Hi all! I have a card for a couple challenges today:
The bear with pinwheel is from the What A Blast stamp set and the sentiment is from Kick Some Grass. I paper pieced the pinwheel and did a tiny bit of coloring with white and black Prismacolor colored pencils.
This is for the following challenges:
I hope you like it and TFL!
Hi all! It’s time for our monthly DT Dare over at the YNS Blog and this time our theme is Anything Goes! Here’s what I came up with:
I used the new set Boom! and the matching die set along with a card cutting file from Lori Whitlock. I paper pieced most of the firework with patterned paper and colored his arms, feet, and the fire with Copics. Finally I added some google eyes and popped him up on the card with foam boosters. I white heat embossed the sentiment on the center panel.
Please check out the YNS Blog for all the DT Dare cards and comment there for a chance to win a stamp set of your choice! TFL!
Hi all! Today I have a card made for the TCP Tuesday challenge – paper piecing:
I paper pieced PJ the Bear with 2 different papers, the clouds with the same paper as PJ’s muzzle and tummy, and the pinwheel with 2 different papers. I used a funky blue piece of paper for the sky and a green piece for the grass. Finally I stamped the sentiment on the same light paper and punched it with a 1” circle punch to go with the background paper.
This is also for Simon Says Stamp – Animal Antics. I hope you like it and TFL!
Hi all! Today I have a card for a couple of challenges:
All stamps are from Lawn Fawn’s Say Cheese set. This is for Lawnscaping – Clean & Simple and Simon Says Stamp – Take a Picture. I hope you like it and TFL!
Hi all! This is a reminder that you still have 1 more week to play in the current All That Scraps Challenge – Anything Goes! Here’s what I came up with:
I used the new Meoples Beep Beep – isn’t it adorbs? I paper pieced the car and watercolored the rest with a combo of Distress Inks for the skin and Inktense pencils for all the rest, including the shading on the car. The “road” is washi tape, the flags at the top are from Blueprints 2, the sentiment is from Sentiment Sampler and the car exhaust is from Cyber Cafe.
We hope you’ll play along! Just remember that you must use a C.C. Designs stamp, including - AmyR, Drozy's Darlings, Mashi's Muffins, Sweet November, Lil Lads & Lolitas & Webbie's Words. TFL!
Hi all! Today is a reminder post that you still have 1 week to play along with the current All That Scraps Challenge which is Paper Piecing. Here’s my card for this week:
Fairy Abigail was stamped and her hair and skin colored with Copics. I paper pieced her wings onto glitter cardstock and her dress onto patterned paper. I also paper pieced her little hair piece and did some shading with colored pencils and OMS.
The sketch is from Mojo Monday and the sentiment is from Sentiment Sampler. We hope you’ll play along. Just remember that you must use a C.C. Designs stamp, including - AmyR, Mashi's Muffins, Sweet November, Lil Lads & Lolitas & Webbie's Words. It will be deleted if not. TFL!
Hi all! I have a card today using the current Clean & Simple Stamping sketch:
I changed the rectangle shape to a square and turned it on its side for my card.
The wisp of steam is from Cyber Cafe and all the rest are from Hot Concoctions from Paper Smooches. This is also for the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge – Anything Goes. Hope you like it and TFL!
Hi everybody! Today I have a reminder post that there’s still a week left to play in the current All That Scraps Challenge. The theme is ABC – Anything But a Card. This week I made a fun little play set with the Meoples Dress Up Snowman digi set:
The snowman was printed on white cardstock and colored with Copics. Then I covered him with clear laminating paper and backed him with sheet magnet. It was a little tough cutting through all those layers, but still doable!
The hats were all paper pieced with patterned paper and colored with Copics. The I covered them with laminating paper and backed them with magnet just like the snowman. My tip is not to use the thinnest, weakest magnet you can find (like I did) just because you think it’ll be easier to cut – the hats have a hard time sticking on top of the snowman’s head because of all the layers. I ended up having to put a little bit of adhesive on each of the hats to hold them more securely.
Here you can see him with one of the hats on:
We hope you’ll play along with us at ATS! Don’t forget to use a stamp that’s sold in the ATS Store and you can find the rest of the details at the ATS challenge blog. TFL!
Hi all! Sorry this is late!! I have my Fun Friday project for you today! This month our theme is Gifts and Giving. Here’s a little envelope I designed to hold a gift card and little message to the recipient:
This is Merry Mouse Candy Cane – isn’t he just the cutest?! The whole thing was colored with copics except for the bow which I paper pieced.
Here’s a shot of the back closure – none of the flaps are glued so the whole thing can open:
I designed the whole thing in Make-The-Cut – it even cuts the little circles with holes for the string closure. I used some Trendy Twine to hold it together. The envelope and circles are cut from 1 piece of double-sided 6x6 paper. I even had some left over for the paper piecing on the front!
And here’s how it looks open:
You can write a little message in there and a gift card fits in perfectly! I hope you like it! And be sure to check out the YNS Blog for more Fun! TFL!
P.S. This is also for Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything Goes.Hi all! Today I have a post for the All That Scraps Challenge. The theme for these next 2 weeks is ABC – Anything But a Card – so much fun! I created a little envelope to hold a gift card:
I used Latte Monkey and a sentiment from the AmyR Stamps Big Words & Handy Additions Sentiments. The cup was paper pieced and the heart and monkey colored with Copics. Then I fussy cut them out leaving a thin white border and adhered just the bottom of the monkey to the envelope. The top of his head is free to hold the flap down. Here’s the open view:
We hope you’ll play along with our Anything But a Card challenge! Everything you need to know is on the Challenge blog and remember to use a stamp that’s sold in the ATS Store! TFL!
Hello! Welcome to the Your Next Stamp November New Release Blog Hop! We are so excited this month because we are introducing ANOTHER new illustrator to the YNS family ~ Macy Wong! Her images are so super sweet and we know you are just going to love them! We also have some adorable new Franfou images, and Mabel Designs! If you came here from Jen R.'s blog, then you’re on the right track. If not, please start the hop at Kerri’s Blog.
Did someone say prizes??? We have 3 new release prizes hidden along the hop! You must leave comments on all of the DT blogs to qualify for the prize drawing. You have until Friday, November 9th at 12 midnight (EST) and the winners will be posted on the YNS Blog on Saturday, November 10th.
Now on to my projects:
First up, I have a fun card using the new Little Drummer Penguin:
The sentiment is from the previously released Christmas Carol Circle Stamps set. I think any of the carol stamps would go great with this cute little guy!
Next up is a card using the new Holiday Joy Robin set in a very special way:
Here’s how the set looks unaltered:
You can see that I used the upper portion of the branch to hold my nest, which was made using the new Mini Branch die! I cut out the branch multiple times from white and dark brown cardstock. I colored the white versions with Copics to have different colored branches and I snipped them and smushed them to form a little bird nest. If you look at the close shot below, you can see I even snuck a little bit of Timeless Twine in there for fun:
For the bird, I paper pieced her and added an extra wing behind her because I thought she looked better that way. I hope this gives you some inspiration to look at your stamps differently!
BTW, Karen is also offering a fabulous Hop Special ~ 15% off your entire purchase including sale items! The code is YNSNOV2012. She also has some great bundle deals and some awesome steals in the YNS Bargain Bin!
Now it’s time to hop on over to the most awesome & talented & sweet Karen’s blog, but don’t forget to leave me a comment before you go! Happy Hopping!
Hi all! Are you ready for a sneak peek of one of the upcoming November releases from Your Next Stamp? I have a peek today using Sing Song Robin which will be released on the day of our New Release Hop – November 6th.
I paper pieced the present and parts of the bird and added the notes and sentiment from the same set. I added a touch of shading with Copics and drew the ground line by hand.
Be sure to check out the YNS Blog for more peeks! TFL!
Hi all! Today starts a new challenge over at the All That Scraps challenge blog. The theme is Anything Goes! So break out any of your stamps that are sold in the ATS Store and play along!
Today I made a little tag using the adorable new Swiss Pixie Santa Lula:
I colored her with Copics, paper pieced her hat and dress and added white flock to all the white trim areas. The sentiment is from the Christmas Sampler set from Paper Smooches. I added dots of Stickles all over the tag and hand drew the dotted and dash line frame. To finish it off, I added some organdy ribbon tied with a little rustic twine.
You have 2 weeks to play along with our anything goes challenge – I hope you’ll join us! All the info you need is on the ATS Challenge Blog.
This is also for Winter Wonderland – Anything but a card (with a Christmas theme). I hope you like it and TFL!
Hi all! Today I have a card made for the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge (inspiration pic). I was inspired very literally by the picture – white object topped with a tiny yellow object on a grey background. Then matted on white and black with a yellow base.
I used the All Yule Need (tree and star) and Christmas Sampler (sentiment) sets and a bit of really old Basic Grey patterned paper. The hill was drawn in with a white colored pencil and the star was stamped with yellow ink and colored with a yellow Copic. The finished card is 3.25" x 5". I have a bunch of envelopes for this size card so that's why the odd size! I hope you like it and TFL!
Hi all! I have another non-Christmas card using a different Christmas set from Paper Smooches called Christmas Sampler:
This is for A Day For Daisies challenge – Pop it up using their image Freehand Butterfly 1, this is the version with music notes. I used the sketch from Unscripted and papers from the MME Follow Your Heart – Be Happy paper pad.
I paper pieced the butterfly, fussy cut it out and adhered just the body so that the wings could pop up off the card. I hope you like it and TFL!
Hi all! This is a reminder post that you still have a week left to play in the current challenge at All That Scraps. The theme is Anything Goes and here’s my card for this week:
I used the new Snow Noel and the first snowman is wearing the hat from Snow Joy (to which I added white flock). I paper pieced the hat and letters and used a sketch from Unscripted Sketches. We hope you’ll join us and TFL!
Hi all! Today I have a reminder post that you still have a week to enter the current All That Scraps challenge – use the colors kraft, black, red and blue. Here’s my card for this week:
I used the adorable Cow & Pig set, which was colored with colored pencils and odorless mineral spirits. Her dress was paper pieced with some of the same patterned cardstock that was used on the rest of the card (it’s from My Mind’s Eye). I generated the frame and sentiment in Make-The-Cut and printed from MTC as well.
This is also for Dutch Dare – Sugar & Spice.
We hope you’ll play along – don’t forget to use a stamp that is sold in the All That Scraps store! TFL!
Hi all! Today I have a card made for the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge – a sketch:
And here’s my card (using the sketch turned on its side):
I used the Spookalicious (owl and pumpkin), Alphadot (boo) and Spring Groves (branch) sets.
I die cut clouds using the Puffy Cloud die set from YNS and used them as masks when airbrushing the background. The branch and pumpkin were paper pieced and the owl was colored with Copics. I cut out a couple extra eyeballs for him so I could make it seem like he’s looking down at the pumpkin. The word balloon was cut using my Zing and Make-The-Cut. Finally, the grass die is from MFT and I sewed it on with a tiny zigzag stitch.
This is also for Pile It On – patterned paper and Creative Card Crew – tree. I hope you like it and TFL!
Hello and welcome to the Your Next Stamp September New Release Blog Hop!!! We know you are just going to LOVE all the new stamps and dies and they are available NOW in the YNS Store! The hop will run from today, until Monday, September 10th at midnight (EST).
If you’ve come here from Susan's blog, then you’re on the right track. However, if you just happened across my post, you’ll want to start at Amy's blog so you don’t miss anything!
What’s a hop without prizes?! We have 3 New Release Prize Packages hidden throughout the hop, so make sure you leave comments for your chance to win! Winners will be announced on the Your Next Stamp Blog on Tuesday, September 11th.
*** And now on to the show!***
For my first card, I used Quackers the Duck:
The sketch is from iSpy Sketches. I paper pieced most of Quackers and colored his tongue and did some shading with Copics. A bit of twine and the matching sentiment finish off the card.
For my second card, I used the beautiful Heartfelt Sentiments:
I said it before, but I just *love* this set!! The sentiments and fonts are just fabulous!! The sketch for this card is from Sketch Saturday and the rolled rose and leaf dies are from My Favorite Things. I finished off the card with some inking around the edges and machine stitching. Hope you like them!
BTW, Karen is also offering some amazing Hop Specials! There are several Bundle Deals, PLUS you get 15% off your order (Sept. 6-10) by using online code Sept15OFF! Make sure you take advantage of these great deals!!!
Now it’s time to hop on over to the amazing Jen R’s blog, but before you go, don’t forget to leave me a comment for your chance to WIN! Happy Hopping!
Hi all! Today is my first post for the All That Scraps challenge team – YAY! This week is a reminder week that you still have time to enter the current challenge, which is Anything Goes.
I used the soon to be released Cow & Pig which will be available on the 6th:
She was watercolored, her dress paper pieced, colored with Copics and popped up, and I added an extra snout for dimension, which you can see here:
The sketch is FTL #206 and the papers are from the My Mind’s Eye Love Me paper pad. The sentiment is computer generated.
Everything you need to know about the challenge can be found on the ATS Challenge Blog. I hope you’ll play along! TFL!
