ovals Die...

This time I opted to color my Iris a rich blue purple...  using a few of my favorite Copic colors...

B63, B79, G21, YG67 and Y17

Since I didn't have the mid tone color between B63 and B79... I improvised.  I picked up some of the darker shade on the tip of the lighter...  and colored away...  Perfect way to make your Copic collection go further!

So here is a layer by layer break down of today's card...

Purple Card Stock (CS) 4.25 by 11 inches, scored and folded at 5.5 inches

1. Silver Poster Board cut and embossed with ODBD's Pierced Rectangles Die
2. White CS - cut and embossed with ODBD's Lavish Layers Die
3. Purple CS - ODBD's Pierced Rectangles Die
4. Copic Compatible CS (Neenah Solar Crest) ODBD's image *** NEW *** A True Friend - Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with Copic colors listed above
5. White CS (Sentiment Panel) Memento Grape Jelly and Lulu Lavender; ODBD's ***NEW *** A True Friend; cut and embossed with ODBD's ***NEW*** Ornate Ovals Die

Here are a few of the NEW items you see used on this project...

and a few old favorites...

I mentioned my love for these gorgeous flowers in an earlier post.  And this color is one of my favorites!  Thanks as always for stopping by!  Stop back by this week as I share a couple of new projects.  And don't forget next week we enter a new month...  and that means a new release from Our Daily Bread Designs amd a blog hop!  It promises to be so much fun!

Blessings...

~ Sweet as Perfume ~

Good morning!  Today I have a project featuring vellum!  I wanted to try something new and so I opted to stamp my image on vellum with white embossing powder and then lightly color the back side with Copics....

Layer by Layer...

1.  White Card Stock - 4.25 by 11 inches, scored and folded at 5.5 inches

2.  Designer Paper - Our Daily Bread Designs - Pastel Paper Pack - ODBD - Pierced Rectangles Die

3.  Vellum - Embossed in white with image from - ODBD's ***NEW*** Sweet as Perfume

4.  Colored the image on the back side of image with Copics shown here...

      

5.  Adhered Vellum layer with adhesive spray
6. White Card Stock ODBD ***NEW*** Ornate Ovals Die & ODBD Ovals Die to create a frame
7. White Card Stock ODBD ***NEW*** Layered Lacey Ovals Die & Sentiment from    
     ***NEW*** Sweet as Perfume stamped with Rose Bud colored ink
8.  Recollections Pearls

And a close up...  love the soft feel of coloring vellum with Copics...

And I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this sweet image set...

and a few old favorites...

Thank you so much for stopping by and spending a few moments of your day with me!  I hope you found something today to inspire your creativity!

Blessings...