"Our Daily Bread Designs" -Bicycle

This card was made using an"Our Daily Bread Designs" Bicycle rubber stamp found here:
http://ourdailybreaddesigns.com/Bicycle.html

I colored the image with Spectrum Noir Pens found at my favorite on-line craft store here:
http://www.shopbeecreative.com/Pens--Alcohol-Other_c_11.html

I love these Alcohol pens, it makes it possible to blend colors so easily (and I am still working on my coloring technique--I am a complete amateur!)

The sentiment is from a Hero Arts stamp set that benefits Operation Write Home.

OBD/OWH June Challenge "Shaped Cards"

This card was made for the June "Our Daily Bread Designs" Challenge with Operation Write Home. The challenge was to make a "shaped" card, so I chose to make this little fishing vest. OWH has a great tutorial on how to make the basic vest, and then you can embellish it any way you like.

Here is a link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjSipCeIo9M&feature=plcp

Once I chose papers for the vest, the pockets, and the trim, then the fun began with embellishments. I popped the pockets with dimensional tape and did some hand stitching around the arm holes with embroidery thread.

I printed the word "License" from a Word document, cut it out to about a 1/2 inch, and distressed the whole thing (I have heard these things have to be carried around every time they fish...) Then I slipped it partially in the top pocket.

I made little fishing lures out of brads and more thread (just tied a knot in the end of the thread, snipped the end close, and while it was still on the needle poked it through the pocket.) I used some clear stretchy beading elastic as extra fishing line.  I think the real thing could have worked too, but I did not have any handy.

Then I used a few brass colored brads for buttons down the front and I distressed around the edges of the whole thing. When I mounted it on the card front I put a scrap of the plaid liner paper in the neck area to cover the white card stock it is mounted on.

 Have fun trying this one! Thank you Operation Write Home for the inspiration video!

Stamper's Best Heartland Rubber Stamp

This card was made using a Stamper's Best rubber stamp called "Heartland". Here is a link to where you can find it:
https://www.stampersbest.com/product.php?productid=175&cat=0&page=1

I colored it with Spectrum Noir pens and used the blender pen to make the barn look weathered.  The Spectrum Noir pens are alcohol pens and give you the ability to blend colors so nicely. I found them here at my favorite on-line craft store:
http://www.shopbeecreative.com/Pens-Stamping_c_11.html

After stamping and coloring the image, I cut out the image along the top of the barn/tree/land and darkened the edge with a black marker.

Then I used some blue ink from a stamp pad triangle set to create the blue sky on white card stock. I attached the colored image to the sky, cut it into a rectangle shape, and layered it on brown card stock. It is hard to see here, but it gave the tree/land/barn edge a little extra dimension.

I also cut strips of red paper (by Recollections at Michaels, it has little brown specs in it), and I distressed the edges of each strip in a dark brown ink. The strips are adhered to brown card stock, then layered on cream paper. A little more layering with brown and red, a few bronze colored bards in the corners, and a little brown polka dot ribbon finished it off.

Trucks and Cars Birthday Card

This card was made using some cool truck/car paper from Reminisce and some great car stickers.

Our Daily Bread Designs May Challenge for Operation Write Home

The ODBD's May challenge is to use any five elements (to celebrate Cinco De Mayo) so this card was made using 1.)layers of paper, 2.) ribbon, 3.) a die-cut circle, 4.) a brad, and 5.) birthday stickers found on my favorite craft supply website here: http://www.shopbeecreative.com/Sticker-Sheet--Happy-Icons-Words_p_113.html

Thinking of You Owl

This card was made using a rubber stamp from Stamper's Best "Hoot Owl Set", colored with Spectrum Noir colors. The "Thinking of You" stamp is from Hero Arts OWH set found here: http://shop.heroarts.com/products/productdetail/Year+Round+Sentiments/part_number=CL582/1571.0.1.1.1007703.0.0.0.0?pp=12&

Stamper's Best Ciara in Camouflage

This card was made using Operation Write Home's mascot Ciara with a rubber stamp from Stamper's Best. The "I Miss You" sentiment is from Hero Arts OWH stamp set.