the Cross

Here is a second peek at Our Daily Bread designs' July release - this set is called "the Cross of Christ", and was created by........me! I had made the cross image for ODBD's watermarks, and apparently Kelley had some requests for the image as a stamp, so she commissioned me to create a set around it. (Thanks, Kelley!) The cross comes in 3 sizes (the largest is shown). There are 3 text stamps, and 4 interactive word stamps as well. Here's a peek at the full set!

The text stamp shown is a verse from the hymn "Beneath the Cross of Jesus". I love the line - "I ask no other sunshine than the sunshine of His face..."

For this card I stamped in black (Versafine Onyx) and then did a watercolor wash background. I miss my WC crayons...I like them better for filling in large areas...but they're overseas! I like the look of watercolor not going all the way to the edge - to get this effect, I draw a line just inside the edge of the paper with a WC pencil, then pull the color towards the center with a waterbrush. I threw a couple other colors in just for contrast. After the paint was dry, I highlighted the cross with a gold gel pen.

Behind the main panel I used True Faith printed vellum and metallic Prism paper, both available at ODBD.

Here are a few other samples using the set, if you haven't seen them yet - it is so cool for me to see these designs in other people's hands after working with them digitally for so long.

http://paperintheworks.blogspot.com/2008/07/our-daily-bread-sneek-peek.html
http://angelosity.blogspot.com/2008/07/july-divine-design.html
Angel's other card!
http://savorthejourney.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/07/12/at-the-cross-at-the-cross/
another card from Bev