Happy Birthday, Kelley!

Today a few of the "Breadsticks" have gotten together to celebrate the birthday of Kelley Holland, owner and mastermind of Our Daily Bread Designs, by surprising her with this Birthday Blog Hop!  (At least we hope it is a surprise…it's hard to keep a secret from this lady!)  We hope you will hop along with us and share your own birthday wishes for Kelley!  If you've arrived here from Angie's gorgeous blog, you are in the right place…if not you may want to return to the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog and start at the beginning so you don't miss any of the beauty and birthday cheer!

Have a wonderful and blessed birthday, Kelley!

RELAX and allow your family to pamper you on your special day!
We hope you enjoy these projects created just for you!

Here is the card I created for Kelley using 
Our Daily Bread Designs stamps and dies:

Creative Nugget:  The main panel was created on mixed media paper.  Modeling Paste was used to make the chevron stripes and a little Mowed Lawn distress ink was sponged on them.  Splatters of gray watercolor and Spun Sugar distress ink were added next. The layered flower was cut from Solar Crest paper using the Asters and Leaves Dies.  Spun Sugar was sponged on the petals and Picked Raspberry was used on the tips.  Solar Crest paper was sponged with Mowed Lawn and Peeled Paint distress inks before being cut with the leaves, also from the Asters and Leaves die set.  The flower center was sponged and covered with Glossy Accents and micro beads.  The leafy flourish was cut from Smokey Shadow card stock using the Fancy Foliage Dies.  A birthday greeting from the All Occasion Sentiments stamp set was embossed using Liquid Platinum embossing powder on a piece of vellum.  A few scattered pearls finish the card!

Now off you go to the talented Silke…
but just in case you've lost the way, here is the whole line up of blogs celebrating Kelley's birthday today:

Our Daily Bread Designs Blog
Chris 
Lisa
Sandee
 Grace 
Wanda
Elizabeth
 Robin
  Paula
  Linda
Angie
  Cathy (That's me) 
Silke
Dawn
Diana
Sabrina
 Cheryl
 

Thanks so much for stopping by…hope you enjoy the hop!

Hugs, 

Cathymac

ODBDSLC146 Silver Anniversary

Welcome to another Shining the light Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs!  Time flies by so quickly...it's hard to believe that Our Daily Bread Designs is celebrating five wonderful years already!

This week's challenge is:

Make an Anniversary Card with Silver 

Since this week marks the 5th Anniversary of Our Daily Bread Designs and the gift for a fifth year anniversary is silverware, we would like to see your anniversary cards with silver on it.

To make the challenge more fun, we will be 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 Sunday, March 17th at 8 p.m. EST.  One random winner will be chosen and announced next Sunday.

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 three or more participants to receive the Shining the Light Award.  In order to qualify for this award; however, you must use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday, March 17th at 8 p.m. EST.  If you upload your creation to Splitcoaststampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword ODBDSLC146.  When creating your posts on blogs, please include a link to the challenge.

Here is what I created for the Silver Anniversary Challenge:

Creative Nugget:  I knew I wanted to use this newly released Happy Marriage Recipe for my card so it was stamped in Smokey Shadow ink on a Labels Eight Die.  The intertwining heart wreath is from the Love One Another set and was clear embossed over the recipe.  A little sponging made the wreath pop a little. The border was created with a border punch and attached to a square Solar Crest card base.  The silver DP was stitched to the front of the card.  A sentiment from the All Occasion Sentiments stamp set was masked so that only the Happy Anniversary part was stamped on the banner die.  Fanciful Flourish Dies, ribbon, paper flower, stick pins, pearls, and a charm were used to embellish the card.

The Our Daily Bread stamp sets used to create this card are Happy Marriage Recipe, All Occasion Sentiments, and Love one Another!

By clicking on the links to the other super talented Sister Sticks, you will find more fabulous inspiration for this challenge!

~~Chris Olsen~~Jan Marie Ennenga~~

~~Kathy Roney~~Audrey Hiltke~~Diana Nguyen~~

Can't wait to see your marvelous creations over on the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog!  

Thanks so much for stopping by...have a blessed day!

Hugs,

Cathymac

Card Recipe

Stamps: Happy Marriage Recipe, Love One Another, All Occasion Sentiments (ODBD)

Ink: Smokey Shadow (PTI), Tattered Rose Distress Ink (Ranger), VersaMark (Tsukineko)

Paper: Solar Crest (Neenah), Silver Card Stock (Unknown), DP (American Crafts)

Accessories: Labels Eight Die, Banner Die (Spellbinders), Fanciful Flourish (Cheery Lynn), Border Punch (e.k. Success), Seam Binding (Really Reasonable Ribbon), Stick Pins (Wild Orchid Crafts), Kaiser Pearls, Flower and Charm (A.C. Moore)