Category: Your Next Stamp

A few challenge cards!

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Hi, crafty friends! Just stopping by to share a few sketch challenge cards I’ve made!
My first card uses the sketch from last week’s challenge on The Greeting Farm’s Splitcoast forum:
Supplies: main image stamp [Yoga Anya – The Greeting Farm (retired)], sentiment and flower stamps [Me Time Anya set – The Greeting Farm (retired)], paper (My Mind’s Eye – The Sweetest Thing “Tangerine” mini pad), glitter brads, foam tape, Copic markers, seam binding ribbon, Martha Stewart border punch.
My second card is for Deconstructed Sketch #71:

Supplies: image and sentiment stamp (Your Next Stamp – “Apple Cutie”), glitter stripe and brown patterned paper (SEI – “Mirelle” 6×6 pad),  wood button (Basic Grey), twine (Trendy Twine), orange grid paper (American Crafts – “Pumpkin Patch), kraft card stock.

My third card is for the current Wednesday Stamp Club sketch at My Favorite Things’ Splitcoast forum:

Supplies: stamps (My Favorite Things – “Snow Adorable”),  patterned paper (Basic Grey Jovial), twine (Whisker Graphics), Copic markers, kraft card stock, Fiskars decorative scissors, Brilliance Graphite Black ink.

Don’t forget, you still have time to play along with a few challenges: a new Christmas Card Challenge (chipboard inspired), the “Confessions of a Shopaholic” challenge at Drunken Stampers (use images of a purse or shoes on your card), and we’ll have a brand new month of challenges at Your Next Stamp starting Thursday…until then, there’s still time to play along with our current sketch challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Your Next Stamp #17: Sketch Challenge

Happy Thursday! It’s time for a new challenge at Your Next Stamp! This week, we’re inspiring you with this fun sketch designed by our very own Peggy Toole:

Here’s my card, featuring YNS’s “Baseball Boy“, which is on sale this week in the YNS Store for 40% off:

Other supplies: paper (Echo Park), Copic markers, brads.


Our new challenge guidelines make it even easier for everyone to play along and to have the chance to be our next YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!

Here’s the scoop:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc17)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • 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! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For added inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations, including the creations from our ROCKIN’ Guest Designer Tonya at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

YNS #16: Anything Goes!

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Happy Thursday! It’s time for a new challenge at Your Next Stamp! 

This week’s theme is the ever-popular “Anything Goes”!
I’ve been looking forward to Fall, so I thought I’d use “Acorn Fall Fun” on my card! (This stamp is 40% off right now in the Your Next Stamp Store!) The sentiment is one from my collection.



Our challenge guidelines now make it easier for everyone to play along and to have the chance to be our next YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!
Here’s the scoop:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc16)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • 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! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For added inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations, including the creations from our ROCKIN’ Guest Designer Tonya at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

Your Next Stamp #15: Friends!

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Happy Thursday! It’s time for a new Your Next Stamp challenge! This week, we’re focused on FRIENDS! It’s always fun to see what everyone makes for each challenge…I love seeing each person’s unique take!

For my card, I used the “Girlfriends” cling stamp set, which features both Fhiona and Ellie…and just happens to be on sale this week for 40% off in the YNS Store!

Other supplies: patterned paper (Cosmo Cricket), scalloped circle and classic circle dies (Spellbinders), glitter brads, twine (My Mind’s Eye), Copic markers, card base. 

We’ve made some changes to our challenge guidelines, so it’s easier for everyone to play along and to have the chance to be our next YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!

Here’s the scoop:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc15)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • 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! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For added inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations, including the creations from our ROCKIN’ Guest Designer Tonya at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

Your Next Stamp Recipe Challenge!

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Happy Thursday, crafty friends! It’s time for a new challenge at Your Next Stamp! This week, it’s a recipe: 3 buttons, 2 ribbons, and 1 designer paper!

Here’s my card, using the “You Make My Heart Soar” set (which also happens to be on sale this week for 40% off):

Other supplies: cardstock (Stampin’ UP), designer paper (Basic Grey – What’s Up), Copic markers  (YR04, YR15, R22, R24), ribbon, ink (Brilliance Graphite Black), buttons, brads, card base, ribbon (from stash).
The challenging parts for me were limiting myself to one designer paper and working in a third button, but I managed to get everything on there…whew!

Remember, you still have time to play in our other challenges for August: a sketch challenge, an “anything goes” challenge, a book challenge, and a color challenge!

Don’t forget, we’ve had a few changes to our challenge guidelines, making it easier for everyone to play along and to have the chance to be a YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!

Here’s the scoop:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc13)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • 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! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For more inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations, including the creations from our ROCKIN’ Guest Designer Tracy and special guest Kim at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

Hugs,

Your Next Stamp Challenge #12: Sketch

Happy Thursday! I hope you’ve enjoyed playing along in our challenges this month at Your Next Stamp! If you haven’t had a chance to join us yet, there’s still time to play along with our August challenges: Anything Goes, Books, and a color challenge!

For this week’s challenge, we’d like you to create your entry based on this sketch that Peggy designed:


Here’s my card, featuring YNS’s “Apple Cutie“! Is it Fall yet? 🙂



Don’t forget, we’ve had a few changes to our challenge guidelines, making it easier for everyone to play along and to have the chance to be a YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!

Here’s the scoop:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc12)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • 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! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For more inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

YNSC 11: Anything Goes!

Happy Thursday! It’s time for a new Your Next Stamp challenge! This week, “anything goes”!

Thanks so much to everyone who has been joining us for our challenges each week! We love to see your creations, especially if they include YNS stamps!

Here’s a fun card I made for this challenge featuring the “Bust A Move” stamp set:


Don’t forget, we’ve had a few changes to our challenge guidelines, making it easier for everyone to play along and to have the chance to be a YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!

Here’s the scoop:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc11)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • 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! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For more inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

Christmas Card Challenges #37 – Texture

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Happy Sunday! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! 

I spent all day Saturday crafting with some of my friends at my monthly craft group!

For this week’s Christmas Card Challenge, we’d like for you to use texture on your card!


My card doesn’t have a ton of texture, but I’d say that the embossed snow background, the jute twine and the felt snowflakes would count, right?

My main image is the super cute Ellie Loves to Ski by Your Next Stamp! The sentiment is from A Muse Studio (Mini Holiday Messages set).


Although all of our challenges are optional…the only “real” rule is that you must create a new Christmas, Holiday or Hannukah card, then link it up on the CCC blog so we can stop by and leave you some lovely comments!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to take a peek at the fun and festive cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace,Corinne, Dee, Katie, Leesa, Margo, Michele, Pat, and Stephanie!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful week and don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there!

Your Next Stamp Challenge #10: Books!

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Happy Thursday! I hope you had fun checking out all the blogs in the Your Next Stamp 3rd Birthday blog hop! If you didn’t get the chance to join the hop, click HERE for my post, which includes a list of all the blogs!

This week’s challenge at Your Next Stamp is inspired by BOOKS!

So, I made a corner bookmark featuring Shirley Temple Ellie:

It’s not hard to make these from envelope corners. Here’s how:

  • First, you cut the envelope corner at a 45 degree angle. You can get two bookmarks from one envelope, and the size of the bookmark doesn’t matter…that’s up to you!
  • Then, I cut two triangles of patterned paper slightly smaller than the envelope corners. (I used Echo Park’s Happy Together for my bookmark.) I sewed on the patterned paper before sticking it down, but you don’t have to do that!
  • I stamped and colored my main image, ran it through my manual die cut machine, and adhered it to a decorative die cut circle, then adhered that to the front of the bookmark!
  • To help the bookmark stay on the page, I used very strong adhesive to glue a tiny magnet near the outside bottom center of the back of the envelope corner. (That way, the magnet doesn’t get in the way of the book pages.) After it dried, I adhered a triangle of patterned paper on top to hide it. 
  • Instead of using a second magnet in the front, I added a metal brad between the patterned paper and the envelope corner so the brad’s prongs are hidden under the paper and aren’t on the inside of the bookmark.

Don’t forget, we’ve had a few changes to our challenge guidelines, making it easier for everyone to play along and to have the chance to be a YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!

Here’s the scoop:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc10)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • 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! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For more inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

Your Next Stamp: 3rd Anniversary Hop!

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Happy Monday! I hope you’re enjoying today’s hop! We’re celebrating Your Next Stamp‘s 3rd birthday!!! We’re all so excited about this milestone, so we’re all sharing some fun and ADORABLE projects with you today!

To make this hop even more fun, we’ve put together a scavenger hunt! Each DT member and guest has a bold, colored letter on her blog. Collect all of the letters and unscramble them to find the secret message! Once you’ve figured it out, e-mail Karen at karen@yournextstamp.com to qualify for the GRAND PRIZE…a $25 YNS shopping spree!

Make sure you visit all of the blogs in the hop and leave a comment on each one, because we’ve also hidden THREE special new release prize packs along the way!

You have until Thursday, August 9th at 12 midnight EST to play along and the winners will be announced on Friday, August 10th on the YNS Blog!
On to my projects:

My first card is with Cupcake Cutie Fhiona (the sentiment is from the set I used on my next card) :

My second project features a new release Franfou stamp set, “Gordon the Pig”! 
It looks like this set would make some fun cards for the bacon lovers in your life!:
and my third card features another new release set, “Feather Duster Ellie,” which is perfect for your favorite Domestic Goddess, or for someone like me, an (un)Domestic Goddess (both options are included with the set)!:

As always, you’ll find some awesome specials at the YNS Store! With each purchase this month, you’ll receive a FREE scratch card like the one shown below! Every card is a WINNER!

AND, you’ll receive 25% off your order from Monday, August 6th to Friday, August 10th with this online code: HAPPY
Karen has just improved the YNS Store site, so make sure you check it out! All of the thumbnail photos are larger, so you can see these adorable images even better!

Now it’s time to hop on over to Kim’s fabulous blog, but before you go, don’t forget about the scavenger hunt! My letter is S! 

Happy hopping!

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