YNS Challenge #51

Hello Stamping Friends!

Time for a new challenge at Your Next Stamp!!
Click here to find the current challenge!

I based my card on the sketch for the most part and grabbed a few of the inspirational colors!!

I decided to create a masculine birthday, shaker card!!

I used the Stripe-tastic Star Die Set to die cut the striped star for my shaker window!

I love the font used for the large Happy Die cut!  Which I placed slightly over the striped die cut star.  I then stamped the "birthday" in the bottom right corner from the Happy Everything stamp set in Stone Gray Ink!!

I love the combination of die cut and stamped sentiments!!  So fun!

I used the Scallop Star Edge Die for my die cut border!  I just love this border for Birthday cards!!!

And like most cases, I finished up my card by adding some lovely Gumdrops!!  I just LOVE these things!!!

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You'll love them!!

Have a lovely day!

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Scroll Pinecone Ornament

Hello Stamping Friends!


I used the Scroll Pinecone Ornament die from Frantic Stamper to create this card...

I'm a sucker for pretty ornaments!  I own so many ornaments its not even funny!  Which is why we put up at least 3 large trees a year!!  I just love the holiday season!!

I also used the Lovely Loop Edger for the border on the bottom!

I used the Finial Ornaments stamp set for the beautiful "Merry Christmas" sentiment!

Be sure to check out all of Frantic Stamper's products here!!

Have a lovely day!

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Sending You Birthday Wishes

Hello Stamping Friends!

Today I am on the Inspired By Stamping Blog!!

I have a fun CAS card to share with you featuring stencils!

I started by collecting a few fun supplies:

I started out using my blending tool, Fossilized Amber ink and my Jumbo Polka Dot Stencil to add a few circles along the bottom left edge of my main cardstock layer.

I then slightly moved the stencil and added the circles again, but this time with the Spiced Marmalade ink!
How fun!  I love the look!

But I didn't stop there!

I decided to grab my Circle Dots stencil to add some more circles!!

I also had to grab some painters tape to do some masking with this stencil as I only wanted some of the fun dots!  I inked some random dotted circles in Peacock Feathers and Festive Berries ink!

Ready for my fun finished CAS Birthday card?!

Here it is:

I just LOVE how it turned out!  So glad I decided to combine the two stencils together!!

I love the font of the large "Sending" sentiment from the Sending You stamp set!  I also really like the tiny coordinating sentiments in the set to go with it!

Be sure to check out all of Inspired By Stamping's products!

Have a lovely day!

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YNS Sale

Hello Stamping Friends!

Karen, owner of Your Next Stamp, is celebrating her 40th Birthday today!!!

Happy Birthday Karen!!

In honor of her birthday she is having a big sale!!

DON'T MISS OUT!!

We also decided to have a surprise BLOG HOP for her to wish her a wonderful Birthday!!!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY Karen!  Hope you have an absolutely amazing day!  Thanks for everything!!

Be sure to wish Karen a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!  Visit the YNS Blog to leave her some love!!

How exciting!!!

Have a lovely day!

Thanks with D2BA

Hello Stamping Friends!!

I'm on the Dare 2B Artzy Blog today!!

It is so hard to believe that it is almost the end of October already?!

The views here are absolutely gorgeous with the leaves changing colors!!  I just love it!

So today I am once again featuring the Tangle Leaves stamp set!  Such a lovely stamp set for those fall cards!!

I started by collecting a few supplies:

I used some scrap paper and painters tape to create a rectangle mask across by white cardstock layer.

I used my blending tool to add ink to the masked section in circular motions...

I started with adding Sunset Yellow and then added Bright Pumpkin around the edges!

I then took the masking off as I wanted to add the "Thanks" sentiment and one of the large leaves from the Tangle Leaves stamp set!

 As you can see from my photo, I added the sentiment just under the inked rectangle I created!  I also stamped the large leaf so that part of it was outside the rectangle as well.  They were both stamped in Chocolate Chip Ink!

I then used some large post-it notes for masking, so I could then go back and add the smaller leaves in my inked rectangle.

 I stamped them in Sunset Yellow, Bright Pumpkin and Pomegranate!

Such a fun technique!!

Here is my finished card:

I just LOVE how it turned out!! The added pearls add a nice touch!

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Thanks for stopping by! 

Be sure to check back for more amazing inspiration!

Have a beautiful day! 

YNS Favorite Technique

Hello Stamping Friends!

It's Feature Day at Your Next Stamp!!

Feature Day Theme Is....
Favorite Technique

There are so many fun techniques to do with cardmaking!
But my absolute current favorite technique by far are SHAKER CARDS!

They're so much fun to create!!!

I decided to create a shaker with the adorable snowman from the Snow Much Joy stamp set!!  I just LOVE this snowman!  So sweet!!

To create my shaker I used the Circles with Stitching and Piercing Marks Die Set!  I love this die set!

As I was creating this card, I hadn't thought of it, until I was done, but it ended up looking like I created a snow globe for the snowman to be in!!

I stamped the "Let it Snow" sentiment from the Little Darling Winter stamp set in Black Olive Ink!!  The shapes in which I stamped the sentiment on, were created from the Pillow Box Die set!  I love the scallop rectangle!! 

I finished up my card by adding some Purple Plum Divine Twine and Grape Punch Glittered Gumdrops!!

Be sure to check out the other DT projects on the YNS Blog and leave a comment for your chance at winning a stamp set of your choice!!

Be sure to check out all of the lovely products at Your Next Stamp!!
You'll love them!!

Have a lovely day!

Sweet Holiday Joy

Hello Stamping Friends!


I have a super sweet card to share with you using dies from Frantic Stamper!!

I had so much fun with the Little Gingerbread House Die!!

What a sweet holiday card!  I just love how the house turned out!!  

Be sure to check out all of Frantic Stamper's products here!!

Have a lovely day!

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Sparkly Snowflake

Hello Crafty Friends!!

I have a fun card to share with you today using some awesome products from The Stamps of Life!!

I stamped some of the fun snowflakes from the snowflakes2stamp set in some awesome non-traditional Christmas colors!!

For the large sparkly snowflake, I die cut the snowflake from the Snowflakes Die Set from a piece of Grape Cardstock with a piece of Sizzix Adhesive on it!!  I peeled away the adhesive sheet and added glitter to the sticky part!  

Making the snowflake all sparkly!!  I love it!!

I used the new Sizzix Merry Christmas 3-D Drop-In for the inside!

How fun!!


TSOL Products Used

Stamps: santa2stamp, snowflakes2stamp

Dies: Sizzix 3D Merry Christmas, Snowflake Dies

Ink: Licorice, Ocean, Guava, Grape, Kiwi

Paper: Grape, Powdered Sugar,

Misc.: Sizzix Adhesive Sheet, Glitter, Guava Button, Pink and White Twine, Enamel Dots

Be sure to check out all the lovely products from the The Stamps of Life here!!

Have a lovely day!!

Trick or Treat

Hello Stamping Friends!

It's Designer Showcase Week at Your Next Stamp!!

We are celebrating Halloween...
with a Trick or Treat theme!!!

What a perfect theme, with Halloween just a few short days away!!

I decided to take this opportunity to create candy packages with my daughter for her class!!

We needed to create 20!  So we kept them simple, yet fun!
We used the awesome Treat Topper Die Set!!  My daughter had so much fun, as I let her cut out all the rectangle pieces from white cardstock!

We then created the handle part with random colored and patterned cardstock! 

We used random YNS stamp sets (listed below) to create the stamped portion of the treat bags!

I stamped the images in colored ink, so that I wouldn't have to color all the images in!

So fun!!  She is so excited to give them to her friends!!

Your Next Stamp Products Used:

Fab-BOO-lous Halloween

So Corny

SpookTacular Halloween

Halloween Phoebe

Halloween Pumpkins

Treat Topper Die Set

Black Olive Ink

Purple Passion Ink

Olive Green Ink

Be sure to check out the other DT projects on the YNS Blog!!  So many fabulous projects being shared this week!!

Be sure to check out all of the lovely products at Your Next Stamp!!
You'll love them!!

Have a lovely day!

YNS Challenge #50

Hello Stamping Friends!

Time for a new challenge at Your Next Stamp!!
Click here to find the current challenge!

Here's some inspiration for you:

Here is a card sketch....

and photo/colors to find inspiration from....

So fun!!

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Here is the card I created...

I used the Peek a Boo Trio Die Set Large to create the square opening, in which I then decided to use for a shaker card!!

I stamped the Batty Background Ink Splatter in yellow and Olive Green Ink on two of the squares that were made from the die and stamped the Mini Batty Background Ink Splatter in orange and Purple Passion Ink on the other two!

I also decided to stamp the Batty Background Ink Splatter on the bottom right corner of my pattern paper to make it a little more interesting!!

The sentiment is from the SpookTacular Halloween stamp set!  Which I stamped with Black Olive Ink on the tag from the Cool Tag Three Die Set!!

And as in most cases, I finished off my card by adding some lovely Gumdrops!!  I so love YNS's gumdrops!!! 

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Be sure to check out all of the lovely products at Your Next Stamp!!
You'll love them!!

Have a lovely day!

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Goodie Goodie Gumdrops

Hello Crafty Friends!!

I have a fun card to share with you today using some awesome products from The Stamps of Life!!

For this adorable card I used the adorable GIRLgingerbread2stamp set along with the cute matching extras4gingerbread stamp set!!

Isn't the card sweet?

I loved the fun "Goodie Goodie Gumdrops" sentiment in the GIRLgingerbread2stamp!  So I knew right away I wanted to use that sentiment and I pictured fun gumdrops on the page!

But I didn't have a gumdrops stamp!?!
As I looked at the extras4gingerbread stamp set the light bulb went off!!  I decided to use stamp intended to ink the pocket for my gumdrop!!

So super fun!!
I love how it turned out!!!


TSOL Products Used

Stamps:  GIRLgingerbread2stamp,extras4gingerbread

Dies: Gingerbread Girl Dies

Ink: Licorice, Chocolate, Tangerine, Kiwi, Banana, Guava, Seaglass,Grape, Pixie

Paper: Powdered Sugar, Guava,Gingersnap

Misc.: Powdered Sugar Glitter,  Pink Rhinestone

Be sure to check out all the lovely products from the The Stamps of Life here!!

Have a lovely day!!

A Little Yummy

Hello Crafty Friends!!

I have a fun tag to share with you today using some awesome products from The Stamps of Life!!

I'm so excited to share this fun tag with you today!!  I had so much fun creating it!!  I used the awesome Tag Holder Die Set!!

I used the new gingerbread2stamp set as well as the new moregingerbread2stamp to create the adorable gingerbread boy!

I liked the "a little yummy for your tummy" sentiment, and thought that would be perfect for this tag to put a DQ Gift Card in!!

What a fun way to give a gift card!!

I just LOVE how this turned out!!!


TSOL Products Used

Stamps:  gingerbread2stamp, moregingerbread2stamp

Dies: Gingerbread Boy Dies, Tag Holder Die Set

Ink: Chocolate, Powdered Sugar

Paper: Gingersnap, Congratulations Collection

Misc.: Gingersnap Twine, Silver Glitter Button

Be sure to check out all the lovely products from the The Stamps of Life here!!

Have a lovely day!!

Halloween Spiderweb

Hello Stamping Friends!


I have fun Halloween card to share with you, using dies from Frantic Stamper!!

I really like the Spiderweb Card Panel!!
Makes creating fun Halloween cards so easy!!

I just really like the large spiderweb!!

I also used the Spooky Spider Die for the large spider, perfect matched up with the web!!

How fun!!

Be sure to check out all of Frantic Stamper's products here!!

Have a lovely day!

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YNS October DT Dare

Hello Stamping Friends!

It's DT Dare day at Your Next Stamp!!

DT Dare is....
Square

A fun dare to take on!!

I instantly thought of the awesome Stitched Square Frame Die Set for my card!!  

I also wanted to use the super fun Create A Christmas Tree Die Set!!  I was so very excited to get this die set!  I just love Christmas trees!!  Which is probably why I put up 3 regular sized ones every year!!  :)  They make me so happy!!

I die cut the tree from the perfect piece of green paper from the Woodlands Paper Pack, the sheet is a gradient piece that went from a light green to a darker green!  How perfect to use for creating this tree!!  I also used a piece of wood looking paper from the pack as well for the trunk!!

For my sentiment I used the "Merry & Bright from the Scripty Holiday Words Die Set!!


Be sure to check out the other DT projects on the YNS Blog and leave a comment for your chance at winning a stamp set of your choice!!

Be sure to check out all of the lovely products at Your Next Stamp!!
You'll love them!!

Have a lovely day!

Holiday Hugs with TSOL

Hello Crafty Friends!!

I have a fun card to share with you today using some awesome products from The Stamps of Life!!

Have you seen the adorable new gingerbread2stamp set?!?!

How cute!!
I had so much fun with this set!!

I also used the coordinating Gingerbread Dies!!

I used the Oval Flip-Its Die Set to create this fun flip-it card!!  I just absolutely LOVE those die sets!!  Makes creating these fun cards so easy!!

TSOL Products

Stamps:  gingerbread2stamp

Dies: Gingerbread Boy Dies, Oval Flip-It Card Set

Ink: Chocolate, Green Apple, Strawberry

Paper: Gingersnap, Green Apple,  Strawberry, Powdered Sugar, HoHoHo Collection

Misc.: Gingersnap Twine, Wood Holly, Christmas Enamel Shapes

Be sure to check out all the lovely products from the The Stamps of Life here!!

Have a lovely day!!