Bright Birthday

Hi Everyone,

It's Karin posting today.  I'm in for Chris who is under the weather... I hope you are feeling better soon!

I have a quick bright birthday card, that shows off the wonderful background stamps that DRS Designs sells.  It's great being able to make your own patterned paper...Guarantees everything on your card will be nice and match-y :)

Here are the stamps I used to create this:

Polka Dot Background

Interlocking Flower Background

Brush Birthday Greeting

I added some chalk to highlight the center sentiment and some punched flowers and ribbon completed the card. 

Hope your day is bright and cheerful!

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Play Along!

Hi Everyone,

I'm reminding you to play along with the Card Patterns sketch challenge this week.  DRS Designs is the sponsor, which means one randomly selected participant will receive a $20.00 voucher to the DRS Designs store.  Will it be you?  Maybe, but you have to link up your card at the Card Patterns Blog for your chance

 at the prize!

Here is the sketch:

And for your dose of inspiration, here is my card:

Yes, I know it's a Christmas card, but I'm trying to take every opportunity to make them before the holiday rush sets in.  I used the adorable Santa Face for the main focal image (he's so cute and quick and easy to color!) and the Jingle Bell background gives great coverage and makes a bold statement.  Perfect stamps for a traditional red and green color combo. 

I used my Nestabilities dies and a snowflake punch to help me follow the sketch.

Thanks for dropping in and I hope that you can play along!

Good Luck!

Karin

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My Sister, My Friend

DRS Designs has had a lot of sponsorship opportunities lately and I hope you're enjoying them as much as I am. This week we have another chance for you to win a $20 store voucher for completing the sketch challenge over at the Card Patterns Blog.

I used this sketch to create this card for my sister. I used DRS Designs Treasured Sister Greeting (1142F) as the focal point on the card front. I stamped it in Real Red ink and then used the same ink to sponge around the edge while it was in a Nestie die. I accented it with a heart brad to match the rest of the heart theme that I used on the card front.

The background was created by stamping the Interlocking Heart Background (808H) also in Real Red and then I colored in some of the hearts with a Copic Marker. The panel behind the sentiment was dry embossed with a heart embossing folder and I layered some fabric and paper flowers according to the sketch. Finished card size is 5.5" x 4.25."

Don't delay! Run over to the Card Patterns blog and link up your challenge card today for a chance to win the $20 shopping spree from DRS Designs.

Hope you all have a great Monday!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Spiral Ornament Tutorial

Welcome!

Last week I promised you a tutorial on our new spiral ornament demo, and I'm happy to say all went well this week and here it is! Yeah!


Cut four pieces of white cs to approx. 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 and brayer fresh green, turquoise, violet and raspberry inks on each piece. After drying, stamp our Spiral Oval or Circle using clear versamark ink, emboss with silver ep and cut out.


Score a line down the center of the back


and fold with the stamped sides out


cut out center (if desired).


You should have four pieces


On the back of one piece apply tape and adhere cord and a center charm if desired. (I used two 1/2" crystal jewels taped back to back with silver cord in between)


Fold one of the remaining pieces right sides together and adhere to the left side lining up the center folds and outside scallops. Do the same with the last 2 pieces adding more tape as needed.


I added glue and purple glitter to the outside edges and then added some dimensional white liquid pearls for a little added zing!






Thanks so much for stopping by!

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It is a Froggie Day!

Happy Saturday to everyone in blogland!  I was feeling rather froggie today and DRS   Designs has some fabulous stamps that fit rather well! 

For my first card here, I chose the Singing Frog, Birthday Sheet Music and Polka Dot background.  My paper colors are very vanilla, certainly celery and brocade blue.  The froggie was stamped and painted with pearlescent watercolors and then cut out.  He's up on dimensionals.  I made a bouquet using the brads and some baker's twine (which is hard to see in this photo). 

My second card showcases our Frog on a Log.  from DRS Designs.  Also, I used the Woven Plaid background and Treat for You! Greeting.  I stamped the frog and painted with pearlescent watercolors and then cut him out and popped him up on the scallop circle.  I made the sun by punching a circle and then free hand cutting the rays and gluing them on.  The sun is popped up.  Some thin navy ribbon and a button finish this card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Pam

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Apple 4 Teacher

Happy Friday!

For a lot of kids, school will be starting back up very soon. In our area, school started the first week of August. First week of August?? Are you kidding?? How old does that make me sound if I remember starting school after Labor Day?

Anyway, I thought this cool Teacher Tools image would work well for a thank you or welcome card for a teacher. I colored it w/ markers and cut it out. The big apple and apple cut out were done w/ a Cricut machine. I added the Lines O'Plenty background on the green frame. The sentiment was split up to fit the space and after I die cut the circle out from it, I decided I liked the way it framed the circle so I attached it as is. A little punched apple and a couple of buttons finished it off.

Supplies:
stamps: Teacher Tools, For Someone Special, Lines O'Plenty
paper: white, red, green, yellow
ink: VersaFine onyx, VersaMark
accessories: markers, SAMJ (stamp-a-ma-jig), Spellbinders circles dies, Cricut and Plantain Schoolbook cartridge, small apple punch, buttons

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It's five O'Clock Somewhere

Today I have a citrusy card for you featuring these wonderful stamps from DRS Designs.

I decided to do white detailed embossing with my focal images.

The background was created by using the Citrus  slice (D851) stamp repeatedly on bright yellow card stock.

I stamped the sentiment "It's five O'clock Somewhere (728D) with white craft ink on yellow card stock and then embossed it with white detail embossing powder.

I did the same with the Drink line up (173G) stamp.

I added a triple ribbon and some white brads.

There you have it: A fun easy peasy card to make!

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FRISKY FLORENCE AND SOME HOT COCOA

Hello Everyone!!! This is Chrissy Dickinson from Wisconsin stopping by to share a few cards with you today!!

Aren't these little marshmallows the cutest? I just love these CUTE stamps! Stamps: Cocoa and Marshmallows and Cocoa and Marshmallows Greeting, I used the Open plaid to create the bottom portion and colored the different stripes with water based markers Red, Blue and Brown....I used Red stitched Offray Ribbon and chocolate brads to finish it all off!

On my second card,  Frisky Florence is in the spot light! I used a Black Marker and colored the portion of It's Your Birthday on the the Hot Diggity Dog Birthday greeting. For the card base, I used the A7 Scallop Card and ran it through my Big Shot with the Sizzix Flowers and Flourish folder. The Spellbinders I used were the Labels 18 and the Tags Trio. I added a small strip of pink grosgrain and used the Viva Pearl Pen Translucent as an accent. I also used felt flowers and silver brads and gave it a bit of dimension by using Glue Dots to adhere it all together!


I hope you enjoyed my projects! Thank you for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!!

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Heartfelt Condolences

Good morning everyone,

It's Karin, with my usual Tuesday post today.  I unfortunately needed a sympathy card recently, so I decided to color up the pretty Circle Lily stamp for the card.  We used to have beautiful day lily's lining the one side of our house.  I loved them because the came back every year with no work from me, but sadly they are no where to be seen anymore.  The deer have eaten them so often, that I barely get a few straggling leaves. 

The main image was colored with my Copics, and I cut it out and put it on a black background which was stamped with the Lots of Dots 3" Giga Circle. I still see the trendy doilies everywhere, so I thought that would add a sweet touch underneath the image.  The yellow layer is a Nestabilities cut out.

My patterned paper was made using the Silhouette Branch background and the sentiment With Heartfelt Condolences completed the front.  I wish I was better at making these difficult cards ahead of time, rather than waiting until I need them.  Maybe you will be inspired to do so.

Have a great day!

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Hogwash!

Happy Monday Friends!

Jennifer here, sharing with you a comical Birthday card.  The Hogwash stamps I used on this card are some of my favorites by DRS Designs. 

I stamped the Leonard Pig's Bathtime Buddies (719K) in Rich Cocoa Momento ink and colored them with Copic Markers.  The Hogwash Sentiment (722E) is actually all one stamp.  It has 3 lines that I've split up to fit my layout.  This technique is one I do all the time and love it! That's the beauty of using unmounted rubber stamps! I feel this makes them more versatile and I get more use out of them.  As you can see I've also used "Hogwash" to create my own background paper.  Hope you like the way this card turned out, I sure do!

For your information, I'd like to share some other DRS news with you. Out with the old, in with the new as they say...DRS Designs has announced their 2011 retired stamps list. These stamps will be available for purchase until September 15th or while supplies last. You can see the entire list of retired designs HERE.  Get them now while you can. After September 15th they will be gone for good!

Thanks for stopping by!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Ornaments

Welcome!

I was recently at a stamp show in Novi Michigan doing a wonderful demo/make n take of these fabulous 3D stamped ornaments.






Oops, I'm experiencing some technical difficulties :( Hopefully I'll have the step by step tutorial for you next week.

Have a great week!

Thanks for stopping by!

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A Golfing Weekend....

Okay, I just need to start by saying that I made this card before I saw Julie's post yesterday....I guess we have a golf themed weekend!  My husband golfed yesterday and is planning a be in a tournie over Labor Day. 

I made this card for Jeff's partner whose birthday is Monday.  The Happy Birthday on here is actually the end of a funny sentiment from DRS Designs and the rest is inside, "You're not over the hill, You're on the back nine.  Happy Birthday!"...it is called the Back Nine Greeting.  I stamped my golfer duff in noir black and colored him with river rock, baja breeze, sahara sand, so saffron, blush blossom and a bit of poppy parade on a blender pen for his cheeks.  The sky was done with a scallop circle mask and tempting turqoise and wild wasabi for the grass.  The kraft layer was stamped with the lines o' plenty background in wild wasabi.  I punched a big circle and embossed it with the Sizzix dot matrix embossing folder to make it resemble a golf ball.  Rounded the top corners of the main image and added some so saffron ribbon.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Pam

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Golfer Duff

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

The weekend is almost here and some of you are probably planning on a friendly golf game. The only golf I've ever played is miniature, but there are a lot of golfers in my family. So I think this would be the perfect masculine birthday card for one of them. All except my aunt Mary, that it is, lol. She LOVES to play golf. You could use it for other occasions, but I used the Above Par Birthday Greeting on the inside.

Don't you love the name of the image? Golfer Duff. Reminds me a little of my husband. Quite a few years ago when we lived in a partially finished subdivision, he was out in front practicing his swing. He used to hit balls across the several unfinished streets and pay neighbor kids to shag the balls. So he's out there one day and my daughter and I are on the couch in the living room. All of a sudden, there is a big CRASH, my glasses fly off my face and this golf ball lands about 3 inches in front of the tv. I wish I had a picture of the look on his face. Apparently, when he struck that ball, it hit the curb across the street and bounced back through the front window of our house. I guess if it had come any closer to me, I'd have had one monster head ache, lol. I still tease him about that one.

I used a little stack of pigment inks that comes in coordinating colors to stamp the Golf word repeatedly. I also used it to make the narrow woven plaid strip. Golfer Duff was colored with markers and given a little out of the box treatment.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Supplies:
stamps: Golfer Duff, Golf, Woven Plaid
paper: white, moss
ink: VersaFine onyx, Colorbox Pumpkin Patch Queue pigment inks
accessories: markers, brads

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FUN FUN FUN



Today I have a "Fun" card for you!

I love tropical drinks and I just love this Drink Line Up (173G) stamp! from DRS Designs.

I colored my drinks with copics and added some glassy glaze for dimension. I also added some crystal sticles to the green liquid tops.

I only used part of the "its All About the Fun" (1042E) stamp.

I colored the  word "Fun" with a turquoise marker.

I cut out my focal image with an oval nestie and layered it unto a scalloped nestie and then another oval nestie.

I added a chevron striped ribbon and some bling.

I made the polka dot background with the Easy Dot Background Stamp (628H).





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Ready for Fall?

Hello Everyone- This is Chris Dickinson from Wisconsin stopping in to share with you today!

 I used the Fall Leaf and Acorn with the Technique Junkies Newsletter and the Gesso Off technique from the August/ September 2009 Issue. Fall is my favorite time of year and these stamps are perfect!

The Get well Prayer stamp is perfect for those loved ones and friends who may be feeling under the weather. 

Here are some more details:

Stamps: Fall Leaf and Acorn and Get Well Prayer from DRS Designs

Cardstock: River Rock, Soft Suede and White

Accessories: Gesso, Sponge, Dimensionals, Spellbinders, Dimensionals, Ribbon, Viva Pearl Pen Green, TIm Holtz File Tabs, Big Shot

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a great day!

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So 70's

Hi Everyone,

DRS Designs released these fun stamps a while ago and they made a great funky card.  I used the Jumbo Peace Sign for the focal image and the Double Peace Sign for the background.  Stamping and coloring in my favorite color from the 70's (I'm still not over my mom not letting me paint my bedroom this color back in the day!) and adding the You are My Sunshine sentiment almost completed the retro feel. 

And then I added the Stickles...NOW it was complete ;)

What can I say? I hope your day is "Groovy!"

Karin

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Get Well Soon!

Last weekend I went to the Stamping and Paper Arts Festival in Novi, Michigan put on by Heirloom Productions.  I met up with Sue from DRS Designs and helped with the Make n' Take project, which was a lot of fun. (Hopefully one of us will be able to show it here on the blog soon.) I also walked around gathering ideas and doing lots of shopping myself!  One of the projects I was inspired by was stamping on vellum, coloring the image with water color pencils and blending the colors with a Dove Blender Pen.  Last year at the show I bought a package of vellum that I had yet to use, until now! It was a nice change to use something other than my Copic Markers. 

Here's my card using this technique. 

I created this Get Well card using stamps from DRS Designs.  I first stamped the Daffodil Frame image (104P) with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it using Black Sparkle Embossing powder.  Next I used Watercolor EcoPencils by Faber-Castell to color in the image and then used my new Dove Blender pen to blend the colors. I adhered the image to white cardstock, cut it out, and matted it as shown. 

The background was stamped with the Polka Dot Background stamp (688P) with Versamark ink and I used "Get Well Soon" from the Blooming with Good Health Greeting (055G).  I simply embellished this card using a few brads and a turquoise organza ribbon to match.    I love the way the image looks a bit like stained glass.  I hope you like how this card turned out, I do!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Faith

Good Saturday everyone!  I hope it is just what everyone wants!

My card today features the following stamps from DRS Designs:  sea grass and faith open heart greeting.  I stamped the grass in versamark and embossed it in black.  Next, I masked off the sun and the top and bottom in order to brayer on marina mist for the water.  Then I masked that off and brayered the sky in this order:  apricot appeal and pink passion.  I sponged some soft suede for the sand and then masked and brayered on sahara sand.  The sun was sponged with daffodil delight.  The rest of the greeting is on the inside of the card and is "Faith is opening your heart and closing your eyes."  I added some white gel pen accents to the grass and water.

Have a great day.

Pam

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Watermelon Treat

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

One of my favorite things about summer is watermelon! I love watermelon almost as much as this little guy. Doesn't ice cold watermelon sound great on a hot summer day?

For my card, I stamped the tasty image twice, die cut one in an oval shape and colored the background. On the other, I colored the melon and cut it out to attach on the base image for a little dimension. A couple more layers were added and a big gingham bow (love the ribbon, but hate how easily it unravels). I put the sentiment on a die cut circle and attached it to a tag die cut before running the string through the bow. For the gingham button, I covered a plain button w/ double sided tape and wrapped it with some of the gingham ribbon. The finished card measures 5.5 x 4.25.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Stay cool and have a great weekend!

Supplies:
stamps: Watermelon & Friend, Treat for You Greeting
paper: white, yellow, red, dk green
ink: Ancient Page coal
accessories: markers, water brush, Spellbinders oval, scallop ovals, circles and scallop squares dies, gingham ribbon

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