Posted by: Julie Elak on Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 12:01 am
Oh how fast the time goes by, especially when you are having fun! Martha Tucker and Jill Norwoodjoined us as guests for the month of November and it is already time to say goodbye.
Martha and Jill were troopers this month, they joined in all the challenges, design team posts and the new release. They each handled change gracefully, even when the new release date was moved up! All of their creations made us smile and hopefully you were smiling right along with us!
Let’s take a look at some of the projects they shared with us over the past month.
Posted by: Julie Elak on Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Happy November 1st!
You read the title right, this month Your Next Stamp is lucky to have 2 wonderful guest designers joining us! They will be joining in the bi-weekly challenges, November release and all the other DT posts – basically EVERYTHING!!! Yay!
Please join us in welcoming Martha Tucker and Jill Norwood to YNS! Each brings a different style to share with us, but both know how to up the cute factor!
I am a mother of two beautiful children , I have been married to my wonderful husband for eight years, crafting is my absolute passion, there is rarely a day I don’t make a mess in my Craftroom!
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Here is Martha’s first YNS card for November featuring the stamp set Love and Smiles…get ready to shake, shake, shake.
Hello my name is Jill Norwood and I blog at Greenwoodgirlcards.blogspot.com. I love to stamp and am beyond thrilled to be guest designing for Your Next Stamp! Thanks so much Karen and Designers for letting me join you for the month of November!
Here is a little info about me: I have been crafting in one form or another since I was a little girl and have always loved paper and fiber arts. I was married for 12 years to the love of my life Stuart, whom my son and I lost to brain cancer in 2012. It was during my husband’s long illness that I began to use my scrap booking supplies for card making and fell in love with stamping!!!! I made lots of thank you cards for the many angels who helped us during this difficult time. And in turn I became a part of this wonderful community of card makers and crafters who are the sweetest people in the world! My son and I live in Seattle, Washington and love the Pacific Northwest with all of its natural beauty. If I am not in my studio creating you can find me working at my son’s school, spending time with family and friends, playing in my garden, crocheting, or curled up with a really good book and a lovely cup of coffee or tea. I hope that you will be inspired by my projects! Happy Crafting!
Be sure to stop by Martha’s blog and Jill’s blog to say “hi” to each and check out all their creations. Stay tuned to see more of their work over the next 30 days.
Posted by: Julie Elak on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 12:00 am
Happy October!
We are excited to announce that Faye Wynn-Jones is joining us this month as our guest designer. Faye took part in a YNS release hop earlier this year, but we get her all month long in October. That means you better get ready for clean and simple cards featuring amazing coloring.
I’m Faye, and I’m addicted to Copics (and choklit). Wife, Mum, Self-Confessed, Obsessive Colourist, and E-mail/ Facebook/ Blog Stalker. How do I fit all that into a day? Simples. I run on Fairy Dust. Yep, sense of humour features in there too. When I’m not doing any, or all of the above, (and sometimes when I am doing them) you’ll more than likely find me day dreaming.
I’m a Copic Regional Instructor for the UK, and plan on working towards becoming a European Copic Colouring Master. My style is very clean and simple. Why clean and simple? I like to give the image space to be the image. You’ll find I doodle a lot too. In fact, people often recognise me for it.
So, to recap. Faye. Regional Copic Instructor. Obsessive choklit munching doodler. Impatient daydreamer with wacky sense of humour. Belongs to Very Understanding Hubby and Child. Often spotted lurking near biscuit barrel, Copic in one hand, some form of electronic gadget in the other…
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Here is Faye’s first YNS card for October featuring Sprinkles – Coffee and Tea. Don’t you think it would go perfectly with a biscuit?!
Be sure to stop by Faye’s blog to see more of her wonderfully colored cards and stay tuned to see more of her work throughout October!
Posted by: Julie Elak on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 6:00 am
September is coming to an end and it is time to bid adieu to our September guest designer, Vicki Poulton. Oh how time flies when you are having fun and oh how we had fun this month! Vicki’s creations made us smile all month long!
Please join me is saying farewell to Vicki. Let’s take a look back at a few of her creations and smile some more. Be sure to check out Vicki’s blog “Cards by Vicki” for even more inspiration.
Thank you Vicki for joining us this month! We look forward to seeing your future YNS creations.
Posted by: Thanh Vo on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 11:37 pm
Hello September! We’re getting ready for the September release and we’re so happy that Vicki Poulton will be joining us as our guest this month! Please help me in welcoming her to YNS:
Hi I am Vic and I am 32 years old. I live with my boyfriend and we have two daughters Millie who is 4 and Poppy who is 7 months. We live in Buckinghamshire England. I have been crafting for a very long time about 11 years now and I absolutely love cardmaking. I am always crafting late at night and I could spend hours making cards. I feel very lucky to be a guest designer this month and this is my first spot designing. I am so excited!
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Here’s Vicki’s first card that she created for us:
Posted by: Thanh Vo on Monday, August 24, 2015 at 12:01 am
G’day, YNS friends! We hope that you had a great weekend. Joining us today is ous special guest contributor, Francine, and she’s showcasing one of our new favourite sets at YNS.
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Hi everyone!
This is a special month for YNS. They are celebrating their 6th birthday and the new August release is AWESOME!!!!! There are 9 NEW stamp sets, 15 NEW die sets and 2 NEW Sparkly Gumdrop sets!!!! YAY! It’s party time!
To celebrate this birthday, I decided to make a video tutorial. For my card, I used the NEW Silly Monsters Incognito One stamp set. This is my take on this set:
Here is the video showing how I did this card (HERE is the link in case you can’t see the video player below):
CLICK THE
HD ICON TO WATCH THE VIDEO IN BETTER QUALITY
***SUPPLIES I USED***
Stamps:Silly
Monsters Incognito 1 (Your Next Stamp) Inks: Black Licorice Hybrid Ink (MFT) Copic markers: Y08, Y17, YR16, R05 +
grey and pink shades Papers: white cardstock, black &
white stripes patterned paper Various: 1 Inch circle punch, Copic
Multiliners, 3D foam pads, tape runner, trimmer, etc.
***TIPS & TRICKS***
If you don’t want to draw a line onto your cardstock, you can stick masking tape or post-it tape instead. Later, you can easily remove the strip
and there will be no pencil mark on your cardstock.
The sets with fun faces and accessories are super versatile! Try to think out of the box!
Keep a lot of white space and don’t add too many different colors or patterned papers. This will bring more focus to the stamps you are showcasing!
Don’t forget to visit the YNS Instagram and Facebook pages more fun projects from the Design Team or check their !
Posted by: Thanh Vo on Monday, August 17, 2015 at 12:01 am
G’day, friends! I hope that you had a great weekend. We have a very special guest joining us on the blog today all the way from Australia! Kathy Tanner sure has a treat for you today with her post about sewing on cards. I just adore her sweet flowers that she sewed on her cards. I’ll let her take it away:
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🙂 Hi!
I am very excited to be a Guest Designer for Your Next Stamp this month. I love their cute and quirky designs, they just make me smile. They are celebrating their 6th Birthday and I get to join in the fun! Yay!
I made the Jessica with her Kitty card for my daughter’s birthday and you can probably tell that she is a “purple-loving girl”. She loves it when I do a bit of stitching on cards too and I thought Jessica would look great walking through a field of flowers.
It’s so nice to do some sewing on a card, it really adds an extra little something in my opinion and I think the receiver can see the love that’s gone into the making of it.
I decided I would try giving Phoebe some flowers too. I just did the stems slightly differently and used brighter colours this time.
So I thought I would try to show you how I made the flowers on these cards. If you’re like me, you’ve tried lots of different crafts before getting totally obsessed with card makingl! Cross-stitch was one of my previous loves and I have LOTS of embroidery cotton sitting around.
I’ve used 1 strand of green for the stems and 2 strands of a colour to make the flowers.
I’ve also used an embroidery needle, some white card and a small foam mat.
You could get very precise and measure the stems so they are all even, all the same height, etc, but I haven’t bothered to do that with these cards – it is all done by freehand.
I pierce 2 holes with my needle for the stem, thread it with 1 strand of green cotton and start from the back coming to the front and tape the end to the back of the card. Complete a simple straight stitch. You could do it without pushing the needle into the card on the foam mat, but I find the card gets bent that way.
Then take the needle out and thread with 2 strands of colours for the flower. Now you are going to sew a French Knot. You might already know how to make one, as they are used in some cross-stitch and embroidery work. They are easy when you know how.
You come from the back of your work again. Come up through the hole which is the top of the stem you made. Leave a little thread at back and tape down.
Pull thread through to the front.
Hold the thread tightly in your left hand and wrap the thread over and around the needle.
I did 3 wraps for the flowers in the middle and 2 wraps for the outside flowers. The more wraps you do, the bigger the flowers are.
Still holding the thread tightly in your left hand, you turn the needle down and into the same hole that it came up from. Pull slightly on the thread in your left hand to tighten the “wraps” a little.
Slowly push the needle through to the back of the card, while holding your left thumb on the thread and keeping it taut, keep pulling the thread all the way through and you should have a beautiful little French Knot Flower.
I just use double sided tape to adhere all the threads to the back of the card.
As I use a fairly large needle, it leaves quite a largish hole in the card. The top hole is covered by the French Knot, but I like to cover up the lower hole by using patterned paper as “grass”.
For the Jessica and her Kitty card I had the 3 flower stems coming from the same starting hole. But with the second card, I did all the flowers separately.
I hope you’ll give embroidery on your cards a try!
Thanks for joining me today on the YNS Blog and you can learn more about me on my blog at Stamping Still. For more YNS inspiration, you can head over to the YNS Pinterest page.
Posted by: Thanh Vo on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 8:14 pm
Oh me, oh my, we’re almost done with July! It’s Thanh here with you and yes, I can be that cheesy in person. 😀 I know I say this every month and I’m sure it gets old, but this month has gone by fassst! We were so fortunate to have two guest designers joining us this month and now it’s time to say farewell.
Please help me in saying farewell to both Laura and Francine. Laura has one last card with us this Friday in the Fun Friday Challenge. Here are some of my favourite cards from both of them and if you’d like to see more of what they’re made of – or rather, what they can make, please go and visit them on their blogs!
Posted by: Thanh Vo on Monday, July 6, 2015 at 12:01 am
Happy Monday, YNS friends! I hope you had a great start of July and to our American friends, we hope that you had an extra amazing weekend!
Don’t forget, you still have plenty of time to hop along in our July release right now.
I’m always so excited to introduce our guests, but our next guest comes all the way from Europe. She’s been our special guest before and a pleasure to work with in the past. If you hopped along in our July release, you may have noticed that she also created some wonderful projects already seen HERE and HERE. Please help me in welcoming Francine as our first July guest:
My name is Francine! I live in Switzerland in the wonderful Three Lakes Region with my sweetheart and our three cats. I’m bilingual in German and French from birth.
I discovered scrapbooking and cardmaking in 2009 by leafing through a book and it was love at first sight! I like playing with different styles and techniques. It depends on my mood and inspiration. But I always love coloring, rainbow and bright colors, making splatters, using stencils and blending tools, paint brushes and watercolors. When I’m not crafting, I spend my spare time cooking, playing bowling and party/board games with friends, taking walks along the lake or going on boat trips with our motor boat during Summer. I couldn’t live far from a lake and without my cats! Cuddling with them makes me SO happy!
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Francine’s card is so awesome – no pun intended! I love her signature style that always focuses on some color and then using lots of white space to emphasize the splash of color.
Keep an eye out on what Francine is creating this month, she’s been known to enable a lot our fans! hehe. To learn more about Francine, please head on over to her blog.
I’ll be back tomorrow to introduce our second Guest Designer. Have a great day!
Posted by: Thanh Vo on Monday, June 29, 2015 at 12:34 pm
G’day, YNS friends!
An official happy summer to all! In my neck of the woods, this week is the official start of summer as all the kiddos are now off from school. As we’re wrapping up June, we’d like to say farewell to both our awesome June Guest Designers.
Please help me in saying farewell to both Tonya and Lori. Here are some of my favourite cards from both of them and if you’d like to see more of what they’re made of – or rather, what they can make, please go and visit them on their blogs!
