Happy Tuesday Friends!! I hope you all had a great weekend and are enjoying the summer!  I know I am!! It seems like it is flying by!!  Three more weeks and school begins here.  How sad!!

When I think of summer I think of my daylilies and flowers.  With that in mind, I used the new Shining the Light challenge sketch to create a summer themed card using one of my fave color combos.




Robin Clendenning, Paula Bigelow, Chris Olsen, Elizabeth Whisson, Diana Nguyen
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Hello, Friends!! I hope everyone had a blessed weekend and that for those of you living in the USA, you had a blessed Holiday weekend!!

It has been a while since posting since I have been away on a mission trip with my girls.  We had a great time fellowshipping with fellow believers, sharing our faith with others and working for those in need.  It was a very eye-opening experience for my dear daughters to see how others live and what it is like in poorer inner-city areas.  While it was good to go away and have this experience, we are all glad to be home again. The many people we met, even their poverty, were happy.  It reminds me of the verse:

Philippians 4:12New International Version 

Today, I am popping in to share a card I made for the Shining the Light challenge which is a color challenge this week!! I had so much fun playing with new dies available at Our Daily Bread Designs!!

Hello, Friends!! Welcome to the July ODBD New Release!! The team has lots of inspiration in store for you with a variety of beautiful stamp sets and dies!!

Three randomly selected winners will each receive a $25 gift certificate to the ODBD store, to be used toward the purchase of ODBD stamps found in the "stamps column" of the website just for commenting on the Design Team cards!  You have until July 2, 2015, at 9 p.m. EDT to leave your comments on the designers blogs for a chance to win!! The winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on July 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!  For more details about the release, please visit this post at the ODBD blog.

I had so much fun playing with the new sets: Blossom and Fragrance!!  For my first card, I used the Fragrance image and the sentiment from Blossom that I matted on the Vintage labels Dies.  The image panel is framed with the Layered Lacey Squares die. The background of my card is created using the embossing resist technique on the Anna Griffin Poppy Embossing Folder.


My second creation uses the single rose bud from the Blossom stamp set and the sentiment from Fragrance matted or cut out with ODBD Elegant Ovals. The background is embossed with the Goosebumps lattice embossing folder.

Hello, Friends!! I hope you are all enjoying the summer.  I am not sure if you are experiencing the heat we are, but boy is it every hot and humid here in Virginia!!

The summer seems to be flying by.  This coming weekend is Father's Day already!!  Today I am sharing a card I made for the ODBD Shining the Light Inspiration challenge.  I plan to send it to my father in law.

For my creation, I used the Good Man and Hello Sunshine stamp sets and the Sunburst Background and Clouds and Raindrops dies.




For more inspiration for this challenge, please visit my dt sisters:
Elizabeth Whisson
Robin Clendenning
Diana Nguyen
Gracie Chavez
Paula Bigelow

Thanks for stopping by and for your comments!!

blessings,

Hello, Friends!! I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the summer!! We went on our first camping trip in almost two years since we were unable to camp last year because of my injuries and accident.  It was wet and rainy but none the less great to be together as a family in the RV!!! I had some challenges since I continue to have pain and still have to recover more from the accident, but I am none the less very blessed at the progress I have made and to still be alive.  Each day I see God's nature, wake up in the morning, see and interact with my children, I thank God for sparing my life!!  God is so good!!

Soon it is Father's Day and since I will be away on a Mission Trip with my girls prior and for Father's day, I thought I better make my hubby and Dads cards before I left.  My hubby loves this ODBD ship from The Waves on the Sea set, so I decided to combine it with the Good Man sentiment, Sunburst Background Die, Vintage Ephemera Collection paper, Vintage Labels die (for framing the sentiment), Layered Lacey Squares, Beautiful Borders die, Pennants dies.  I used this week's Shining the Light sketch at Our Daily Bread Designs.





For more inspiration from my dt sisters, please visit them here:

If you would like to join us for the challenge, we would love to see your interpretation of the sketch.  You can link your creation or see more details above the challenge here until June 14 at 8 pm EST.  If we add your creations, we only ask that if you are not using ODBD stamps, you only add one creation and that your creations be posted on Splitcoast Stampers or a blog and not on facebook or Flicker (or another forum or site requiring signing in or being a member)  

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you are in some way inspired by my creation.  Your comments are so greatly treasured and appreciated!!

blessings,