Your Next Stamp -It's Starting To Look A Lot Like Christmas- Blog Hop

Welcome to the Your Next Stamp 'It's starting to look a lot like Christmas'  BLOG HOP!  I'm sure you've guessed from the title that we're showcasing some fabulous new YNS Winter and Christmas stamps today! These new stamps are available to buy right now from the Your Next Stamp store along with all your YNS favourites.

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Simonne's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the start of the hop at Crystal's blog, as you don't want to miss these fab new releases!

The hop starts today (Thursday October 7th at 09:00 EST) and ends on Tuesday October 12th at midnight EST.

As always, here at Your Next Stamp, we have a some fabulous prizes for you to win!  

One lucky winner will be drawn at random to receive a surprise new release stamp package, but please make sure you comment at every stop along the hop to be eligible to be entered into the draw for the grand prize.

We are also going to hold some mini candy draws at some stops along the hop!

  And not only is Karen offering two amazing prizes, she's also  having a 15% off sale during the blog hop!!!

Now onto my creations for the blog hop:

my first card is made with super cute and fun 'Merry Mouse Wreath'

and the second one is the one you've seen yesterday - created with the adorable 'Fhiona's Christmas Tree (returns)'

So now it's time for you to hop on over to the wonderful Jen del Muro's blog as she is the next stop on our hop, but it would be great if you leave me a comment before you go :o)

Thanks so much for hopping with us today!  I hope you enjoy our new release and my creations :o) 

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YNS Sneak Peek

Hi everyone :o) Hope you have a great week so far. Mine is super busy (because I'm working full time again since Friday *phew*)

But sorry.. I didn't want to moan and whine *ggg* 

Here are the happy news: Tomorrow will be release day for the new and beautiful winter/christmas stamps by Your Next Stamp.

And as a little teaser I want to show you this card as a sneak peek for tomorrow (where we will have a blog hop *yay*)

you can see more sneak peeks on the other DT members blog (see left side bar!)


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Twick or Tweet - A Sketch

Hi everyone :o) Friday again (*oops*... again?) ... time for our next Phindys Place Challenge :o)This time we have a sketch from the sweet and super talented Anne-Marije for you to work with! And here's my card (I just mirrored the sketch  to fit my needs)

Hallo zusammen :o) Schon wieder Freitag (*ups... schon wieder?) ... Zeit für unsere nächste Phindys Place Herausforderung :o) Diesmal haben wir einen Sketch von Anne-Marije für Euch! Und hier ist meine Karte (ich habe den Sketch einfach gespiegelt weil es so für mich besser gepasst hat)

and here are some additional close ups / und hier noch ein paar Nahaufnahmen:

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challenge:
Phindys Place #25 - Sketch

card recipe:
stamps - image: 'Twick or Tweet' by Phindys Place, text and bats from 'Haunted' set by Cosmo Cricket
color medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, watercolor pencils, Twinklings H2O
design papers - Punk Princess by Simply Scrappy