BERRY SWEET STAMP SALE!!!

Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 3:30 pm

Canada Post is finally back to delivering mail so I thought I would celebrate by having a Berry Sweet Stamp Sale to thank you, my fabulous customers, for your patience and support during the recent Canada Post strike.

The moment I heard that Canada Post would be back into action I immediately thought YIPPEE so I decided to ink up the adorable Yippee Fhiona and created this berry sweet card…

Here are a few facts about this card…

Yippee Fhiona is stamped using Brilliance Black Ink onto Copic X-Press It blending card
Fhiona is colored in with Copic Markers
DP – Imaginisce Berrylicious Sampler Pack
Strawberry is made with Spellbinders Heart Nestie, SU flower punch and YNS Glittered Skittle

BERRY SWEET STAMP SALE

ALL STAMPS ON SALE FOR 3 DAYS ONLY!!!

No Online Code Required – Sale ends Friday July 1st

Visit http://www.yournextstamp.com/ today and grab a bargain!!!

Limited quantities so shop early to grab the stamps you want!

Happy Stamping!

Happy Birthday Isabel

Posted by: YNS on Friday, June 24, 2011 at 7:00 am

It’s Friday! YAY!

It’s my niece Isabel’s 3rd birthday today so we’ll be heading over to see the family tomorrow for her little birthday party. Brandon just adores both his cousins Catherine and Isabel so he is super excited to be hanging out with his little buddies this weekend. The fact that Isabel and Brandon are so cute together inspired me to ink up this super adorable stamp Fhiona and Her Best Buddy Fhinn. I think this stamp is so stinkin’ CUTE and it totally reminds me of Brandon and Isabel.

A few facts about this card…

stamped image using Brilliance Black Ink onto Copic X-press It
Colored with Copics
Ink frame is made by masking off the image and then sponging brown ink
Spellbinders Nestie is Labels Eight (a personal favorite!)
DP is from the Good Day Girl Sunshine Sampler Pack

Do you have any plans this weekend? I hope your weekend is full of fun and sun!

Until next time…

Happy Stamping!

YNS Challenge #45 – B+W+1

Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 7:00 am

It’s time for YNS Challenge #45 – YAY!

I really have so much fun with these challenges because it forces me to try new techniques and color combos that I may not try without being challenged to do so. It also forces me to stop ‘working’ for a while and take a break to create something which is why I chose this career in the first place…as much as I truly love all aspects of running YNS I really truly LOVE stamping and creating and we all need to take some time for a little creative therapy! Right?

Beth is our hostess with the mostess for Challenge #45 and she has challenged us to use Black and White plus 1 other color! At first I was like EEK! how am I going to only use 1 other color but as I started creating my challenge card I realized how much fun it is working with black and white and decided to go with teal as my color choice plus I snuck in a little (I mean alot) of grey…shhhh don’t tell!

I went with a simple yet elegant style and I must say I’m quite pleased with the results…

I decided to ink up the adorable humming bird from the Humming Bird Beauty stamps set along with the sentiment from the Wishing You Wonderful stamp set. I paired it up with some Echo Park For the Record DP and of course some pearls and gems which I love to use on my cards! You can’t see the pretty shimmer in the photo but the white cardstock is Cryogen White which is a beautiful shimmery cardstock and it’s great for stamping and coloring with Copics! The black cardstock is from the shimmer collection pack – this is a really nice thick cardstock which I love using with my dies and punches.

We would love for you to join us so hop on over to the YNS Challenge Blog for all the details!

Happy Stamping!

New Release Hop Winners

Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 4:37 pm

Hello Friends!

I hope you had a fabulous weekend! We had so much fun at the African Lion Safari on Saturday and then on Sunday we ended up going to a friends pool for a little relaxation and FUN! We were supposed to visit my family but unfortunately my sister’s entire family have been battling the stomach flu – blah! To my sister and her family…we hope you all get well soon and we hope to see you this weekend!

Here are a few fun photo’s from our weekend…I really need to start a scrapbook!

Mommy and Brandon excited to see all the animals on the safari bus tour

This is why we took the bus tour…glad that’s not our car!

We had a close encounter presentation at our lunch site with a cheetah – COOL!

Brandon being goofy spraying Teresa at their pool on Sunday…total ladies man – lol

Now onto the hop winner announcement! I hope you enjoyed the new release stamps and all the fabulous DT creations! I know I did!

Our hop winner drawn at random is…

#21 – Alyssa (http://critterlyss.blogspot.com)

Congrats Alyssa! Email me to claim your prize!

I’ll be back tomorrow with my YNS Challenge #45 card. YAY!

Happy Stamping!

I Dig My Dad!

Posted by: YNS on Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 4:26 pm

Happy Father’s Day!!

Hi everyone, Wendy with you here today. I created this fun tent card for the kids to give to their Daddy today. I wish I had remembered to take a photo from the side, but I completely forgot. 🙁 The image I’ve used is Digger and I think is so fun!! The sentiment was computer generated and printed on kraft cardstock. I then used a woodgrain embossing folder to give it texture. The DP is Basic Grey’s – Max & Whiskers.

Keeping it short and sweet today…the kids and I made Daddy breakfast in bed (Belgium Waffles w/strawberries) gave him lots of gifts and now we are about to take a dip in the pool and grill out steaks later today. Lot’s of relaxing fun!!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hugs,

Wendy

Celebrate Your Day

Posted by: YNS on Friday, June 17, 2011 at 2:22 pm

Happy Friday!

I hope you enjoyed the surprise new release! You still have time to enter your name to win the super adorable Jumbo Ginger Giraffe stamp so be sure to check out the fabulous DT projects and contest HERE.

I couldn’t wait to ink up this new June release Birdie Banner designed by the talented Dale Simpson so the other day I made some time to do a little stamping and created this fun shape card…

Seeing Shapes just happens to be our current YNS Challenge theme! YAY! I hope you chose to play along!

I’ve also got a discount code for you to celebrate this fabby new release so be sure to hop on over to the YNS Store for a little shopping!

10% off your entire order

Online Code – YNSJUNENR

Code valid until Monday June 20th at midnight

We have a fun filled weekend planned for Father’s Day! We are off to the African Lion Safari tomorrow and then off to my parents for a fun family day on Sunday. I hope you have lots of sun and fun this weekend too!

Happy Stamping!

Surprise! New Stamps Released Today!

Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 5:48 pm

So did I surprise you? This is the first time I’ve ever released new stamps without prewarning you with a blog post, new release blinkie or something that says new stamps are on the way – oh isn’t this FUN!

11 new stamps released today and they’re all super fun! There’s 6 new Fhiona Designs including a new mini – Fhiona and her Pony, 3 new Franfou Designs including a new jumbo stamp – Ginger the Giraffe and 2 new fabulous Dale Designs including a Cottage Box Scene! YAY!

Check out all these fabulous DT projects featuring some of the new stamps…be sure to stop by their blogs and let them know how much you love all their inspirational creations!

Kerri – Fhiona Riding Her Bike and Hand Written Sentiments

Dana – Jumbo Ginger Giraffe

Crystal – Fhiona Riding Her Bike

Peggy – Geek but Unique

Dana – Birthday Bash Bear and Scene Sentiments

Peggy – Jumbo Ginger Giraffe

Beth – Fhiona Riding Her Bike and Scene Sentiments

Diana – Ellie Loves Walking her Dog

Peggy – Fhiona Riding Her Bike

Beth – Geek but Unique

Kerri – Birthday Bash Bear

Jen R. (YNS Guest) – Fhiona Riding Her Bike

Maureen – Runaway Cake

Wendy – Geek but Unique

Now before you hop on over to the YNS store to take advantage of my 10% off sale (online code YNSJUNENR) and shop be sure to enter your name into the linky below for your chance to win this new release stamp set…

Jumbo Ginger Giraffe

Sale and Contest ends Monday June 20th at midnight EST.

It would be great if you told all your friends about this super fun release too! Send them over and have them enter to win too! The more the merrier! Thank you for helping spread the word about YNS Stamps!

I hope you LOVE the new stamps as much as I do!

Happy Stamping!

Golf Shape Card

Posted by: YNS on Friday, June 10, 2011 at 2:12 pm

It’s Friday and the sun is shining! YAY!

I’ve been wanting to ink up this Golf Scene since the day it crossed my desk from our talented illustrator Dale so I was excited the other day when I had some time to ink it up and color it – it was so FUN to color!

Beth’s card HERE inspired the golf ball look created with my dots embossing folder and Ruza’s card HERE inspired the pearl golf ball – thanks ladies!

Our current challenge is Seeing Shapes – create a non-square card – thanks for the fun challenge Maureen. Be sure to check out all the details over at the YNS Challenge Blog.

Hopefully this warm sun will stay all weekend long so we can get out for some walks with Brandon and if we’re lucky maybe Chris and I will get a little mommy/daddy time and sneak in a round of golf!

Have a great weekend!

YNS Challenge #44 – Shape Cards

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!

Happy Stamping!

Birthday Boy

Posted by: YNS on Monday, June 6, 2011 at 5:43 pm

Hello! I have a cute little masculine card to share with you today:

I used this adorable skateboarder called Skateboard Dude along with a sentiment from the Handwritten Sentiment set. The dp is some My Mind’s Eye Lime Twist Out of the Blue, and the layout is the June Jen’s Sketch For You To Try.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, and I hope the rest of your Monday is fabulous!

Kerri