Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge 165

This is my first Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge on the design team, it's so exciting! Join us at the Our Daily Bread Designs blog for details on the challenge.
I made this card for myself as much as for my friend, who's been going through a hard time. I need to continually be reminded not to worry and to give all of my cares to the Lord! Hopefully, this will bring her comfort in her difficult time, as it did me in making it!
Now for the card, I had this crazy idea to frame the Quatrefoil Pattern die and layer on designer paper. The reason this is a crazy idea is because I don't consider myself good at measuring and cutting, weird beause I've done a little quilting in the past, anyway, I managed to cut out the frames with the help of my paper cutter and you can see the result peaking out behind the doily, which is layered under the ODBD Crochet Circle and this inspirational verse. You'll see some antique sponging, embossing folder, and seam binding ribbon bow in the mix also.

Our Daily Bread Designs supplies:

Crocheted Circle Plain

Scripture Series 3

Quatrefoil Pattern Die


Other Supplies:
Spellbinder circles, embossing folder, seam binding, doily die, distress ink.
Many Blessings,
DJ
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Friends of Speedy TV challenge #84 - Food for Thought

The Friends of Speedy TV challenge this week is to make a food related card, join us here for a chance to win a stamp set.
I can never turn down food, even in cardmaking!! I pulled out this sweet cupcake, colored it with copic markers, added a little glitter glue, and layered it on Sizzix dies.

Mark's Finest Papers images:

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Other Supplies:
Sizzix dies, embossing folders, jewel stickers, copic markers, foam tape, seam binding ribbon, glitter glue.

Blessings,
DJ

Make it Monday - Double Backgrounds

I made this one for the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday challenge - double background, and a chance to get started on Christmas cards, check out the tutorial and challenge on the PTI blog.
I love the Hawaiian Shores Cardstock with Classic Kraft together so I inked up my adorable bird from the PTI 'Peace Be Still' set and cut him out with the matching die, added the olive branch and a black eye (no, I didn't hit him, I just added an eye with a Sharpie) then layered him on Spellbinder circles with a doily die underneath, a couple of the layers are raised with foam tape for dimension.

For the double background challenge I stamped the background sentiment from the same set and then stamped the snowflake (also from the same set)with the one off method, getting a lighter effect on the watercolor paper.
The embellishment is a twine bow with a seam binding bow and button on top.

Papertrey Ink: Peace Be Still

Other Supplies:
Spellbinder circle dies, doily die, seam binding ribbon, twine, button, tiny circle die, sharpie, foam tape.

Blessings,
DJ

Hip to be Square - SC447

The Splitcoast Stampers sketch this week is a beauty, of course I did the square version. I pulled out my Inktense pencils, which I haven't used in a while, and watercolored this pretty Papertrey Dahlia and leaves and cut them out with the matching dies, there's a touch of Stickles glitter in the flower center, it looked so great that I almost smeared glitter over the whole flower, but decided to use a little discretion! I'm feeling in the height of my summer mood and added lots of brightly colored dp for the background with two twine bows beneath a seam binding ribbon bow.

SC447


Papertrey supplies:



Other Supplies:
Papertrey Ink dahlia and leaf dies, Spellbinder frame die, My Favorite Things scalloped border die, embossing folders, inktense watercolor pencils, water pen, seam binding ribbon, twine, foam tape, stickles.
Blessings!
DJ

Friends of Speedy TV challenge - CAS

The Friends of Speedy TV challenge this week is to make a CAS Card, join us here for a chance to win a stamp set.
I have to admit that I find CAS cards impossible, all I can do is try and keep it as uncluttered as possible and hope that everyone is sympathetic to my plight!



For this one I decided to use the beautiful lily of the valley image and make a wedding card. I added texture to the Copic marker colored flowers and a Spellbinders oval frame, pearls, and textured corner dies in pale green to add some detail.

Blessings!
DJ

Sketch 446

For my contribution to the sketch challenge this week, I colored up this beautiful Sweet n Sassy Stamps poppy with Copic markers and layered on dp textured with embossing folders. I added a double twine bow under the button on the corner tag and a couple of pearl stickers to the corners of the bg.

Sketch Challenge 446

Sweet n Sassy Stamps:

Other Supplies:

Embossing folders, pearl stickers, twine, button, Verve banner dies, Copic markers.
God Bless,
DJ

Friends of Speedy TV challenge - No Designer Paper

The Friends of Speedy TV challenge this week is to make a card with no designer paper, join us here for a chance to win a stamp set: http://www.mfpspeedytv. ning.com/.
For this fun challenge, I decided to pull out the Mark's Finest Papers 'Bring on the Sun' set, heat embossed and watercolored the sunflower with reinkers, I then cut out the image and popped it with foam tape. I added lots of texture, a Spellbinder label with a greeting from the same set, and a seam binding bow/twine/button embellishment.

Stamps: Mark's Finest Papers - Bring on the Sun stamp set



Accessories: Spellbinder label die, embossing folders, seam binding ribbon, heat embossing, twine, button, reinkers, waterpen
Blessings!!
DJ