Your Next Stamp Feature Day: CHRISTMAS

Hello Friends.  Here today with a card for Your Next Stamp's Feature Day.  November's theme is: CHRISTMAS!  My very favorite time of the year to create for!

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I decided to create with the new Gingerbread Men Die Set:

I love this sweet gingerbread couple and made a set of die cut "cookies" to place on my card.

I die cut the boy and girl several times each and glued the layers together to create a very dimensional gingerbread boy and girl "cookie"!  Then I decorated them with the additional dies included in the set and added glossy accents over the top to make them all shiny! I used a micron pen to add their face details after the glossy accents had dried.

The sentiment is from the "Hot Cocoa Phoebe" stamp set and I thought it was perfect with my sweet couple!  I placed them on some die cut hearts on top of a stitched tag from the "Winter Fun Tag Die Set"  and then added a piece of the "Stitched Loop Border Die" to decorate the tag. 


Thanks for visiting me today and joining in the fun of FEATURE DAY at Your Next Stamp!  I have had a wonderful time as one of the November Guest Designers!  This is my last card!  A big thank you to Karen for allowing me to play along this month with her outstanding design team!  And to Julie who helped me along the way!  I sure love the Your Next Stamp products! So many wonderful stamps and dies to play with! 

:) Jill

YNS Challenge #27

 Hello Friends!  I am back again today as a guest designer for the month of November with Your Next Stamp!  Today I have a card for Challenge #27.  Here are the sketch and color inspiration graphics:   

Remember you can choose to use the sketch or the colors or BOTH if you would like!  I chose to use the sketch this time....and here is what I came up with:

I inked up and colored with Copic markers a sweet new stamp set called "Sit, Stay, Drink".  It has the cutest little puppy in it....

 Isn't he adorable?  I just love the way he is balancing the wine on his head...or almost....

And the sentiment continues from the outside to the inside of the card.....

Here is an image of the stamp set in full....it was part of the November Release!

More inspiration for Challenge #27 can be found at the Your Next Stamp Blog!  I hope you will go take a look and if you have time join us in the challenge! There is a lovely prize up for grabs! 

:) Thanks for your visit and sweet comments! Hope you are having a wonderful week! 
Jill

Your Next Stamp Diva Dare - Patterned Pizazz!

Today I am joining along as one of the November Guest Designers with Your Next Stamp for the Design Team's Diva Dare Challenge!  I hope you will visit the  YNS blog to link up with everyone that is playing along! And don't forget to leave a comment on the YNS blog for a chance to win!

The challenge this month is called "Patterned Pizazz" and the challenge is to use at least 3 patterned papers on our projects!  What fun!  I love patterned paper so this was a lot of fun for me.  Here is what I came up with:

I cut about 20 1/2" strips of scrap papers and then pieced them together with tape runner onto a piece of copy weight paper.  Once I had finished I had one large piece of striped paper in a repeating rainbow of patterned papers!  From that paper I die cut several sets of mittens using the wonderful  "Winter Mitten Die Set".   I used just one set of the mittens to create my card for today:

 I embellished the mittens using die-cuts from the ric-rac and snowflake dies that are included in this set.  The sentiment is from the new "Ice Skating Phoebe" stamp set and is stamped in chartreuse ink. 

A pink gingham ribbon creates a holder for the mittens which were placed on some circle die-cuts in Aqua and Pink.

Here is a picture of the Winter Mitten Die Set: 

I hope you enjoyed looking at my card!  I sure enjoyed reading all of the lovely comments on my release day post!  I am so enjoying my guest design month with Your Next Stamp!  How wonderful to get to work with their fantastic products that I love so much! And a Design Team that totally inspires!!!

Enjoy the rest of the hop!  (click here to go to theYour Next Stamp Blog)  And don't forget to leave a comment when you get there for a chance to win!!!
Thanks and Happy Hopping!

:) Jill

Warm Winter Greetings - Your Next Stamp RELEASE DAY!

Hello and Happy Release Day for Your Next Stamps!  Today all of the wonderful BRAND NEW products are available in the SHOP!!!!  Yay!

And to celebrate we are having a wonderful BLOG HOP of INSPIRATION!!!! 

I have three cards to share with you today....The first card features a stamp set called "Dino-mite Holiday" and shows off the cutest dinosaur all ready to celebrate Christmas in his fun Santa hat:

Isn't this the sweetest little fellow?  I just love his big happy grin!!!! And he is busy looking out the window at all of the snow coming down in the shaker I created using the "Peek-a-boo Window Die Set" .   The three white flakes on the card are from the new "Winter Mitten Die Set" that is also being released this month and is featured on my next card.

Here is the stamp and die set: 

My second card is all about the new "Winter Mitten Die Set": 

 I made a sweet pair of red polka dot mittens with ric-rac trim and snowflakes using all three dies that come in this sweet mitten set.  Here is a close-up view of the sparkle of snow I added with a "Wink of Stella" clear glitter pen:

Doesn't it make the mittens look like they are glistening with snow?  I wanted a really old-fashioned feel to this card so I inked all of the edges and my embossed panel to give lots of home-spun charm to it!!!  Isn't this the cutest set of mittens?  I used the ric-rac die cut twice for each mitten to really define the cuff.  Then I added the snowflakes and the sentiment "warm wishes" which is from the "Cup of Cheer" stamp set.

Here are pictures of the Your Next Stamp products I used on this card:

And one more card using the new stamp set called "Ice Skating Phoebe"!

 Phoebe is outside on the lake near her home twirling around in circles on her lovely red polka dotted ice skates!  Her cheeks are rosy from the cold air and she is having so much fun!!!!  And to top it all off it has started to snow!  Lots of lovely "sparkle YNS gumdrops" are coming down around her as snowy flakes!  If it were me I would be trying to catch them on my tongue!  Did you do that when you were a little girl?  I sure did!

Thanks for taking a look at my cards. I hope you will visit everyone that is part of today's Release HOP:

Remember to leave comments along the way, you have until November 13th at midnight EST to comment for your chance to WIN a $25 YNS Gift Certificate!

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:) Jill

Edited on 11-10-2015 to add two additional cards and release day links.

Your Next Stamp Challenge #26...You are a"DORK"able!

 Hello Friends,
Did you hear my news that I am one of the guest designers with Your Next Stamp for the month of November?  Well today is my first official post and it is for the Your Next Stamp Challenge #26.  You can choose from the sketch or the color inspiration or if you choose you can combine the two! Here are the inspiration photos:

I chose to use the sketch by itself this time and inked up a sweet stamp set called  "A'dork'able".  It is the sweetest set for the bright little one's in our lives or to thank a special teacher who helps them grow!  I really enjoyed coloring this sweet image and added lots of wink of stella clear glitter pen to add some sparkle.  Even the sweet little mouse sitting on her head got a wee bit of sparkle!  :)

You can see some of the sparkle here on the embossed sentiment and on the pages of the books she is perched upon.  Such a sweet image!

Here is a look at the stamp set:

Thanks for taking a look at my card!  I hope you will visit the Your Next Stamp blog to see all of the wonderful inspiration from all of the designers. There is a ton of wonderful eye candy to see and enjoy!

Thanks for taking a look at my card and Happy Friday!  Enjoy your weekend!
:) Jill

Special Announcement....

Hello Friends,
I am so excited to share with you that I will be one of the month long Guest Designers at Your Next Stamp during November! I am thrilled to join their wonderful creative team of designers throughout the month sharing inspiration using all of their wonderful products! I hope you will visit the YNS blog to see the intro post. The wonderfully talented Martha of Trinity Rose Designs is also guest designing this month!  Check out her wonderful cards at her blog HERE! 

 Here is the card I made for our guest designer intro.  I used the adorable "Jessica with Cupcakes" stamp set to create this sweet birthday card:

Don't those cupcakes look yummy?!  I didn't have any of the wonderful "Sparkly Teal" YNS gumdrops so I used some sequins instead to add a bit of sparkle to my card.  Isn't Jessica sweet?  I love this image!  One of my favorites! And it is the entire focus of my card!  I think she is adorable!!!!

Here are pictures of the stamp set and coordinating die set from the YNS shop:

Such a sweet set of products aren't they?

I hope you will follow along with all of our posts for Your Next Stamp this month and check out their wonderful products!  They have such fun challenges and also a wonderful November Release coming out very soon!  Stay tuned! 

Thanks,
Jill

Your Next Stamp Sketch Challenge #25

Hello Friends,
Playing along today with the Your Next Stamp Sketch Challenge #25!  Here is the wonderful sketch:

There is also a lovely Color challenge available full of gorgeous Autumn colors if you decide to play along.  You can use either, or both depending on your mood.  I just went with the sketch this time.

Here is my card:

I just love this sweet little bunny in the "Sprinkles - Coffee and Tea" stamp set!  Isn't she cute?!!!!

Here are the "Your Next Stamp" products I used:

Thanks for taking a look at my card!  

: )   Jill