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This weeks Papertake Weekly challenge is sort of an Easter free for all.  So I pulled out this Stampin' Up! stamp set from last year that *gasp* had never actually even been inked up!  I stamped my image twice and colored both images with prismacolor pencils, blended with odorless mineral spirits.  I then cut out parts of the second image and popped them up to adds some extra dimension to the first image.  I used the sketch from this weeks Crazy 4 Challenges and the technique (paper toile) from the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge. Our sponsor this week: Simon Says Stamp Make sure you pop over to the  team blog  and play along with us. Check out what the rest of the team has done and show them some love. Dawny Donna Jill Lols Mandy Sharon Steph What I used: Stampin' Up! Serene Spring and Well Scripted SU kraft, white and cool caribbean card stock Basic Grey Kioshi Versafine Onxy Black clear embossing powder Prismacolor pencils, OMS and blending stump glaze pen a

Good morning.  Hope your day is going well.  Mine started out a little rough my oldest daughter isn't feeling well and as a result stayed home from school today but she is happily camped out on the couch watching movies so that I could get in a little bit of creative time.  For my card today I decided to combine the Mojo Monday sketch challenge with todays SplitCoastStampers Try a New Technique challenge, which was to decorate your card inside, as well as out.  Now I have to admit that I am just a tad bit lazy about decorating the inside of my cards.  So it was good that Holly had laid down this challenge.  I used the many layers of the sketch as a perfect excuse to drag out my brand new Basic Grey Green at Heart designer paper and paired it with the Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 3 . and the inside What I used: ODBD Scripture Collection 3 SU chocolate chip, old olive, pretty in pink card stock Basic Grey Green at Heart chocolate chip craft ink pad clear embossi

Good morning all.  It's Sunday so it is time for another Anyone for Anya? challenge .  So sorry that I missed last week, life got in the way of stamping, shocking I know but it does happen.  Since it is the end of the month our challenge this week in another fabulous sketch from our own talented Dawny P.  My card is just a quick one.  Max is colored with Prismacolor pencils and Copic markers.  I just grabbed a couple of pieces of Cosmo Cricket Boyfriend designer paper and some coordinating card stock and I was done.  Really quick card! our sketch this week: our sponsor: Make sure you pop over to the team blog and play along with us. Check out what the rest of the team has done and show them some love. Caz Dawny Julie Renata Sabina Stacey Yvonne What I used: The Greetings Farm, Max SU white, not quite navy, old olive card stock Cosmo Cricket, Boyfriend designer paper SU earth elements brads Prismacolor pencils, OMS and blending stump Copic markers for flesh tones and shadows

Good morning all!  Sorry that it has been a while since I posted.  I came off of my vacation into the Our Daily Bread Designs anniversary celebration (which was fabulous don't ya think?), a house full of chaos and a full work schedule.  When your brain is stuck on island time this is not an easy thing, then throw in the time change and you have a recipe for disaster, in my life anyway.  Hoping that I have it under control now.   This weeks Papertake Weekly challenge is a fabulous sketch from our own Dawny P.  I love this sketch and I already have a second card with it in process.  For this one I sort of stretched the sketch out to make it into a standard A2 card instead of a square card.  I used Kraftin' Kimmie's adorable Lucy & Ricky , colored with my Prismacolor pencils and some of Basic Grey's Sugar Rush designer paper . our sketch: This weeks Papertake Weekly sponsor is: Make sure you pop over to the  team blog  and play along with us. Check out what the rest

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread Designs Anniversary Blog Hop.  If you just arrived here from   Grace's blog Th-INK-ing of Yo u , you are in the right place.  If you just stumbled onto this post please pop over to the  Our Daily Bread Designs blog  to start the hop at the beginning. Well today is the day!  Two years ago today Kelley Holland opened up Our Daily Bread Designs.  Now I have to tell you that I have been a fan since day one.  I was really excited to see a stamp company that carried lovely images paired with scripture.  Stamps that allow me to express my faith, through my craft. Since that first day Kelley has released 61 wonderful stamps sets and 9 individual stamps, all filled with scripture!  I dreamed of being a part of the design team and was thrill to be asked to be a part, even a small part, of this fabulous company!  Happy Anniversary Our Daily Bread Designs and may God continue to bless your venture. Today Our Daily Bread Designs is releasing 4 new stamps sets i

Welcome to day four of the Our Daily Bread Designs Anniversary celebration.  Todays challenge is to use your favorite ODBD stamp set to make a project.  For my card I used my all time favorite stamp set "Keep My Lamp Burning". For all the details on the challenge pop over to the Our Daily Bread Designs blog .  As with the other challenges this week there will be a prize for a randomly drawn entry AND several of the design team members have hidden blog candy so you want to make sure you visit all of the participating members blogs and leave a comment for your chance to win.  For my card I stamped the lighthouse image in Versafine black then embossed the image with clear embossing powder.  I colored the light with a yellow marker then masked the image and sponged with a couple of different colors of distress ink, removed the mask and sponged some more.  I distressed most of the layers of card stock and added some sewn details, hemp and a silver wheel charm. So join us and pla

Good morning all.  Being Tuesday it is time for the Papertake Weekly challenge .  This weeks challenge is a color challenge entitled "Lilac and Lace".  My card uses some really old designer paper that I have had forever and don't have a clue where it came from but the colors on it are the closest I could find.  Apparently I am not much of a purple fan so I have very little of it in my stash.  The image on this card is from Our Daily Bread Design Happy Easter set. Our sponsor this week: Dawny P Make sure you pop over to the  team blog  and play along with us. Check out what the rest of the team has done and show them some love. Caroline Dawny Donna Jill Lols Mandy Sharon Steph What I used: ODBD Happy Easter SU lovely lilac, barely banana card stock designer paper that has been in my stash so long that I don't even know where it came from Versafine black stamp pad clear embossing powder Basic Grey brads barely banana wide grosgrain ribbon SU eyelet edge punch, c

Welcome to day three of the Our Daily Bread Designs anniversary celebration!  Silver and Gold are the traditional gift for those special milestones of a marriage, the 25th and 50th anniversaries.  Todays challenge is to make a project that includes silver and/or gold.   For all the details on the challenge pop over to the Our Daily Bread Designs blog .  As with the other challenges this week there will be a prize for a randomly drawn entry AND several of the design team members have hidden blog candy so you want to make sure you visit all of the participating members blogs and leave a comment for your chance to win. Make sure you check out what the design team member that are playing along today have done. America Kuhn Becca Feeken Dawn Lusk Lorelie Kim Kathy Jones Chris Olsen Patter Cross Connie McCotter What I used: ODBD Scripture Collection 2 whisper white, pink pirouette card stock SEI velvet designer paper Versamark stamp pad silver embossing powder pink pirouette wide gros

Are you ready for spring?  I know I am.  After spending a little over a week in Florida I have gotten used to not freezing my butt off and I am so, so, so very ready for spring.  Well this weeks Anyone for Anya? challenge is all about spring, spring colors anyway.   I colored up my Lottie image with Prismacolor pencils to match this very pretty, very springy Basic Grey Sugar Rush designer paper.  Isn't she pretty? Our sponsor this week is: Jacobi Make sure you pop over to the team blog and play along with us. Check out what the rest of the team has done and show them some love. Caz Dawny Julie Renata Sabina Stacey Yvonne What I used: The Greetings Farm; Lottie SU certainly celery, pretty in pink, basic gray and whisper white card stock Basic Grey Sugar Rush designer paper Memento black Prismacolor pencils, OMS and blending stump Copic markers for flesh tones and shadow orange ribbon of unknown origin, probably the $1 bin at Michaels

This morning I am really happy to share with you the exciting start to the Our Daily Bread Designs anniversary celebration.  This morning begins the first of several one day only challenges.  Since we are celebrating the anniversary of ODBD the challenges this week focus on gifts for Anniversaries.  Cotton is the traditional gift for the second anniversary so todays challenge is to use Cotton in some way, stamp on cotton, use cotton ribbon, make a cotton flower, just be creative.  For all the details of the challenge please pop over to the Our Daily Bread Designs blog , join us and play along.  Make sure you visit each of the participating members blog because every day between now and the 17th some of the members of the design team and challenge team have blog candy. For my challenge card I decided to pull out a bit of cotton muslin fabric, left over from my quilting days. I tea dyed it because it was just a little to white for me.  The image was stamped directly on the muslin.  I

Hello all.  Today is my last day of vacationing someplace warm with my girlfriends but I have a little something to share with you.  Before I get into the details of my card I wanna let you know about a bit of fun-ness that Our Daily Bread Designs has coming up very, very soon.  ODBD will be celebrating it's second birthday on the 17th and we all sorts of exciting things going on from March 13th through the 17th.  We will start on the 13th with daily challenges and several members of the team will have blog candy every day!  We will wind up the celebration with the release of some new stamps and a blog hop. All the details should be posted on the Our Daily Bread Design blog , go check it out because we would love to have you play along. Now lets talk about my card.  The entire color palette was inspired by this gorgeous paper I have had in my stash for what feels like FOREVER!  It is from the DCWV Old World pack and it has such yummy colors and texture, no idea why it is still si

Greetings all!  This weeks Papertake Weekly challenge  is a lovely little sketch from our always fabulous Dawny P.  I pulled out my favorite Henry image from Whiff of Joy and colored him with my Prismacolor pencils to match some Basic Grey Sugar Rush designer paper.  It is really hard to tell in a picture but I added touches of glitter and glaze to the cupcake and candle with my indispensable Sakura glitter and glaze pens.  Hope you find time this week to play along with us.  We would love to see what you come up with! Our sponsor this week is: Dies to Die For Make sure you pop over to the  team blog  and play along with us. Check out what the rest of the team has done and show them some love. Caroline Dawny Donna Jill Lols Mandy Sharon Steph What I used: Whiff of Joy; Henry Celebrating Mouse GP white, SU pretty in pink, basic gray Basic Grey Suger Rush designer paper Versafine Black stamp pad Prismacolor pencils, OMS, blending stump Copic marker for shadows Sakura glaze pen and

Good Morning all!  It is time for another Anyone for Anya? challenge and this weeks challenge is entitled "Mum's the Word".  So today is all about mom or mum as my stamping friends in the UK say.  March 14th is Mothering Sunday in the UK, where as we celebrate Mother's Day this year on May 9th, so I am ready well ahead of time this year. Our sponsor this week is: Hellen Hobby Groothandel Make sure you pop over to the team blog and play along with us.  Check out what the rest of the team has done and show them some love. Caz Dawny Julie Renata Sabina Stacey Yvonne What I used: The Greetings Farm; Sassy Suzi SU teeny tiny wishes GP white, SU elegant eggplant Basic Grey Wisteria designer paper and brads Memento black scalloped circle and circle Nestabilities SU white organdy ribbon Prismacolor pencils, OMS and blending stump

Good morning all.  Vacationing at the beach with my girlfriends this week.  It could stand to be a bit warmer but this is my view every morning...  Oh yeah life is good!  But don't worry I have lots to share with you while I am gone.  This card uses Our Daily Bread Designs new set Happy Easter .  Aren't daffodils the happiest flowers ever?  This fall we planted a memorial garden at church that is all daffodils.  We each (the seven of us) donated a bulb in memory of my teenage brother-in-law Chad.  I can not wait for spring to arrive, it is going to be so incredibly beautiful, a entire bed of daffodils. What I used: ODBD Happy Easter SU old olive, whisper white, summer sun card stock Basic Grey Origins designer paper Memento black and Versafine black stamp pads clear embossing powder Copic markers iridescent gold Glimmer Mist We Are Memory Keepers snap American Crafts ribbon

It is pretty unusual for me to use more then two embellishments on a card so this challenge from Papertake Weekly is pushing the limits a bit for me with our challenge entitled "Buttons, Bows, Brads & Bling".  But if you look carefully you will notice that the pillow in this adorable image from Moe's Digital Pencil  is all glittery, I added a button to my bow and some brads down the side so I really did manage to pull it off.  My image is colored with Prismacolor pencils and Copic markers were used for the flesh tones.  Why don't you join us and play along? Our sponsor this week is: Truly Scrumptious Make sure you pop over to the  team blog  and play along with us. Check out what the rest of the team has done and show them some love. Caroline Dawny Donna Jill Lols Mandy Sharon Steph What I used: Moe's Digital Pencil; Between GP white, SU basic gray, pretty in pink card stock Basic Grey Sugar Rush designer paper Prismacolor pencils, OMS, blending stump

Hello and welcome to another Our Daily Bread Designs Blog Hop .   You are so going to love the new March release! If you arrived here from Dawn's blog; Dawn A New Day , you are in the right place.  If not you really, really want to start at the beginning by hopping over to the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog so as to not miss anything.  We are having a Special Message Hop, and along the way you will be collecting Secret Words and you will want them in the correct order. You will have until Tuesday at 8:00 PM EST to complete the requirements to be eligible to win. There will be two blessed winners  who will each receive a $15.00 Gift Certificate to the Our Daily Bread Designs Store to go toward the stamps of your choice.   Winners will be randomly chosen from all the qualified entries and the announcement will be made on Wednesday, March 3rd on the ODBD Blog .   Here is what you need to do to be eligible to win: 1. Hop from blog to blog in the order given below, writing down th