Your Next Stamp Challenge #52

Good Lord.  Please forgive me.  I'm two days late on posting my card since I have been sicker than ever.  Hi everyone, welcome back.  Since it's Wednesday (in my head any way) it's time for another Your Next Stamp challenge.  And I have to say I love this challenge because it's a sketch one.  Our ever so lovely Kerri gave us the adorable sketch to use.  And I love it.  I used the new Happy Fall image for the focal point of my card.  I love this happy little tree.
Now it's your turn.   Here's just a few rules that need to be followed:
1. You must use a YNS Rubber or Digi Stamp to play along
2. You may enter as many times as you like
3. You are welcome to combine your entry with other challenges
4. Have FUN! We want to see your awesome YNS creations!!!  

Thanks for stopping by and I think I need to speed myself up to Friday.  :-)

Hugs and happy stamping~

Dana

Heart Song Inspiration Challenge #17

Happy Monday everyone.  Glad to see you came back by.  Today's challenge at Heart Song Inspiration is to make a card using ribbon and/or tags.  Well I had this gorgeous brown silk ribbon just waiting to land itself on a card.  Since it already feels like fall outside I thought I would pair my ribbon with the autumn friend image from Heart Song Designs.  I love this adorable scene.  Don't know if you can tell or not but I have the pumpkin, sunflowers, bird and some of the leaves popped up on pop dots.  One of the flowers and the pumpkin are popped up twice while the other ones just once.  I think it gives this image more of a 3D effect. 

Okay, now that your creative juices flowing, let me see what you can create with ribbon and/or tags.  Make sure you link your creation up on the HSI blog.  You have until 6PM SUNDAY October 2nd.

Hugs and happy stamping~

Autumn is Coming

Well, summer is officially over.  Don't really know where the time went.  But I must admit that I do love the fall/autumn season.  It's the time of year when you can start to put on those cozy sweaters and relax with a cup of cocoa.  These are the days I long for when it's 101 degrees here in Georgia and you are sweating like a pig.  LOL

Today was a perfect day to join in Mo's Digital Pencil challenge to show off some autumn colors.  When I think of the fall, I think of the leaves turning yellow/gold with the warm colors of orange. I colored up Mo's Digital Pencil image named Peaches with all the warm colors of fall.  I placed her on this amazing Cafe Mediterranean paper from DCWV. I love this paper.  I'm also submitting my card in today's Paper Sundaes Challenge.  I think Peaches will fit in nicely over there.  Well, thanks for stopping by peeps.  Make sure to head back this way tomorrow for the Heart Song Inspiration Challenge.

Hugs and happy stamping~

YNS has DIES!!!!

Stop the press.....YNS has DIES!!  Yup that's right.  Karen is launching a line of dies at Your Next Stamp.  This is the first one to be released.  It's called holiday lights.  Don't cha just love it!!! 
YNS Dies are made in the USA of quality steel and are designed to work in all major die cutting machines. These dies cut through all sorts of different materials – paper, acetate, cork, felt and much more! Karen will include directions (in  pdf format) in every package plus she will post a link on the YNS blog so you can see them in action and have an online reference.  How cool is that?

Here's my card with the new stamp and die.  I love this new die.

Check out what some of the other DT members has done with their lights:

Karen (our lovely YNS owner)
Kerri
Maureen
Peggy
Amy
Jenny P

So many creations with just one stamp and die.  But wait.  There's more.  You have a chance to win the entire set.  That's right...the stamp and the die.  All you have to do is leave a comment on the blogs above then enter your name on the YNS blog for your chance to be the first one on the block with this set.  People will be so jealous. ;-)  Good luck everyone.

Hugs and happy stamping~

Fur with a Difference

Happy hump day!  It's the middle of the week baby and I can see the weekend.  LOL  While running through blog land I came across the Copic Creations challenge and I had to join in on the fun.  The challenge was to "color" fur with a twist.  This just made my day.  Of course they had to show care bears as an inspiration.  Oh I used to love my care bear.  He was pink and my boyfriend (now husband) gave him to me.  He's so sweet.  So I colored my bear in honor to the one I had years ago.  I can't remember the maker of this image.  But he's the cutest right?!?!

So what do you think?  Do you have any memories of your first care bear.  If you do, tell me about it.  I would love to hear your story. 

Hugs and happy stamping~

Club Kid

Morning everyone.  Glad you're back today.  Wanted to show you a card I made for several challenges.  As you may already know, I am always coloring up images and saving them for future challenges.  This is one of my favorite images from Kenny K.  Her name is Club Kid.  I'm way passed my days of hanging out at the club but she reminds me of my "youth".  LOL  So today I'm entering my card into the My Favorite Kenny K challenge along with this week's Tuesday Throwdown (fall card) and Splitcoaststampers (color) challenges.  Whew, that was a mouth full. 

I hope you like my little creation today.  And if you haven't seen Carole's CCC for this month, hop on over to Your Next Stamp for some entertainment and all the details.  Also you'll have a chance to get your hands on some goodies.

Hugs and happy stamping~

Heart Song Inspiration Challenge #16

Oh, what a lovely Monday morning.  That's what I have to keep telling myself to get out of the bed. (smile)  It's a Monday for sure so you know what we do on Mondays....HSI challenge time!  This week we want to see you use orange or buttons on your cards.  Don't have any orange supplies, well how about throwing some buttons on your card instead?  I have a ton of both.....(such a wicked habit I have LOL).  I used the adorable fence friends image from Heart Song Designs.  I think you can dress this image up for a summer or fall scene.  I used my Copic airbrush system on this card.  Second time using it and I believe I'm hooked.  LOL  I can see me airbrushing the world over.  Help me now. ;-)  Please join in on the fun.  You have until 6PM September 25th to get your card linked up.    Have a great Monday everyone.

Hugs and happy stamping~

Celebrating 100 with a sketch

Well I'm back.  It's a dreary day here in Georgia.  A good day to stay in my stamp room.  Looking at all the lovely challenges this week I decided to play along in the DP2 100th Challenge.  Way to go!!!  So happy for Mo.  And since I haven't played in awhile over at Sketch Saturday I whipped up a card for their challenge that would go with Mo's image.  So, how did I do??

Now it's time to clean up the mess I have created.  Plus my fabulous hubby is helping me yet again rearrange my stamp room.  Oh, how I love that man.

Hugs and happy stamping~

Happy FRIDAY!!!!

Yup, if you didn't know already...it's FRIDAY baby!  Time to get the weekend started.  Just sending out a reminder to join in on the blog hop over at Your Next Stamp.  The hop runs until TOMORROW.  Also, don't forget about our paper piecing challenge.  You have until the 27th to get your card done.

Have a safe and happy weekend.

Paper Sundaes Challenge #86

Hey you guys.  Here's a quick card I made today for the Paper Sundaes Challenge - Finishing Touches.    Once again, I had the image colored and paper matched already.  The image is from Make it Crafty and she's called Rosie To School.  I love this big headed image. Super fun to color too.  Since I normally don't do anything to the inside of my cards since I usually write a message, I decided to just trim out the bottom of the card.  This way I have plenty of room to stamp my sentiment and still write my message.  Thanks for stopping by today.  See ya back here soon.

Hugs and happy stamping~

YNS Too Cute To Spook Blog Hop and Challenge #51 Paper Piecing

Good morning peeps.  Are you guys ready for a hop?  I hope you arrived here from Kerri's blog.  If not start at the beginning so you don't miss a thing.  Today YNS is releasing the September images and OMG...they are too cute.  Plus today is also challenge day so get your paper piecing tools together.  To start, this darling image is called Ellie Loves Sunflowers.  I think she is precious.  I love her!!  I paper pieced her skirt and colored her with Copic makers.  She's available in the store starting today.   But wait that's not it.  I thought I would try out the "color with no lines" technique and made this card with Ellie.  Oh I have to say I might be on to something.  This technique is a bit challenging but I LOVE the results.  It gives the image such a soft look. 

But wait there's more.  I just couldn't stop with showing you one stamp so I made a gift card holder with the new Celebrate the Journey image.  He's soooo cute!  I put my son's debit card in the slot as I added some cash to it for an upcoming field trip.  Once again this stamp is available starting today.

Now for the fun part.  The hop will run from TODAY until MIDNIGHT EST Saturday September 17th.  Karen is throwing in an AWESOME store promotion for you.  She's offering special stamp bundles plus a free stamp (her choice) for every $30 spent. So if you spend $30, you'll get 1 free stamp, spend $60 get two free stamps, etc.  What a deal!!!  Thanks Karen so being so generous.

Don't forget that this is a challenge as well.  So make sure you participate and link your card to the YNS blog. Check out the hop prize.  Karen you have out did yourself this time. You can enter for any of our blogs.  Now I'm sending you over to Jenny's blog.   

Copic Certified - YAY

Morning everyone.  Just thought I would show you a card I made yesterday for the SCS Clean and Simple Challenge.  This week the challenge was to use this sketch.  Super cute.  I colored the Royal Proclamation image from Tiddly Inks.  She's demanding that I shop so I guess I'm off to the store.  LOL  Also, I wanted to share with you that I'm now Copic certified.  Yay me! 

I had the chance last Thursday to spend the day with the lovely and ubber talented Colleen Schaan seen here in this photo with me. Picture is a little fuzzy (sorry).  Colleen is so sweet and the best Copic teacher ever!  I'll be signing up to take the intermediate class with her too.  Wish me luck on getting a spot.  Well, gotta run.  See ya back here tomorrow.  There's something BIG happening so make sure you stop back by.

Hugs and happy stamping~

Heart Song Inspiration Challenge #15

Welcome back.  Glad you're starting your week off with me.  Yay!!  Since today is a Monday you know it's time for another Heart Song Inspiration Challenge.  This week we want to see you create something with either glitter and/or chipboard.  So pull out all those pretty bottles and pens with stunning glitter and let's get to crafting.  I must say I have a ton of unused chipboard that I just came across the other day.  That right there tells you that I have all kinds of stuff "hidden" from myself in my stamp room.  It's like a treasure hunt.  LOL  For my image I used the ever so adorable chick parade for my card.  Can't get enough of these little cuties.  I used some glitter pens on the flowers and leaves.  Not sure if you can really see it in the photo.  The silly circle and smaller circle are chipboard pieces.

Okay, now it's your turn.  You have until 6PM MST Sunday September 18th to get your card link over on the HSIC blog.

Wishing you luck!

Hugs and happy stamping~