Posted by: Thanh Vo on Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 11:13 pm
Here we are wrapping up November! For our American friends, we hope that you had a great Thanksgiving weekend filled with lots of good food and fun times with family and friends!
We were very lucky to have two guests join us this month, Leeann Markowitz and Chitra Nair. They have both done a fabulous job and I’d like to thank both of them for a wonderful month full of great projects that showcased Your Next Stamp really well.
If you missed out on their introduction posts, you can read about Leeann here and learn all a few things about Chitra here.
Posted by: Thanh Vo on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 12:01 am
Hey there, Your Next Stamp fans and welcome to Wednesday. I’m back to introduce you to our second November Guest Designer this month. We are very lucky to have two Guests joining us this month and you can read all about our first guest, Leeann, HERE.
I’ve been admiring this designer for the past few weeks; please help me in welcoming Chitra:
Hi, my name is Chitra and I live in Detroit, Michigan. I came into the card-making world in 2012 and started blogging in order to join some awesome challenges and now I am totally loving it.
I love coloring – it doesn’t matter what coloring medium it is, it is simply relaxing for me. I love bright and fun designs and I love trying new techniques and new styles. I am awestruck of all the wonderful blogs that I see and I hope that one day my blog will be up to that level and it is my hope through my blog to inspire others and to keep learning, growing & creating.
Thank you sooo much for this opportunity; love love the super cute images and super excited to be guest designing for YNS….YAYY!!!
Chitra has used Winter Fun Robin and gumdrops to create this fun seasonal card. We hope that you are ready to see lots more of Christmas themed inspiration because Chitra, Leeann and the rest of the Design Team have a plethora of projects to show you this month!
We hope that you are enjoying your week so far. We have a special treat for you this month, not only am I introducing our November Guest Designer today, we actually have two Guest Designers this month! Yes, we are bringing on two new fresh faces to showcase YNS images this month and with the November release less than a week away, these ladies will surely knock your socks off with inspiration! First and foremost, please help me in welcoming our first Guest:
My name is Leeann and I live in a small town SE Pennsylvania, USA. I work in Applications Support by day and am working on my Bachelors Degree at night. I have 3 gorgeous kids and the most perfect 3-year-old grandson.
I’ve been enjoying paper crafting for about four years and there are so many wonderful new things to learn that I will never stop trying new techniques. My favorite method is a mix of traditional and digital scrap-style card making as you can see in many of my creations. I was so happy to have been invited to be a Guest Designer for Your Next Stamp, especially since I got to play with some of the most adorable stamps and stay true to my style. I hope you’ll enjoy using YNS stamps as much as I have!
Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, October 29, 2014 at 11:39 am
Good morning, YNS friends! I hope you’ve been having a great week so far. October has been such an exciting month for us with our new release, launch of the new website and of course, having Amy as our Guest Designer. She’s created some super fabulous projects this month and you can see a review of everything she’s created with us on her blog. As a dear friend of mine, I’ve always been a big fan of Amy’s work. Her clean and simple designs are truly unique to Amy and continues to inspire both beginner and intermediate paper crafters! A fun fact about Amy is that she LOVES coffee and she’s been making so many fun caffeine inspired projects so if you love coffee inspired projects, too – definitely drop by her blog. We’re going to miss you here at YNS, Amy, so make sure you don’t go too far! 🙂 Here’s one last project from Amy:
YNS Supplies: Mason Jars Please head on over to her blog to send her a warm YNS farewell! Thanks for hanging out with us today! Thanh
Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 3:06 pm
Good morning, YNS friends! I hope your week started off well so far. I can hardly believe that the end of September is already here and that tomorrow is the start of one of my favourite months of the year! With the end of September comes the time to say farewell to our September Guest Designer, Sue.
Thank you so much for joining us, Sue! Your lovely autumn inspired creations totally got my own creative juices flowing and I can’t wait to get my own hands inky with some more YNS products. Sue started off her month with an awesome Thanksgiving dinner set up and you can see that HERE.
I actually squealed when I saw Sue’s last project for this month – I love seeing YNS products being used in scrapbook pages and 3-D projects!
Check out all those lovely leaves from our Piles of Smiles die cuts! How cute is the scarecrow to accent the layout!
Please go visit Sue at her blog and give her a warm farewell from all of us! Once again, thanks so much, Sue.
Thanks for stopping by today and have a lovely day!
Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 4:01 am
G’day, YNS friends! I can hardly believe that the summer has come and gone and we are at the beginning of September. We hope you’ve enjoyed your summer and are ready for lots of autumn inspiration coming up in the next few weeks! Here to help us with some of that inspiration this month is Sue Taylor-Hill and she’s got some FABULOUS fall ideas for us today. Please help us in welcoming Sue this month!
My name is Sue Taylor- Hill and I live near Toronto, Ontarioa in Canada. I am a blessed wife, Mom of two wonderful Girls (and a lazy yellow Lab) and love to do anything with scrapbooking, cardmaking and crafting. I am a paper and embellishment hoarder (because it makes me happy) and I covet my Copic markers. When I am not in my craft room, I love spending time at the cottage and with my family.
I am thrilled to be a part of YNS for the next month and working with such a talented group of designers!
In my family, Thanksgiving is a huge affair and is always held at the cottage with family and friends. When I saw the Autumn Greetings stamp set, I knew I had to make things for our next dinner!
I created a card which can be used as an invitation, place cards and napkin rings.
How’s that for the perfect Thanksgiving setting? I love your projects, Sue! If you asked me to dinner, I’d be totally WOW’d by all your attention to the details.
The set used in the above samples is called Autumn Greetings and the images in the set are as seen below:
Please head over to Sue’s blog and give her a warm YNS welcome! Thanks so much for stopping by today.
Posted by: YNS on Sunday, August 31, 2014 at 4:01 am
I want to thank Sharla for a fabulous month on behalf of Karen and the YNS Design Team. We had Sharla as our Guest Designer for the month of June and August! If you missed her bright and whimsical introduction, you can see it here. Here is Sharla’s last project for the month of August – I thought she did an amazing job at the beginning of the month with her card… but her last project – WOW!!! Her scrapbook page is so on trend with colours and embellishments!
Sharla used the Insta Love set which is perfect for scrapbook layouts as well as cards. Look at how cute this couple is, friends!!! I’m so glad that Sharla shared a scrapbook layout with us – so personal and shows us little bit of her corner of the world.
Thanks again, Sharla. We loved your creations and you were such a delight to work with. We will definitely see you in Blogland and please keep in touch! – Thanh
Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 11:00 am
Please help us in welcoming (back) our August Guest Designer, Sharla Laursen! We welcomed Sharla as our guest Designer in June and loved her creations so much that we had to have her back again in August! 🙂
Hi everyone! My name is Sharla and I’m so excited to be back as a guest designer for August! This is such a fun place to play, find lots of inspiration, buy fun, cute, quirky and sweet images and make fabulous friends.
A little about me….I’ve been scrapping, card making, wood working, and finding diy projects for as long as I can remember. I’m a little obsessed with Copics, I’m addicted to diet coke and if ice-cream was the only food on the food pyramid…I would be totally ok with that! I love movies and reading, I love to travel and I love food. I would love to travel the US and hit all the places featured on Diners, Drive-In’s and Dives. 😀
If I had to say what my style is, I would say clean and layered is what I mostly gravitate too. I have tried the shabby chic look and while I love it, I’m not sure I can pull it off. I love using bright colors, polka dots and pattern papers. Sometimes when I am done with a card, I realize I’ve only used paper and no other embellishments. I really love my copics…did I say that already? 😉
I have two adult children and 3 adult step-daughters, one who will be making us grandparents in November, we are so excited! My daughter will be a freshman at our local university and my son will be graduating the police academy later this month.
Well, that’s me in a nutshell. I’m really happy for this opportunity to be a guest at such a fun place in the blogesphere! Hope you join us in our challenges, play along and make sure you say hi! 🙂
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Here is Sharla’s first project with us this month:
Can’t wait to see what you create with us this month, Sharla!
Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at 4:00 am
I can hardly believe that we are wrapping up the month of July! I want to thank our July Guest Designer, Vivifor a fun month on behalf of Karen and the YNS Design Team. She was a doll to work with! If you missed her cute party of an introduction, you can see ithere. Here is Vivi’s last project for the month – won’t you go over and say hi for us and tell her she showcased YNS really well?
Vivi is showcasing Cleo. I love the way she made it shabby chic adding in the doily and the roses with rose background!
Thanks so much for all your hard work, Vivi! Take care and we’ll see you around blogland soon. 🙂
My name is Vivi Casale, I’m 46 yo and live in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
I’ve been paper crafting for about 10 years now and it all started with the quilling technique.. I just could not believe what I could do with 3mm of strips of paper… I got crazy about it till I fould out the world of rubber stamping… fell in love immediately… and now can’t live without my Copic markers and my rubber stamps… just love to make a card and how it can brighten someone’s day!!
I`m totally thrilled to be chosen for the Guest Designer spot, what an honor!! I hope to inspire you for the challenge!
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Here is Vivi’s first YNS card for the month and I know she’ll be bringing more fun and inspiration throughout the month:
So adorable, right?! She used Rocky as seen below:
Please head on over to Vivi’s blog to give her a warm YNS welcome.
