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Bunny Banner and Shaped Easter Cards

By KariV on March 28, 2018 in Easter, Paper Crafting

Hello again! Today I have a few more Easter projects to share using beautiful products from Our Daily Bread Designs. I used the same Hoppy Birthday stamp set to create a Bunny Banner and some Shaped Easter cards.

This banner was fun to make, but even more fun to display. I used all pastel colors with the star of the show in the center! That bunny is so cute.

The beautiful eggs are die cuts you can find here.

The next project is a shaped card using the same Boho Egg Die that I used above. This time, I used that cut out as a STENCIL and stamped the bunny over the top!

That Boho Egg die is sure beautiful…and look at how it performs as a stencil! I added a bit of colored pencil to the grass and daffodils, and a few Nuvo Drops to add more color. Isn’t this a fun card?

To make this egg shaped card stand up on its own, I just cut a portion of the lower part of the back of the card to be straight!

The last project is this shaped card using the Large Banner Die as the card base:

If you partially die cut the banner, leaving the top of the card in tact, it creates a banner shaped card base! So easy to do and it’s nice to have a different shape.

For this card, I took some finger daubers and added three different colors of ink to the Dazzling Doily stamp to create a softer look. Then I stamped the bunny image over the top. Some Nuvo Jewel Drops finish off the card.

I hope you enjoyed my banner project and shaped cards today. Will this inspire you to try some shaped cards of your own? Happy Easter!

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Easter Boxes with Our Daily Bread Designs

By KariV on March 22, 2018 in Easter, Paper Crafting

Hello! With Easter inching closer and closer, my mind is on all things bunnies and chocolate. So today, I’m sharing an adorable Easter Box using the new Hoppy Birthday stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs.

I love this bunny stamp, and I paired it with the Glorious Gable Box die to make this cute Easter gift box! To do this, I cut the die and before folding it to assemble the box, I stamped the bunny stamp, masked it off and inked up the background.

I created a movie to show you how to easily create this project!

On the back, I also used the gradient inking technique, and then I heat embossed the sentiment from the same stamp set.

I love this Glorious Gable box die….it not only cuts the shape, but also embosses the design to make it look fabulous! I’ll show you what I mean; Click below to watch the video:

I used some seam binding ribbon from my stash to finish off the boxes. I’m giving these to my granddaughters this year…one of them has the favorite color of Orange, and one of them loves Green! How perfect is that?

I hope you enjoyed this project today! Happy Easter!

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Easter Monogram Cards with Our Daily Bread Designs

By KariV on March 14, 2018 in Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I am excited to show you how beautiful the new Monogram dies are from Our Daily Bread Designs. You might be thinking…just how great can a monogram die be? Well…take a look at these beauties; not only do they die cut a good-sized letter with a pierced detailing around the edge, but they also EMBOSS the middle of the letter to create a striking look.

Take a look:

I colored a portion of the Letter E die with Copics so you can see the beautiful effect of this embossing. It is so striking in real life!

I used the pretty new paper pack just released called Beautiful Blooms for the background. For the sentiment, I took the Happy Easter die and cut off the E! This way, I could use it with my monogram to create the word “Easter.” The flowers are from the Bitty Blossoms set and the Easter Eggs dies set.

Here’s another I created using a different color scheme and a square card:

Isn’t that die so pretty?! For this card I inked on some Distress Inks in Evergreen Bough, Faded Jeans, and Salty Ocean. I colored the leaves and flowers with Copics and I left the die cut word in all white.

I hope you enjoyed these projects! If you need a Monogram Letter die, consider these newly released letters…they are just gorgeous! (I think I’m going to have to start collecting a few more)

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Easter!

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Easter Greetings with Our Daily Bread Designs

By KariV on March 7, 2018 in Paper Crafting

I’m so excited to announce that I am Guest Designing for Our Daily Bread Designs! I found this company last year and fell in love with their products.

Today, I’m featuring the new Easter Greetings stamp set, which has some GORGEOUS hyacinth flowers! I have always loved these flowers, but I thought they only came in purple. A quick search showed me that they also come in Yellow, Pink, and white. Take a look at this beautiful stamp:

Isn’t it gorgeous?! I heat embossed the stamp first, then used some Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to get the variation in colors on this one. The background is actually dry embossed using a die from Our Daily Bread Designs called Vintage Flourish Pattern. It is a beautiful die when used to cut, too! But here I thought the soft look of embossing was so beautiful.

I used a paper pack called Plum Pizzazz for the background and the Happy Spring purple paper. Such a fun paper pack!

Then, once I learned that Hyacinths come in a variety of colors, I of course had to make another card! I used the same dry embossing technique and created a completely different look:

I used Distress Inks to give the embossed background an Ombre look. So pretty, right?

Here’s a close up so you can see the dimension on this card:

I hope you enjoyed these projects today. For more information, please visit Our Daily Bread Designs blog and store! Easter Greetings!

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Mosaic Turnabout and Fabulous Phrases Dies with Concord & 9th

By KariV on March 2, 2018 in Paper Crafting

It’s a beautiful week with these awesome Concord & 9th sets. Today I’m featuring the Mosaic Turnabout stamp set and the Fabulous Phrases Dies.

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I had so much fun creating with these…and I absolutely love the font of these Fabulous Phrases Dies. For my first card, I used some beautiful blues and greens (with some yellow thrown in for fun):

The Mosaic Turnabout it so much fun to use! You just ink it up in one color, stamp it, then turn your paper and do it all over again (up to 4 times total). You can use any colors you like and make such a fun background.

I built up the silver embossing powder three times on the “thinking of you” phrase to get that metal accent look. A little glitter tape in a matching color and that’s all it takes to make a beautiful and fun card!

About this time, I thought that the turnabout set would be fun embossed in different metallic colors!

I used gold, silver, and liquid platinum embossing powder, turning the paper only three times and leaving a few blank spots. This one is for my parent’s FIFTIETH wedding anniversary! I colored up the cake with Copics and added it to the center with foam tape. That beautiful cake is from an earlier set, found here.

Now, you know I had to make a SUNSHINE card…and here I used orange and yellow inks and partially embossed them with gold to give it a shiny flair.

Then I masked off portions of the card front to create those “sun rays.” This “hey there” sentiment is one of my favorites!! I added a black shadow to the sentiment, some glittery Wink of Stella pen, and a bit of Glossy Accents on top. A few Jewel Nuvo Drops finish off the card. I wish you could see the glitter on this card!

The last card I have to show you today turned out different than I planned….but I love how it turned out!

Have you ever had a happy mistake on your card? I originally embossed the lower half of the card in white, then inked on some blue Distress Ink. When I went to clean off the heat-set embossing powder a little, I used a dry baby wipe that had some green ink on it and SMEARED that green ink all over! But look at that color variation it gave me on the bottom half of the card! And yes, I got it all over the clean white top half, too.

I didn’t give up…I cut off the bottom portion. Then I found an ink swatch (that I used to test colors) with the green, blue, and purples on my desk and thought it would pair nicely with my *MISTAKE.*

The circle die is from the Everyday Circles Die set, and the “Fabulous Friend” and hearts are from the Fabulous Phrases Dies. The “For A” sentiment is from the Wonderful Florals Stamp Set that was also released this month. Isn’t that sentiment lovely?! And Voila! Saved it!

These Concord & 9th sets are wonderful, and they make it easy to create beautiful cards everytime! Check out their Mosaic bundle here to save money.

I hope you enjoyed these projects today! Thank you so much for stopping by.

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