Happy St. Paddy's Day

Today I have a simple St. Paddy's Day card to share with you. This week's challenge at DRS Designs is to use shamrocks or clovers on your card. There's still time to play along and we'd love to have you join us!! You can see the details here.

My card base is black with a layer of green card stock and a black ribbon tied around the middle. The Hat full of Shamrocks was stamped in Memento Black ink on white CS, colored with copics, die cut and layered on a scallop circle in black. Some gold stickles were added to the hat buckle. The Get your Irish on sentiment was stamped in black. A couple of large gold square brads were added to finish the look.

And now I get to give you the final clue for our Stamp-A-Versary Game!! I hope you are playing along. You could win some amazing stamps from DRS Designs.  Check out the details below.

Thanks for stopping by today.
shelia

Play our new game!!

Find the 4 current stamp designs that were featured in our
original stamp catalog way back in 1992 and win prizes!

Click here for all the details

The Final Clue

Mystery Stamp D
Clue #5:

The dating game!

The clues.....so far!

Mystery Stamp A	Mystery Stamp B	Mystery Stamp C	Mystery Stamp D
Play your cards right and you can win!	No Checkers on this board.	Varoom!	Oh square of squares.
It is a big deal!	No Saluting required	No exercise here	Time is of the essence
Some things just suit me	Not the pits	Best friends with Harley	Been around since the sundial
ooohhh, royalty!	Only winners get to take me for a ride!	Go hog wild	The Mayans loved me
Not in the cards, oh wait, yes it is	Long may it wave	This hog won't squeal	The dating game

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Easter Blessings

Happy First Monday of March Everyone! Can you believe it's March already?  Easter will be here before you know it!! With in mind, I thought I'd share an Easter card that I made for one of my grand kids.

I started with a Certainly Celery card base, added a layer of Bashful Blue and then a layer of white that had been sponged with Bashful Blue ink to make a sky. The white picket fence was made using a die and my Cuttlebug. A Fiskars punch was used to create the two strips of grass at the bottom of the card. The Easter eggs were stamped with VersaMark ink on colored CS, embossed with detail white embossing powder and then die cut with the two smallest Nestie oval dies. The stamps I used on the eggs were Argyle background, butterfly background, Polka dot background and the ribbon card edger. The little Fuzzy chick was stamped on white CS with Memento Black ink, colored with Copics, fussy cut and popped up with a foam dot. The Easter Blessings sentiment was stamped in Memento Black to complete the card.  Hope you like it.

This week's challenge at DRS Designs is to create a Sympathy card. There's still time to join in the fun. You could be the winner of some sweet stamps!! You can see the details here. We'd love to have you play along!

And now the Stamp-A-Versary Clue!!

Play our new game!!

Find the 4 current stamp designs that were featured in our

original stamp catalog way back in 1992 and win prizes!

Click here for all the details

Today's Clue

Mystery Stamp A

Clue #4:

Ooohhh, Royalty

The clues.....so far!

Mystery Stamp A	Mystery Stamp B	Mystery Stamp C	Mystery Stamp D
Play your cards right and you can win!	No Checkers on this board.	Varoom!	Oh square of squares.
It is a big deal!	No Saluting required	No exercise here	Time is of the essence
Some things just suit me	Not the pits	Best friends with Harley	Been around since the sundial
Ooohhh, Royalty	Coming Soon	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Until next time,

shelia

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The Latest Buzz...

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

Have you heard the latest buzz? Not only can you win a fabulous prize in our DRS Thursday Challenge but you could also win BIG in our Stamp-a-Versary Contest! This week the DRS Thursday Challenge is Sympathy cards. I know it's hard when you need a sympathy card, so I think having one or two on hand may make it a little easier. And more on the Stamp-a-Versary a bit later.

So my card today is on the clean and simple side. Only 1 layer with a little masking and coloring and I added a few die cut hexagons, clouds and grassy border. The two sweet little bees were cut out and added and with a little stickles on their wings for some sparkle.

Now for the part you've been waiting for....The third clue for Mystery Stamp B!!!!

Play our new game!!

Find the 4 current stamp designs that were featured in our
original stamp catalog way back in 1992 and win prizes!

Click here for all the details

Today's Clue

Mystery Stamp B
Clue #3:

Not the Pits

The clues.....so far!

Mystery Stamp A	Mystery Stamp B	Mystery Stamp C	Mystery Stamp D
Play your cards right and you can win!	No checkers on this board!	Varooom!	Oh square of squares
It is a big deal	No saluting required	No exercise here	Time is of the essence
Some things just suit me	Not the pits	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!

 Good Luck to you all! Have a great weekend!


Supplies:
stamps: Bitsy Bumble Bee, Happy Bee, The Latest Buzz..., Three Flowers with Butterfly
paper: white, lt & med yellow, lt & med green
ink: Memento tuxedo black
accessories: stickles, Copic markers, cloud dies, hexagon dies, grassy border die

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Easter Promise

I can't believe it's the end of February and the Easter Holy season is already underway! Where does the time go? Seems like Christmas and New Years were just last week! Perhaps it all feels so rushed because Easter is early this year. Well, regardless it's time to start showing off my Easter cards. And that's exactly what I have in store for you today!

The 2 stamps I used on this card are by DRS Designs:

Easter Is God's Love Greeting (974F)

Cross In A Cross (1022B)

I used the Easter is God's Love Greeting as my focal point. I stamped it in purple ink and used the same ink to shade around it while it was in a Nestie die. I decorated it with a few purple rhinestones and matted it with an oval scallop made from shimmer purple cardstock.

I used a 4" x 4" piece of light purple cardstock for the middle layer and embossed it with the Cuttlebug Textile Texture embossing folder. The bottom was punched with the Treading Water border punch. I decorated it by adding a pearl to each of the holes created by the border punch, and white grosgrain ribbon was tied in a knot just above the border.  I used smooth white cardstock for the background layer and stamped the bottom portion 3 times with the Cross In A Cross stamp.

Finished card size measures 4.25" x 5.5".

And now, thank you all for being patient. Here's your Stamp-A-Versary Clue for today:

Play our new game!!

Find the 4 current stamp designs that were featured in our
original stamp catalog way back in 1992 and win prizes!

Click here for all the details

Today's Clue

Mystery Stamp D
Clue #2:

"Time is of the essence"

The clues.....so far!

Mystery Stamp A	Mystery Stamp B	Mystery Stamp C	Mystery Stamp D
Play your cards right and you can win!	No checkers on this board	Varooom!	Oh square of squares
It's a Big Deal	No saluting required	No excercise here	Time is of the essence
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Beer is Proof

Hi Everyone,

 

Since it's almost March, I'm bringing you another St. Patrick's Day card today. All I can say is, I hope you like shamrocks, because this card is full of 'em...lol!

 

I stamped the background with the Swirly Shamrocks in a dark green ink and then went back over the same panel using a lighter green and the Silhouette Clover stamp. The Shamrock Circle was stamped on green paper ( no coloring needed if you do that ;) ) and fussy cut and attached with large glue dots to a doily die cut. My Small Beer Mug was fussy cut as well, and some Stickles were added to the foam :)

 

 

I LOVE this sentiment...lol! After stamping it, I used the Shamrock Background stamp in a lighter green color, and stamped on top of it. It just looked a little bare otherwise. Such a cute greeting for this holiday card and you can find the stamp of Franklin's Wisest Words here.

 

 

Play our new game!!

Find the 4 current stamp designs that were featured in our
original stamp catalog way back in 1992 and win prizes!

Click here for all the details

Today's Clue

Mystery Stamp C

Clue #2:

No Excercise Here!

 

Mystery Stamp A	Mystery Stamp B	Mystery Stamp C	Mystery Stamp D
Play your cards right and you can win!	No Checkers on this board.	Varoom!	Oh square of squares.
It is a big deal!	No saluting required!	No exercise here!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!

 

 Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Karin



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Birthday in Lilac

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

And a big Happy Birthday to DRS Designs! Wow 20 Years! I still remember the first time I encountered DRS Designs...at a stamp convention in 2003 and it was love at first purchase, lol. I still have the flyer they gave me when I made my purchase. Several of the ones I bought have been retired, but not my favorites...the Large Original Plaid and the Open Plaid. I have used those two more times than I can count. Speaking of plaids, check out the DRS Thursday Challenge yesterday...it's all about PLAID!

For my Birthday card (yes it is a Snapdragon image, but I decided it could double for a lilac), I used Copics to color the image and also to make the light purple banner. I ran out of the color I wanted so I had to make one. I embossed it w/ a chevron folder and stamped the lt blue banner w/ an argyle pattern.  The image was die cut w/ a diamond shape die and I did a little Out of the Box treatment on it. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

And now, what you've all been waiting for! The first clue for Mystery Stamp C!!!!

Play our new game!!

Find the 4 current stamp designs that were featured in our
original stamp catalog way back in 1992 and win prizes!

Click here for all the details

Today's Clue

Mystery Stamp C
Clue #1:

Varooom!

The clues.....so far!

Mystery Stamp A	Mystery Stamp B	Mystery Stamp C	Mystery Stamp D
Play your cards right and you can win!	No checkers on this board!	Varooom!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!

 Good Luck to you all! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

Stamps: DRS Designs – Snapdragon Diamond, Arglye border, Birthday Multigreeting

Paper: Neenah white, dk purple, sky blue

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, grape jelly

Accessories: Copic markers, fishtail banner dies, Spellbinder diamond & rectangle dies, Quickutz embossing folder, pearls

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Challenge #60-Plaids

Happy Thursday and welcome back to the DRS Blog Challenge!!

This week we'd like to congratulate the winner of our last challenge, "Love",

Betty!

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

For our next challenge we want to see 
Plaids.
You do not need to have DRS stamps to enter but, we will give an extra entry to those who use DRS images. Please link your challenge entries below to enter to win your choice of 2 stamps from DRS Designs! Deadline for this challenge is Wednesday, February 27th at 6:00 pm EST.

Here are the challenge entries by the wonderful DRS DT for your enjoyment and inspiration!

Karin

Shelia

Jennifer E.

Janett

Julie

Sue



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And now, today's clue for our Stamp-A-Versary contest...

Play our new game!!

Find the 4 current stamp designs that were featured in our
original stamp catalog way back in 1992 and win prizes!

Click here for all the details

Mystery Stamp B
Clue #1:

"No checkers on this board"

The clues.....so far!

Mystery Stamp A	Mystery Stamp B	Mystery Stamp C	Mystery Stamp D
Play your cards right and you can win!	No Checkers on this Board	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!

Good Luck and Happy Stamping! 

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I request a do over...

Welcome to the first day of our Stamp-A-Versary Contest!!  Before we get to that I have a card to share with you today!

I actually started working on this card a couple of weeks ago for our Brad Challenge and got totally lost somewhere along the way :) and kept adding more and more and yes more, trying to make it click, finally I had to set it aside and start a whole new card.  I loved how the plaid came out, so it was fun to rip it apart and start almost from scratch and try again.

Since my last attempt was so very busy, I decided to keep this version clean and simple.  The plaid was made using our new Material Maker stamp.  After I inked it using a light pink ink I ran a couple of markers along a few lines before stamping and then did the same thing a second time, this time giving the stamp a quarter turn before stamping.  The green layer was made by die cutting the inside with a nestie and then I used an embossing folder on each end.  Instead of running it through my cuttlebug I lined up the indented side where I needed it and used an old fashioned embossing tool to make my lines.  I stamped the Love You More sentiment along the bottom using violet ink and added the center heart with the brad.  All in all a way better card than my first attempt :)

Okay, now for the fun!  It's our...

Play our new game!!

Find the 4 current stamp designs that were featured in our
original stamp catalog way back in 1992 and win prizes!

Click here for all the details

Today's Clue

Mystery Stamp A
Clue #1:

Play your cards right and you can win!

The clues.....so far!

Mystery Stamp A	Mystery Stamp B	Mystery Stamp C	Mystery Stamp D
Play your cards right and you can win!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!	Coming Soon!

Check back daily for more clues (and terrific cards!!) and don't forget that tomorrow is the start of another new challenge!  Thanks for visiting and good luck in the contest!!

Sue

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