{Stamp Simply} Grow in Grace

Today's card has such a pretty, bold look and it is so easy!!  I layered a piece of Pickled Pear paper onto black cardstock and then laid it over my card base to get the placement.  Then I turned it over and traced around the card base on the back of the black paper so I would know where to cut.  I colored and fussy cut the daisy from "Hello Daisy" and popped it up over a band of polka dotted ribbon.  Then I added a sweet sentiment from the "Grow in Grace" set.  Quick and easy!

Here are the Stamp Simply supplies that I used today...

JustRite Hello Daisy

Our Daily Bread Grow in Grace

Kaisercraft Pickled Pear Paper

Dotted Sheer Ribbon

Prima Sugar Dots

Wink of Stella Clear (on the flower)

3D Foam

{Our Daily Bread Designs} Counting Sheep

Hello friends!

I'm back today with a sweet and simple card featuring the ODBD set The Shepherd.  I just love this saying, don't you?  My daughter actually bought me a sign with the saying on it for Christmas a year or two ago.  I have it sitting in my bathroom where I can see it if I happen to get up in the night.  It is the perfect reminder that My Good Shepherd is in full control of all the things that are bothering me and I can trust Him and rest in His peace.    

I kept today's card very simple... no coloring at all!  The pretty diecut shape is from the ODBD Custom Die Set Antique Labels and Border Dies and the paper is from the Heart and Soul Collection 

Thank you again for stopping by!

Blessings!

Tricia

{Our Daily Bread} Birthday Pansies

Good morning!  Would you like a cup of tea?  I'm so enjoying my time as a guest designer for Our Daily Bread this month, and today I have a tea and flower themed birthday card to share.

I used my distress markers to watercolor the sweet pansy-filled teacup from the Our Daily Bread Designs Birthday Blessings set for today's card.  I added a strip of paper from the Heart and Soul Collection across the bottom to hold my greeting, then camouflaged the seam with some pink seam binding.  The black mat makes the picture stand out a little more and the rhinestones draw your eye from the buds in the saucer to the flowers themselves and then up to the corner of the card.  A simple touch to complete the look!

Have a blessed day!

Tricia

{ODBDSLC197} The Strength of my Heart

Hello friends!

I just got back from vacation, but I really wanted to play along with this week's ODBD Shining the Light Challenge to use Rain or Water or the color Aqua, so I squeezed in some time to play.

For my aqua card, I paired this beautiful verse from ODBD's Psalm 73 with the Violet stamp, and they go together so sweetly!  After I colored my violets with copics, I cut the violets and some leaves out of the main image and stacked them a little differently to make a cluster on the edge of my diecut verse.  I used the largest Antique Labels die for the verse and then cut around it with my scissors to make the larger kraft mat.  Then I layered it over my "signature" dotted ribbon and finished off my card base with some Kaisercraft Spring Bloom paper and Latte Pearls.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tricia

Recipe:

Psalm 73 (odbd), Violet Single (odbd), Copics, Kraft and White cs (pti),

Antique Label and Border Dies (odbd), Dotted Sheer Ribbon (Stamp Simply),

Kaisercraft Spring Bloom Paper (Stamp Simply), Latte Pearls (Stamp Simply

{Our Daily Bread} My Shepherd

Hello friends!

Aren't you longing for spring?  Spring colors, spring flowers, spring sights like this precious little lamb from the ODBD set The Shepherd?  I had so much fun watercoloring this image with my Distress Markers.  Doesn't she have a sweet face??  I love the verse, too.  "The LORD is my shepherd."  The God of the universe is my guide, my protection, my caretaker.  He provides my food, quenches my thirst, leads me in the best paths, offers me His protection, tends my wounds, seeks me when I'm lost, and restores me when I've fallen.  How could I want anything more?

Unfortunately, I often wish I could have the food just one pasture over, I choose to drink from polluted puddles rather than from His clear streams, I stray from His right paths into the dangerous rocks and then complain about the wounds I incur...  I am so thankful that He loves me and restores me when I repent and turn to Him - time and time and time again!!

My card is really very simple.  I stamped the image on watercolor paper in Versafine Archival ink and then watercolored it with my Distress Markers.  I layered it on a yellow mat and stitched around the edges, Then I stamped my sentiment and die cut it, sponging it while it was still in the die.  I cut both the sentiment and the pretty scalloped border with the ODBD Antique Labels and Border dies, and then I edged the border with a thin piece of cardstock and a touch of velvet ribbon.  I centered the sentiment on top and attached it with pop dots, then attached the whole card front to my card base.

Thank you so much for stopping by and for your loving comments.  You truly are a blessing to me!

Tricia

{Our Daily Bread} Grow in Grace

I am SO privileged to be able to Guest Design for the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog this month!  I so enjoy working with their beautiful Scripture stamps!  My card for today is a simple one.  I colored the poppy from Mother's Day with copics, then framed it with a mat of light green cardstock stamped with the verse from Grow in Grace. I stamped my sentiment on a hand-cut banner and added another banner to set it off, then clustered a trio of buttons in the corner.

I love the reminder to grow in grace.  To plant ourselves firmly in God's righteousness through Christ and then grow to be more like Him.  Full of love, peace and joy.  Patient, gentle and self-controlled... kind, faithful and a lover of what is good.  That is what I would like my character to display, wouldn't you?

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Blessings!

Tricia