CAS Birthday Card

Hi everyone and happy Saturday :)
I'm enjoying the sun *yay*... yes.. it's really true.. the sun is shining and we have around 12°C (54°F)

I just noticed that I totally forgot to show you a clean and simple birthday card I made a while back with the adorable 'Fancy Cuppy Cakes' stamp set from Your Next Stamp

Hallo zusammen und Euch allen einen wunderbaren Samstag :)

Ich genieße hier die Sonne *jipiiieee*... ja... es ist wirklich wahr... die Sonne scheint und wir haben ungefähr 12°C

Mir ist aufgefallen das ich hier noch eine "clean and simple" Geburstagskarte liegen habe, die ich schon vor einiger Zeit fertig gestellt aber bislang noch gar nicht hier auf meinem Blog gezeigt hatte

Ich habe hier das hübsche Stempel Set 'Fancy Cuppy Cakes' von Your Next Stamp verwendet

challenges:

• Your Next Stamp #35 (Pretty Pleats)
• Phindys Place #41 (Embossing) 
• Southern Girls (Dry Embossing) 
• The Outlawz Sundays CAS (Anything Goes)

card recipe:

• stamps - Fancy Cuppy Cakes by Your Next Stamp
• color medium - Mondeluz watercolor pencils, Stardust Stickles from Ranger
• other supplies - white cardstock from stash, kraft cardstock from Bazzill, Swiss Dots embossing folder, ruffled velvet ribbon from stash, paper piecing tool from stash, foam pads from stash, white gel pen by Sakura

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Your Next Stamp #35 - Pretty Pleats

Hi everyone and happy Wednesday!
It's time for our next Your Next Stamp challenge :) This fortnight Maureen wants to see some pleats and/or ruffles on your cards! Here's my card using 'Ellie Loves To Bake'

Hallo zusammen und einen schönen Mittwoch!

Es ist wieder Zeit für eine neue Herausforderung bei Your Next Stamp Challenge :) Diesmal möchte Maureen gerne gelegte Falten (pleats) und/oder etwas Gekräuseltes (ruffles) auf Euren Karten sehen!

Hier ist meine Karte mit 'Ellie Loves To Bake'

Unfortunately the picture has way to much light on it.. in real life the colors are not so glaring but more rich and a bit darker. It is so hard to get a good photo in the evening when it's dark outside. Will try to get a better one asap

Leider ist das Foto etwas überbelichtet bzw. viel zu hell und in Natura sind die Farben auch nicht so "schreiend" sondern etwas dunkler und schön(!) kräftig (eben nicht so schreiend). Es ist einfach so schwierig ein gescheites Foto zu machen wenn es abends immer so dunkel draußen ist. Ich werde auf alle Fälle versuchen noch ein besseres Foto zu machen.

challenges:

• Your Next Stamp #35 (Pretty Pleats)

card recipe:

• stamps - Ellie Loves To Bake by Your Next Stamp
• color medium - Mondeluz watercolor pencils, Tombow Dual Brush pens
• design papers - Park Play Day by Connie Prince
• other supplies - Nestabilities Label dies, red cardstock from stash, orange ribbon from stash, glue dots, pop dots from stash, red pigment ink by ColorBox,

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*ooh la la* ... it's YNS Blog Hop Time!

Welcome to the Your Next Stamp CHA Release Blog Hop!

We are so excited here at YNS because Karen has taken YNS to CHA for the very first time! That's right, as you're reading this Karen will be at Winter 2011 CHA at booth #4518!

To celebrate this event, YNS is releasing some fab new YNS stamps just in time for CHA. You may have already caught a sneak peek of some of them last week over at the Scrapbook and Cards Today blog, but today you get to see all 9 World Kids stamps plus a fabulous new Celebrate Collection from HR Designs and 7 new mini stamps. These new stamps are available to buy right now from the Your Next Stamp store.

Of course we couldn't let this release pass by without having a fun blog hop! We also have 4 fabulous guests joining us for our hop: Tori Wild, Cindy Haffner, Carole Burrage and Maylee Pham!

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 Kerri's blog, as you don't want to miss these fab new releases!

The hop starts today (28 January 2011 at 08:00 EST) and ends on 2 February 2011 at midnight EST.

As always here at Your Next Stamp, we have a wonderful prize for you to win! One lucky winner will be drawn at random from the links in the linky list to receive their choice of 3 of the new World Kids stamps!

You will see that every stop along the hop has a linky list - this is the SAME linky list posted on every blog, so that you can enter the prize draw from any stop. Please remember to only enter your name ONCE into the linky list during the hop - you do NOT need to enter your name at every stop and multiple entries will be removed.

So onto my blog hop creation! I have used one of the World Kids Collection stamps: Pierre from France to create this card

The Eiffel Tower is directly stamped onto the background. I stamped the super cute french boy, colored him with Tombows and watercolor pencils, then cut him out trimming closely and put him on 3 dimensional foam pads.

Here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Kerri Michaud

Beth Ranney-Thomas

Chris Olsen

Cindy Haffner {Guest DT}

Crystal Irwin

Jenny Suchin

Maylee Pham {Guest DT}

Linda Cummings

Maureen Wong

Tori Wild {Guest DT}

Simonne Clay

Sylvia Blum {you are here}

Carole Burrage {Guest DT}

Wendy Ramlakhan

Karen Dedman

So now it's time for you to hop on over to Carole's blog as she is the next stop on our hop

Thanks so much for hopping with us today! I hope you enjoy our new release!

card recipe:

• stamps - World Kids France by Your Next Stamp
• color medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, Mondeluz watercolor pencils
• design papers - Sunday Afternoon by Trixie Scraps
• other supplies - brown cardstock from stash, brown satin ribbon from stash, green button from stash, brown twine from The Twinery, pop dots from stash

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YNS News

YNS NEWS

The end of January is shaping up to be a busy and exciting time for YNS ...

The first piece of extremely exciting news is that Your Next Stamp is going to be at Winter 2011 CHA in LA! WOO-HOO! The event runs from January 29th to February 1st and Karen will be promoting YNS at Booth #4518.

So with CHA in mind, Your Next Stamp will soon be welcoming some new friends to its little family with a fabulous YNS CHA New Release BLOG HOP on January 28th, so be sure to mark your calendars as you really won't want to miss this! But if you'd like a small sneaky peek of who is joining us, hop on over to the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog right now... and while you're there, why not enter the super fun contest to WIN a $25 gift certificate to spend on stamps at the YNS store!

And that's not all... Your Next Stamp now has a Facebook page!

We would love to invite you all to LIKE our YNS FB page so you can be the first to know about promotions, new releases, sales, competitions ... and there may even be the odd quick giveaway! We'd also love to see all your YNS creations, old and new, so why not upload them to our YNS FB wall.

To celebrate our YNS Facebook launch we have 2 special promotions:

1. We have a special 20% off discount code - hop on over to our FB page to grab it (discount ends Jan 31st).

2. We are holding a prize draw just for those of you who LIKE our page. Come on over and sign up by February 1st to be entered into the draw to WIN a $25 gift certificate to spend on stamps at the YNS store.

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snowflakes are kisses from heaven

Hi everyone and happy Wednesday :)
It's time for another Your Next Stamp Challenge :)  Linda says 'Make a Scene' ;-)
So come on and create a winter scene card!  Can't wait to see your creations.
My card is also an entry for Sentimental Sundays where Ann from Raindrop Echo Designs has another great freebie for you to download during this week! The sentiment stamp I used on this card is one of them! Thanks Ann!

Hallo zusammen und einen schönen Mittwoch :)

Es ist schon wieder Zeit für eine neue Herausforderung auf dem Your Next Stamp Challenge Blog :) Diesmal sagt Linda: 'Mach eine Szene' ;-)
Also worauf wartet Ihr... gestaltet eine Karte mit einer winterlichen Szene! Ich kann es kaum erwarten Eure Kreationen zu sehen.
Außerdem ist diese Karte ein Beitrag für Sentimental Sundays, wo es auch diesmal ein tolles Freebie zum Runterladen gibt. Ann von Raindrop Echo Design hat wieder einmal tolle Sprüche, von denen ich hier auf der Karte einen verwendet habe. Es gibt sie nur diese Woche als Freebie! Vielen Dank, Ann!


ETA: Thanks to the team of Get Sketchy for picking my card as 'Top 5'

challenges:

• Your Next Stamp #34 (Make a Scene - Create a Winter Scenery)
• Sentimental Sundays #38 (Winter)
• Get Sketchy #70 (sketch)
  

card recipe:

• stamps - image stamp is 'Fhiona and her friend penguin' from Your Next Stamp, sentiment from Raindrop Echo Designs available at Sentimental Sundays Challenge blog this week 
• color medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, Mondeluz watercolor pencils
• design papers - Love Me Do by Jady Day Studio
• other supplies - Nestabilities circle and scalloped circle, cardstock from stash, flower from Prima, spacer and mini brad from stash, pop dots from stash, Silhouette snowflake die
  

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Your Next Stamp New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the Your Next Stamp January New Release BLOG HOP!

We've got some fabulous new YNS stamps to showcase today! These new stamps are available to buy right now from the Your Next Stamp store along with all your YNS favourites. We also have two wonderful guests joining us for our hop - the amazing Angela Wood, who was our fabulous GDT here at YNS before Christmas and the wonderful Jen Del Muro

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

The hop starts today (07 January 2011 at 03:00 EST) and ends on 10 January 2011 at midnight EST.

As always here at Your Next Stamp, we have a wonderful prize for you to win! One lucky winner will be drawn at random from the links in the linky list to receive this beautiful new stamp set:

Karen is also running some special promotions, so be sure to hop on over to the YNS store once you've finished the hop. There is a fab clearance section, where you can grab a bargain or two, and Karen has also put together some special-priced bundles!!

So onto my blog hop creation! I have used the SO HAPPY FOR YOU stamp set (contains the fun image and the sentiment) to create this Congrats card. I used the sentiment stamp for the background as well as for the focal sentiment.

You will see that every stop along the hop has a linky list - this is the SAME linky list posted on every blog, so that you can enter the prize draw from any stop (although we hope you will visit all the blogs on today's hop!). The linky will update itself on everyone's blog when a link is entered - how cool is that? Please remember to only enter your name ONCE into the linky list during the hop - you do NOT need to enter your name at every stop and multiple entries will be removed.

Here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Wendy Ramlakhan
Beth Ranney-Thomas
Jenny Suchin
Crystal Irwin
Simonne Clay
Angela Wood (Guest)
Karen Dedman
Sylvia Blum
Linda Cummings
Jen Del Muro (Guest)
Kerri Michaud
Maureen Wong
Chris Olsen

So now it's time for you to hop on over to Linda's blog as she is the next stop on our hop, but I'd love it if you left me a comment before you go!

Thanks so much for hopping with us today! I hope you enjoy our new release!

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Your Next Stamp Challenge #33 - Kerri's Sketch

Hi everone :) It's Wednesday and the start of our new (and first for 2011) challenge at Your Next Stamp challenges. This week we have a great sketch for you from our super talented team member Kerri! I think she did an amazing job on this sketch (I loved working with it!)

Hallo zusammen :) Es ist Mittwoch und es startet unsere neue (und erste in 2011) Herausforderung bei Your Next Stamp Challenges. Diese Woche haben wir einen tollen Sketch für Euch, den unser super talentiertes Team Mitglied Kerri für Euch kreiert hat! Ich finde sie hat einen großartigen Sketch entworfen (mir hat's riesig Spass gemacht damit zu arbeiten!)

And here's my card using the Scrapfest stamp that was given away as a special gift to all visitors of the Scrapfest event ;) This wonderful stamp image was designed by Karen, the owner of Your Next Stamp especially for this event.. very cool, isn't it?!

Und hier ist meine Karte, bei der ich den Scrapfest Stempel benutzt habe, den es mal als spezielles Extra für alle Besucher des Scrapfest Events gegeben hat :) Dieses tolle Stempelmotiv wurde von Karen, der Inhaberin von Your Next Stamp extra für dieses Event kreiert :)

challenges:

• Your Next Stamp Challenge #33 (sketch)
• Craft Your Passion #39 (Anything Goes)
• Creative Inspirations Paint (Inspired by Circles) 
• Paper Sundaes #50 (Something New - the design papers I used for the card are new :) ) 
• Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
• Sentimental Sundays #36 (Celebrate Friendship)
• Woodware USA #8 (Something New - the design papers I used for the card are new :) )
  

card recipe:

• stamps - Your Next Stamp
• color medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, watercolor pencils
• design papers - from My Project 365 / 2011 Bundle by Ju Kneipp
• other supplies - cardstock from stash, Nestabilities scalloped square and circle, self adhesive clear crystals by Hero Arts, distressing tool from Tim Holtz, satin ribbon from stash, pop dots from stash

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Your Next Stamp - Let's Party

Hi everyone! Still not feeling too good, but managed to finish my card for the YNS challenge #32, finally! This time  our theme is 'Let's Party. I'm one week behind, indeed ... but this time the challange is up and running three weeks, so you still have 2 weeks to enter!! :-))

Hallo zusammen! Ich fühle mich immer nocht nicht besonders gut, aber immerhin habe ich es geschafft endlich meine Karte für die YNS Challenge Nr.32 fertig zu stellen. Diesmal haben wir das Thema "Let's Party". Ich bin zwar eine Woche zu spät dran ... aber diesmal läuft die Herausforderung drei Wochen und so sind für Euch dieses Mal immer noch zwei Wochen Zeit, teilzunehmen!! :-))

challenges:

• Your Next Stamp Challenge #32 (Let's Party)
• Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
• Creative Card Crew (Birthdays)
  

card recipe:

• stamps - Cupcake Cutie Fhiona by Your Next Stamp
• color medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, watercolor pencils
• design papers, elements, alphas - EZ Wishes Bundle by Erica Zane
• other supplies - cardstock from stash, clear selfadhesive crystal from Hero Arts, pop dots from stash

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YNS #31 - It's a CAS Christmas

Hi everyone and happy Wednesday :o)
Time for our newest challenge over at YNS challenge blog! This time, Jenny is our hostess and she wants us (and YOU) to create CAS (=Clean And Simple) Christmas cards!

Hallo zusamman und einen schönen Mittwoch :o)

Es ist wieder Zeit für eine neue Herausforderung auf dem YNS Challenge Blog! Diesmal ist es Jenny, die möchte das wir (und IHR) eine CAS (=Clean and Simple) Weihnachtskarte macht!

challenges:

• Your Next Stamp #31 (CAS Christmas)

card recipe:

• stamp - 'Spread the Cheer' by Your Next Stamp
• color medium - Tombow Dual Brush pens, watercolor pencils, Distress inks
• other supplies - red and white cardstock from stash, red brads from Poppicrafts, Cuttlebug embossing folder
• 
  

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YNS Challenge #30 - CASEing a DT member

Hi everyone and welcome to our next YNS challenge :o)
This time we want you to CASE a card of one of our DT members.
It does not have to be a YNS card, but please CASE a special card and not only a general style.
You can find more details on this challenge on the YNS challenge blog.

Hallo zusammen und Willkommen zu unserer nächsten YNS Herausforderung :o)

Diesmal möchten wir das Ihr eine beliebige Karte eines unserer DT Mitglieder "kopiert".

Es muss nicht unbedingt eine YNS Karte sein, aber bitte werkelt wirklich eine bestimmte Karte nach und kopiert nicht nur ganz allgemein den "Stil" einer Karte.

Mehr Details zu dieser Herausforderung findet Ihr auf dem YNS Challenge Blog.

I decided to CASE one of the amazing cards from Jenny. I'm a huge fan of her card creations - especially because her style is so different from mine :-)))

Ich habe mich dazu entschlossen eine der genialen Karten von Jenny als Vorlage herzunehmen.

Ich bin ein großer Fan ihrer Karten - vor allem weil ihr Stil so ganz anders ist als meiner :-)))

This is Jenny's card

And here's my version using "Vacation Don" and "Mini Greetings" stamp set

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Your Next Stamp - New November Releases (Blog Hop)

There's a BLOG HOP going on at Your Next Stamp to show you the fabulous new YNS stamps released in November!

The hop starts today (Thursday November 18 at 03:00 EST) and ends on Saturday November 20 at midnight EST.

If you would like to participate in the hop, please CLICK HERE to return to the start of the hop at the Maureen's blog, as you don't want to miss all these fab new releases!

As always, at Your Next Stamp, there is a wonderful prize for you to win! One lucky winner will be drawn at random from the comments at Karen's blog to receive a new release stamp package. 

Not only is Karen offering an amazing hop prize, she's also holding a special 20% OFF YOUR ORDER sale which is running for an entire week (from today until November 25 at midnight EST)!  Be sure to enter the code YNSNOV when checking out at http://www.yournextstamp.com/ to receive your 20% discount!

Before I go I'd just like to remind you all about our current YNS Challenge chosen by the wonderful Crystal!  It ends on Tuesday November 23, so you still have plenty of time to join in! The challenge is extra special as we are being co-sponsored by Really Reasonable Ribbon, so why not hop on over to the YNS Challenge blog and join in!

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YNS challenge #29

Hi everyone :o) Thanks for stopping by today!
Today I have a little project for you for our new 'Your Next Stamp' challenge where the challenge is 
Y(ellow), N(esties), S(tickles)
We want you to use at least two of the above mentioned ingredients :-)
You don't have to use a Your Next Stamp image to participate, but of course we would LOVE to see your creations using one of the YNS stamps :o)
Oh.. and last but not least, we have a great sponsor for this challenge: It's 'Really Reasonable Ribbon'! 

Hallo zusammen :o) Vielen Dank das Ihr heute bei mir vorbeischaut!
Ich habe heute ein kleines Projekt für unsere neue 'Your Next Stamp' Herausforderung, wo wir dieses Mal 

Y(ellow), N(esties), S(tickles)

als Thema haben.

Wir würden gerne sehen, das Ihr mindestens zwei der oben genannten "Zutaten" (die Farbe gelb, Nestabilities, Stickles) verwendet:-)
Ihr müsst nicht unbedingt ein Motiv von Your Next Stamp verwenden, aber natürlich würden wir uns RIESIG freuen, Eure Kreationen mit einem der YNS Stempel zu sehen :o)
Oh und last but not least... Wir haben diesmal einen tollen Sponsor: Really Reasonable Ribbon


and here's the back side of the tag / und das ist die Rückseite des Tags:

stamps I used on my tag are from  
Ellie Loves to Bake set 
and  
Mini Greetings set 
by  
Your Next Stamp




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(old) Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge / YNS: Halloween Treat Bag

Oh my word.... I totally missed posting my creation for Your Next Stamp and Really Reasonable Ribbon a few weeks ago.. man... I feel really bad about it!
But even though it's too late for the challenge it was made for, I thought I'd share it at least NOW with all of you ... better late than never *ahem* ;-( Here's a Halloween Treatbag using the scary cute 'EEK the bat' image from Your Next Stamp and some awesome Halloween ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon. 


Ach Du grüne Neune.. nun hatte ich doch auch total vergessen mein Werk für Your Next Stamp und  Really Reasonable Ribbon von vor ein paar Wochen hier einzustellen.. oh mann... ich fühle mich richtig schlecht deshalb! Aber obwohl ich natürlich jetzt viel zu spät für die Challenge bin für die ich das Projekt gemacht hatte, dachte ich ich zeige es Euch wenigstens JETZT (besser spät als nie, oder?! *ähem..räusper* ;-( ) Hier ist also mein Halloween Süssigkeiten-Tütchen mit dem schaurigen süssen 'EEK the bat' Motiv von Your Next Stamp und eines der wunderbaren Halloween Bändchen von Really Reasonable Ribbon.



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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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Make Your Own Flower - YNS Challenge

Hi everyone! Hope you're all feeling fine and have a great week so far :o)

I'm super busy at the moment because I have to create many DT projects in advance *phew* So I'm not lazy doing nothing ;-) even though I'm not showing much at the moment *g*

Here's my card for the current Your Next Stamp Challenge - Make Your Own Flower that was set up by Wendy this time :o) I made my flower from cardstock (yes seriously.. even though you hardly can believe it *g*). To make my flower, I followed the fab tutorial that was posted by Lynn Larson on her blog Learn to Stamp and Scrap.

Hallo zusammen! Ich hoffe es geht Euch allen gut und Ihr habt bisher eine tolle Woche :o)

Ich bin super geschäftig im Moment, weil ich eine Menge DT Projekte im Voraus gestalte *puh* Also bin ich nicht einfach faul und tue nichts ;-) auch wenn ich momentan nicht so sehr viel hier zeige *g*

Hier ist meine Karte für die aktuelle Herausforderung bei Your Next Stamp Challenge - Make Your Own Flower die dieses Mal von Wendy kommt :o)

Meine Blume ist aus Tonkarton entstanden (ja wirklich.. auch wenn man es vielleicht kaum glauben mag *g*). Ich habe dafür das Tutorial von Lynn Larson, das auf ihrem Blog Learn to Stamp and Scrap zu finden ist, nachgearbeitet.

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challenges:

• 2 Sketches 4 You - Kazans Sketch #62 (flipped the sketch!) 
• Charisma Cardz #38 - Anything goes
• Crafty Calendar #12 - Blue and Flowers
• Creative Card Crew - Bloomin' Marvelous! 
• Incy Wincy #61 - Anything Goes
• Paper Romance #17 - Handmade Flowers
• Scrappy Frogs - Flower Power 
• The Crazy Challenge - No Ribbons or Buttons
• Your Next Stamp #26 - Make Your Own Flower

card recipe:

• stamp - 'Mini Greetings Set' by Your Next Stamp, background stamp by Flamingo Art
• color mediums - Sakura Glaze pen in yellow, Sakura white gel pen
• design papers - 'Happy Birthday To Me' by The Design Girl
• other supplies - kraft cardstock from Dani Peuss, Nestabilities Label1 die, SU! window punch, SU! corner rounder punch

60% off selected stamp sets at YNS

Hey everyone!  Just wanted to let you know that Karen is retiring some of the older Your Next Stamp stamp sets, and as of September 30th they will no longer be available to buy.  But before they are gone forever, Karen has reduced these retiring stamp sets by a  60%!! 

Hallo zusammen! Ich wollte Euch nur wissen lassen, das Karen einige der älteren Your Next Stamp Stempel Sets zukünftig nicht mehr verkaufen wird. Sie sind nur noch bis zum 30. September erhältlich. Aber bevor sie für immer verschwinden, hat Karen diese Stempel Sets um 60% reduziert!!

You can see all the retiring sets / Ihr könnt alle diese Sets hier sehen:

*** HERE ***

And here's a card I made with one of the retiring sets: 'Cupcake Cutie Fhiona'

Und hier ist ein Kärtchen das ich mal mit einem der Sets gemacht hatte:  'Cupcake Cutie Fhiona'

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Thankful for You - YNS Challenge #25

Good morning everyone! I'm so sorry, I'm a bad blogger lately. Only few creations and even less commenting *sigh* All I can say is 'sorry' and it's a super busy time at the moment.. but I hope to be back in full swing soon :D

Guten Morgen zusammen! Es tut mir so leid, das ich in letzter Zeit ein so schlechter Blogger bin. Nur ein paar wenige Karten und noch weniger Kommentare von mir *seufz* Ich kann einfach nur 'Entschuldigung' sagen und das es momentan wirklich super hektisch bei mir zugeht.. aber ich hoffe doch bald wieder so richtig zurück zu sein :D

Now onto my card for today: It's a card for the new YNS challenge. And not only this, but it's also my first time to be your hostess for the YNS challenge *woot woot*... I hope many of you will take part and join in the 'GIVE THANKS' fun :o)

Jetzt aber zu meiner Karte für heute: Es ist eine Karte für die neue YNS Herausforderung. Und nicht nur das, sondern es ist auch das erste Mal, das ich selbst die "Gastgeberin" für diese Herausforderung bei YNS bin *juhuuu*... ich hoffe also, das ganz viele von Euch teilnehmen werden und eine 'GIVE THANKS' (Karte für Thanksgiving oder eine Dankeschön Karte) basteln :o)

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challenges:

• Your Next Stamp Challenge #25 - Give Thanks
• Allsorts #69 - Colours of Autumn
• Creative Card Crew - Autumn or Fall 
• Incy Wincy Designs Challenge #59 - Autumn Colors 
• Paper Play 10 week 36 - Autumn is a Comin'
• Pollycraft Monday Challenge #61 - Autumn Colors
• Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge #20 - fall colors

card recipe:

• stamp - Thankful For You Fhiona by Your Next Stamp
• color medium - Tombow Dual Brush Pens, watercolor pencils, chalks
• design papers, elements and alpha - Falling For Autumn by Connie Prince
• other supplies - brown cardstock from stash, Nestabilities classic rectangle and classic circle dies, brown grosgrain ribbon from Poppicrafts, border punch by Martha Stewart, gold spiral embellishment from stash, pop dots from stash

Birthday Greetings For A Passionated Baker

Hey everyone and happy Friday :) 

Today I have a birthday card to share with you that I made for my MIL who is a passionated baker and cooker. I stamped the images, colored them with Tombows and watercolor pencils and cut them all out trimming closely. I then put some of them on pop dots to get more dimension.. not sure you can see this on the photo

Huhu alle zusammen und einen wunderschönen Freitag :)

Heute zeige ich Euch eine Karte, die ich für meine liebste Schwiegermutter gemacht habe, die eine passionierte Bäckerin und Köchin ist. Ich habe die Motive gestempelt, mit Tombows und Aquarellstiften koloriert und dann alle konturengenau ausgeschnitten. Dann habe ich einige der Motive auf 3D Pads gesetzt um etwas mehr Tiefe und Dimension zu erhalten... ich bin nicht sicher ob man das auf dem Foto erkennen kann

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challenges:

• Cowgirls Sunday Challenge - Anything Goes
• Fab 'n' Funky #39 - What eva
• Some Odd Girl - Multiple Images
• Southern Girls Challenge #1 - Everything Goes 

card recipe:

• stamps - Ellie Loves To Bake stamp set by Your Next Stamp
• color medium - Tombow DBP, watercolor pencils
• design papers - Autumn Harvest by IDBC
• font - DuTurner
• other supplies - red cardstock from stash, ColorBox pigment inks to distress, pop dots from stash

Your Next Stamp 'Fall into Halloween' BLOG HOP

Welcome to the Your Next Stamp 'Fall into Halloween' BLOG HOP!  I'm sure you've guessed from the title that we're showcasing some fabulous new YNS Fall and Halloween stamps today! These new stamps are available to buy right now from the Your Next Stamp store along with all your YNS favourites.

Not only do we have a fantastic blog hop for you, but today is also the official start of the new YNS DT term and I'm super excited to be on the team for this current term! Today is also a YNS Challenge day too, so we've combining our hop creations with our YNS Challenge #24 creations!  [YNSC24 will run for 2 weeks as per usual (September 1-14) and although the DT have used Fall and Halloween stamps, the theme for this challenge is 'Anything Goes'.]

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

The hop starts today (Wednesday September 1st at 03:00 EST) and ends on Monday September 6th at midnight EST.

As always, here at Your Next Stamp, we have some wonderful prizes for you to win!  Two lucky winners will be drawn at random to each receive a 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.  We'd love you to join us over at our new Paper Craft Planet (PCP) Group, and so as an added incentive, anyone that becomes a member of our YNS PCP Group will automatically receive a second entry into the blog hop grand prize draw!  How great is that?  (It's free and easy to join PCP by the way!)

Not only is Karen offering two amazing prizes, she's also going to include a free surprise gift with every order placed at http://www.yournextstamp.com during the hop!  And that's not all ... if you join our YNS Group over at PCP, you'll also be personally emailed an exclusive PCP-YNS-Group-only YNS store discount code!

So onto my blog hop creations:

To create the first one -a Halloween bookmark- I have used EEK the Bat stamp

and here's a close up of the cute scary bat:

For the second one -a fall card-  I have used Acorn Fall Fun stamp
 

So now it's time for you to hop on over to the uber talented Simonne'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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challenges:

• Your Next Stamp Challenge #24
• A Crafty Little Place #54 
• Delightful Challenges - 2 Cute 2 Spook
• My Time To Craft #105 
• Pollycraft Monday #59 
• The Wild Flower Patch #30

tag recipe:

• stamp - EEK the Bat by Your Next Stamp
• color medium - Tombow Dual Brush Pens, watercolor pencils, Sakura clear Stardust gel pen
• design papers and elements - Jeepers Creepers by Chelle's Creations
• other supplies - manila tag from stash, prima crystal swirls, Heidi Swapp Newsprint chipboard alpha, spiderweb ribbon from Poppicrafts, Adirondack inks in Butterscotch, pop dots from stash

card recipe:

• stamp - Acorn Fall Fun by Your Next Stamp,
circle sentiment stamp from retired stamp set by Inque Boutique
• color medium - Tombow Dual Brush Pens, watercolor pencils
• design papers and elements - Golden Harvest by Danielle Engebretson and Mari Koegelenberg
• other supplies - dark brown cardstock from stash, border punch by Fiskars, Nestabilities classic and scalloped circle large, wide moss green satin ribbon from Poppicrafts, Adirondack inks in Butterscotch, pop dots from stash