Our Daily Bread Tutorial Inspired Me

Hello!  Today's card I made for my daughter's First Holy Communion on Saturday.  I saw this awesome tutorial from Our Daily Bread Designs and I had to try it out.  The tutorial was posted on Operation Write Home's Spring Boot Camp Bloghop tutorials.  The theme is Masculine cards, but I turned in into the communion card.

You can catch their link here: http://operationwritehome.org/spring-training-bloghop-masculine-card-tutorials/

There is a list of tutorials for the bloghop, and Our Daily Bread Designs is number 8.  I suggest you look at all of the tutorials, they are awesome and have so many little tidbits of information that any crafter new (like me) or old would appreciate. And then once you're inspired, make some cards for our troops and send them to OWH!

This is the card I made:

Our Daily Bread Designs featured a reverse zfold card, and that is where my inspiration came from.

This was also my first try at watercoloring in rows.  A few days ago I tried a blended look that gave a marble effect.  I like it, but think I need to work on blending where the two colors meet.

The stickers are from Jolee's Boutique available at Michael's.

The fold card is supposed to lean upon the sentiment, but it covered up the church too much, so I put a flap in the back of the card (not shown) to lean it back a bit to show the church.

The sentiment is computer generated.

I'm so please with the way the card turned out, but more excited that my daughter is growing in faith and strengthening her journ with the Lord.

God Bless and enjoy your weekend, I know mine will be an event to cherish a lifetime.

OWH Sketch challenge # 167

Hello!  It's been a busy Easter Season at the Huzl house.  My mother came to town for a 10 day visit, and it was a blast!  We love her so much, and showed her some of the local sites.  We went to LegoLand in Shaumburg and then to the Rainforest Cafe.  We also had to get in our shopping at the local malls...  Needless to say my crafting money went elsewhere... But it was so worth it!  

How was your Easter?  I hope it was full of happiness and renewed life.

Now on the Operation Write Home's Sketch...Challenge # 167 

                       


The design was simple, but what I wanted to do didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to. Hence, a few times later I came up with this:

With the warmer weather the past few days, I cleaned off the deck and pulled out the outdoor furniture.  We have Spring Fever!!   My kids love picnics, so I know they are just around the corner.  This is where my inspiration came from.  I found this picnic paper in a stack a friend gave me.  The melon cut was cut from A Child's Year on the Cricut and the sentiment is computer generated.    It's a bit simple, but cute!


God Bless!

A try at Watercolor Blending inspired by Clear Snap's tutorial for OWH's Spring Training Bloghop

Clear Snap spring-training-hop-with-OWH made this wonderful card using watercolor ink and tutorial for Operation Write Home's Spring Training Bloghop.  The theme is masculine cards.



They are also giving away some neat stuff if you try using this technique on a card!

I'm in for some fun, and made this card:

I used Momento Rich cocoa, and Recollections Ruby and Horizon for the background, and Ranger Jet Black for he sentiment.  For the embossed paper, I used Coredinations Black Magic Collection, the Sizzix dashes plate, sanded it and inked it with the Horizon ink.  The bottom left looks a little lighter than the rest, but it's the flash.  It has a more even tone to it.

I need to study it more and add some embellishments.

Thanks for looking!

OWH Sketch Challenge 164

Today's OWH Sketch Challenge sketch-challenge-164 was quite interesting.  I wanted to do an Easter card for friends and family, and I thought a few extras for next year would be nice.  It didn't turn out like I planned.  Perhaps the sentiment was too big, or the layers were not contrasting enough, but it's not one of my favorites.  It looks like one continuous strip across the card instead of side by side strips...

 Anyways, here's the card.

I do love the design paper.  It's Recollections Kaitlyn .  

By the end of the night, I stopped making this sketch all together and made 8 others differently.

Thanks for looking! 

OWH Midweek throwdown

Hello!  I had time to do OWH's midweek throwdown,  YEAH!!
It was a color scheme challenge.  Use blue and green, then add orange. A few days ago, I read an Operation Write Home post on Facebook that asked for children's cards, so it gave me this inspiration:

I used the Boys Will Be Boys cricut cartridge for the cuts.
The paper is from DCWV's  All About Boys Stack
(40% off this week at Michaels)
The sentiment is computer generated.
The rest is from my stash.

I used the flash on this picture to show the orange design paper.  I love the feel of the paper too!

I am entering this in the Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge  which anything Kids was the theme!


God Bless!  Diane

OWH Sketch Challenge #163

Hello!!  The Sketch Challenge this week really got my mojo doing. This sketch gives you a lot of creativity.  Sketch Challenge #163



I wanted to try something different, but I don't know what it's called. Instead of layering the cuts on top of each other, they are inside.  Kinda a recessed or shadowed image...

I popped up the top layers.  The cuts were made on the cricut George and Basics, the solid paper is recollections. I used a sizzix baby geo plate on the orange paper, and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.  The Design paper is from a long time ago, I belive Nana's Kids by DCVW.

This other card I layered in a regular fashion and used stickles to embellish.  The sentiment is Hero Arts as well.  I need to work on keeping a steady hand with the stickles.  I didn't realize how uneven it was until I looked at this picture...

Here are some other creations I did this weekend:

All in all, a pretty productive weekend, I usually only do 3 or 4.  This weekend I made at least 15!    Thanks for looking!

Operation Write Home challenge # 162

This week's Operation Write Home Sketch Challenge # 162 turned out pretty good, but it took a while to create.  I organized all of my scrap paper yesterday and today, and then got to work.  I never saw this sketch before, and here is my version:

The cut is a freebie in the Cricut Craft Room this week.  It was originally a card, then I shrunk it and cut the top off.  I really like the cut, but it left a few frayed edges that I tried to smooth out.  Also, I used the ATV for the middle, and a fine point glue pen for the cut out, but the glue pen parts keep coming off.  I don't want it to end up in the card hospital :'(              YIKES!

For this card, I turned the sketch to the side and rearranged it a bit.  The card stock is recollections but I can't remember the design paper.  You can't really tell, but it has clear shimmer on it, like glitter glue.  It won't flake off.  The embellishments are from my stash.

Thanks for looking.  I wonder what everyone else did...