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About Me
- Chris Olsen, Glowbug
- Hi! I am Chris, also known as Glowbug on Splitcoaststampers. I live in Appomattox, VA. I so much enjoy blogging and the so many good friendships that have formed as a result. During my free time, I am creating cards or projects and I so enjoy Challenges. I have a very supportive husband, Scott, who understands my addiction and two young daughters,Meghan, 9 and Nicki, 12 years of age, who can't wait to get their hands on my stamps and embellishments. I was an elementary school teacher until my youngest was born. I have now been blessed with the opportunity to teach my two girls at home. I use stamping as a hobby or way to escape.
Blogroll
Splitcoast Dirty Dozen
Splitcoast stampers Alumni
Design Teams
ODBD Bread Basket
ODBD Design Team
My past dt sisters at ODBD
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Coloring fun2 years ago
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Wonderful Christmas Ornaments3 years ago
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Natural Beauties ~ Power Poppy7 years ago
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Feel Better Soon9 years ago
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ODBDSLC268 Anything Goes10 years ago
Monday, April 6, 2009
Happy Monday Everyone!! I hope everyone had a great weekend! I am still a bit under the weather but trying to plug away at homeschooling my girls and working at a slow pace on some projects.
Today I would like to share a project I made for Sunday's Featured Stamper Challenge FS174. This week's featured stamper is Julie , a very talented and sweet girl and a fellow Divine Diva of the Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge Team. I had a hard time just picking one project from her awesome gallery. But the dress card in her gallery caught my eye. I thought it would work perfectly for a baby card with the new release Children of God from Our Daily Bread designs sentiments. I wanted to make a his and her baby card so I also made a onesie/romper that would be appropriate for a boy. I used the paisley design from IS174 (French Bull) to pick out my paisley DP (Making Memories). The apron is made of a glittered vellum from K&Co. The yummy ribbon is from American Crafts! I used the EK Success small heart border punch for the bottom of the dress and a scalloped fiskars for the collar. The onesie is textured with a Sizzix Argyle Embossing Folder.I uses an oval nesties to make the collar. The belt is a piece of American Crafts ribbon with a slide of Hodgepodge Hardware. The snaps at the bottom are silver brads. I think the look kind of cute.
Grace, of Th-Ink-ing of You, and Michelle, of Inky Scraps, gave me this awesome blog award. I feel so honored and appreciate their thoughtfulness. These two gals have been a real inspiration to me not only because of their kindness but also because of their amazing talent. I am now going to pass this award on to 10 other awesome bloggers.: (I had a hard time just picking 10 because there are so many who inspire me in so many different ways!!)
Today I would like to share a project I made for Sunday's Featured Stamper Challenge FS174. This week's featured stamper is Julie , a very talented and sweet girl and a fellow Divine Diva of the Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge Team. I had a hard time just picking one project from her awesome gallery. But the dress card in her gallery caught my eye. I thought it would work perfectly for a baby card with the new release Children of God from Our Daily Bread designs sentiments. I wanted to make a his and her baby card so I also made a onesie/romper that would be appropriate for a boy. I used the paisley design from IS174 (French Bull) to pick out my paisley DP (Making Memories). The apron is made of a glittered vellum from K&Co. The yummy ribbon is from American Crafts! I used the EK Success small heart border punch for the bottom of the dress and a scalloped fiskars for the collar. The onesie is textured with a Sizzix Argyle Embossing Folder.I uses an oval nesties to make the collar. The belt is a piece of American Crafts ribbon with a slide of Hodgepodge Hardware. The snaps at the bottom are silver brads. I think the look kind of cute.
Grace, of Th-Ink-ing of You, and Michelle, of Inky Scraps, gave me this awesome blog award. I feel so honored and appreciate their thoughtfulness. These two gals have been a real inspiration to me not only because of their kindness but also because of their amazing talent. I am now going to pass this award on to 10 other awesome bloggers.: (I had a hard time just picking 10 because there are so many who inspire me in so many different ways!!)
Jeanne, my sister, who shares my passion for stamping and who finally had the courage to start a blog after much prodding (hee!hee!). She is always there to make me smile and amazes me with her energy and talent.
Priscilla, a fellow card maker and friend who just began a blog and inspires me with her courage, sweetness talent, and unending energy.
Angella, the newest DT member of the breadbasket at Our Daily Bread Designs, whose talent, kindness, example, and wit always puts a smile on my face.
Janna, whose blog stories of her daughter, friendship, incredible talent and kind words always inspire me.
Vicki and Amy, who are incredibly talented, kind, and creative, and always knock my socks off with their incredible creations.
Danni, Heather, and Kathy who are not only incredibly talented and kind but who never miss a beat to leave a kind word and leave a smile on the face of others.
Silki- who shares my heritage, (I am Dutch. My parents came from the Netherlands when they were teens. My maiden name is Vander Groef) and is amazingly talented, creative, and always leaves me smiling with her kindness.
Stef- who is amazingly charming and talented and whose wit and kindness always brightens my day
and all my blogging and stamping friends who always inspire me with their kind words and creativity!!!
If you have a minute, please visit these bloggers and leave them a note. Their creations will be well worth looking at.
Thanks for visiting my blog and for all your kind comments.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Hello All! I hope everyone has been having a great weekend. My stomach has been quite off and I have been living in the bathroom it seems. I am going to try to may this post short so bear with me.
A good friend of mine recently had a baby girl after she has miscarried twice. I wanted to make something special for her. So I made this card and basket.
Danni is an awesome stamper and has been hosting a Flutter By Wednesday on her blog. Up until now I have not had the opportunity to play along. I made time this week. This week's challenge was to create a card with butterflies or fairies and no Designer Paper. I decided to use the ATS Blog challenge from last ,as well, to make a card that uses only color on the image. The background is dry embossed using the cuttlebug textile folder. I used Our Daily Bread design's Children of God released on April 1 for the sentiment and the butterflies from SU Priceless inked in Pink Pirouette. The frame is the new Classice Nesties frame which is also dry embossed and embossed with shimmery clear embossing powder to make it stick out. I love shakers so I decided to make a shaker for this card and used this week's Sketch 222 challenge on SC. The clear pacifier is one that I have saved for years that was on of my baby shower favors (My youngest daughter is now 6. Lol!) The flowers are hand crocheted and have a prima flower on top. The punches used include a MS butterfly punch, a MS heart border punch, and an EK Success Border Punch.
The second part of the gift is a woven basket that I made using this week's featured tutorial. It was a little more difficult than real basket weaving but I think it turned out cute. The handles and border around the sentiment are paisley which was inpired by yesterday IC174 challenge on SC. The sentiment is again from Our Daily Bread design's Children of God stampset.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Sorry that I have been out there visiting your blogs. I pray I feel better tomorrow so I can resume my visits. Tomorrow I would like to share some awards that I received and pass them on to some of you awesome bloggers and artists. Until then.....have a great night! I so appreciate all your comments and visits!!
Friday, April 3, 2009
Good Morning All!! I figured that today is such a super busy day that I should really post my entry for today now. I was hoping to get an early start on today's limited supply challenge before my girls were up but for some reason my computer says there is a broken link. I can get anywhere but there. I guess someone is trying to tell me something, like get other things done today that need to be done. I can't help it...it is an addiction!
Before I share my project for today I wanted to share some blog candy that is the sweetest ever not just because of the goodies offered but because of the sweet generosity of Heather who is trying to help a friend in need. This blog candy is for a worthy cause. Please hop on over to Heather's blog for more details!!! Not only is she fabulously talented she is super sweet. Hop on over and you will see why!!!
The card I am going to share with you today is for yesterday's TLC212 Foil It Challenge and Wednesday's Sketch Challenge 222. I used Our Daily Bread design's New Release "Love" I had originally planned on calling it "Foiled love because of the challenge and the foil paper but I decided it was slightly inappropriated for a wedding card. lol! The Love set is a perfect set for inspirational wedding or anniversary cards and the foil paper I have been hoarding was perfect. The foil dp is from Brenda Walton's Peppermint Stick. As you can see, this card would never fit in a limited supply challenge. Once I got started, I just had to add more and more elegant embellishments. First I had a K&Co. Die Cut tag. I traced the outline onto a piece of K&Co. Glitter Paper. I stamped the verse from Our Daily Bread Design's Love set on a piece of white CS. cut out a rectangle slightly smaller than the tag, rounded the edges with my corner rounder punch from EK Success, and dry embossed the verse with the wrong side up so it became textured but not so textured that you could not read the verse. I punched holes around the tag and laced a thread of beads from Michael's bridal department. The bigger butterfly is a Blue Moon charm which was silver. I embossed it in gold instead. The front of the tag has a hole in it that had white sheer gold ribbon threaded through and a thread of faux pearls tied with a piece of gold cording. The hole is then covered with two prima flowers and a beautiful pearl button I bought at a fabric store. The lace is one of my frugal buys that I have been using a lot lately. The yummy velvet is so rich!!! It is distributed from Prima Marketing and I bought it on sale at Michaels. The picture does not even begin to show the lushness of the ribbon and lace against the foil paper. If you notice, I sewed on my card. I was able to get my sewing machine working again!!!! Woo Hoo!! It still is not liking metallic thread but it sews with normal thread!!
CARD RECIPE
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs- Love
Paper: K&Co. Red Glitter paper, Shimmer Red Bazzill, Brenda Walton Peppermint Stick Foil DP
Accessories: Ribbon Bowtique Sheer white ribbon with gold trim, K&Co. Die Cut Tag, Textile embossing folder, EK Success border punch and corner rounder punch, sewing machine and red thread, Pearl strand, button, Prima flowers, Wright Lace, Prima Marketing Velvet ribbon, pearls, gold embossing powder, silver butterfly charm from Blue Moon.
I hope you have enjoyed today's post. I am off and running. I hope to have some time to go blog surfing later. Thanks as always for visiting and I so appreciate your comments.
Before I share my project for today I wanted to share some blog candy that is the sweetest ever not just because of the goodies offered but because of the sweet generosity of Heather who is trying to help a friend in need. This blog candy is for a worthy cause. Please hop on over to Heather's blog for more details!!! Not only is she fabulously talented she is super sweet. Hop on over and you will see why!!!
The card I am going to share with you today is for yesterday's TLC212 Foil It Challenge and Wednesday's Sketch Challenge 222. I used Our Daily Bread design's New Release "Love" I had originally planned on calling it "Foiled love because of the challenge and the foil paper but I decided it was slightly inappropriated for a wedding card. lol! The Love set is a perfect set for inspirational wedding or anniversary cards and the foil paper I have been hoarding was perfect. The foil dp is from Brenda Walton's Peppermint Stick. As you can see, this card would never fit in a limited supply challenge. Once I got started, I just had to add more and more elegant embellishments. First I had a K&Co. Die Cut tag. I traced the outline onto a piece of K&Co. Glitter Paper. I stamped the verse from Our Daily Bread Design's Love set on a piece of white CS. cut out a rectangle slightly smaller than the tag, rounded the edges with my corner rounder punch from EK Success, and dry embossed the verse with the wrong side up so it became textured but not so textured that you could not read the verse. I punched holes around the tag and laced a thread of beads from Michael's bridal department. The bigger butterfly is a Blue Moon charm which was silver. I embossed it in gold instead. The front of the tag has a hole in it that had white sheer gold ribbon threaded through and a thread of faux pearls tied with a piece of gold cording. The hole is then covered with two prima flowers and a beautiful pearl button I bought at a fabric store. The lace is one of my frugal buys that I have been using a lot lately. The yummy velvet is so rich!!! It is distributed from Prima Marketing and I bought it on sale at Michaels. The picture does not even begin to show the lushness of the ribbon and lace against the foil paper. If you notice, I sewed on my card. I was able to get my sewing machine working again!!!! Woo Hoo!! It still is not liking metallic thread but it sews with normal thread!!
CARD RECIPE
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs- Love
Paper: K&Co. Red Glitter paper, Shimmer Red Bazzill, Brenda Walton Peppermint Stick Foil DP
Accessories: Ribbon Bowtique Sheer white ribbon with gold trim, K&Co. Die Cut Tag, Textile embossing folder, EK Success border punch and corner rounder punch, sewing machine and red thread, Pearl strand, button, Prima flowers, Wright Lace, Prima Marketing Velvet ribbon, pearls, gold embossing powder, silver butterfly charm from Blue Moon.
I hope you have enjoyed today's post. I am off and running. I hope to have some time to go blog surfing later. Thanks as always for visiting and I so appreciate your comments.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Today is the kick off of the Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge which will be posted every first and third Thursday of the month. Just like SC, an inspiration post will be posted and you use that post or picture to create a card or project. Here is today's inspiration piece (bed linens and pillows only) from Land Of Nod.
This is the card I made using the inspiration.
When I saw this inspiration, I right away thought of the 09 in colors of Stampin Up. I had wanted to do more of a silhoette of the flowers to match the pink bedspread. After I stamped the flowers from SU- Heartfelt, I decided that it really needed more, so I did the outline in embossed gold. The sketch is from Jenn D's "Sketch For You to Try for this week." The dp is from SU's Candy Lane. The butterflies are a Martha Stewart punch. I am loving the EK Success punch I used on the border and on the image frame. Since my sewing machine broke, there is no sewing this time. I did a lot of paper piercing instead.
I hope you have time to play along with the Divine Diva's on this weeks inspiration challenge. If you do, please post a link here. If you are posting on SC please type in DDIC1 in the keywords so we can see your creations. For more inspiration, please click on over to the other divine diva's blogs for their awesome creations.
I can't wait to see some of the creations with this inspiration. Please note this is not a company sponsored challenge so any stamps can be used. The next inspiration challenge will be posted on Thursday, April 16.
Thanks in advance to all those who participate, who have visited my blog, or who leave comments. You are all appreciated!! Have a great day!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Hello All! As sunny as it was yesterday is as gloomy as it is today. It is super cloudy and rainy today. I have been pretty tired today since I didn't sleep well last night. I did make a lot of cards though. Yeah!! The only thing to dampen my mood is after I finished the cards I am sharing today, my sewing machine broke. I sure hope I can fix it. I will be in withdrawal without it. I have my fingers crossed.
Today I have some news to share but before I do I would like to share two cards that are made with two New Releases from Our Daily Bread Designs. The first is using the 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 and the second is using Love One Another. Boy did I wish I had these a few weeks ago when I needed to make a bunch of Anniversary and Wedding cards. These are so appropriate and beautiful!!
The first card is made using the 1Corinthians 13:4-8 stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs that was released today. I used yesterday's CC212 color challenge on SC. The colors to be used were Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red and Chocolate Chip. I used the top note die to stamp the passage on. The yummy dp is from SU Bella Rose. The ribbon is available at the Little Ribbon Shop on Ebay. (It is so nice and thick and satiny.) The swirls used around the edges of the sentiment or passage is from SU Priceless. I created the corners using the MS floral border punch for the brown and the pink is a piece of the Cuttlebug Vintage Corners. I just bought the border punch for the bottom of the card yesterday since Michaels had a sale on their new EK Success punches. The pearls are from Our Daily Bread Designs as well. They have really expanded the products they carry!!
The second card is using today's sketch challenge hosted by Roxi on SC. I wanted to make this an elegant wedding card or anniversary card so I used ODBD Ivory Prism Metallic paper and gold cs from Paper Co and K&Co. I used the intertwined hearts from Our Daily Bread Designs New Release -Love One Another. I dry embossed the background using two different embossing folders from Cuttlebug. I just found the yummy Prisma Gold lace at Michaels. To me this screams elegant. I added lots of layers, ribbon, gold cording, and pearls. The image is gold embossed and layered. On the bottom I used my new EK Success punch once again. The card is sewn in gold metallic thread. Believe it or not, that rose button I found at a Walmart when I was away this fall. It was the perfect addition!
CARD RECIPE 1
Stamps: 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, SU Priceless
Paper: Bella Rose (SU), Choc. Chip, Pink Pirouette and white CS
Accessories: May Arts Ribbon avail. at The Little Ribbon Shop (link for the shop is on my sidebar), EK Success Punch, Top Note Die (SU), MS floral punch, pearls (from ODBD), Cuttlebug Vintage Corner
CARD RECIPE 2
Stamps: Love one Another from Our Daily Bread Designs
Paper: Prisma Metallic Paper (ODBD), Paper Co. Gold Glossy CS, Gold Glitter CS (K&Co.)
Accessories: rose button from Walmart, Ribbon Bowtique Ribbon (White sheer with gold), Cuttlebug swirls and textile folders, gold embossing folder, sewing machine, gold metallic thread, pearls (from ODBD), nesties, gold cording
I hope you enjoyed these two cards. Now for my exciting news (to me anyway). Lori at The Diva Stamper has been hosting an Inspirational Challenge, Divine Diva Inspirational Challenge. She asked me to be a Divine Diva along with 4 other talented bloggers: Julie, Keri, Chat, and Angela. The inspirational challenge will be every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month. TOMORROW IS THE FIRST CHALLENGE WITH HER NEW DESIGN TEAM! I have made my card and can't wait to show the inspiration and project tomorrow! I hope you can play along. I will post at 8 a.m.
Our Daily Bread Designs has two new guest designers, Tosh Leyendekker and Kim MacNutt. Angella C is now here to stay as a permanent pastry in the the Our Daily Bread Designs Bread Basket. They are all super sweet and SUPER Talented! If you have a chance hop on over to their blogs.
Thanks for visiting my blog. Your comments are always so appreciated!! Have a great night!!
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