YNS Holiday Hop

Hello and welcome to a special Your Next Stamp Holiday Hop! We are sharing projects made with YNS Holiday Stamps and Dies to wish our fabulous YNS customers a very happy holiday season! You are sure to find lots of inspiration and some great gift ideas along the way! The hop begins on Laura's Blog, and if you've been hopping along, then you should have arrived from Peggy's blog.

You have from today until Saturday, December 21st at midnight (EST) to hop with us! If you leave a comment on all of the blogs along the hop, you could win a $25 YNS Gift Certificate!!! Karen will announce the winners on the YNS Blog on Sunday, December 22nd.

For my project today I made another Fun Journal spread:

The beautiful image is Brandi and the sentiment is from the Holly set. 

First I painted with white gesso, then stamped Brandi with black StazOn ink and colored her with a combo of Distress reinkers and InkTense Pencils.  The tree was cut out from a piece of Webster’s Pages patterned paper and glued into the book in 2 pieces.  I cut the Insta Love Polaroid die cut out of matching paper, and flipped the inside piece over and stamped the sentiment on the back.  I rubbed a blue pastel over the edges of the book and glued down the Merry Christmas strip from the same paper as the tree.  I added modeling paste with a polka dot stencil and a bit of bling from Prima.  Finally, I painted some chipboard letters with gold paint and glued them onto 1 side.  I just love how this spread came out and hope you like it too!

Karen is having the biggest Your Next Stamp sale of the year with up to 30% off your order! She needs to blow out some inventory to make room for new stamps and dies!

Make sure you take advantage of these amazing deals! Now it's time to hop on over to our fabulous guest Laura's blog, but don't forget to leave a comment before you go! As always, happy hopping and shopping, and have a wonderful holiday season!

Dreams Do Come True

Hi all!  Today I’m going to show you something a little different – I’ve been playing around with an old book and am calling it my Fun Journal.  It’s not an Art Journal because not everything I do in it is art, but I definitely have fun with it all, hence the name!

Today’s spread was made for the Little Tangles challenge – White and Gold.  I got all the gold things together in my craft room and went to town!

I painted the whole spread with white gesso, then sprayed it with gold Memories Mist.  I added some modeling paste with a harlequin stencil and then cut some wings with my Sizzix wings die.  The wings were painted with gold paint and glued into the book.  Then I embossed the Dreams sentiment in gold tinsel embossing powder and folded it to make a pop-up element in the middle of the book over the wings.  Finally I added the vellum tag with Believer from Santa's Tags and some white twill ribbon with gold baker’s twine.  The very last step was to stamp the little snowflake from the Santa’s Tags set all over with Champagne Encore metallic ink.

I had so much fun making this!!  Hopefully I’ll be showing more fun journal pages in the future!  I hope you like it and TFL!

Special Delivery

Hi all!  Today I have a little mixed media tag using the Tinsel 'N Trim set from Reverse Confetti:

First I die cut an old Sizzix tag from a piece of corrugated cardboard, then tore most of the top layer off.  I made my own stencil by die cutting the Peek-A-Boo Dots die from MFT and used it to give the tag some modeling paste dots.  I then sprayed the whole tag with Memories gold mist and let dry.  I stamped the squiggly image from Tinsel randomly on the tag with black StazOn.

I stamped and cut out a little So Stripey piece with a Tinsel sentiment on top.  I made the flair (sorry for the glare of the light on it) using another Tinsel image layered on top of a snowflake made from Warm Winter Wishes die set from YNS.  The edges of all the pieces were inked with black StazOn and then I assembled them all together.

The final touches are some twill ribbon and Timeless Twine, both stained with Distress Ink.

This is for the following challenges:

• Shopping Our Stash – Holiday or Winter
• ABC Challenge – Almost Christmas
• SSS Wednesday Challenge – Make Your Own Background
• Mixed Media Color Challenge – Your Choice of Colors

I hope you like it and TFL!

YNS New Release After Party

Hi all!  Thanks for joining me for the after party, but don’t forget you still have time to hop!  For my project today, I used Winter Greetings Scene:

This is a super easy card to make because I didn’t do any coloring – I just stamped the scene in blue ink on blue patterned paper and added some dots of Stickles to the snow.  I used some MFT Blueprints dies and a sentiment from the same set to finish it off.  Hope you like it!

YNS November New Release Hop

 

Hello and welcome to the Your Next Stamp November New Release Blog Hop! We have several adorable new stamp sets, and an amazing new die set being released today! You can find them all NOW at the Your Next Stamp Store!

 

The hop begins on Julie's Blog, and if you've been hopping along then you should have arrived from Susan's blog. If you leave comments on all of the DT blogs you could win a stamp set of your choice as well as a pack of YNS Gumdrops!

 

 

And now for my projects today.  I’ve been wanting to try some mixed media projects so I dipped my toes in the water with this card:

 

I used the Perfect Blend scene set with some Glitz alphas for my sentiment.  I applied some gesso to a book page (so the print wouldn’t be bold) and then stamped the scene stamp.  I colored with InkTense Pencils and a little water and used Distress Ink on the edges.  Finally I mounted it on more gessoed  book paper with some cheesecloth and dark brown mulberry paper.

 

For my next project, I have a super cute and fun little box using the new Take Out Box die set that I helped design!!

 

 

I cut the box out of 12x12 patterned paper and assembled.  Then I tied it with some red twill ribbon and rustic twine.  Finally I attached a tag with a die cut sentiment  (both from the same die set) so you know there are treats inside!

 

As always, Karen is offering a fabulous hop discount! You will receive 15% off your entire order through November 27th!

 

 

You can also find YNS on Facebook and Pinterest .

 

Now it's time to hop on over to Thanh's blog, but don't forget to leave a comment before you go! Happy hopping and shopping!

Magic Inside

Hi all!  I have a card today made for the Little Tangles Shaped Card challenge:

Even though I used the set Santa's Tags, this is not a Christmas card.  It just expresses how I feel about my morning coffee!  I went with the Starbucks colors of white, green and kraft – all cut with my Zing using Make-The-Cut and the Lettering Delights cut set Love You A Latte.  I stamped the sentiment and added some doodle lines with a matching pen.  Finally, I added some rustic twine from May Arts.  I hope you like it and TFL!

Christmas Cheer FF

Hi all!  I have a Fun Friday with Your Next Stamp post for you today!  I went with the card sketch and came up with this:

Winter Fun Reindeer was stamped in black on white cardstock and colored with Prismacolor pencils.  I added red Stickles to his nose and a sentiment from Holly over his head.  The papers are from Echo Park, the twine is May Arts and the button is amuse studio.

We hope you’ll play along!  All the information you need can be found at the YNS Challenge Blog.  TFL!