Spellbinders Anemones

 Todays' card was created using Fresh Picked Anemones by Spellbinders which were a gift to me from my sweet niece, Anita! The sentiment is an old but favorite one from Our Daily Bread.

Faith-Based Sympathy Design

The world lost some beautiful souls this week. This card was created for the family of one of them.

The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs.

Dies by Sizzix (Butterfly), Elizabeth Crafts Designs (Leaves),

Stamps of Life (Flowers)

Embossing Folder by Darice

Basically Bricks Stencil by Studio 490

Crafters of Faith

I belong to the Crafters of Faith over on Splitcoaststampers. Each month a hostess selects a scripture and/or theme for the members to use as the inspiration for their cards. I think that I have neglected to post most of those cards over here, so I decided to put them all together in this one post today.

January - Theme - Friendship
Scripture - Proverbs 27:9 - A sweet friendship refreshes the soul

Image by Unity

February - Theme - Love

Scripture - 1 Corinthians 16:14 - Do everything in love.

Lighthouse from High Tide by Stampin' Up

Scripture by Our Daily Bread Designs

March - Theme - Sunrise/New Day

Scripture - Psalm 40:3 - He has given me a new song to sing.

Lighthouse from High Tide by Stampin' Up

Scripture by Our Daily Bread Designs

April - Theme - Joy

Scripture - Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Images from Sheltering Tree by Stampin' Up

Scripture from Word Art Wednesday

May - Theme- Comfort

Scripture - Psalm 90:2 - Before the mountains were born, before You gave birth to the earth and the world, from the beginning to the end, You are God.

Die Cuts - Background, Wildflowers, and Detailed Butterfly Minis by Sizzix
Scripture by Word Art Wednesday

June - Theme - Trust of Faith

Scripture - Psalm 46 - Be still and know that I am God.

Image from Unity
Sentiment by Our Daily Bread Designs

CCEE1722 - Donut Day!

Frances Byrne is our CCEE Stampers hostess for the month of June. She has informed us that apparently the 2nd of June is Donut Day. In honor of donuts everywhere, she has challenged us to create something that has some type of "hole" in it. It can be a donut, cheese, fancy fold card with a hole … anything.

The fold flat diorama card I made on Monday had a great big hole in it so I decided to do a redesign on that for Donut Day! Today, however, I made it with the same design on both the front and back so that it can be used as a table decoration.

The scripture is from Our Daily Bread Designs.
The leaves are from Avant Garden by Stampin' Up.
The die cut crosses are from Spellbinders.

See the holey cards of the CCEE Design Team below:

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Byrne

Maryann Einam

Word Art Wednesday - The Lord Liveth

I used an older Word Art Wednesday scripture to create this Easter Card for this week's Word Art Wednesday Challenge #222-223. The cross die and images are from Never Give Up by Our Daily Bread Designs.

CCEE1610 - Johnny Appleseed Day

Frances has another fun challenge for the CCEE Stampers this week. 

Tomorrow is National Johnny Appleseed Day …. So she has asked that we feature apples on our card creations this week.

The sentiment is Kind Hearts by Our Daily Bread Designs
The apple is from 3 Step School Days by Kitchen Sink Stamps.

The rest of the CCEE Design Team also have tasty apples to share:

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Lois Bak

Liz Williams
Frances Bryne

Maryann Einam

I hope you have time to join in on the fun and share a card on the CCEE Blog for this challenge!

National Astronomy Day

The CCEE Stampers are celebrating National Astronomy Day by creating cards with stars this week! Join in the fun, and share of card of your own featuring stars in CCEE Stampers Challenge 1518. My card features a sentiment from Our Daily Bread Designs.

Take a look at the wonderful designs of the CCEE Design Team Members!

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Sabrina Friel

Lois Bak

Amber Hillman

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne
Maryann Einam

CCEE1515 - Stencils

Our April CCEE hostess, Frances, has challenged the CCEE Stampers to this week use a stencil in our card design. The stencil I used was Chevron by Clear Scraps. The sentiment is from Anchor by Our Daily Bread Designs. All the papers are Stampin' Up.

Check out the creative ways the other members of the CCEE Design Team have incorporated stencils into their wonderful designs for this challenge. Then pull out your stencils and play along!

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Sabrina Friel

Lois Bak

Amber Hillman

Liz Williams

Frances Bryne
Maryann Einam

No Coloring - ODBD

Our Daily Bread Design's Shining Light Challenge #228 requires a card with no coloring. I used their Fishing Boat and Fishing Net to create this monochromatic masculine card of encouragement.

Bleached Out Images - CCEE1505

For Vicky's final week as hostess of the CCEE Stampers Challenge, she has asked us to use the Bleached Out Image technique. I wasn't quite sure what that entailed so I headed over to the SCS tutorial she shared with us.

Here is what I came up with! The bleached image is from an old set (2003) called Sketches by Stampin' Up. The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs.

After bleaching the image, I colored it with Copic markers.

Check out the bleached creations from the rest of the CCEE Designers! Beautiful stuff!!

Frances Bryne

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Sabrina Friel

Lois Bak

Amber Hillman

Liz Williams

Maryann Einam

I had lots of fun with this challenge! If you choose to give this a try, be sure to share your results with us on the CCEE Stampers Blog. We love it when you play along!

Odd Day at CCEE Stampers

Lois has us celebrating Odd Day over at the CCEE Stampers with Challenge 1437. The task at hand is to create a card on which we use an old number of the same embellishment for our design! Fun!!

On my design I have used 1 ribbon, 5 roses, and 13 leaves!

Stamps: Lamentations 3:21-23 by Our Daily Bread Designs

Papers: Naturals Ivory, Lavender Lace, and Pear Pizzazz by Stampin' Up

Perfumeries by Graphic 45

Inks: Versafine Onyx Black, SU Pear Pizzazz

Tools: Circle Nestabilities, Curvy Leaves Die by Elizabeth Designs

Embellishments: Paper Roses, Ribbon

Head over to see what oddness the CCEE Stampers have for you today!

Frances Bryne

Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Sabrina Friel

Lois Bak

Amber Hillman

Liz Williams

Maryann Einam

CCEE1428 - Repurpose Something

It's time for another CCEE Stampers Challenge and Shirley Quarry has another great challenge for us all.

Let's repurpose something. We all have bits and pieces of things we have saved in our stash for those "just in case we need it moments".

For my repurposing adventure, I cut a section out of an aluminum pie pan, put it in an embossing folder, and ran it through my Cuttlebug. I then roughly trimmed around the embossed image and colored the aluminum with my Copic markers. Finally I coated it with Versamark and clear embossed it three times.

Stamps: Hardwood by Stampin' Up

Paper: Baked Brown Sugar by Stampin' Up

Inks: SU Baked Brown Sugar, Versamark, and Copic Markers

Tools: Darice Embossing Folder

Other Materials - Clear Embossing Folder, Aluminum Pie Pan, Dimensionals

The card below card uses the same techinque but I die cut the cross with the cross die from Our Daily Bread Designs. The background is stamped with an image from ODBD's Never Give Up and the sentiment is from ODBD's Anchor. This card was chosen today as Customer Card of the Day over at Our Daily Bread Designs.

Please visit the CCEE Stampers' Design Team to see more repurposed gems!

Frances Byrne
Joanne Grzelak

Anne Harmon

Vicky Gould

Sabrina Friel

Lois Bak

Amber Hillman

Liz Williams

Maryann Einam

Our Daily Bread Designs - One Layer Card

Today's card was created for Our Daily Bread Designs Single Layer Card Challenge 207. The card was created with Recollections White 110 paper. I masked the bottom portion of the card and sponged it with SU Going Grey before stamping the ODBD fishing net over it with Memento Espresso Truffle. I then embossed the gray portion of the card with my Paper Studio brick wall embossing folder and sponged over the bricks once more with SU Smokey Slate.

The ODBD fishing boat and sentiment were stamped with Memento Espresso Truffle before the sun and sky were sponged with SU Crisp Cantaloupe and Melon Mambo. The water was sponged with SU Marina Mist.

Thank God

Today's card was create for the sketch challenge from Our Daily Bread Designs. I added the sentiment on vellum over the stamped images to enter it in the Splitcoaststampers Ways to Use It challenge, as well.

Stamps: Thank God and With Heartfelt Sympathy by Our Daily Bread Designs

Papers: Real Red, Creamy Caramel, Early Espresso, and Whisper White by Stampin' Up

Designer Paper by K&Company

Cardstock Vellum by Stampin' Up

Inks: Memento Espresso Truffle and Peanut Brittle

Stampin' Up Pool Party, Crushed Curry, and Crisp Cantaloupe

Tools: Martha Stewart Punches, Oval Nestabilities

Embellishment: Copper Nailheads

Thank God

Today's design combines SCS's Sketch Challenge 439 and Our Daily Bread Designs' SLC157  to create this card of encouragement.

Stamps: Thank God by Our Daily Bread Designs

Papers: More Mustard and Basic Black by Stampin' Up

Tropical Travelogue by graphic 45

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up More Mustard

Tools: EK Success Edge Punch, McGill Leaf Punch, Martha Stewart Leaf Punch,

Prima Flower

Sky or Water #2 for ODBD

I used this week's sketch challenge at SCS to create a second card for the Sky or Water ODBD challenge. This is my Father's Day card for this year! Hope my day likes it!!

Stamps: Fishing Boat and Fishing Net Background by Our Daily Bread

Ready 4 Any Holiday by Kitchen Sink Stamps

Papers: Assorted blue scraps by Stampin' Up, 

Pure Luxury White by Gina K. Designs

Inks: Memento Nautical Blue, Stampin' Up Regal Rose, 
Crushed Curry, Marina Mist, and Buckaroo Blue

Tools: White Prisma Pencil

Embellishment: Jute Knot

A Couple of Challenge Cards

This first card was for the SCS Technique Challenge. It required that the focus of the design be die cuts instead of stamping. I created the sentiment on my computer.

Background Stamp: Wordprints by Hero Arts

Papers: Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, and Regal Rose by Stampin' Up

Inks: Gray Flannel and Tuxedo Black by Memento

Regal Rose and Soft Suede by Stampin' Up

Tools: Scissors and Thread Die by Sizzix, Nestabilities Circle,

 Nesting Lace Circle by QuiKutz

Gelly Roll Pen by Sakura

My second card is a one layer, clean and simple sympathy card created for the week's color challenge at Splitcoaststampers.

Stamps: Never Give Up and With Heartfelt Sympathy by Our Daily Bread

Paper: Pure Luxury White by Gina K. Designs

Inks: Soft Suede, Pool Party, and Calypso Coral by Stampin' Up