Your Next Stamp SCS Challenge #3 – Anything Goes!

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Happy Thursday! Welcome back for a new Your Next Stamp challenge! Thanks to everyone who joined in our Summer Time challenge! Your entries were all fantastic!

This time, we have a pretty easy challenge for you…Anything Goes! Make a card, a layout, an altered item…whatever inspires you!

Here’s my card, featuring the super adorable Miyuki from Japan!

Supplies: patterned paper (Basic Grey – Kioshi), image stamp (Your Next Stamp – Miyuki from Japan), sentiment stamp (Your Next Stamp), flower accent (Basic Grey – Kioshi), Copic markers, Brilliance Graphite Black ink, card base, Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Are you ready? Come and play with us! Because we’re just getting started with our Splitcoast challenges, you don’t have to use a YNS stamp on your entry, but if you have some, we’d love for you to use them!

AND…if you use YNS stamps or dies on your entries this month, you may be our next ROCKIN’ Guest Designer! Want all the details? Check out this thread on our forum!

Make sure you link your creation in your gallery on Splitcoast Stampers! If you don’t have a gallery yet, it’s free and easy to create one! Visit Splitcoast Stampers to get started! When you link your card on Splitcoast, don’t forget to include the following keywords (yns, yournextstamp, ynsc and ynsc3) so we can see your entry and leave you some sweet comments !!!

You have until Wednesday June 27th to submit your entry…AND one lucky random winner will get $10 in YNS Bucks to spend in the YNS Store! We can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this challenge! (For all the challenge details, click here.)

And if you’re looking to purchase some YNS goodies, now’s a great time! There are a few days left in our sale…15% off your entire order in the YNS Store with the code shown below!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
I’m also entering this card in the latest Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge!

colourQ #142

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Happy Tuesday! It’s time for a new colourQ challenge! Thanks to everyone who played along with our last challenge…you always make it so difficult for us to pick our favorites!
It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to make with this week’s colourQ, so I kept it relatively simple, and created this card:
Supplies: card base, colored card stock (Cameo Coral, Island Indigo – Stampin’ UP!),  owl & sentiment stamps (Chubby Chums – Paper Smooches), graduation cap stamp (Hats Off to You – Lawn Fawn), twine (Whisker Graphics), foam squares, Copic markers (owl – E30, E31, Y17, Y19, R22, R24; graduation cap – B00, B01, Y17.)

And for your colourful crafty inspiration, here’s our colourQ:

Ready? Set…Create! 🙂

To be considered for this week’s colourQueen, make sure to link your creation at the colourQ blog by Sunday, June 24 at noon Central Time! (Don’t forget to display the challenge colors and link back to the colourQ blog in your entry post.)

Of course, the rest of the colourQ Royal Court have created some marvelous projects with this week’s colors! You can see them on the colourQ blog or by visiting their personal blogs. (The links are to the right next to the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors.)

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

P.S. There’s still time to play along in Your Next Stamp’s “Summer Time” challenge! One lucky winner will receive $10 to spend in Your Next Stamp’s store! You can find the details on the YNS blog or at our Splitcoast forum! Our next challenge goes live on Thursday, so make sure to get your entry in before then!

And, there’s also a sale going on right now at Your Next Stamp (sale items included)!

Christmas Card Challenges – Dots & Stripes!

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Happy Sunday, and Happy Father’s Day! It’s time for a new Christmas Card Challenge, and this week, we’d like for you to use dots and stripes on your entry!

Here’s my card!
supplies: card base, image stamp (Henry Eating Large Cookie – Whiff of Joy), sentiment stamp (aMuse Studio), polka dot paper (aMuse Studio), plaid paper (Good Cheer – October Afternoon), spellbinders die (Labels 25), clear button, kraft cardstock, twine (Whisker Graphics), foam tape, brads, blue card stock (Stampin’ UP!),  white card stock (Papertrey Ink), ink (Brilliance Graphite Black, Stampin’ Up Real Red), Copic markers [mouse – E81, E84 (fur), E41 (belly). R01. R02. E93 (ears), RV32 (nose), R14, R24, W2, 0 (hat); cookie – E30, E31, E50, E53; G00, G40 (icing); sprinkles – RV14, G16, Y15, B26, R29, R37; other – W1, W2, 0.

I’ve been looking forward to using this stamp since I got it after Christmas last year. I colored the image a while back, and couldn’t decide what card I’d make with it! When I saw that this week’s challenge was dots & stripes, I thought it would be perfect!
You can’t really see it in the photo, but I added Glossy Accents to the frosting on the cookie to give it a little shine. I love the little rainbow sprinkles on the cookie! Whenever I make sugar cookies, I always add those sprinkles…I don’t know what it is, but somehow the cookies taste better with the sprinkles!
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to see the fun and fantastic cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Margo, Michele, Pat, and Stephanie!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful week & don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there!

Drunken Stampers #90

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Happy Saturday! It’s time for a new challenge at Drunken Stampers! Thanks to everybody who played along with our last challenge! You sure showed us some inspiring ways to create with triangles!
This week, we’ve got a fun, tasty, summery colour combination for you!

Here’s my card:

Supplies: glitter (Martha Stewart Crafts), cardstock (Stampin’ UP – red, pink; Papertrey Ink – kraft, white), twine (Trendy Twine), sentiment stamp (Paper Smooches), Ranger Glossy Accents, Cuttlebug embossing folder, vellum, wood button.

I made the star accents by drawing a star on card stock, traced it onto thicker card stock, ran it through my Xyron sticker maker, then added glitter to the sticky side, sealed it with Glossy Accents and let it dry overnight. The green star didn’t come out as “limey” as I would have liked it to be in the picture, but it looks closer to that color in person.

I added a square of vellum to the red card stock square to soften it. It was pretty challenging working with all five colors (I’m used to a limit of 4)!

Ready to get crafty? Here’s our delicious colour combo:

The party’s just getting started! Don’t forget to stop by and see what the rest of the team created! If you’d like to visit their personal blogs and leave them some love, here’s the list: Chaitali, Donna, Elizabeth, Nat, Spike, and Steph!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend! We’re celebrating my husband’s birthday this weekend…last night we went to a Seattle Mariners game and had a great time! Don’t forget to link up your entry for this challenge at the Drunken Stampers blog!
Don’t forget…there’s still time to join in on the challenges at the colourQ, and Your Next Stamp’s Splitcoast Forum! I’ll be back tomorrow for a new Christmas Card Challenge! See you then!

YNS Splitcoast Challenge #2: Summer Time!

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Happy Thursday! It’s time for a new challenge on Your Next Stamp’s Splitcoast Forum! This week, we’d like you to show us a summer-themed card!

Here’s my card for this challenge:

Supplies: image stamp (Kali from Hawaii – Your Next Stamp), patterned paper (Splash – Echo Park; solids – Basic Grey), kraft cardstock, twine (Pink Paislee), Copic markers (skin – E11, E13, R30; hair – N3, N6, 110; clothes – R22, R24 [top/headband], YR12, YR15 [headband/bracelet], G40, G43, G46, YG67 [skirt]), gold glitter gel pen, “sand” – Distress Stickles (Antique Linen), opaque white marker,  foam tape, letter stickers (Webster’s Pages), adhesive pearl, card base.

So what are you waiting for? Come and play with us! Because we’re just getting started with our Splitcoast challenges, you don’t have to use a YNS stamp on your entry, but if you have some, we’d love for you to use them!

AND…if you use YNS stamps or dies on your entries this month, you may be our next ROCKIN’ Guest Designer! Want all the details? Check out this thread on our forum!

Make sure you link your creation in your gallery on Splitcoast Stampers! If you don’t have a gallery yet, it’s free and easy to create one! Visit Splitcoast Stampers to get started! When you link your card on Splitcoast, don’t forget to include the following keywords (yns, yournextstamp, ynsc and ynsc2) so we can see your entry and leave you some sweet comments !!!

You have until Wednesday June 20th to submit your entry…AND one lucky random winner will get $10 in YNS Bucks to spend in the YNS Store! We can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this challenge! (For all the challenge details, click here.)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

colourQ #141

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Happy Tuesday! I’m back with a new colourQ challenge! I thought the colour combo would be great for a guy card…and with Father’s Day in just a few days, I came up with this:
Supplies: ink (Night of Navy, Brocade Blue, Lucky Limeade – Stampin’ UP!),  cardstock (Lucky Limeade, Bashful Blue, Night of Navy – Stampin’ UP!), cameo image stamp/oval (Maya Road), sentiment stamp (DeNami Designs), chevron background stamp (Hero Arts), screw brads (Karen Foster Designs), card base.
 For your creative inspiration, here’s our new colourQ:
To be considered for this week’s colourQueen, make sure to link your creation at the colourQ blog by Sunday, June 17 at noon Central Time! (Don’t forget to display the challenge colors and link back to the colourQ blog in your entry post.)
Of course, the rest of the colourQ Royal Court have created some marvelous projects with this week’s colors! You can see them on the colourQ blog or by visiting their personal blogs. (The links are to the right next to the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors.) 
Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create with this week’s colourQ! 

retrosketches #15

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For my DeNami Designs “Cards for Guys” post, please click HERE.
Hi, crafty friends! Hope you’re having a good Monday! 
I shipped a couple of packages to my parents, organized my Spellbinders in a binder (with magnetic vent covers that I bought at Home Depot — thanks Kristie for the heads-up!), treated myself to a coffee at Starbucks and bought a few things at the grocery store!
I thought I’d pop in and share my card for this week’s challenge at retrosketches! One of my longtime friends (we’ve known each other since we were 3 or 4) just had a baby boy, and I used this week’s retrosketch for my card!
Supplies: kraft cardstock (Papertrey Ink), patterned paper (Three Bugs In A Rug – Dawson); onesie stamp (Studio G), mini star stamp (DeNami Designs), sentiment stamp (Paper Smooches), green, navy cardstock (Stampin’ UP!), metal die (Spellbinders Labels 8), seam binding ribbon, silver brads, ink (Night of Navy, Bordering Blue, Lucky Limeade – Stampin’ UP!), Copic markers.
And here’s this week’s retrosketch!
 
If you’d like to play along with this challenge, you can find all of the details on the retrosketches blog!
Don’t forget, there’s still time to play along with the current challenges at Christmas Card Challenges (use woodgrain), Drunken Stampers (use triangles), and Your Next Stamp’s Splitcoast challenge (a color challenge of pink, orange, and green)!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I’ll be back tomorrow morning with a new colourQ challenge!

DeNami Blog Hop: Cards for Guys!

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Hi! I hope you’re having fun checking out all the super cool cards for the special guys, dudes and dads in your life! You probably arrived here from Lisa Elton‘s blog, and now you’re visiting me (Suzanne Bier)!

Don’t forget to leave comments for all the participants as you hop along…two lucky commenters will each win a $20 mini shopping spree on the DeNami Design web site!
I made two cards for the hop! The first is a regular greeting card and the second is a “pull-up” gift card holder!
DeNami supplies: sentiment stamp (Happy Father’s Day cling), image stamps (Mini Heart, Mini Star), watermark ink (VersaMark – available in the DeNami store), opaque white embossing powder. Other supplies: cardstock, embossing folder, brown ink.
I didn’t have a tie stamp, so I created a tie-shaped template and traced it onto various scraps of cardstock. I stamped the patterns on each tie with watermark ink, then heat embossed each one. 
(I drew the dots on the red tie with a watermark pen because I didn’t have the dot stamp, but you could also use DeNami’s Teeny Swiss Dot stamp if you want to!)
I adhered each tie onto the embossed cardstock panel, stamped the sentiment, then adhered it on the bottom right.
My second card is a gift card holder, and it’s pretty easy to do! (Side note: I used the same star and sentiment stamps that I used on the first card.)
I cut a strip of card stock measuring 4 1/4″ wide by 10 3/4″ long and folded it into thirds. I used a tape runner to seal the bottom and the back. Then I stamped and embossed the stars on the front and back. 
I cut a slit through the top (this one measures 1 1/4″ by 1/8″, but as long as the twill tape or ribbon can pass through easily, it doesn’t matter if the measurements are exact.)
I cut a piece of twill tape that measures about 18 inches, folded it in half, and put the gift card in the middle. I threaded one side through each side of the pocket and secured the two sides of the twill together with a staple.
To finish off the design, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on a strip of coordinating card stock, then dry embossed the strip, wrapped it around the gift card holder and adhered it.

Now, when your favorite guy pulls down on the twill tape, the card pops out! 
Your next stop on the hop is the fabulous Wendy Elliot! I’m sure she’s created something totally awesome for the hop! In case you want to start at the beginning, the full list of participants is on the DeNami Designs blog!
Don’t forget…you have until Monday, June 11, 2012, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for one of the two $20 DeNami mini shopping sprees).
Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Christmas Card Challenges: Woodgrain!

Happy Sunday! I’m back with a new Christmas Card Challenge for you! This week, we’d like you to use woodgrain on your card!

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 our blog so we can stop by and leave you some love!
It’s not necessary that you use a Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamp on your card, but we sure love it when you do!
For my card, I used some pale blue woodgrain paper, and colored Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps’ Caroling Josh as my main image!

Supplies: woodgrain paper (aMuse Studio), patterned paper (Basic Grey – Nordic Holiday), sentiment stamp (Papertrey Ink), cardstock (Stampin’ UP!), ink (Brilliance Graphite Black, SU Night of Navy). Copic markers (skin – E00, E01, E11, R02;hair –  E70, E74, E77, E79; earmuffs, mittens – R24, R29, N6, 110; scarf – YG23, YG25, YG63; jacket – W2, W3, W4; jeans – B95, B97, B99, 0; shoes – E87, E89; candle – E41; candle flame – YR12, Y00, YR30; book – B91, B93, R29, YG63; shading – C0, C2, C4), adhesive pearls, card base.
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to see the festive cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Margo, Michele, Pat, and Stephanie!
Thanks so much for stopping by!

Your Next Stamp: Splitcoast Challenge #1!

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Happy Thursday! Thanks for stopping by to peek at my card for this week’s Your Next Stamp challenge on Splitcoast Stampers! It’s my first card as a member of the team! WOOHOO!

I’ve seen what the other DT members created…and you are in for some super cute inspiration! Visit the SCS /YNS forum to check them all out!

This week, we’re kicking things off with a colour challenge…a super cute combo of orange, pink and green!

Here’s my card:

Supplies: card base, image & sentiment stamps (Rock Star Fhiona cling set – Your Next Stamp), patterned paper (Memory Box – pink plaid; Pebbles – pink star; Basic Grey – lime green, orange), glitter brads, scalloped circle die (Spellbinders), Copic markers (skin – E00, E01, R02; hair – E79; clothes – YG21, YG23, YG25; shoes – C4, 110; guitar – R22, RV21, RV23, YG21, YG23, YR01, YR02, E31, E33, E35), sewing machine, paper piercer, ink (Brilliance Graphite Black, SU Lucky Limeade), gold glitter gel pen.

Make sure you join in all the fun on our forum and link your creation in your gallery on Splitcoast Stampers! If you don’t have a gallery yet, it’s free and easy to create one! Visit Splitcoast Stampers to get started!

When you link your card on Splitcoast, don’t forget to include the following keywords (yns, yournextstamp, ynsc and ynsc1) so we can see your entry and leave you some rockin’ comments !!!

You have until Wednesday June 13th to submit your entry…one lucky random winner will get $10 in YNS Bucks to spend in the YNS Store! We can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this challenge! For all the challenge details, click here.

Thanks so much for stopping by!