Challenge #172 - Put it in Neutral!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

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

Lillian A 

Congrats, you are the winner from our Bloomin' Beautiful! Challenge!  

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

For this week's challenge, we are changing gears from all of the color last week ...

Put it in Neutral!

 (use any image, die cut or punched shape but use neutral colors..for basic neutrals, think white, ivory, tan, kraft, brown, black, gray...)

Did you know you can make your own neutral colors? There are a few different ways to make neutral colors. You can blend black and white to make gray. You can create brown in two ways—by blending two complementary colors (like red & green or blue & orange) together, or by blending all three primary colors (red, yellow, blue)  together. You can also make a shaded neutral by adding a significant amount of gray to any color. Give it a try!

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 4, at 6 pm ET. 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:
Three Butterflies 744F
Butterfly Kisses Greeting 399G
Script Happy Birthday 159D
And here are some wonderful neutral inspired cards from our talented Design Team and we'd love for you leave us a comment!

Robin

Karin

Janett 

Julie

Sue

Shelia

Nancy

Jennifer E.

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Spring Attitude

Hello! I am very excited about my first post as a DRS design team member. I just love the versatility and fun embodied in DRS sentiments and images - they make card-making really easy!

We live out in the country, but we haven't had cows, chickens, or a garden in a long time so we have been wasting all this beautiful land. We have also been wasting Spring! This year, my husband decided we should plant a small garden and all of the sudden it really feels like Spring around here.  All this blooming and greenery inspired this cute little card.
 

I started my card by stamping Leafy Tree Branch (395H) twice (one from the left and one from the right). Then I stamped the new It's Spring... Bee Happy sentiment and a little Bitsy Bumble Bee. I stamped the bee again, colored it, popped it up on top of the base stamp, and added some Stickles since every bee should be a little sparkly.

I used the pointillism method for coloring the background with a yellow alcohol marker (I love the color variation this method gives to a background), and then I colored the images with green and brown alcohol markers. For the background panel, I used the Lines O'Plenty background stamp. Next, I sponged some chocolate brown ink all around the edges of both panels and attached them to the white card base. To add just a little more to the card, I stamped some more leaves from the branch stamp and glued them one in a few places (ok, I admit I was covering up a few little places that weren't perfect - LOL). Inside the card, I used the lines stamp again, stamped another little Bitsy Bee, and added the Every Day Holds the Possibility of a Miracle stamp.

Hope you have been able to enjoy a bit of Spring lately - we all need it after that cold Winter!

Hugz,
Nancy

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Butterfly Kisses

Hi Everyone,

Today's card features the new Butterfly Kisses Greeting, which was released this past weekend at the DRS Designs store.  It's a lovely sentiment and coordinates with any number of butterfly stamps in the current catalog.

While it was hard to choose a butterfly from all of the stamps available, I decided to used the Large Open Silhouette Butterfly and the emboss resist technique. I stamped the greeting in a deep purple and then used the butterfly stamp, Versamark ink and a white embossing powder, heat setting it with my heat gun.  

After it cooled, I chose two lighter colors of purple ink and sponged right on top of all of my stamping, adding a few die cut butterflies to give the card more dimension.

I finished it by layering the stamped panel onto some purple card stock and added the gems for embellishment.

Thanks for visiting the blog and be sure to check out the new stamp release here!

Karin

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Happy Anniversary!

DRS Designs will soon be releasing some new stamps and you are going to love them! For this anniversary card I used the new Love Birds Branch (413H) and the Side by Side Anniversary greeting.

I started by stamping the new love birds branch on white CS with Memento Black ink, coloring it with Copics, then die cutting and layering it on a matching die cut from light teal CS. I stamped just the Happy Anniversary part of the sentiment in VersaMark ink on a darker teal and heat embossed it with detail white EP. The border was die cut with a nestie and layered on white CS. I used a MS bow punch to created the white bow, punching it several times, and gluing them together with a small gem in the center.

This was a fairly quick and simple card to create and I really like the look. Hope you do too. Be sure to check DRS Designs online store this week to see the new stamps!

Thanks for stopping by,

shelia

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Bloom'n Birthday

Hi everyone, were back to the rain here and everything is so wet I don't think it will ever dry out. I so ready to start planting some flowers. So I thought I would share this flower birthday card.

I stamped the Medium Daisy Bloom it was colored with Copic markers and fussy cut. The leaves are from the Background Branch. 

The background was made using Spellbinder dies and CB embossing folder.

I stamped the Tiny Happy Birthday

and used circle die to cut and layer.

And the challenge this week is Bloom is Best, I hope you will join us.

Have a wonderful day.

Janett

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Dancing in the Rain

Good morning everyone!

I've made a interlocking gatefold card today.  Very easy to make and yet is so cool to look at and open.  The interlocking keeps the card closed really good as well!

DRS stamps used: 392F Dancing in the Rain, 817G Umbrella, 1012H Rain Background, 1091K Broken Flower Fence

Also used were dies from Go Kreate, an Embossing folder, ribbon, acrylic baubles and a corner punch from EK.

The gate fold is made scoring an 8 1/2 X 5 1/2 piece of card stock at 2/18" on each side, leaving 4 1/4 in the middle.  The interlocking layers are made with two nesting dies.  I tape them together so that they stay even to make the frame (aqua in this case) then I use the inside die again to cut my image out (the umbrella panel). Since I had the piece of inside aqua left over, I glued it to the back of my umbrella panel to make it more heavy duty.  You can do it with pretty much any shape as long as your inner piece fits exactly inside your outer piece.

In this case, I kept my outside simple (CAS) by just using the embossing folder on my front panels.  I hope you will go try this out for yourself.  Make one with flowers and add it to this week's challenge (found on Thursday's blog post).

Have a great weekend!!

Robin

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Double Umbrella Happiness

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

And a Happy Friday it is! We have had 3 sunny, nice days in a row! May not seem like much unless you know we've had rain & gloom for about 2 weeks straight! I mean we are soggy here. Even the ducks & geese are camping out in the middle of streets to dry off. I heard the Weather Channel say (yeah, I wish they had more weather reports going on there..my opinion, but I think they are the Occasional Skimpy Weather Report Channel) that in this area we've had 53+ days of rain since Jan 1. So I think we NEED 2 umbrellas. And talk about an abundance of bad hair days! 

So today along with my favorite umbrella image, I'm also sneaking a peek at a cute little branch with 2 little love birds on it. Aren't they sweet? I stamped them w/ one umbrella above and another below & also an extra one to fussy cut & pop up over them. I used an embossing folder to add the cherry blossom branch. I read somewhere that coral is supposed to be an "in" color this year so I made one umbrella coral and the other aqua because I just like those two colors together.

Then I just thought it needed something...so I got out one of my Micron pens and doodled the vine & flowers/buds in the lower left corner & upper right corner. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to check out the DRS Thursday Challenge...this week, just use some kind of Flowers on your project. Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs - Umbrella, Rain Down Greeting, Love Birds (new! coming soon!)

paper: white, lt. coral textured (DCWV mat stack)

ink: Memento tuxedo black

accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, Mpress/Nellie Snellen embossing folder (cherry blossom), Candi dot, black Micron pen

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Challenge #171- Bloomin' Beautiful!

Welcome to DRS Challenge Thursday! 

First, the random drawing winner from last week's challenge is....

Monika Reeck 

Congratulations! You are the winner from our Color Inspired Challenge!

Please send an email to info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize.

This week there are so many flowers & colors outside, it's ..

Bloomin' Beautiful!

(use flowers on your project...stamped, punched, die cut, paper, any kind of flower!)

To enter, show us your card  by linking it below. The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday, April 29, at 6 pm ET. 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 the Bloomin' Beautiful Challenge cards from our talented DRS Design Team and we'd love for you to leave us a comment!

Robin Flip Card

Karin

Jennifer E. 

Julie

Janett

Shelia

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Hey, Cupcake!

Since DRS Designs last release a few weeks ago, I've been working diligently on increasing my stash of sympathy cards.  I've noticed that my birthday card stash has been depleted as well, and now it's time to replenish them. Here's a rather clean and simple one I made using the new Hey Cupcake Greeting (365B) and the Cherry Top Cupcake image (463E). 

 

I colored the cupcake with Copic markers and shaded it with brown ink while it was in a Nestability die. I went for a realistic look by adding Diamond Glaze to the cherry to give it a shiny, wet look. (Sorry that's hard to see in this picture!) I matted it with red card stock, which really helped make the cherry stand out. Next, I worked on the sentiment banner and shaded it the same way as I did for the image and matted it with red card stock as well. I embellished the banner by adding a small paper flower and adhered it to the banner with a petite pink brad. I adhered 2 pink panels in the background and stamped them both with the Splatter Background (855H) and red ink and then assembled the card front as shown.  Three red rhinestones placed in the upper right corner were the final touch. Cute and easy, don't you think? ;-)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Dandelion Pinwheel

Hi Everyone,

Years ago I made a card with a pinwheel on it using my punches and patterned paper.  I came across it in my stash, and I decided to make one this week, only this time I used my stamps instead. 

I chose an orange and yellow color combo, stamping the Dandelion Puff once in orange ink, and again in yellow for the shadow.  I punched them out using a 1 1/4" square and layered them onto a 1 3/8" orange square of card stock..  After creating the pinwheel circle, there was a hole in the center, so I covered that up with a punched flower and rhinestone brad.

I used my Stamp-A-Majig and stamped the Rest Best of  Life Birthday Greeting along the side of the background paper and again stamped the dandelion multiple times on top of it.  

I added a couple of punched corner embellishments and called it done :)

Thanks for visiting us today and be sure to check out our challenge here at the blog each and every Thursday!

Karin

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Happy Birthday

Today I have another birthday card featuring the new Party Leonard image. He is so fun to color and play with.

I started with a blue card base, added a layer of red CS and then a white layer embossed with the CB birthday folder. Next I added the blue panel with a white layer that is stamped with the birthday message. Leonard was stamped on white CS, colored with Copics, fussy cut and attached to the front left side of the blue panel.

The bottom half of the greeting is stamped behind the blue folded panels which are held closed with some small magnets.  Red and blue sequins finish it off.  Hope you like it.

There's still time to join in this week's challenge here at DRS Designs. It's a color challenge. Here are the colors you get to choose. We'd love to have you play along. You can see details here.

 

Thanks for stopping by today,

Shelia

 

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Hey Cupcake

Hi everyone, today a have a fun birthday card. I used the new stamp Birthday Party Pig and Hey Cupcake Greeting 

I stamped the Birthday Party Pig and cover him with a mask then stamp the Cherry Top Cupcake three times. Everything was colored with Copic markers. The background was stamped with the Birthday Multi Greeting. The Hey Cupcake was layered and popped up.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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Stain Glass Angel

Good morning!!

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!!

DRS stamps used: 389H Winged Angel, 199P Oval Stain glass, 390F Angel by your side

I stamped the oval stain glass on white, colored in sunrise/set colored and stamped the angel on top.  I stamped the angel again on white and colored then cut out.  I foam taped her over the angel image stamped on the stain glass.  I stamped the sentiment on another white panel for the inside. I used a Spellbinders die for my frame and underneath is a piece of glossy cardstock that is brayered using a rainbow ink pad.  I find brayers very handy for making lovely backgrounds.  I added a bow and pearls ( colored with Copic Markers, the pearls were white)

. Well, I hope that you will try a stain glass card!  You could make each pane a different color as well, there are all kinds of possibilities! 

Go have fun and get crafty!

Robin

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April Rainbows

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

 Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! Have you had a lot of April showers in your area? I know they say April showers bring May flowers...but they also bring WEEDS! Not too many in our yard, thanks to the lawn care folks that come a few times a year to put whatever it is they put on the grass. Maybe you're starting some spring planting. I have quite a few low maintenance perennials in my beds because I like stuff that takes care of itself. I mean, I plant them and wish them well and wait for them to bloom. That's my kind of gardening. So far, so good! 

So my card today is all about April rain..and rainbows. And I got to use my favorite umbrella image again. After coloring & fussy cutting 2 umbrellas (one to pop up on top), I took a piece of white card stock and cut a bunch of bands using large & small petite oval dies then colored them individually w/ Copics. After putting them back together, I added a white layer w/ a circle cut out on top and added the greeting & some raindrops.

I added the umbrella and some stickles on the raindrops and where the bands of the rainbow come together. For the frame, I took the piece I cut the white layer out of, colored it to match my rainbow then put it back around the white layer. Here are the Copics I used and it took about a jillion of them!

This is a peek at the inside. 

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

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs - Umbrella, Rainbow Greeting, Raindrops Background, Sending You Sunshine Greeting (inside)

paper: Neenah white

ink: Memento tuxedo black,  Versafine Onyx (greeting), Kaleidacolor blue breeze (raindrops)

accessories: Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, petite oval & circle dies, Copic markers, stickles (inside= cloud punches, circle die, Memory Box seville buckle (behind sun)) 

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Challenge #170 - Inspired by Color Challenge!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

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

Billie A 

Congrats, you are the winner from our Birthday Blues! Challenge!  

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

For this week's challenge, we are doing an

Inspired by Color Challenge! 

The theme for this challenge is Color Calm colors!

 (use some of the colors inspired by this picture somewhere on your creation)

You don't have to use all of these colors, or only these colors.

Aren't these lovely colors?

To enter, show us your card  by linking it below. The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday, April 22, at 6 pm ET. 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 the Color Challenge cards from our talented DRS Design Team and we'd love for you to leave us a comment!

Karin

Shelia

Janett

Robin

Julie

Jennifer E.

Sue
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In Sympathy...

Welcome,

Is it weird that I enjoy making sympathy cards?   Especially if I have the time to make them when I'm not in need of one.  I guess I tend to use a lot of nature designs and I like those :)


Anyway, here's my card for this week,

My original thought was to do the stamping on kraft stock, but the white ink didn't show up enough so I had to shift things up a bit :)

I stamped our new Dandelion Puff on brown card stock using white pigment ink and then stamped the puff and the Memories Sympathy sentiment on a separate piece using the same ink.  Very quick and very easy.  I toyed with using some pearls in the corners after I had round cornered them, but I was really liking the look of this rather plain simple card so I left it alone.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Sue

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