Season's Greetings!

Hi Everyone! Thanks for stopping by today! 

Have you started stamping your Christmas cards yet? I've made a few, but not nearly as many as I need! I have a couple CAS ideas in mind that will be easy to mass produce, but I just need to find the time to sit down to stamp and assemble them.  That darn clock is always against me! Thankfully, 80% of my shopping is done and wrapped! With that part almost complete, hopefully my cards will get in mail in a timely manner! 

Today, I'm delighted to show off one of my holiday cards that features DRS Designs new Small Cardinal stamp (1050F). It will be available for purchase very soon.  I colored it with Copic Markers and sponged light blue ink around it while it was in a Nestability die. Then it was matted with a red scalloped square. 

For the background, I made my own coordinating paper by stamping the Large Stain Glass stamp(1133P).  This is the first time I've used it as a background stamp. In the past I've always used it as part of my focal image by stamping the focal image right on top of it and then coloring the stained glass portion appropriately. I love the versatility of stamps like this one!

Finally, I added the matted Season's Greeting sentiment from the Line of Winter Trees stamps (537K) which I accented with a red brad on either side, and adhered with foam tape. Finished card size is 4.25" x 5.5."

I hope the Holidays are treating you well thus far!

Until next time...

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Ho, Ho Ho!

Hi Everyone,

I have light hearted holiday card to share with you today.  DRS Designs has a new sentiment stamp being released.  It's the Ho, Ho, Ho Rum greeting, and I could imagine Santa wanting to spike his eggnog with a bit of rum after his trek around the globe :)

After stamping and coloring the sentiment, I set it aside and created the card base using the

Open Plaid background stamp in Versamark.  I then made some paper using the

Jingle Bells Background stamp in green ink, and then wrapped it with a sweet red ribbon.  I also colored and fussy cut the Santa Hat, adding it with a pop dot after assembling the card.

I finished it off with a couple of rows of gems and some Stickles on Santa's Hat!

Hope your holidays are off to a fun start!
Karin



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Happy Monday!

Wow, can you believe it is already December? I guess now would be a good time to get serious with the Christmas card making if you haven't already started!  My card today features the Stained Glass background stamp. These background stamps are easy to use and really look beautiful. I started by stamping the stained glass on white card stock with Memento Black ink and the main image in black ink, then heat embossed it with black embossing powder. I used my lightest colored Copic markers to color in the stained glass.

The card base is black CS with a layer of white CS that was embossed with the Swiss dots folder after die cutting the window with a nestie die. I used the same die and the next size up to cut the black frame. Some velvety black ribbon and rhinestones finish the look. Hope you like it!

There's still time to join in this week's challenge. You can see details here.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Until next time,
shelia

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Happy Snowman

I hope all of you survived the Black Friday madness. Working on the other side of the table has really opened my eyes the this holiday tradition.  Oh well on to my card.

 

I love this happy little snowman. The stamp is Large Happy Snowman Portrait he was colored with  Copic markers then fussy cut. The Merry Christmas Stamp was stamped with white ink onto navy card that was cut with a Spellbinder die. The background grounds are embossing folders.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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The Game

The fine folks at DRS Designs should have never let me be in charge of Saturday posts, at least during college football season.

I couldn't help myself once I conjured up the idea for this card.

For this week's card, I stamped the DRS Designs image of "Ohio Buckeye" onto X-Press It cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black.  I colored it with Copic markers and cut around it with detailed scissors.  I adhered the buckeyes and leaves to scarlet cardstock that was cut with an emerald die set from Spellbinders.  It was trimmed with a black marker and framed with silver cardstock.

Then, I stamped DRS Designs "High Tailin' Turkey" with Memento Tuxedo Black onto another sheet of X-Press It cardstock.  I colored the turkey with Copic markers, drawing the "M" on his body.  I cut around the image with my detailed scissors.

I stamped a portion of the sentiment from "Ohio Buckeye" inking with a Memento Tuxedo Black marker and adding an "s" and an "!".   I cut the speech bubble with a die from Spellbinders.

I assembled everything onto a piece of texturized white cardstock, paper pierced and faux stitched, and framed with black and silver cardstock.  Two pieces of "Ohio State" ribbon were added to the card as a final touch.

I hope your favorite team wins today.  Well, unless your team is M!ch*g@n, LOL.

Final score???!!!! Buckeyes all the way, of course!!!

Thank you for visiting the DRS Designs Blog today.

Saturday Smiles (and Go Buckeyes!),
Kecia

Edit after The Game:  Whew!  Michigan played an outstanding game.  I'll be the first one to admit that, and I'm so thankful for the Buckeye win.  

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Skinny Snowman

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday! 

I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving and you're finding a lot of Holiday sales today. Almost every Thanksgiving, my husband gets out his little smoky bbq/smoker and smokes the turkey usually w/ pecan wood. That's the best tasting turkey around! I remember the first year he cooked it in the smoker. My nephew was probably about 7 or so. Everything was going great...family was here from all over so there were actually 2 turkeys in the smoker. Dinnertime!! My sis and I are in the kitchen and my nephew comes running inside in tears. "it's horrible!" he cries. "The turkeys are BURNED!" He'd never seen a turkey cooked this way and they do look pretty dark on the outside.  We explained that and he still wasn't convinced until we started slicing it up. So we like to remind him every Thanksgiving. OMGeee! It's burned!

And since we've been having a very cold spell w/ rain, wind and now they're predicting icy/snow stuff, I'm going w/ a snowman card today.  I love using blues or turquoises for winter snowflakes. They just look like icy colors. For the 4 in 1 Snowflakes falling down the side, I used a teal ink and stamped each one more than once to get the variegated colors. The skinny snowman was colored w/ Copics and die cut before adding to a larger teal layer. The sign was colored and fussy cut. I added some stickles for a little icy sparkle and my 4.25 x 5.50 card was finished!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend and find lots of bargains!

Supplies:

stamps: 4 in 1 Snowflakes, Stretch Snowman, Snowman Melt Sign 

paper: white, teal

ink: Memento black, teal

accessories: Spellbinders long rectangle die, Copic markers, stickles 

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Challenge #98 - Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy DRS Challenge Thursday & a  Very Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Congratulations, Sonia Kertznus! 
You are the winner of our Star Spangled Christmas Challenge!

Please send an email to info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize.

The theme for our next challenge is 

Happy Thanksgiving!
(Happy Thanksgiving to all! Since it is Thanksgiving, show us a Thanksgiving project) 

To enter, show us your card  by linking it below and we'd love for you to leave us a comment.  The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday, December 4, at 6 pm EDT.  Challenge entries don't have to use DRS Designs stamps, but if you use them on your challenge card, you'll get an extra entry into the prize drawing. From all of the entries we receive, one lucky winner will be chosen to receive a $10 store voucher to DRS Designs!

Here are the Challenge cards from our talented DRS Design Team:

Karin

Shelia

Julie

Sue

Jennifer E.

Janett

Kecia

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