Tilda is a Lovely Christmas Angel

My card today features Tilda as a Christmas angel, and an angel she is in her lovely green gown.  I sparkled her wings, halo and star wand with a sparkly gel pen.  I am also using my new Joy Tree stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs.  Back in September I won a gift certificate from Stamping Sisters in Christ to the ODBD store and this is one of the stamps I purchased.

I decided that it had been too long since I made an easel card and these images lent themselves nicely to this classic card shape.

This is the standup view

This is the flat view from the top

You can't see it in this picture, but I added the sparkly gel pen to the large words for maximum emphasis. 

Here's our little angle with freckles and all

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Magnolia Tilda Angel, Our Daily Bread Designs Joy Tree

Paper: Very Vanilla, Wild Wasabe, The Sharon Ann Magic Christmas Collection from Little Yellow Bicycle

Markers/Ink: Copics of course - E01, E02, E25, E29, G21, G24, G28, Distress green

Embellishments: Su Pearls, Really Reasonable Ribbon, Hero Arts Pointsettia flower pieces, Michael's brads, Sparkle gel pens in gold and green



This is the lower half of the card inside.  The top half has space to write your personalized note.

 Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes         **** Winner of special feature on MIM ******
• Ladybug Crafts - Non-traditional or distressed Christmas
• Papertake Weekly - Anything goes + a bit of bling
• Always Something Creative - It must sparkle
• By the Cute and Girly - Christmas girls
• Cupcake Craft Room - Sweet Christmas
• Really Reasonable Ribbon - Christmas
• Just Magnolia - Christmas
• ABC Christmas - Vintage

Have a great day!
NancyD

King Over All The Earth!

I am continuing my Stampscapes pilgrimage with some new stamps that I picked up last weekend from Crafty Capers in Nanaimo. If you have seen any of my other Stampscapes posts you know that I am new to SC and I have a special bent to make up the images into fancy cards using all the current techniques and embellishments.

I created a window style card with the Stampscape image on the inside of the card.  This one was tough because I had to cut using a craft knife between the trees so that we can see the image. I also finished it off with a verse from ODBD and a fawn from my Cricut Wildlife cartridge.

I am using the glossy paper and Adirondack inks like all the blogs suggest.  I also added Copics in a few places (trees) and Distress green Forest Moss (it's the darkest I have).  I am still getting used to the fact that all the ink fades over night.  When I first finished the coloring it was really dark and I thought I might have botched it, but in the morning it was quite faded and I had to add more color.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 3, A Stamp in the Hand (hills), Art Impressions (grass), Autumn Brook 212G, Tree Duo 085A, Duck Trio 023A, Tree Trunk Trio 088F

Paper: Early Espresso, Ruby Red, Basic Grey Sweet Threads

Markers and Ink: Distress Forest Moss, Adirondack Meadow, Lettuce, Denim, Stream, Butterscotch, Cloud Blue, Sailboat Blue

Embellishments: Prima pearls, Spellbinders Label One, Leaf ribbon, Leaf punch, Wildlife Cricut cartridge

Challenges for this card:

• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Stampin Sisters in Christ - Wings and a verse    ***** Winning Entry *****
• The Craft Garden - Autumn
• Creatalicious - Anything goes
• Always Something Creative - Autumn
• Stempelsonnen - Brown, Green, Orange
• Raise the Bar - Leaves
• Basic Grey - Pink and Brown
• Pile It On - Colors of Fall
• Stamp With Fun - Anything goes
• Anything goes Challenge - Anything goes
• Tuesday Throwdown - Fall

Thanks for stopping by.  I love to read all your comments and check out your blogs too.
Have a great day!
NancyD

Those Who Know Your Name

Mojo Monday is back!  I am taking advantage of the Mojo sketch and making my next card in the Split Coast Stampers Divine Design challenge.  My verse this month is Psalm 9:40 - "Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek You."

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 7

Paper: Basic Grey Marjolane (great double-sided paper gave me 4 sides of complementary papers to use, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso

Ink: Distress Tea Dye

Embellishments: Su Pearls, Spellbinders Oval and Scalloped Ovals, Ribbon, Marianne Design flourish die

Challenges for this card:

• Mojo Monday - Sketch
• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Get Hippity with Ippity - Bows
• Kaboodle Doodles - Lots of layers
• Stamp With Fun - Anything goes
• Our Daily Bread Designs - Fall colors (doesn't have to be orange to be fall)
• Stamp+Fun=Creativity - Die cuts
• Outlawz - Dots
• Aly's Sunday Sketch - Bows
• Card Cupids - Anything goes (I have never seen this challenge before.  They are encouraging people to send children's birthday cards for them to distribute to homeless children.  What a good idea!  I will be sending a few too.)
• Corrosive Challenge - Dies
• SCS - Divine Design - BVC11

Have a wonderful day.

NancyD

What is Faith?

I think Hebrews 44:4 sums up the answer pretty well.  Today, I made a card for the Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light challenge (doilies) and I combined it with the sketch from Card Patterns.

The trees around Vancouver Island are already starting to turn to those lovely fall colors so I thought I would incorporate those colors into my project.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection #7

Paper: Me & My Big Ideas Kay-Autumn Layered Pad

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Distress Tea Dye

Embellishments: Hero Hues Woven Lace, SU Edge Punch, Michael"s brads, Spellbinder Lacy Squares and Scalloped Squares, flower piece from the Vancouver Island Craft Junkie draw (I will have to ask her where she got them), Prima Pearls, doily

Challenges for this card:

• ODBC - Doily
• Card Patterns - Sketch
• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Totally Goujuss - As you like it
• Here Come the Boys - Brown and orange
• Creative Inspirations - Lots of layers

Well that it for today.  Have a great Monday!

NancyD

Do Not Let Your Heart Be Troubled

My card today is for the Our Daily Bread Design sketch challenge.  I recently received my latest order from ODBD and am very happy to be making verse cards again.  I like to send out these cards to friends and people from my church family who need a pick-me-up.  My order included the Scripture Collection bundle with #5, 6, and 7 so I have a lot to work with.

I love how this wonderful Stampin Up paper does some of the design work for me.  The lighthouse and world map are all part of one of the pages.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection #6

Paper: SU Nautical Expedition, Very Vanilla, Not Quite Navy

Markers: Distress Tea Dye

Embellishments: Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Accents, Lacy Circles, ribbon, Prima Pearls

This card will be entered into the following challenges:

• ODBD - Sketch
• Make it Monday - Always anything goes
• Stamp Scrap and Doodle - Sympathy or get well
• Designed 2 Delight - Anything goes
• Stampin Sisters in Christ - Try something new (my new stamps!)
• Outlawz Greetings Monday Challenge - Anything goes with a sentiment
• Stamps R Us - Anything goes
• Clearly I Stamp - Scripture

Have a great Monday!

Nancy

Card for Burn Victim Ethyl

My friend Sheree from Vancouver Island Craft Junkie told us all about a customer from her shop up in Campbell River who burned her face and was undergoing a number of grafting surgeries.  Ethyl is in a lot of pain and could use some encouragement.

Sheree has challenged us all to make a card for Ethyl and send it to Sheree’s shop.  Just email Sheree or leave a comment on her post and she will send you the information.  Sheree will collect all the cards and get them to Ethyl next week.

My card is made with one of my favorite papers from the Prima Fairy Flora collection.  I wanted the beauty of the paper to show through so I tried not to cover it up too much.  The sentiment and butterfly flourish is from Our Daily Bread Designs Get Well set.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: ODBD Get Well

CS and Papers: Prima Fairy Flora, Wild Wasbe

Ink: Momento Bamboo Leaves

Embellishments: MS butterfly punch and SU butterfly die, SU Pearls,  

ZVA Creative pearls, Spellbinders Fancy Tags die

In honor of Ethyl, I will enter this card into the following challenges:

• Digi Doodle Shop - Butterflies
• Stamp Insanity - Anything goes
• The Play Date Cafe - special colors (all in my paper)
• Outlawz - Anything goes

Hop over to Vancouver Island Craft Junkie to read Ethyl’s story and please consider making an encouraging card for her.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Nancy