Happy Anniversary Our Daily Bread Designs

Our Daily Bread Designs has been celebrating their 4th anniversary during the month of March.  If you are unfamiliar with them you really should check them out here.  ODBD has the most beautiful scripture and sentiment stamps around.  Whatever you do, be sure and check out some of the design team's work, talk about gorgeous! 

This card is for a young lady who will be graduating soon.  I'm entering it in the "Favorite ODBD Stamp Set" challenge.  Unfortunately, I don't have my favorite set YET, but I love this verse and I use it every year for graduates.

scripture stamp is from ODBD Design Team Scripture Collection 2

I've got several Easter cards almost finished that I hope to get posted in a day or two, but just in case I don't here's wishing everyone a very happy and blessed Easter weekend and a wonderful Resurrection Sunday.

Not Your Typical Easter Card

How often do you find yourself wishing you had "one of those neat crafting tools" or "that crafty supply"?  Do you find yourself working on a project and saying, "I wish I had "so and so" so I could blah, blah, blah."  Well I do, all too often, and this card is a prime example.  

Two or three weeks ago I saw on another blog (sorry I didn't make note of the name, but it was something to do with a cat or kitty.... wow, like that does a lot of good!)  Anyway, the blogger made a cross and she made it like you would make a pleated rosette.  Her cross was rather large and I thought, I bet I could do that small enough to go on a card, and so I did.  

I won't go into all the things I would have liked to have done, or would have done differently on this card, but hey, you do what you can with what you've got, right?  And besides, this message is so beautiful and so powerful it really doesn't matter what the card looks like.  

Various Spellbinders dies, Gold Perfect Pearls, and the sentiment is by Studio G.

Happy & Blessed Holy Week everyone.

I am entering this in the 
-"Anything Goes" Challenge at Simon Says Stamp
-"Inspired by Easter" Challenge at Creative Inspirations
- Challenge # 57 "Easter" at The Paper Shelter

A nice little surprise

A few weeks ago I got an email saying I had won a surprise giveaway from Katlyn at K'nK Designs.  I'm so sad that she is closing up shop at the end of this month, but before she closes, she wanted to do a giveaway to one of her followers. She didn't publicize it, she just secretly did it, and I was the lucky recipient.  

She sent a wonderful stack of papers, some cute little crocheted flowers that she made, and best of all, a stack of some of her K'nK images.   Juniper the bunny is my favorite of her characters so she made sure to include lots of him.   Now, I've had a couple of super blog buddies that have sent me some wonderful "care packages" full of goodies, but I have never heard of anyone doing a secret giveaway like this.   How fun!  I was really taken by surprise.  

If you're an animal lover and not familiar with Katlyn's work there's still a few days left to go to her store & purchase some of her adorable images, (plus she's having a great sale.)   So if you've never visited, here's the store link.  K'nK Designs and please tell her Tami B sent you.

I don't have a card ready with any of the images she sent yet, but this is made with some of the papers from the stack.

I don't think she will see this but if by chance she does.  THANKS Katlyn >hugs to you, Kolar & Juniper.

HOnEy pOp PaPer...fun, fun, fun

I've been dying to try this stuff out ever since I saw it over a year ago I just never could get my hands on any, but I finally did.  (I just wish I had bought more when I had the chance.)  

A cheery little hello

Just playing around with some OLD, and I do mean OLD scrapbooking stuff.  I have been really drawn to projects I've been seeing lately that use rainbow colors &/or gradients, so that's what really got me started on this card, and while I never had any use for these zigzag die cuts before,(they've been stuck on a shelf for several years) well, now that "Chevrons" are so popular, ta-da.

Cuttlebug embossing folder (tiny hearts), Zigzag die cuts are from Creative Memories from about 100 years ago.

Wishing you

Sunshine & Smiles

Love & Laughter

Tweet Easter

I don't know about where you are but we almost got to 90 degrees one afternoon this past week and it's only Mid-March!  This summer is going to be insufferable I'm afraid.  Anyway, here's a little card to at least pretend we're having a Spring and not jumping straight to Summer.  This is for the What If Wednesday Sketch Challenge over at The House that Stamps Built.

Stamps are by Studio G

Have a wonderful week!

The House that Stamps Built Challenge

Last month I told y'all about going to the Stamp Scrap Art Tour in Columbia and what a good time I had, and about all the fun new companies and "things" I discovered.  One of these companies was Repeat Impressions.  I bought 2 sets of their Waterfall (or what they call "Flip") stamps.  I also discovered their blog The House that Stamps Built, from which they host challenges every week.  The challenges run for 2 weeks each and vary in theme.  Well, I tend to get excited when I discover new things and so I made a card, now get this... 3 weeks ago, to enter for last week's challenge, only to forget to post it & when I did remember it, I was 5 hours too late.  Not this week!  The theme for this challenge is "Spring using Pastel Colors."

The image I used on this card is a digi stamp I colored last year when I just started using Copics.  I think I had maybe 10 or 12 markers at the time.  I never used the image because I made a rookie mistake... I printed it a little too big.  (I printed a lot of digis too big when I first started using them.  Anybody else do that???)  You can see it fills up this A2 size card with little room for anything else. 

Digi Stamp by Sliekje, colored with Copics, and die cuts made using Spellbinders.

Below is the card I made for the challenge that ended last week.  It was a very nice CAS sketch challenge, just what I like and yes, there is that darn leprechaun stamp again.  It's the only St Paddy's day image stamp I've got, so "sorry."

Image Stamp is by Inkadinkadoo, sentiment stamp is by Studio G, and the embossing folder, which you can barely see, is by Lifestyle Crafts (formerly Quickutz)

Here's just a little sneak peak of some of the Flip stamps by Repeat Impressions.  More about these to come later.

Until then, wishing you....

Sunshine and Smiles,

Love and Laughter

Charlie Brown & the Gang Blog Hop

Who doesn't love Snoopy?

I"m so glad you've stopped by today.  If you're starting out the hop with me, make sure to go all the way around because you don't want to miss any of the wonderful projects the ladies have put together, and there may be candy involved too.  If you want to start at the beginning and hop like that, see the line up below.

Charles (as the character Marci would call him) is such a simple, no frills kinda guy, so that's how I kept my cards, clean and simple.  

This first card was copied from Chari Moss (Little Miss Littleness.)  Does anyone remember the t-shirts that looked like this and were popular years ago?

inside sentiment:  Sorry I missed your birthday

This next version was the one I actually made first, but decided I wanted to make the zig zag bolder.

inside sentiment reads: "You're how old?!"

 I love Snoopy so I had to include him....(had to use a back-up camera, so please excuse the poor photography.)

inside sentiment reads: "to say HI"

 And finally....does anyone else see a big omission in this stamp besides me?

inside sentiment reads: "time to do the Happy Dance"

  

I really love Peanuts, in fact one of my Christmas trees I put up every year is nothing but Peanuts.

Thanks for stopping by today.  You're next stop is Kimberly

Kari - http://purplefuntastickcreations.blogspot.com/

1. Susan - http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/
2. Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com/
3. Christel - http://onescrappinsista.blogspot.com
4. Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
5. Shannon -  http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com/
6. Tami-http://tamiscraftconnection.blogspot.com ME
7. Kimberly ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com NEXT
8. Colleen - http://www.cbcscrapbooking.blogspot.com
9. Vicki - http://scrapbookingcreationsbyvicki.blogspot.com/
10. Lynne - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
11. Edwina- http://edwinascreations.blogspot.com/

Make it a good day for someone 

and it'll come back to you

A fun new find & a challenge

I told y'all a few days ago about going this past weekend to the Stamp Scrap Art Tour in Columbia, SC and one of my new finds is a company called Repeat Impressions.  I went bonkers for their "Flip" card stamp sets.  These are stamps sets made for Waterfall cards which are not just cute and easy to make, but people in general love to receive them because they're fun.  Here are the 2 sets I got & I plan to get at least one more. 

Last night I was checking out their website and Facebook page and found their blog also The House that Stamps Built.   They have a couple of challenges going on and I wanted to join in so the card below is for their What if Wednesday Sketch Challenge- F812.  The only problem was that it has to be posted by 5:00 today.  That gave me 2 hours to get home from work, get the card made and post this (which will probably be the longest/hardest part of the process with my old dinosaur of a computer.) 

I spent the day yesterday cutting and mounting the 2 sets I bought so as soon as I can get some cards whipped up with them I'll put 'em up.   OOoo!, 4:40, only 20 mins. left, so bye for now. 

Helping Heal the Hurt

In my last post I told you about a special project I was involved in that had to do with a tragedy that has fallen on our quite little town.  Actually, it is a tragedy that unbelievably struck us not once, but twice in a 6 week period.  Two of our city police officers have been shot and killed in the line of duty.  Both of these officers grew up here in Aiken and both of them, as well as their families were and are very much loved and highly thought of in this community.

The loss of one was almost incomprehensible but then to have it happen again just 6 weeks later was a shock that still has us reeling and that no one can quite believe.  
The outpouring of love and support from the community, while it can do little to ease the pain that these families and fellow law enforcement colleagues are feeling, will hopefully give them at least a feeling of encouragement and a small acknowledgement of how much we appreciate their sacrifices.

There have been numerous fundraisers and benefits held in the past few weeks with more planned in the coming weeks, but the one activity I was able to be a part of was thru my church and we called it "Buckets of Hope".  Last week, all 155 employees of the Aiken Department of Public Safety received a 5 gallon bucket STUFFED to the rim with all kinds of things donated by the people and businesses of the surrounding area.   We also have collected cards for each of the 155,  and these will be delivered this coming week as a kind of follow-up, just to let them know we are still thinking of them, praying for them, and appreciate what they do.  From what I understand, the overall favorite item in the buckets (& there was some good stuff in there let me tell you) but the one thing we kept hearing comments on were the notes and letters written by children that were included, so while our cards may not measure up to the kids' cards & letters, hopefully they will convey the message all the same. 

 

If you have someone in your family that is in law enforcement or any branch of our armed forces, please give them a hug for me if you can and tell them I said THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart, and a hug and thank you to you too.