Technique Time With Julie!

Hello friends!  Today we are thrilled to be spending time with our technique guru... Julie!  Julie always has such interesting backgrounds, or colorful ways of stamping, and today she is going to let us in on a couple ideas that I think you will really enjoy!  So here's Julie!

 Hello everyone!

After much pondering, I finally took the suggestion of an ODBD teammate and decided to show you a technique today. If you're like me, you've been seeing a lot of "gel plate" background techniques using ink or acrylic paint. I haven't bought a gel plate yet, but then again, I don't "really" need one. The gel plate backgrounds are a new version of what was called "mono printing". I even did a tutorial for Splitcoast way back in 2009 on the technique. So for me it's, No Gel Plate? No Problem! 

I have lots of pictures to show, so get comfy. And I'm going to show two different plates I used...one is a plain piece of glass (from an 8x10 picture) and the other is a 8x8 hot glue gun mat made out of silicone or something similar. Both work wonderfully and while I'm using pigment ink in both examples, you can also use acrylic paint. You can certainly try other mediums, but with dye based inks or watercolors, you probably won't be able to do techniques like stamping or combing because the ink is just too thin and will run together. So let's get started. I'll show the two different plates and also some fun things to do w/ your brayer, stamps & stencils. The pictures are all annotated and just click to enlarge.

This is my finished card using the background above.

And these are the Copics I used to color the clover.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. 

Supplies:

stamps: Our Daily Bread designs - Simple Things, Honeycomb Bg, Sentiments Collection 2

ink: Versafine Onyx (for images), Colobox pigment inks in citrine, surf, seaglass, fresh green, evergreen, teal, celadon

paper: Neenah white, dk teal

accessories: ODBD clover die, Spellbiders mega oval & Radiant rectangles dies, Copic markers, Aegean silver embossing powder, stencil, sequin waste strip, combing tool, 8x10 picture glass, 8x8 hot glue gun mat, small brayer

Thanks sooo much Julie!  I really enjoyed your "no gel plate needed" ideas!!! I know I for one need to play around more with different backgrounds so thanks for the inspiration!  I know many of our readers will want to do so too!  And.... what a GORGEOUS card!!!

Please leave Julie some love here and hop on over to her blog to be wowed by her creative talent!

I also want to thank ALL of our design team and challenge team members who have faithfully contributed to these Time With posts over the past many years!  This will be our last Time With post for now.... we hope you have enjoyed the tutorials and ideas all have added here!  Coming up with tutorials and fresh new ideas can become stressful for the designers, so for now we are going to take a little break.... but don't worry.... you will still see lots of awesome work from all our teams!  

Thanks so much for joining us!!!

Blessings, 

DT Coordinator

Thank you to Lee Ann Barrett, our June Blog Guest Designer!

Welcome to the 4rd week with Lee Ann Barrett, our June Blog Guest Designer! I would like to thank Lee Ann for being our guest here on the ODBD blog!

You can visit Lee Ann's blog, Greyt Paper Crafts, for more inspiration! 

I am sorry I am so late posting but I was without an internet signal!!

Lee Ann said, "I used this stamp as we are nearing the 4th of July.  Also, I used it because it was the first ODBD stamp I just had to have and had to come looking for you when I saw the image in the SCS gallery.  It seemed appropriate to come full circle with the Old Flag Background stamp as this is my last week guest designing for ODBD".

Lee Ann used stamps from Old Flag Background and All Occasion Sentiments. 

We have one last card from Lee Ann that I wanted to share with you and I love it!! The lighthouse image is from the Keep Your Lamp Burning set (and also the lighthouse in our other company, North Coast Creations, logo!!).  The beach scene is from The Mighty Sea and the sentiment is from Happy Retirement! Wow, those are beautiful cards!!! 

Thank you for visting this week.  Please leave a comment for Lee Ann!

Blessings,
Kelley

ODBDSLC160 Red, White and Blue and /or Patriotic

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

Farewell for now and Thank you!!
Before going on to our challenge winners, I would like to say a huge thank you to Kathy Roney one of my fellow design team sisters, who will is stepping down from the team.  Kathy, we have enjoyed working with you and have been truly blessed with all your inspiration and talent over the past year.  You will be sincerely missed!  Your love for the Lord, others and crafting in everything you do is evident.  Thanks so much for sharing with us.

Cathy McCauley will not be leaving Our Daily Bread Designs, however, she will joining the design team rather than joining us in the challenges each week.  We have enjoyed all the inspiration and  awesome creativity you have shared with us here on the challenge team, Cathy, and look forward to your future creations on the design team!!!

Audrey Hiltke will also be moving to our Our Daily Bread Designs Alumni Team and will no longer be a member of the Challenge Team.  We have enjoyed your amazing talent and inspiration, Audrey, and look forward to your creations for our New Releases.

Next week, I will introduce the new team!!!

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

Cindy Coutts

BeckyTE

Donna Mack

Jan Keen

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:

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

BeckyTE

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 ODBDSLC159 within two weeks.

This week's challenge is:  Patriotic or Red, White and Blue.  This will be a 2 week challenge.

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, July 7 at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. In order to win this prize, you do not need to use ODBD stamps, but if you have them, we would love to see 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, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday,  July 7 at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword  ODBDSLC160.  When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

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


The team used poppies and a patriotic theme in honor of July 4th remembering all those who gave their lives for our freedom and for the freedom we now have which we often take for granted.  Here is a link as we remember those who fought for our freedom and how the poppies are a remembrance of them.

Guest Designer

Cheryl Scrivens

ODBD Stamps Used: Serve the Lord, Scripture Collection 1, Crocheted Circle Die

Challenge Team

Diana Nguyen

ODBD Stamp Sets Used:  Keep Climbing, On Eagles' Wings



Jan Marie Ennenga

ODBD Stamp Sets Used: Not Forgotten

Kathy Roney

ODBD Stamps Used: Home of the Free

 Audrey Hiltke

ODBD Stamps Used: God Bless America

Cathy McCauley

ODBD Stamps Used:  Not Forgotten, Old Flag

Chris Olsen

ODBD Stamps Used:  Scripture Collection 3 and Mother's Day

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.

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

blessings,

Welcome to the 3rd week with our June Guest Designer...Lee Ann Barreett!

Welcome to the 3rd week with Lee Ann Barrett, our June Blog Guest Designer! 

You can visit Lee Ann's blog, Greyt Paper Crafts, for more inspiration! 

Lee Ann's first card is stamped with the cross and label stamps from the Antique Label Designs set and is cut out with the Antique Label & Border Dies.  The sentiment is from the All Occasion Sentiments set. She also used the Gingham Background stamped in olive!

Lee Ann's second card this week is so soft and pretty! The background was stamped with the Pussy Willow Background, the main image is from Happy Spring and she once again used the All Occasion Sentiments for the verse and the border was made from the Antique Labels & Border dies!

Aren't these cards so beautiful? Please leave a comment for Lee Ann to let her know!

Thank you for visiting today.  I will see you back her next Wednesday for Lee Ann's final week!

Blessings,

Kelley

ODBDSLC159 Sketch

Thanks to everyone who participated in the "Masculine or Father's Day" 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 "Masculine or Father's Day" challenge:

Sabrina Cook

Sherry Lowmaster

Amy Marshall

Karen Wallace

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:

Angie Crockett

Sandee Shanaborough

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

18. Kymmie

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 ODBDSLC158 within two weeks.

This week's challenge is:  A Sketch.

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, June 23 at 8 p.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next challenge. 

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, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Sunday,  June 23 at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword  ODBDSLC159.  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.

Guest Designer:

Cheryl Scriven

ODBD Stamps used:  Scripture Collection 2

Challenge Team:

Audrey Hiltke

ODBD Stamps Used:  Precious Girl

ODBD Die Used:  Elegant Ovals

Jan Marie Ennenga

ODBD Stamps Used: Scripture Series 3, Brocade Background

Grace Nywening 

ODBD Stamps Used: Precious Boy,  Precious Girl,

ODBD Die Used:  Quatrefoil Design,  Elegant Ovals

Cathy McCauley

ODBD Stamps Used: The Waves on the Sea, Keep My Lamp Burning, 
All Occasion Sentiments, Fishing Net Background

Diana Nguyen
ODBD Stamps Used: Precious Boy

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

blessings,