Irish Claddah

Good Tuesday Morning to you!

I can hardly believe we are about to enter the second month of the year.  That's fine by me.  Each day is one day closer to spring.  Which means it's one day closer to summer!  I do like that there are holidays to look forward to; celebrations always make living fun :)

I've shown off many valentine's here on the blog, so in honor of St. Patrick's Day, I'm showing off this green and gold card I made today.  I had a piece of gold glitter paper left over from some 50th anniversary projects, and I thought it would be a good fit for this card.  I used some gold embossing powder on the beautiful Claddah stamp and the Swirly Shamrocks were used for the background.

Here is a closer look on a photo with a little less glare :)

I love how rich the gold embossing looks! I added some satin ribbon and a few metal stickers for embellishments to finish off the card. 

Thanks for dropping by and I hope your day is off to a great start!

Karin

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Happy St. Pat's Day

Today I want to share with you a St. Patrick's day card I created with some cool DRS Designs stamps!!

The background was created with DRS Designs Clover Sprig (731H). After stamping the clover, I colored the images with copics. The Hat Full of Shamrocks was stamped on white card stock and colored with copics. I added gold stickles to the buckle on the hat for some sparkle. I used my nesties to cut the hat out and added a scalloped layer of green. A strip of green was added behind the Hat full of Shamrocks. Some gold half pearls were added to the edges of this panel. The sentiment is a new stamp from DRS Designs - Get Your Irish On (1005D). It was stamped on white CS and layered on green.

Hope you like it. Stop by DRS Designs on line store and check out the cool new stamps!!

until next time,
shelia

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Stacked Love

Good morning everyone, hope your having a pleasant weekend. The card I

have for you today in a very simple valentine using the newly released

Stacked Love. It was colored with copic markers, and layered onto red card

That was embossed in a cutttlebug folder.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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Leonard Says Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Saturday from DRS Designs!  I can't believe that it is almost February!  I find it incredibly hard to believe.  However, I am looking forward to Feb. 1st as my daughter MacKenna will be officially signing to Ottawa Univ. in Kansas to play soccer.  It has been months of hard work and tough decisions.  We are so happy for her!

My card today features Leonard the Pig rose offering, Heart drops and the Happy Valentine's day greeting.  I started by stamping Leonard in versamark and embossed in black.  I colored him with going gray and pink pirouette for his nose.  The roses were painted with red smooch.  I sponged some black around him (he is a pig, you know) and then sponged some pink pirouette around the edge of the circle.  Next, it was layered with a pink scalloped circle and then just a plain red circle.  I versamarked the heart drops and embossed them in black as well.  The pinking hearts punch was used on the red layer and some sweet, black lace, heart charm and embroidery thread to attach it.  Lastly, the sentiment was stamped in black and cut into a banner.  Oh, the pink layer was run through an embossing folder.

Come check out the great stamps available in the online store!

Have a lovely day!

Pam

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Shamrock Hills

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I tell ya, all the green in this card makes me want to start talking like the little leprechaun on the Lucky Charms commercial. Aye, they're after me lucky charms!

With the exception of the sentiment, everything else was white embossed on this card. I hand cut the hills and embossed the edges so they'd show up against all that green. The shamrocks were fussy cut and the green button was dotted w/ the white marker. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25. If you're not feeling a wee bit Irish after looking at all these green shamrocks, then you'd better go have a few green beers, lol!

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





Supplies:
stamps: Swirly Shamrocks, Irish On Greeting, Polka Dot Background
ink: Colorbox frost white pigment, Memento Cottage Ivy
paper: white, kelly green
accessories: white embossing powder, ribbon, green button, white Permapaque marker

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Challenge #9 Hearts!

Congratulations
Nancy Brown!

You are the winner of last week's Snowman challenge. Please contact us at info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize.

For our new challenge this week, it's all about love! Show us some

HEARTS

and one lucky winner will win these 3 stamps from the DRS Designs Valentine's Day collection:

Valentine Flower 582K

Small Valentine's Day Greeting 603C

Interlocking Heart Background 808H

This challenge ends Wednesday February 1st at 6pm EST. We hope that you'll join us and play along by linking your challenge project using the InLinkz feature below. Challenge entries don't have to use DRS Designs stamps, but if you use them on your challenge card, you'll get an extra entry into the prize drawing. Winners will be announced in the challenge post next Thursday.

These heart cards were created by the DRS Design Team:

Karin

Jennifer E.

Shelia

Janett

Julie

Chrissy D

Sue

Pam

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VALENTINE TREE

Happy Wednesday Everyone!  Today I am sharing a fun card with the Valentine Tree!  Isn't thos stamp  fun?? I love the hearts as the leaves on this fun tree!  I stamped the image in Black Staz On and used Melon Mambo Ink and a Blender Pen to color on this Glossy White Cardstock. I used the paper piercing tool and Mat Pack to pierce the light pink card stock. I stamped the Fly Away Hearts and Flowers in Melon Mambo Ink. The faux stitching was created with a stitched stamp and Black Staz On ink. I stamped the One Line Valentine Greeting and popped it up with Dimensionals. I wrapped some pink gingham ribbon around the image and added some buttons from my stash, attaching them with mini glue dots.


Stamps:  Valentine Tree,   Fly Away Hearts and Flowers,   One Line Valentine Greeting 
Ink: Black Staz On, Melon Mambo 
CS: Glossy White, Pink Pirhouette, Melon Mambo
Other: Pink and White Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals, Misc buttons, Mini Glue Dots, Paper Piercing Tool and Mat Pack

Thank you for stopping by! Today is your last day to play along with this weeks challenge. We hope you will play a long with us!

Have a great day!

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Great Friends

Hi Everyone,

I'm popping in with a card today featuring a newer stamp from DRS Designs.  It's the fun "Great Friends Drink Alike" stamp and I could see using it for St.Patty's Day, Mardi Gras or even just a friends birthday!

I paired mine with the Drink Line Up stamped in Versamark and then heat embossed with clear powder.

And my always favorite Polka Dot Background stamp was used for the paper at the top of the card. All I needed was a few gems and ribbon to complete it.  I love having fun simple cards like this on hand.  It makes so easy to remember a friend in a special way, when a last minute need arises.

Don't forget that the current challenge here at the DRS Designs blog  is Snowmen.  Link up your card right here for a chance at a great prize!

Have a good one!
Karin

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Red, White and Black Valentine

Happy Monday! Hope you all had an excellent weekend! We had a few inches of snow, but it's suppose to warm up and melt away today. :-(  I don't like driving in the snow, but I love seeing everything covered in white!

Today I have made a red, white and black Valentine card. I started with black card stock, stamped my image DRS Designs Girl Swirl (585G) in Versafine and then embossed it with detail white embossing powder. DRS Designs Hugs and Kisses sentiment (190G) is stamped in Stazon black on white card stock and then layered on red card stock. I used my newest nesties labels that I found on clearance at JoAnn's! The hearts were cut with a Cuttlebug die and popped up with foam squares. Red ribbon was added to complete the look.

I added white card stock inside my card since you can't really write on black card stock! I stamped DRS Designs (978F) Scattered Hearts in red in the corners.

Hope you like it.

Until next time,
shelia

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Irish Everthing

Good morning everyone, today I wanted to share a little luck of the

Irish with all these wonderful DRS designs Irish stamps. My card

today is a Telescoping card. I used the spellbinder circle die and the

lacey circle die. The stamps I used were An-Irish-Blessing, Swirly-

Shamrocks, Everything-Irish, Irish-On-Greeting. The edges were

sponged with distree Ink in antique linen. I colored the image with

copic markers.

　
Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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A Valentine in January

For my card today here at DRS Designs, I went with the Girl Swirl

Heart stamped in noir black and then high lighted with red liquid pearls.  For the sentiment, I used the brand new one line Happy Valentine greeting.  I wanted to do kind of look like a banner so I popped the center of the greeting on a dimensional and glued down either end.  Using a chip board heart, I covered it with liquid pearls and added 3 rhinestones.....it took 4 evah to dry!!!!!!!  I am a bit of an inpatient person! 

Head over to the store and check out the wonderful new stamps we have....we've got you covered for the upcoming holidays!

Pam

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Irish Blessing

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!
I'm starting to feel a little green so...rather than turn into Kermit the frog, I thought I'd channel it into a St. Paddy's Day card. I love it when I get to work on St. Patrick's Day cards because any shade of green is my favorite color. I think I used 3 different shades of green and a little metallic gold on this one.

The wonderful Irish Blessing was stamped and I die cut two sizes of the badge/shield to make a double frame. Everything else is punch work. Different flowers, branches and four leaf clovers were punched and glued around the frame (I used a stylus and a foam pad to give the flowers a little shape). One little green crystal was added in the center of the gold flower on top. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

Thanks so much for stopping by!





Supplies:
stamps: Irish Blessing
ink: Archival library green
paper: kelly green, pine green, lime green, metallic gold, white
accessories: Xyron Creatopia badge/shield die, various punches (Marvy, Paper Studio, Family Treasures, McGill), green crystal

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Challenge #8 Snowmen!

Thanks to all of you who have been playing in our challenges over the last few weeks! We hope you are enjoying them and that you are having fun winning free stamps!

This week we'd like to congratulate
AMY DUFF,
you are the winner from last week's paper piecing challenge! Please contact us at info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize.

For our next challenge, we want to see

Snowmen!

One lucky winner will be selected to win any snowman stamp from DRS Designs--your choice of design! We hope that you'll join us and play along by linking your challenge project using the In Linkz feature below. Each week one lucky participant will receive a prize package from DRS Designs just for playing along! Challenge entries don't have to use DRS Designs stamps, but if you use them on your challenge card, you'll get an extra entry into the prize drawing. The winner will be announced in the challenge post next Thursday.

This challenge ends Wednesday January 25th at 5pm EST.

Here are the Snowmen Challenge entries created by the DRS Design Team:

Karin

Shelia

Jennifer E.

Janett

Julie

Pam

Sue

Chrissy D

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STACKED LOVE

Hello Everyone and a very happy Wednesday to each of you! I have a project today using the latest stamp release that I totally LOVE. 

For my card today, I’m sharing the image called “ Stacked Love”!  I stamped this image in Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black. I also used the Valentine's Hugs and Kisses, Woven Plaid and the Open Plaid Background stamps. I used the Navy and Red Ink Pad. I used Copic Markers B28, B23, B21 and R46 to color the images. I finished the card off with some K&C Gems.

 Thanks for stopping by today, I really appreciate it!  Have a blessed rest of your week! xx

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Valentine Tree

Hi Everyone,

My card share today is full of Valentine's Day goodness.  It's got pink and red.  It's got gems and lace.  It's got hearts and flowers.  Well, ok, no flowers, but where was I supposed to put those? LOL!  No more room, so the flowers will have to be on my next valentine :)  Seriously though, I think this newly released

Valentine Tree is just so sweet colored in pink and red!

I used the Interlocking Hearts for the background paper and the traditional One Line Valentine greeting on a trendy banner on the bottom. 

How many Valentine's do you send out each year?  I probably do maybe 6 or so, but why not join me by surprising a new friend or neighbor with one this year! 

Thanks for stopping by!
Karin

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Happy Valentines Day

Happy Martin Luther King Day! If you have the day off from work like me, I hope you are enjoying it!

Today I made a Valentine Card using DRS Designs new releases Scattered Hearts (978F) and One Line Valentine Greeting (996D). I cut the one line greeting into 3 lines for this card.

A while back I saw a card in a magazine using long pendants and I really like the look, so I went with that for this Valentine. I stamped DRS Designs interlocking hearts background (808H) in SU Rose Romance on pink card stock and then cut the card stock into three strips for the pendants. I also stamped the Scattered Hearts in Rose Romance on pink CS. I added some lace stickles to the 3 smaller hearts. I used my nesties to make a layer in white. The sentiment is stamped in Rose Romance on white CS, cut it into 3 parts and mounted them on one of the pendants. I added some pink twine to finish the look. Hope you like it.

Until next time,
shelia

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Leonard Pig

The card that I’m sharing today was made with the cute little Leonard Pig with Rose Offering this is such a cute stamp.

The background was stamped with the One Line Valentine Greeting on pink paper. The edges and the card base were sponged with Distress Ink. I stamped Leonard with brown ink and colored with copic markers. He was cut out with a spellbinder die. I punched some brown limbs and added some red circles they were glued to the back of the image. Everything was layered onto a green oval and attached to the background.

Have a wonderful day,

Janett

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My card today just makes me smile! Leonard is so cute, isn't he? All stamps are from here at DRS Designs and includes Leonard Pig rose offering, interlocking heart bg and A treat for you greeting. I stamped Leonard on white cardstock and colored him with pretty in pink and rose red.  The flowers were painted with red smooch.  Next, I punched him out with a scallop circle punch and added a black and rose red one as well. Using grandma's lightest pink, I used markers to color the interlocking heart bg in pretty in pink, rose red and real red. Seam binding, a corduroy button, embroidery thread, a tag with the sentiment and one paper pieced heart at bottom of Leonard were added.  I using the pinking shears heart punch for the edge.

Take care!

Pam

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Love Birds

Happy Friday!
It just turned really, really cold here so this little early spring Valentine card looks very inviting. I guess I shouldn't complain...it's been a very mild winter so far.

The little love birds were punched out of water color paper and a little color added. I punched their wings out of some left over w/c paper that had part of the heart tree stamped on it. For the scene, after I added a water color wash of green for the ground and blue for the sky, I stamped the Valentine tree and easy grass background. I drew in the little heart flowers and added some color with markers.

The blue and green backgrounds were embossed w/ a little hearts folder and I added a border punched fence and some tiny little punched flowers and cut out hearts on top of the fence. The sentiment (part of love you to the moon sentiment.) The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

Supplies:
stamps: Valentine Tree, Easy Grass Background, Love You to the Moon greeting
paper: water color, lt blue, lt green
ink: Ancient Page coal
accessories: Tombow markers, bird punches (McGill & Martha Stewart), fence punch (Martha Stewart), heart embossing folder (Cuttlebug -Love Language combo), Spellbinders labels 8 die

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Challenge #7 Paper Piecing

Congratulations
JILL ELMER!

You are the winner of last week's Spotlight Technique challenge! Please contact us at info@drsdesigns.com to claim your prize.

This week we want to see what you can do with scissors. Yep, get your scissors out and do a little
PAPER PIECING.
One lucky winner will be selected to win a $10 DRS Designs Store Voucher.

This challenge ends Wednesday January 18th at 6pm EST.

Here are the Paper Pieced cards by the DRS Design Team:

Karin

Shelia

Julie

Janett

Chrissy

Jennifer E.

Pam

Sue

Thanks to all of you who have played along in our challenges over the past few weeks. We greatly appreciate it and hope you are enjoying them as much as we are.
Good Luck!

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