Color Throwdown

Seriously..are you ready for some fab new colors for this week's Color Throwdown challenge? Did you notice we are no longer listing the color names?  We will show the swatch and it will be up to you to match whatever brand ink you prefer to keep it close to the photo colors!  Vickie is our hostess and has chosen a fun quilt for our inspiration!  I went with some hexagons to create this clean design and figured it was an element that had a hint of a quilting theme - as did the stitched rectangle and butterfly!

I cut two of the 'seriously' dies and glued them together for increased sturdiness.  When a number of the CTD team members got together for a fun weekend last spring, we shopped at Hobby Lobby one morning and I am FINALLY using a product I found in the clearance section!  What in the world was I waiting for?!  It's a jar of textured embossing paste that contains stone to simulate the look of sand, granite or marble.  It has a nice rough texture to it and I love the look!  I used it with a Hero Arts tweed pattern stencil.

STAMPS: TextStyle Happy Hexagons by PTI; Freebie sentiment by Verve.
PAPER: Pacific Point, Marina Mist, Basic Gray, White.
INK: Bliss Blue, Marina Mist, Lucky Limeade, Versafine Onyx Black.
ACCESSORIES: Stitched butterfly and rectangle dies, Seriously die by Lil Inker Designs; Fishtail Flags Die-Namics by MFT; Ferro Special Effect Paste by Creative Imaginations; Tweed pattern stencil by Hero Arts.

Be sure and play along with us this week and you just might be in the spotlight next week by being our guest star stamper!  You don't have to have exact colors to play along, but you do need to have a close resemblance.  Be sure and link your creation to the linky tool at the bottom of the current challenge post on the Color Throwdown Challenge blog.
 
Want some more inspiration from the rest of the design team?  Check them out below...
Barbara Anders
Broni Holcombe 
Joan Ervin 
Jodi Collins 
Lori Tecler 
Monika Davis 
Vickie Zimmer 
Wanda Cullen 
Lisa Henke, September Guest Designer

Mojo Monday

Hi, everyone! It's time for another Mojo Monday challenge and Julee's sketch was perfect to show off some new Verve goodies from the last release!  These sweet little bluebells were stamped with the outline image in black and the filler stamp in Soft Sky.  I wanted some depth to the image, so I layered a bit of color using an aquapainter brush and Soft Sky ink picked up from the lid after smooshing the ink pad together prior to opening it.  Using the same brush, I picked up color from a Pear Pizzazz pad for the stems and leaves.  The matching Bluebells die makes it so easy to pop up the image on your card.  The sentiment was gold embossed after stamping the frame image then cutting with Verve's Cupcake Frame die. 

I recently accompanied my daughter to Richmond where she had an appointment with a well known LASIK surgeon.  We did some shopping and one of our stops was Hobby Lobby where I picked up this paper pad by Glitz.  There's nothing like new paper to spark your mojo - lol!

So...what else did I use?
STAMPS: Small Packages (frame) and Framed Florals (flowers and sentiment) - both by Verve.
PAPER: Vintage Cream (PTI), Sunshine in my Soul (Glitz).
INK: Versamark, Versafine Onyx Black, Soft Sky, Pear Pizzazz.
ACCESSORIES: Gold/ecru twine by SU, Avery Elle gold sequins, Cupcake Frame die and Bluebells die by Verve.

For more inspiration, you'll want to visit the other mojomakers' blogs below...OR...you can go to the Mojo Monday blog and check out the first 7 thumbnails.

Debbie Carriere

Julee Tilman (Owner)

Marisa Ritzen 

Mary Fish

Sarah Biglow

Teresa Kline

Tag, You're It!

I created this card for Reverse Confetti's Sketch For You To Try challenge and I was also inspired by Donna's beautiful pair of tags for the current Tag, You're It challenge.

I decided to try my hand at a "messy circle" of black thread for the circle element.  I layered a bunch of Reverse Confetti posies and leaves then tucked in a sentiment flag.  I used two different thicknesses of foam dots to give different degrees of dimension.

STAMPS: Petals 'n Posies (RC)
PAPER: DP by American Craft,
White (PTI)
INK: Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, Versafine Onyx Black.
ACCESSORIES: Tag, flowers and leaves dies by Reverse Confetti, Satin ribbon, Black thread, Avery Elle sequins.

Color Throwdown

Are you ready for a new and fabulous color combination? Joan has some happy shades for us and since I had so much fun with the bokeh technique on Monday, I went with it again...this time for a birthday!

Rather than spell out all the steps in this post, I'll refer you to Dawn at WPlus9 who has a great tutorial HERE.  

Here's what I used:
STAMPS: PTI "Garden Grace".
PAPER: Tim Holtz watercolor CS,  Raspberry Fizz and Orange Zest (PTI). Scrap of yellow (?), White (PTI).
INK: Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade - distress inks by Tim Holtz; Versafine Onyx Black.
ACCESSORIES: Bitty Banners Framelits (SU), Avery Elle sequins, Happy die by PTI, Corner chomper, Black thread, Balloon punch, Dotted swiss embossing folder, Homemade "ghetto" stencil for bokeh technique, Sponges.

We are really thrilled to have the talented Lisa Henke as our guest stamper for the month of September!  Woohoo and welcome, Lisa!

Our star stamper this week is another talented stamper that I happen to follow...Kim Singdahlsen!  Always love her work!  Be sure and play along with us this week and you just might be in the spotlight next week by being our guest star stamper!  You don't have to have exact colors to play along, but you do need to have a close resemblance.  Be sure and link your creation to the linky tool at the bottom of the current challenge post on the Color Throwdown Challenge blog.
 
Want some more inspiration from the rest of the design team?  Check them out below...
                                                                          Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe 
Cindy Lawrence
Joan Ervin 

Jodi Collins

  Lori Tecler
 Monika Davis
Tammy Hershberger
Vickie Zimmer
Wanda Cullen (you are here) 

Lisa Henke (September Guest Designer)

Going Boldly Into September

After getting groceries, doing some laundry, cleaning up my sun room, etc., I decided that was enough labor for this day - lol - and headed to my stamp room! Simon Says Stamp is having a whole month of challenges for their Stamptember party and the first SSS Monday Challenge is to go bold with your stamping. That leaves it wide open for interpretation, until I spied Stacy's new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge with the rich, gradient colors in the fall leaves and that was it!  I had a light bulb moment and knew that I wanted to try my hand at the bokeh (rhymes with bouquet) technique.  Plus, I was inspired by Monika Davis' gorgeous card using this technique!

I headed over to Dawn's tutorial HERE to refresh my memory.  I started with a panel of Tim Holtz watercolor cardstock (rough side up) and applied a water wash over the whole thing.  I then added Peacock Feathers and Peeled Paint distress inks.  While it was drying, I took a half dozen circle Nestabilities dies and placed them over a piece of acetate to create my ghetto stencil.  :-)  I then sponged on the two distress inks along with some white pigment ink - overlapping the circles as much as possible. 

You're probably wondering what this has to do with fall leaves, but I interpreted the overlapping and the gradient coloring rather than the literal subject and colors.  I'm clarifying so the challenge police won't cart me away! :-)

The feathers were die cut from vellum then white embossed using Waltzingmouse Stamps' Fine Feathers set.  The sentiment is a Wet Paint die by PTI. 

ODBD September Release

Sew...I hope everyone is ready for this month's new release at Our Daily Bread Designs! We're keeping you in stitches with lots of sewing and quilting themed projects. As a pun lover, I could get carried away with this theme, but I'll try to contain myself for now!  Don't want to keep you on pins and needles, so will tell you all about the chance to win some gift certificates for new goodies! :-)

Three winners will be randomly chosen from the comments left on the designers' blogs to receive a $15 Gift Certificate to the ODBD store, to be used toward the purchase of ODBD stamps found in the "stamps column" of the website. You have until September 2, 2014 at 9:00 p.m. EDT to leave your comments! The winners will be posted on the ODBD blog on September 3rd, so be sure to check back there to see if you won!

For my first project, I punched out 16 one inch squares then paper pieced them over grid paper to form this quilted star pattern for my card background.  I had 8 of the coral color and 4 each of two different designer papers from the new Soulful Stitches Collection.  Aren't those peach and sage green colors so heavenly?!  I then ran it through my Big Shot and embossed it to give it the illusion of fabric.  Then came the fun part!  Creating a little sewing collage with embellishments that I've been hoarding for that perfect time.  When Kelley shared what was in the new release, I was so thrilled I could finally use some of them!  The sentiment is from the Quilts stamp set in the new release.

For my second project, I again went with a quilted background look - this time with a star burst
pattern - to highlight this great sentiment. Love the fonts!  I cut a rectangle (4" x 1 1/2") from 4 different patterned papers, than cut each one diagonally to form the elongated triangles.  I adhered them to grid paper starting with the two center triangles.  Looks difficult, but is very easy to do! 

There are more release goodies that you don't want to miss, so be sure and check out all of the other designers' blogs!  You can visit via the ODBD blog or you can click on their blog links below:

 Chris * Grace * Julie * Cathy * Lori * Sandee * Dawn * Paula * Lisa 

* Silke * Wanda * Angie * Sabrina * Audrey

Mojo Monday

Good Labor Day Monday to all my friends in the US! There's a new Mojo Monday Challenge on board and Julee has another amazing layout for us!  I was feeling a bit rebellious about my color choices and simply do NOT want to let go of bright florals in spite of loving the fall season!  I wasn't too thrilled with my results, but there was no time for a do-over, so this is what you get. :-)  The card base uses some paper-backed burlap, so it was nice not having the fraying problem.  The butterfly was stamped on vellum cardstock and layered over a second die cut butterfly in matching DP.

STAMPS: Happy Place (butterfly and sentiment), Borderline (cross-stitch border), Making A Statement (flowers/leaves) - all by Verve.
PAPER: Burlap fabric pad by Fabrique, American Craft paper pad (Hobby Lobby), White, Vellum.
INK: Versafine Onyx Black.
ACCESSORIES: Stitched circle die by Lil Inker Designs, Happy Doodles die, Ribbon Banner die, Loopy Blooms dies - all by Verve.  Gold adhesive pearls, Pink glitter tape, Corner Chomper.

For more inspiration, you'll want to visit the other mojomakers' blogs below...OR...you can go to the Mojo Monday blog and check out the first 7 thumbnails.

Debbie Carriere

Julee Tilman (Owner)

Marisa Ritzen 

Mary Fish

Sarah Biglow

Teresa Kline