Our Daily Bread Design Challenge 117

This is my 4th and final week as a guest design team member at Our Daily Bread Designs, 

This week's challenge will last for two weeks and ....

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, August 5th 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, August 5th at 8 p.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword isODBDSLC117.  When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.

Now on to my take for this challenge:

     I turned my layout sideways, and instead of ribbon I chose to do flowers in its place.  I was just in a pink mood when I was laying this out. my flowers are handmade, they are easy and fun to make and I have a picture tutorial you can view here.  Stretched the take a little, but it is exactly what I had in mind when I started so I am happy. and 'hey' its all about me isn't it - LOL!! My sentiment is from the Quote Collection 2.   Have as much fun as I did playing.  See I told you I wouldn't use the sea this week, it was tempting.

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.

Materials:  Our Daily Bread Design Quote Collection 2, Spellbinder Dies, Memory Box Flower Die, Zva Pearls, Cheery Lynn Butterflies.  

Let there be Color

     A few weeks ago I purchased a new Cheery Lynn die called "French Lattice" and have been itching to use it. Thought it would be fun to use a plain background and use my die on patterned paper.  This particular paper had lots of colors in it and I chose to focus on the oranges.  I used a scripture from Our Daily Bread Designs along with their Elegant Oval stamp and matching die.  Then I embellished with some Zva pearls, and Recollections flowers with a few small leaves cut from another Cheery Lynn Die placed strategically around them....LOL....another way of saying to fill in some space.  I am getting some cards ready to send to the Church Bookstore and this will be one of them.  Also, the challenge at Stampin Sisters in Christ was to make a card that showed something about the new season, I think flowers meet those requirements since as I look out my windows or drive around I see nothing but trees and flowers in bloom......I am loving the bursts of color throughout nature!!!  

Thanks for stopping by,

Materials used:  Cardstock, Our Daily Bread Design Scripture, Elegant Oval Stamp and matching Die, Recollections flowers, Cheery Lynn Die Flourish and French Lattice Small Frame, Zva pearls.

Challenges:  Stampin Sisters in Christ, challenge 131, Word Art Wednesday, Challenge 21

Christmas Angels

     Recently purchased some adorable Lili of the Valley stamps for Christmas.  I immediately sat down and made 6 cards with the different images for my sisters and some other family members.  From my stash of Christmas DCWV I found some great paper...for this one I used a subtle background of holly leaves red on red with some gold metallic paper and Zva pearls (I like pearls) - These sweet little angels are mounted on my Spellbinders Floral Doily Motif die.  Sparingly used my glitter pen on their wings, stars and shoes.....I was very pleased with how this and the others all turned out.  Such simple but darling images.

Thanks for stopping by,

Challenges:  Lili of the Valley Challenge 121 A Christmas card for someone special., Make it Monday Challenge 63, Truly Scrumptious 70 Christmas with pearls, Hooked on Crafts Something Punched, Stamptacular Sunday Challenge 138 Punches, Forever Friends Christmas is coming, Stamping Scrapping Challenge Christmas, Bunny Zoe's Crafts Christmas with pearls

Materials:  Lili of the Valley Angels with Crib Stamp, Zva Pearls, Spellbinders Die, DSWV paper, Pearls, Metallic CS, Memento Ink, Copic Markers.  

Little Baby....

     The challenge over at Stampin Sisters in Christ was to dig out an older stamp, that hasn't been used for a while....I have had this sweet little baby stamp for a few years and have only used him once, the sentiment is at least 10 years old, one of my first stamps.  I think they work well together. It took very few Copics to color this with as it is a simple image. I am also entering the Our Daily Bread Designs Sketch Challenge 83, so I followed the layout they have this week.  I wanted my background to be subtle so I chose a  paper that has a silver grey to it with earthy green flourishes, then added a few pearls and stars with some glittery white ribbon.
     To date I have finished a bunch of Christmas cards with some new stamps I have that were fun to not only color but hopefully will send the message of the real gift of 'Christ'mas.  Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges:  ODBDSLC 83, SSC Challenge #114, Make it Monday #62

Supplies:  CS, Ribbon, Pearls, Rhinestone Stars, Dimensions, Stampin' Up Sentiment, Stampendous Stamp, Copic Markers