Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge Sponsor

Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 5:00 am

Your Next Stamp is this weeks proud sponsor of the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge! Be sure to check out all the details and link your card to the Midnight Madness Challenge blog for your chance to win some YNS stamps.

I found the sketch this week really fun and it definitely challenged me to take my creativity to a new level which is awesome!!!

I’ve used a few different stamps for this card…

Mermaid and Starfish – Happy Days Mermaid stamp set

Bubbles – Just Swimming By Mermaid stamp set

Turtle – Happy Birthday Mermaid stamp set

Thanks! – Thanks! stamp set

The designer paper is DB High Tide and I’ve used some shimmer cardstock along with the some of the aqua paper from the Prism Teal Paper Pack. I colored the mermaid, turtle and starfish with Copics and then finished the card off with some diamond stickles and pearls. I just love how it turned out!

Just for fun I made my card into a Thank You card so that it goes along with YNS Challenge #4 – giving thanks! You too can combine your challenges and join in the fun over at the YNS Challenge blog!

Enjoy your day!

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Mom’s Special Birthday Deal

Posted by: YNS on Monday, November 23, 2009 at 5:09 am

Happy Birthday Mom!

Well actually her birthday is tomorrow but since I have a different card to share with you tomorrow for the sketch I’m sponsoring I thought it would be nice to share her birthday card with you today!

I’ve used Skating Fun Fhiona which was so much fun to color! I love all the creative ideas everyone has for the ice – I’ve used stickles but I’ve seen all sorts of things like glaze and flowersoft used as well by you and the Starlets.

I’ve got some YNS special deals to celebrate my mother’s birthday! YAY! These deals are good until November 25th at midnight EST.

FREE Shipping on your entire order {code HBMFS}

20% off your entire order {code HBM20}

Plus as always you automatically get free shipping on orders over $55 on orders shipping to Canada and US so why not take advantage of the 20% off and the free shipping at the same time!

Visit the Your Next Stamp store today to take advantage of these great offers!

Remember to join in on all the fun over at the YNS Challenge Blog! Challenge #4 is all about giving thanks! Hop on over and check it out!

Enjoy your day!

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Your Next Stamp Challenge #4

Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 1:00 pm

YAY!!! It’s time for another Your Next Stamp Challenge!!! This weeks hostess is Stephanie and she as challenged us all to make a card to give to someone we are thankful for!

I am so thankful for all the wonderful people in my life! I decided to make a card for Brandon’s Grandparents for all the wonderful things they do for us. I’ve used the Monkey Gone Bananas stamp which was designed with Brandon in mind since he is our little monkey! The little flower stamp is from the Wild About You stamp set – which I totally adore! The Thanks! sentiment is from the Thanks! stamp set. I colored everything in with Copics and finished it off with the pearls that I’m totally loving right now! I used the sketch from Jen’s Sketch For You To Try – I love this layout! Thanks Jen for all the inspiration. YNS is the sponsor for this SFYTT so why not combine your YNS challenge #4 entry with Jen’s sketch for your chance to win $10 in YNS bucks!

Since our challenges are meant to be fun and we want everyone to participate I’ve decided to allow any stamps to be used when creating your challenge card. Although I would love for you to use a YNS image so if you do your name will be entered in twice for this weeks prize which is $10 in YNS bucks to spend at the YNS store!

In addition to the prize this week I’m giving every single participant a free limited edition YNS digital stamp – YAY! If you already own all of our limited edition digital stamps than I will give you $3 in YNS bucks to put towards your next purchase.

Your next step is to hop on over to the YNS Challenge blog and join in all the fun!

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Blog Hop Winners!

Posted by: YNS on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 1:04 pm

Thank you to everyone who participated in our new release blog hop! I’d also like to give the Starlets a HUGE thank you hug for their amazing creations with Bad Hair Day Fhiona, New Years Party Fhiona and Wedding Day Fhiona!

All the names for Fhiona’s hubby were awesome! I really enjoyed reading all the comments and name suggestions. It was a tough decision so with a little help I decided his name will be Fhinn. I like the ring of Fhinn and Fhiona and I just love the fact that Fhinn stands for handsome 🙂

Here are the winners for the new releases…

As promised everyone who suggested a hubby name was entered in twice for the Wedding Day Fhiona.

Wedding Day Fhiona – Ruthie (Rx)

Bad Hair Day Fhiona – Stampin Silvia (blog – mabie stampin)

New Years Party Fhiona – Melanie (blog – paper blessings)

Congratulations to all of you!!! Please email me your address so I can get your stamps in the mail for you!

All the Starlets will be posting the winners of their digi stamp giveaway and as I receive the names from them I’ll post them here as well.

Email me for your digi stamps 🙂

Simonne – Trish (chatterboxthoughts)

Kerri – Nicole (scrapinsweetheart)

Amy – Melanie

Maylee – Robin with no blog link – this better not be my sister’s comment because she already has the digi’s – lol – if I find out it’s her we’ll pick another name!

Cabio – Angelwood

Cathy – itsabrt (inkyfingersrule)

Lana – Cathy

Stephanie – Sheila (blog – crazy and lovin’ it)

Maureen – Mary (blog – marydemmons)

Check back tomorrow for YNS Challenge #4! YAY You still have time to enter YNS Challenge #3 so hop on over and check it out!

Hugs

Blog Hop Continued and SFYTT Sponsor

Posted by: YNS on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 4:00 pm

Click this link if you are looking for the Your Next Stamp New Release Blog Hop

Thanks Jen for sharing this amazing card with us! Jen is the host of the SFYTT. Every Saturday she has a new Sketch For You To Try which I think is awesome! She comes up with some really great sketches and it really helps people to step outside of their crafting comfort levels and try new layouts!

This week Jen asked if I would sponsor her SFYTT and of course I said YES!!! Hop on over and check out her i{heart}2stamp blog and enter your card using her sketch for your chance to win $10 in YNS bucks – YAY!

Remember to check out the Charisma Cardz Challenge and the YNS Challenge #3 as well!

Have a great weekend everyone!

New Release Blog Hop!!!

Posted by: YNS on Monday, November 9, 2009 at 6:00 am

**This blog candy is now closed**

I am so excited about our 2nd New Release Blog Hop!!! We all had so much fun during our first new release blog hop that we decided to do it again – YAY!

Please give a big round of applause to our wonderful illustrator Fhiona Galloway for these 3 new Fhiona Sets…

Bad Hair Day Fhiona

Wedding Fhiona

New Year’s Party Fhiona

Plus just for fun I’ve released the Mixed Bag of Greetings set

The Starlets have out done themselves again with some amazing creations! Along the hop you will find super cool creations made with the 3 new Fhiona Sets along with some amazing creations made with our new Limited Edition Digital Stamps.

We’re giving away 1 of each new release so that means there are 3 winners in total! Plus each Starlet is giving away some of the new digital stamps to a lucky person who comments on their blog – COOL! For a chance to win one of the new release sets all you have to do is comment on all the Starlets blogs plus you must leave a comment on this blog post as well so I know you’ve been here and are participating in the hop.

Fhiona’s hubby/best buddy needs a name!

If you would like an extra entry into the Wedding Fhiona set please leave a name suggestion for Fhiona’s hubby with your comments below 🙂

This hop is going on all week so to celebrate I’ll be including a free surprise gift with every rubber stamp order plus I’m offering a 10% off your entire order discount code at the YNS Store which is valid until November 16th at midnight.

10% code is YNSBH2

Thank you so much for joining us! Your next stop on the hop is to the lovely Simonne 🙂 and just in case you get lost along the way here is the entire hop list…

Have fun!

Charisma Cardz Challenge Sponsor

Posted by: YNS on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Your Next Stamp is the proud sponsor of the Charisma Cardz Challenge this week! YAY!

The theme this week is Merry and Bright and since I’ve been busy making some fun yet simple cards for my craft fundraiser this weekend I decided to share this bright and fun Christmas card with you today! I’ve used the YNS Christmas Balls stamp set. I love this set and I really like how my card turned out with the bright colours and the sparkly card stock 🙂

Join in the fun challenge for a chance to win the Fhiona and Friend Penguin stamp set!

Also we’d love to have you join the the YNS Challenge #3 which is going on right now – FUN!

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New Fhiona’s This Monday!

Posted by: YNS on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 3:04 pm

Happy Saturday Everyone!

Sorry I haven’t been around much this week. I’ve finally started feeling better and then I was busy getting ready for a craft fund raiser I’m participating in next weekend and of then I had to get ready for the exciting new release this Monday! YAY!

Be sure to stop on by to check out the amazing creations the Starlets have prepared for you for our 2nd Blog Hop! Lot’s of prizes to be won so please pass this exciting news onto all your friends 🙂

We’ve got a really fun YNS Challenge #3 going on right now as well so be sure to check that out! Plus I’ve put together a special package price for our new Limited Edition Christmas Digital Stamps!

Thanks everyone! See you on Monday!

Hugs

YNS Challenge #3 Plus New Digi’s!

Posted by: YNS on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 11:00 am

What an exciting day!

Today is YNS Challenge #3 – Christmas with a twist by Simonne! You are not allowed to use any red or green on your Christmas card or creation – how fun!

Also I’ve decided to launch some really fun and cute Christmas digital stamps! Everyone loved the Halloween limited edition digi’s by Fhiona so she was kind enough to create some Christmas limited edition Digital Stamps for us which will be available until Dec 31st 2009 – thanks Fhiona!!!! You can check them all out HERE.

I’ve used the digital stamp Decorated Christmas Tree for my challenge card today along with MME Colorful Christmas designer paper and some of my favorite pearls by Prima Marketing.

Hop on over to our challenge blog and check out all the amazing cards by the YNS Starlets! We would all love to have you join in for your chance to win a YNS stamp set!

Also mark your calenders to check back here on November 9th because we’ve got a really fun blog hop planned for you!!! We’ll be introducing 3 new Fhiona stamp sets – YAY!!!!

Hugs

November Stamp Winner

Posted by: YNS on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 6:30 am

I hope you all had a Happy Halloween! Even though I am fighting a flu bug my son managed to make me laugh on Halloween with all his quirky little gestures. At first he wanted nothing to do with his monkey costume and then later on in the day he brought it to me and wanted me to help him put it on – that was so cute! Then as the door bell started ringing he realized all the other kids were dressed up and he wanted to hand out the candy so him and daddy handed out candy and then went to visit a few friends in the neighbourhood. The best part was on Sunday night when it got dark he wanted to put his costume on again and then he ran to the door waiting for all the kids and when no one came trick or treating he decided it was time to play with all the left over candy we had – what great fun it is to transfer candy from a bowl to a bag over and over again! The simple things in life are always the best things!

Ok now on to our November stamp winner 🙂 This month I used the random number generator and I got follower 156…

Melanie – I don’t have a link to reference but you have red hair in your picture

Congrats!!!

Please email me your 3 favorite stamps from YNS along with your address. I’ll pick one from the three you choose.

We are starting YNS challenge #3 on Wednesday so I hope you stop by and join in the fun for another chance to win some YNS stamps!

Hugs