Nip of Irish Cheer

 

Hello Crafty friends. I have a St. Patty's Day card to share with you using a technique called Stack, Cut, Shuffle. The idea of the technique is to get several cards out of just a few different papers to quickly build up your stash.  This is also another way you can stretch your supplies for a few different cards.

For my card today, I focused on using St. Patrick's colors.

• I grabbed a dark green and a light green card stock and stacked them together holding on to them very tightly and then making just 2 cuts on them.
• Once I had the layers cut, I used one piece of the dark green and one piece of the light green and layered them with the white card base.
• Next, I stamped the NIP OF IRISH CHEER GREETING - 319G in dark green on the light green.
• The card was finished by adding doodled dash marks (faux stitching) on all of the layers.

I hope you give the technique a try. I have used it with solid card stock but it works well with designer paper too. Thank you so much for stopping by to check out my card this week.

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Challenge #184 - A Stitch in Time!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

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

shartl 

Congrats, you are the winner from our Summer House Color Challenge!  

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

For this week's challenge, we've got it all sewn up...

A Stitch in Time!

 (use real or faux stitching, hand drawn or images/embossing of stitches or sewing)

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, July 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.

For the prize, one winner will be randomly selected to
win the following 3 stamps:

Palm Tree 886G 
Hula Pig 879E
Sending Sunshine 094D

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

Shelia - stitched die

Karin
Faux Stitching

Julie
(faux stitching & stitched die)

Nancy
(Sewing)

Janett
(Stitched Die)

Robin 

(Stitched dies and sewing machine)

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Challenge #86 - It's So BRIGHT in Here!

Hi Everybody! Happy Thursday! 

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

The lucky winner from our Mad about Plaid Challenge is 

Angela P.  

Congratulations!

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

The theme for our next challenge is 

It's So BRIGHT in Here!  (Use Bright or Neon colors)

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, September 11, at 6pm EDT.  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 Challenge cards from our talented DRS Design Team:

Julie

Jennifer E.

Karin

Shelia

Janett

Sue

 Kecia

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Challenge #50-Turkeys

Hi Everyone! Hope you're all having a great day! 

Today we Congratulate our winner from last week's Candle challenge,

Niki1!

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

This weeks challenge theme is:

Turkeys!

We are giving away a $10 store voucher to DRS Designs!

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, we will not have a new challenge next week.

Link up your turkey cards below by Wednesday,November 28th at 6pm EST. Come back to see the winner announced in the challenge post on Thursday, November 29th.

Here are the DT challenge cards to inspire you:

Shelia

Karin

Julie


Sue

Janett

Jennifer E.

Pam

Good Luck and Thanks for playing along!
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Challenge #8 Snowmen!

Thanks to all of you who have been playing in our challenges over the last few weeks! We hope you are enjoying them and that you are having fun winning free stamps!

This week we'd like to congratulate
AMY DUFF,
you are the winner from last week's paper piecing challenge! Please contact us at info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize.

For our next challenge, we want to see

Snowmen!

One lucky winner will be selected to win any snowman stamp from DRS Designs--your choice of design! We hope that you'll join us and play along by linking your challenge project using the In Linkz feature below. Each week one lucky participant will receive a prize package from DRS Designs just for playing along! 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. The winner will be announced in the challenge post next Thursday.

This challenge ends Wednesday January 25th at 5pm EST.

Here are the Snowmen Challenge entries created by the DRS Design Team:

Karin

Shelia

Jennifer E.

Janett

Julie

Pam

Sue

Chrissy D

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Challenge Thursday #1 Faux Sewing

Hi Everyone, Happy Thursday!

Jennifer here today, and I'm very excited to tell you all about a big change starting today on the DRS Designs Blog. The DRS DT will be holding new blog challenges that will happen here every Thursday. The theme or topic each week will be rather simple and we will show you card samples to inspire you. We hope that you'll join us and play along by linking your challenge project using the InLink feature below. Each week one lucky participant will receive a prize package of stamps just for playing along! 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. Winners will be announced in the challenge post for the following week.

This weeks Theme is:

FAUX SEWING

Here are the DT challenge cards for your inspiration:


Jennifer
Edited to add: The 3 stamps used on the card above are the prize we're giving away for this challenge.
541E Santa Face
118F Santa in your stockings greeting
613P Woven Plaid Background

Karin

Pam

Julie

Shelia

Janett

Chrissy D


Sue

Now it's your turn to create your faux sewing card! Upload it by next Wednesday, December 7th at Noon EST to be eligible to win the prize package. We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Thanks for stopping by and Good Luck!

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Challenge #26 - Faux Stitching

Hi There - We're up to #26 in the DRS Designs DT challenge series! Today's challenge is faux stitching! Very easy, very cool and adds a perfect finishing touch to most projects. We would love for you to play along with us...post a direct link to your creation in the comment section of this post. If you upload to public gallery, please use the keyword DSC26.

Check out some inspiring projects from our design team below...

Denise Milazzo Handmade by Me!

stamps used: M1023 Bloomin' Huge Flower~Faux Stitching:
Jessica G./Jess' Obsession:


Debbie Seyer- A Peek Into My Stamping Room:


Vicki Parson/Stamped Smiles:



Cathy Indelicato/Crafty Thoughts




Jennifer E./Ink N Scrap Habits


Heather Lee-Reppen / The Best in Life (I cheated a bit and used stitching rub-ons as my faux stitching).
Sue W. - DRS Designs


Renée Van Stralen (Stamping for Sanity)

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Stamping AND Sewing!

I love this flower image from DRS Designs! To me... it looked like stitching... so I went to the craft room for some inspiration! I uses bright Copic markers in pinks,greens and oranges to color the image. Then I cut bits of ribbon and sandwiched it between the pink and the orange cardstock and went to the sewing machine! I stitched the ribbon in place with bright green thread and mounted it on the front of the card. To finish off the flower, I HAD to use a button... to continue my theme! On the flower petals, i highlighted the colors with the colorless blender from Copic and used a glitter pen to dot the petals and the leaves for a little added sparkle. I really encourage you to check out

DRS Designs for some really wonderful stamps and some great ideas from all of the other talented stampers! Thanks for looking and have a great day!

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