ODBD July Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Our Daily Bread Designs July Release Blog Hop! If you arrived here from The Connie's Blog, you are in the right place! If not, you might want to start at the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog and hop from there so you have a chance to win one of the FOUR fabulous prizes!  The Hop will run from 8am EDT July 1 until 8pm EDT July 2. The winners will be announced on the ODBD Blog on July 3. For all the hop details, be sure to check out the ODBD blog . 

I created an 8" x 8" scrapbook page of my grandfather using images from Not Forgotten and the Old Flag Background.  I stamped the Old Flag Background on Vanilla card stock and colored using Staedtler Pencils and Gamsol, distressing the card stock with Old Paper and Walnut Stain Distress.  The sentiment is stamped on a leftover panel of the flag and cut with Spellbinders Labels Twenty-One.  I embossed the panel under the photo using Core'dinations paper, then lightly sanded and added distress inks for an aged look.

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I happen to have the newspaper from 1945 that has an article about my grandfather and Uncle, so made a partial copy of that page, and stamped the solider image in Pumice Stone over the text, again distressing and inking the edges.

Details: (8" x 8" page)
Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs Not Forgotten, Old Flag Background
Card Stock - Black, Red, Navy, Vanilla, Core'dinations
Ink - Ranger Black Archival, Distress Inks Pumice, Walnut Stain, Old Paper
Other - Gamsol, Stubs, Distress Tool, Craft Mat, Ink Blending Tool, Bo Bunny Pattern Paper, Stars, EK Success Scallop Punch, Spellbinders Rectangle Dies, Spellbinders Labels Twenty-One, Staedtler Pencils, Staedtler Pigment Liner, Spiral Punch, Sanding Block, Tim Holtz Hammer, Stars Cuttlebug Folder, Big Shot, Piercing Tool

Thanks so much for stopping by, your next stop on the hop is Sabrina Jackson's Blog!  Remember,  to be entered into the drawing you need to leave comments on each designers blog, then return to the ODBD Blog and leave a comment, letting them know you completed the hop and noting any blogs you were unable to comment on.  (Please note, I moderate my comments to avoid SPAM, so they will not show up right away)