Welcome to Saturday, YNS friends! I hope your weekend is starting off well.

I’m introducing our second Guest Designer for the month of April and we’re so excited to be bringing two fresh faces to the YNS Team this month! We’ve been keeping an eye on our second Guestie for a while – her fun and bright style truly coordinates with the YNS products. Without further ado, please help me in welcoming Kendra:

Kendra Sand
Blog: Luv 2 Scrap N Make Cards

My name is, Kendra, I live in Wisconsin with my high school sweetheart and our two fun energetic kids!! ! I’m a SAHM in winter and work landscaping in summer! I have a passion for flowers!! As well as crafting! I started scrapping 15 years ago as both my husband and I raced at a local race track and I wanted to keep track of our wins and photos.  From that it grew into a HUGE obsession!  I started scrapping everything and then just over 8 years ago got into making all my own cards! I am so super excited to be joining YNS this month!!  Love all the products!!

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YNS Supplies: Outside Window Play | Gumdrops

I love her bright card so much and it’s truly perfect for the spring season! I sure hope that you’re starting to see blooms where you are. Kendra’s card uses our Outside Window Play set as seen below:

To see more of Kendra’s work, please head on over to her blog HERE.

Have a great weekend!
Thanh

G’day , YNS readers!! We may be introducing her on April Fool’s, but let me tell you, our first Guest Designer this month, is no fool! I’ve been communicating with her often these past few days and her personality just SHINES through her emails. I can tell that if we were to meet in real life, she’d give my abs a workout because she’d keep me laughing.

Please help me in welcoming our first Guest Designer this month:

Danielle Vincent
Blog: D’s Crafty Connection

Hello, I’m Danielle. It’s pronounced like Da-Neel – or if you are old enough to remember like Tenielle from the Captain and Tenielle (oops I think I may have just given away my age – lol). I’ve been married for 24 years to a man who is incredibly tolerant of my crafting obsession. We have a 21 year old son and a 14 year old daughter and two fur babies.

I’ve been a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for 21 years – this is how I pay the bills but my real passion is cardmaking and scrapbooking! This hobby of mine started as a form of stress relief and has turned into the most wonderful obsession. I started my blog – D’s Crafty Connection – in February 2012. I haven’t settled on one definite style yet – I’m still playing around and having fun as I continue to challenge myself. One of my dreams when I started my blog was to be on a design team for a blog and I’ve been very fortunate to have that opportunity as well as to be a guest designer several times. I am so thrilled to be with you at Your Next Stamp this month. I hope my creations will inspire you. I’m totally thrilled when I know that I have inspired someone in some way as I am constantly inspired by many of you – so wonderful to return the favor.

I’m looking forward to seeing your creations and visiting your blogs. I applaud you for entering challenges and sharing your creations – it’s a terrific way to help yourself grow and be inspired.

Hugs and Happy Crafting! D

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For Danielle’s first project with us, she used one of my favourite stamp sets, Oh, Jam It!

The inside of her card perfectly compliments the front: 

YNS Supplies used: Oh, Jam It! | Fun Faces | Whatnot Sentiments Three 

To learn more about Danielle, please head on over to her blog.

I’ll be introducing our second Guest Designer on the 4th and Julie will be up on the blog tomorrow and Friday with a Throwback post and a new challenge post.

Have a great day!

Thanh

Hello, hello! Welcome back to our second day of farewells. Yesterday we posted a summary of Veronica’s cards and today, we’re sending off Tanja Kewel-Neef. If you missed Tanja’s introduction post, you can read it HERE.

Tanja has such a unique style. She knows how to use her white space and draw the recipients’ eyes to the focus of their cards. You’ll see what I mean as we do a review of all the projects she created with us:

Thank you for all your hard work, Tanja! Hoping to see you hangin’ with YNS again soon!

Please visit Tanja’s blog to see more of her fun projects. Thanks for joining us today.

Thanh

Good morning, YNS friends! Here we are sitting at the end of March and it’s time to say farewell to one of our Guest Designers, Veronica.

If you missed her introduction post, you can read all about Veronica HERE.

Here are all of Veronica’s projects this past month:

How’s all of that for some awesome spring inspiration?! Thank you so much for joining us this month, Veronica!

Head on over to Veronica’s blog to see more from her.

I’ll be back tomorrow to say farewell to our second guest designer! See you then.

Thanh

Hello, hello! Welcome to March, lovelies. I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend so far. March is going to be an awesome month – with spring just around the corner (really!), the Design Team will be bringing you lots of inspiration! We also have two guest designers joining us this month and they’ll be joining us in our March release with sneak previews in less than a week away!

Our first guest that I’m introducing comes to us all the way from Germany! She’s sure got spunk and I love her simple and humorous style. You’ll see exactly what I mean in the coming month when you see her projects for Your Next Stamp.  Please help me in welcoming Tanja Kewel-Neef:

Tanja Kewel-Neef
Blog: Stamp Playground (Stempel Spielplatz)

Hi everyone, Tanja here!

I live in Germany somewhere between Hanover and Hamburg. Together with my hubby and our two kids.

I’ve been a paper crafter since I don’t  know when. I did this and that. The first time I held my first rubberstamp in my hand, I found my real passion. My main occupation isn’t very creative. But I searched and found satisfaction in paper crafting.

I love to make cards. Mostly my style is clean and simple. I LOVE monster stamps!!!! I can’t get enough of them. I buy every monster stamp I see. When I would like to make a card and it doesn’t work, my day is done and I’m angry!!! A little bit 🙂
Almost all of my cards get a black-line border. Without this border they are not complete (in my opinion).

I’m glad to be a part of the crafty community. It means a lot to me and I’m very happy that I get to have fun every day. To learn more about me, please go visit my blog.

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YNS Supplies used: Silly Monsters| Silly Monsters Two | Gumdrops

I love, LOVE this fun card from Tanja! She sure wasn’t kidding when she said she loved monsters. Just had to prove her point with making a monster card as her introductory project.

To see more from Tanja, please head on over to her blog.

Enjoy your Sunday!
Thanh

Hello! We hope that you are enjoying your week so far. I am excited to introduce you to our February Guest Designer:

Tara Godfrey
Blog: Inking on the Edge

Hi, I’m Tara (Tar-ah). I live in Ontario, Canada about a 45 minute drive from Toronto. I’m married to a great guy, Chris, and we have two awesome kids, Hannah and Kieran and two cute cats, Liam and Kato! I work full-time outside the home as an American Sign Language/English interpreter for the Canadian Hearing Society, a large non-profit organization.

I started out scrapbooking shortly after my son was born…about 13 years ago. Several years later, I stumbled across cute stamped images that could be coloured  with Copic markers…I was totally hooked!!! Soon after that, I started a blog, Inking on the Edge, and became involved in the on-line paper-crafting community and I’ve been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to design and teach for several local scrapbooking stores, popular stamp companies and challenge blogs! I LOVE the layered/embellished look usually with the addition of a “cute” stamped image. I spend all my free time getting inky, colouring up those cute stamped images with my Copics and die-cutting until my hearts content.

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For Tara’s card, she used Gumdrops, Open Scallop Die and the Smiley Happy Critter Crew Three which also happens to be our current Throwback Thursday set.

To see more of Tara’s wonderful work, head on over to her blog.

Thanks for stopping by and hanging out with us today! 🙂

Thanh