Another ODBD Sketch card

I decided to keep going on my Christmas cards and I have made another one that fits the current Our Daily Bread Designs sketch challenge - ODBDSLC212. You can see the first two cards I made for this challenge here and here. Here is my third card:

This is the sketch:

Again, I've rotated the sketch 90 degrees anticlockwise. I've stamped the image from Our Daily Bread Designs Christmas Door onto X-Press It blending card and coloured with Copic markers. The goldy-brown and red papers that I've used are from the ODBD Christmas Paper Collection 2013.

Instead of the "tags" I've used ODBD Beautiful Borders die and I've also added some gold organza. The base card is textured Bazzill.

I also added some Flowersoft - Emerald to the wreath on the Christmas Door and some AnnaBelle Stamps 3 mm sprinkles (I think they are chilli colour??) for the "berries".

For more inspiration for this challenge please visit my talented design team sisters:

Chris Olsen ~ Linda Carson ~ Diana Nguyen

Cheryl Scrivens ~ DJ Rants ~ Robin Clendenning

To see all the projects created for ODBDSLC212 or to join the challenge click here. You have until 8 pm Sunday, 7 September 2014 EDT to join us (or 8 am Monday, 8 September 2014 AWST). By participating in the challenge, you have a chance to be placed in a monthly draw to win a $15 ODBD Gift Certificate that can be used towards the purchase of stamps in the “stamps column” in the ODBD store; or to be spotlighted on the ODBD Blog at our next challenge! The random prize winner will be posted on the first challenge of each month.

Thanks for looking!

ODBDSLC212 - Sketch (Week 2)

Welcome to week 2 of the Our Daily Bread Designs Sketch challenge, ODBDSLC212. You can see the first card I made for this challenge here. Here is my second card:

And as a reminder, here is the Sketch:

This week I decided to rotate the sketch 90 degrees anticlockwise. I've stamped the image from Our Daily Bread Designs Sweet Christmas Wishes onto X-Press It blending card and coloured with Copics. All of the diecuts used are Spellbinders and I've added some seam binding and pearls as well. The sentiment is from the same stamp set - Our Daily Bread Designs Sweet Christmas Wishes.

For more inspiration for this challenge please visit my talented design team sisters:

Chris Olsen ~ Linda Carson ~ Diana Nguyen

Cheryl Scrivens ~ DJ Rants ~ Robin Clendenning

To see all the projects created for ODBDSLC212 or to join the challenge click here. You have until 8 pm Sunday, 7 September 2014 EDT to join us (or 8 am Monday, 8 September 2014 AWST). By participating in the challenge, you have a chance to be placed in a monthly draw to win a $15 ODBD Gift Certificate that can be used towards the purchase of stamps in the “stamps column” in the ODBD store; or to be spotlighted on the ODBD Blog at our next challenge! The random prize winner will be posted on the first challenge of each month. 

Thanks for looking!

ODBDSLC212 - Sketch (Week 1)

It's time for a new challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs. Come and join us this fortnight in ODBDSLC212 for another sketch challenge! This is my card:

And this is the sketch:

I've gone for something a little different on my card this week and combined Our Daily Bread Designs Walk with Jesus stamp set with Christmas Paper (ODBD Christmas Paper Collection 2013)! I hope you can see what I am getting at :-) Christmas (I know its still a few months away - but it's never too early to start making cards right?!) is the time of year that we remember Jesus' birth. In my card I wanted to portray that even though Jesus came to earth to ultimately die on the cross for our sins, and then rise from the dead! He also set an example while He was here on earth for how we should live. I wanted to show that while we do celebrate and remember Jesus' birth, death and resurrection, we also should follow in His footsteps and follow the example(s) that He set for us! So this is why I've combined Christmas Paper with the Flip Flop stamps and dies!

I've used ODBD Walk with Jesus and Crotcheted Border stamp sets on my card along with ODBD Flip Flop Dies and ODBD Crocheted Border die. And, as I mentioned above, I used ODBD Christmas Paper Collection 2013. I thought it would be cute to use the small ODBD Flip Flop dies instead of the tags that are in the sketch :-)

For more inspiration for this challenge please visit my talented design team sisters:

Chris Olsen ~ Linda Carson ~ Diana Nguyen

Cheryl Scrivens ~ DJ Rants ~ Robin Clendenning

To see all the projects created for ODBDSLC212 or to join the challenge click here. You have until 8 pm Sunday, 7 September 2014 EDT to join us (or 8 am Monday, 8 September 2014 AWST). By participating in the challenge, you have a chance to be placed in a monthly draw to win a $15 ODBD Gift Certificate that can be used towards the purchase of stamps in the “stamps column” in the ODBD store; or to be spotlighted on the ODBD Blog at our next challenge! The random prize winner will be posted on the first challenge of each month. 

Thanks for looking!

Double Display Card

I was excited to learn that Our Daily Bread Designs now sell pre-cut and scored card bases! I had an awesome time using the double display card base to make the card below.

This is a picture of the front of the card when it is closed:

And this is what the card looks like when it is open:

The image is from Our Daily Bread Designs The Mighty Sea and has been stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto X-Press It blending card and coloured with Copic markers. I've then diecut it using ODBD Elegant Ovals dies. The flourish leaves on the card are diecut using ODBD Fancy Foliage dies and the little flowers are one of the dies that come in the ODBD Ornamental Crosses dies set. All papers used come from the ODBD Christian Faith Collection.

The verse on the left is from Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 13. It says:

"The Lord is my strength and my shield;

My heart trusts in Him and He helps me.

My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise Him."

Psalm 28:7

The verse that I've used on the right is from 

Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 10 and it says:

"Praise the Lord O my soul

I will praise the Lord all my life

I will sing praise to my God as long as I live."

Psalm 145:1-2

The words down on the bottom right say "For as deep as the ocean, or as wide as the sea, so is His love given to Thee!" and also comes from the Our Daily Bread Designs The Might Sea stamp set.

There are a number of different fun and fancy fold pre-cut and scored cards that you can buy from Our Daily Bread Designs - go and check them out! You can also view many more gorgeous fancy fold cards from the Our Daily Bread Designs' Design Team here in the ODBD gallery!

Thanks for looking!

Mother to be

My sister in law is due to have a baby in November and I have had this image coloured for AGES... but only just got around to making it up into a card for her and her husband!

The image is a digital stamp from Mo Manning called "Mother to be 1". It is printed on X-Press It blending card using my HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus and then I've coloured it with Copics.

I've cut quite closely around the image and then distressed the edges and inked with Distress Ink Tea Dye. I've then sprinkled some Stampendous! Frantage Shabby Blue embossing powder around the edge and heated the embossing powder from underneath the cardstock so it didn't get blown away.

My card base is Bazzill textured Flamingo and the papers I have used are Prima Marketing Jodie Lee Designs Delight. I distressed and inked the edges of all the paper pieces. 

The Congratulations sentiment is from AnnaBelle stamps "Swirl Tree" and the lace is from Green Tara. The flowers and berries I bought from Live and Love crafts with some pearls from Flourish with a Bling. There is also a white paper doily hiding under there that I inked and added some embossing powder.

I've always admired people who can put together these types of cards and this is not my usual "style" so I took my inspiration from one of Alyce Keegan's cards' "Tilly". You can find the card in Alyce's Whimsical Project Class on the Kit and Clowder website.

Here is another photo:

Copic colours used:
Hair: E50, E31, E25, E29
Skin: E000, E00, E11/E21/E11, E93
Top: BG000, BG11, BG23, BG34, BG49
Skirt: R00, R11, R22, R20
Shoes: R11 and R20

Thanks for looking!

ODBDSLC211 - Sketch (Week 2)

Welcome back to the second week of the ODBDSLC211 - Sketch challenge! You can see my first card that I made for this challenge here. This is my second card:

Just a reminder what the sketch looks like:

Last week I adhered to the sketch pretty well - this week I've used it as a starting base :-)

I've used a Bazzill textured card as my base and then layered with Our Daily Bread Design Blooming Garden Paper Collection which I have stamped "Happy Birthday" from ODBD All Occasion Sentiments and a bee from ODBD Zinnia. 

I've stamped the ODBD Honeycomb background onto a piece of vellum with Distress Embossing ink and embossed with gold embossing powder. This is layered with another piece of the Bazzill textured card. I've added a piece of gold organza across my card.

I've diecut a dark brown panel from the ODBD Blooming Garden Paper Collection using ODBD Elegant Ovals Dies. I've stamped the sunflowers, from ODBD Harvest Blessings, twice, onto X-Press It blending card and coloured with Copic markers. I've then diecut both sunflower images (ODBD Harvest Blessings) using the ODBD Sunflowers die. I layered one of the coloured sunflower images onto my card and then fussy cut 3 of the sunflowers from my second image and layered them on top of the first image with foam tape.

For more inspiration for this challenge please visit my talented design team sisters:

Chris Olsen ~ Linda Carson ~ Diana Nguyen

Cheryl Scrivens ~ DJ Rants ~ Robin Clendenning

To see all the projects created for ODBDSLC211 or to join the challenge click here. You have until 8 pm Sunday, 17 August 2014 EDT to join us (or 8 am Monday, 18 August 2014 AWST). By participating in the challenge, you have a chance to be placed in a monthly draw to win a $15 ODBD Gift Certificate that can be used towards the purchase of stamps in the “stamps column” in the ODBD store; or to be spotlighted on the ODBD Blog at our next challenge! The random prize winner will be posted on the first challenge of each month.

Here are two more photos:

Gold embossed ODBD Honeycomb background on vellum

Copic coloured sunflowers (ODBD Harvest Blessings and ODBD Sunflowers Die)

Thanks for looking!

ODBDSLC211 - Sketch (Week 1)

It's time for a new challenge at Our Daily Bread Designs! The ODBD Shining the Light challenge this fortnight is a Sketch challenge! Here is my card:

And this is the Sketch:

I've kept my card pretty simple and pretty much adhered to the sketch :-) and as you can see I've started making my Christmas cards! I usually end up rushing at the last minute, so thought I'd start a bit earlier this year.

I've stamped the flower image from Our Daily Bread Designs Christmas Rose onto X-Press It blending card and coloured with Copics*. The image is then diecut with Spellbinders lacey ovals and I've sponged some Distress Ink Bundled Sage before removing from the die.

The Merry Christmas sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs Christmas Verses and the DP is from the ODBD Christmas Paper Collection 2013. I've layered the DP with Bazzill textured Pomegrante and also used it as my card base.

For more inspiration for this challenge please visit my talented design team sisters:

Chris Olsen ~ Linda Carson ~ Diana Nguyen

Cheryl Scrivens ~ DJ Rants ~ Robin Clendenning

To see all the projects created for ODBDSLC211 or to join the challenge click here. You have until 8 pm Sunday, 17 August 2014 EDT to join us (or 8 am Monday, 18 August 2014 AWST). By participating in the challenge, you have a chance to be placed in a monthly draw to win a $15 ODBD Gift Certificate that can be used towards the purchase of stamps in the “stamps column” in the ODBD store; or to be spotlighted on the ODBD Blog at our next challenge! The random prize winner will be posted on the first challenge of each month.

*Copics used: R81, R83, R85, R89, G40, G82, G85, YG99, YR24 and YR27

We enjoyed an awesome holiday away to Exmouth (about a 16 hour drive north) and did some bush camping on a station near Shark Bay (a few hours south of Exmouth) (both in Western Australia). I mentioned in my post last week that we had already seen God's hand over us on our first day! One of our batteries in the toolbox on our camper trailer decided to "melt" and could've caught fire if we hadn't stopped when we did - and the events that took place, that seemed "random" at the time, looking back now I can see that God was watching over us. It could've been much worse than just losing a battery and my husband having to rewire a few wires! I thought I'd share just a couple of photos from our trip (there were some nice sized fish - but they were all caught at night - and I didn't get any photos!)

This is the Sturt's Desert Pea (Swainsona sp.). This gorgeous flower grows pretty close to the ground and I had to practically lie on the ground to get this photo! It usually has a more distinct black "centre", but the centre can also be red.

Exmouth lighthouse. This photo looks SW.
We are on a peninsula and there is ocean on the W, E and N sides of us.

The beach were we stayed near Shark Bay. Had an awesome "sand bar" that you could walk out on at low tide.

This is the view from the end of the "sand bar" looking back at the mainland.
That's my husband in the distance :-)

Tried my hand at some evening, long exposure photography :-)

Loved seeing all the canola fields on the way home

Thanks for looking!