A Fond Farewell...

Posted by: Heather

As some of you may know, I am stepping down from the DRS Designs design team at the end of the month. So...this is my last post on the DRS Designs blog. I've already told them multiple times, but I want to thank everyone at DRS Designs as well as all of the wonderful members of the design team for all of the friendship and support they have shown me. This past year has been absolutely wonderful. I have grown so much as a stamper and I have definitely been inspired by all of the gorgeous creations made by the entire team. Having AWESOME stamps to work with was also an added bonus. I cannot say enough good things about the stamps from DRS Designs. I thought as a farewell post I would share some of my favorite cards that I've made over the past year...

Here is the very first card I made with stamps from DRS Designs. The second I saw this butterfly stamp in the catalog I knew I had to have it. It is one of the most beautiful butterfly stamps I have ever seen.

I don't typically make many Halloween cards but I loved playing around with these fun images!
I'm a sucker for butterfly stamps! DRS has such an awesome variety, you just can't go wrong!
This was another image that I fell in love with the second I saw it.
I'm sure this is no shock to any of you since I gush about these all the time, but the Cutie Pie release was the honestly the highlight of my stamping year! I LOVE these adorable kids! I really loved this card even though it took me 3 hours to make because of the complicated background.
The sentiment stamp selection at DRS is absolutely awesome. The BEST around! This is one of my favorite sentiments...I think I've probably made 20 cards with this sentiment.
The Dustin Pike animal images from DRS are some of my favorites too.
Another Cutie Pie card...I just can't resist these guys!

Here is another one of my favorites...I absolutely love this Leonard image and the coordinating sentiment.
I had to end my year in review with another Cutie Pie...these newest additions to the Cutie Pie family just put a smile on my face every time I see them!

I know my post got a little long, but honestly when I started going back through all of my cards I had so many favorites. I have loved every minute I've been on this team. Thank you to all of you for making this such a wonderful year for me!

Heather

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More Sneak Peaks!

Posted by: Heather

Hope everyone is having a wonderful week! Dawn was the lucky girl who got to show you the first of the new release sneak peaks yesterday. Aren't those images wonderful!
Today I thought I would share a couple more of the new images. You all know that I am in love with the DRS Designs Cutie Pie Kids. Well...we have 2 new additions to the Cutie Pie family this month. I absolutely LOVE these new images, you don't get much cuter than this....

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have an absolutely wonderful day!

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Happy Wednesday!

Posted by: Heather

Hello Everyone. Sorry I'm a little late posting this morning. Blogger hasn't exactly been the most cooperative with me lately. Hope you are all having a great week.
Today I wanted to share a couple more of my Cutie Pie Kids cards. I absolutely love these adorable stamps! They put a smile on my face every single time I see them!


I hope you all have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by today!

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Golfing on Father's Day

posted by : Heather Lee-Reppen

It's me again! Hope you enjoyed my non-traditional backgrounds yesterday. Today I just have a couple Father's Day cards to share. My husband always complains that I make my cards too complicated. According to him, guys like simple not frilly. So in honor of him, here is my simple Father's Day card:

This next one is a bit more complicated (it definitely won't be going to my husband) but still manly enough for a golf loving dad :
Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to stop back tomorrow for our Friday Featured stamper!

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Non-traditional backgrounds

Posted by: Heather Lee-Reppen

Hello all! Hope you are all having a wonderful week. Today I wanted to share some cards that use non-traditional background stamps. By non-traditional, I mean stamps that weren't necessarily designed to be a background. DRS Designs has an awesome selection of background stamps, but they also have an awesome selection of other stamps that can be used to create backgrounds!

For my first card I used the golf bag stamp to create the background.

This next card uses the worm can stamp as the background. This stamp is fairly large but still works well as a background!

For my third card I used a simple "Happy Birthday" sentiment to create the background paper.
I'm pretty sure I've shared this card here before, but I thought I would share it again. Here I used the small frog stamp to create the background.Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Heather

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Graduation Time!

Posted by: Heather Lee-Reppen

Today I thought I would share a few graduation cards that I made recently. DRS Designs has a ton of really great graduation images and sentiments!

All three of my cards use the same 2 graduation stamps from DRS. I wanted to show you that even with limited supplies you can still create a multitude of unique cards. I also purposely didn't use any designer paper. DRS has a ton of fabulous background stamps (including this graduation background) that make creating your own designer paper a breeze!



Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

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Happy Wednesday!

Posted by: Heather

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. Today I wanted to share a couple simple birthday cards. I wanted to share these to show that not all cards have to be complicated and time consuming. Sometimes we just need a quick and simple card. Both of these cards that I am showing today are simple layouts that could be made in less than 30 minutes (that is amazingly quick in my opinion - I'm usually a 1-2 hour per card maker).

Simply layouts that still give an elegant look:
I hope you all have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by!

Heather

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Simple Monochromatic

posted by: Heather

Happy Wednesday! Today I wanted to share a simple monochromatic card. I don't typically do monochromatic but I thought that this sentiment worked perfect for this kind of card...whenever I think about baby girls, pink automatically comes to my mind. I really liked how this card came together. It is simple but still has a nice, elegant look to it. The background was made using the baby pin stamp from DRS Designs. I added glitter to the heads of the baby pins to give the card that little extra sparkle.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a fabulous day!

Heather

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Sentiments!

Posted by: Heather

Hope you are all having a great week! Today I wanted to share a few cards that I've made that feature sentiments as the main image. DRS Designs has a ton of wonderful sentiments that work great on the inside or outside of a card!


Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Heather

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Happy Wednesday!

Posted by: Heather

Hope everyone is having a great week! Since Easter is just a few days away I though I would share a few more Easter cards today. You can check out the full line of adorable DRS Designs Easter stamps HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Heather

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Rubber Mania Monthly!!!!

Last fall I posted about Rubber Mania Monthly, but I thought I would revisit it since there are some cool new stamps added to the Rubber Mania free options!

One of the absolute coolest things about DRS Designs...

Rubber MANIA Monthly!
Rubber Mania Monthly is a free membership club at DRS Designs. Here's how it works...

*Flyers are sent to your home address every 4- 6 weeks. Inside each flyer you will find terrific stamp designs like the ones you can find on the DRS Designs website.

*If you purchase just 5 stamps within a 12 month period at regular prices, you will become a Preferred Member of Rubber Mania Monthly. From then on, you will be able to take advantage special prices for all stamps purchased through the club. You will also receive an additional discount on the DRS Designs featured stamp each month.
*In addition to the discount, becoming a Preferred Member also means you get 3 stamps absolutely free! Now who doesn't love free stamps!!!!! There are 19 wonderful free stamps to choose from and you can choose wood mounted or unmounted!
To see the free stamp choices click HERE
**There are no automatic shipments - The flyer will feature a special stamp each issue but it will NOT be sent to you automatically**

**Membership is Free**
All you need to do to become a member is click HERE and follow the directions.
Easy as pie!
The cards I have to share today were made with some of the Rubber Mania Monthly free stamp options. There are some awesome stamps to choose from!!!!

I decided to try another no layer card. The butterfly and the sentiment (which is part of a bigger sentiment) are both free Rubber Mania options!
This wonderful sentiment stamp is one of the free Rubber Mania options!
This adorable kitten stamp is a free Rubber Mania option!
The cute little frog that I used to make the background paper is one of the free Rubber Mania choices!
This cool "live" flower is one of the many awesome Rubber Mania choices!
I can't show you this whole card because I used one of the next month's stamp releases on it but I can show this tiny bit of it. This totally adorable bee is also one of the free Rubber Mania options!
Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Heather

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More Cutie Pie Kids!

I don't know about you, but I absolutely LOVE these new Cutie Pie Kids images! I just can't stop smiling when I look at them! You can see all of the latest DRS Designs releases HERE.

Here are a few of my Cutie Pie Kid cards:

Thanks for stopping by today! I hoe you are all having a fabulous week!

Heather

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Birthdays DRS style, part 2!

Posted by: Heather

Today I have a couple more birthday cards to share with you. This first one uses one of the newly released background stamps. I thought this backgroud would work perfect for a simple masculine card.

The second card I have to share uses my favorite birthday sentiment stamp from DRS!
Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Heather

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Birthdays DRS style!

Posted by: Heather

Happy Wednesday! Hope everyone has had a great week so far. Today I thought I would share a couple cards that I made with some of the newly released birthday stamps from DRS Designs. To see all of the newly released designs click HERE.

This first card uses the new "Girly Swirly Cake" stamp.

This card uses my favorite new release "Birthday Candle Burst" . I just love these fun candles. The candles and sentiment together are one stamp but you could easily use either individually.

This card uses the new "All About You Birthday" sentiment as well as the new "Silhouette Branch Background".
Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Heather

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Spring Flowers

Posted by: Heather

We are having a heat wave in Wisconsin this week. 55 degrees in February...unheard of... I didn't even wear a coat to work yesterday. With this patch of warm weather, my mind is on spring and even more specifically...spring flowers. I love when it gets warm enough for flowers to start blooming. I know it won't be warm enough for that for several months (at least in Wisconsin), but a girl can dream can't she! Sad thing is, by next week it will be long underwear weather again.
Since I'm in a flower mode this week I thought I would share some cards made with a few of the awesome flower stamps from DRS Designs:

I hope you all have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by!

Heather

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