Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Good Morning!! I hope you are all having a great week!! The Bread Basket at Our Daily Bread Designs wants to kick off the month with some fun. So we have a CHALLENGE FOR YOU!!!

Loretta

Angie Z

I hope you have a chance to play along. I can't to see what everyone creates!!

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Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge- 11

This week Lori sent the team this image from Green Grass Design as our inspiration for our creation:

I was inspired by the 2nd button in the third column. I used Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red and SU Fifth Avenue Floral for my creation.

This was a very fun inspiration this week!! We hope you can join this challenge this week. If you do, please link your creation here. If you upload to PCP or SC, please use the keyword DDIC11.

For more inspiration, please visit my dt sisters: Angela, Lori, Chat, Julie, Keri and Anne

Anne is currently away but her card or creation will be up at noon.

I hope today's creations inspire you!! For more information on the Our Daily Bread Designs Pocket Challenge Card, please visit the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog. We look forward to seeing your creations!

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments!!!

Happy Hump Day to all!! I hope you are all having a fab week!! Today is both Flutter By Wednesday and Inky Impressions Challenge Day!

There is lots of fun to be had at both places since Danni turns 40 on Friday and is having a Birthday Bash all month!!!! Nicole, Inky Impressions Owner is also celebrating her birthday this month as well so all the challenges at Inky Impressions involve birthdays or something favorited by Nicole. Now I happen to think these two girls are just the coolest ever. After all they do share my birthday month too!!! Teehee!! I too will be putting up blog candy at some point this month to celebrate my Hatch day! I can't do it yet as I am still collecting. Trying to sweeten up the pot a bit for you. This is my first blog candy so it has to be good!


Anywho....both the Inky Impressions challenge and Flutter By Wednesday Challenge are asking participants to create a birthday card. For Inky Impressions you must include an Inky Impressions stamp and for Flutter By Wednesday it must include a fairy or butterfly on it. I combined the two challenges. I also challenged myself to not use any designer paper. I succeeded!!! That is hard for me. Here is my card for this week!



I used my favorite in color: Bermuda Bay! The Inky Impressions stamp I used is: Lili's Chicks but I left off the chicks and had her pointing at the sentiment instead. I used one of my Spellbinders pendants and some Fiskars punches for my background. The image is colored in with prisma color pencils and gamsol. What do you think? The butterfly is a butterfly sizzix die available at SU. I love this die!

For more inspiration for the Inky Impressions Challenge, please visit my extremely talented and awe inspiring Inky dt sisters:

Jenn
Kristine
Michele
Naoual

If you create a birthday card using an Inky Impressions stamp, please leave a direct like here.

For more inspiration for the Flutter By Wednesday Challenge please visit my super sweet and very talented dt sisters:

• Ann
• Cassie
• Danni
  
• Christine
• Harriet
• Heather
• Jodi
• Kim
• Lelia
• Michelle
  
• Nancy
• Nicola
• Stef

Should you create a card for this challenge, please leave a direct link on Danni's blog here. If you should upload your creation to PCP or SC, please use the keyword, FBW.


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You will definitely want to participate in Danni's challenges this month since it gives you a chance to win some blog candy she if offering each and every week. Now is that generous or what.

In order to win her candy, you must create a card for this challenge and you must also answer this question in her comments under the blog post.

• What is Danni's favorite indulgance? You can find this answer somewhere in her blog posts for the last 2 weeks.

You have until next Tuesday night, Sept. 8th at midnight (Mountain time zone) to enter. Danni will announce the winner next Wednesday, Sept. 9th.
Now I bet you want to know what you could win~ right? Well..here's a photo~



And a detailed list. She chose things from Susana's store that are some of my favorite products and Susana donated a few too!!

• Laura Ashley Love Song 8x8 Velvet Paper
• Lullaby Tear Drops
• Bow Easy

• Elisabeth Bell for SCACD Danni stamp
• Pink Scrappers Floss
• Petaloo Dazzlers
• Angel Wings Shimmerz
• Star Dust Stickles
• Kaisercraft Blush Pearls

So what are you waiting for?? Go create a birthday card with a butterfly or a fairy on it and get entered to win some fun stuff!

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope this post inspires you to create and maybe even create for one of these two challenges!

Thanks for all you wonderful comments. It really makes my day to read them!

Tomorrow I will be back for the divine diva challenge and for a challenge sponsored by Our Daily Bread Designs (There are prizes involved so you don't want to miss it!)

Scroll down to the next post to read about a new challenge starting up!!!

The incredibly talented Vicki Parsons from Stamped Smiles is starting a new challenge based on her Saturday Spotlight and Hidden Potential posts. To kick things off, she's giving away this AMAZING candy... AND she's looking for some "Spotlight Divas" so be sure to head on over to the new blog to be entered and let her know if you'd like to be on her team!

Good morning!! Happy Tuesday!! I hope you had an awesome weekend and great Monday! I am back from camping and can't wait to share the new Our Daily Bread Designs stampsets to be released today or the Midnight Madness sketch which I already posted (scroll down to the next post for the details and project for MMSC)

Each month, Kelley comes up with some more awesome stamps to be released and today's is no exception!! These sets are perfect for wishing well to those who are not well or going through difficult times and for friends you just want to let know that you care. There are three new releases today!!! They even include butterflies, dragonflies and flourishes. My fave!!!







Here is a card I made using the set Thinking of You. For this card, I used several items available in the Our Daily Bread Store, including Basic Grey Wisteria Designer paper, Ornare, Hero Arts Light Blue and Light Green Accent Pearls, and pearl glimmermist (metallic pearl0 on my small butterfly. The cardstock used is Bliss Blue and Bashful Blue from SU. The image panel was cut out with my new Label 5 die from Nestabilities. I love the new dies!!! The larger butterfly is cut out using the Sizzix Butterfly die from SU.

CARD RECIPE
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs- Thinking of you
Paper: Bashful Blue CS, White CS, Bliss Blue CS, Basic Grey Wisteria DP
Embellishments: Hero Accents Pearls: Light Green and Light Pearl, Offray blue lace ribbon, Pearl Metallic Glimmermist
Tools: Butterfly Sizzix die from SU, Ornare Piercing Template, Ornare Piercing Tool, Ornare Piercing Tool, sewing machine, Cuttlebug Swirls die


Many of the bread basket members (Design Team) will be sharing a card or project with you using one of these new sets. You won't want to miss their fabulous creations!!

• Angie Zublionis
• Betty Wright
  
• Connie McCotter
• Deborah Saaranen
• Grace Nywening
• Lorelie Kim
• Dawn Lusk
  
• Sandee Shanabrough
• Silke Ledlow

This month ODBD welcomes my dear friend, Grace Nywening, back into the bread basket and Dawn Lusk as our September Guest Designer!! These girls do such magnificent work and their creations are always over the top! I can't wait to see your work with Our Daily Bread Designs stamps and work with you in the Bread Basket girls!!!

Thanks for stopping by today!!! Thanks for all your comments while I was away and today as well. I hope you have a great day! I so look forward to catching up on my blogging today! I have missed you all! Don't forget that if you scroll down to the next post, you will see the Midnight Madness sketch for today!

blessings,
Chris

Happy Tuesday to all!! I am back from our camping trip. Thanks for all your comments and well wishes. We did not escape rain for a few of the days which was a real bummer but we made the most of the time we had together as a family. Scott was a real trooper even standing in the rain trying to maintain a fire. Bless his heart!! He even used my daughters umbrella since I misplaced ours when I was packing. What a sport!


Here is a picture of my two darling daughters. Despite the rain, they were happy. Phew! Wish they always loved each other that much!



No pictures of me since I am the photographer most times. Just the way I like it...LOL! I was also sitting with ice on my toe for a lot of the trip since a can dropped out of the refrigerator smack dab on my toe! Wow did that hurt and continues to hurt! I am hobbling around these days. I gashed it pretty good and bruised the bone. It is quite swollen! The only part of a rainbow we saw was the many shades of red purple and and blue my toe has turned.

Well enough about the trip or my toe...It is time for Midnight Madness!


This is your last DAY to get in the drawing for Jeni’s Challenge Candy, Michelle Perkett weekly bonus gift and the month end Simon Says Stamp $50 voucher. You have till Midnight EST 9-1-09 to get your MMSC16 entries in. One winner will be drawn for each on Wednesday, so be sure to check back for that. If you miss the deadline, you are still welcome to link up to Mr Linky, but any entries after the "LAST CALL" will not be in the drawing.

MIDNIGHT MADNESS MASTERPIECE AWARD
Each week we awarding a special Badge Award to one person for their outstanding sketch submission. If you would like to be considered for this award, please make sure your card link is posted to Mr. Linky by Sunday of each week. This is our way of let you know how wonderfully talented you are and how much we appreciate you sharing your craft with us. This week we are proud to say the“MIDNIGHT MADNESS MASTERPIECE” Gold Star Award goes to.....

#72. stephanne
Enjoy your award and please display it proudly!
(if you would like the blinkie code, just email me ;)

Midnight Madness Sketch

Today is the 17th sketch!! This month, Midnight Madness is being by DRS designs!!

They generously donated stamps to each of the designers to use for the weekly posts in September. How generous is that!!!

Here is the prize for this month!

Drawing #1

Charlotte - Designs From Within
“Challenge Blog Candy”??? Oh Yeah!! Once again, we are doubling the fun here!! Just like last month we have a bonus for our players.. Our team member Charlotte has so generously offered up some challenge blog candy for the month of August. For every entry to the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenges this month, you will go in the drawing for the GRAND PRIZE Month end awards. As an added BONUS…if you "FOLLOW" Charlotte's blog and leave her a comment, you will get an EXTRA entry in the month end drawing, so hop on over to Charlotte’s blog, stay a spell, post a comment and be sure to click the follow button. This blog candy will celebrate Charlotte's first anniversary of making cards. For each week in Sept., she will be adding some more goodies to the blog challenge candy until the box is full. Thank you Charlotte for this SUPER yummie Candy donation. Check out her FANTASTIC “Challenge Blog Candy” below!!

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MMSC WEEKLY BONUS SPONSOR THIS WEEK IS.....
7 KIDS COLLEGE FUND sells the best cardmaking and scrapbooking supplies available. The goal of 7 KIDS is to spark and encourage creativity in our customers by bringing them the most innovative, as well as tried-and-true crafting products at the best possible price with fast shipping and excellent customer service. They currently offer over 2,500 products! We hope you will find their store and products exciting and of exceptional value. Customer satisfaction is their #1 priority! They are so generously offering this week's MMSC17 Bonus Winner a $20 shopping Voucher. A special thank you to Tabitha for giving us this wonderful weekly sponsorship :)

Here is today's sketch:




For my MMSC17 this week I used DRS Designs Sunflower with Pumpkin Patch (P105). I decided to get started on making a recipe book for my nephew and future niece for their upcoming wedding next spring. I know it is a long time off but I plan to decorate each page.
I turned the sketch. The image is colored with gamsol and prisma color pencils. The image is layered and embossed for dimension on top of a dry embossed leaf background panel. I bought the paper as part of a scrapbooking pack in Michael's. I just loved the patterns and colors. I used the Spellbinders Mega Curved Rectangles for my layered rectangels and the SU Oval punches for the Recipes label. The border punch used behind the image is the EK Success Moracco Lace punch. The corners are created with the Cuttlebug Vintage Die. I added sewing on the borders to finish it off.


I hope you enjoyed today's post and that it inspires you to create. Maybe it will even inspire you to create a card or project using this sketch. If you do, please link your creation to Mr. Linky on Priscilla's blog here. If you upload your creation to SC, please use the keyword MMSC17. For more inspiration, please visit my dt sisters for their fab takes on the sketch!! Please leave them a little love on your journey as I know they would greatly appreciate it. Welcome to our September guest dt Carol!! I can't wait to see all your wonderful creations with these sketches Carol!!
Carolyn - Creative Card Corner
Charlotte - Designs From Within
Denise - kc242 Designs by Denise
Jane - The Paper Affair
Jeni - Jeni's Custom Cards
Jessica - solocosmo
Kimmie - kimmie kaye's designs
Michelle - Daydreams by Michelle
Phyllis - SparklePlenty1000
Priscilla - "priscillastyles"
Shawne - Paper Art from Studio 313
Sonya - The Pink Paper Penguin
Sue - McMahon Five Designs
Carol-Chocolate, Crafts, & Bears, Oh My!

Thanks for stopping by!! I will be back momentarily with another post. You won't miss my new release post for Our Daily Bread Designs!!! There are three new releases you won't want to miss out on!