My Friend...the Featured Stamper!

Last year at Stamp Away in Cincinnati, I got to meet Angie!! Now we're teammates on Our Daily Bread designs. Such talent and such a sweetie! Today she was chosen as the Featured Stamper on Splitcoast... whoop!

I cased two cards...this one.

I changed the colors and images, using Beautiful Flowers from Innovative Stamp Creations for this emboss resist.

And this one.

Changing colors and images again. This set, Happy Easter from Our Daily Bread designs, being released tomorrow! Big blog hop tomorrow with lots of news...so be sure to stop in!! Here's the inside.

Thanks for stopping!

GO USA HOCKEY!!

Dawn

A New Digi Design Team!

I can finally say something about my new DT gig, Sassy Cheryl's! Cheryl is one talented lady let me tell you! Fun too! I've had a blast getting to know her and the rest of the team before this reveal!

and here they are... the Sassy Girls

Ann English  Cathy Edgar  Dawn Burnworth 
Heather Huggins  Jackie Mooney  Jodi Ann Lee 
Kim Rhead  Peggy Marsh  Tracy Jackson  Alina Meijer
Chrissy Le  Christa Knegt  Judy Kreucher
and Sassy Momma herself Cheryl and the Challenge Blog

 

Now, on to my card!

This is Country Gal, colored with Copics and Distress inks, (sponged background and clouds).
*for a quick tutorial, click here.
Then I doodled in some ...uh..well, doodles! LOL
Scribbled a flower on the envelope and colored it to match and doodled again, then sponged the edges. The sentiment is an ooooold Hero Arts stamp.

We'll be having weekly challenges, so stay tuned!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Signs of Spring

No, no violets yet, but it won't be long! One reason these new sets from Our Daily Bread designs are such a pleasure to color up... the beauty of Spring and Summer!

This is another sneak peek of one of the 3 sets being released March 1st. Did I mention PRIZES? Yup... Prizes! And then... Whoop!! Did you know March is Anniversary month for ODBD? Our Daily Bread designs Second Anniversary is Mar. 17th and we have five days of exciting events planned in celebration.

Daily Challenges running from Mar. 13 through the 16th, these challenges will be announced on March 7th on the ODBD Blog. Each challenge will run one day and the winner will be announced the next day… so start early so you don’t miss out on any of the great prizes!!!

Then a Blog Hop on Mar. 17th revealing the very special Anniversary Release sets, and lots of prizes! Don’t miss it!!! Woohooo!

Now, here's my card. Done for the sketch challenge on Splitcoast.

Colored with Copics, sponged with Distress inks while still in the Spellbinders Labels 11 die.

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We went to lunch with some friends yesterday... Cheesecake Factory, YUM!! I took some images along to color since it's a little bit of a drive. The roads in winter are not conducive to coloring in a vehicle! LOL! This is the one I'd started and had to finish this morning. Thought she'd look cute for the sketch too... flipped!

This is from Sassy Cheryl's, a digital image, Bubble Blower. Colored with Copics. The layer she's on is also Copic'd to match. It's layered on Prima Life in Colors.

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Jacksonbelle Tuesday...Spring Can't Be Far Away!

Flowers!
That's our challenge today, any way, shape and form... just use them!
Keyword JBE094

It couldn't be easier especially with this darling new Pure Innocence image by MFT and this AWEsome new Flutter DP from Making Memories!!

MFT is the Featured Product this week too, so be sure to check every day for some fab samples!

Is she cute or what?! I paper pieced her dress, cut her out and popped her up. The flower is part of the image, it was cut out and glued a little farther away than how it actually stamps. I drew in the water with a fine tip artist pen, then went over the lines with a Sakura glitter pen.

The card measures 3.5x5x5.

For more inspiration, be sure to check out the blogs of all of the Jacksonbelle Rockstars!

Julie Lacey

Heather Pulvirenti

Windy Robinson

Stephanie Severin

Amy Tsuruta

Pam Varnell

Lynda Benden

Tobi Crawford

Jill Dunn

Heather Lee-Reppen

Shemaine Smith

Lindsey Botkin

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Daffodils Peeking Through the Snow

Well, not yet, at least not in my yard! But, I do have some new stamps to play with and share....and the promise of Spring right around the corner!

This Sneak Peek called, Happy Easter, will be released March 1st from Our Daily Bread designs.

It's colored with Copics, embossed with clear embossing powder and sponged with Distress inks and was done for the Featured Stamper on Splitcoast. The DP is new from SEI! Isn't it gorgeous!!

I'm sure you'll be seeing lots of peeks this week as the Breadsticks are on fire... some of the samples I've seen already...WOW!!!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Jacksonbelle Tuesday...Try a New Fold!

I dare you to try something new! Get out of the "fold a piece of cardstock in half and stamp it" rut! Today's Jbelle challenge is to try a different kind of fold! Keyword ~ JBE092

Before I get to my card though, I have to share the new goodies at Jacksonbelle Embellishments, MFT stamps, Stampavie in preorder, AND Cosmo is back in stock!

I used this yummy Prima Life in Colors  DP for this Two Way Open card.  (mine is a smaller version, I used an 8x8 piece of cardstock to start with and scaled everything down from there)

He Watches Me from Our Daily Bread designs is colored with Copics and sponged with Distress ink.

For more inspiration,
be sure to check out the blogs of all of the
Jacksonbelle Rockstars!

Julie Lacey

Heather Pulvirenti

Windy Robinson

Stephanie Severin

Amy Tsuruta

Pam Varnell

Tobi Crawford

Jill Dunn

Heather Lee-Reppen

Shemaine Smith

Lindsey Botkin

thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Not Quite Ready for the Winter Olympics 2010!

But fun was had with the snow
we have and the "little" hill!!

Odd Colors With a Heart

Now, I know what you're thinking, you're expecting to see some funky colors going on. Nope! Wrong! It's just several challenges rolled into one blog post and two cards!

The Ways To Use It challenge on Splitcoast today was "Odds are...", having an odd number of something. Then Mo's Digital Pencil #18 is All About Color... pink, red, white and had to have a heart on it.

Our Daily Bread designs You Will Find Refuge and Sing for Joy on the side step card... 3 steps-3 brads-3 shades of Flower Soft on this Flower Soft Garden Corners. The Chickadee is colored with Copics and embossed with clear embossing powder. The back panel is dry embossed with Distressed Lines Cuttlebug embossing folder and Martha Stewart fence punch at the top.

This one is Bella Hearts Bronte from Mo's Digital Pencil (actually a freebie on SNR Card Universe) It's colored with Copics, masked and airbrushed. There are 5 hearts in the air and 5 hearts in The Paper Studio punch.

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

New To Me Digi's!

I've found another awesome digi illustrator! Sassy Cheryl's! Here's her blog too.

Ok, so I looked at the Sketch Challenge on Splitcoast this morning and figured at some point today I'd get around to it. Shortly after, I purchased my first Sassy Cheryl's! Why not combine the two!

Do you ever think one of these days I'll learn to quit...to just put it down and say NO, this is crazy, DO something else! (nah, I don't think so!)

So! I got this hair-brained idea of printing 3 of the same image (Birthday Lift) and doing a whole spotlight card with the sketch! Oooweee!

I should have just cut that center panel rather than using Spellbinders for this particular card...but oh well! Hindsight right?

But then I also had to have 3 "somethings" on the top panel, duh... I'd have to cover up my picture! Necessity is mother of invention right? Sooooo, I printed, colored AND airbrushed the parts I needed for my 3 "somethings". My Martha Stewart butterfly punch was the perfect size.

I carefully went around the edges with my black Copic marker. Then I embossed them...

*THIS IDEA IS NOT MINE*... I don't remember where I saw it, but it's brilliant! Just use a scrap piece of cardstock to make a "handle extender". I just put a drop of 2 way glue to hold it, dabbed it with embossing ink, dipped it in clear embossing powder and heat set.

I added some Zva bling, and just glued the butterflies down in the center so the wings could pop up some. Oh yeah, all but the base are my Cheater CS technique... a Copic marker.

There you have it! It only took me all afternoon to get this baby done! (Ok, I did have some phone calls and other things I did in between...) I'm no quitter! BWAHAHAHAHAH

Hey, thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Jacksonbelle Embellishments Tuesday..The Zva Sisters!

LOVE is in the air!!! 
Jbelle Challenge use colors, embellishments, etc…
that represent LOVE to you!!!
Keyword ~ JBE092

My card today is just ooozing with Love! LOL! My mind has gone several different directions since reading this challenge (no smart remaks please! lol), but I ended up with this one and included the product feature, Zva Creative too!

I used Step Sisters, Mo's Digital Pencil.
Can't you just imagine what they're saying?
"I just LOVE getting dressed up for family photos"...
"I LOVE having to go to YOUR recitals"...
"I LOVE teasing YOU...you are such a DORK!"...
"I LOVE candy AND my Froggy Prince, can we go change now??!" (I never had a sister...but I had an older brother! nuff said!)

So... I LOVE to color, I LOVE Mo's images
AND
I LOVE Zva Creative bling!
nuff said!

Here are the girls before they were all bejeweled! I colored them with watercolor crayons. I used a 2-way glue pen for the bling.

And after they got all prettied up! The younger sister isn't old enough to appreciate a fine jeweled necklace, so she just has those pop-together-beads! LOL! Bad enough she HAD to get her hair curled and wear that silly ol' fancy dress anyway!

The scallop layer is white cardstock colored with a Copic. (my favorite way of cheating on colored cardstock!!)

I used Spellbinders Labels 3 to cut a couple small pieces of Basic Grey Origins (love that stuff!) and give a little different shape to the card. And there's that "Copic colored" cardstock again punched with Martha Stewart border punches. I embossed the bottom of the base with my Victoria embossing folder.

For more Zva inspiration, check out the rest of the Jbelle rockstars!

Julie Lacey
Heather Pulvirenti
Windy Robinson
Stephanie Severin
Amy Tsuruta
Pam Varnell
Lynda Benden
Tobi Crawford
Jill Dunn
Heather Lee-Reppen
Carly Robertson
Shemaine Smith
Lindsey Botkin

 

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Out My Front Door

I woke up to a beautiful hoar frost, blue sky, sunshine and 5 degrees! Brrrrrrr, but gorgeous!

These are Spirea bushes, very thin twigs towards the outer edges, the frost is probably 1/2 to 3/4 inch!

  I just had to get more Cardinal shots, that pop of RED against the white...beautiful!

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And might as well share a card I did this morning as long as I'm blogging...right?! lol

It's a combo challenge, the technique for today on Splitcoast... Frosted Window, that Holly is so clever! and The Shining Light Challenge from Our Daily Bread designs. The frosted window is done by stamping on cardstock..., coloring your image, stamping again on vellum and coloring with lighter colors, then popping the vellum up over the cardstock image with dimensionals. (it looks better irl, trust me! lol)

The card is in the mail, on its way to hopefully bring some cheer to a friend of a friend.

stamps: sing for joy, he watches me- our daily bread designs

ink: tuxedo black

paper: gp white, vellum, generic black, basic grey nook & pantry, prism blush red dark

other: copics, spellbinders labels, scrap essentials clear bubble, the paper studio border punch, mounting tape

Enjoy your day where ever you are...

we're bracing for...

wait for it ...

MORE SNOW!! YIPPPEEEEE!!! Could get up to 8 more inches! Yeah, I'm ecstatic!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Check It Out!

This is hilarious!
A reader shared her blog post with me,
seems Rebecca's cat was quite interested
in what was on the screen!
My birds from my snow post! LOL

Dawn

Yes, It's Cold...But I Still LOVE It!

We've got upwards of 10 inches this morning!
I went out and got these shots...a little chilly...23 degrees with the windchill 8!

this is a metal plant holder out my back door

Caleb's front door

Caleb's drift out the back! It's so hard to get this in a photo...it's pretty big!

Just another view of the drift

The hazy look in the field is blowing snow,
we've got 35mph winds!

We know when a storm blows in from the East
we're gonna get dumped on!

When the snow started yesterday, it was a very wet snow, heavy! There are 3 of these trees at the bottom of the drive, normally up straight! They're all leaning in 3 different directions!

Even Mr. Tree says it's cold!

And Dodge kept looking at me like "Are you DONE yet?!"

I had to throw out some fresh birdseed. I even sat out there for at least 10 min. (seemed much longer!) waiting for Mr. Cardinal to come! Mr. Junco stopped by.

Mr. Sparrow stopped by.

And Mr. Cardinal waited till I went back in the house!
Had to take this one through the window!

Hope you're warm and toasty where you are. Think I'll stay INside the rest of the day.

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn