Believe In Magic

This is a close up of the snowman. I used the Chunky glitter and the white sparkly Fluffy stuff!

I made this card for The Our Craft Lounge Sketch Challenge. The stamp set is Be Jolly and the DP is Be Merry by Kaiser Craft.

Hi, it's Joni with an exciting post for you today. I have two cards to share with you featuring a very special stamp set from Creative Clear Stamps!


An exciting new thing happened with DT4. Our team was given the opportunity to create a brand new stamp set for a charity of our choice. We have chosen Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. This charity supports the research and cure for childhood cancer. You can click on the link to find out more about their foundation.

We have named our charity stamp set "LEMONADE STAND". This set will release on Wednesday September 1st, 2010 on the Creative Clear Stamps Store website. The size of this set is 6x8 and features 20 clear stamps. The cost of this set is $20.00, of which $10.00 will be donated to the foundation throughout the month of September. The first 10 orders will receive a free secret bonus item with their purchase.

The Creative Clear Stamps Store will be closed tomorrow Tuesday August 31, to prepare for some changes to the site before the release. A new rewards program is headed our way!

Here is my sneak peek of this set!

For this card I used a cuttlebug folder to create the citrus border. I colored in the girl in the lemondade stand with copic markers. Added a bow and a clip and there you have it!
This card is one of my favorites! I just love the puppy in the bucket of lemons. I so wanted to have a puppy in this set! Again I colored in with copics and there you have it. This set offers so many possibilities, the results are endless. I have had a great time playing... and I know you will too!

Thanks for hopping by and don't forget to order your "LEMONADE STAND" during the month of September and help us find a cure for childhood cancer!

Click the link below to continue the hop:

Laura
Tina
Shelly
Joni (that's me, you are here)
Michelle

Herbs

Today I have a card using the new stamp set Herbs from Flourishes. This card was for the Timeless Tuesday challenge to use lace on your card. Well, I have about five new rolls of different lace ribbons so this was an easy challenge for me. I shadow stamped one of the herbs and used my new SU Elegant Soiree dp. CS is Baja Breeze!

Card Patterns Blog

Today, DRS Designs is sponsoring the challenge on the Card Patterns Blog. Hope on over and check it out. Above is the card I made for Sketch #79. I used Brush Beach Sunrise L768 colored in with copics and then added some sand. MS Border punch and some stars for embellishments.

The challenge runs for one week and you can win a $10 gift certificate to DRS Designs.

Clean and Crisp

I made this card for the Inspiration Challenge at StampTV. This was the photo of a curio shelf that was the inspiration for my card. I went with the bold color red and the straight lines of the shelf! I used SU Poppy, I love this new color. DP is SU poppy as well. Stamp set is Gina K Botanicals.

Noel

Today, I have a card for you using two stamps from DRS Designs. I have used Nativity Noel (337L), a newly released stamp and the sentiment True Gifts of Christmas (257G).

I colored the nativity scene with copics, cut out with a nestie and airbrushed the background.

I just love the True Gifts sentiment. I just cut it out, airbrushed, and placed it on a nestie. Added some ribbon and there you have it!

Thanks for stopping by and have a Terrific Thursday!

Happy Day After My Birthday

Today I have another adorable card for you from Creative Clear Stamps. It is the Hip Hip Hooray stamp set. I colored the bear with copics and paper pieced the balloons. Paper piecing is one of my favorite techniques. I airbrushed the background. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Birthday to Me

I made this card for yesterday's color challenge on StampTV. Carla Suto challenged us to use: yellow, blue, green, pink, orange, red, purple, black. And I think I actually managed to add all the colors. The stamp set is from Gina K. It is by Rupa called Lawn and Garden. This is a fitting card for my last day of freedom, summer is over for me. :-(. Back to work tomorrow!

Make A Wish

I just love this silhouette set from Flourishes: Child at Play. I made this card for the Timeless Tuesday challenge which was to use the colors: hot pink, soft yellow, black and kraft. Wow what a challenge! In fact, I need to clean up my craft room because I kept taking things out, cutting paper, stamping, until I felt I had the right design. Tomorrow, is my birthday perhaps I should have saved this card for then!

Sunday Sunday

Today, I have a card for you for a challenge on StampTV. It was the Friday Christmas challenge to create a Christmas cards using scraps. Well, I have so many scraps this was an easy challenge for me. I haven't participated in many of their challenges lately. Mostly I have been busy for the companies that I now design for.

My BIG News is that I am on another design team for Sugar Creek Hollow. Check out their blog and their store.

I thought I was going to get so much stamping done this summer, but although I did some stamping, the weather was far too nice to stay inside. This week I am back to work. Oh well, maybe I will get some more stamping done now.

Fuschia in Bloom

Today, I have a card for you using Fuschia in Bloom from flourishes. I entered it into the Timeless Tuesday Challenge: which was a color challenge to use hot pink, black, craft and a soft yellow. Well, I had it all done and was pretty pleased with the results, took my pictures and went back to the Flourishes posting and realized I had forgotten about the yellow! So I added some yellow dots to my flourishes and submitted it. I used a new cuttlebug folder on the kraft for the backgound. MS border punch and flourishes. I also added some kraft paper to the inside so that you can write your greeting. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

I am playing golf!

Free Digi Stamp

How would you like this stamp for free. Well, what are you waiting for? Hop on over to Sugar Creek Hollow and grab this digi stamp for free!

They have a great tutorial if you are not sure what to do with digi stamps. It is easy peasy!

I sized my image printed it out and then colored with copics. I used Webster pages dp added a bow, flower and brad for embelliesand I was finished. Whala!Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for some very exciting news!!!

Joy

Today, I am delighted to share with you some of the newest releases from DRS Designs! On August 21st, they will be releasing new Christmas stamps and these stamps are Fabulous. I just couldn't stop playing once I had them in my stampin' hands! Featured today Is Joyful Christmas Mouse (351H) and the easy peasy Holly Background (365H).

I stamped he holly background with olive craft ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. Then I colored in the berries with a red gel pen.

I stamped the Joyful image with black Memento ink and colored it with copics and airbrushed the background. I used nestie to cut it out. I punched out some branches added a button a ribbon and bow for embellies!

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Freakin Birthday

It's wonderful Wednesday and today I have a birthday card using the Sassy Birthday II stamp set from Creative Clear Stamps. I used the sentiment and stamped it in Concord Grape ink cut it out and layered it with my nesties label 4 dies. Added a ribbon bow and bling and there you have it a humorous birthday card. Easy Peasy!

DRS Blog Hop Scavenger Hunt!

DRS Blog Hop Scavenger Hunt!
August 17th, 2010

Welcome to the DRS Designs Scavenger Hunt Blog Hop!
The Hunt will run from Tuesday Aug 17th until Thurs Aug 19th at 11:59pm ET. The winner will be announced on the DRS Blog on Fri Aug 20th. If you came here from Debbie’s blog, you’re in the right place. If not, you may want to go back to the DRS Blog and start from the beginning. To be in the drawing for the fabulous new images you’ll need to :


• “hop” from blog to blog of our very talented designers – seeing 10 fabulous cards along the way!!
• picking up clues at 5 different blogs
• ending at the DRS Designs website where you’ll start hunting
• use the clues you picked up to find the 5 selected new stamps we’ve added
• emailing us at info@drsdesigns.com with the stock numbers of the 5 stamps
• crossing you fingers that you’re one of our 2 winners! (*HINT- clicking on the blog hop box at the top of this post will show you the images. It’s handy for helping with the clues – you’ll still need to get the cat numbers from the online catalog)

Here is what I did for my card: I used part of the new stamp Wintertime Buddies (M362) and the sentiment Claustrophobic Greeting (367G). I had fun adding some Sprkling Fluff and stickles to Santa.
Are y’all having fun figuring out the clues? Your next stop is Jenny's blog.

Happy Healing

Today, I have a card for you from DRS Designs, using the recently released stamp: Happy Healing (349G). Unfortunately, I can easily relate to this sentiment as I have a couple of friends who have had knee replacement. One day I will be going down that path myself so maybe I should keep this card! LOL! I stamped the sentiment with Memento Grey ink. I used the Tim Holtz dies that look like cogs and found brads that look like screw tops for my embellishments. I also used an embossing folder for the background design.

Thanks for stopping by today and tomorrow is our BIG release over at DRS Designs. We have a fun scavenger hunt planned so you definitley want to play!

7 Kids Blog Hop

Today I have a card for you, using the adorable Isabelle with puppy Coco from 7 kids college fund. I colored the image with copics and layered on dp by October Afternoon Ducks in a Row.

Christmas is Coming

I couldn't resist this inviting fireplace (419P) from DRS Designs. I colored with copics. See below. I used a border stamp top and bottom. I stamped the sentiment(G725) and added an ornament embellishment. Popped everything up on foam tape.

Christmas is coming! New releases coming this weekend from DRS Designs. Make sure you check back. These new sets are awesome!

Safe in the Ams

Today, I have a card for you from Creative Clear Stamps: Safe in the Arms of Jesus. I colored the bear with copics and used the flicking technique to get the effect of fur. I dug into my stash for the ribbon and dp. I hope you have a great Wednesday. Summer is going by way too quickly. I hope you are enjoying this hot hot weather!

Happy Halloween Goodbye Passat

Hi Everyone, well I have been busy making Christmas cards featuring unbelievable fantastic new stamps from DRS Designs. Stay tuned for the release later this week. I did pick up some adorable Halloween stamps from my local Michaels for only $1 a piece. I had a 20% off entire purchase coupon, so these stamps were a real bargain! Also featured on this card is a new MS border punch for the spider web. I will be back to Michaels for some more MS punches. They are just fabulooso! I also used the new Memory Box Halloween paper. Today, I am selling my VW Passat that I have owned for 10 years. It is a bittersweet day for me...

Thursday Already

I cannot believe how quickly the summer is flying by or should I say flying away!!! Today I have an adorable card for you from DRS Designs. I used the newly released (July) (Otters (255G). I wanted to create a storybook look so I die cut the otters with a nestie. I added the single line sentiment "Happy Birthday"(B250) but I stamped it on two lines to fit my diecut.
Here is a close up of these adorable otters. I hope you can see the sponged white clouds.

These are the copics that used to color the otters and the sky and water.

Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for some more newly released stamps from

DRS Designs!