March Guest Designer … Peggy Toole

Posted by: YNS on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 2:00 pm

Before I introduce Peggy I’d like you to know that you have arrived in the correct place…this is the YNS blog and thanks to Simone my fabulous friend and DT co-ordinator we have a completely new look – YAY! You’ll find this new design to be very user friendly and I guarantee that you will find loads of inspiration from myself and the DT with the new posting rotation we have set up. Be sure to check in often or sign up to receive updates via email so you don’t miss out on all the fun hops and contests too!

Ok so let me introduce our amazing guest designer…

I am so pleased to welcome the wonderful and super-talented Peggy Toole as our YNS Guest Designer for the month of March! Welcome aboard Peggy!

Peggy Toole

Hi everyone! My name is Peggy Toole and I live near Salmon Arm in British Columbia with my very supportive and wonderful husband and 3 boys. I am a SAHM and love to stamp, sometimes I think it has taken over! lol I have been stamping now for almost 6 years and just love this hobby and all the great people I have met because of it. I was just thrilled when Karen asked me to be a guest at YNS and the opportunity to work with such a great bunch of women, I can’t wait to get started!

Peggy is a regular participant of our YNS Challenges, and has made many gorgeous YNS creations which you can see HERE at her blog. For today’s stunning card, Peggy has used the adorable Bubbly Fun Fhiona stamp. Don’t you just love those pearl bubbles, that fab sentiment, and check out the bathroom scene she has created complete with furry bath mat!

Thank you for joining us Peggy! We are so looking forward to seeing more of your amazing YNS creations!

Happy stamping!

Be Happy – Etsy Inspired

Posted by: YNS on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 8:00 am

Hi everybody! It’s Maureen here and I wanted to share a card I made for the Etsy Inspired Challenge, sponsored by YNS! I had so much fun looking through all the Claylicious creations and knew right away that I had to take inspiration from one of the fun plates. I picked this cute Be Happy plate:

You can see that I did a pretty literal take on it using Asha from India:

You still have some time to play along with this week’s Etsy Inspired Challenge – the deadline to link up your creation is tomorrow, February 25th, 2011 at noon Pacific time.

~Maureen =)

Using minis for tags/Etsy Inspired challenge

Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm

Hi all, Chris here! If you stopped by this blog over the weekend you may have noticed that Karen has asked the team to contribute to her blog and/or saw Beth’s awesome creation for the challenge YNS is sponsoring this week!!! If not, you may want to click here so you don’t miss it!

YNS is sponsoring the the fabulous Etsy Inspired challenge. The Etsy inspiration shop for this challenge is Claylicious for functional and decorative pottery.

I just love the minis available at Your Next Stamp! They are just perfect for tags!! I used this image here on the Claylicious site for my inspiration on my first tag. I used the mini Shopping Fhiona stamp and colored it orange and blue to follow the color scheme. The dp, which is from my scraps, mimics the swirls on the pottery.

Set of two nesting oval dishes in turquoise and pink

To play along in the Etsy Inspired Challenge:

**Go to http://www.etsy.com/shop/claylicious, look around, and find an item or two that inspires you.
**Make any *NEW* creation that you would like and post a link on the Etsy Inspired challenge blog by Friday, February 25th, 2011 at noon Pacific time.
**Give credit to the shop/item you found your inspiration from and link back the Etsy Inspired.

After creating one tag, I could not stop at one so….here are a few more I created. What is the most fun of all is using some of those scraps you keep saving!!

Tag created with Mini Windy Day Fhiona

Tag created with Mini Ellie Loves to Skate

Tag created with Mini Ellie with Pressies

Tag created with Mini Hanging Monkey

Tag created with Mini Ellie Loves to Bake

Tag Created with Mini Happy Days Mermaid

Tag created with Mini Rainy Day Fhiona

I hope you have enjoyed my creations. Have a great day!!

Happy St. Patty’s Day and Etsy Inspired Challenge!

Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 8:00 am

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Good Morning Everyone, Happy Tuesday!!!

Crystal here and I’m taking over the YNS blog today to share a couple of cards I made using these AWESOME and Adorable Your Next Stamp images. The first creation I would like to share is using Erin from Ireland. I decided to stamp and color her up twice, color them up with copics and create a Happy St. Patty’s Day Creation. Hope you Enjoy!!

For my next creation I would like to share with you a card I made with Sleepover Party. I just love this darling image and it is so perfect for those sleepover party invites or just to say I am so happy we are friends. For this creation I played along with the Etsy Inspired challenge that we are sponsoring. My inspiration came from this pretty purple plate HERE. Hope you Enjoy!!

If you would like to join in the fun for a chance to win an AWESOME YNS prize stop by the Etsy Challenge HERE!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, Have a wonderful Tuesday Everyone!

Etsy Inspired Challenge…

Posted by: YNS on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 12:00 pm

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Happy Saturday!

Karen here and I just wanted to send you this message from our fabulous DT member Beth! Since I’ve been so busy with orders and the March new releases I’ve asked my fabulous DT to take over my blog and post their creations for all of you to enjoy!

Check out this message from Beth and her fabulous YNS creation!!!

YNS is sponsoring the the fabulous Etsy Inspired challenge. The Etsy inspiration shop for this challenge is Claylicious, for functional and decorative pottery. I had so much fun perusing the wares and then I stopped dead in my tracks when I came this ceramic collage called

Mother You Hold My Heart

I just wanted to reach through the screen and touch this with all it’s amazing textures!

I say Bravo!!!!

I pretty much just cased this to the best of my abilities using Yippee Fhiona.

To play along in the Etsy Inspired Challenge:

**Go to http://www.etsy.com/shop/claylicious, look around, and find an item or two that inspires you.

**Make any *NEW* creation that you would like and post a link on the Etsy Inspired challenge blog by Friday, February 25th, 2011 at noon Pacific time.

**Give credit to the shop/item you found your inspiration from and link back the Etsy Inspired.

Happy Stamping!

YNS Challenge #36 – Paper Piecing

Posted by: YNS on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 2:31 am

Hello Friends!!

It’s time for YNS Challenge #36 – YAY!!! I always love our challenges and I hope you do as well! It’s a great way to challenge yourself to new techniques like paper piecing! Thanks for the great challenge Simonne!

Well I have to admit that I’ve been so busy filling CHA orders that I didn’t get a chance to create a card for this challenge but I hope to find some time this weekend because I need some stampin therapy to keep me sane in this crazy world!!! LOL

Anyway, I thought I would share Linda’s beautiful card with you today! She has used the adorable new Dutch girl Anika for her card and paper pieced her darling little shoes – CUTE!!!

Be sure to hop on over to the YNS Challenge blog to check out all the fabulous DT creations plus enter your card for a chance to win some YNS bucks! YIPPEE!!!

Happy Stamping!

Star Cuties

Posted by: YNS on Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 1:55 pm

Hello Friends!

It’s just crazy busy here at YNS since arriving home from CHA. We are excited to be bringing YNS stamps to so many new stores and our goal is to continue to expand so please keep the emails coming with new store suggestions – thank you for all your support and encouragement! I’m all about rewarding people for helping out so if you suggest a store to me and they decide to carry YNS I’ll give you 2 stamps of choice from the YNS store! YAY!

I have an adorable card to share with you today designed by DT member Jenny. She’s used the stamp Star Cuties for her card and the first time she shared this card with me I couldn’t help but say “awwww, this is so cute!” There is also a Mini Star Cuties stamp! FUN!

Well, I’m sitting here looking out my office window and we are currently having a major snow storm!! Looks like we’re snowed in for the day!

Stay warm everyone!

Happy Stamping

YNS Challenge #33 – Sketch Time!

Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 7:48 am

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Happy Wednesday!

It’s time for YNS Challenge #33 – YAY! Kerri is our fabulous hostess for this challenge and she has whipped up a super fun sketch for us.

I decided to use Keep Fit Fhiona and Keep Fit Accessories for my card. I think this stamp is so adorable!

Hop on over to the YNS Challenge blog to check out all the amazing DT creations plus we hope you join in the fun for your chance to win some YNS bucks!

Ok I’m off to finish some final details regarding my CHA workshop presentation and I’m working on uploading all the new stamps for the awesome release hop this Friday so be sure to mark your calendars!!! YIPPEE!!!

Happy Stamping!

Back To School Gift

Posted by: YNS on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 5:47 pm

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I really wanted to give my wonderful little niece Catherine a back to school gift so I decided to make a fun little card with a pocket!

I used some of the accessories from the Teacher Fhiona set along with some paper from the super cool Basic Grey Basic White paper pad, the Basic Grey Sugar Rush paper pad and the Grade School paper pad. I got out my handy little sewing machine to adhere the pocket…the first thing I thought of after sewing the pocket on was…Oh, Maylee and Kerri will be so proud of me! Look at my almost straight lines! LOL I then stuffed the pocket with the Girlfriends stamp set so Catherine can make cards for all her new little friends! FUN I just know she is going to love this!

I also added some fun buttons so that when you remove the stamp set the card still looks cool!

Shhh…don’t tell her that it’s in the mail as I want it to be a surprise!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Stamping!

Too Cute!

Posted by: YNS on Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 12:07 am

Hello!!!

This week is just flying by!!! I can’t believe that it’s Wednesday evening already! Brandon and I have been enjoying the sunshine but we also stayed in to tidy up the house and this is the photo I captured…

Is there something wrong with my son??? He has a tantrum if I don’t let him vacuum and then instantly grins ear to ear when he finally gets a hold of it! He even throws food on the floor just so we can vacuum it up!!! He really does give me daily giggles which is awesome :o)

I made my Mom her Mother’s Day card the other day and thought I would share it with you. I doubt she’ll see this post unless she blows the inch of dust off her laptop my Dad bought her 2 years ago for Christmas! I keep telling her I’ll teach her how to use it but I think all the technology scares her a bit…although she does enjoy playing bowling on her Nintendo Wii!! She’s so cute! That’s the reason I decided to use Flower Bouquet Fhiona for her card…she is just super adorable and I know she will make my Mom smile.

Have a great few days and I’ll be back soon!

Happy Stamping!