Thinking of You

 

I realized while going through my stamps that I did not have a stamp that just said Thinking of You. Well that just gets me going through all of my stamps to say how can I make a card with this sentiment if I don't have just that sentiment. I know, look at all of my sentiments and see if there is another I can use and yes, indeed I found one.

For my card:

• I used a scrap watercolor paper and sponged 2 different blue distress oxide inks with the dark ink at the bottom.
• Next, I spritzed water over the panel to get the rain effect.
• I then die cut an umbrella and some clouds to add to the panel.
  
• I found with the THINKING OF YOU AT CHRISTMAS GREETING - 183D the perfect font and sentiment. I heat embossed just the Thinking of You in white on black card stock and popped it up on dimensionals.

If you don't have this THINKING OF YOU AT CHRISTMAS GREETING - 183D in your collection, I encourage you to look for it in the DRS Designs shop because this can be used year-round for a Thinking of You card.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card.

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Always Something to be Thankful For

 

For my card today I decided to do an April Showers bring May flowers theme. 

• This ALWAYS THANKFUL GREETING - 040F is perfect to pair with my April showers bring May flowers theme. I stamped the sentiment in blue and then die cut the sentiment with a cloud stitched die cut.
• Next, I used the RAINDROP BACKGROUND - 1012H and stamped it all over the card base.
• I die cut the umbrella in navy and added white panels to the top and popped the umbrella up on dimensionals.
• The card was finished with a few punched blue flowers and Nuvo Drops were added to the center.

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

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Graduation Day!

Good morning!

DRS  stamps: Hats Off Graduation , Female Graduate, Let the Adventure Begin, 

and Grad Hat Hooray!

I used my school colors this time, orange, black and white from Aviation

High School, go Falcons!

I also used a hat and diploma die from I.O. 

The frame is popped up. 

This next card is a bit of fun using the new

Lightening Bolt, Umbrella, Raindrop Background, Birthday Party Pig

and Rainbow Greeting

The frame is popped up again and the sentiment was divided into 2 separate lines.  I reversed the pig

because I wanted the hand up to hold the umbrella and he is popped up with the frame..  The umbrella was fussy cut.  The background was clear stamped and embossed then inked with a sponge.

I drew the rainbow on with markers.

Robin

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Silly but Fashionable Bird!

Good morning!

I used some ideas from "Susie's Exclusive Fashions" (Susie Williams aka Susie Australia), with her permission of course, for my Silly Bird this morning! Susie is my friend from SCS and she is known for dressing birds.  I used DRS stamps: Large Original Plaid for the vest and background, Silly Bird, Extra Tweet Day, Shamrockin Day and Small Shamrock Group

The hat and bow tie are dies from Karen Buriston.  I used green glitter paper

and ribbon as well as a sketch from SCS.

This second card made my hubby laugh out loud!

He loved the bathing beauty Silly Bird.  I made her suit using the Polka Dot Background 

and a black pen.  Other DRS stamps used: Brush Beach Sunrise, Sending You Sunshine

 and Thinking of You Tweetie.

I used the frame die by MFT's, Umbrella by ODBD, chair, seagulls, fence, sandcastle

and sand toys dies by I.O. 

So, what can you think of to dress these Silly birds?

Looks fun, right? It is!

Thanks for visiting today!

Robin

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Beach Time!

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

 Happy Friday!

And Happy Birthday...to me! Yep..it's the beginning of another trip around the sun for me. I hope your week has gone well! Summer has arrived, school is out so let the vacations begin! I think it calls for a little beach time. Going to the beach would be a vacay for me now. Not so much when I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town & I could see the bay from my house. The actual Padre Island was only 20 minutes away. Beach time was all the time! So this is for the memories & all you landlubbers who didn't/don't have a beach nearby. 

I got my inspiration for this from a clock I saw & I thought I could create something similar. To make my beach clock, I die cut the circles & on the smaller one, stamped & colored the Adirondack Chair amp; Umbrella   The sandals, seagull & sailboat were drawn in w/ a multiliner pen & the bg was colored in. I inked the Woodgrain Bg w/ London fog & stamped off once before stamping across the scene, then I used a gray Copic to accentuate the board lines. The die cut numbers & clock hands were added on top. For the greeting, I stamped part of it & die cut the beach part. I had to die cut a few different words from the set then cut & paste them together.

 Here's a look at the inside & below it are the Copics I used. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend & don't forget the sunscreen!

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs - Adirondack Chair, Umbrella,Woodgrain Bg, New Beginning (inside: Beach Sunrise , Cool Summertime Greeting   )

paper: Staples 110# white

ink:  Memento tuxedo black, London fog

accessories: Copic markers, white gel pen, ODBD numbers dies,  Lil' Inker stitched rectangles dies, Spellbinders A2 matting basics A & circles dies, Cheery Lynn clock dies, Sizzix Celebrations words dies, Copic multiliner pen

Adirondack Chair 450C	Umbrella 817G	New Beginning 602E	Woodgrain Bg 626P	Beach Sunrise 768L
Cool Summertime Greeting 824H	Copic Sketch Markers	Copic Multiliner pens	Memento Inks	White Gelly Roll Pen
Staples 110# White Card Stock	Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A S5-131	Spellbinders Lg Circles S4-114	Lil’ Inker Stitched Rectangles Die Set	Cheery Lynn Clock dies B357
ODBD Numbers dies	Sizzix Celebration Words 660223

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A Little Rain

Good morning!!

At Splitcoaststampers we had this cute sketch to follow.  I decided to use it for today's rainbow card. 

I used DRS stamps: Raindrop Background 1012H, Umbrella 817G, Rainbow Greeting 391E, Polka Dots Background 688P
I love this umbrella with all the sections, it makes it so fun to color in multiple colors! After coloring I thought of adding the rain so I masked the umbrella and stamped the rain in soft gray (don't ask me why I didn't think of rain BEFORE I colored!) I like the way it turned out. To do my sentiment I stamped it on my stamp aligner acrylic, cleaned the stamp off completely, covered half the sentiment with tape and inked the top, took the tape off and aligned the top part on the top edge of my card then did the whole process again for the bottom part of the sentiment on the bottom of my card.  I love the way that turned out too.
My pink layer is embossed Swiss dot to match my dot center strip.
I used Stitched dies from ODBD and some little "candy" dots from Doodlebug Designs.
Well, that's about it, thanks for visiting today!!!
Robin  

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Challenge #239 - Shake It!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

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

(7 because Gail had 2 entries w/ DRS images & it paid off! Thanks, Gail!)

Gail Scott DRS

Congrats, you are the winner from our Sun Rays Challenge!  

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

 This week's challenge will get you moving ...
Shake It!

 (use any image, die cut, punch, technique, but add a little shaker element..it can be small or big...try using a little pouch instead of an acrylic box element, to keep it mailable) Here are some shaker cards from our blog to get the ideas going: Skaker Cards

To enter, show us your card  by linking it below and please remember to link back to us. The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday, August 17, 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 some shaking creations from our talented DRS Design Team and we'd love for you to leave us a comment!

Shelia

Janett 

Nancy 

Karin 

Julie 

Robin


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Sunset Beach

Good morning!

Here is another card for the Heat is On!

DRS stamps: New Release Sailboat, 090G Sandcastle, 817G Umbrella, 473F 4 in 1 Shells, 128L Sea Grass

I stamped and masked the castle then stamped the boat and sea grass while the mask was on.  I removed that mask and made a mask for the sun (1" circle punch).  I drew on a horizon then placed my reverse mask (the part with the hole) on the horizon and sponged in the yellow sun (I also masked off the water).  I took that mask off and put the 1" circle over the sun and masked the water all the way across while I sponged in sky colors with sponges and Distress Inks.  The rest of the card is colored with Copic markers.  I added a bit of Liquid applique and glitter to make waves.  I cut the curved part of the umbrella off and extended it when I cut it out to be a beach umbrella.  I colored the bottom part with dark gray to cover any stamp lines.  The boat sails have some sky color reflected on them and the water has some shimmery sun color reflected on it.  I used some Wink of Stella on some parts to add more shimmer.
I cut the frame from some pierced/stitched rectangles and popped it up.  Then added some gauze to the beach as well as my cut out shells.
Thanks for visiting today!
Robin

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Challenge #220 -Spring Fling!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

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

Shirley Qu

Congrats, you are the winner from our B Words Challenge!  

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

For this week's challenge, we're all in the mood for a...

Spring Fling!

 use any technique, image, die cut or punched shape just be sure to have something that represents Spring on your project (spring colors, flowers, birds, bees...you get the idea)

To enter, show us your card  by linking it below. The deadline for this challenge is Wednesday, April 6, at 6:30 pm ET and please link new creations only (no back dated or duplicate entires). 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:

Birdhouse Tree Branch 733K

Lovebirds Branch 413H

Sending You Sunshine 094D 

Here are some very springy cards from our talented DRS Design Team and we'd love for you to leave us a comment!

Robin

Shelia

Nancy

Janett

Karin 

Julie


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Challenge #209 - Heart to Heart!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

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

Elizabeth H. 

Congrats, you are the winner from our Weather Outside Challenge!  

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

 This week's challenge is all lovey dovey...

Heart to Heart!

 (make a card using hearts...use any image, die cut, paper, technique..but have a heart or two on it somewhere)

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, January 20, at 6:30 pm ET and please link new creations only (no back dated entires). 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!

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

Shelia

Julie

Robin

Outside (insert) and inside

Nancy

Karin

Janett

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