Peace on Earth and Mercy Mild

Hi Friends! 

Merry Christmas Eve!  I wanted to share with you another quick Mixed Media Christmas card that I designed using the December 2016 Artistic Outpost (AO) release stamp sets, Christmastime and Gloria (both available at Our Daily Bread Designs).

I love participating with online challenges and am linking this card to the My Time To Craft! #336 “Christmas But None Traditional Colours” Challenge as well as the Christmas Card Challenges 2017 #2 Challenge (I was inspired by the blue). 

If you have not had a chance to visit The Artistic Outpost Blog or the other challenge sites yet, I encourage you to do so- gorgeous inspiration from my Design Team sisters on the AO Blog as well as the online challenge galleries!

To create this card:

1). Ink the AO Christmastime stamp with an archival navy ink and stamp onto a piece of vanilla cardstock, heat set with a heat tool.

2). Die cut and emboss a piece of navy cardstock using the ODBD Pierced Rectangles Dies, trim the stamped panel and mount onto a die cut .

3). Die cut and emboss a piece of vanilla cardstock using the ODBD Pierced Rectangles Dies, mount onto the navy card base.

4). Mount the layered stamped panel onto the card front and use a water brush to lightly apply frost white shimmer paint over the background scroll and ornament areas.

4). Ink the sentiment from the AO Gloria stamp set and stamp onto a scrap piece of vanilla cardstock.

5). Trim the sentiment and tear the edge, mount onto a piece of navy cardstock (tearing the edge to match as well).

6). Mount the sentiment to the card front with dimensional foam and add a few pearls to finish off the card.

Quick and easy- perfect for the last minute hand delivered card or for mailing! 

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by- hugs to all of you and I hope you have a very blessed Christmas!

Christmastime Background

Gloria

Pierced Rectangles Dies

Script Alpha- Joy

Hi Friends! 

Woohoo!  It's all about Alpha's at Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps! SNSS is starting off the month  of  December with a special offer on their Alphabet  Stamp Sets- Buy 2 and Get One Free (Dec 2 - Dec 15)!!  Alphabet stamps are perfect for Scrapbooking, Card Making, Home Décor as well as Bible Art Journaling!

Believe it or not, I am still creating Christmas cards, so I decided to use the brand new SNSS Creative Worship Alpha Script Clear Stamp (designed by Rebecca Rios) to create the "JOY" sentiment and paired it with the previously released SNSS Music To My Ears and SNSS Celebrate the Savior Clear Stamp Sets.

I love the font that Rebecca used for the Alpha Script design and since they are clear stamps, it is so easy to line them up to stamp! 

I also incorporated the Mojo Monday #476 Sketch Challenge for the layout and am also linking to The Christmas Card Challenges #50 “Anything Goes” Challenge.

I hope that in addition to checking out the challenge sites, you will take a moment to stop by the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps blog or FB page- fabulous inspiration from my "sisters" on the SNSS Creative Team!

To create this card:

1), Create the smaller background panel using designer paper mounted onto espresso cardstock (I used some of my retired Christmas paper stash :-)).

2). Ink the SNSS Celebrate the Savior angel, poinsettias and holly images with black soot distress ink, stamp onto white cardstock and water color with ink from markers as well as direct coloring with the markers . 

Apply shimmer with a clear glitter pen to the angel’s wings, gown and white highlights with a white extra fine paint pen to the poinsettia centers.  Fussy cut the poinsettia, holly and die cut the angel with a stitched square die.

Lightly apply vintage photo distress ink over the entire angel panel, ink the SNSS Music To My Ears background image with black soot distress ink and randomly stamp parts of the background around the angel and apply vintage photo distress ink over the entire panel.

3). Ink the SNSS Alpha Script letters with cherry distress ink and stamp onto white cardstock, die cut with a stitched circle die and mat onto a split piece of espresso cardstock (also die cut with a circle die). Stamp the SNSS Music To My Ears image around the “JOY” and lightly apply vintage photo distress ink over the image.

4). Trim a piece of designer paper to 5 ¼” x 5 ¼” (again, I used retired paper from my stash), mount onto the 5 ½” square espresso card base, add the strip of cherry cardstock and adhere the stamped SNSS Music To My Ears  panel (per the sketch).

5). Add the stamped angel panel with dimensional foam and sentiment.

6). Add the cherry bow along with the poinsettias and pearls to finish off the card.

Thanks again for stopping by to visit-hugs and I hope you have a great weekend, my sweet friends!

SNSS Script Alpha

Music To My Ears- Sweet ′n Sassy Stamps

SNSS Celebrate the Savior

May Your Days Be Merry & Bright

Hi Friends! 

I am still working on Christmas cards and decided create quick, fairly easy Christmas card using the Our Daily Bread Designs November 2016 Release stamp set, Merry& Bright Clear Stamp Set along with the ODBD Snowflake Sky Dies and ODBD Snow Crystals Dies and previously released ODBD Filigree Frames Dies.

I am linking this card to the Simon Says Monday “Trio Tastic” Challenge as well as the Weekly Christmas Card #49 Challenge (optional color challenge that I did not participate in this time) and the Paper Players Clean and Simple PP322 Christmas Challenge. 

To create this card:

Die cut the ODBD Snowflake Sky Die from white and light pink cardstock, layer the white background over the pink card base and add the die cut pink snowflake panel onto the die cut white panel using dimensional foam.

Die cut three of the snowflakes using the ODBD Snow Crystals Dies from white cardstock  and layer onto the card front.

Ink the sentiment from ODBD Merry & Bright Clear Stamp Set with archival black ink, stamp onto a piece of white cardstock, heat set, die cut and emboss with the ODBD Filigree Frames Dies.

Add a bit of silver metallic thread to the corners of the sentiment before mounting onto the card front with dimensional foam.

Finish off the card by adding rhinestones to the centers of the snowflakes and applying shimmer to the white snowflakes with a clear glitter pen.

Quick and easy!  I had fun designing this card and hope I have inspired you to create something this week- Christmas is just around the corner!!

Thanks again for taking the time to visit- hugs and I hope you have a blessed Thanksgiving week! 

Merry & Bright

Snowflake Sky Die

Snow Crystals Dies

Filigree Frames Dies

ODBDSLC280 Jesus is The Reason for the Season

Hi Friends! 

Welcome to the November 2016 Our Daily Bread Designs “Shining the Light” ODBDSLC280 Sketch  Challenge!

You have until November 27, 2016 to join us for a chance to be spotlighted for the Shining the Light award or to win a $15 ODBD gift certificate (one random participant will be chosen).  

To be spotlighted for the Shining the Light Award, you must use ODBD stamps (or stamps from our sister companies: North Coast Creations or Artistic Outpost). 

I designed this card with a few items from the ODBD November 2016 New Release- Jesus Loves You Stamp/Die Duos set, Holy Night Die, background paper from the Christmas Card Collection 2016 Paper Pad (from the October release) as well as a fewother previously released ODBD dies.

If you have not visited the rest of my ODBD Design Team Sisters’ blogs and checked out their fabulous projects yet, I hope you will find time to do so:

Chris   ∙ Diana   ∙ Robin

To create this card:

Emboss a piece of white cardstock with the ODBD Flourished Star Pattern Die, trim the edges slightly and mount onto the piece of designer paper from the ODBD Christmas Card Collection 2016 6x6 Paper Pad.

Trim the designer paper and mount onto the dark navy cardstock, trim again and mount onto the white card base.

Die cut the ODBD Holy Night Die from dark navy cardstock and trim off the wise men (to create the “circle” for the sketch element).

Die cut three pieces from white cardstock using the die in the ODBD Jesus Loves You Stamp/Die Duos set, layer the three together and set aside.

Heat emboss the sentiment “Is the Reason for the Season” from the ODBD Jesus Loves You Stamp/Dies Duo Set with silver embossing powder onto a piece of dark navy cardstock and create the flag banner by hand.

Die cut the small star die from the ODBD Holy Night Die from silver foil and adhere over the navy star in the nativity scene.

Add the looped silver cord (for the lower circular element in the sketch) to the card front, mount the ODBD Holy Night Die cut with dimensional foam and add the banner lining up with the bottom of the ODBD Holy Night die cut.

Mount the ODBD Jesus Loves You die cut to finish off the card.

 I am also linking this card to the Sparkle Creations Christmas Card Challenge SCCC47 Challenge :-) (I did not do the optional challenge this week) and the Addicted to Stamps and More #218 Holiday Challenge. 

Thanks again for taking the time to stop by!  We hope you will be able to join us for the ODBD Shining the Light ODBDSL280  Sketch  Challenge!  

Flourished Star Pattern Dies

Jesus Loves You

Christmas Card Collection 2016

Holy Night Die