For Pastor Danny

I am still in shock! When I was reading the comments on my last card and I received the following comment.



"Hello there!You've caught the attention of the fabulous owner of Our Daily Bread designs, Kelley, and we would like to feature your card as a Customer Card of the Day on June 10 if you will allow us :). Please e-mail me at dannylor_kim@yahoo.com if you will give us permission to post your card as well as your full name and any links to your card galleries so we could direct our readers to visit your sites! Looking forward to hearing from you...Lorelie KimODBD Blog/Product Review Coordinator"


Our God is a awesome God, isn't he. I had made that card for a friend that is starting a new ministry in our area. My husband and I wanted him to know that we support him in his endeavours to spread God's word.

The card I am sharing today is for our Pastor who is battling some issues of his own and we wanted him to know that we care.





Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread, Thoughts and Prayers

Ink: Basic Grey, Baja Breeze

Paper: Parsian Breeze, White card stock, Chocolate Chip, Close to Coaco

Acessories: Martha Stewart Punches, Nestabilities.

Just Felt Compelled to Make

Hello,

I am sure that I am not alone when it comes to making cards you are sometimes compelled to make a certain card(s) for certain individuals. Lately a couple of friends of my husband and myself have been on my mind. Not even sure why.

I was all ready to go to bed last night but instead I went to my stamp room and put this card together.

There is only one thing SU on it and that is the "Top Note" die and the inks. But somethings you just got to use what is staring you in the face. As a matter of fact apart from the floral embellishments everything was made from scraps. I always go to my scrap drawers first when designing a card.

Thanks for looking.

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Our Daily Bread

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Close to Coaco

Paper: Scraps, Chocolate Chip, White

Accessories: Paper Flowers, beads, Martha Stewart Branches

Signs of Summer

Hello Friends:

Ever had one of those days were you wondered where the time went. It seems like I just got up and it is time to go to bed. LOL

It is finally summer here and I just had to share a picture of my cat Belle sunbathing in the sun. She loves to lay where ever there is heat or sunshine.


I felt like making something different tonight and remembered the cute card holder and cards that was on SCS this week. So I decided to try it. This little box holds 3 x 3 cards and envelopes.

I have not made to many of these type of projects but this one was really fun and did not take to long. Especially if you don't count the coffee breaks and scoring mistakes( helps if you read the instructions properly).

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Pocket Silhouettes

Ink: Night of Navy

Paper: Brocade Blue, Night of Navy, White

Accessories: Sticky Tape, Lacy Border Punch, Wide Oval, Large Oval and Scalloped Oval punches, silver brads

Another Masculine Card

Hello again:

Well I really got my fingers inky, so inky I had to fix my card with some extra punched out branches. I was really trying to keep it all SU but I knew the Martha Stewart branch punch would work beautifully to fix my problem. You see, I put my card down on my work surface without thinking and got some black marks right beside the moon. I did not want to waste the card so I just applied the branches and carried them across the top. There is still a little black mark but I can live with that one.

This is my second masculine card, I do not have alot of stamps that work well for men but these two cards the one from yesterday and today work very well.

My card base is Night of Navy, the next layer was Kraft stamped with the Canvas background stamp in Chocolate Chip. Sponged the edges with Chocolate Chip as well.

The image is from Nature Silhouettes I stamped it three times covering up the first stamp completely with paper (called masking) only leaving a opening for the bottom portion of the stamp to stamp onto my white card stock. Then I stamped the deer making sure his feet were in the grassy area. I stamped a second deer, cut it out and added a 1 1/4 " circle to it. I find that sometimes when I am using a sponge to color the background it takes some of the black ink away with it so I thought I would try covering the deer and it did seem to help. I know that alot of the demo's would you heat embossing to avoid that but I did not want to use that.

I layered the image piece on Baja Breeze and then layered it on the Blue Bayou which I used the ticket corner punch on, it kind of gives it a three dimensional look I think. Thanks for stopping by.



Recipe:

Stamps: Nature Silhouettes, Canvas Background

Ink: Pacific Point, Black, Chocolate Chip

Paper: Night of Navy, Kraft, Baja Breeze, White

Accessories: Ticket Corner Punch

Masculine Birthday Card

Hi everyone:

I think spring has finally arrived. I have been busy getting my outdoor work done. I decided not to plant real flowers this year because the sun is so hot were I would like them so I just planted faux ones. They have fooled a few people so I guess they look ok.

I am happy to report that my daughter has finalized her house deal and they should be here in about 4 1/2 weeks. I will be counting each and everyday till they are here. Now if my son could find work here and move that would be so awesome as well.

I have not been stamping much I just kinda lost my mojo as they say. But I have some classes to get ready for so I thought I had better get my fingers inky as Sandi would say.

I have been playing around with the sponge daubers and wanted a different look for the train in the Happiness is a Journey stamp set. I think alot of folks use the spectrum pads and the brayer for this look but I don't have any so I thought I would see if I could do something similar with the daubers.

As it turns out I really like how the Almost Navy kinda looks like sky, the Really Rust looks like maybe mountains LOL and the Always Artichoke looks like grass. What do you think?

I used three circle punches, 1 1/4, 1 1/2, 1 3/4 sponged the edges and paper pierced around the last one. The paper piercing doesn't show up well in the photo but it looks great in real life.

Recipe:

Stamps: Happiness is a Journey, Sanded Background stamp, One your Birthday

Ink: Basic Brown, Almost Navy, Always Artichoke

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Always Artichoke, Kraft, Close to Coaco

Accessories: Punches, paper piercing

Farwell to Karen and Hello Family.

Hi Stampers:

Sorry I have been slow at getting some thing on my blog. I had my daughter and her family here looking to purchase a new home. Her husband is being posted back to Manitoba Yeah!!! I have missed both my kids as they both have been living in Alberta for the past 9 years. Now one is returning.

I never expected her to be able to find a home so close to ours. I was just happy to have her in the same province. Now that the grandchildren are 3 and 8 I will be able to spend some quality time with them.

I was a single parent most of my kids life and usually having 2 - 3 jobs so that I could provide for them, what I did not realize at the time was ,that I was giving up my time with them. I am very proud of both of them for turning out so well. I wanted to at least be there for my grandchildren but for the longest time I thought that was not going to happen either. But now it is becoming a reality.

They purchased a beautiful property minutes away. I know they will be very happy there.

Well on with my card. A good friend of my husband is moving to BC to be with her husband and he asked me to make her farewell card. Of all the stamps I own I did not have one that said anything about moving. I have never done a moving card to date.

A fellow demo Sandi MacIvor www.sandimaciver.com that I have gotten to know over the Internet was the inspiration for the card. As a matter of fact most of the front was a complete case of her card. The inside sentiment I got off of the Internet.

These waterflow roses are just so hard not to make. They turn out everytime and different each time. I added green rhinestones to my butterfly and used a different DSP for the layered part. I also made the card a little larger than most of my cards. This card is 6 1/2 x 5.

As I mentioned before the sentiment inside was computer generated. I stamped the corner image from the Doodle This stamp set. Colored it with the aqua painter and added the pink rhinestones to the centre of the flowers.

Recipe:

Stamps: 5th Avenue Floral, Doodle This, All Holidays, Great Friend

Ink: Versa mark, Regal Rose, Cameo Coral, Summer Sun reinkers, Kiwi Kiss

Paper: Summer Sun, Pink Pirouette, Kiwi Kiss

Accessories: Little Leaves die cut, white embossing powder

Thanks for visiting and your comments.

My Mom

Hi Stampers and Scrapbookers:



Yesterday was Mother's Day and I hope each and everyone of you had a wonderful day. I suspect, that a lot of you, also have lost your Mom's as well. I lost mine in 1999, ten years ago. I seems like yesterday. I miss her very much.


My Mom was not into cards and sentimental things as such. But today I was sitting in church and like I image, most church services all over the world, the message was on Mothers. I was starting at the Power Point image on the screen and had this special feeling come over me. The picture on the screen had this scroll/swirly think going on and I came home and decided that since I could not give my Mom a card that I would do a memory page for her.


My Mom was a beautiful lady both inside and out and while we did not always agree we always agreed to disagree. She was a very caring women. She was in the army at a young age 18 I believe. The picture I used, is of her just before she enlisted. Isn't she beautiful. Ok before the tears start let me tell you what I did. Thanks for listening so far.


This is a 8 x 8 scrapbook page. I have decided as a personal choice that my future scrapbooks are going to be this size. One of the reasons I have opted for this is that I prefer one or two pictures to a page only. The 8 x 8 piece is Blush Blossom. I inked the Baroque Motif with Chocolate Chip Craft ink and stamped it twice. Then I embossed it with clear embossing powder. Now you might ask how did I position these motifs. Well thank goodness for the stamp ma jig it made it so easy. Then I took the leave branch stamp from Great Friend found in the Occasions Mini and again using the stamp ma jig positioned them where I wanted them trying to make them look like an extension of the motif. I also embossed them with the clear embossing powder.

I stamped the Rose, and the two smaller flowers from the Fifth Avenue Floral set and the flowers from Embrace Life and used that same watercoloring technique to color them. Positioned them in the corner over the motifs.

I added my Mom's picture and layered it with a Chocolate Chip frame using my Nestabilities. Then I stamped the sentiment Three Little Words and I miss you underneath her picture. I put the dates of her life and cut that out with another Nestability. I made the little rose out of ribbon and tied it thru the openings on the tag. This was a labour of love but she deserves it. Love you Mom.

Watercolored Roses

Hi Stampers:

Today I was trying out a new technique that the demo's learned at a recent convention they attended. Not sure if it was a Regional or Leadership convention but at any rate it was one of them. The effects that you get from this technique are just beautiful.



Here are the directions:


Stamp the rose image (from Fifth Avenue Floral Set) on Shimmery White cardstock using White Craft Ink , heat emboss with Clear Embossing Powder.

Spritz entire embossed image with water in a spray bottle - spray until there are puddles of water, not just wet paper.

Use an Aquapainter to dip into drops of classic reinker and just "touch" the tip of the Aquapainter/ink to each section of the rose - ink flows inside each section (because of the embossing) but will also blend nicely when you touch more than one color to a section.

Use 2 or 3 coordinating reinker colors in any combo you wish (classic ink)
I used: Regal Rose, Cameo Coral. Kiwi Kiss and Summer Sun on the above samples
clean Aquapainter tip in between applying each color.

Let it dry, cut out image and mount to card or project. Just as a note, I cut my leaves from one of the nestabilities that I have.

Hi Stampers:

I have decided to start doing the Mojo Monday challenges. While this sketch is actually last weeks even though it just arrived today ; I did make my card from it. Why don't you give it a try. Remember it does not have to be exactly like the sketch but it should be similar. You can change the card orientation etc. It is your card so have fun.
























This is my card made from the sketch.

The recipe for this card is:

Stamp Sets: Flowers in Silhouettes and hostess set A Little Something

Paper: Urban Garden, White, Kiwi Kiss and Night of Navy Card Stock

Ink: Black, Markers in Chocolate Chip, Brilliant Blue and Old Olive

Accessories: Kiwi Kiss Ribbon.

Thanks for looking see you tomorrow.

Another Bloomin Beautiful

Hi Stampers:

I actually made this card some time ago but I have never shown it on my blog.





This card uses the masking technique where you stamp the focal image ( the flower in the centre in this case) cover it with the same image and stamp the next images over the masked piece. Having typed that I realize that it may not make any sense to those who are not familiar with this technique. Let me try again. You stamp the first image on you piece of white card stock, on a scrap piece of paper you would stamp the same image again, cut it out and using a repositionalble adhesive place this second image over the first image that you stamped on the white card stock and then stamp the next two flowers one on each side of the main image over top of the stamped scrap piece. This gives the center image a bit of a 3-D effect.

The other thing I did was on the vertical piece on the left hand side, I heavily sponged the edges with Chocolate Chip then I took the sanded background stamp inked it up with Whisper White Craft Ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. It does not show up really well in the photo but looks quite neat in real life.

I also stamped the background of the card with the Pretty Petals background stamp in Versa Mark.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to check out the Late Night Stampers Blogging Stars web sites.

Blogging Stars

Latenight Stamper's Bloggin' Stars!

The latenightstampers group is just loaded with talented stampers who are so inspiring and creative. Some of us have joined together to form a few Bloggin' Stars groups. The groups will have 10 or 11 blogs in each and there are four different groups to begin with. So much talent you will be in awe. Each group will take the time to encourage each other in their bloggin efforts --we all know that bloggin can at times be HARD--so much pressure to do it "right" and sometimes so little feedback. Hence our bloggin friends. We are going to make bloggin just a bit more fun. And the good news for you is that you will be able to check out some blogs you may not have seen before! You will not be sorry you took the time to visit these talented stampers on their blogs, they are sharing so many fabulous samples each and every day. So be sure to stop by their blogs and give them a little love--they may just return the favor on your blog! Share The Love! Each member of each group will have a list of blogs from their group on their sidebars. If you would like to see the full list join the latenightstamper's group and you can find it there. Or of course you can just ask me and I will send it but I know you will love the group if you join so that would be the way I would go, lol. Here are the other bloggers in my group--we are group number 2--they are also on my sidebar.



Nicole Anderson http://andersonartsonline.blogspot.com/
Karen Sullivan http://www.seasidecrafts.com/
Kate Cecil http://www.stampwithkate.blogspot.com/
Kelly Mayou http://weekendstamper.blogspot.com/
Debbie Little http://stampindebbie.blogspot.com/
Lorita Edwards http://www.loritasworld.blogspot.com/
Marilyn SanClemente http://www.stampwithmarilyn.com/
Jenna Cotton http://www.jennasinklink.blogspot.com/
Marisol Gutierrez http://atouchofsol.blogspot.com/
http://www.moresustampsplease.blogspot.com/

Hi stampers, boy I sure am having trouble getting over this cold. Anyway a funny thing happened today. Have you ever had card stock or scrapbooking paper that you know you should use but just can't seem to match it up. Well lucky for me Stampin Up does all that for us.

When the new In Colors came out I immediately liked the Pink Pirouette, (my fav color anytime), the Baja Breeze, Pacific Point (blues) and the green Kiwi Kiss but the orange Tango Tangerine well it was ok but............


Well today I decided I just had to use some. So I put this card together using three of the In Colors and guess what they look great together!

I cut a square out of a piece of card stock and first sponged the inside of this square lightly with Pacific Point. Then I stamped the images; the butterfly first on a slant in the upper right hand corner and it is stamped out of the box shaded area. Then I figured that I could stamp the leaf branch one on the top of the shaded square one on the bottom of it and one in the middle, then I just used the stamp without reinking for the second generation stamp in between the other three. Then the sentiment was stamped underneath the butterfly.

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Great Friend

Ink: Pacific Point

Card Stock: White, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Tango Tangerine

Accessories: Pacific Point Ribbon.

Thanks for looking. Have a great weekend. We had snow again today but they say the weekend is going to be nice. Yea