Desire of Your Heart

The ODBD Shining Light Challenge is Anything Goes.  I decided to create a springlike card using some of the flowers and gardening tools to create my project:

 I stamped the background using the vines and a green dye ink which I spritzed with water to get a softer image.  I stamped on the tag the wood background also spritzed with water.  I stamped the verse with brown archival ink.  I distressed the edges of the tag and background with a distressing tool and brown dye ink.  I added green dye ink onto my tag to blend with my background. 

I then stamped, colored and cut three sets of violets to decorate my edge of the tag.  I stamped cut and colored my pot full of gardening tools which was pop dotted onto the tag.


Products: The Good Seed, Vine Background, Violet, Wood Background, Ranger Distress Inks - Vintage Photo, Green, STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils

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Suzz

Noel Challenge

I have a few more cards for the holidays that I am creating.  This morning I was inspired by the Our Daily Bread Designs Noel Challenge. You need to include something on your card  for each letter in Noel. 

I pulled out my ODBD stamps and used "N - Nature/Nest (See the statice and moss in the nest)"  O-Ochre - The bird is colored using Ochre tones. :)  E - Epoxy I had to use a lot of glue to get that nest to stick and L - Layering I layered the images on the card. Phew...

This card is going to a special friend of mine and she lives close by so I won't have to worry about the nest in transit.   

 The background is stamped using the ODBD Joy to the World stamp on white cardstock.  I just purchased this Mr. Huey Gold spray and sprayed that over the surface of all of my images and my background it had a nice soft shimmer to it. 

I stamped the ODBD poinsettia using a black archival ink on white cardstock.  I colored it with my STAEDTLER Karat Oil Pastels and a Tsukineko sponge to blend.  I added a layer of shimmer with the mist and white highlights with the gel pen.  I finished it off with a coat of versamark and heat embossed using clear embossing powder.

The ODBD Chickadee was stamped with black archival on a remnant from the background music so there was the gold shimmer on the paper before I colored.  The bird is colored with my STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils.  I added highlights back in with the white gel pen.  He too was finished off with a coat of clear embossing powder.

The next step was arranging my nest.  I did apply some Adirondack gold paint onto my moss along with a healthy dose of Stampendous Bronze glass glitter.  I glued it all down with Zip Dry.

I tied on the bow.  and found a few bells which were silver.  I rolled them on my Versamark Ink pad to give them a coat of Stampendous Champagne embossing powder.

I colored my ivory twine with the Adirondack Acrylic Gold paint to coordinate.

Assemble and send... :)

Hope your Sunday is blessed.  I am sending prayers to the families and children in CT who are impacted by the horrible tragedy that has occurred.

Suzz

Walk in God's Beauty

Some days it is so much harder to create... :)  I think my Mojo is out running all those crazy errands that happen when the kids are home and off school in the summer.    I decided to use the sketch from Mojo Monday #245 to try to get my inspiration going.  I also used the ODBD Shining Light Challenge #111 : Something old, Something new, Something Borrowed, Something Blue...  My something old is the lace trim, the new is the bird (Straight from the package), Borrowed (Sketch) and blue (that is the cool peri which is a purple/blue tone).

I started with the sketch and cut all my pieces from white cardstock to see what the layout looked like in just cardstock. Next I pulled out my new Our Daily Bread Designs stamps to see what stamps I could combine to create the various pieces.

Our Daily Bread Designs Products:  Sing to the Lord, Brocade Background, Bird Borders & Corners, and Sentiment Collection.  Inks: Versafine Smokey Gray, Adirondack Cool Peri, Ranger Distress Inks - Vintage Photo

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Suzz

ODBDLYLS18 - Something New

The Monthly Scrapbook Challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs is an inspiration photo and using something new on a layout along with your ODBD stamps. 

Here is my layout for this month's challenge: 

I used the new Bicycle set along with the Honeycomb, Wood Background.  The papers are from the Bo Bunny Garden Collection. The flowers are a mix of Prima, and My Moments.

The background panel is stamped using gray ink and the wood grain background stamp.  I sponged the edges with brown dye ink.
The main panel is the lovely Bo Bunny Garden collection with a random stamping of the Honeycomb background in a brown dye ink.

I had the leftover circle in my scrap pile and I stamped over it with the wood grain and thought it would be fun to make it look like the bicycle wheel. So I hand drew in the spokes and added a gear in the middle.

The vintage image is a couple of cuties colored with a touch of distress inks.  The bicycle is stamped using black ink and colored with a combination of watercolor pencils, distress inks and a water brush.
The banners on the top were remnants from the paper and I couldn't resist adding them in for a little detail along the top.

The rest was adding a touch of lace and flowers. 

The inspiration photo:

For more inspiration go see Gemiel's   Lovely Layout page.  The ODBD Scrapbook Challenge runs through June 30th, at 6 p.m. Eastern Time, click here for more details!

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Suzz

Embrace our Memories

Happy Thursday! Things are winding down at school for the kids which means lots of activities. We are definitely getting into the busy season for the kids. I too have been busy with my day job and creating fun projects with new releases which means less to share on my blog.  I pulled out a card I made last week with a leftover background to share:

The background was made with glimmer mists and the ODBD Honeycomb Background stamp.  I sprayed a combination of yellow and orange glimmer mist onto the craft mat and inked up my stamp in the glimmer mist and stamped repeatedly on white cardstock.

The next step was to ink up the acrylic block with Ranger Distress Ink Rusty Hinge.  Spritz it with Perfect Pearls mister.  Stamp it over the honeycomb background.  Stamp the lovely sentiment from Verses Rubber Stamps using black ink.  Stamp the dragonfly from ODBD Faithful Friends onto the background and onto tissue paper to create a second layer.

A quick little card.  I just realized I am in an orange and yellow mood since a lot of my cards have been popping up in these colors.  I must be getting ready for summer too! 

Have a wonderful day!

Suzz

Clovers & Butterflies

 

The new Almanac Collection from Prima has such soft and pretty colors. I started with a sheet of the Cosmopolitan paper and the Mojo Monday Sketch #235 as  the inspiration for my card. 

I added the stamped sentiment from Memory Box and the Our Daily Bread Designs - Simple Things flowers.  

A quick card for me. :)  Still took a little time to add fussy details at the end.

Thanks for stopping by! 

Suzz

CR84FN51

Brand new soft and pretty colors for the CR84FN challenge this week. We are also very excited to be welcoming two new fabulous DT members to the CR84FN team!  Pauline Pollington and Shannon White!  Make sure to stop by their blogs and welcome them!

For my card this week I pulled out some different inks and acrylic paints to play around with:  

I started with a ink and water splattered background.  The inks were: Memento Peach Bellini, Ranger Distress Inks - Stormy Sky, Memento Rose Bud.

I made several circle masks from cardstock and painted within them with a mix of white, light blue, white and peach acrylic paints.  After they dried I added a circle of pink watercolor pencil around the biggest circle.  Stamp the sentiment (Verses Rubber Stamps - The Future Belongs - QQ0853-E) using black ink.  Stamp the Our Daily Bread words (Sweet William Small)  in the circles using the different dye inks.  Stamp the wild flowers (Hero Arts) using black ink.

Here are the pretty pastels:

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog. 

Please visit the wonderful CR84FN Design Team:
Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville * Shannon White * Pauline Pollington

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz