Happy Fall Card

by Alicia Ekermans - Call Me {Crafty} Al

Wow, I can hardly believe I am typing this, but this will be the last card I share as a member of the DRS Designs design team. It has been such a pleasure to work with all of the wonderful ladies who own the company, as well as the other fantastic artists on the team. Although I may not be sharing DRS Designs creations on this blog any longer, I am sure to be showing them on my blog.

For today's card I have create a sort of 'scrappy' card. I used some of the supplies I usually reserve for my scrapbooks (alphabet dies and letter stickers) to create this colorful Fall Card. To start the card off I stamped the NEW Single Fall Tree (F468) in brown ink onto the natural colored cardstock. Next I used various shades of markers and made small dots around the tree limbs and on the 'ground' to represent fall-colored leaves.

To create my sentiment for the card I die-cut the word 'Fall' in red and beside that I adhered 'happy' using some tiny letter stickers I had colored. The orange on the bottom of the card was embossed with small dots then topped with a bordered punch yellow CS and some green twine cord.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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Ornament Tile

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Monday!

I'm sharing a new Christmas sentiment along with a couple of must have images. These images will really make your holiday cards special. I also have a technique you might want to try, so this is also for the TLC301 challenge at Splitcoast. The technique is called Faux Tile and this is a take off on the technique. On the background, I used a scoring board to score the diagonal grid. I flipped it over so that the lines were indented then stamped the pine bough all over. The indented grid kept the image from stamping in these grooves.

Just for fun, I used a VersaMark pen inside all the lines then embossed with an evergreen embossing powder.

On a smaller piece of white, I stamped the ornaments and new sentiment. Don't you love the fancy script font? So elegant. I colored in the ornaments and boughs with markers, then went over the ornaments with a clear glitter gel pen. I used a water brush to spread the glitter out and I really like the sparkly effect. The strings were colored with a silver gel pen. I added a few punched red circles on the bottom of the grid bg. The finished card measures 4.25 x 5.50.

Thanks so much for stopping by!






Supplies:
stamps: Joys of Christmas Greeting, Ornaments Galore, Pine Bough
paper: white, red, evergreen
ink: pine green permanent
accessories: markers, water brush, clear glitter gel pen, silver gel pen, rectangular die, 1/8 & 1/4 inch hole punches, scoring board, evergreen embossing powder, VersaMark pen

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Featured Sunday Stamper #4

Welcome!

I'd like to be the first to congratulate our Feature Sunday Stamper

Leanne G from Rogersville AL

Yeah!!

I was having a lot of fun emailing her back and forth while she was participating in our By Invitation Only contest, and I just LOVED this card (and the other 2 she made) as soon as I saw it!

You can see all of Leanne's terrific cards by visiting her blog at

www.createdbyLeanne.blogspot.com

Way to go Leanne!!!

Thanks for adding bunches of fun!!

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Nicer in November

by Sue

Welcome! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Like Karin yesterday I feel the need to show you one (or two!) more fall cards - they are my favorites after all! And I did promise a tutorial on a new technique too - it's actually a mini technique, cause it's just a spin on an old technique!

Here goes~


I started my background layer by dabbing a wadded up piece of paper towel on a yellow dye ink pad and (after blotting it on scrap paper), I rubbed it from corner to corner on white cs.



Step 2 was to to the same thing using orange ink and adding color to the top right corner.



Step 3 was adding red ink to the bottom left corner (sorry about it looking pink here - scanners, go figure!)



Step 4 was to take a wet towel (in this case a baby wipe) and drag it from the top right corner to the bottom left corner, adding some very cool shading to my background in about a second and a half!

Step 5 was to layer it on black cs and then plum cs and then on a folded black card as you see here and adding our "not so new" anymore Delightful November Greeting to the bottom right corner



The pumpkins were "stolen" from our Bountiful Basket stamp and popped up on foam tape.
I love how fast & easy I went from a blank piece of cs to a very colorful one!

It was so fast I had time to make this birthday card for my nephew using the same technique.


After masking both top and bottom, I sponged yellow and orange ink in the center. I then stamped our Medium Silhouette Leaf and our Small Silhouette Leaf using versamark ink and clear embossed. Next I sponged on green and brown inks and I once again wiped a baby wipe across it to give it the illusion of moving, as well as removing the ink from the silhouette leaves! Less than 15 minutes from start to finish for the whole card!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Shine on...

Hi Everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday...Did you eat too much?? Stupid question, right?! Well, before we forge ahead onto the next big holiday, I thought I would show off the last of my fall themed cards.

I used basically the same stamps to make these two different looking cards.  I pulled out my neglected brayer and did a bit of masking to create the scene with the moon.  I also finished it with a bit of sponging, whisking the inky sponge across the sky and moon to give the illusion of a bit of cloud cover.  In addition to the sentiment Shine on Harvest Moon and the Single Fall Tree stamp,  I also used Starry Night and Easy Grass Background.

The second card I used the same technique, I just decided to play up the "Shine" portion of the sentiment and I used spray adhesive on the image...

and then sprinkled it with stamping glitter. Oooo.... Ahhhh...

Some added important info for you stamping fans...The new releases are available tomorrow! Would you be interested in winning a couple of the new stamps?  Well, mark your calender for December 1st and get ready to participate in the DRS Designs Blog Slide.  The more people that enter, the more prizes that will be given away!

Also....

Want to try and win a $10.00 voucher to the DRS Designs store?  DRS is the sponsor at the Stamp Something blog and the theme is Anything Goes. No excuse not to join in the fun with an open theme like that!  

So, stay out of the stores today and get crafty instead!

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Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

I can not believe tody is Thanksgiving! Wasn't it just summer??? Time is just speeding up! Hope you are sharing today with loved ones! We have so much to be thankful for. Today's card uses two images from the November DRS release. I stamped the Delightful November Greeting (473G) with brown ink and cut it out with a nestie. I airbrushed the background. I also colored the Fall Leaf with Acorn (471F)with some copics.
Dont' eat too much today. But most of all be thankful...

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Candy Cane Together

Today I have a sneak peak of two images that will be released on November 27th. I colored the Candy Canes (552HU) with copics, cut out the image and popped it up. Then I stamped the greeting Candy Cane Greeting ((549HU) with black ink, but used a red marker for the words, "Candy Cane." I added a red striped candy cane bow. I also dry embossed some white cs with stripes as well. Altogether it is a very Striped Card.

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Have A Jolly Holiday!

Posted by Jennifer E.

Are you having a jolly holiday so far? I hope you're enjoying all of the holiday preparations this year! Lately, I've been working on Christmas cards and I have one to show you today.

I think this Jolly Holiday Greeting (480D) is perfect for this Large Snowman Portrait image (001L). I colored it with Copic Markers, and used Stickles to make him glisten like snow. I created my own pattern paper for the card front by stamping the Lines O'Plenty (366H) on the red cardstock with white ink. I embellished this card with 3 green eyelets that I tied gold ribbon in a knot thru them and then use a small green spiral clip with more gold ribbon tied to it on the other side of the image. I simply love the way this card came out! It's definitely one of my favorites!

I hope all your holiday preparations are going just as well as mine. It won't be long before the man in the red suit is here! You ready?!?!

Smiles,
Jennifer

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Shine on harvest moon....

Good day all!  I am going to try and drag out Autumn as long as I can.  The beautiful colors and the awesome, moonlit nights inspired this creation. This card was made with the pretty DRS Designs stamp  brush pussy willow in versarmark and embossing them in black.  Next, I used the versamarker and embossed inside the willows with copper embossing powder.  I brayered with not quite navy and masked the moon and added some pale yellow for the moon.

Stamps:  Brush pussy willow, Shine on harvest moon greeting

Paper:  not quite navy, black, white, metallic copper

Ink: versamark, yellow, not quite navy, black 

Accessories: Copper & black embossing powder, brayer, sponge (for edges), not quite navy ribbon and black ribbon tab

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Feature Sunday Stamper #3

Welcome!

Our Feature Sunday Stamper this week is ~

Roxie from Shelby, MI Hooray!!!!!!

We sent Roxie (aka Rox71 on SCS) our Winter Trees and Line of Winter Trees as part of our By Invitation Only contest, and this is the beautiful card she made with them. A stunning combination of intense color and monochrome navy and white!

You can view this card and many more by clicking here to visit her blog or here to see her entire fabulous SCS gallery. I warn you in advance, make sure you have plenty of time, because you won't want to stop looking!

Not only is Roxie an incredible artist but she donates the majority of the cards she makes to the soldiers, children with a life threatening illness and fund raisers to help the fight against cancer.

You Go Roxie!

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Simple Fall Wreath Card

by Alicia Ekermans - Call Me {Crafty} Al

When I first saw the NEW Autumn Wreath (M429) I knew I wanted the image to 'speak for itself' on a card. I thought it would be a great chance to create a CAS (clean & simple) card.

I started by stamping the wreath in a dark orange ink onto an off-white cardstock. A die was used to cut and emboss the image and then it was placed on a card base of the same color. The sentiment, Beauty of an Autumn Day (G788), was stamped in a dark brown ink, then matted with brown cardstock. This would be an easy way to make a lot of cards to send to family and friends for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Make sure to check out all of the new releases HERE.

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Scarecrow!

Today I have a card for you for the Spoon Full of Sugar Blog Post. For this post I used the Large Scarecrow (426L) and the Scarecrows and Corn Rows Greeting (460F) from DRS Designs. I had fun coloring the not so scary scarecrow with copics and cut him out with a round nestie and layered him a few times. I stamped the olive and kraft cardstock with a branch stamp. I added yellow twine to the edge of the card.

Today I am thankful that I have a beautiful warm home and I can spend time in my craft room and rub Cooper's belly. Tonight we are going out to dinner with good friends!

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A Fun Scarecrow to Celebrate Fall!

I made this card using the DRS Designs new stamps! I colored this scarecrow image with copic markers and gel pens. For the background, I embossed white paisleys using an easy background stamp. These stamps are so easy to use and you can make your own patterned paper with time! How awesome is that!I stamped this sentiment on white paper then sponged the edges to make it look distressed. Thanks for popping in and I hope you will stop by DRS Designs and check out all of the new images for fall!

Stamps Used: Paisley Background, Large Scarecrow,Scarecrows and cornrows

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Thanksgiving Already?

by Sue

Welcome!

Can you believe next week is Thanksgiving??? I swear just yesterday I was making an Easter card!

My card today evolved, as many of my cards do lately, and the best part is that while messing around I actually discovered what I believe is a new easy background technique which I'll be posting a tutorial on soon!

For today however... poor Tom...



I started my card by stamping our Silhouette Fence on white cs using versamark ink and embossed it using white embossing powder. Using a crumpled paper towel I rubbed on green ink for grass and turquoise ink for sky, making sure I inked in between the fence. The fence did get covered with ink, but I was able to wipe it off using a damp Q-tip. Next I stamped a few Hay Bales here and there and also stamped a few extra on a separate piece of cs. I stamped our new Poultry Propaganda stamp on a piece of white cs and a scrap of yellow/gold cs. After coloring all with my Bic Mark It's I layered it like you see here, including adding a couple of hay bales using 1/8" pop dots for dimension.

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Thursday!

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Harvest Moon

Hello!

It's Jennifer posting here for you today, and I'm showing off a Fall card I made using DRS Designs new Fall stamps.

The technique I used to create the scene can be found here.

I made my own landscape stencil by cutting a wavy pattern on a piece of scrap paper. I sponged Creamy Brown Chalk ink along the edge of the stencil to create the rolling hills at the ground line in several spots.  Next, I used a circle mask for the moon and sponged the sky with SU! Ballet Blue ink.  I used the reverse mask for the moon and sponged that area with SU! So Saffron ink.

I stamped the Single Fall Tree (468F) in SU! Chocolate Chip in 3 random spots so they were scattered along the rolling hills.  I added Autumn leaves by simply using Copic Markers to add different colored dots along the branches and along the bottom of each tree.  The Shine On Harvest Moon Greeting (470D) was stamped in the bottom right corner also with SU! Chocolate Chip ink.

I matted this card front on a brown cardstock base, added a small bow made from brown grosgrain ribbon in the upper right corner, a band of the same ribbon in the botton left corner, and finally this card was complete!  I hope you enjoyed today's post and the new Fall stamps from DRS Designs.  Stay tuned, as the new December release is just around the corner and you won't want to miss all the sneak peeks!

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Autumn Greetings

by Alicia Ekermans - Call Me {Crafty} Al

I just love Fall. I love the cooler temperatures, the pretty leaves and the color palette that is popular for creating during this season. If it was appropriate I would make every card with earth tones. That is why the new releases at DRS Designs are some of my all-time favorites.

For my card today I have used the NEW Fall Leaf with Acorn (F471) image along with the Small Autumn Greeting (B422) sentiment. I took inspiration from the colored image when choosing the orange color of the cardstock and ribbon. I stamped the sentiment onto the background cardstock, then used an embossing folder to get the texture on that piece.

To finish off the card I punched a strip of cork paper, then pleated the silk ribbon across it. The image, and its mat were die cut, and adhered with dimensionals.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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Scarecrows & Corn Rows

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Monday! I hope your week is off to a great start.

Seems like it's been a long time since I've posted. Have y'all been enjoying all the new fall images?

For my card, I'm using several of the new images. After stamping the scarecrow with black ink, I colored him using markers and a water brush, then cut him out. The leaf circle was stamped with green ink and die cut. Ink was lightly sponged around the edge.

For the mustard background, I stamped the fall fence with russet ink and the hay bales multiple times using the butterscotch ink. I stamped the first two lines of the greeting and die cut it, again lightly sponging the edges. The rest of the greeting was stamped on the inside of the card. Finished card measures 4.25 x 5.50.

Thanks so much for stopping by!






Supplies:
stamps: Lg Scarecrow, Hay Bales, Scarecrows & Corn Rows Greeting, Fall Fence, Leaf 3" Giga Circle
paper: white, mustard, rust
ink: butterscotch, russet, pine green, black permanent
accessories: circle & label dies, markers, water brush

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Featured Sunday Stamper

Welcome!

It's week 2 of our new Featured Sunday Stamper and we went a long way to find our winner!

Birgit E. from Sweden! Yeah!!!

Birgit is known as "Biggan" on Splitcoast Stampers" and I highly recommend you take the time to visit her gallery there - She is one VERY talented lady

We sent her our Bird on a Branch Stamp and our Triple Tree with Snow stamp and these are the cards she sent us -


Birgit sent me these instructions ~

I used my new lovely stamps from DRS design for these cards! On the first card I sponged the background with blue Distress Inks and then stamped Triple Tree with Snow (004L) twice with green Distress Ink. Colored the Bird on Branch ( 328K) with Promarkers and cut it out. Added some Glossy Accent to make it shine a bit and placed it on 3D foam. The Bullfinche are a common bird on Christmas card here in Sweden so I gave him a red breast. Love the Address Label Frame-Trees (106H) for the envelope !!

The other card is very clean and simple with a cut out Bird on Branch ( 328K) with Glossy Accent and some half pearls as berries!

Thanks for stopping by, and feel free to nominate any exceptional stamper in your world to invite@drsdesigns.com and maybe they'll become a Featured Sunday Stamper too!

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Lady Scarecrow Delight!

Happy Saturday!  Here is yet another bunch of wonderful new stamps from DRS Designs...lady scarecrow and Delightful November Greeting.  I had so much fun coloring this cute gal.  I paper pieced the flower and it has glitter in the center and her little orange nose is paper pieced, too.  Come check out the great new releases! Papers:  kraft, brown, wild wasabi, vanilla

Ink:  black, summer sun, pumpkin pie, wild wasabi, blush blossom, melon mambo, certainly celery

Accessories:  dimensionals, glitter, white gel pen, linen thread, buttons.

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Pam

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Autumn Flowers

Hi Everyone!

It's Karin posting again today...Are you enjoying all the cards made with the new autumn stamps?  They are so great.  Some are funny, some are delightful and some are just down right beautiful.  Which is what this Autumn Flower Spray stamp is...I just love this bouquet of happy faced flowers and wheat! 

 Colored with Copics and Bic Mark-Its, it is so seasonal in the color scheme and running my scissors over the edges of my layering papers gave it a distressed quality.

Since the Abundance at Thanksgiving greeting was on the large side when paired with this bouquet, I chose to stamp it on vellum since it has a slight see-through quality.  I then layered it partially over the image.  Keeping with the distressed theme, I tore off the top of the vellum and once again used some twine as embellishment. 

Thanks for visiting us here at the blog and I hope your Thanksgiving plans are in full swing!

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Autumn Wreath

For today's post I have used the newly released Autumn Wreath. I followed the sketch below to create my card. I colored the wreath with copics and airbrushed the background. I used an embossing folder on the cs.

Have you had the chance to play along with the sketch challenge at the Stamp Something blog? DRS Designs is the sponsor and the prize is a $20.00 voucher to the store!


Thanks and have a great day!

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Scarecrows and Pumpkins

Hi Everyone!

I'm so excited about my card today...I just love this adorable Large Scarecrow stamp that's just one of the newly released stamps from DRS Designs this month.

I colored him with my Copic markers and paired him up with the festive Scarecrow and Corn Rows sentiment. Then, I cut out both stamped pieces using one of my favorite tools, Nestablities, and color coordinated my chalk sponging with the image.

Since this sentiment mentions "Pumpkins on the vine..." I had to use my embossing folder that actually has...Pumpkins on the vine! I wrapped my twine to simulate a fence, and buttons always seems to make the perfect rustic embellishment.

Have you had the chance to play along with the sketch challenge at the Stamp Something blog? DRS Designs is the sponsor and the prize is a $20.00 voucher to the store!

Thanks and have a great day!

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Turkey Propaganda!

Have you seen all of DRS Designs new Fall stamps? Many of them are perfect for Making Thanksgiving cards. I've been playing with them and recently created this funny Thanksgiving card.

If turkey's could talk, can you imagine them telling you this as you begin your Thanksgiving dinner preparations? LOL!

I colored this fun Poultry Propaganda stamp (499H) with Copic Markers. For the card front I simply used orange cardstock and distressed the edges with Vintage photo distressing ink. Over the area where I knew I wanted to place the matted image, I stamped the Thanksgiving Arc (050E) in dark brown ink. I further decorated the card front using a decorative border punch, an embossing folder, grosgrain ribbon, and 4 clear rhinestones that I also colored with Copic Markers to match.

I hope you're all looking forward to Thanksgiving as much as I am! I love spending the holidays with family, and yes unfortunately for this turkey, I will be having turkey as part of my Thanksgiving Day feast! LOL!

Thanks for stopping by!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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A Brilliant Sunflower Fall

Good day!  I am so excited to be a new member of the DRS Design team!!!

Fall is my most favorite time of year and we've seen the prettiest Fall on record here in Colorado. The new releases at DRS Designs offers a wide variety of options for some beautiful creations this season. I stamped the main image in black and colored with markers, sponged the blues on to both images, weathered with some river rock dragging the paper across the ink pad and stamped the brush wheat with creamy caramel and river rock.

Stamps:  Autumn Flower Spray 452L, Have a Brilliant Fall 502D, Brush Wheat 149H

Ink:  Black, summer sun, pumpkin pie, creamy caramel, river rock, cajun craze, brocade blue, bashful blue, creamy caramel

Paper:  vanilla, marina mist, early expresso, cajun craze

Accessories:  old olive ribbon, button, linen thread, dimensionals, sponge, crystal effects on the flower centers

Technique:  weathering the edges

Have a wonderful week everyone! 

Pam

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Our First Sunday Stamper!

Welcome to our first "Featured Sunday Stamper" post!

We recently started a new kind of contest - a backwards one really. You can get all the information on our "By Invitation Only" contest by clicking here.

One of the things we noticed right off the bat (we've actually noticed for years) is that every now and again we see a card that just about takes our breath away - I've actually been speechless a time or two! Sometimes everything just clicks and you end up with a card or project that's totally awesome. We'd like to take a few Sundays and give the designers of these cards a little extra applause.

So, to get on with it...

Our First Featured Sunday Stamper is...

Pam S. from Westminster, Co (aka Bailmac on SCS)

and here's the card that she sent in ~



Here's how Pam says she made her card:
"I inked up the pine bough (467K) with always artichoke and early expresso, the Stepping Back In Time Greeting (674H) was inked in noir black and clear embossed. I added the snow background (187H) with craft white and embossed with iridescent ice embossing powder and unfortunately, the sparkle of the snowflakes doesn't photograph well. Next, I brayered with soft sky from left top corner to bottom right corner and then brayered not quite navy in the same fashion. I sponged cherry cobbler around the edges. Papers used; cherry cobbler, white, always artichoke and black. Main image put up on dimensionals and Basic Grey square rhinestones used. A black satin ribbon tab added as well."

What's the best news in all of this?? I'm very excited to say that Pam has become our newest Design Team Member!! Hot Diggity! We are very fortunate to have a wonderful, awesome and extremely talented group of ladies designing for us and Pam is going to fit right in.

Please stop by tomorrow for her first blog post - I can't wait to see what she has in store for us!

I'm also hoping you stop by next Sunday (and every day in between, of course:) for another "Feature Sunday Stamper"

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Gobble Gobble

Hi Everyone,

It's Karin posting today's card here at the blog, and now that Halloween is a distant memory, we are on to the next major eating holiday, Thanksgiving! Woo-Hoo! It's one of my favorite meals of the year :)  Since DRS Designs is the sponsor this week at the Stamp Something Blog, I decided to use their sketch for my card.  If you want a chance at a $20.00 Gift Certificate to the DRS Designs store, all you have to do is play along using this sketch...It's a good one, don't you think?

Here is my card using some of the newly released stamps!  I love this new Turkey Dinner stamp and it just called out to be paired up with the new sentiment, Gobble till you Wobble.  I sure can relate, how about you?

I used the Small Silhouette Leaf stamped in Versamark and embossed with clear powder for the background, and my favorite Cuttlebug embossing folder for this time of year.  I used some scraps of Coordinations paper, so that I could sand it and have the words show more clearly.

Want more stamps with an autumn theme?  Just go to the DRS Designs store here, for all the new releases!

Thanks for visiting us today and I hope you are having a great weekend :)

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Cold Days and Quilts

Welcome!

We're having a couple of cold rainy days her in the northeast - just right for staying inside and stamping!!!

My card today uses our new Large Scarecrow stamp


I stamped him peeking around the corner of my folded ivory card and colored him in. I wanted to do something a little more fun as a background for our new Scarecrow Greeting, so I made a "quilt". I love using scraps of paper and I got to use several here. I choose several in fall colors and then choose 2 coordinating background stamps, in this case our Easy Dot Background and our Interlocking Circle Background. I tried to make is easy and I stamped green ink on green paper, purple on purple etc. I did make an exception with the yellow and I used orange ink. To make my quilt I started with a piece of paper slightly larger than what I wanted the finished background to be and then started in the center and filled in to the edges. Once I had it all together and trimmed to my final size, I sponged on a little brown ink along the edges to pull it all together. Then I used a brown marker to add my stitches - the easiest quilt I'll ever make :)

Thanks for stopping by!

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