It's Your Birthday!

Good morning!

Here is another "day" card to go with the "It's A New Day" challenge

from Thursday.

DRS stamps: 086L Cranes and 736F Bee Happy Birthday. 

I did a dip and dunk for my background again on this card (that is, spray Dylusions Ink on a piece of foil or Kraft sheet, spray with water and then dip/dunk the cardstock panel into it).

Today I've made my cranes to look like the great blue heron instead of cranes,  the shape is perfect.  I added a sun/moon to the background and some white highlights to the water.  For the sentiment I only stamped the part of the sentiment that says "It's Your Birthday!"  (since there are no bees on this card).

I think this makes a great guy birthday card.
Most guys like anything nature so this fits the bill.
I hope you are all having a great weekend...I am!
I'm at a weekend stamping retreat!!
So much fun playing with 100 other women,
stamping our hearts out in 4 amazing classes!!
I LOVE stamping!!
Thanks for visiting today!!
Robin
 Dies are from My Favorite Things, Our Daily Bread Designs
 and Lifestyle Crafts.

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Glitter Grad

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! It's getting to be that time of year again..when all the graduations ramp up. Hubby has a niece & nephew graduating so I made this for the nephew using his school colors of green & gold. For the grad cap, I stamped it, colored it, added some gold gel pen to the tassel,  then overstamped it w/ Versafine. I die cut it w/ stitched circle then matted w/ a gold glitter circle. On the star panel, I did the same..adding gold gel pen to some of the stars & coloring others.  

Some die cut circles w/ punched out star centers were attached onto gold glitter circles & added. Here's a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

 

Congratulations Graduation 274K	Bright Graduation Greeting 780F	Interlocking Star Bg 819H	Shooting Star 509F
Staples 110# white card stock	MISTI	VersaFine Small Inkpads	Memento Inks
DCWV Glitter Matstack	Copic Sketch Markers	Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink	Metallic Gelly Roll pens
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B	Double Stitched Circles Dies	Spellbinders Lg Circles S4-114

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Challenge #224 - It's a New Day!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

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

Janis in ID 

Congrats, you are the winner from our Color Inspired Challenge!  

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

 It's a challenge all about the word DAY...

It's a New Day!

 (...use any image, die cut, paper, technique..but your greeting needs to have the word "DAY" in it..think birthDAY, Father's DAY, Mother's DAY, toDAY..you get the idea!)

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, May 4, 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. From all of the entries we receive, one lucky winner will be chosen to receive a $10 store voucher to DRS Designs!

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

Nancy

Karin

Shelia

Robin

Julie




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Festive Birthday

Who doesn't need some more birthday cards?

I made this one a cheerful as I could so I put on lots of color and stars.

I stamped the Birthday Candle Burst image a couple of times and cut out all the candles.  The background was made using the Starry Background image and then shading in some yellow.  I used the One more candle greeting to top it all off but I cut it out an made little banners to add to the festive look.

Hope your week is going well.

Hugz,

Nancy

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Kitty Trio

Hi Everyone,

I made this birthday card with my niece in mind.  She's definitely a cat lover and with her birthday coming up in the beginning of May I knew I wanted to use the cute Happy Cat Sitting stamp to make her a card.  

I paired the image stamp with the Purrfectly Birthday Greeting by stamping it on the front of the the card panel.  After embossing it with a paw print embossing folder, I took my 1 1/4" punch and punched out 3 peek holes for the kitty cats.  I stamped the kitty three times and used a 1 3/4" punch to punch them out, positioning them behind the openings, changing up the directions they were looking out. 

Using a larger scallop and circle punch, I made some frames for the openings to give the card a more finished look, adding a bit of ribbon and a punched mini heart for embellishment.  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your day is Purr-fectly wonderful too!
Karin

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Best Wishes

Today I have a card created for my niece who recently got engaged! I still cannot believe she is old enough to be engaged. She'll always be that little girl running around, playing, and enjoying life to me. Maybe I just don't want to admit how old I'm getting!? Anyway, here's the card.

Her favorite color is purple so I had to go with that. I started by embossing the light purple panel with a rose EF. This is layered on darker purple. Next I stamped the white strip with the small silhouette heart with light purple ink, added it to a dark purple layer and attached it. Next I added the white lacy ribbon down the side and attached everything to the white card base. The Engagement greeting was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink, die cut and layered on a dark purple die cut piece. I'm pretty sure my niece will like this purple card.

Have you checked out this week's challenge here at DRS Designs. It is a color challenge.  Hope you can play along!

Thanks for stopping by,
shelia

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Angel in Heaven

Hello all,

today I have a simple Sympathy card.

  

It uses the Another Angel Sympathy and the Sea Grass.  it was added to a green card with a green bow.

Have a wonderful day.

Janett

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Thinking of You

Good morning!

Well funny thing is...I printed up the wrong color challenge photo the other day when I needed to make a card for the challenge this week!!  Ha!  Lucky for me I discovered my mistake before Thursday!

I liked this card so, here it is.

I used Cheery Lynn Designs corner die and 

Sue Wilson Designs ornate framing die.  

DRS Designs stamps: 671L Daisy Basket,  and 031D On My Mind

The only thing I added as a finishing touch is a nice little bow on the basket.

You could use this card for a get well card or a Thinking of you card or even a sympathy card for a good friend.

I stamped my image and die cut the bottom part only by placing the top plate only on half the die.  The top was all too big for the die so not a candidate for the out of the box technique.  I fussy cut the entire top down to my die cut portion and then popped it up onto my framing.

This was a fast and easy card but still looks pretty and elegant.

A basket of daisies is perfect for any occasion!

Hope you are having a nice weekend!

Thanks for visiting!!

Robin

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Father's Day Lighthouse

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! I thought this would be a quiet week around here...sigh..Dh has been out of town all week & I thought, well I'll miss him, but Yippee! I'll have lots of quality crafting time! Not quite..you know how it goes. His special watering system for his special plants (not the yard ones) isn't working quite as well as he thought. So I have to go out & hand water them. I get bit about 2 dozen times by some insect I don't even see & I'm miserable (allergic to insects). A plant in the house gets knocked over, so I end up vacuuming the whole house, upstairs & down. A stupid squirrel not only starts eating my hibiscus, he takes the almost opened flowers up on the patio table to eat them! The nerve! Well, I sprinkled it w/ red hot pepper flakes so he's getting a surprise if he tries it again. It just keeps getting busier & crafting keeps shrinking.

I did get this one done for Father's Day. Yay! I love the look of Prismacolor pencils on toned card stock..usually I'll pick kraft but I used gray for this one. After putting the lighthouse in my Misti, I stamped it w/ Memento, colored w/ Prismas, then overstamped w/ Versafine. Actually, no black pencils were used on the lighthouse..just very dark grays, lt grays & white. I finished off the scene by adding the water & seagulls then added a white mat on top. The greeting had to be split to fit the vertical pennant.

Here's a look at the inside. Since my dad lives a handful of states away, I thought this greeting was perfect. But since he was in the Air Force, I hope he doesn't think I signed him up in the Navy.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs- Lighthouse, Seaside Dock (seagulls), Father's Day Greeting , (inside –Miles Apart Greeting )

Paper: Staples white, gray, marina clone

Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (inside - HA soft granite, VF deep lagoon)

Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Stitched Rectangle dies, Misti, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B dies, ODBD Double Stitched Circles dies, IO Mini Nautical dies

 

Lighthouse 461G	Seaside Dock 1111K	Father’s Day Greeting 280G	World Map 572P	Miles Apart Greeting 066F
Staples 110# white card stock	MISTI	VersaFine Small Inkpads	Memento Inks	Recollections Cardstock
Prismacolor Pencils	IO Mini Nautical DIE184-L	Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A
Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B	Double Stitched Circles Dies	HA Shadow Ink Summer Splash

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