Hosting SNT on ODBD!

I was so excited to have THE Betty Wright ask me to host ODBD Stamping in Time Challenge! I came up with a theme that includes a twist: "It's a Distress Call!" You use any distressing techniques such as tearing, sponging, sanding, crumpling, etc., but the twist is to actually mail your card to encourage someone who has some real life distress going on and could use a little encouragement. I love this lily of the valley image from the Easter Blessings set! It takes me back to my childhood when my mother had tons of these tiny, but so very fragrant, flowers in her flower bed. I colored it with Copics (YG00, YG03, YG06, V0000, C00), cut it out and attached it to the distressed panel. I crumpled the CS, added Blue Bayou ink to the wrinkles, distressed the edges and sponged them with the same ink. I look forward to seeing what you create using ODBD stamps!

If you would like some great inspiration from the talented ladies on ODBD's design team...check out these links:

Angie

Sabrina

Fran

Betty

What did I use?
STAMPS: Easter Blessings (ODBD)
PAPER: Marjolaine pad (BasicGrey), Neenah Solar White
INK: Blue Bayou, Memento Tuxedo Black
ACCESSORIES: Webster's Pages trim, Labels Sixteen Nesties, EK Success border punch, Distressing tool, Sponge

MFT Wednesday Sketch

This is a simple sketch for this week's Wednesday Stamp Club Challenge on the MFT forum on SCS. It was perfect for highlighting a sentiment, though I struggled with matching the outline stamp to the die cut! I think Freud had a name for people like me - lol! The flower is die cut from Terra Cotta felt by PTI using the rolled flower die from MFT. The doily lace border (MFT) was die cut from Early Espresso CS. Sponging was done using Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink. The button is also by Tim Holtz. DP is from the beautiful Curio collection by BasicGrey.

Be Mine

I'll admit I was stumped with the Color Throwdown colors (Black, Real Red, Orchid Opulence, Passion Pink) initially, but then I worked with several different papers & finally went with the dotted swiss from Kelly Panacci's Valentine pad (K&Co) and the purple and pink from Tim Coffey's Cottage Garden pad (K&Co). The leaves were a bargain at Mike's last week. The sentiment was created by layering 2 punched ovals on top of a fancy label die. The layout is for Roxie's Sketch Challenge on SCS. It's 18 degrees on the thermometer...think I'll head back to my warm bed!
STAMPS: Love Notes (Verve)
INK: Versafine Onyx Black
ACCESSORIES: MS heart border punch, CB, Fancy labels die, Rolled Rose die (MFT), Flocked leaves, Button, Baker's twine, Oval punches (SU)

Another Triple...

The sketch is by Jen Del Muro for this month's SFYTT and the colors (Not Quite Navy, Cajun Craze, Daffodil Delight with a dessert option to use wide grosgrain ribbon...a trademark of Karen's) are by Karen Barber, this week's hostess with the mostest for the SCS Color Challenge. This is also for Mothermark's Teapot Tuesday Challenge with this week's destination being Sean, a 23 y.o. who is battling cancer, and a friend of a fellow stamper on Splitcoast. He loves model airplanes and kites, so I went with the kite image from Verve's new To the Moon Set. The sun and sentiment (inside the card it says "Wishing You Sunny Days!") are from Verve's Let it Shine set. Crystal Effects was added to the kites. I'm stamped out for the day...good nite all!

Triple Play Card

This card is for 3 challenges:
JUGS - sketch
CR84FN - light pink, dark pink, chocolate
ODBDSLC - choose any challenge of the top 10 challenges this past year - I chose "Sparkle".
This was my first attempt at making a pleated flower and I had a time keeping the ends together. I didn't have it quite long enough, so the pleats are stretched more than they should be. I used glue dots, score tape and Zip Dry glue to anchor that sucker down - lol - and it still wants to pull apart! Grrr! The flower is made with 2 sizes of Martha Stewart's waterlily punches and the edges were sponged with Pretty in Pink ink. I love my new doily edge die that came in the mail today from MFT! Some bling and a Verve sentiment from Love's Flower (stamped in Chocolate Chip) complete the card.
PAPER: DP by MFT, Early Espresso, Pretty in Pink, Neenah Solar White

Hello Monday!

It's time for the Mojo Monday Challenge...always a good way to start out the week! I used Stacey's fabulous colors for the Curtain Call Color Challenge - Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette, Wild Wasabi, & White...perfect for flowers! I stamped 3 different sized flowers and layered them with foam dots. The pink panel was an embossed scrap in my massive scrap pile! The leaves in the sentiment circle were stamped off once in Wild Wasabi. It's a really dreary day in my part of the country...am thinking I should have made the circle element a sun! :-)
STAMPS: Dream Big (Verve), Happy Hello (Verve)
PAPER: The Thrift Shop DP (October Afternoon), Pink Pirouette, Wild Wasabi, Black, White, Wild Wasabi DP by SU
INK: Versafine Onyx Black, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi
ACCESSORIES: Circle punch, Black rhinestones, Button, Ribbon

Branching Out

Using the layout for the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge, I also made this for 2 different CAS challenges: SCS CAS Challenge is to use peach parfait, poppy parade, daffodil delight & white. Our Creative Corner Challenge is to use a tree image in CAS style. I stamped the Plain Jane tree image from Verve on 3 different pieces of DP from the Citronella pad by K&Co. It's hard to see, but the paper has lemon slices on one, orange slices on the other and I'm calling the red one my cherry tree - lol! I always like this sentiment for retirement or going away parties and this would work for a masculine card as well.
STAMPS: Verve (tree), Inkadinkadoo (sentiment)
INK: Versafine Onyx Black