ODBD March Release!

March…….in like a LION
(we’re forecast to get 4-6 inches of snow!),
out like a Lamb!
Nineteen more days until……. SPRING!!!

Welcome to the March release from Our Daily Bread designs! Sit back and enjoy what the we’ve created just for YOU!

This is what I used for my samples today from this release.

I used the basket from Basket of Blessings, colored it with Copics and hand cut it, then filled it full of flowers from Iris and Happy Easter…all fussy cut. Filling in between the flowers, I used Grassy Border die. I can see me using this die A LOT!!! I used Vintage Labels die for the greeting and Flourished Star Pattern die for the gingham layer. I felt kind of bad for covering up the beautiful paper from the Shabby Rose Paper Collection! That cute little gingham bow is from Circle Ornaments die.

Prize Information: -
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 March 2, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. EST to leave your comments on the Designers Blogs for a chance to win!  The Winners will be posted on the ODBD Blog on March 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

You can also see all the info here, on the ODBD blog.

My next sample hides nothing and lets the beauty of the Shabby Rose Paper Collection and the beautiful hymn by Charles Wesley, Christ the Lord is Risen Today,  shine through! One of my favorite Easter hymns!

I used Ranger Victorian Velvet for the title and Ranger Iced Spruce for the music, embossed in clear. (although these inks stay wet for a while to emboss, I also used Versamark before inking up in the color to ensure a good embossing!)

For lots more March inspiration, please visit my sister sticks and see their fabulous creations!

Julie * Cathy * Lori * Sandee * Grace  
Angie * Lisa * Sabrina
Silke * Chris * Wanda * Audrey

Thanks for stopping by!

Dawn

 

Easter Is….

Let’s pause and think what Easter is really about

The Crocus Awakes…..

In my part of the world, Crocus means Spring is just around the corner! The first flower to push up through the snow after the ground has been asleep all Winter!

This is a sneak peek at one of the new sets being released Friday, Feb 1, from Our Daily Bread designs, Earth’s Gladdest Day.

Stamped with Onyx Black and embossed, colored with Copics and die cut with Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles. The DP is DCWV, the bling is Zva. The embossing folder is Textile.

It’s also the sketch today on Splitcoast.

Thanks for stopping today!

Dawn

Jacksonbelle Tuesday-Easter Card

Our Jacksonbelle Embellishments challenge
is to make an Easter card!
Keyword JBE098 for SCS and PCP

Be sure to stop by the store too, Lindsey has all sorts of yummy new stuff in and a 30% special!! Oh, my, wait till you see the new Prima cardstock... DROOL! It's so gorgeous! It's the Product Feature this week too!!

Lucky me, I had a small piece of Prima Life in Colors, so I made a "scrapling". I measures 3x5.5.

Quick and simple too! I stamped Happy Easter from the set by Our Daily Bread designs. Martha Stewart punched edges and Prism Intense Azalea on the inside (matches perfectly!)

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

A Sketch and ODBD Anniversary Celebration

Our Daily Bread designs is going to be celebrating it's second anniversary on March 17th! The sticks in the bread basket are celebrating too!!! We have come up with 5 days of fun and excitement for you, so you can join in as well!!!

Beginning on March 13th, we will have a daily challenge. You can get all the details and heads up on the challenges on the ODBD blog!

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Now for my cards. I did two for the sketch challenge on Splitcoast, two totally different cards!

My Lily of the Valley isn't even pushing up through the ground yet, but I can almost smell the beautiful fragrance these delicate flowers give! This is from the set Easter Blessing by Our Daily Bread designs. The leaves are colored with Copics. The layers are "fauxed" cardstock, my cheap trick, just white cardstock colored with a marker to match. The flowers themselves are colored with an Elmer's Painty pen.

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This next one is for Mo's DP2 Challenge, a color challenge using brown, blue and neutral.

It's colored with Prismacolor pencils blended with OMS. The background is airbrushed. I merged two different digi's for this one, Lookin for Clues and Bronte from Makin Cards.

Enjoy your day! Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Aimee Nugent

Today marks the release of a new designer at CHF, Aimee Nugent! You've seen some sneak peeks already, be sure to check out the gallery for more.

I've had this idea in my head since I got this image and decided yesterday to put it to paper and see how it would come out! I'm super happy with the results.

I started by using my Top Score, on the main panel, to get the embossed curve and cut the extra away.

Next, I stamped the Cross With Vines 3 times with Black Soot (remember Ranger distress ink stays wet long enough to emboss) and heat embossed with detail ep.

I took my ol' trusty piece of torn copy paper, two sizes of daubers and started sponging off the edge. For this one, I turned the panel upsidedown and sponged down with Tea Dye, moving the copy paper at angles to get the 'hilly' effect. Then I took Frayed Burlap and darkened various places, adding some Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint lightly in a couple places. Walnut Stain was lightly added to the tops of the hills for definition.

I masked where I wanted the sun with a circle cut sticky note and sponged down with Broken China, stopping just before the horizon.

I removed the sun mask and took my reverse mask (a piece of copy paper with a circle cut out) and placed it over the area where the sun would appear....and started sponging with Mustard Seed from the center outward. Using a small dauber in Spiced Marmalade, I sponged just the edge inward a little ways. *you can see where the paper slipped and my sun oozed a little! the camera makes it look worse than it is IRL....honest!

Using what yellow was left on my dauber, I lightly sponged the horizon.

Leaves on the vines are colored with a copic marker.

Cut the black mat the same, using the Top Score for the dry embossed arch.

• Stamps
• Cross With Vines, Aimee Nugent, Cornish Heritage Farms
• Geometric Flowers, Mona Lisa Moments, Cornish Heritage Farms
• Ink
• Black Soot, Tea Dye, Frayed Burlap, Shabby Shutters, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Broken China, Peeled Paint, Walnut Stain Distress by Ranger, Adirondack Pitch Black by Ranger
• Cardstock
• Georgia Pacific White
• Sunflower med, Mystic med by Prism Papers
• Accessories
• detail embossing powder
• Top Score by Crafter's Companion
• Small and Jumbo Daubers by Tsukineko
• Copic marker www.ellenhutson.com

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Two more Easter cards with Aimee's images, this time coupled with Beautiful from The Rummage Bin.

I so admire Michelle Zindorf, her work is so beautiful and she's so creative! So artsy!! The other day she did this absolutely gorgeous card, you can see it on her blog and see just how she does it!!

I decided to give it a try............well, I'm nowhere near the artist Michelle is, (practice makes perfect right?!) but I'm pretty pleased with the 2 cards. As you can see, I used my Top Score again....LOL, because several ideas going at once for one card turned into two!

Using a Copic marker, Sakura white and Stardust gel pens and a super fine Faber-Castell artist pen, I highlighted parts of the flourishes.

Sponged, again using Ranger Distress inks.
Here is a close-up of the Stardust pen.