Posts Tagged: guest designer

Welcome December Guests

Posted by: Thanh Vo on Monday, November 30, 2015 at 12:01 am

We’re a day early, but that’s because we’ve got a little something special planned for you tomorrow! Make sure you stop by the blog for a fun series the Design Team will be featuring in the first half of December.

This December is a special one as we have two special guests joining us again this month to wrap up our final release for 2015! Please help me in welcoming these ladies to the YNS family for the month:

Michelle Oatman
Blog: Stamps, Paper, Scissors and Donkey Smiles

Howdy from South Texas! My name is Michelle Oatman; many know me as “MichelleO” or the Donkey Smiles lady. I have been very happily married for over 25 years to my best friend who is supportive of my obsession of crafting. We live in the country where we raise Miniature Donkeys, Dwarf Nigerian Goats and Toy Australian Shepherds. They are all my children, and are all spoiled rotten.

My crafting goes back to my childhood, days spent with my Grandma and then as I grew up watching my Dad, a professional graphic artist. I dreamt of the day I could own my own grown-up markers. That may be why I adore my Copics so much.

Summer of 2010 I lost my right eye to an accident. It has taught me a lot about myself, and the people around me. The support from everyone, both close to me and across blogging land, has made me a stronger person. And while learning to deal with my new vision I have learned to appreciate my crafting even more. I am blessed in so many ways – my husband, my family and friends. The life I live on the farm with so many animals. And to have found a hobby that give me so much happiness.

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YNS Supplies: So Sorry Donkey

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Vika (Salmina Viktoriya)
Blog: Click HERE (translate)

Hi! My name is Vika and I’m a crafter from the Ukraine. I have 3 cats and a lot of stamps, inks and cardstock! I love coloring my stamps using markers or watercolor. I also love working with paper. During the day, I also get to be creative as a wedding decorator.

Nice to meet you and I look forward to making cards using YNS products this month!

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YNS Supplies: Dino-mite Holiday

If you’d like to see more from these ladies, please head on over to their blogs: Michelle | Vika

Thanks for stopping by today and we hope you have a great start to your week!
Thanh and the YNS Team

Welcome September Guest Vicki Poulton

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:

Vicki Poulton
Blog: Cards by Vicki

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:

Vicki’s card uses the images from Fhiona’s Pets and Whatnot Sentiments Four as seen below:

If you’d like to learn more about Vicki, please head on over to her blog.

Thanks for dropping in.
Thanh and the YNS Team

Silly Monsters Incognito Video by Guest Contributor Francine Vuillème

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 !

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by…

Francine

Sewing on a Card Tutorial with Special Guest Kathy Tanner

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 got 2 super cute sets to create with, Jessica with her Kitty and Phoebe with her Wagon. I love them both!!!

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.

Kathy

Farewell July Guest Designers Laura and Francine

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!

Laura

Francine

Thank you so much for an amazing month, ladies! We look forward to seeing your future YNS creations.

Thanh

Farewell June Guests Lori and Tonya

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!

Tonya

Lori

Thank you so much for a month of fun inspiration, ladies!

Thanks so much for dropping by today.
Thanh

Welcome Guest Designer Tonya Dirk

Posted by: Thanh Vo on Monday, June 8, 2015 at 1:25 pm

Hi there and happy Monday, YNS readers! I hope that you had a great weekend and enjoyed the June Release Hop that started yesterday. There’s still plenty of time to join in all the fun and have a chance to win a $20 gift certificate. You can start right here and hop along NOW.

I’m so excited to be introducing you to our second Guest Designer this month, Tonya Dirk. Here’s one lady who is willing to roll with the punches and I’m so glad because she was able to create up a storm before going away this past weekend. We ran into a postal mishap right before her vacation weekend and the New Release. I was checking in with her every day to see if she had gotten her little YNS goody package and everyday it was the same outcome. We were both finally so relieved and happy that her package came and she hopped right in to creating her awesome projects. I can’t wait to see what else she creates this month! Without further ado, here’s Tonya in her own words:

Tonya Dirk
Blog: CreativiT

Hi, I’m Tonya and like many of you, I have been an artsy crafty person for as long as I can remember. I started scrapbooking shortly before the birth of our first child. Our shelves soon filled up with album full of scrapbook layouts and we ran out of room for more…so I switched over to card making. I love being able to share my cards with others and not having to stick them in an album hidden away. I am married to my high school sweetheart and we have four children, ages 9-17.We live in the pacific northwest in the city of Portland, Oregon. When I’m not driving the kids to all of their functions or attending sporting events you can find me in my garden, watercolor painting, paper crafting or out on the tennis courts.

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Look at how awesome this card is! I love that Tonya used the Woodland Cuties and water coloring. Right on trend!

To see more of Tonya’s work, head on over to her blog.

Thanks for stopping in today and don’t forget that we have plenty of inspiration on our Pinterest page.

Thanh

Welcome June Guest Designer Lori Turner

Posted by: Thanh Vo on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 12:01 am

Hello YNS friends! I hope that your week is going well so far. Yesterday we said farewell to our May Guest Designers and today, I get to introduce one of our June Guests! So excited to have to have Lori on board with us this month.

Lori Turner
Blog: Inkingly Yours

My name is Lori and I live in rural central Alberta, CANADA. I have been paper crafting for the past 15 or so years and I also love crochet and x-stitch (when I can find the time LOL). I started my paper crafting journey as a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator (12 years) and have had the awesome experience of working with such amazing companies and their stamps along my journey after SU! When I’m not crafting I am busy with our crop spraying business, yard/garden work, volunteering for and cheering on my kids with their sports teams and just life in general….never seems to be a dull moment 😉

I was absolutely beyond giddy when Karen asked me to be a guest designer for YNS! Such fun stamps and a wickedly talented team! I am so eager to get started – thank you for having me!

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I think that some of Lori’s favorite images are the monsters because that’s what she’s featuring as her first project this month:

YNS Supplies: Silly Monsters Two | Silly Monsters Two Die | Gumdrops

To see more of Lori’s wonderful work, head on over to her blog.

Thanks for stopping by and hanging out with us today!

xo – thanh

Farewell May Guest Designers: Amy, Chitra and Kitty

Posted by: Thanh Vo on Monday, June 1, 2015 at 11:29 pm

Hello, YNS friends. Oh me, oh my – the month of May has gone by! We couldn’t welcome in June without saying farewell to our three lovely May Guest Designers. Please help me in sending off our three Guests in style:

Amy

We were very fortunate to welcome back Amy to be one of our guests this past month. This lady – you can give her three items and I bet she’d be able to create something amazing with her limited supplies! If you’re one that struggles with white space or CAS – Amy is your girl! Her projects were a party in my inbox each time I received them.

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Chitra

We were so happy to welcome Chitra back for another month of being our guest! The simplicity in her designs are outstanding and her execution of card layouts are perfect. You’ll see that Chitra’s favorite images are our animal/critter designs and heck, who can blame her, they are all so fun.

Kitty

Last but not in any least, we are saying farewell to Kitty all the way over in the UK. This lady’s coloring matches her personality: beautiful! I enjoyed each one of her projects that came to my inbox. You can tell how much she loves our sweet new character, Jessica. I would hedge my bet that Kitty’s designs are inspired by her two cute daughters.

Please head on over to these ladies’ blogs and give them some YNS love!

<3 Thanh

Welcome (Back) Guest Designer Chitra Nair

Posted by: Thanh Vo on Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 10:56 am

Good morning! I hope you’re having a great start to the weekend. We welcome our first of three fabulous guest designers today!

Please help me in welcoming a familiar face back to YNS this month:

Chitra Nair

Blog: Crafting Chitra

Hello. I am Chitra and I am super, super excited to be guest designing again for YNS.. Woooo Hoooo!! Thanks a ton Karen for inviting me!!! I am from Detroit, MI and I live with my husband. I started card-making in 2012 and then one day I started blogging so that I could join some challenges and now I love it. I love to color, it doesn’t matter what coloring medium it is but it is simply relaxing for me. I love creating bright and fun designs, I love to try new techniques and new styles… it’s fun. I am amazed 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 thru my blog to inspire others and to keep learning, growing & creating.

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I am so in love with Chitra’s simple card; plus she used one of my current (and yes, still) favorite color combos of black, white, (gold) yellow and stripes:

The giraffe comes from the Fred and Ginger set by Franfou:

To see more of Chitra’s wonderful work, head on over to her blog.

Thanks for stopping by and hanging out with us today!

Thanh