Christmas Deer

Hello dear friends!  Happy Monday morning…hope you had a wonderful weekend.  In spite of all the hustle and bustle, I managed to squeeze in a few challenges, one of which was the Featured Stamper Challenge on Splitcoaststampers. Laine Webb (A.K.A. Crafterlaine) has a wonderful gallery full of inspiration.  I chose her Forest Friends center step card to CASE.

Creative Nugget:   The card fold was changed using the following measurements:  Two pieces of card stock are needed…one piece measuring 5 1/4" X 11" and scored at 5 1/4", 6 1/4", 9", and 10" and the other measuring 3 3/4" X 6 1/4" and scored at 4 1/4", and 5 1/4".  Decorate the panels, fold and adhere.  Here is a side view of this card which folds flat for mailing:

All stamps and dies used on this card are from Our Daily Bread Designs.  The Peaceful Deer image was colored with Copic Markers and splattered with watered down acrylic paint.  The panel was cut with a Double Stitched Rectangle Die.  The snow drifts were made with a Leafy Edged Border Die.  Sparkling Snowflakes were stamped, cut with the matching Snowflake Die, and glittered with Stickles.   The Merry Christmas die cuts were also glittered.  Ribbon and some rhinestone stickers were added to finish the card.

This card will also be submitted for the following challenges:
Just Us Girls #322 Word Week - Merry
Addicted to Stamps and More #173 - Holiday
Pile It On #98 - Anything Christmas/Winter
Crafty Girls Creations #10 - Anything Goes
Mod Squad Challenge - Ingredients: (Color, Sparkle/Bling, Die Cuts) and (Faux Stitching, Rubber Stamp, Glitter/Bling)

Thanks so much for stopping by…enjoy your day!

Hugs,
Cathymac

Doodled Snowflakes

Welcome friends!  I just wanted to share a quick card and let you know about a special sale going on at Our Daily Bread Designs this week!  

For this week only the Sparkling Snowflakes set and the entire Sparkling Snowflakes Bundle is on sale!  From now through Saturday, September 28th, 2013, 11:00 PM EST, you can save 20% or 30% on select products from Our Daily Bread Designs. Check the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog for more details and some wonderful samples using these products!

Here is a card made using the Sparkling Snowflakes set and the Jingle Bells set just released this month:

Creative Nugget:  This wintery Christmas card was made for two challenges today on Splitcoaststampers.  The Technique Lover's Challenge was to use doodling and the CAS Challenge was a sketch.  Tumbled Glass Distress ink was sponged on the upper corners of the card and the snowflakes were lightly stamped using Tempting Turquoise ink.  A turquoise jelly roll pen was used to trace some of the lines on the snowflakes and to add dots to the points.  The Jingle Bells image was colored in Copic Markers and Star Dust Stickles added to the snow.  The image was cut with a Spellbinders Matting Basics B die and doodling added around the frame.  Hand cut fishtail flags and a sentiment stamped vertically finish the card.

Here are the ODBD supplies used to make this card:

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

Hugs,

Cathymac

ODBDSLC137 - Something New Something Old

Hello friends!  I can't tell you how excited I am to be posting my very first Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge as a design team member!  I am looking forward to sharing a new challenge sample with you each Tuesday, so I hope you will be able to join me each week and play along on the ODBD Blog!  Now on to this week's challenge!

This week's challenge is:

To use something new and something old

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving 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, January 14th at 8 p.m. EST.  One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. 

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 of our participants for the Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award or join the challenge however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday,  January 13th at 8 p.m. EST.  If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC137.  When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Creative Nugget:  To begin making this card, I used my new Snowflake Dies to cut three different snowflakes from some Pure Luxury card stock.  Two more snowflakes were stamped on this panel using my new Sparkling Snowflakes stamp set and Summer Sky ink. This panel was then lightly taped to another piece of card stock the same size and the three matching snowflakes were stamped through the die cuts.  The top panel was then embossed with my old Swiss Dots embossing folder.  The sentiment from my new Snowflake Sentiments stamp set was stamped and cut with an old rectangle nestie and mounted on an old Romantic Rectangle die cut from Brocade Blue card stock.  An old Fanciful Flourish die cut, a new stamped snowflake die, some twine, and rhinestones finish the card.

Take time to stop in to see more fabulous inspiration from the other Challenge Team members!

~~Chris Olsen~~Jan Marie Ennenga~~Kathy Roney~~Audrey Hiltke~~Diana Nguyen~~and our January guest designer 

Sabrina Friel~~

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Cathymac

Card Recipe

Stamps: Sparkling Snowflakes, Snowflake Sentiments (ODBD)

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko), Summer Sky (Memento), Faded Jeans Distress Ink (Ranger)

Paper: Pure Luxury (Gina K Designs), Brocade Blue (SU!)

Accessories: Snowflake Dies, Fanciful Flourish Die (ODBD), Romantic Rectangle Die, Rectangle Nestie (Spellbinders), Swiss Dots Embossing Folder (ProvoCraft), Piercing Tool (SU!), White Twine, Rhinestones (Recollections)