Baby, Congratulations

Hello crafty friends. I have a super cute baby card to share with you this week.

For my card:

• I wanted to use the JENNY GIRAFFE - 859G but make it for a girl. So I started with the 4 IN 1 FASHION ACCESSORIES - 927D using the bow and stamped that on white cardstock.
• Next, I masked the bow then stamped JENNY GIRAFFE - 859G on acetate to see where she would stamp. I liked the bow to where I wanted it on JENNY GIRAFFE - 859G then removed the acetate and stamped JENNY GIRAFFE - 859G.
• I then colored the image with copics.
• I sponged a few stars on the background, popped JENNY GIRAFFE - 859G up on dimensionals and added congratulations from the GRAD SAYING - 622G in pink.
• The card was finished with a few scattered yellow sequins.

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

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Congratulations Baby Card

 

Hello crafty friends. Today I am sharing a baby card I created using the adorable JENNY GIRAFFE - 859G.

For my card:

• I stamped JENNY GIRAFFE - 859G on white card stock and colored it with copics.
• Next, I cut a heart aperture out of white cardstock and then embossed the layer.
• The heart layer was placed over the JENNY GIRAFFE - 859G.
• I finished with die cutting the Congratulations sentiment 4 times out of white and layered. I then colored the top layer with copics so that it would match the colors in JENNY GIRAFFE - 859G.

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

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Cute as a Button!

Hi Everyone,

I had some extra time, so to beef up my stash I made a simple baby card that could be used to welcome either a boy or a girl.

I made a background using multiple background stamps (Easy Dot Background, Splatter Background, and Starry Background) using yellow, pink, blue and green ink.  To match the Cute as a Button Greeting I used my button punch to create buttons in colors to match the background, and mounted them on a die cut panel that I embossed using a swiss dot embossing folder.

 

Thanks for stopping by!
Karin

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Baby Shower Treat Card

Do you hoard things to use on cards later?  I have saved this giraffe from a gift bag for a couple of years.  This week I needed a baby shower gift so it worked perfectly.

I sponged the bottom layer with some Tim Holtz Distress Ink an then stamped the Four Flower Background image.  My sentiment is A Treat for You.  I think it came out super cute.

Hugz,

Nancy

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Shower Flowers

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! My card today began on Monday after I read a challenge on Splitcoast. The challenge was to use hot glue to make a stencil. I've actually used hot glue as embellishment by adding glitter & pearl ex to it while it was still warm, but this was the first time I made a stencil with it. I made the flower design with the hot glue on the glue gun mat. When it cooled (very important! this stuff is HOT!), I peeled it off the mat and placed it on white card stock then sponged the pink & blue inks. I added just a little yellow to the flower centers then decided it needed something so traced around the petals & centers with a black Micron pen.

The umbrella was stamped, colored with Copics and fussy cut. This picture shows the actual hot glue stencil I made and used. I may just use it again! The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

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

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs - Umbrella, For Your Shower

paper: white, pink

ink: Memento tuxedo black, Distress Inks in worn lipstick, tumbled glass, squeezed lemonade

accessories: hot glue gun, glue mat, Spellbinders petite oval, A2 matting basics A & B dies, sequins, black Micron pen

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Challenge #173 - HOT TRENDS- Beautiful Backgrounds!

Welcome to DRS Challenge Thursday! 

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

ionabunny 

Congratulations! You are the winner from our Put it in Neutral! Challenge! 

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

This week we're using the HOT TREND of 

Beautiful Backgrounds!

(use any image, die cut, technique, embossing folder to create a beautiful background!) Really wide open...what does a beautiful background mean to you? Need a few ideas? Check out some beautiful background techniques HERE. 

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 13, 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!

And here are some beautiful background cards from our talented Design Team and we'd love for you leave us a comment!

Robin

Janett

( Liquid Pearls, Plastic Wrap, Distress Ink )

Karin

(Background made with the end piece of romaine lettuce)

Shelia
(background created with sponge daubers and a pencil eraser)

Nancy
(Backgrounds done with stamps, water colors, a flat brush, and a paper towel)

Julie

(brayered, stamped & white pencil used on background)

Jennifer E. - Alcohol ink Background on glossy cardstock

Sue (simple sponging :)
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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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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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For Your Shower

I'm taking a break from Christmas cards and sharing a shower card I created for a friend who's wedding shower is coming up quickly!

The umbrella was stamped with Memento Black ink, colored with Copics and fussy cut. I used the blending pen to create some dots on the darker blue panels of the umbrella. The Rain Down sentiment was stamped with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with detail white EP, then die cut with a nestie. I stamped the For Your Shower Sentiment in black ink on the white panel before embossing it with a Darice flower EF. Everything is attached to the blue card base. Some rhinestones and a sheer white bow finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!

shelia

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Welcome

Hi Everyone,

 

Today I have an easy card to share, one that I made it for a friend who had a little baby boy.  I wanted to get it into the mail pronto, so I took the monochromatic approach.  Which is a fancy way of saying, "I didn't have time to color my image!"  It's nice when you realize that and image that is made up of open lines, can look just as wonderful simply stamped.

 

After stamping and die cutting Jenny Giraffe, I kept my die in place and did a bit of sponging in the same blue ink that I used when stamping the background.  For that I used the Argyle Background and Diamond stamps. 

 

 

I added a bit of twine and button after stamping the One Line Welcome sentiment, and I attached the image with a couple of pop dots.

 

Here's hoping you like my simply stamped card!

 

Karin



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Pink Shower

Hi all, it's been a rainy weekend here. Kind of gray and gloomy.  I have a shower card today that is bright and happy.

I stamped the Umbrella on Xpress It Blending card stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and used Copic it color the image. Then I fussy cut the top. I used a Spellbinder die to cut out the next layer and Stamped the Raindrop Background With Tumbled Glass Distress ink.Then I stamped the Umbrella and colored the handle. I used Pop dots to attached the colored top. For the next layer I used the Spellbinder die and Couger card stock and colored the edge with Copic markers. As you can see the Copics blend so much better on the Xpress card. The For you Shower Greeting was cut with a die and colored with Copics. This was attached to a 3 x 5 card.


Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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Challenge #114 - Bloomin' Spring!

Welcome to DRS Challenge Thursday!

Cheryl (shestamps)  

Congratulations! You are the winner from our You're a Good Egg Challenge!

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

Since it's the first day of Spring & we're a little tired of winter, the theme for our next challenge is 

Bloomin' Spring!
(use flowers or a Spring theme for your creation!) 

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 26, at 6 pm EDT. 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' Challenge cards from our talented DRS Design Team and we'd love for you to leave us a comment!

Shelia

Jennifer E.

Janett 

Julie

Sue

Karin

Kecia 

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For Your Shower

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope you're having a great week! Today, I'm taking a short break from fall, Halloween & Christmas cards. I have a very important Wedding Shower to go to tomorrow and I wanted a special card to go with the gift. Yep, my niece is getting married in December. Where does the time go? I remember when she was just a tiny baby and fascinated by the ceiling fan and now she's all grown up! I guess boys were bound to replace ceiling fans eventually, lol. Now she's found THE ONE!

My niece and her fiancee decided to have a couples shower and I wanted to make a girly card, lol. So I compromised and used pink for her and gray as the masculine counterpart. I did add some ribbon, but no bows. For the background, I stamped the umbrella in gray and pink before embossing it with a dot folder. The umbrella was stamped twice and colored with Copics. I die cut the base image and fussy cut the other to pop up on top for some dimension. The sentiment was die cut and a gray layer was fussy cut around it. I added some stacked ribbons and tied the top one with some little pearl stems I found the bridal section of my local craft store. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to check out our Thursday Challenge....The Eyes Have It! 

Supplies:
stamps: Umbrella, For Your Shower Greeting
paper: white, textured gray
ink: Memento tuxedo black, london fog, Distress Ink spun sugar
accessories: Copic markers, ribbon, Spellbinders petite oval & opulent oval dies, fishtail banner die, Cuttlebug Swiss dot embossing folder, pearl stems

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Challenge #71 - Paper Punches

Hi Everybody! Happy Thursday! 

Hope your looking forward to our next DRS Challenge as much as we are! 

The lucky winner from our ConGRADulations challenge is:

Meg

Congratulations! 

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

The theme for our next challenge is 

"Paper Punches"

Use any kind of paper punches on your challenge project.
Show us your card by linking it below. The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday, May 29th, at 6pm EST.  From all of the entries we receive, one lucky winner will be chosen to receive a $10 store voucher to DRS Designs!

Here's some inspiration from our Design Team. 

Enjoy and Good Luck!

Karin

Jennifer E.

 Julie 

Shelia

Janett

Pam

Sue
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