YNS World Kids CHA New Release Blog Hop

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! WOO-HOO!!

So 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 & 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 along with all your YNS favourites.

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 - the amazing 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 Kerri'ss 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 (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. It's not a requirement for you to comment at every stop along the hop to be eligible to be entered into the prize draw, but the DT would sure love to hear what you think of their new release creations!

Karen is also running some special bundle promotions, so be sure to hop on over to the YNS store once you've finished the hop. If you order all 9 World Kids stamps in one bundle, you will save 15% over the cost of buying them individually!

So onto my blog hop creation! I have used  Boris from Russia for this card .....  

I found this great picture of St.Basil's Cathedral and  by filtering it on My Adobe Photoshop it looks more like a painting. Don't you love the cute Matryoshkas? When I was a child I always wanted a set of these, I loved they way you'd find another in another and so on. The sentiment says Live To Inspire because cultures and traditions are very inspirational.

I decided to created a dimensional creation for my next project using the Heather Rollins designed   Fancy Cupcakes:

I forgot all about this fun template for a basket until I saw these sweet cupcakes that is! I stamped the cupcake on craft as well as two pieces of scrap dp for the paper piecing. I added a bit of glitter and white accent paint for that extra boost.  My daughter is going to a Birthday party next weekend so we'll slip the gift card in here and there you go.

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

Carole Burrage {Guest DT}

Wendy Ramlakhan

Karen Dedman

So now it's time for you to hop on over to Chris Olsen'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!

Challenges:
Card:
Woodware USA  Anything Goes
Totally Paper Crafts  One For The Kiddies

Basket:
Crafty Sentiments  Favorite Things Girl Friday by Cosmo Cricket is my favorite paper ever!!!
Everybody Art Challenge  Favorite Thing
Cupcake Craft  Food For Thought
Scrappy Frogs  Hey Cupcake!

Life is a wonderland to be sure...

Happy Thursday!  I am just giddy about this new release at The Pink Cat Studio, Melissa created some amazing Alice in Wonderland digis!

Aren't these funtastic??? Check out the freebie with today's purchase, I say it's a must have! I created two cards this week First showcases dear sweet Lily as Alice :

I finally used this amazing embossing folder, I love all the different cogs. I pulled out my metallic rub on paints to draw out the texture as well as a nice metallic effect. 

:My second card highlights that must have freebie with today's purchase only, Stacked Tea Cups:

Did I tell you or Did I Tell You! This could be used for so many reasons, the possibilities are endless. Thanks for stopping by today and happy Shopping!

 

Challenges:

Card 1 :

Alphabet Challenge  L is for Ladies

Fairy Fun Fridays  Happy Birthday

Wee Memories  Open Theme

Craft Your Passion  2 Pattern Papers

My Time To Craft  Embossing

OLLC  3 of a kind

Southern Girls  Dry Embossing

 Card 2:

Deliciuos Doodles  Cheer up/ Get Well

Paper Cutz  Open

Crafty Pad  Girlie
Kaboodle Doodles  Bling it Up
Fab'n'Funky  Use A Digi
Do You Stack Up  Patterns
Paper Play  Layer it Up

God help me!

It's been 5 days since my last caffeine intake...my body is trying to trick me into thinking it's dying...everything hurts! I never new what a junkie I was. If you don't believe me stop drinking anything with the C in it at let me know how you are felling especially around day 3.  I almost threw up several times! The good news after 9 days your body is no longer addicted. NINE DAYS! Isn't nicotine only Seven days? Why am I doing this? About every other year I try to cleanse myself of this chemical but I think this is the last time. I am going to do everything possible to never go back...

Monday Monday....

Yes it's definitely Monday and brrry cold ta-boot! We got loads of snow Saturday night so it's blinding bright outside. Time to bust out those shades in the winter! I have a card using the YNS image Fetch, which so so happens to be a fun warm weather activity enjoyed by everyone around here, two & four legged alike.

 

Well this is going to be a short post I must go out onto the bright cold world! 

 As Always thanks for stopping by!

 

Challenges:

Aly's Sunday Sketch  One for the Guys

All Sorts  Male/Boy

Crafty Purple Frog  Distressing

I Did It Creations  Card for A Child

Let's Ink It Up!  Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes  Distressing

Sisterhood of Crafters  Birthday

Res-Q Challenge  Dry Embossing 

Fab'n'Funky  Animals

Some exciting 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!!!

Blobby is in love...

Hello & good morning to you! The Pink Cat Studio has new digi release this week but I do have a card I held back from two weeks ago showcasing  Blobby In Love.

By the looks of him, I'd say he's in pretty deep.
Thanks For Stopping By...

Challenges:

Simon Says  Bingo Gems, Flowers, Die Cuts

Tuesday Throwdown  Valentine

Mark's Finest  Hearts

Secret Saturday  With Love

Fresh Brewed  Love or Valentine's

Die Cut Dreams Use a Digi (Blobby) and rubber stamps (swirls on heart & sentiment)

Paper Playtime  Use the word "Love"

Creating a Winter Scene but definitely wishing for Spring!

 Brrr....baby it's cold outside! I realize we have months to go but I am officially done with the cold! Well be as that may Your Next Stamp Challenges is to create a Winter Scene. Ice... I mean nice! I chose to use  Ellie Building A Snowman I love children playing in the snow, they look so cute when they come in with pink cheeks! My kids play outside often because they know they get hot cocoa as soon as they get in....Mmmm!

 Here is my Card:

 

We sure hope you get a chance to play along! Remember there are prizes for playing, 

 

1. Winner – one lucky winner will be chosen by random.org to win $10 in YNS Stamp Bucks (to spend on YNS stamps) and the Winner Blinkie to proudly display on their blog!

2. Top Pick – one lucky entry, chosen by the YNS DT, will win $5 in YNS Stamp Bucks (to spend on YNS stamps) and the Top Pick Blinkie to proudly display on their blog! [NB You must use a YNS stamp on your creation to be eligible to win the Top Pick prize].

If you are adding to SCS use YNS34. Thanks for stopping bye and stay warm!

Challenges:
My Time To Craft Spots and Dots
Simon Says Stamp & Show  Polka Dots
The Stamp Man  Distressing 
Everybody Art Challenge  Snow   
Scrap Creations   Winter Blast
Sentimental Sundays   Winter & Sentiment
Creative Stamp Friends Winter

I Did It!  Use Blue 
Fun at Fairy Knoll  Thank You 
Crafty Catz  Thank You 
Crazy4 Challenges  Thank You 
Douch Dare  Stitching 
Raise The Bar  Child Image

Tuesday Takes # 9

Happy Tuesday!!! Today things will seem more "normal" as the kids will be back in school and the hubby back to work...
I want to say thank you ever so much for such a positive response to the  Sassy Saturday Tips, tricks & Tutorials. I am delighted you found this to be a resourceful tidbit!
We have a great new sketch at Sketches In Thyme this week courtesy of  Card Patterns, remember the sketch is just a guideline. You can rotate it, switch shapes, or whatever just as long as we can "see" the underlying form underneath. I love the anything goes (Let's Ink it Up ), (Stamp Something) (Pile it On) ) ( Ai Factory) quality of this sketch and how open it is for interpretation.

I really need some Male (One Stop Craft) (Paper Romance) oriented Birthday (Totally Papercrafts) (Sisterhood of Crafters)cards, so I substituted the flowers for explosions and robots using two different stamp sets: one from Technique Tuesday called Rocket Man & Space Cadet by See D's:

I have some new (My Partner in Crafting Crime) (Crafty Pad)brads (Anything Goes)  and decided the reddish orange would be a great addition to this card. So there you have it.
Remember by participating you'll get a chance at this months fantastic prize.
The lucky winner will be receiving this Lucky Girl Crafts prize pack. 

 Thanks for stopping and I hope you day is a blast!

Happy Sunday!!!

Is it just me or was this weekend gone at the blink of an eye? Speaking of which I created this birthday card  (Totally Papercrafts) in a matter of minutes if you don't count the coloring of Warm & toasty colors (FabN' Funky) I did a while back. I got the sketch from Midnight Madness:

Here is my card using this fun digi Miss Music from the Jammin Out Collection:

I followed the sketch as close as possible, even went with the Tag (Paper Cutz) & (Pixie Dust Studio) allowing some of the elements to Hang off the edges (Stamp Insanity). I found this fun little Metal (Crafty Chicks)charm that I have had Forever (Sassy Studio). Well that about wraps it up for tonight!Thanks for stopping by!

Give that button a boost!

 Hello, br-t here for the Sketches In Thyme Sassy Saturday's Tips Tricks & Tutorials. Today I am going  to share a fun technique of embossing buttons!  I love buttons but sometime I need  textural boost so here is a gallery of how I go about creating it:

The supplies needed are pretty straight forward. If you don't own VersaMark, any pigment based ink should do.

 Firmly press desired side of button down onto ink pad.

 Place the button into the Embossing Powder...

making sure it's well coated. Heat with craft gun.

This is what it looks like after one coat of melted Embossing Powder. Repeat process 2-3 times until the EP sort of makes waves while heated up.

You can see here how it's pretty thick.  Have your desired stamp ready to go laying stamp face up and begin your final heating...

 ...immediately press onto the stamp and hold for a few seconds, the EP will cool rather quickly. Don't fret if you didn't heat the EP enough or press onto stamp hard enough just reheat and try again. You can also add another layer of EP.

Here is the result, but we're not done just yet!

I wanted to give my buttons a sort of "Shabby" look so I rubbed some white Acrylic paint onto the button and carefully wiped off the excess. You could get about a bazillion results just by changing the EP color, the stamp or paint!!!

What do you think?

Here is a card I created using buttons that underwent this fun little transformation. Well I hope you found this little tutorial useful and fun, have a super Saturday!  

 

Challenges:

 Everybody Art Challenge Sketch

 Frosted Designs  Use Paint

Totally Papercrafts  Birthday

Digi's With Attitude  Green &  Black

Moving Along With The Times  Make your Dreams Come True

Cute Card Thursday  Monochrome

Tuesday Throwdown  Back ground Stamping (on black Panel)

Stamp Fairy  Layers & Buttons

Color Chef  Monochrome

AI Factory  Anything Goes

Paper Craft Journey  Digital image

Happy Fiday!!!!

Wow! I just spent 3 hours on eBay looking at children/youth books for our library, we have a tiny budget so I need a lot of bang for my buck! I love children books so much more than most adult fiction mostly for the simple fact they have illustrations!  Using this weeks sketch courtesy of  Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge,
 I created a card using Lori Boyds Butterfly image from her Lolllipops Series.  I just love the cute wings,  (Aly's Sunday Sketch) & (Sentimental Sundays)don't you? Lori ever so generously gifted these to me Thank you!!! I followed along with the color challenge at Lori Designs Challenges to celebrate her first challenge.

   Happily last week I got my mega dp supply in consisting of lots of yummy and new(Polly Craft Challenges)and Dotty (Incy Wincy) & Spotty (Basic Grey Challenges) BG and stupendous Cosmo Cricket life is amazing! This Olivia paper pad by BG works perfectly for this challenge!

 

Isn't that butterfly a real Cutie-Patootie?(Paper Play) (Pile It On) perfect for a child (One Stop Craft)? I think so! I Embossed (Some Odd Girl)my larger Die-Cut (Stampin' B's)circle and then sanded it for a touch of Distressing (Do You Stack Up). 

I have but a few of those Glittered (Stampavie & More)brads left ...you will be missed! 

I tried to create my challenge list with a bit more pizazz, does it work? Or, simply make you dizzy!

I would like to let you know I am doing a tutorial on a technique to give those buttons a face lift tomorrow so be sure to stop by here or over to Sketches In Thyme for the Sassy Saturday's Tips Tricks & Tutorials.

Pink Cat Studio Release!!!!

Hello there! Wasn't last weeks Pink Cat Studio Release sweeet? Well you are in for a real roar,oops... I mean treat with this weeks collection! We are bringing you a little Dino love:

Aren't these just terrific? And if you make a purchase today  to you'll get that Pterodactyl free! I created a card using Bronty Valentine because I love his fussy cutting! Here is my card:

Now if you want to see all these digi's in action hop over to Melissa's blog for her gallery of dt creations, you will swoon over these!!!! Do you want a chance to win some of these? Melissa is sponsoring
the Southern Girls Challenge blog this week. You could win some digis if you participate. Here's the link.

Thanks for stopping by!

 Challenges:

Southern Girls Totally Loved Up

 Scrap-Creations   Love is in the Air

 Tip Top Tuesday  Open theme

Cupcake Craft  Something New  Digi Bronty Valentine

Crazy Challenge  Animals

Bunny Zoe Crafts  Love is in the Air

Lexi's Creations  Say it with Love

Woodware USA  Hearts

Glitter everywhere!!!

Meyer Imports is promoting this fun glitter and one lucky winner will a fun sampling to play with!!! I just went to their sight and they have more glitter than one could ever dream of! Do you want to know more? Click here!

Cake People are awesome!!!!

I love theses digi's from The Greeting Farm this cute cake is Freaky Flutter and I have had her colored up forever just hanging out in limbo... until now. Here is my card:

 

I really like the way this image turned out, I am no way a shading master but this isn't too shabby if I do say so myself. I pulled out one of my new embossing folders for the the framed "flutter." and sanded it down a bit to draw out some white. Speaking of white it feels so good to use my white on black again you will be seeing it often...there is no doubt about it.

 

Challenges: 

Stampotique  Punches & Die Cuts

Pixie Dust Studio  2 or more ribbons (light blue layered over black rickrack)

 Woodware USA  Something New
Crafty Catz Challenge  Food & Drink(she is a cake, whether one would eat her or not is another story)

Phindy's Place  Distressing
Stamp Something  Use A Digi
Stamping For The Weekend  New & Blue
Delicious Doodle  New stash or technique
Really Reasonable Ribbon  New & Ribbon

I love New Release Blog Hops!!!

 Welcome to the Your Next Stamp January New Release Mega Post  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 favorites.  We also have a wonderful guest joining us for our hop - the amazing Angela Wood, who was our fabulous GDT here at YNS before Christmas!

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Wendy's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the start of the hop .

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 Heather's Chocolate Lover Collection! Yummy!!!!

 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.  It's not a requirement for you to comment at every stop along the hop to be eligible to be entered into the prize draw, but the DT would sure love to hear what you think of their new release creations!

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 Happy Dance Stamp and a sketch from MFT:

Here is my card:

I am pretty pleased with how this turned out I got some new ribbon at my local scrap store and knew I was going to use it with this stamp. This ribbon treatment is something new to me I cut 6 pieces at 2 1/2 inches and secure the ends on each. I created two rows with the use of double sided tape and stacked the rows and then used a small strip of dp to cover the frayed edges. Is that about as clear as mud? 

So now it's time for you to hop on over to Jenny'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!

 

Challenges:
Crafty Purple Frog  New Technique or Goodies
Stampin B's  Old favorite & New Stash
(favorite colored cs/ new stamps & ribbon
Moving Along With The Times  Old Stash/New Stash
Creative Cottage  Something New
Flutter by Wednesday  Open theme
Paper Sundaes  Something New
Speedy Cats Friend  Something New
Simon Says Stamp &  Show  Newest Stamp
Paper Cutz  Use metal(brad, butterflies)
StampFairy Challenge  Color Explosion recipe
Creative Inspirations  Use Something New