My three challenge card

I have been having such fun with my Oxide Distress inks. This time I used them on a piece of design paper that looked like ledger paper. I did some subtle stamping of a smaller image with butterflies from Unity with these same ODIs, then added the scripture (from Sweet and Sassy stamps) and the diecut butterfly and image from ODBD. I added the diecut leaves and punched flowers as my final embellishment. I went over the butterfly wings with a sparkle pen, although it doesn't show up so well in the photo. I am using this in the following challenges this week:
The Mustard Seed Faith challenge - to use birds, butterflies, or Natural scene
Simon Says challenge - to used patterned papers either printed or handstamped
Mod Squad Challenge - use many colors.

I created this background paper on a piece of design paper, and liked the way it turned out. After the stamping and colors were done, I glued it to a light blue card base.

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I finally found a little time to stamp this morning and decided to try the ODBDSLC challenge of dots and dashes. I used some fabulous dotted design paper for the background, a Martha Stewart paper punch with dots on it and some ribbon with dashes stitched on the edges.  I have a limited collection of ODBD stamps, but I love them. Here are two of my favorites that I'm not even are sure are available any more, but they will always be  a part of my stamp collection.

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Our MAY hostess is  Maryann.

 Recently she had holidays at the beach and saw some beautiful lighthouses along the coast, so she is asking us to let there be light and add a lighthouse to our cards.

We'd love to have you play along. All you have to do is create something using the above challenge, and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword CCEE1618. Don't forget to link it to the link on the blogsite: CCEEStampers

I used this pretty stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs for my card. I added some diecut gulls in addition to the ones that are on the stamp. 

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This is for the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining Light Challenge. We were to use things that begin with the letter O, D, B, and D.  O is for one layer, d is for daisies, b is for butterflies, and d is for a "dear" sentiment.  You don't see all that many one layer cards done by design teams for companies, so I decided that would be rather challenging especially for a recipe card.

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Lynn is again our hostess and her challenge to us was to use the watercolor bokeh method.  I used this sentiment from Our Daily Bread to be the focal point of this card and added a few sequins and pearls and added this diecut border.

Hope you join us on this fun technique this week and link it over on the CCEEStampers blog.

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The Texas heat has finally hit after a rather mild June. Lynn, our hostess this month, has given us a chance  to get a break from the heat by creating an underwater scene. I used an underwater image from Klonz and the sentiment from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I had a great time mixing some of my favorite blues onto this panel.

Come join in the fun by linking your card to the CCEEStampers blog, and while you are there check out the other underwater scene shared by the team. 

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I haven't gotten to take part in the ODBDSLC challenges for quite some time. But today, I am homebound because of a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico. We' have had a little rain, but the news is on non[stop and hopefully it is not as damaging as they were predicting. No body really has to give me a reason to stay home, as I will gladly spend time in my craft room without too much of a reason. I love this lighthouse from ODBD and I added the die cut gulls and the letters dad. I hope all dads out there have a great Father's Day! I will be spending a little time with mine.

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This is for the color challenge going on over at Our Daily Bread Designs Shining Light Challenge this week. It was fun to have the time to play along today.

 I used ODBD's Guardian Angel Prayer and ODBD's Sweet Williams set.

 

I used a Darice embossing folder, and a Spellbinder frame die cut.  

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There is an anything goes challenge going on over at Our Daily Bread Design this week, so here is my entry. I rubbed ink on an embossing folder, spritzed it with water and then pressed the paper inside. Next I stamped the cross and the sentiment. I added the punched flowers for the cross.

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This card is for the sketch challenge today over on Splitcoaststampers. I don't really care for this shade of yellow (crushed curry), but I toned it down some using peanut brittle ink from Memento and stamping the matching background stamp that coordinated with this set from Our Daily Bread Designs. I stamped the verse in bamboo leaves and found this butterfly design paper in my stash of pads. Just so the circle was not so glaring white, I stamped just a subtle portion of that background stamp on it as well. I used my new MISTI on the butterfly and it made it a breeze to line up these two layers. Hope you are enjoying a glorious spring. We have had a lovely week here on the Gulf coast of Texas.

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Thanks, Anne, for this fun challenge this week. I love doing this technique with an embossing folder. I don't even remember what it is called, but it looks great in green with this pretty embossing folder. I used the sentiments from an Our Daily Bread Design set I have. The shamrock is a great symbol for the Trinity. I am so lucky to have my faith in Christ, the love of God, and the hope of the Holy Spirit in my life. Have a blessed St. Patrick's Day everyone!!

If you want to join in on the fun this week add CCEE1511 as your keyword for SCS and make sure you link your card over on the blog site: www.cceestampers.blogspot.com

CCEE1503 - stamp etching

Vicky has some great challenges happening this month. This stamp sketching gave me the chance to look at my stamps in a different way and decide which ones I could add some sketched lines to.  This flower stamp is from Verve. I multistamped this flower on the white panel and then decided to add the sketch lines in different places on the flowers or in different patterns or directions. The leaves are some of my zentangling that I enjoy doing as well. The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs. I used a little embossing edge to run up the side of the card's base. The coloring is done with Copic markers. I guess most of us on the CCEE design team love floral stamps or maybe they were the best ones to try for this technique, but go check out all the lovely examples done over on the CCEE blogsite.  Have fun and try a little sketching yourself, just don't forget to link it or on the CCEE blog site here.

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Now that Christmas is over, it is time to check out some of the challenges I have been unable to fit in my schedule. One of which is Our Daily Bread Design Shining Light Challenge. My stamping budget has had to take a cut and so I am limited on my ODBD stamps that I thought would work for this sketch which is what the challenge was to follow. I know it is one of their older stamps, but I still love it and the small word sentiments that go with these Sweet Williams. I love Graphics 45 paper because it is reversable and found this one to work perfectly for this challenge.  The bow is one of my favorite diecuts. This is some of my night time lighting so this looks navy instead of black but wanted to get this posted.

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Vickcy is our hostess this month for our CCEE challaneges, and she wanted us to make sympathy cards for our stashes. These are easier to make before you actually need them, and this month has been a very difficult month for me having lost two wonderful Christian men in my life. I have also had two precious women in my life who have lost their mothers within the same week. 

I used this beautiful diecut and sentiment from Our Daily Bread designs. I embossed the background with an Anna Griffin folder. 

It will be wonderful seeing what the team creates as that will be a great help to me when I have to be making many more of these this week. 

Be sure to check the CCEE Stampers blogsite.

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I have had an angel collection for years, and when my dear sister, Lynn gave me this set from ODBD for my birthday in August along with this awesome wings die, I could not have loved anything more.

 I have a dear friend who is terminally ill and hospice has been called in. I am praying God's angels are surrounding him and making this transition a peaceful one.

 Making this card was so theraputic for me, and to make it match the letters in blessings was just what I call a God thing.
My B is blue, L is lacy diecuts, E is embossed edge (on the left), S is stenciling on the background, S is for sponge that I used to apply the ink,I is for ink, N is for Nestabilities, G is for gold, and S is for scripture.

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Since I used an Our Daily Bread Design stamp on this card as well as a ODBD die, I decided to use this "Hope You  Can Cling To" card that I plan to mail to MD Anderson for the  Breast Cancer Awareness month project going on at Splitcoaststampers to add over to the anything goes challenge over at ODBDSLC. I really liked the way my inked embossing folder looked after I ran it through the Cuttlebug.

 

Ombre card

 

I made this card for the JUGS 262 challenge this week and also for the ODBSLC215 challenge.

I used the ombre coloring by inking my embossing folder with various shades of oranges. I also inked my ODBD stamp that way as well. And as the final touch I colored my own oranges on this white seam binding to get the hombre look on it as well.  I love the oranges of fall and so that was my choice of color for this card.

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The challenge over on CAS on Sundays was to use sequins. I used some gold sparkly ones on my card. The stamps I used are from Our Daily Bread Designs. I used peanut brittle ink from Memento and ivory paper from Recollections (Michael's)  My sweet sister gave me these stamps for my birthday back in August and I finally got the chance to stamp with them.

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This is for the ODBDSLC208 challenge to make a birthday card. I used this Sweet Williams set to make the flower. I diecut with Spellbinders the fancy border, and I punched with a Martha Stewart punch for the ivory scallop piece. I had cut the leaves and hand wrote the sentiment so it would fit my space. I used a snowflake from Jolee for the center of the card.

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I love one layer cards, which is what the challenge is this week over at ODBDSLC. I have been enjoying doing the printing with my embossing folders by rubbing ink on one side of them, spritzing it with water, and then placing the paper in between and pressing down on it. I did one side of my card like that and then added the ODBD butterflies and colored them with copic markers. Then I added the ODBD sentiment. I love flate cards that are so easy to mail and don't require extra postage.