CAS Country Christmas Cards

Hello CraftyFriends.

I am still doing lots of CAS Christmas cards so I can get them in the mail next weekend.  The new DRS sentiments and images work perfect to get some quick cards done.  I have two to share and neither too much time.

This one was made with the new Jesus is the Reason Greeting and an Impression Obsession die. All I added was a bit of Stickles to the center of the star. 

I used the Silient Night Sheet Music image for the background and fussy cut the new Plaid Fir Tree to add to it for depth and color.  I also cut a few words out of the new Ugly Sweater Christmas Greeting to add to as they were small and fit great (I added the hope and faith words inside). 

Hope you have a great week!  Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow if you celebrate it.  

Hugz,

Nancy

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Band Birthday and Falling Leaves

 

This is my son's senior year of high school and he plays trumpet in the marching band. Their last performance will be on his birthday and we are treating the entire band to cup cakes and drinks.

So I just had to make this card using the MARCHING BAND TRUMPET - 056G and BIRTHDAY MULTI GREETING - 219P in the school colors.

I heat embossed the birthday greeting in shimmer gold embossing powder and layered on gold paper on a black card base.

I colored the marching band trumpet image in black and gold with copics and die cut the image. The image is popped up on dimensionals.

I made a second card for this week.

I love this new AUTUMN HARVEST CHAIR - 042K image. It reminds me of Fall. 

I stamped the Autumn Harvest Chair on acetate and colored it with copics. I cut the acetate to go behind a brown frame and popped it up on dimensionals and added some leaves behind it. 

The yellow layer I used a fall leaves emboss folder.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my cards.

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All Is Calm

Good morning!

I have some more Christmas cards for you today!

This first one uses DRS stamps: Santa with Birds Chrristmas and 1 Line Merry Christmas

I also used a sketch from SCS, Liquid Applique for the fur and Liquid Pearls for the beard.

My next card features DRS stamps: Percy Penguin X 3.  I made a little plaid vest for middle Percy.

They are singing Silent Night to the neighbor penguins, can you tell by the musical notes???

The plaid vest was made with Large Original Plaid.  The sentiment, All Is Calm

the background trees, Triple Tree with Snow and the background snow is Splatter Background

The cute square die is from Penny Black.  I used Liquid Applique for the fur on their hats.

I used to have some music stuff (besides brads) but I have 

no idea what happened to it.

I think it might be with some scrapbooking stuff because I bought most 

of it for doing pages for my grandson who is so musical.

  But everyone is grown up now and off living life.

I hope you like these little guys!!

Have a great crafty weekend!!

Robin

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Silent Bells

Sadly, my New Year's resolutions all fell by the way side for the 50th year in a row.  The one about getting all my Christmas cards done early and mailed out BEFORE Christmas didn't work again - even sadder is that I KNEW it wouldn't work when I made the resolution.  I am going to make it again next year because I am an optimist when it comes to resolutions AND I have a really good plan this year - I am joining a monthly Christmas card group.

Since I am still making Christmas cards for this year, here is my latest:

For some reason, when I was making the card, I had in my head that the sheet music stamp was Jingle Bells and not Silent Night Sheet Music.  That is why there are some Holly Jingle Bells the middle of the main panel.  I tried to cover up some of the words with a sentiment panel using the Small Merry Christmas Greeting, snowtex, water distressing, stenciling and sponging.  I still like how it came out and it makes me laugh when I think about it.  Wonder if the recipient will notice?  LOL.

I stamped the Bells in Versamark and rubbed chalk over it to make the image softly appear.  I have learned to love my chalks again after learning this technique. 

Hope your Christmas cards are all made and sent!

Hugz 

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Challenge #152 - Sing it to Me!

Welcome to the DRS Thursday Challenge!

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

Katie Tate 

Congrats, you are the winner from our Hot Trends-Glitter! Challenge!  

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

For this week's challenge, it's all about the melody so..

Sing it to Me!

 (use music in your project..stamped music, sheet music, musical instruments or be inspired by a song & tell us what it is)

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, December 17, 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!

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

Janett 

Julie

Robin  

Karin

Sue (think The First Noel :)

Shelia (I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas)

Jennifer E.



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Challenge #54 - Torn Paper Technique

Happy Thursday and welcome back to the last DRS Blog Challenge of 2012!!

For this challenge we want to see the 
Torn Paper Technique.
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!

**Due to the Christmas and New Years holidays, the deadline for this challenge has been extended until Wednesday, January 9th at 6:00 PM EST.  

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

Karin

Jennifer E. 

Julie

Shelia

Janett

Sue

Pam

Happy Stamping and Good Luck!

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Challenge #52-Religious Inspiration

Hello Friends! Welcome back to Challenge Thursday! 

We hope you're having a wonderful week and we appreciate you getting inky with us!

Big Congrats goes out to

Dawn Lancaster!!!!!!

You are last week's Snow Fun Challenge Winner! Please contact us at info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize.

The theme for our next challenge is
Inspired by Religion

  Enter this weeks challenge by submitting cards with religious images or verses. One lucky winner will win these 3 stamps:
 Richly Blessed Christmas Greeting (865G)
Small Nativity Scene (696D)
One Line Christmas Blessings (646D)

Below you will find some great religious inspired cards created by the DRS Designs DT.

Thanks for playing along and Good Luck!

Karin

Jennifer E.

Shelia

Janett

Sue

Pam

Julie

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Challenge #38 - Balloons

Hi Everyone, Happy Thursday!

Jennifer here today to give you the details about this weeks blog challenge.  For starters congratulations to 
Heathcliff!  
You are the winner from last week's Wheel challenge! 
Please contact us at info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize. 

This weeks Theme is:

BALLOONS
and we are giving away this prize package:

Scared E. Cat Frame (1028H)
Purrfect Halloween Greeting (064E)

Silhouette Cat and Moon (895F)

We hope that you'll join us and play along by linking your challenge project using the InLinkz feature below. Each week one lucky participant will receive a prize 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. Deadline for this challenge is Wednesday August 22nd at 6pm EST. The winner will be announced in the challenge post next Thursday.

Here are the DT challenge cards to inspire you:

Shelia

Jennifer E.

Karin

Janett

Chrissy D

Sue

Pam

Julie

Thanks for stopping by and Good Luck!

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Christmas French Horn

Happy Sunday to all, for my card I used the Christmas French Horn and the Small Merry Christmas Greeting. I used black ink and copic markers to color the image. A embossing folder was used for the border. The embossing folder is by Sizzix.

DRS designs is sponsor of the challenge a Stamping Sisters in Christ. And giving away a $10.00 store voucher.

The inspirational verse is.

John 14:1-6 "Do not let your heart be troubled;believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father'S house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am , there you may be also. And you know the way where I am going."


The challenge is to create a card that says home.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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Challenge #32-Christmas In July

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

This week we'd like to congratulate the winner of last week's Stars and Stripes challenge

Ann Marie Governale!

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

For the next several weeks DRS Designs will be cooling off from these hot Summer temperatures by celebrating Christmas in July.  However, each week will have a different Christmas Holiday theme, so make sure to check back every Thursday to see the new challenge.  For starters however, we want to see 
Christmas cards 

in general this week.  Any cards pertaining to the Christmas Holiday are allowed.  Please link your challenge entries below to be entered to win your choice of 2 stamps from the Christmas or Winter sections of the DRS Catalog. 

Here's some Holiday inspiration from the DRS DT.  

Good Luck!

Karin

Shelia

Julie

Janett

Jennifer E.

Sue

Chrissy D

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Musical Birthday

Happy Monday Everyone. Hope you had a good weekend!

Today I want to share a birthday card created with a couple of newly released stamps from DRS Designs - Marching Band Trumpet (056G) and Beat the Band Birthday (076E). These two stamps pair nicely with the Happy Birthday Music Background stamp (763P).

I started with a black card base and added a red panel that was embossed with the CB Happy Birthday folder. Before attaching the red panel I added the two pieces of red and black ribbon. The music background was stamped in black on white CS and cut out with a nestie. It's layered on a black scalloped circle and attached to the red panel. The Marching Band Trumpet was also stamped in black on white CS, colored with copics and then cut out. He's attached with pop dots for some dimension. The sentiment was stamped in the same black ink on white CS. I cut the sentiment into two pieces, sponged the edges with Real Red ink and then layered them on black CS. They are attached in the corners over the ribbon. To finish it off I added a music clip I found at Hobby Lobby on clearance. Gotta love those sale items!

Until next time,
shelia

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Say it Loud!

Hi Everyone,

Have you been playing along in our weekly challenges here at DRS Designs?  If you are new to the blog, we host a challenge every Thursday, and this week the theme is "Music for the Soul."  So if you want a chance at some new "rubbah", (there are prizes after all!) join us by clicking here.  We'd love to visit and see what you made :)

So, sticking with the musical theme of the week, here is a sneak peek at some stamps that will soon be released at DRS Designs!

I used the Interlocking Stars Background stamped in white craft ink and some clear embossing powder for the background.  The Band Member was also embossed after stamping, and along with the sentiment, they both will be released this weekend. 

I used an embossing folder for the base behind the stamped image and I punched out some stars for embellishments.  The five stars on the blue background were punched out of some paper that I first stamped using the Birthday Sheet Music stamp.  I was trying to tie the whole music and birthday theme together :)  And the red and white speckled strip is a piece of tissue tape.  This card makes me wish my birthday was on July 4th! LOL!

Thanks for stopping by and hope you can join us for our challenge!

Karin

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Challenge #24-Music For The Soul

We hope you are enjoying our weekly challenges as much as we are, and we appreciate all of you who have taken the time to play with us each week. 

Congratulations to 
Kathleen Barrett! 

 You are our winner from last weeks Graduation card challenge. Please contact us at info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize. 

 The theme for our next challenge is 

"Music For The Soul." 

 For this challenge we want to see sheet music, music notes, musical instruments etc. 
One lucky winner, selected randomly, will win a $10 store voucher to DRS Designs.
The cards shown below were created by the DRS DT and we hope they inspire you to play along. 

Good Luck!

Jennifer E.

Shelia

Karin

Janett

Chrissy D

 Julie

Pam

Sue
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