A Year in Review

Ohhhhh.... What a fun way to spend a couple of hours! Thanks for reminding me to slow down a bit Karin! I do seem to spend most of my time racing forward and it was nice to look back!

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Snow Penguins for New Year's Eve

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

It's New Year's Eve!

And these penguins look pretty happy about it. Can you believe we had a white Christmas here in the deep south? It was awesome! So I thought a little snow for New Year's might be fun, too.

The Let it Snow Penguins are part of our January new images and will be released tomorrow! I started with a piece of white that I brayered with a rainbow pad and only used the purple, blue and a touch of the green parts of the ink pad. After it was done, I took a water brush and smooshed the colors around to soften them a bit. The white layer was embossed with an embossing folder and I cut the inside out to make it into a frame which I attached on top of the brayered background. The images were stamped on a separate piece, colored with markers and cut out. The sledding penguins were attached directly to the background.

On a piece of acetate, I stamped the snowflakes with white Stazon then attached it to the frame with brads. The cut out sentiment was attached on top of the acetate and the finished card measures 5.5 x 4.25.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a safe and very Happy New Year!






Supplies:
stamps: Let it Snow Penguins, Snow Background, Playful Penguin Postage Frame
paper: white, lavender
ink: white Stazon, black permanent, rainbow dye ink pad
accessories: acetate, 3 white mini brads, 1 white snowflake brad, markers, embossing folder. brayer, water brush

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It's Still the Holiday Season

I know Santa has come and gone, but I had one more card to share with you from DRS Designs and it is never too soon to start your cards for next year! In fact I still haven't written mine for this year! This card uses Santa Face (541E) a new release and Have a Jolly Holiday sentiment (480D). I embossed the Swirling snowflakes (168F) with silver embossing powder. Remember it is never too soon or too late to work on those Christmas cards for next year!!!

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One last one...promise!!!

Hi there...it's me, Cathy...

The holidays came and went so fast that I just didnt have time to share and/or make all the projects that came to mind for all the great DRS images, new and old. So here is one last one...if you're in the Northeast and buried under all the snow we got this weekend, it might be a great time to get caught up on some projects for next years holiday season. Trust me, next year, you will be so glad to find some things done...especially if they are useful, like tags...



This new Santa face image is perfect for holiday tags. A circle punch and a scallop punch make this a quick and easy project. I stamped the scallop punch with the flake mega scallop image. If you want to take your project a step further, use a small embossing folder to emboss the inner circle, color with markers and add some white flock to Santas pom pom.

For this project, I stamped a new greeting on the back of the tag, but you could always do the usual to/from.



I chose to make this tag part of a card, but you could always make a baggie full of tags and stash them for next year. I find it relaxing to do multiples of things sometimes. You can sit in front of the TV and use your punches or watch the kids play in the snow while you color.

I hope Santa was good to you this year. Be sure to keep checking back because very soon you will start seeing peeks of soon to be released images. What better way to start off your year than expecting a package from DRS Designs full of great new images for all your papercrafting needs!!!

Thanks for checking in...
See you soon...

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Happy Holidays

Hi Everyone!

Hope you had a great holiday this past weekend, and that you are getting ready for New Year's Eve this weekend.  Do you have any New Year resolutions regarding your stamping hobby?  I think I will keep mine to myself.  I don't want to be accountable to you, if I don't follow through with them.  Which is highly likely...lol!  

My card today uses lots of background stamps from the DRS Designs catalog, as well as the sentiment Happy Holidays from the New Releases.

I would even use this as a Happy New Year card, since the cute Percy Penguin is really just a winter themed image.

Here is a list of the background stamps I used which were all cut out with various sized circle punches. 

4 in 1 Snowflake

Starry Background

Gift Background

Jingle Bells

Thanks for popping in and don't forget to drop by DRS Designs and buy yourself some great stamps to use in the coming year!

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Happy New Year!

Hi Friends, Jennifer here today!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday shared with all of your family and friends!  Now that the hustle and bustle of the holiday is over, I started brainstorming on creating a New Year's card.  If you're like me then you make cards for every holiday, and it is the next holiday, you know!?!? 

To me New Years means lots of elegance with glitz and glamor so I knew I wanted to create this card with black and silver and a bit of sparkle.  I used the  Shooting Star (509H) as my focal image and stamped it on gray cardstock.  I then stamped the shooting star again on aluminum foil and cut the star portion of the image out and adhered it to the original stamped image.  I used a black marker to color in the border around the star.  Some silver Stickles around the outside eadge of the foil star really made this star sparkle and shine!

Unfortunately, my brainstorming idea got a little out of hand when I realized I didn't have a "Happy New Year" sentiment to add to the front of my card.  I quickly improvised and used a portion of the Blessed Christmas Greeting (525G) and in seconds I had a New Year's sentiment right in front of me! As you can see I split it up in to 2 parts and stamped it above and below the Shooting star as shown.  Don't be afraid to come up with new uses for your stamps just like I did!

I hope you have a wonderful New Year's Holiday, and may you be blessed with peace, love, joy, and good health in the New Year.

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Penguin Pete

Welcome!

I'm hoping you all had a wonderful Christmas!

My card today features a sneak peak at 2 of our upcoming New Release Stamps that will be available soon!



I started my card by stamping our new Girl Swirl (585G) using clear versamark ink and clear embossing powder, and then stamping the same Girl Swirl again using black ink. Next was stamping our Lots of Dots Giga Circle (094L) using clear ink on black cs and embossing with white powder. I layered that with red cs stamped with our Lots of Dots Mega (125H) circle stamped with black ink. To top it all off I stamped our new Penguin (569D) using black pigment ink and clear embossed him, added the red scarf and skates and orange beak and cut him out. Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezey as they say!

Thanks for stopping by - Enjoy your Holiday week and I hope you have the Happiest of New Years!

Sue

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Peace on Christmas

Merry, Merry Christmas and let there be Peace! 

I wanted to make something peaceful for my post here on DRS today and decided that the triple tree with snow stamp was the ticket.  I stamped it in the center and then a bit on either end in handsome hunter and embossed with hologram highlights.  Next, I stamped the starry background in versamark and embossed with glittery gold. Then I masked the snow and brayered the sky with baja breeze, sponged edges with black and sprayed silver shimmer spritz on snow.  Image is on dimensionals and so is the baja breeze piece.  Added a piece of lace to the corner and for the sentiment, I used  "peace" from the Three Wisemen Peace image. 

I hope that everyone's day is filled with a Peace that will carry them through 2011!

Hugs to you all!

Pam

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Christmas Eve Silent Night

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff
As we (hopefully) all gather together with our family and friends on this Christmas Eve, may we all take a few minutes to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. To me, these images say it very well. So I kept my card simple to highlight the images.

The manager scene and left side were embossed with a white, shimmery powder onto navy card stock. The right side has the Silent Night music stamped again, this time in dk blue ink onto the white card front. A simple, sheer white bow was added on the left and the main image was die cut with a large circle die. The white card measures 5.5 x 4.25.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope you are able to be with your loved ones to celebrate.






Supplies:
stamps: Holy Family Manger Scene, Silent Night Sheet Music
paper: white, navy blue
ink: white pigment, cobalt dye ink
accessories: shimmer white embossing powder, lg circle dies, sheer white ribbon

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The Joys of Christmas

Today I have a simply elegant card for you, which was easy peasy to make. This would be a great design to mass produce your Christmas cards. I have used the newly released sentiment, Joy of Christmas sentiment (562G) from DRS Designs. I embossed the sentiment with gold embossing powder, cut it out with a nestie and layered it unto gold foil cs. I then added some pearls for embellishments. I used a snowflake embossing folder on white cs as my background. A gold bow tops the focal image.

I still have more shopping, a lot of wrapping and tons of cooking to do! How about you? I have never been this NOT READY!

Hope you have time to enjoy your friends and family!

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Tangled...

Is your tinsel in a tangle yet, as the holiday quickly approaches? I just love this new sentiment by DRS Designs. How could you not?! This was a quick and easy card thanks to this great sentiment and some fun ribbon.



I simply embossed the card with a cuttlebug embossing folder. Some red mirror paper across the middle covers the line since I only embossed half of the card front. I tied the ribbon around one of the focal panels and then simply adhered a few of the ribbon circles to achieve the "tangled" look!! Of course, I had to add a few jewels for good measure!

Thanks for checking in. I would love to see what you have done using this sentiment. Send me a link to your card and I just might send you a piece of DRS Designs rubber to play with on another card!!!!

Thanks for checking in...
See you soon...
Cathy

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Tinsel in a Tangle

Hi Everyone!

Are you feeling the holiday pressure??

Well, to cheer you up and remind you that it's all going to be OK, I thought I would show off my card made with this fun greeting, "It's Christmas~Don't get your Tinsel in a Tangle!"  The day I made this card, I was totally tangled in my numerous strands of Christmas lights.  So, inspired by that, I added the Christmas Lights Border to the top of my background and dry embossed the rest of it.

I finished it off with some embossed and die cut trees, since that is where tinsel hangs from ;)

Hard to believe that the big holiday is this week.  Thanks for taking time out of your day to stop by and visit us.  Don't forget that DRS Designs has all kinds of great stamps in the catalog for the crafter on you list!

Happy Holidays,

Karin

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Celebrate Christ!

Posted By Jennifer E.

Happy Holidays to you all!
I hope all of your preparations are going well as the holiday count down is almost over!  Today I'm sharing a religious Christmas card I made using new Christmas stamps from DRS Designs.  It is important to remember the true reason for the season and celebrate the birth of Jesus!

I colored the Holy Family Manger Scene (513M) with Copic markers and used a rectangle Nestability to cut it out.  I split up the Simplify Christmas Greeting (553D) and stamped the top portion of the sentiment in the blank space in the upper left corner of the image.  The lower portion was stamped in the empty space in the lower right corner of the image.

I kept things simple with this card to go along with the 'simple' theme in the sentiment.  I only embellished this card with a yellow satin ribbon and some yellow rhinestones. A bit of yellow stickles dressed up the star.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Happy Holidays,

Jennifer

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Simplify Christmas...

by Sue

Welcome!!

I'm guessing I'm not alone in saying I've had a busy week ;) I did take a few minutes to stamp this card as a reminder of the true meaning of the season~


I started my card by stamping the top left corner of white cs with the star from our new Three Wise Men Peace Stamp using clear versamark ink and clear embossing. After adhering piece of scrap paper with a mega scallop oval punched out, I sponged on lots of ultramarine and violet inks. After removing the mask I stamped our new Simplify Christmas Greeting in the bottom left corner using ultramarine ink and then added a single jewel to the center of the star.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting with us during this crazy time of year, and I'd like to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas!!

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Wishing you a Blessed Christmas...

One week until Christmas!!!  I hope this finds everyone enjoying the season.

My card for today uses the beautiful Blessed Christmas Greeting from DRS Designs and for my main image I used the single fall tree from DRS as well.  I punched a circle and then masked off the snow and moon, then brayered the night sky in with basic gray...sponged the moon in with daffodil delight, brayered the sentiment with basic gray and lightly sponged sentiment and image around edges with black.  The starry background was stamped onto the black layer.  I added angel wing shimmerz paint to snow and thick on the branches.  Half pearls and wonderful lace from Marks Finest Papers.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy your time with loved ones!

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Dough Globe?

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

Y'all know it's only 7 more shopping days til Christmas! I'm not finished but I think I need to shake up this dough globe and hope some falls out, lol. I think I've done some dashing thru the dough but I don't feel nearly as cheerful about it as this little guy looks. Too much dashing, I think.

Well, I'm not really sure how I arrived at this design, but somewhere along the line the word "shrink plastic" popped into my head. That was probably the most time consuming. Cutting out all those little plastic bills and shrinking them. I stamped them w/ Stazon on the shiny side first and colored the back sides w/ markers. And it is pretty cool to watch them shrink up. Kind of like my wallet lately, except for the cool part.

The globe part was cut with a couple of sizes of circle dies for the red and black frames and 1 large circle of acetate was attached underneath. I also cut 2 circle frames out of card board in order to have some space for the dough and Rudolph. The trees were stamped w/ a green rainbow pad and I used a glue pen and some transparent glitter all over for a little snowy sparkle. The bottom of the globe is another die cut I cut the bottom off and used a wood grain embossing folder on top then sponged a little ink over the raised parts.
The background on my 4.25 x 5.5 white card was stamped with the dough image and embossed with glittery powder. I used a red marker and a water brush to add the color to the sentiment and hand cut the arrow shape.

Thanks so much for stopping by!






Supplies:
stamps: Flying Cash, Dashing through the Dough Greeting, Triple Tree w/ Snow, Santa w/ Reindeer
paper: white, red, black
ink: green rainbow dye pad, Stazon black, silver pigment, starlite black
accessories: markers, water brush, stardust embossing powder, circle & labels dies, wood grain embossing folder, glue pen, transparent glitter, shrink plastic, acetate

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Happy Holidays

Todays card is based on a sketch for the Card Patterns Challenge # 94. DRS is giving away a $15 gift certificate. For my card today I have used the ice skates (373H) and I colored the laces, heel and blades with gel pens on shimmery white cs. I added snowflakes and black pearls. Trim is a MS border punch with white pearls added for some bling. Happy Holiday sentiment (515C) is one of the new releases.

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Retro Christmas

Hi there...It's me, Cathy!

I hope your holiday preparations are well under way and things are going as planned. Mine are a little slow this year due to all the change in my life but as old traditions pass, new ones take their place! I'm happy to say that although I'm a little behind this year, I'm still enjoying every bit of this season.

I have a "retro" card for you today...I'm not really a retro kind of girl, I like the country look much better but sometimes you need to break out of the norm. I used two of DRS's newest images...



I'm in love with this new shooting star image and I thought the sentiment was "simply" perfect! I used a cuttlebug embossing folder on the side and a Making Memories charm is tied to the ribbon with silver cord. As an after thought, after I took the photo, I found a teeny tiny star jewel that I glued to the star in the sentiment. I'm a little tired after last nights work holiday party so retaking photos is not an option today ;). It's hard to tell in the photo, but the star was stamped a second time on silver mirror paper and cut out. I adhered it with a pop dot.

Thanks for checking in...
See you soon...

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Silent Night Nativity

Hi Everyone!

This was one of the quickest cards I have ever made. In my life.  Both of these stamps are from the New Releases here at DRS Designs and I just love these two stamps paired together. 

The Silent Night Sheet Music was stamped in white ink on blue paper.  The Holy Family Manger Scene was stamped on white paper in blue ink, cut out with a Nestie, and sponged in blue chalk.

I raised the image on pop dots and since I let the background do double duty as the sentiment for my card, I was done.  Never has elegance come this easy for me. 

The new releases contain a great mix fun and quirky, as well as religious.  No matter what kind of project you want to make this year, DRS Designs has it all.

Oh, and don't forget to enter the challenge at the Card Patterns blog using this sketch:

You could win a $15.00 dollar voucher to the DRS Designs store ;)

Thanks for visiting us today!

Holiday Hugs,

Karin

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Dough Dashing!

Posted by Jennifer E.

So, is your holiday shopping going well? Almost done? I've started...I'm no where near finished and this card explains my thoughts exactly! Every shopping trip feels like I'm dashing through the dough! LOL! Can you relate?

The Flying Cash stamp (547F) and the Dashing Through the Dough Greeting (545D) are part of DRS Designs new releases. The scene I created for this card also uses Stretch the Square Button Snowman Snowman (1143H) and Stretch the Round Button Snowman (1129H).

All of the images were colored with Copic Markers and I did quite a bit of masking to create the impression that the snowmen were standing in the "dough" piles. Once all the images were masked I sponged light blue ink for the sky.  Of course I had to add a touch of sparkle to the snowmen to make them glitter and shine! I simply added this scene to a red cardstock base and this card was complete!

Hope you enjoyed it!

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Holidays,
Jennifer

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A Colorful Christmas Card

by Sue

Welcome!

Have you finished your Christmas Cards yet?? I haven't even started mine!! I've been playing around, not sure what direction I wanted to go in... funny.... serious.... pretty...and well... here's what I came up with the other night - my very colorful Christmas Card! Wish me luck that I'll make a decision have one to show you next week!


My first step was to cut four squares of white cs 1 3/4 x 1 3/4. I stamped our new Santa Face in the center of each and after coloring each one I layered them on black. I then layered the 4 on a piece of purple cs and then on a folded black card. For the center piece I cut more cs at 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 and stamped our Fun Merry Christmas in the center, layered it on black and added some green bling! Pretty quick and easy if you like coloring!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope all your Christmas preparation is going well!

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Shiny Shooting Stars



Can you believe it's almost Christmas?  I can't.  We are having pretty consistent temps here in Colorado in the 50's and 60's.  I prefer snow:)  I know, I am weird.  I would rather drive in snow any day verses rain.

My card for today uses DRS Designs new release Shooting Star and the ever versatile Starry background.

I stamped the shooting star four times with yoyo yellow and embossed with glittered gold embossing powder and painted with marigold shimmerz paint, cut the stars out and popped them up three times as the original image only has one star.  The background stars stamped in yoyo yellow and embossed as well. 

Paper:  vanilla, black, crushed curry

Ink:  Yoyo yellow

Stamps:  DRS Designs Shooting star, Starry background

Accessories:  dimensionals, ribbon, glittery gold embossing powder

Happy Shopping!

Pam

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Ice Skates & Snowflakes

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff
Happy Friday! The weekend is almost here.

It's been so cold lately, I feel like I need a pair of ice skates. Luckily, I just received this great pair. It's sort of a re-release image and I'm so glad it's back! I see many possibilities with these skates. Not only for the holidays, but wouldn't this make a great December or winter birthday card?

For my card, I went with an icy blue and white color combo and lots of sparkly embossing and fussy cutting. It may be weird, but I really like cutting. I used an indigo pigment ink w/ the sparkly, translucent embossing powder for the skates and December images and a silver pigment w/ the same powder for all the snowflakes and snowflake wreath. The images were colored w/ markers and a water brush. The wreath was die cut and the edges of it as well as the edges of the dk blue background were also embossed for a little extra sparkle. All of the images are popped up just slightly. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.5.


Thanks so much for stopping by!







Supplies:
stamps: Ice Skates, Snowflake Wreath, Swirling Snowflakes, December Design
paper: white, brilliant blue
ink: indigo & silver pigment inks
accessories: markers, water brush, stardust embossing powder, VersaMark pen, circle die

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Simplify Christmas

Today I have a card for you using the newly released Simplify Christmas (553D) and Holy Family Manger Scene (513M) from DRS Designs. I tried to keep my card simple to emphasize the meaning of the greeting. I stamped the image with brown Memento ink on kraft cs. I cut out the focal image with a Spellbinders label nestie. A touch a glitter and brown ribbon adds a bit of sparkle. Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your Thursday. How is your Christmas shopping coming along? I think I need to get started on that! Yikes...

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