Merry Christmas

Happy Halloween! I guess I should be posting a Halloween card, but.... I just love Christmas more than any other holiday. I love the traditions, decorations, parties, gift giving, friends and family time and most of all I love celebrating Jesus' birth.

Today I want to show you a card I made using two new stamps from DRS - Christmas Greetings Ornament (K844) and Icicles (862H). I really like the icicles border!

I used some old shimmery card stock from my stash and stamped the ornament in white stazon ink, then heat embossed it in white. The icicles are stamped on white card stock, cut out and then covered in white stickles for some sparkle. After they dried I attached them above the ornament. I added a layer of white card stock, embossed with a Cuttlebug snowflake folder to finish. This card is fairly simple to create. The most time consuming part was cutting out the icicles and then waiting for the stickles to dry! But I think the look was worth it.

Hope you are having a wonderful Monday. Enjoy those trick or treaters tonight!

until next time,
shelia

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Merry Christmoose

Good morning everyone, hope you have had a wonderful week. The stamp that I want to share with you today is Merry Christmoose 834L by DRS designs.

I stamped the image with Memento tuxedo black on ivory cardstock. Then I lightly air brushed with Booo copic marker. The image was colored with copic markers. Using spellbinder circle die cut out the image. Cut a red mat with scalloped circle. Attach the ribbon and tie knot to green cardstock. Use foam dots to attach Chrismoose to card front.
　
Have a wonderful day,
Janett

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Christmas memories for Julie

I am so glad that it is the weekend!  Also, I hope that our snow melts the rest of the way for the trick or treaters come Monday evening.

Big news....my fellow designer Julie aka justwritedesigns on Splitcoaststampers, is our queen for the day.  I made this card in honor of her.  She is one deserving lady and I hope that she is showered with lots of love in the SCS gallery.

For this card I chose DRS Designs new sentiment Lingering Christmas greeting and used only a portion of the sentiment...the entire sentiment is stamped inside.  Also, the pine bough and vicki's versatile background were used here.

Ink colors:  old olive, bravo burgandy, elegant eggplant

Accessories:  button, embroidery thread and dimensionals

Have a lovely weekend and a spooky Halloween!

Pam

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The Witch is ALWAYS In!

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

Just a few more days until Trick or Treating begins! I'm so ready! I love Halloween w/ the fun costumes and cute little kiddos. I used to answer the door in full costume but the witch outfit I had one year scared a really cute little girl, so I had to put it away. The next year I had a pirate outfit and I sewed a stuffed parrot to one shoulder. My real parrot got very upset and he attacked it. So I had to put it away, too. One year I was a saloon girl and I had a really big feather headdress on and I had to open the sunroof to get home, lol. On the way, I passed Tonto and the Lone Ranger on horseback. How cool is that?

I needed a couple more quick Halloween cards and I had this new die that cuts these really cute witch legs and hat. Just perfect for the Witch is In greeting. Since I thought it looked cute to have her standing there w/ her legs crossed, I needed a skirt for her. The new Icicles image to the rescue! I think they make the perfect ragged skirt. For the black "slip" underneath, I used pinking shears and a pair of fringing scissors (the have multiple blades).

On the second card, I used a different layout and since I had to cut one witch out of orange and another out of black, I used the opposite colors. I also added a spider web and a little different treatment for the sentiment.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a Spooky Halloween!






Supplies:
stamps: Witch is Always In Greeting, Icicles, Empty Spider Web
paper: white, orange, black (the usual Halloween colors, lol)
ink: Ancient Page coal
accessories: Tombow orange & black markers, Quickutz Witch Kit die, button, sm corner rounder, sm spider punch, pinking shears, Martha Stewart fringe scissors & drippy goo border punch

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Happy Holly Days

Today I have a card featuring  new releases from DRS Designs. I have used two stamps: Girl Swirl Holly (887G) and Happy Holly Days (888B). I colored the holly with copics and then cut out my main focal image with a Spellbinders die.I layered the image unto a white embossed background. Added some lace and border punch for the bottom of the card and a lot of gold bling.

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GIVE THANKS!!!

HELLO My Friends - Welcome and Thank you for stopping by!!! With all of the Fall Festivities and the commotion of life we as a family try to focus on things we can be thankful for! This is my favorite time of year so playing with the fall stamps is part of the season for me too! 


I have TWO projects for you today. :) On my first card, on the white strip across the side, I used the Woven Plaid,  Open Plaid ,  Large Original Plaid  to create the background. These background stamps are some of my favorites! You can get such different looks with different colors on your cards!!! 


Here are a few more details:
Stamps:   Woven Plaid,  Open Plaid ,  Large Original Plaid background.  Fall Fence and Give Thanks Unto the Lord from DRS Designs
Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, bashful Blue, So Saffron, Whisper White
Accessories: Twine, button,  Felt Flowers, Brads, Glue Dots, Copics, Cuttlebug Folder (candy cane) and Big Shot

On this second card, I used the Back to Back technique from Technique Junkies Newsletter.

Stamps: Winter Wording Square, Medium Filagree Snow Flake, Silent Night Sheet Music

Paper: Pacific Point, Razzleberry, White, Baja Breeze

Ink: same

Accessories: Felt Snowflakes, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Corner Punch, Gems, Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots, Paper Snips

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

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Winter Cheer

Hi Everyone,

There are so many new Christmas and winter themed stamps recently released here at DRS Designs, I was having a hard time deciding what to show off today on the blog. This card showcases the new Icicles border stamp, along with lots of others from the current catalog. I always think blue and white is a great color combo for winter, so I stuck with that when working on this card.

The background was stamped with the Large Filigree Snowflake, and I've really been into penguins this year, so I stamped the cute Skating Penguin along with the Snowflakes and Winter Cheer sentiment. The penguin (Aren't the blue ice skates fun?!) was fussy cut and attached with a pop dot.

My embellishments I chose were some glossy effects on the icicles and the three shiny dome stickers along the border. I think this card is super cheerful and I would even send this to someone wishing them a Happy New Year :)

Thanks for visiting today!

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Christmas Memories

Wow, is it Monday again already? I just got back from spending a week at the beach in SC with my son and his family. We celebrated our darling granddaughter's second birthday while there. I have such fond memories of our week together. And I think that must be why I like this new sentiment from DRS designs so much.

Christmas memories are extra special. This card was made using the Lingering Christmas Memories Stamp (870H). The background was created using the embossed resist technique. I stamped the snowflakes (096D) with embossing ink and embossed them with clear powder. After heat setting the snowflakes, I sponged bashful blue ink all around the snowflakes. The embossed snowflakes stay white, while the rest of the card stock absorbs the blue ink. The result is so pretty. The sentiment is stamped in black, then cut out with nesties and popped up on a scalloped circle. Three small punched snowflakes were added around the sentiment. I thought about adding ribbon and a bow, but I didn't want to hide any more of the embossed background!!

I hope you are working on those Christmas cards!!

until next time, shelia

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Vertical Triple Tree

Vertical Triple Tree

Good morning everyone. Hope your having a wonderful weekend. Here the temperatures have dropped and it is really felling like fall.

The card that I wanted to share today is a stamp that I just love it can be use in so many ways. Here is one that is simple and quick.

I stamped the Vertical Triple Tree 876H and embossed in gold on gold paper. Then layered on brown card stock. For the background I used a cream card and the Silhouette Branch H363 and embossed in gold.

Enjoy your day,

Janett

　
　
　

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Pine Bough warm wishes

Do you ever get stuck...or maybe that isn't a good word for it.  Do you ever fall in love with a stamp and find lots of ways to use it?  I have gone crazy with the pine bough image from DRS Designs.  For this card, I paired it with our new Christmas Greeting Ornament.  I stamped the pine bough in garden green after stamping off once.  The sentiment panel was done with it stamped off quite a few times.  I sponged around the pine bough panel with brown and swiped the sentiment panel through the garden green.  Some red smooch was placed in the little red circle at the top, some fun chunky ribbon tied in a knot and then I frayed the ends.  I think this will be a card that I mass produce.

Come on over to DRS and check out all of the new releases...lots of great stamps!

Well, I am off to get my costume together for this evening.  We have our neighborhood Halloween party tonight!

Pam

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Peaceful Cardinal

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!
Ever have one of those days where you know exactly what card you want to make? Clear picture of it in your head and you sit down and make it. Happens to me all the time... NOT!! I still have the picture of that card in my head but it really isn't this card. The scenic bg oval is close to what I pictured but it didn't have the cardinal in front. But the Cardinal on Branch wanted to be there and he was downright insistent! So there you have it!

So maybe the cardinal worked out to be a good choice and in the end, I'm pretty happy w/ it. For the oval snow scene, I picked a couple of oval dies for the pine green and top white layer and after cutting them, I penciled in the oval on the front of my 5.50 x 4.25 white card. I placed a reverse mask (the same oval cut out of a piece of scratch paper placed over the surrounding card front). Using torn edge strips for masks for the ground, I sponged in the sky and added a little blue for the snow.

I used pine green and dk brown markers to ink the Pine Bough and stamped it on top of the scene. For the top layer, I used the same markers to ink the pine cones from the cardinal image and used a stamp positioner to place them. The cardinal and one pine cone were stamped on a separate piece, colored w/ markers and cut out. The sentiment only from the Three Wisemen Peace image was stamped in the lower left. I added stickles on the branches for a little sparkle.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!







Supplies:
stamps: Cardinal on Branch, Three Wisemen Peace, Pine Bough
paper: white, pine green
ink: VersaFine onyx, Memories sky blue, Distress ink dried marigold
accessories: Tombow markers, Spellbinders oval dies, stickles

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Spooktacular Halloween

I had to get in one more Halloween card and then I will be showcasing the new releases from DRS Designs.
For this card I used the Silhouette Haunted House, which I stamped in black and then stamped the top of the stamp on yellow cardstock and cut out a circle to create a glow from the moon effect! I also spritzed my card with Goosbumps to give it texture. Sentiment is a new release: Spooktacular Halloween Greeting.

Thanks for stopping by and check out all the new releases from DRS Designs!

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AUTUMN BOUQUET and CHRISTMAS CARDINAL

Hello Friends! 


Have you ever been in a place where you just don't know where to begin? I have quite the list of things to do and between being ill, normal busy-ness of life and the quick jaunts of being in and out of my craft room have left it quite a mess!!! I started by cleaning off a bit of a flat surface on my desk and thought I would participate in yesterdays Splitcoast Stampers Color Challenge. The colors were Blush, Rose and Lime... Those colors do not yell FALL to me, but I went with them anyways. :) I need a few cards that just say Thinking of You and decided to create this....


My friend Shelly, sent me a card and I liked the lay out and thought I would use it for a card! I created this 5" x 7" card using the following things...

Stamps: Harvest Bouquet, Woven Plaid, Open Plaid Backgrounds

Paper: Blushing Bride, Espresso, Rose, Lime, Vanilla

Accessories: Spellbinders, Grand Calibur, Dimensionals, Cord, K&C Gems, Martha Stewart Punch, Copics, Stardust Stickles,

We also have a NEW release!!! This gorgeous Cardinal stamp is now available!!! There is quite a great range of styles of HOLIDAY and CHRISTMAS stamps!!! If you are like me... you are not done with your Christmas cards, so now is the time to grab some NEW fun stamps to play with!!!

Here are some details:
Stamps: Cardinal on a Branch, Four in One Snowflake Background
I am stamped the background and then embossed it with my Big Shot and Cuttlebug folder.
Accessories: Red Satin Ribbon, Spellbinders, Zva Pearls, Copics

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

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Richly Blessed

Hi Everyone,

Are you enjoying all the cards being shown here using the newly released Holiday and winter stamps?  I think this really is one of the best times of year for card making.  You can't help but be excited to create something that you know will bring joy to a friend or family member. I always say, " Them more you send, the more you can make!"

So, on to today's card share.  First I used the new Vertical Triple Tree stamped twice in a deep green for the background.  To create the effect of snow falling,  I then stamped the 4 in 1 Snowflakes in Versamark and then embossed them with clear powder.

I finished the card with the new Richly Blessed Christmas sentiment and checked ribbon in matching colors.  I think I'm somewhere in the 20ish range for completed Christmas cards.  What about you?  Have you started yet? 

Hopefully this, along with all the new releases will get you motivated to start stampin'!

Have a great day :)

Karin

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Merry Christmas Stocking

Happy Monday to you all! October is over halfway gone and Christmas will be here before you know it. That means it's time to get serious about getting those Christmas cards created. :-) DRS designs has some really cute new stamps to help you with your Christmas card making this year.

Here's a card I made using their new Stocking with a Scene stamp (857L). The scene is so cute and easy to color. I used my copic markers and then added flower soft to the top of the stocking. I cut my stocking out and mounted it on a Spellbinders pendant. The background was made with the Open Plaid background stamp (631P). My sentiment is part of the new Christmas Greeting Ornament (844K). I just stamped the image and cut the line I wanted to use for my greeting. I gave the greeting a small border to finish it off. Just writing this makes me want to go create another card. But we have company coming and I really need to clean this house. Hmm, choices, choices. Maybe I can do both!! :-)

Until next time.

shelia

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May you be richly blessed

Hello Everyone,
Today I’m sharing DRS designs new Richly Blessed Christmas I stamped the greeting with walnut stain distress ink in the lower right hand corner of ivory card. I colored on the Pine Bough K467 stamp with markers and stamp it on the upper left corner. Antique linen was sponged around the edge and brads were add to the corners. Then I mounted it on to light green card stock. Using the Woven Plaid 613P and walnut stain and antique linen create the plaid background on the front of a ivory card. Attach the focal image toward the bottom of the card. I punch some pine branch and added some flower soft and a red bow.
Greeting 865G


Have a blessed day,


Janett

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New Releases available now at DRS Designs!!!

Happy Saturday to everyone!  My card today features a portion of a new greeting called Richly Blessed Christmas Greeting and is available for purchase at DRS Designs starting today! The full greeting says, "May you be richly blessed at Christmas and throughout the New Year! I also used our triple tree with snow that I stamped in versamark and embossed in black.  Next I stamped the snow background in versamark and embossed with irredescent ice.  I brayered with bermuda bay and added a button, lace and the sentiment is stamped, brayered and punched with the modern label punch.

Come on over and go shopping!

Pam

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Festive Ornaments

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!
Some stores (no names) have had Christmas stuff up since August! I went in one local craft store and they had full on Christmas isles stocked before Labor Day! To me, that's just too early. But I'm a procrastinator deluxe. I used to hold out for December to shop, but the last few years I've done the Black Friday thing. It's mayhem for sure but at least I usually accomplish 90% of my list on one day. The only exception is Christmas cards. I love to see Christmas cards pretty much any time of year. So welcome to a sneak peek of some new Christmas images from DRS Designs! I won't tease you for weeks on end, these will be available tomorrow!

For my card, I kept it fairly simple. The background is an embossing folder and I added a little doodling around the edge w/ a gold gel pen. For the wonderful sentiment ornament, I colored the stamp w/ red and green markers before stamping it. I die cut it and the green layer w/ the same ornament die, then trimmed inside the embossed edge on the top one to make it smaller.

The hanging ornaments on the branches were stamped, colored w/ markers and cut out. I added a red bow w/ a button on top and the red and green layers. The finished card measures 4.25 x 5.50.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
p.s. if you've already started your Christmas shopping or (**gasp**) finished it, please don't rub it in, lol!





Supplies:
stamps: Christmas Greeting Ornament, Ornaments Galore
paper: white, green, red
ink: Archival library green
accessories: Tombow markers, water brush, Spellbinders Heirloom ornament die, Cuttlebug ornaments embossing folder, gold gel pen, velveteen bow, button

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Count Your Blessings

Today I have this adorable Squirrel with Acorn (934H) from DRS Designs. I stamped my focal image with black ink unto grey card stock. Then I stamped the image on craft cardstock and paper pieced just the acorn with the squirrel. I used the polka dot background (688) stamp for the background and cut out three panels which I layered unto black card stock. I added a black sheer ribbon and grey brads. I added the sentiment Count Your Blessings (915D). Check out all the new releases from DRS Designs.

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COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

Hello Friends! The sentiment "count your blessings" often reminds me of the old hymn "Count your blessings name them one by one..." and triggers my thought process to actually think of all the things I am thankful for!

Here are some details to my card... I started out by stamping the Fall leaf and Acorn on Bashful Blue card stock in brown ink. I stamped the Squirrel with the Acorn on White cardstock and water colored it with my Aqua painter and Water color crayons. 


I accidentally dropped the stamp and smudged the card stock around it, so I took that as an opportunity to cut out the squirrel and stack him on Spellbinders. Normally, I would look at that as an opportunity to embellish my card but decided that there was too much ink around it for the lay out I had planned. So when in doubt, cut it out! :)


Here are a few more details:
Stamps: Count Your Blessings, Fall leaf and Acorn,  Squirrel with the Acorn 
Cardstock: Caramel Core'dinations, Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Accessories: Aquapainter, Watercolor Crayons, Spellbinders, Grand Calibur, Dimensionals, Fence Die cut , Cord, buttons, sponge, SU Embossing folder, Big Shot, Paper Snips

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you have a blessed day!!!

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Count Your Blessings

Hi Everyone,

Isn't this new Harvest Bouquet stamp from DRS Designs just so pretty?  I loved coloring the flowers in fall hues.  When I was done, I cut it out and layered it on top of an embossed Nestablilities die cut for some added texture. When it came to making the background papers, I took inspiration from my completed image and stamped in orange ink with the Feather Background and Silhouette Branch Background stamps.

The Count Your Blessings sentiment is from the new releases and it's perfect for this time of year when we are remembering what we are thankful for.

Thanks for dropping in on us today!

Karin

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Happy "Holly"days!

Happy Monday friends!

Jennifer posting here today to tell you all about the new Christmas and Holiday stamps DRS Designs is getting ready to release! It's never too early to start making your Christmas cards and if you send out as many as I do, then you have no choice but to start early! My card for today shows off a couple sneak peeks of these new stamps that will be available for purchase this Saturday October 15th.

Included in this release is the Girl Swirl Holly image (887G) that I've used to create the background on this card. I stamped it repeatedly and colored them with Copic Markers. The matching "Happy 'Holly'days" (888B) sentiment is perfect and looks so elegant matted with olive green and red cardstock and then trimmed with sheer ivory ribbon. A decorative border punch and the Swiss dots embossing folder helped to dress up this card as well. Finished card size is 4.25" x 5.5".

Hope you enjoy the sneak peeks the DT will be showing off this week. Make sure to check the New Release page next Saturday to check out all of the new Christmas and Holiday stamps as soon as they become available.

Thanks for stopping by!

Smiles,

Jennifer

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Family, faith and friends

Hi out there in blogland!!!  I hope this day finds everyone at peace and enjoying my favorite season.  A quick, one layer card today.   I stamped Vicki's versatile background in choco chip vertically and horizontally.  Next, I stamped the fall leaf with acorn twice, laid in kaleidescope Pumpkin patch pad and cut out.  I cut the acorns off and only used one.  The leaves glued down and acorn placed on dimensional.  The Give thanks for family greeting stamped in choco chip and given a weathered look by placing in the ink pad and inking up edges, too.  A couple of dusty durango ribbon tabs as well as ribbon at the top finish it off.

Pam

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A Card with a View

by Sue

Welcome!

Guess where I am this morning? The York Expo Center in York PA - Yeah!! If by chance you live in the area and are kicking around today (or tomorrow!) pop on over to see us at the yearly stamp show going on this weekend!!!

Here's a sneak peek of one of the cards I'll have on display there ~

The center looks a little funky because it's a piece of clear plastic that was thin enough for me to run through my new Cuttlebug - Yes I finally took the leap and have invested in it and a few Nesties and an embossing folder or 2! I'm hoping to add to my collection this weekend at the show!


Stamping this baby was pretty easy! After cutting out my oval, I stamped the edges with our Bunch of Wheat stamp using brown and taupe inks. The plastic was a lucky break I found a week ago or so. Brand new plastic sheets! Imagine no scratches! It even comes with a protective film on one side to protect it! After cutting it to the correct size I simply ran it through my new cuttlebug and adhered it to the inside of my card.


To cover the tape on the inside I measured my next piece of cs (med. purple) to fit inside the card and then cut out a larger oval. I used both the oval itself and the paper it was cut from on the inside of my card!
and added a smaller oval stamped with our Thanksgiving Greeting in purple ink. Easy Peasy as they say!

Thanks so much for stopping by and if by chance you do make the show this weekend, please stop by and say "Hi"!

Happy Stamping!

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Give Thanks Bouquet

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!
Fall is here! Aren't you loving the cooler temps? Can't wait for the leaves to start turning. But I guess the leaf blowing and sweeping the deck every day will soon follow, lol. Our back yard is covered w/ all different varieties of trees and of course, the leaves never fall at the same time.

Since I've shared a bunch of Halloween cards lately, today I thought I'd move to Thanksgiving. It'll be here before you know it. After coloring this wonderful Harvest Bouquet, I used an oval die to cut it using the out of the box technique. I added a few layers, some die cut, some embossed and a little border punched strip at the bottom. The sentiment is also die cut and tucked under the edge of the main image with a button on the right to balance things out.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great fall weekend!






Supplies:
stamps: Harvest Bouquet, Thanks Unto the Lord
paper: ivory, vanilla, bordeaux
ink: VersaFine onyx, Ancient Page bordeaux
accessories: Tombow markers, water brush, Spellbinders oval & labels 20 dies, Quickutz oval die (sentiment), Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder, EK Success argyle border punch & pinking shears, button & twine

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Happy Halloween

Halloween is right around the corner.  

Better get the candy ready for the trick or treaters.

Today I have two new releases from DRS Designs:

Candy Corn Wreath (927L) paired with the tiny Happy Halloween greeting (938A).

I colored in the wreath with markers and cut it out with a circle nestie and layered it onto another nestie so that it looks like a wrapped candy. I added a striped orange ribbon and bow.

The background is my favorite woven plaid (613P).

All stamps are available from DRS Designs!

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