Our Daily Bread designs May blog hop

I loooove it when I get to hang out with the Our Daily Bread design team! Today they are showcasing the new releases for May in a blog hop. If you're a regular reader of my blog and just happened upon my section of the hop, you may want to start back at the beginning. Prizes are involved!! The ODBD Blog is the place to get started - actually you'll start and end the hop there, and if you should happen to get lost or interrupted in between, you can always go there for a complete list of links in the correct order. If you came to my blog from Betty's blog, you are doing just fine.

When you see me playing along, you know that I've had a part in the new release...... this month, these designs are my contributions!
There is a texture plate that matches the background, too - this was the first one I've gotten to play with, and I love it! I have sweet memories of living in the South during our training, and those special front porch visits, and also love curling up in a cozy, quiet place with my Bible and a cup of coffee - those times of refreshment, just me and the Lord, are such a source of encouragement and strength.
Card details: I stamped the porch image on watercolor paper, and started off watercoloring it... by the time I finished coloring, I had used watercolor pencils, Prismacolor pencils, chalk inks, and Graphitint pencils to get the effect that I wanted - sort of an eclectic mix! I used a glaze pen on the windows, too. For the background, I spritzed a piece of textured paper with reinkers/water, then stamped over the paper after it was dry (I misted the stamp before stamping it, for a little bleeding and better coverage) and sponged the edges. I had a little extra spritzed paper so I layered that inside the card.
The flowers are from another of my sets called Don't Worry - they're also spritzed and watercolored with reinkers. I shaped them with the wooden end of my embossing stylus, and the smaller flowers are propped up with a little roll of foam tape. There is Flower Soft in the centers (Nut Brown and Ultrafine Sand). I used the texture plate on the lighter brown panel - that doesn't show well in the picture.
To be eligible to win one of five $25 gift certificates (!!), here is what you have to do:

* Hop to each blog on the list and leave a comment for each designer
* Return to the ODBD Blog, and tell us you completed the hop, answer the question they have for you there, and let us know if there were any blogs you could not comment on.

My blog is the last stop on the hop, so if you've left comments for all the other designers, leave me a comment here (I have my comment moderation turned on because I'll be sleeping while you hop... don't panic if your comment doesn't show up right away!!), then hop on back to the ODBD Blog and let us know! Thanks for visiting me today!