Posted by: YNS on Monday, September 3, 2012 at 8:01 am
Happy September! It’s so hot here that it feels like it should be the first week of August not the first week of September! I really can’t believe that the summer months are behind us and autumn is sneaking up on us already! Brandon starts Junior Kindergarten on September 4th and I can’t wait for him to meet his teacher and make some new friends! September also brings some fabulous new stamps and dies! The next 3 days the DT will be bring you some peeks at some of the new stamps and then you’re invited to join us for our new release hop along with the full reveal on September 6th – YAY!!!!
We have some many fun new stamps so let’s see what the DT has for us today!
Ellie is always so CUTE! This image is perfect for a teacher card!
Remember to visit the DT blogs for more project details.
Plus if you haven’t seen Susan’s amazing Copic Susie Q Fun Tip be sure to check out her post HERE and comment to WIN the YNS Joyful Apple Basket stamp! Thanks for stopping by! We’ll be back tomorrow with more peeks! Have a fun and creative day!
Posted by: YNS on Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 5:00 am
Good Morning!
Wendy here with another fun Challenge at Your Next Stamp…this week we challenge you to an “elements” type of challenge…the requirements are…
2 designer papers
2 ribbons/twine
3 buttons
and the rest is up to you…have FUN!!!
These rules apply to each and every week… 1. Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge
2. You have the entire month to play along
3. Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread
4. If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge – your code for this challenge is YNSC13
5. You do not have to use YNS stamps but if have some of our stamps we would love to see you ink up! If you use YNS stamps and post to a gallery then also use the tags YNS and yournextstamp. 6. Every week one lucky participant will WIN a $10 YNS Gift Certificate to spend on YNS Stamps!
7. Every month we will pick a lucky participant to be our special YNS Rockin Guest Designer!!!
Our Rockin’ YNS Guest Designers get a NEW RELEASE YNS Stamp package!!! That’s right, you’ll get your hands on some yummy YNS rubber stamps before anyone else and you’ll get to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks! FUN!!! Plus you’ll get the entire month of challenges in advance so you can play along with the YNS challenge team!!!!
The Your Next Stamp Challenge team is here with some inspiration. – be sure to click on each of designer’s name to visit their blogs for additional card details.
OK so get creative and add your project at the end of this post…and/or on the YNS Splitcoaststampers forum…you may enter as many times as you like! We can’t wait to see what you create!!!
Posted by: YNS on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 7:00 am
This month has been so FUN! The DT and guests have created so many amazing CELEBRATION cards and projects and this week is jam packed full of lots more! YAY!
Just in case you missed out on some of the FUN, here are the links to our other August Fun Friday posts…
Posted by: YNS on Friday, August 17, 2012 at 7:00 am
Happy Friday!!!
This month is all aboutCELEBRATIONS!
We’re celebrating our 3rd birthday this month, I love how the YNS DT have embraced this theme and made some awesome birthday projects! Be sure to visit the DT blogs for more project details!
Posted by: YNS on Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 7:00 am
I’m baaaaaack and I’ve got some more fun and fabulous August Sneak Peeks for you!!!
Click HERE if you missed yesterdays peeks! They’re super CUTE!!!
Oh wait, before I show you all the fun new peeks have you noticed anything different over at the YNS Store??? Be sure to stop by and check out all our recent updates!!! We now have larger images, more images per page and we made it a wee bit cuter! You asked for some changes…we delivered! I hope you LOVE it!!!
FYI – if you have YNS bookmarked and visit the store often, which I hope you do, *grin* you may need to clear your web cache to see the updates…just thought I should mention this just in case you are having troubles seeing all the fab new features.
Ok now on with the sneak peeks! Remember to visit the individual DT blogs for more info on their peek projects.
First up is Amy Rohl with this stinkin’ CUTE card featuring Feather Duster Ellie designed by Fhiona Galloway! LOL Love the name and the image is adorable!!!
Check Maureen Wong’s fabulous peek featuring one of the new Franfou Designs called Fab-u-licious! There is more to this stamp but you’ll have to wait until release day to see it all!!!
Jen Roach has some adorable baby cards to share with you as her peek at the new Welcome Baby set designed by Heather Rolin!!!
Tracy Valure our special YNS guest has a peek at the oh so cute Ellie Loves to Fish designed by Fhiona Galloway!
OMG! So much cuteness!!! I can’t to share the entire release with you on August 6th!!!
One more day of peeks and then you can hop and shop til you drop!!! Woot! Woot!
Posted by: YNS on Friday, August 3, 2012 at 7:00 am
Happy Friday!
I LOVE that our Fun Fridays now have a theme! Christmas in July was spectacular so I’m sure you’re wondering what August is all about!!!
Our August YNS Fun Friday theme is…
Today we are celebrating our 3rd Anniversary with some fabulous and fun August Sneak Peeks!!!!
August is our anniversary month and I’m so excited to have all of you celebrating with us! 3 years ago YNS went from a dream to reality when we launched the YNS Web Store on Aug 7 2009.
We have grown so much over the years…we went from launching 8 stamp sets to now over 250 plus we have our very own line of dies too! Your love for YNS has allowed for this growth and your feedback has helped us improve and grow on so many different levels.
I’d like to take a moment to share my heartfelt thanks to all of you for making these past 3 years amazing! Your kindness and support mean the world to me! The relationships that have been created, with YNS as the hub, warms my heart – this is what makes this industry amazing! I’ve been lucky enough to meet some of you at ScrapFest, CHA and local store events which are always so much FUN! Some of us may never met due to the distance between us which is why I love that we all have a common meeting ground through the internet to create, share and build friendships – it truly is incredible!
I look forward to many more years filled with fun, friendships, creativity and cute stamps!
Hugs
~ Karen
Now let’s drool over some new stamps – YAY!
Be sure to stop by the individual DT blogs for more details on their sneak peek projects!
Jenny Peterson has a peek at the adorable new Baby Set designed by Heather Rolin – CUTE!!!!
Dana Joy and our special guest Kim O’Connell are sharing peeks at the hilarious Birthday Owl designed by Dale Simpson. This owl cracks me up!!! The look on his face is priceless! He totally looks like he is protecting his big stack of pressies! LOL
Peggy Toole is sharing a sneak peek at one of the adorable new Ellie stamps designed by Fhiona Galloway called Ellie Loves to Fish. This image is so sweet and so is that sentiment!
I see Peggy also used the awesome YNS Puffy Cloud die set on her card! FUN
Don’t you just LOVE the new stamps?!
Well we aren’t done yet! We have 2 more days of sneak peeks and then our fun and inspiration birthday blog hop is on Aug 6th! We would love for you to join us!!!
Posted by: YNS on Friday, July 27, 2012 at 7:00 am
Hi all!
Are you loving all the fabulous Christmas/Winter projects this month?! I know I am! WOW! So many fabulous projects to help cool us down during this hot summer weather!
Did you miss Week 1 and Week 2 – be sure to follow the links to see all the DT eye candy!
Check out all the awesome projects the DT prepared for you this week! Be sure to visit their individual blogs for more info on their fun and fabulous projects!
Posted by: YNS on Friday, July 13, 2012 at 7:00 am
Hello! It’s FRIDAY and that means it’s time for YNS Fun Friday!!!
We decided to change things up a bit just for FUN! Change is good – right?
For the past 6 months the YNS DT has been presenting some amazing Fun Friday projects with a little fun tip for you but now things are different…Fun Fridays are going to have a monthly theme! FUN!!! I’ll be throwing in some random giveaways too so be sure to stop by every Friday to see all the amazing DT projects and to see what else is going on at YNS!
You may have guessed by my post title our July theme is Christmas/Winter!!! Never to soon to start all those Christmas cards and the YNS DT has definitely inspired me to get started!
Be sure to visit all the individual blogs for more details about their wonderful Winter Fun projects!
Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Thank you for hopping along our July New Release Blog Hop!!! I hope you enjoyed all the fabulous DT projects along with all the fun new stamps and dies available in the YNS Store!
Before I announce the hop winners I wanted to share a little project with you…
I couldn’t wait to pair up the new window dies which coordinate with the existing YNS Window Play stamps designed by Heather Rolin with the YNS box scenes designed by Dale Simpson.
I really wanted to capture a little window scene that made you feel like you were sitting in a cottage on the lake, I really like how it turned out!
I started by picking out some wallpaper and coordinating designer paper that I thought would make a nice couch material, I went with Jillibean Dutch Mustard Soup, and some textured brown cardstock for the floor. I stamped the couch onto the patterned paper and decided to hand cut it out as close to the stamped line as possible and then die cut out the couch shape so I could glue the hand cut out couch onto the die cut to give me the brown edge around the couch. I felt my light yellow paper needed a little boost and the brown edge gave me the look I was hoping for. I also ‘dirtied’ the couch up a bit using Copics E41, E42 and E43. As you can see I also paper pieced some of the pillows to match the wallpaper.
Then I started coloring the Cottage Box Scene with Copic markers and then trimmed it so that the window from the Inside Window Play Die set would lay on to of the scene. I used 2 window die cuts (without the matching stamp) and glued them directly on top of the cottage scene.
After I placing all the layers down I felt it needed a little stitching around the wallpaper area so I sewed around the edges prior to pasting everything down. Then to finish it off I popped up the window with 1 pop dot in each corner and then double popped the couch in each corner of the die cut couch (2 foam dots stacked on top of each other) so that it would sit in front of the window.
I had so much fun making this card that I can’t wait to pair the windows up with the other box scenes – Golf Scene, BBQ Scene, Winter Scene – so many wonderful possibilities!
Alright, let’s see who our lucky hop winners are…
All names are drawn at random from 4 different DT blogs…
Winner from Susan’s Blog
Winner from Jenny P.’s Blog
Winner from Dana’s Blog
Winner from YNS Blog
Congrats Ladies!!!
Please email me to claim your Ann Ellis stamp set!
