Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 7:00 am
Hello! It’s time for YNS Challenge #44 – YAY! DT member Maureen is our talented hostess and she has challenged us to make a shape card – no squares allowed! I love making shape cards so this was a really fun challenge for me.
I decided to ink up the super adorable Franfou Design Fetch the Dog…isn’t he adorable? I’ve gotten a little more ‘daring’ when it comes to coloring…you’ll see that I added some grass which is something I’ve never been all that good at but I think it turned out pretty darn good this time *grin*.
The sentiment 4YOU is from the new Scenes Sentiment set which is such a great set for so many different occasions.
Be sure to stop by the YNS Challenge Blog to check out all the details and enter your shape card for your change to win some YNS stamps! YAY!
Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Hello Friends!
It’s June and we are finally getting some nice sunshine and HOT weather! YAY! Hopefully the sun is shining for you as well.
I’m excited to introduce you to our fabulous and talented June YNS Guest Designer…Jen Roach! Welcome to YNS Jen! I was so excited when I stumbled upon Jen’s blog, she had entered a card into one of our YNS challenges and I instantly fell in love with her fun creating style.
Here’s a tid bit of info about Jen in her own words…
Hi everyone! My name is Jennifer and I live in Ontario, Canada with my husband and 19 month old daughter. I’m a scientist by day and a paper crafter by night —or really just about any free time I have including my lunch breaks at work!!
I started out in paper crafting back in about 2002 when my Mom and I took a scrapbooking class together. A few years later I decided to give card making a try and it’s been my passion ever since. I’m the world’s slowest scrapbooker so the instant gratification of card making really won me over. Over the years I have used more and more stamping in my designs and I love learning and trying new techniques and styles.
I would probably define myself as a “scrappy stamper”. I *LOVE* patterned paper and most of my cards have lots of it with added layered on embellishments and textures. My cards may not be easy to mail but boy are they pretty!!
Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 9:56 am
Happy Wednesday!
WOW! This week seems to be flying by! Have you entered your name into the May New Release Hop Prize Draw? If not, be sure to click HERE to check out our super fun hop that’s going on until this Friday.
It’s time for another YNS Challenge! YAY! Kerri is our talented hostess and she has a sketch for us!
Posted by: YNS on Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 7:00 am
Happy Saturday!
Today I’d like to share a few sneak peeks with you! YAY! All the new stamps will be available to purchase starting Monday May 23rd plus we are having an inspiration blog hop so be sure to join in on all the fun!
Today I’m super excited to be bringing back Summer Fun Fhiona!!! She is so CUTE in her little polka dot bikini!!!
Check out Peggy’s adorable card…
For our 2nd peek I’m pleased to introduce you to our new Amazing Box Scenes create by Dale. I instantly feel in love with these and I think you will too! I’ll be releasing 2 scenes this month along with a fabulous sentiment set designed by Heather Rolin called Scene Sentiments.
Here is Dana’s card showcasing the all new Amazing Golf Scene along one of the new sentiments…
And here’s Peggy’s card showcasing the super fun Amazing BBQ Scene…
These box scenes are perfect for Father’s Day cards and so many other occasions!!! – I hope you enjoyed Day 2 of our Sneak Peeks! See you again tomorrow with a few birthday fun peeks in honor of my son’s 3rd birthday!!!
Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 7:00 am
Hi everyone!
I hope you are having a fabulous week!
The DT and myself have been working on some inspirational bundles just for you!
What’s a YNS bundle?
It’s a hand selected bundle of products that all co-ordinate so that you can spend more time creating and less time trying to decide which products go together.
Each bundle has some inspirational cards for you to use as inspiration towards your own design.
Plus all the YNS bundles come with an automatic 10% discount!
Peggy has created this fabulous new bundle featuring Berry Patch Ellie…
Posted by: YNS on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 7:00 am
Hi everybody! It’s Maureen and from now on I’ll be posting here on the YNS Blog on the Sundays after the new challenge is posted. Here’s my card for today:
Since it’s almost Easter, I decided to use Easter Bunny Fhiona, this time actually leaving her as a bunny. But I did have to have some fun, so I made her dressed as a chocolate bunny!
I stamped Fhiona on a white cardstock circle and colored her face and basket with Copics and colored pencils/odorless mineral spirits. Then I paper pieced the bunny outfit on some (fittingly) Bo Bunny patterned paper and cut the pieces out, gluing them over the stamped image. BTW, the outfit was shaded with colored pencils and OMS also.
Finally I added a sentiment that comes with Fhiona and a couple little heart eggs from the Hoppy Easter Accessories set.
Just a quick reminder of a couple challenges going on:
Posted by: YNS on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 7:00 am
Hi everybody! It’s Maureen here and I wanted to share a card I made:
I used Flower Bouquet Fhiona and some REALLY old papers from Heidi Grace. Fhi’s headband and dress were paper pieced and the rest was colored with Copics (yes, even those really thin and tiny bits in the bouquet – just go really slowly and carefully!) and cut out with a Nesties die. The “4u” was cut with Quickutz dies and I did the lattice scoring on the background with my Martha score board.
Just a quick reminder that our new challenge just started – “Make It Sparkle”. We hope you’ll play along with us!
Posted by: YNS on Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 8:00 am
Hi everyone! It’s Maureen here and I have a cute little project to share with you:
I used Mini Ellie with Pressies to make a little decoration you can hang on a gift! I also decorated the back:
Before I go I wanted to remind you of our new challenge that just started yesterday – use the color blue on your project. There’s plenty of time to enter so I hope you’ll play along!
Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Hey everyone!
Just popping by to let you know that the brand new YNS Challenge #37 has been posted today and our challenge this fortnight is the colour challenge of BLUE. So we want to see a little or a lot of this fab colour on your challenge entries!
You don’t have to use a YNS stamp on your challenge creation to enter our prize draw, but of course it would be wonderful if you do! If you do enter a new YNS creation, you will be entered twice into the prize draw and then also entered into our Top Pick contest – that’s three chances to win from one entry, pretty cool don’t you think? [If you don’t use a YNS stamp, please note that you can only enter one card per challenge – thanks!]
Whilst you’re there, why not have a wee look at the Inventory Blow Out Sale section, where Karen has listed selected stamp/stamp sets at 35% off! But wait … that’s not all! Be sure to hop on over to the Clearance section where you can find selected cling-mounted stamps at 50% off, selected bare rubber stamps at 60% off, selected embellishments at 35% off and a few 4.5×6.5″ sampler designer paper packs at 35% off! WOW! What a great time to snag a bargain … or two…or three, LOL!
We also have a BRAND NEW and exciting product that has just been added to the site … YNS Glittered Skittles. That’s right, Your Next Stamp now has its very own YNS Embellies! Glittered Skittles are fun embellishments with a dash of glitter perfect for cards and scrapbook pages. You can easily adhere them with glossy accents, and they come in a variety of colours and in 2 sizes (4mm and 3mm). Here’s a picture of the yummy variety pack called “Fruit Salad”, but you can also buy them in single colour packs. CLICK HERE to view the complete range.
When you’ve finished filling your basket, do hop on over to the YNS Challenge blog to see the beautiful creations from the rest of the DT.
Just incase you want to make a card similar to this, I will write these simple instructions so you can see how fast you can make this card in 5 steps! These mini YNS stamps are perfect for quick cards!
1. Make card from cardstock. 3″ x 3″
2. Cut 2″ x 2.25″ piece of cardstock for your background; adhere to cardstock.
3. Stamp YNS Mini image of your choice and sun; color, trim and adhere.
4. Die-cut grass and adhere with foam dimensional tape.
5. Stamp sentiment.
Easy peasy! And in a snap; great for a quick card!
Heres another you can do in less than 5 steps too!!
Don’t you just LOVE cards you can make quick when you need one fast and dont have time to spend an hour or more on one? I know for me it comes in handy. Thats why I love CAS design. And thats why I LOVE Your Next Stamp Mini’s. Be sure to check the full line HERE.
I hope you enjoyed my creations today.
Thanks for peekin’ by! Have a fabulous week! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Other Supplies:
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink
Cloud and grass dies: My Favorite Things and Papertrey Ink
