Amazing Paper Grace

Hello everyone! Welcome to our September Release Blog Hop!  Today is your first chance to see the sets in their entirety – some of the design team have tempted you with "slices" during the week, so now you get to see!!  You can take a peek at all the sets HERE.   If you arrived here from Kathy Jones, you are in the right place!  If not, you might want to start at the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog to get your bearings.  If for any reason a link along the hop is broken, simply return to the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog  to see who is next on the list :-)  Blog hop morning is a busy time for blogs so if you are unable to leave a comment, no worries, circle back to that blog at the end.

We want you to have fun and be able to zip through the hop so we’re keeping it simple!  There are no secret words to collect, no email to send, but there are still goodies up for grabs.  Three of our design team has prizes hidden throughout the hop – even the designers don’t know.  You’ll want to make your way through the entire hop for sure!

Here’s What You Need to Know to Win:

• The Blog Hop runs from 8am EST on Wednesday, September 1 through 8pm EST on Thursday, September 2nd.
  

• There will be 3 Winners . . . Up for grabs – 3 Gift certificates to shop in the ODBD Store.  Each person will win one and the denominations are $15.00, $20.00 and $25.00.
  

• Winners will be randomly chosen from all the qualified entries by the three designers with the blog candy and will be announced on Saturday, September 4th on the ODBD Blog. 

Here’s What You Need to Do to Win: 

• Hop to each blog of the Our Daily Bread Design team and leave a comment on each blog.

• Return to the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog  and leave a comment that you completed the hop and left comments for each designer.

• If for any reason you cannot leave a comment, please give us the name/s of the designers you were unable to leave comments for… and you’ll still be qualified for the drawing.

For my card today I’m using two of the Our Daily Bread Designs new sets – an elegant new frame from the Brocade Borders Set and a quote from the Peace set.  I created a card base using the new Spellbinders Grand Labels One.  My card measures 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" square and there were still three more sizes larger.  I’m just amazed that with one cut of doubled paper, I could have my whole card base with a decorative edge!  On top of my base I layered Spellbinders Lacey Squares and Spellbinders Labels Sixteen.

Your next stop along the way is to visit Angie Crockett!!

I promise, you won’t be disappointed!  Angie has a wonderful creation to share with you today.  In the meantime, thanks so much for stopping by!!

I have two posts today, so once you’re done, be sure to scroll down and see the project I created for Our Daily Bread Designs HERE).

Hi there!!  I’ve had this neat Bazzill Glaze paper in my stash for a month or two at the top of the stack for when I started doodling with holiday cards.  I chose it today because the texture is amazing and the colors so rich.  I thought it work perfectly with a concept I had for a JustRite Stampers card.  My card today uses traditional Christmas colors and I added a bit of distressing to give it a little bit of vintage feel.  I’ve taken a couple of pictures so you can see the dimension and the openings.  I’m using elements from three different sets  including one of the borders from Whimsical Christmas, the border from Christmas Ornaments  and a sentiment from Christmas Nested Frames. 

I’ve taken an odd angle shot here (from above) but just to give you an idea of the dimension of the card.  The banner is bowed and at the bottom of the card you can see through the holes.  I cut the borders with Spellbinders Classic Circles SM and Standard Circles LG and then glued them in place.  Later I threaded the ribbon through and tied a bow finished off by a bright red pearl.

Here with the card closed the red from the inside shows through and provides a nice contract.  I love the texture on the card – the bottom pattern is Holly and the top is Stripes – and has the same effect if you had stamped with Versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder.

I didn’t want to forget to tell you today is the last day to get your free catalog from JustRite Stampers.  You can see the details and get the coupon code from THIS post.  Have a great day!!

Hi there, this is what you get when you start out trying to give someone a simple gift and your mind runs away with you, lol!!  I have a Starbucks Card for a dear friend of mine and while I was getting it, my gaze wandered over the cardboard cozy holders that you get at both Starbucks and I found out later, Panera Bread.   At first I was going to decorate one of the cozy holders and put the gift card inside but then it grew into a book :-)  For the decoration I settled on the wonderful Scripture Sets (Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, Set 4 and Series 1) from Our Daily Bread Designs.  Below you can see the brown from my gift card peeking out from the first page.

I started out by punching holes in the cozies.  Then I decided I wanted a panel that was three inches wide.  Each panel wraps down the frontside with the fold at the bottom and up the backside with the open ends tucked in a glued at the top.  What this does is make a pocket so that I can put something extra inside each page.
I decorated each page back and front with coordinating paper and border punches and stamped Scripture using Scriptures Sets 1,2,3,4 and Scriptures Series 1 onto panels cut with my Slice.
I tucked one more scripture in the pocket of each page.   I put a tab on each tucked in page so that it can easily be removed.

To finish up, I took one of the cozies for a cover.  I hid the Panera logo and added a ribbon just to make it a little bit dressy!  It was not a complicated project at all and once done I was a little bit proud of my recycling effort.  I hope my friend likes it.

Thanks for stopping by!!