Our Daily Bread Design Challenge 115 - Torn or Distressed

This week's challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs.....

....is Torn or Distressed (115).

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 15th 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, July 15th at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC115. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Now on to my take for this challenge:

This challenge made me stretch myself as torn and distressed are not my typical look or style.  While shopping recently I came across this sweet cross and purchased it for a whole penny, yes - you read that correctly, a whole penny.......it was too good of a deal to pass up!  I sponged some distress ink over it and then dabbed it with some brown Color Box ink.  With my Spellbinder Fluer De Lis Die I cut a frame.  Then I stamped one of my favorite sentiments from the set  "Pray" from the "Full of Grace" collection, onto the same design paper I used for the base.  I roughed up the edges of the base as well as the piece holding the sentiment and rubbed some ink around those edges.  A rhinestone in the center of my cross and the corners of my die completed the look.  On the back of the envelope, for this card, I stamped the Grunge Cross from the "Never Give Up" set.  Thanks for stopping by. 

For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my dt sisters:

Jan Marie Ennenga,  Chris Olsen,  Jan Keen,   Lori Ulrich, 

Kathy Roney,   Rosemary Dennis,  Sabrina Jackson

To see all the creations in one place or join the challenge, click here.