Twinkles Glow with Stamps

Happy Monday everyone!! I hope you had a great weekend!! We are still enjoying the long holiday weekend here and my hubby is home for the day. That means not much crafting time today.

Anywho..We have a new monthly challenge for you at Stamp and Create! !!

Happy Sunday Everyone!! Happy July 4th to everyone in the USA and Happy Belated Canada Day to all my Canadian Blogging friends. I hope everyone is having a great weekend!!
What an honor to be the hostess of today's challenge on July 4th at Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge!! As a Christian, we have so much to be thankful for here in this country. The greatest blessing being the freedoms we have. I think we sometimes take these freedoms for granted. Mostly our freedom of religion. When I think back to the founding of this nation and the Christian beliefs and focus our leaders had and the fight they went through to have this freedom, I am so thankful for the freedoms we have today. This is not a freedom to be taken lightly, however in light of what is happening in our nation today.
For this reason, I have chosen this verse:

2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
I have elaborated on this verse on the Stampin Sisters in Christ Blog if you are interested.

The challenge this week at Stampin Sisters in Christ is to create a project or card with red or blue on it. It does not need to be patriotic.

Here is my take on the challenge. I used the Our Daily Bread Designs stamp set just released on July 1 called Our Daily Bread. I used the Midnight Madness Sketch challenge for this week (MMSC60). The dp is from Basic Grey Capella and Basic Grey Wassail. I created the flower with rafia. The ribbon is red grosgrain which I stitched and pulled together.

Card Recipe:
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs stamp set just released on July 1 called Our Daily Bread
Paper: Basic Grey Capella and Basic Grey Wassail
Accessories: buttons, charm from America (Thank You GF!!), MS Shell border punch, grosgrain ribbon, round corner punch, distresser

Challenges:
Midnight Madness Sketch challenge
Papertake Weekly-stitching
Practical Scrappers- border punches
ABC Challenge: Extra dimension

For more inspiration for the stripes challenge at Stampin Sisters in Christ, please visit my dt sisters: Grace, Linda, Lisa, Peggysue, Randi, Meisje, Rebecca, and Cindy

Happy Friday Everyone! I hope everyone has had a good week. Happy Belated Canada Day to all my Canadian Friends and happy July 4th to all my US friends (if I don't see you on Sunday)!

This is my first July 4th being home for the past seven years. Usually we are camping on July 4th but we went for our vacation earlier this year. I think next year we will return to our usual time since Scott and I are sort of dreading that we are not going this year. Oh well....We have picnics and fireworks with friends as well as some time to spend with my parents so what more can I ask for right?
Today I want to share a fun summertime image from Inky Impressions. The Inky Team has been taking a break for the summer (the store is still open though) and so I have not posted many Inky images as of late not because I do not like the images but just because LIFE HAS BEEN CRAZY BUSY! The break came at a good time for me. I did receive some summertime images that I was eager to ink up, however, so I just had to sneak in an Inky. This image is one of my fave Inky images ever: Water Lili.

The layout is this week's Sketch For You To Try by Jen del Muro. My image is water colored. The dp is from October Afternoon.

Stampin B's - summer vacation
Ooh La La Creations -simply summer
All Sorts- embossing I used dry embossing)
Papertake Weekly-stitching
Practical Scrappers- border punches (MS Summer time punch)
My Time to Craft- Zig Zags
Simon Says Stamp- checks (plaid paper)
Meljen's Designs- Red white and blue

Hi Everyone!! This is my second post of the day...IF YOU ARE HERE FOR THE OUR DAILY BREAD DESIGNS BLOG HOP, Please scroll down to the next post.


Good Afternoon All!! Today is a busy day for me here and blogland with two new releases!! Oh how fun!! This post is to introduce the new challenge over at Whimsy for their new digi release!! Whimsy has lots of new digi's illustrated by Crissy Armstrong and Meljen's Designs!! If you go to the Whimsy blog, you will even have the opportunity to join a New Release Blog hop and have an opportunity to win some awesome images!!


For my creation, I used the new~"Love Me Anyway" digi stamp from Crissy Armstrong's digital collection. Isn't it just darling. The dp is some new October Afternoon paper I bought while away on vacation. Love October Afternoon paper and it is not available here so this was quite the treat. The flowers on the ribbon I created with beads and rhinestones.

For more inspiration, please visit the rest of the talented dt!! listed below:

Crystal Irwin
Simonne Clay
Ann Vento
Erin Bailey
Marley van der Heijden
Patrica Garcia
Rowena Barnard

For more fun and chances to win join our New Release Blog Hop. The hop starts here. You will want to leave comments along the way as well as complete the hop for a chance to win either 2 or 5 digis of your choice!!

Have a great day!! Thanks for visiting and for your comments!

• Hop to each blog, leave a comment on each one.

• Return to the ODBD blog and leave a comment here telling us that you completed the hop and left everyone comments.

• If for any reason you cannot leave a comment, please give us the name/s of the designers you were unable to leave comments for... and you'll still be qualified for the drawing.