Friendly Note...

 

We are quickly approaching the end of summer and I just had to use this cute WATERMELON AND FRIEND - 798H for a summer picnic card.

For my card:

• I stamped the WATERMELON AND FRIEND - 798H on white card stock then colored with copics.
• Next, I cut some scrap papers that picked up the colors in the WATERMELON AND FRIEND - 798H and glued them to the card base.
• The WATERMELON AND FRIEND - 798H was popped up on dimensionals and the card was finished with the FRIENDLY NOTE GREETING - 790D.

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Happy Birthday Dad!

 

I needed a quick guy birthday card and just had to grab this GRILLING GUY - 820K. I think this image is such a great image to send to any guy who loves to grill.

The base layer I just sponged some green distress oxide and then stamped the image over the sponging. I then stamped the image again on white card stock and colored it with copics.

To cut the image out I used my scan and cut then glued it right over the top of the image that was stamped on the sponged green background.

I finished with the BIRTHDAY MULTI GREETING - 219P.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Barbecue Boss

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

 Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! If you're like most of us, summer is Barbeque Time! If it's not scorching hot & or raining, weekends are the perfect time to fire up the pit. The smoker grill we have is almost as old as I am, lol. I think I may have mentioned that hubs burned down the deck in a house we had in Houston w/ this same grill. We walked outside & a big chunk of the deck was GONE. 16' long & about 4 boards wide had turned to ash. The happy little smoker was sitting upright w/ the lid on, dead center in the middle of all the nothingness. I swear it was laughing at us. So while I like the idea of this grill master on the deck, around here, it will never happen again. That grill (& hubs) are not allowed anywhere near anything that even looks like wood.

For my Barbeque Boss,  I stamped & colored Grilling Guy,  then masked him to add the scene behind him. For the deck, I stamped The Floor  w/ a sand colored ink, then stamped the Woodgrain Bg on it using the same ink before I colored it in. The Picket Fence & grass were added, then I sponged in a cloudy sky.  Just a portion of the greeting was added on the little plaque. I put the entire greeting on the inside. It looked like still needed something, so I added a red layer & a red frame around Mr. Grill Master. Sort of a picture of hubs before he got schooled by that grill.  It definitely showed him who's boss.

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

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs - Grilling Guy, Boss of the BBQ Birthday, Easy Grass, Picket Fence, Woodgrain Bg, The Floor  

paper: Staples 110# white, red

ink:  Memento tuxedo black, desert sand, bamboo leaves, summer sky, London fog

accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & B, deco tags dies

Grilling Guy 820K	Easy Grass Bg 059E	The Floor 360P	Woodgrain Bg 626P
Picket Fence 478P	Boss of the Barbeque 831H	Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics B S5-132	Spellbinders Deco Tags S4-605

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Hot Diggity Dog!

Welcome!

A couple of weeks ago I told you I was on a mission to get a little more creative with our Floor image and today I have another one for you - a deck!

This was a fun card to make if you like the magic of masking.  Doesn't seem to matter how often I use a mask, I still get a little giddy when I remove it :)

I started my card by stamping our Grillin' Dude and his Faithful Friend next to him both using black ink.  I cut out a mask of each one (I didn't worry about the shish-kabob) and attached them to my card and stamped our Add A Fence across the back 3 times.  Then I cut out 3 masks of the fence, but I only cut the bottom on 2 of them and 1 was cut completely.  After attaching all 3 I stamped the Floor image.  Now it was time to color.

Coloring the sky was my biggest challenge.  Since I'm a big fan of sponging my skies, I left the man, dog and fully cut fence mask in place and sponged away.  I simply moved the fence mask as I reached each section of the fence.  Once that was done I used a combination of watercolor pencils and alcohol markers to finish my coloring.  I stamped the Diggity Dog greeting in the sky using blue ink and then layered my scene on black card stock and then a folded red card.  This could also make a great Father's Day card with a simple change of greeting :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Sue

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Challenge #231 - Inspired by Color Challenge!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

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

Hazel  

Congrats, you are the winner from our Birthday Bash 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 Starfish 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, but please use at least 2!

To enter, show us your card  by linking it below. The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday, June 22, at 6:30 pm ET and please link new creations only (no back dated or duplicate entires). We are now limiting the number of entries to 3 per person. 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 20% off coupon to the DRS Designs store!

Here are the Color Challenge cards from our talented DRS Design Team and we'd love for you to leave us a comment!

Shelia

Robin

Karin

Julie

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Labor Day Birthday!

Happy Labor Day!

Shelia is still on vacation, (wish I was, lol) and since it's not only Labor Day but today is also my Dad's Birthday, I thought we'd take a stroll down Birthday Memory Lane. We all need a stash of Birthday cards and here are some super birthday card ideas with more of a masculine look! Sit back & enjoy! 

And Happy Birthday, Pop!

Shelia

Karin

Sue

Janett

Jennifer

Robin

Nancy

Julie

Shelia

Janett

Jennifer

Robin

Nancy

Karin

Sue

Julie

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great holiday!

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Picnic time

Good morning!

This week's challenge is stitches, faux or real...I have a bit of each here.

DRS stamps: 1104K Picnic Basket, 546D So Sweet, 095H Watermelon Border.

I used a border die by Spellbinder with stitch marks and the rectangle image die is from Die-namics.  I stitched around the border panel, before gluing it to my card base, with a zigzag stitch on my sewing machine.

What a nice picnic basket they have here but oh my gosh, those ants are about ready to get into it.  They must smell that watermelon down below I think.  Uh oh!

Did anyone bring some ant powder?

Well, I just had to do a picnic card in July, tis the time to get out and enjoy the lake or river and you have to bring food of course, and especially if you have a man with you!!!   Wouldn't this make a great invitation too?  I think for a special group of friends...maybe a potluck??? This card was fast and easy, you could do several in no time at all!

I hope you are having a great weekend and maybe you're even out having a picnic somewhere.   Enjoy!

Robin

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Perfect Summer Day!

My card today celebrates summer and picnics which usually means ants! So I just had to include a few. I started by stamping the watermelon and friend image on white CS with Memento Black ink, coloring with Copics, die cutting and layering on white CS. Next the ants were stamped along the top and bottom of the white panel. I decided this was too plain so I used a Spellbinders border die to cut out a couple of borders between the ants and the main image. The sentiment is part of the Broken Mower greeting. After stamping and die cutting it, some blue ink was sponged along the edges as well as the white panel and the white card base. A baker's twine bow completes the look.

This could also work for the "Over the Top" Challenge here at DRS Designs this week. Your sentiment needs to be stamped or positioned over your image. You still have time to join in the fun. Details can be found here.

Thanks for stopping by!

shelia

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Feel Better Grill Master

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well. After being gone last week, I'm playing catchup like you wouldn't believe. You think you have it all under control but I can testify, that's only an illusion...or delusion, lol. For my card today, I remade a card I made quite a while back. I needed a get well/feel better card for one of my brothers-in-law. Poor guy had a really nasty fall and ended up with fractured vertebrae in his neck, a banged up knee and a face that looks like he was in a prize fight! Ouch! This particular brother of my hubs is a well know grill master. So hubs say, can you make a card w/ a barbeque theme? Really? I've totally got that covered! Since I really liked the layout of my previous card I used most of it again. I left off the Happy Birthday part and made a tablecloth plaid layer using the woven plaid stamp. For the inside, I used the leftover frame (after die cutting it for the front) and added a feel better greeting and a die cut bbq grill.

The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50 and these are the (ridiculous number) of Copics I used.

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

Supplies:
stamps: Grilling Guy, Boss of the BBQ Birthday, Woven Plaid, Cheerful Smiles
paper: white, black
ink: Memento tuxedo black, love letter, rhubarb stalk
accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders A2 matting basics B dies, Lil Inkers stitched rectangles dies, Memory Box party grill die

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