Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Today is going to have to be a short post since I need to be out the door in 15 minutes!! Today is Our Daily Bread Designs fifth day of their Anniversary Celebration. The featured design team members today are Judy and Jane. Their creations are always awesome and besides one of them has BLOG CANDY! So click on over when you get the chance. For more info on the Anniversary week visit the ODBD Blog!

Since it ODBD Anniversary week and Judy is the host of today's stampset, I also felt it appropriate to honor Judy by casing one of her cards for the BVC09 Divine Challenge and FS109 Featured Stamper Challenge using andODBD stampset called Lift Up Our Hands (Hebrews 11:16). The card I cased is here. I changed the paper, some of the colors, ribbon, stampset, and added the butterflies in keeping with yesterday's challenge (LSC211, Going Buggy). The yummy DP is from SU Tea Party. The pearls on the butterfly are from ODBD. That Luscious ribbon is from Brandi's shop called the Little Ribbon Shop at Ebay. It is a May arts ribbon with stiches on the sides.

Well gotta run!!! Have a great day and don't forget to stop my Judy and Jane's blogs's for awesome cards and maybe.......a treat!!

Thanks for your comments and for visiting my blog!! I love reading them!!

Good Morning!! It is now almost noon!! I am so frustrated with myself. I had wanted to post early this morning after finishing an ODBD card with today's to keep everyone updated on the happenings of this week's Anniversary Happening at Our Daily Bread, but that didn't happen. I had company arrive at 7 a.m. this morning and stay for a few hours. I couldn't really say, ah I really can't visit right now so I went with the flow and had a great visit and then scurried about like a lunatic! Any way here I am with the schedule of events after I share my card for today's limited supply challenge.....

Today I went buggy on challenges. Not only did I include a bug on my card with four layers or less on my card with no designer paper (LSC211) , but I did a lot of other challenges and firsts to boot. My image is stamped and watercolored using the set I Am the Way from Our Daily Bread Designs. Two weeks ago my local scrapbooking store went out of business. I frugally bought some things that were cheap because I couldn't pass up on the deal. One of my frugal finds was 45 yards of this ribbon from American Crafts. I am not usually into too much print ribbon especially stripes but it was a deal!! I got it for $3. (WT207). In order to keep with the challenge of having 4 layers or less and still dimensionalize or cut out my image (cut it out TLC207) and have color (since we couldn't use dp) I made a recessed window. (TLC207). In all of my years of stamping or making cards, I have never made a circular card. This was a real challenge since the nestabilities dies do not go up to 5 inches. I used lids our of my stash of tupperware to trace and cut out the three outside circles. To make the scallops around the edge, I experimented with my scalloped border punch. Who would of thought it would work. IT DID! It is a lot quicker, however, to use a nestabilities if nesties would go that big. lol! I have never sewed in a circle using the zig zag stich. I was a little nervouse that it would go crooked after all of the work I had put into it. Phew! It didn't!! I am really beginning to love, love, love Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy distressed with chocolate chip!! Not using any dp is hard for me but if I have my cuttlebug and some dies..... I will survive!

Now for the ODBD One Year Anniversary Celebration, the moment you have all been waiting for.....If you participated in the Our Daily Bread Design's "Bread Basket Scavenger Hunt" the winners are to be posted today on the ODBD Blog. Two more of our my "fellow pastries" (aka design team members) will be featuring two more sets from Our Daily Bread Designs. One of them is giving away BLOG CANDY! Their creations are magnificent so you don't want to miss it. So click on over to Betty and Dina's blog! For more info. on the weekly celebration visit the ODBD blog! Oh.... yesterday's card featured a lot of materials from ODBD. Kelley has really expanded her inventory to include shimmerz, Basic Grey, SEI, Memory Box paper, flatback pearls, Glimmermist, ornare, and the list goes on and on. When you have a chance, you should check it out. Hope you are enjoying the fun!! Thanks for visiting today. I hope you enjoyed today's post!

The Angel stampset is so versatile and can be used for a variety of occasions (Christmas, Easter, Thinking Of You or everyday). When I made this card I had CC208 (to use chocolate chip, passion pink, and Kiwi Kiss) and several of the products available at Our Daily Bread Designs in mind. The image is stamped on using Passion Pink and Chocolate chip. The wings and belt were painted with both pink poinsettia and angel wings shimmerz. Angel offered a wonderful tutorial on how to use shimmerz on her blog on Tuesday. The outside of the image is sponged with close to cocoa. The first panel in the background is paper pierced with an ornare piercing template ( item number 4055584). The designer paper is from Basic Grey's Bittersweet Collection. The third panel is dry embossed with the cuttlebug textile folder. The chocolate cardstock is actually a bronze prismatic metallic paper available at Our Daily Bread designs. The glittered paper in the scallop is from K&C0. I added little pink pearls in the corners from Hero Arts and two corners cut using a cuttlebug vintage die.

Our Daily Bread Designs is starting off their Anniversary week with a bang!!!! Make sure to visit two of my design team sisters Amy and Angel. Amy will show you how to make something with a scor pal and Angel wil demonstrate Shimmerz. These two gals are very talented so you won't want to miss it. One of them is also giving away blog candy, so you will have to go see who it is to win!! Want more chances to win?!!! Go to the ODBD blog for more details on a scavenger hunt!! Each day there will be more surprises so make sure to stop by and see what is happening at the various design team's blogs. Each day different designers will feature ODBD stamp sets.

In keeping with the Our Daily Bread Design's Kick off for their Anniversary week, I decided to make a card with one of my favorite sets: Sing to the Lord. I used today's color challenge of rose red, always artichoke and black. It paired perfectly with the yummy Porcelain Prints paper from Basic Grey that I received just yesterday from ODBD. I also used the Mojo 77 sketch, added a doodle on the sentiment for the OCCC challenge, and cut out my watercolored image (TLC207). I have never used always artichoke before. I love this color combination and I will use it again. Most of the materials in this card (DP, paper piercer and mat, Hero Arts Pink and White pearls, Pink Poinsettia Shimmerz, Basic Grey Paper Pad) are available at Our Daily Bread Designs!!! Kelley has greatly expanded her product line!!!!

I hope you enjoyed today's post. Thanks for stopping by and for your comments!!! Please make sure to stop by Angel, Amy, and ODBD's blog for more fun and prizes!!! I will keep you posted on the upcoming Our Daily Bread Design Events throughout this week!!