Challenge #220 -Spring Fling!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

First, the Winner from the Random Drawing.... 

Shirley Qu

Congrats, you are the winner from our B Words Challenge!  

 Please contact us at info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize. 

For this week's challenge, we're all in the mood for a...

Spring Fling!

 use any technique, image, die cut or punched shape just be sure to have something that represents Spring on your project (spring colors, flowers, birds, bees...you get the idea)

To enter, show us your card  by linking it below. The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday, April 6, at 6:30 pm ET and please link new creations only (no back dated or duplicate entires). 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.

For the prize, one winner will be randomly selected to win the following 3 stamps:

Birdhouse Tree Branch 733K

Lovebirds Branch 413H

Sending You Sunshine 094D 

Here are some very springy cards from our talented DRS Design Team and we'd love for you to leave us a comment!

Robin

Shelia

Nancy

Janett

Karin 

Julie


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Blessings

Don't you just love when you can think of a bunch of ways to use a stamp?  I begged DRS to make a stamp like the Open Bible for my Bible Journaling class, but I have found it makes a fun stamp for cards as well (you can see several other great ideas on this blog).  I made this card at a crop this past weekend playing around with the image and some other stamps.

For the background, I stamped the Script Font Background and stamped it in SU! Crumb Cake.  I added the Count Your Blessings Greeting below the open bible.

I cut out another Open Bible and trimmed it so it would look like some open pages.

I love how this came out!

Hugz,

Nancy

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Birthday Bees

Hi Everyone,

I couldn't resist making another bee themed card recently.  The Bee Happy Birthday Greeting is just so...well, happy!  I love that the greeting comes with that teeny tiny bee built right in :)

I decided to try and stamp on a light blue cardstock, which I was hoping would stand in for a blue sky.  I stamped the Beehive image, and after coloring it with Copic markers, it turned out well enough, that I added  some Bee Trails for extra interest.

 I wrapped the image panel with some yellow ribbon and tied on a tiny tag that was stamped with Bitsy Bumble Bee and colored to match.  And it wouldn't be complete without some glitter added to the wings :) 

You can find all of these stamps at DRS Designs.  Have a great day!

Karin

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Happy Easter Monday!

Does anyone still refer to today as Easter Monday? I remember always having today off from school when I was a kid. Maybe I'm showing my age here!! Anyway, I still think of today as a special day to remember Easter and rejoice that Christ is Risen. So my card today celebrates that fact.

I started with the white CS, stamped the Christ is Risen Cross with Memento Black ink, colored it with Copics and die cut. It is layered on two more die cuts in yellow and green. Everything is attached to the yellow card base which was embossed with CB damask folder. The small Open Bible was stamped, colored with Copics, fussy cut and then attached with a foam dot for dimension. The word "Rejoice" was stamped with Versafine Black Onyx ink.

I hope you have had a good Easter weekend and found time to rejoice!!

Thanks for stopping by today,
shelia

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Lily Cross

Happy Easter

For this card I used the Lily Sympathy Cross and Copic markers. The background is a embossing folder that was cut into sections and layered on to paper that i colored the edge with a Copic marker. The I Am Resurrection Greeting was stamped with Memento Black ink. The bow and half pearls were added to finish off this card.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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Bible Journaling

Good morning and

Happy Easter tomorrow.

B is for Bible!

Yes, that is a Bible in my Bible!!  The Bible and the Rejoice are some of the new release stamps for this month and they are perfect for the Bible journaling everyone is getting into these days.   This Bible is even a special Bible just for that purpose.

Here is a photo of the whole page.

I used letter stencils for the bottom (red) letters and a liner pen.  I stamped the little blank open Bible with Memento Luxe gray (it doesn't bleed through the thin pages).  I then stamped the Rejoice inside.

The yellow rays were done with a stencil and some Dylusions paint...it is transparent so that the words are easily read through the paint.  You could also use ink as that would also be transparent and just apply it sparingly with a sponge.

For the top journaling I used DRS stamp: 380G Dandelion Puff

The bottom uses DRS new release stamps: 745C Open Bible, 825B Small Rejoice and 4 In 1 Arrows 807C (the arrow is open, I colored it in).

One last journaling page especially for Easter weekend.

DRS new release stamps: 4 In 1 Arrows 807C, Remember This 790B and a favorite, 3 Wooded Crosses 1116K  I used colored pencils to color the crosses and to make a sunset sky.

Thanks for visiting today, I hope you are having a great day!!

Robin

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Beehive Birthday

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! Isn't this greeting just the cutest ever? Perfect to go w/ these adorable little bees & beehive (which by the way continues the DRS Thursday Challenge..B Words!) They look so cute on my card...as long as that's the only place I see them. I'm so allergic to insects, I have to carry an epipen! The only live bees I've seen so far are those big carpenter bees..they are like the cargo plane of bees. Those guys are HUGE! And they drill perfect little holes in everything & turn it into Swiss cheese. Woohoo! 

For my Beehive Birthday, after die cutting the layers, I stamped the branch w/ the beehive several times. Once on the honey colored card stock, the very end of it on the white layer & the hive on a separate little piece of white. I colored the branch on the two big pieces & the hive on the little one & fussy cut it. All the extra bees were also colored & fussy cut. The bee on the lower left is actually a reverse image so I wouldn't have him flying off the page. 

I added bee trails to the larger 2 bees & used a micron pen to add the dotty trails for the 2 smaller bees.  That little bitty bee is from the Bumblebee Recognition image. Here's a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a bee-utiful weekend & a Happy Easter!

Bee Happy Birthday 736F	Bitsy Bee 1020A	Bee Trail 1147B	Beehive 1143L
Bumblebee Recognition 738C	Honeycomb 019C	Birthday Wishes 508E	Memento Inks
Recollections Cardstock	Copic Sketch Markers	Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B
MISTI	VersaFine Small Inkpads	Sizzix 660220 Thinlits	Distress Inks

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Challenge #219 - B Words!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

First, the Winner from the Random Drawing....

B.M.B.

Congrats, you are the winner from our Color Inspired Challenge!  You got an extra entry for using the DRS image, but you didn't even need it! 

Please contact us at info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize. 

 This week's challenge pays homage to the second letter of the alphabet..

B Words!

 (use any image, die cut, paper, technique... but have at least one thing that starts w/ the letter B (think birds, bees, bunnies, blue, black, buzz, ball, bronze, birthday, bikes, buckle, blocks, bowl, banana, baby, bugs, balloon...too many to list!) be sure to let us know your B Word!

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, March 30, at 6:30 pm ET and please link new creations only (no back dated entires). 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, one lucky winner will be chosen to receive their choice of 2 stamps from the online catalog at www.drsdesigns.com!

Here are some B Words creations from our talented DRS Design Team and we'd love for you to leave us a comment!

Janett

Shelia

Robin 

Karin

Nancy 

Julie

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Faith and Fish

DRS Designs has so many images that work perfectly with Bible Journaling.  I used two of them on this page.  First I stamped the Impossible Faith Greeting and then added the Big Mouth Bass.

My Journaling Bible has such thin pages that when I am stamping directly on the page, I stamp my images with a really light ink (I used SU! Crumb Cake on this) and then go over the lines with a Micron Pen.  I have only been Bible Journaling a few months, but I am addicted!!!

Hope you are having a good week.

Hugz,

Nancy

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Faith

Hi Everyone,

Seeing that it's the week leading up to the Easter holiday, I thought I would show off a faith based card today.  Originally I thought this could work as a sympathy card, something to offer hope at a dark time in someone's life, so I chose deep muted colors when designing it.

I stamped the Open Bible in brown ink and the I Am The Resurrection Greeting over it in navy blue.  I die cut it using rectangle and scalloped rectangle dies,  layering the sentiment panel on a script embossed  background.

The background panel was stamped using the Splatter Background stamp in the same brown ink and I stamped the Dandelion Puff a few times in blue. Stamping the flower once, and then again before re-inking it, is what gives it that subtle shadow effect.

All this was layered onto a navy blue card base and I added a matching bow. 

Thanks for visiting and if you celebrate, I wish you a Happy Easter!
Karin

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Welcome Spring!

Aren't you glad it's Spring?! I am. I am so ready for some warmer weather, sunshine and outdoor activities! So in honor of Spring, I have a card to share today that celebrates this season.

I started by stamping the Birdhouse Tree Branch, Lovebirds Tree Branch and Leafy Tree Branch images with Memento Black ink on white CS, colored them with Copics and then sponged Bashful Blue ink on for the sky. The Spring is Coming sentiment was stamped with Versafine Black Onyx ink on white CS, die cut and layered on green CS. Some Bashful Blue ink was sponged on to match the background better. The little bird charm has been in my stash forever and I thought it'd look cute with this greeting. The green frame was die cut and the edges were embossed with some lines for interest.

This card could also work for this week's color challenge. You still have time to join in the fun. You could be the winner of some fabulous new stamps. We'd love to see what you create. Details can be seen here.

Thanks for stopping by,
shelia

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Bee Happy Birthday

Hello all.

My card today is a birthday card with the new greeting Bee Happy Birthday.

I stamped the Honeycomb Design and colored them with Copic markers. Then I used the Happy Bee and the Bitsy Bumble Bee I used white Wink of Stella and the wings.

On the back of the card I used the new Bumble Bee Recognition and two of the Honeycomb.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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Spring time

Good morning!

Here is another card for the color challenge from Thursday's post...

scroll down to Thursday to see the challenge and where to submit your entries.

Here are the colors

DRS stamps used: New release Spring is Coming, 724E Sally Snail

I used a sketch from Splitcoaststampers for this card.

Stamped, colored and die cut my snail using a round stitched die from My Favorite Things and a circle die from Spellbinders.  I then stamped my sentiment and cut the panel down to size and matted it with blue.  My card base is white with a layer of yellow 4 1/8" X 5 3/8" and blue on top 2" X 4 1/8"

I added checked ribbon and green enamel dots then made a bow from the ribbon and put my card all together.  The snail circle is popped up.

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!!

Thanks for visiting!

Robin

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