ODBDSLC106 No Designer Paper

Thanks to everyone who participated in the "Go Green" challenge last week!! There were so many beautiful creations. We so enjoyed viewing your interpretation of the challenge.

The Award and Prize Winners for last week's "Go Green" challenge:

Paula Kay Bourland

Rebecca K. Reed

Greta

Sarah Bennett

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

Thanks to some of our Design Team members for their gorgeous entries for this challenge:

Betty Wright

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

13. Yolanda D.

Congratulations !!  Please email Kelley at kelley@ourdailybreaddesigns.com

for more information on how you to claim your gift certificate. Please let her know you won ODBDSLC105.

This week's challenge: 

No Designer Paper- This week we want to see creations created with your own backgrounds, embossing, or just plain cardstock….no designer paper.

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 Friday, May 4th at 8 a.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 Friday, May 4th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC106. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

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

Please note the designers link, challenges used and the stamp set they used is listed under each creation. If you take a moment to leave the girls some love at their blogs, I am sure they would greatly appreciate it.

Jan Marie Ennenga

Stamps: ODBD Butterfly Grunge Background, Scripture Collection 8

Sabrina Jackson
ODBD Stamps used: Scripture Collection 8

Lori Ulrich

ODBD Stamps used: Faith and; Quote Collection 1

   

Jan Keen

ODBD Stamps Used:  Simple Things and; Flourished Verses

Rosemary Dennis

ODBD Stamps Used:  Bleeding Heart and; Each Minute

Kathy Roney
ODBD Stamps Used:  Birthday Blessings

Debi Southard

ODBD set used: Quotes Collections 2

Chris Olsen

ODBD stamps used: Sneak peek of Dream

Thanks for stopping by!! We hope you will join us for this week's challenge.  We can't wait to see your creation!!

blessings,

For the Love of Flowers HOP!

For the Love of 

FLOWERS  Hop

Welcome to Our Daily Bread Design's Alumni Team's bi-monthly For the Love Blog Hop.  This week the Alumni team along with some of the ODBD designers are featuring a hop for the For the Love of ODBD Flower sets! Check out each link and leave a comment. If you get lost along the way, come back here for the full link list.  One of the post is a hop hot spot and a name will be drawn from that list of comments to win a $15 ODBD store gift certificate.  So, all you have to do is hop along and see all the creations and leave a little love!  You have until Wednesday,May, 9th at 6 pm.  The winner will be announced May 10th!  Enjoy all the awesome inspiration using For the Love of ODBD Flower sets!

  
If you love flowers, this hop is for you!  We are celebrating ODBD flower sets!  ODBD has many flower sets.  Today, we are showcasing about half of our flower images!  Check out the many creative ways the designers are showing you the many beautiful ways to use our flower designs! 

Don't Worry

From Me to You

Grow in Grace 

Happy Birthday

Bleeding Heart

 

Daffodil Corner

Daisy

 

Flower Border 

Tulip Corner

 

Mom

 

Mother's Day

Mother Teresa

 

Serve the Lord 

 

 

So, are you ready to check out what the Alumni Team and ODBD designer's created using these beautiful flower sets?  Here is your link list!  Be sure to leave a comment on each of the blogs for a chance to win an ODBD $15 store gift card!  Enjoy the HOP!  Would love for you to hop back here and let us know what you think! 

• Fran
• Kathy
• Silke
• Deb
• Betty
• Lori
• Sandee
• Kathy R
• Grace
• Jan
• Patter
• Rosemary
• Angie

As promised, the HOP HOT SPOT blog from last hop was Deb's blog.   The winner from the list of 53 comments is Pati!  Congratulations!   Please email Kelley at kelley@ourdailybreaddesigns.com to claim your $15 stamp gift certificate!

Customer Card of the Day - Paula-Kay Bourland!

Happy Wednesday, everyone!!! It's time to reveal the next amazing Our Daily Bread designs Customer Card of the Day!!! This week's gorgeous creation belongs to the sweet and extremely talented Paula-Kay Bourland.....yay, Paula!!!! My jaw dropped the moment I saw this beauty! The vivid colors of the "Butterfly Corner" and 3d "Butterfly Single" are an amazing match-up with the scripture stamp from one of my fave sets, "Faith". The three pearls and sanded embossing are perfect for embellishments....a little something extra which doesn't take away from the gorgeous scene! Wow, what a stunner! This card will definitely be a blessing to the recipient!!
 

I'm sure you would love to see more of Paula Kay's artwork.....visit her blog, Creative Stamping with Paula-Kay, or her Splitcoast Gallery, pkbourland.  Please leave her some love upon your visit!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Stay tuned tomorrow for another fun "For the Love Of....." Blog Hop, hosted by our amazing Alumni Team, and joined by Design Team and Challenge Team gals as well.  We promise to have lots of eye candy for you, plus a chance to win a Gift Certificate to the ODBD store!  See you there!!

Have a very blessed day!

Blog Writer

Time with our guest Cindy Coutts ~Homegrown Daisies~

Hi everybody. It's Cindy again. Do you ever have one project in mind to make and drag out all of the supplies about 100 times only to change your mind every single time? This is one of them. I was really going after using Christmas stamp sets for non-Christmas occasions, like using the stars in the Holiday Ornaments sets and making it into a birthday card. But alas, it's summer in California now and I did not want to play with Christmas stamps. I wanted to play with flowers and using raw materials to do that. I have 2 different cloths of muslin and burlap on this card using the very fun stamp sets of Daisy and Seed Packet with the Fence Border Die. I had all of these elaborate plans to make a stick decoration to put in a daisy pot, make a seed pack from the stamp set itself and a tag (which might be coming up next as a Part 2) to tie around a daisy plant as a gift since Mother's Day is just around the corner.

I went a little rustic this time around and I promise you before my guest designer spot is up, I'll make a beautiful card like the design team does!

Since I live on a 20-acre ranch, my go to store isn't Lowe's or Home Depot, it's the feed store and there are seed packets inside of the feed store, but they are not pretty seed packets like you'd normally find. These packets look like they've been through better days and are dirty, and so that's what my seed packet looks like.

   

 

 

I did a lot of layering on an A2 tent card with black card stock and ink distressed the edges of my red/cream polka dot designer paper. I die-cut out a fence with yellow/white designer paper and distressed that too and adhered it all to the black card stock. I then cut some burlap and pulled out the strings on the edge for the frayed look and to also get it to the size that I wanted it to be. Once I was happy with that, I cut some Scor-Tape and put that on the red polka dot paper and placed my burlap on top of that. Next was cutting a length of muslin fabric, fraying the edges, and tying that into a knot at the left side of the card. Scor-Tape worked really well as an adhesive and I was surprised considering the texture and properties of the burlap, so I added that onto the back of my image panel and adhered it to the burlap.

How I made my image panel was quite the process itself, but nothing really hard, just different. I stamped it onto Kraft card stock with black dye ink and heat set it. I colored in the image with Copic markers. Between the daisies, I used a very light blue color and to outline the image, I used pink. I also colored the outside leaf pattern of the image too with a very light brown marker. Everything shows up darker and not true to color when you use Kraft card stock to color on with Copic markers. I stamped the sentiments with violet dye ink and embossed them with clear powder. I roughed up the edges a bit using a blade then ink distressing them heavily with white ink. I still needed a little something so I got some Mister Huey's Calico Shine in mustard and dark brown, unscrewed the top, and tapped it directly onto my image for "splotches."

This would be a great card to give your favorite gardener and for your tag, you could use a sentiment from the Seeds stamp set or one of the many stamp sets that coordinate with the tag die and I'm going to refer you back to ODBD For the Love of Tags Blog Hop so that you can see how many tags there are to choose from, not to mention some great inspiration while you're looking!

I hope that you enjoyed this little rustic card and I'll see you again in a few weeks after the new May release comes out! Whoo hoo! God bless you!

Cindy

ODBDSLC105 Go Green

Thanks to everyone who participated in the "S-P-R-I-N-G Word" challenge last week!! There were so many beautiful creations. We so enjoyed viewing your interpretation of the challenge.

The Award and Prize Winners for last week's "S-P-R-I-N-G Word " challenge:

Sue Butler 

Wanda H.

Sabrina Cook

Jill

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

Thanks to some of our Design Team members for their gorgeous entries for this challenge:

Lisa Somerville



Suzanne Czosek 



Sandee Shanabrough

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

#7 Sue Butler

Congratulations !!  Please email Kelley at kelley@ourdailybreaddesigns.com

for more information on how you to claim your gift certificate. Please let her know you won ODBDSLC104.

This week's challenge: 

Go Green- Either mostly green on your card/project or recycle something on your card/project in remembrance of the nature God has created for us!!

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 Friday, April 27th at 8 a.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 Friday, April 27th at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC105. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

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

Please note the designers link, challenges used and the stamp set they used is listed under each creation. If you take a moment to leave the girls some love at their blogs, I am sure they would greatly appreciate it.

Sabrina Jackson
ODBD Stamps used: Paw Prints
Recycled item used: portion of a Prima packaging insert. I also used the color green

Lori Ulrich

ODBD Stamps used: Flower Border, Scripture Collection 8

Recycled item used: portion of a gift bag along with the color green

Kathy Roney

ODBD Stamps Used: The Light of Life

Mostly green was used  by Kathy.

 

Jan Keen

ODBD Stamps Used:  Seed Packet

 Jan used greens

Jan Marie Ennenga
ODBD Stamp Set Used: Scripture Collection 8
Jan used a Re-purposed Item: Cracker box

Rosemary Dennis
ODBD Stamps Used:   Faith & Quote Col. 1

Rosemary used the color green.

Debi Southard

ODBD sets used:  Randi's Song

Debi used the color green and a charm salvaged from a garage sale jewelry purchase

Chris Olsen

Stamps Used: Dog Sympathy, Paw Prints

Chris used a recycled green bow.

Thanks for stopping by!! We hope you will join us for this week's challenge.  We can't wait to see your creation!!

blessings,

Flashback Friday Favorites - God's Hands!

Happy Friday, everyone!! It's time for another "blast from the past"! Every other Friday we revisit a previously released stamp set (or bundle) from Our Daily Bread designs stamp line, to show that these beautiful sets never go out of style! This week's Flashback Friday Favorites set is God's Hands......a powerful set which includes a perfectly drawn hand image, three scripture verses, and two sentiments.....all centered around God's loving hands which are reaching toward us always! This set makes me feel safe, secure, strong, warm, and loved.....I love this set!!!!


Please enjoy the samples below, which show just how versatile one stamp set can be.....there are endless possibilities!















To see more beautiful samples with God's Hands or any other stamp set from Our Daily Bread designs, please visit the ODBD Card Gallery......there are thousands of inspirational samples there!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Stay tuned Saturday bright and early for a brand new Shining the Light Challenge! Don't forget....the Let Your Light Shine Scrapbook Challenge is still underway as well!

Have a blessed weekend!!!


Blog Writer