January Wreath Campaign at CTMH!

Sneak Peek!

Since we are almost to the end of the month I thought I would share with you the next Campaign from Close To My Heart!

Its the Welcome Home Wreath for National Papercrafting Month!!

What are the campaign details?

Dates:  January 1, 2017 (9:00 am MST) – January 31, 2017 (11:59 pm MST)   

   Featured Product: CC1210 Welcome Home Wreath Kit  $24.25 CAD 

Get the exclusive Welcome Home Wreath Kit for FREE (retail value $24.25 CAD) with a qualifying purchase of $60 CAD (excluding tax and shipping) during the month of January in celebration of National Papercrafting Month. 

The kit can also be purchased at full retail for $24.25 CAD with no purchase requirement. 

Please email if you would like to order!

December Designer Showcase

Good Morning and Welcome to the Your Next Stamp December Designer Showcase!

We have Twelve wonderful days filled with Projects to share with you!

Today is Day Eight and MY day to show you what I have been working on!

My daughter was a BIG surprise.....born on Christmas Eve, weighing just 3 pounds and arriving 8 weeks early! So, every Christmas Eve we have a huge party for her Birthday!

Believe it or not she will be 15 this year and I wanted to make some Holiday

coloured Birthday favours for her party.

Here is what I came up with!

A Little Treat Bag with a Gift Card Tucked in the back!

I used the adorable stamp set called Birthday Phoebe, the Cute Little Shopping Bag Die

and some of my favourite Winter Plaid paper.

And here is how I created them!

I started off my choosing some cardstock, the Cute Little Shopping Bag Die,

Plaid paper and the Phoebe stamp set.

I then cut out two piece of cardstock (per bag) using the die and folded them on the creases.

Then I adhered some doubled sided heavy tape to the three edges of the die and assembled the little bags.

Next, I stamped the Phoebe on colouring paper and the little hats out on cardstock.

I coloured the images with Copic markers.

Then I cut everything, adhered the hats on and cut some patterned paper from

the Winter Plaid paper.

I bought some green and red gummies and placed them in clear bags and tied them with ribbon.

Then I assembled everything together!

And here is the final project!

I also tucked in a coffee shop gift card in the back!

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial today and taking the time to look!

Please leave a comment on the YNS Blog by 12/25 at midnight EST for a chance to win!!

All winners will be announced on 12/27. 

One random comment left on each day’s  post will be selected to

win a $10.00 gift certificate to the YNS Store.  

Sue

National Tea Day!

Its National Tea Day and to celebrate I have made a tea card for the

Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog Hop!

I distressed the background with Distress Inks and cut out the teapot and cup using dies from Lea'bilities and used a sentiment from an older Your Next Stamp set called Noteworthy.

Keep warm on this cold day and have a cup of tea!

Sue

ZIG Clean Color Card

Since it is a snowy and COLD day here in Ontario I decided to play a bit with my Zig Clean Color Markers and create this Christmas Card with a new stamp set I got.

The set is by Stampendous! and although I really did not like how it stamped, I used my Misti Tool and managed to finally get a crisp image. I coloured the images with Zig markers and layered it on papers by Close To My Heart.

Thanks for looking!

Sue

Painting on vellum card

Here's another card I made for this Christmas season!

I took inspiration from a video made by Nina-Marie Trapani where she used a Tim Holtz

Stencil, Zig Clean Color Markers and some metallic watercolour paints to paint on vellum.

It was so much fun to create this and I will definitely be doing more of this technique!

Sue

Having Fun with Distressing!

I love to make all sorts of different and fun Christmas cards and here is an example of one of these!

I used my new Zig Clean Color Markers to colour the poinsettias that I had stamped and heat embossed in Ranger embossing powder. (The stamp is a Heartfelt Creation stamp)

Then I used Distress ink and stain to do the background and more Zig.

Enjoy!
Sue 

More Christmas Cards!

Here's another look at some of the other cards I have been working on for this Holiday Season!

This a stamp set by Your Next Stamp called: Snow Much Joy!

I cut him out with the matching dies and coloured him with Copic markers.

Holiday Wishes!

Sue