Flashback Friday Favorites - Blessed Christmas

Are you ready for a little holiday cheer in the middle of spring? Ready or not.....here it comes!!! This week's Flashback Friday Favorite is one of three beautiful sets in the "Poinsettia Bundle" which was released in November, called "Blessed Christmas". You may be thinking....this set looks familiar......it's because this week's Customer Card of the Day by Jocelyn aka JoBear2 featured this beautiful set!! The next two Flashbacks will be showcasing the second poinsettia set, "Luke 2:11", plus the companion set, "Christmas Verses". If these sets don't get you in the mood to get a head start on your holiday cards, nothing will!!!!


The girls on the Design Team have created some masterpieces with this beautiful set. Just look at the different styles of projects from this one set!!!

To see more gorgeous samples of projects made with "Blessed Christmas" or any other sets, please visit the Card Gallery at Our Daily Bread designs. And don't forget about "Bundle Pricing" of 10% off on designated set combinations, such as the Poinsettia Bundle mentioned above.

Stay tuned tomorrow for the New May Releases and Blog Hop....with another chance to win from ODBD!! Have a blessed weekend!!!

Blog Writer

Customer Card of the Day - Jocelyn aka JoBear2

This week's Customer Card of the Day belongs to Jocelyn aka JoBear2....congrats, Jocelyn!!! Though it's a long way until winter, I couldn't pass up the rich colors, embossed background, yummy ribbon tied with a Bow Easy, and this gorgeous poinsettia from the Our Daily Bread designs' set, "Blessed Christmas"......what a beautiful combination!!!

The inside view is just as beautiful, with one of the sentiments from "Blessed Christmas", framed with the Martha Stewart Lattice Border Punch....very elegant!!


To see more of Jocelyn's beautiful work, check out her blog, Instead of Ironing Blogspot, or visit her Splitcoast gallery HERE. We can't wait to see more beautiful work like this!!!

Congrats again, Jocelyn!! I will be sending you a code so that you may display the Customer Card of the Day button on your blog.

Thanks for stopping by today, everyone!! Stay tuned on Friday for a special Flashback.....if today's Customer Card of the Day didn't get you in the holiday spirit, this week's Flashback Friday Favorite stamp set will for sure!!!

Blessings!



Blog Writer

Time With Becca

Good Tuesday morning everyone!  Today we are spending time with Becca!  She will blow you away with her gorgeous project today! What a treat it is to share this with you!


Enjoy!

Scripture Kits

When Kelley published the Scripture Collections this year I knew I wanted to do something with the entire collection. The collection all together is so inspiring so I thought to make a booklet out of them. While shopping in the Office Supply store, I came across some name badges and I thought they would make perfect pages for the book. The more I thought about it, I envisioned a little booklet that you could easily slide in your purse or carry in your car to pull out and read in those snippets of free time. I tried to make mine a little but fun by putting a cute tag on the kit, meant simply to bring a smile!

When someone is accustomed to getting your cards, what a wonderful surprise to get a little gift that can be used over and over. I always want to make sure that I'm "using" the stamps I receive and this one sure hits a home run in that respect. This was certainly a project that I had a lot of fun with! Here are the steps I took to make these little kits.


I started out by purchased the ID Badge Holders. Mine came from Office Depot and can be purchased in packages of 12.

My kits each have 10 pages so for one of the kits I cut 20 pages that are 2.5"x3.25" each. Then I prettied them up by using corner punches and border punches. On the kit that I'm showing today I used the same punch on each page. On the other kit I made, I used a different border on each page - both kits have a very different look.

Then I laid out all the different scripture I wanted to include and tried to pair together the horizontally written verses and pair together the vertically written verses.


This is the other side of each page so you can get an idea. Once paired, I inserted each pair into a plastic sleeve.

Once I had all the pages stacked how I liked them, I found two round paperclips and made my own jump rings to bind the pages together. This could easily be done with ribbon as well.

This is what I ended up with. To take it further, I simply embellished the top of the book with ribbon so that the pages could be easily removed from the box.


I fashioned a box from cardstock, but this would also easily fit into a little tin, or a baseball card holder. Later next week I'll publish the dimensions for this box over on my blog, www.amazingpapergrace.com.

To finish up, I thought up possible tags to go on the kit and generated them on my computer.
I spaced them out so that they could easily be cut with my Nesties.

Hint: The scripture stamps contained in Scripture Collection 3 and Scripture Collection 4 are perfect for this project - they all fit the 2.5" x 3.25" page size the book calls for. There are several stamps in Scripture Collection 1 and Scripture Collection 2 that fit as well.

Here are the supplies I used:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs - Scripture Collections 3 and 4 and select stamps from Scripture Collections 1 and 2
Paper: Papers from my Scrap Bin
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx and Clear Embossing Powder
Accessories: Assorted Martha Stewart Border Punches and Corner Punches, ID Tag Holders, Ribbon, Jump Rings or Paper Clips, Spellbinders Labels 13 (for lid on box), Spellbinders Tags Five

Thank you so much Becca!!!  What a great idea you shared today and what a beautiful use of the Scripture sets!  Please take a minute to leave Becca some love and be sure to visit her Blog... it is FULL of Amazing PaperGrace!


I hope to see you Saturday morning, 8am for the May Release Blog Hop, right here on the ODBD Blog!  'Til then, have a great week!

ODBDSLC11 Mother's Day

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Recycle It challenge last week!! We so enjoyed viewing all your beautiful creations and had such a difficult time choosing just one to spotlight this week. So we picked three.....

The Award and Prize Winner for last week's "Recycle It" Challenge

Fonda- Southern Scraps

Le Anne-Wee Inklings

Clarissa- Stampin Possibilities

Congrats !! Please grab the Shining the Light Award Badge and display it with pride. Please link the badge to http://ourdailybreaddesigns.com.

This week's random prize winner of the $15 dollar gift certificate toward stamps is:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

4

Timestamp: 2010-04-23 21:31:11 UTC

and #4 is Lori Stokes-Wright!!!

 Congratulations Lori   !! Please email Kelley at kelley@ourdailybreaddesigns.com for more information on how you to claim your gift certificate

This week's challenge:

This week the challenge team is challenging you to create a Mother's Day Card or gift. This challenge will last two weeks since next Saturday will be our New Release Blog hop!!
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 th e prize must be submitted by Thursday, May 6. 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 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by May 6 at 8 p.m. EST.

If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC11. When creating your posts on blogs please inc lude a link to the challenge.

Now on to our challenge teams inspiring creations for this challenge:

Patter Cross

America Kuhn

Sabrina Jackson

Chris Olsen

Fran Gumprecht

Natalie Dever

Christine Okken


For the details on the items and stamps used by each designer, please click on the links under each card or project!

Thanks for stopping by! We can't wait to see your creations!

Blessings,

Stamping In Time: On Assignment SNTODBD8!

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Designs Stamping In Time: On Assignment Challenge!   

The Assignment: Any and ALL ODBD stamps! WooHoo!

The challenge: The challenge this week is brought to you by our challenge host, Marcelle Schauer.   Marcelle is giving us a challenge choice!  We can choose to use either brads or colored pencils.  Now, if you are feeling alittle adventurous, you can use both!  Both are items that may not get much lovin', so dig them out and use them! 

Marcelle is using ODBD The Cross of Christ and Grow in Grace sets.  She used prism colored pencils to color her flowers and accented each one with a yellow brad in the center!  She created varying depths with some spellbinder die cut frames.  Beautifully done, Marcelle! Find out more informaton about this card at Marcelle's blog!

Also, for more creative inspiration check out Angie, Debi, Connie, Sabrina, Patter, Francie, and Betty's blogs to see what we all created with the "choice" challenge! 

This week's Stamping In Time Winner is Sherry Lowmaster with this beautiful creation called They That Wait!  Sherry is using ODBD On Eagles Wings stamp set.  I especially love her torn edges and sponge detailing!  A very striking and beautiful card, Sherry!  Please check out her card and give some lovin' and congrats! Sherry, please pm me at SCS under gbedwright for your $15 stamp set gift code information and to get the Winner button for your blog! Again, congratulations!

Thanks so much to everyone who played along!  Never know, the next Stamping In Time winner could be you! 

It is your turn to play! Here are the guidelines!

• You must use ODBD Stamps! Other stamps allowed, but ODBD images need to be the focus!
• Use keyword code SNTODBD8 and ODBD when linking to SCS or public gallery.
• Be sure to use the LINK to be eligible for the gift certificate drawing!
• If you use either your blog link or online gallery, please give this challenge ODBD Blog link.

The challenge runs from Thursday 9 am (April 22nd) EST bi-weekly til Wednesday (May 5th) at 6 pm EST


Thanks so much for stopping by! Looking forward to seeing what you create! As always, thanks so much for Stamping In Time!

Customer Card of the Day - Candace Mitchell

This week's Customer Card of the Day belongs to Candace Mitchell aka Candylou on Splitcoast AND Christian Paper Crafts. Isn't this card a fresh breath of spring?! I fell in love with it instantly! The verse from Scripture Collection 4 is a wonderful choice; I love these new papers from Memory Box "Frond" collection, and the crocheted flower and stitching are the perfect finishing touches to an absolutely beautiful card.



A lot of you may be familiar with Candace from her Design Team positions at Stamping Sisters in Christ and the Sweet Stop Sketches Blog. I have personally enjoyed getting to know Candace on the forums at Christian Paper Crafts.......what a sweetheart and an extremely talented YOUNG lady!! (Yes, Candace, I'm old enough to be your mother!!) But seriously, you are truly a blessing to anyone who knows you!!

To see more beautiful work by Candace, check out her blog, Candid Candace, her Splitcoast gallery, or her gallery at Christian Paper Crafts. Anywhere you look, you will see her sweet Christian spirit and lots of awesome paper-crafting!!!

Congrats, Candace!!! I will be sending a code for a Customer Card of the Day button for your blog!

Blog Writer

Time With Sandee

Hello everyone!  Tuesday is one of my favorite days because it means we get to spend some time with our talented Design Team... and today is really going to be fun because we're treated to TWO projects by the talented and sweet Sandee!  I just love her style... and I know you do too!  Here is what she has to share with you!

Hi everyone!  I've got two cards to share with you today!  

Both cards use the same simple layout and colors but both are very different.  

If you know anything about me, you know that I struggle with the clean and simple concept of card-making.  And so, I've been studying some of my fellow ODBD sisters and practicing!  

Although, as you see, I can't get rid of my layers!  

This first card is very feminine.  I colored the image from the new Mother's Day set called Mom, 

with copic markers and paired it with a scripture from the Love One Another set.  

I added teeny tiny white dots in the center of the large flower with a white gel pen.  

And then finished it with a pretty bow and a lovely cross charm.  

Here are the supplies I used for this card:

ODBD Mom and Love One Another

Neenah Cream and SU! Blue Bayou Cardstocks

Anna Griffin Designer Paper

Cuttlebug Victoria embossing folder

Copic Markers G85, Bg93, BG72, BG75

White Gel Pen

SU! Vanilla Ribbon and Silver Cord

Bow Easy

Cross charm

Spellbinders Square Nestabilities

And here is my clean and simple masculine card using the two new Father's Day stamp sets!  One of my favorite ways to stamp is to scribble some re-inker onto an acrylic block and dab it onto the stamp before stamping.  When you ink the stamp this way, it seems to really soak into the cardstock and you can feel the impression of the ink in the paper!  I'm not sure how to describe it!  

Just adding the brad that looks like a screw finishes this masculine card!  

Here are the supplies I used:

ODBD Happy Father's Day and Dad

Neenah Cream Cardstock

SU! Blue Bayou Cardstock

Basic Gray Designer Paper

SU! Not Quite Navy re-inker

Spellbinders Square Nestabilities

Thank you so much for visiting with me today!  

Have a great Tuesday!

Thank you Sandee!  Isn't it amazing how one layout  can look so different? Thanks Sandee not only for the inspiration but also for the tip on how you like to ink those stamps!  These are both fantastic!  Be sure to stop by Sandee's blog and leave her some love!  We all can use a little love, right?  

May God richly bless your week! 

I hope you have some quality stamping time along the way!