Our Daily Bread Designs {Challenge 29}

Agh, Saturday! Yeah! It's been a crazy week with flooding here (11.49 inches at my house) so I am ready for some sun and relaxation! And joining in on our next ODBD Challenge sounds like a great idea to me!!! Your challenge this week is to add glitter or sparkle to your creation! Fun! So, let's grab the bling and get going!

Okay, so to be truthful, glitter and I are not friends. It makes too much of a mess for me, and it never works as I like it to. For you experts out there, maybe you can give me some tips. :) So, instead of using glitter for this challenge, I played with the only glitter friend I have--Stickles! I saw a card on SCS this week where someone embossed a card and added bling to the embossed area. So, I took that idea and ran with the Stickles on this card! :) The ODBD set I used is called Scripture Series 1.
Papers: K&Co. Addison, Bazzill, Paper Trey Ink
Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Series 1
Stamp Ink: Versafine onyx black
Embellishments: Stickles waterfall, diamond, and platinum; Spellbinders curved rectangles; Cuttlebug textile and polka dots embossing folders; Zva Creative roses; My Mind's Eye journaling card and brown gems; misc. ribbon

If you would like to see more "sparkle" creations, please be sure to check out the other ODBD Challenge Team creations here:

Chris Olsen
Chris Dickinson
Francie Gumprecht
Sabrina Jackson

To see all of the challenge and prize details, please see the ODBD blog post here. Yes, there are prizes, so you don't want to miss the details! Also please don't forget to upload your creations to Mister Linky in the same post by Thursday, September 16, at 8 p.m. EST to be eligible! Remember to use Keyword ODBDSLC29 when posting to online galleries. Thanks for stopping by, and blessings to each of you!

Tuesday's {Tip} Stickles Product Review

I haven't posted my articles here in a while but I thought some of you might enjoy my product review on Stickles. In my article, I talk about the different kinds of Stickles and explain the differences between them. There are several photos that might be helpful to you too. You can see my article here on Scrapbook.com or here on Scrapjazz.com. I hope this is helpful and that I haven't enabled you too much! LOL! Have a joyous Tuesday! :)

Organizational {Friday}

I thought we should talk Stickles again today! Many people are asking about the new Distress Stickles. Well, I bought a good supply of them, and then of course I had to organize them. So, I will tell you what I found and how I organized them.

First, the Distress Stickles are a little chunkier than the regular Stickles thus the opening is a bit larger. However, when they dry, I can't tell a whole lot of difference. I pretty much just choose the color I like and use it. I don't choose by the bottle name--Stickles or a Distress Stickles--I choose by color.

To organize them, I of course organized by color. I first went to the Ranger site and typed all of the Distress Stickles, Stickles, and Liquid Pearl names into a Microsoft Excel document. On the Ranger site, you can find the Distress Stickles here, the Stickles here, and the Liquid Pearls here.

Once I typed in all of the names, I organized them by color and printed out my document. Then I put a sample of each on my paper and let dry overnight. I will keep this in a notebook for reference when choosing colors. It is much easier to choose what I want to use by an actual dried sample than by looking at the bottle. Here is what my pages look like: So, can you tell a whole lot of difference between the Distress Stickles and Stickles by looking at these pictures? I love them both the same but I will say that having the larger opening on the Distress Stickles bottle does make them a bit harder to work with in smaller areas.

Once I my sheets were done, I put the bottles in that same order in my Stamin Thing Elite Organizer which I posted about here.
This organizational method works great for me. I hope it will help some of you too, and I hope it helps you see the minute difference between Stickles and Distress Stickles. Happy Organizing everyone!

Edited to add a link to my Excel file if you are interested. You should be able to grab it from here. Hope it helps! :)