Christmas Gate

Hello friends!  I have a simple but elegant Christmas card to share with you today!  This may be my last Christmas card for 2014!  Now…to begin working on next year!

On Saturday, Audrie sent us to the Pendleton site for the Inspiration Challenge! I found an elegant black and white sweater with gold buttons and that inspired my card.

Creative Nugget:  This card is pretty straight forward…The Gate and the sentiments from the Let It Snow stamp sets were embossed with clear and gold embossing powders.  A VersaMark pad was used to ink up the edges of the Vintage Cream layers so they could also be gold embossed.  To get the gold on the ODBD Custom Beautiful Border to match, a piece of card stock was gold embossed before cutting it with the die. REMEMBER to use wax paper when cutting embossed card stock so the die cut does not stick to the die…ask me how I know!  A little gold pearl on the gate and some metallic gold thread finish the card.  The design of the card follows the Freshly Made Sketch for this week.

Here are the supplies from the Our Daily Bread Designs Store used to make this card:

Here is Freshly Made Sketches 166:

Thanks so much for stopping by…have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Cathymac

Celebrating 6 Years at ODBD

That's right... the Our Daily Bread Designs Store has been open for SIX years! We are celebrating today with four new Anniversary stamp sets...two Scripture Collections: 12 and 13, a Quote Collection, and a Sentiment Collection.  Each member of the Design Team has contributed their favorite scripture, quote, or sentiment to these inspiring "Go TO" stamp sets, so sit back and enjoy the samples we have made for you!

Three winners will be randomly chosen from the comments left on the designers' blogs to receive a $25 Gift Certificate to the ODBD Store to be used towards the purchase of ODBD stamps.  ONE lucky random commenter will be chosen to win the 2014 Anniversary Bundle!  You have until March 18th, 2014 at 9:00 p.m. EST to leave your comments!  The winners will be posted here on the ODBD Blog on March 19th, so be sure to check back to see if you won!

My first sample is my contribution to Quote Collection 4.

Creative Nugget:  The scene from The Mighty Sea was sponged, stamped with Versafine ink, and colored with Copic Markers on a Solar Crest panel.  A frame was cut from Kraft card stock with Classic Circle Nesties, stamped with the Fishing Net Background, and attached so the sea could be seen through the frame.  The banner panel was hand cut, sponged, and stamped with the Corrie ten Boom quote.  Some piercing was done inside the frame and a little stitching holds the banner onto the card front.  Some netting and shells were added and the front panels attached to a Basic Black card base.  Two little sea birds were carefully hand cut and popped on for dimension to finish the card.

Here is another quote from Quote Collection 4:

Creative Nugget:  Spellbinder Opulent Oval Dies and some soft sponging were used to frame this beautiful quote from the set. The SB A2 Filigree Delight Die was stitched to Kraft card stock and mounted to a Blushing Bride card base to form the front of the card.  Piercing was added around the frame and an ODBD Custom Beautiful Border Die was attached toward the bottom of the frame.  The seam binding was sponged to match the card and attached between the oval layers.  The tails of the bow were woven through the gaps in the frame.  One of the small hearts from the Bless Your Heart stamp set was white embossed on kraft and the other was sponged on Vintage Cream.  Both were cut with the ODBD Custom Ornate Heart Dies.  A few pink pearls finish the card.

I just love all of the quotes from this wonderful set and know that I will be reaching for them time and again!  Here are the many ODBD supplies used to create these two samples:

You will find all of the gorgeous DT cards from our Anniversary Release on the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog. The links to the individual blogs for your comments are listed below for your convenience. 

 Julie * Wanda * Chris * Stacy * Lisa * Grace * Dawn 

Diana * Sandee  Sabrina * Silke * Cathy * Angie  

Linda * Lori * Cheryl * Audrey * Robin

Enjoy the eye candy and be inspired!

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

Hugs,

Cathymac

Looking Back at the ODBD February Release

Hello friends!  Today we are revisiting the fabulous Our Daily Bread Designs February Release.  This release was just brimming with love and lots of gorgeous hearts.  Here's a sample made with just a few of them!

Creative Nugget:  The front of the card was created by stitching and piercing together several new designer papers from the beautiful Heart & Soul Paper Collection.  One of the Beautiful Border Dies was cut twice and layered with a strip of DP to make the scalloped border.  The shaker part of the card was created by stamping the Bless Your Heart on Select White card stock and cutting it with the scalloped Ornate Heart Die.  A sentiment from the set was also stamped on this piece.  The frame was cut using two of the Ornate Heart Dies nested together.  The smallest of the heart dies was used to make the hearts inside the shaker, and little pearls were added to some of them.  A piece of acetate was attached to the back of the scalloped frame.  A double layer of mounting tape was used to attach the frame to the stamped heart with the little hearts inside.  A bow and one of the little hearts finish the card.

These materials from the 

Our Daily Bread Designs Store 
were used to make this card:

For more gorgeous inspiration using the February Release, be sure to visit the ODBD Blog.  Then, for more details on each creation, visit the blogs of my talented DT Sisters!

Stacy * Sandee * Julie * Grace * Chris * Lori

 Dawn * Sabrina * Wanda

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you were inspired by your visit!

Hugs,

Cathymac

Heart and Soul

Hello everyone!  Since I'm hosting the sketch challenge on Splitcoaststampers today, I thought I'd post my sample for you here as well. The heart on the sketch was perfect for the new heart stamps and dies just released by Our Daily Bread Designs!  Since Heart & Soul was on my desk, that's the one I used for my card…love the patriotic theme!

Creative Nugget:  Two of the Beautiful Borders were attached to Select White card stock for the horizontal panels on the sketch. Stars were embossed on the Brocade Blue banner and swiped with a Fresh Snow stamp pad to make the stars pop a little.  This panel was stitched to Brocade Blue card stock and mounted on a Select White card base.  Brocade Blue and Real Red markers were used to color the Heart & Soul stamp to achieve the two tones. The heart was then cut with the matching Ornate Heart Die and popped up with mounting tape.  The sentiment from the Heart & Soul stamp set was also colored with markers to get the two tones.  Some jute colored with a marker and a veneer arrow were added to finish the card.

Here are the supplies from the 

Our Daily Bread Designs Store used to make this card:

And here is the SC474 sketch for today on Splitcoaststampers…hope you can join in! 

Thanks so much for stopping by…have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Cathymac