Your Next Stamp Designer Showcase - Birthday!

It has been a great month as we continue to celebrate Your Next Stamp's 7th birthday. We are continuing the party with a great feature series and another chance this week for a prize!

This week we have a special series taking place over on the Your Next Stamp blog and it's all about birthdays! There will be a variety of birthday themed projects showcased all week, so you will want to check it out each day.

My birthday project is a great gift for that bookworm in your life. I created a card along with a gift card holder and a bookmark. The card is decorated using Birthday Phoebe along with the Overdue Library Card and the Happy Birthday sentiment is from the Big Birthday Balloon dies set. All of the paper is from Simple Stories Sunshine and Happiness collection.

If you book lover is more than a bookworm, then perhaps a book MONSTER would work better. I used the books from the Birthday Phoebe stamps, adding one of the cute monsters from the Silly Monsters set. The bookmark was created with the second largest die from the Bookmark/Tag set.

I find most avid readers are very happy receiving a gift card from their favourite bookstore. I created a gift card holder using the Medium Tear Away die and Tear Away Tab Sentiments Two.

If you want to see more amazing birthday projects head over to the YNS blog.

There is a chance to WIN a stamp set of your choice by leaving a comment over at the YNS blog. Leave a comment each during our birthday features (August 15 to 18) for greater odds of winning. At the end of the feature week, a winner will be drawn from all the comments.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a wonderful day!

Supplies Used
Stamps: Birthday Phoebe, Overdue Library card, Silly Monsters, Tear Away Tab Sentiments Two
Dies: Big Birthday Balloon, Bookmark/tag, 
Medium Tear Away Tab die 

Paper: Simple Stories Sunshine and Happiness

Your Next Stamp - August Feature

Welcome to the August YOUR NEXT STAMP feature post. Each month the design team posts creations to inspire you, using specific themes or stamps. This month our feature theme is CELEBRATE!

Now this wasn't planned, however I think I have ice cream on the brain this summer. For the July feature, I used ELLIE LOVES ICE CREAM (here). This month as we celebrated a birthday for YOUR NEXT STAMP and it was also my birthday I created an ice cream themed birthday card. Summer birthdays and ice cream, nothing better!

I worked with all dies for my card. I used the die set from ZERO CALORIES to create the delicious triple scoop ice cream. I first cut the full ice cream out of the kraft cardstock. I then used the individual scoop die to cut out my yellow, pink and blue layers of ice cream.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from the BIG BIRTHDAY BALLOON die set and I also used the TINY STITCHES line die.

On the inside of the card I added another die cut ice cream and used a sentiment from the WHATNOT SENTIMENTS TWO set.

Supplies Used:
Dies: ZERO CALORIES,  BIG BIRTHDAY BALLOON and TINY STITCHES
Stamps: WHATNOT SENTIMENTS TWO 
Paper: Echo Park Birthday Girl

PRIZE ALERT!!!!

Head over to to the YNS blog to see all of the DT members sharing projects for today's feature. Leave a comment on the blog post for the August feature and you will have a chance to win a prize.  One lucky stamper will win a YNS stamp set of their choice!

Thanks for stopping by today and have a super crafty day!