YNS Challenge #168: Birthday

YNS Challenge #168: Birthday

Continuing on with this weeks birthday celebrations Your Next Stamp latest challenge is all about birthday. Birthday is always a fun theme. I don’t know about you but I can always do with another birthday card. In addition to all the birthday theme stuff this past week, my cards have been following a rainbow pattern. I think birthday and rainbow certainly go hand in hand.

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Your Next Stamp Release Preview: Birthday Tags

Your Next Stamp Release Preview: Birthday Tags

When I saw these tags, I thought the little images could be used beyond just tags. So to give you an alternative idea for using the tag images and with a little bit of creative stamping and masking I stamped out portions of the tags to create little mini square images. The images are then ready to be laid out on any fun background you’ve made. Also how great would it be to give both the card and tags to someone as a gift

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Your Next Stamp: Stretching Coffee Cart Dies

Your Next Stamp: Stretching Coffee Cart Dies

At the moment Your Next Stamp has Coffee Cart Stamp and Die set on sale. Basically you can get them both for less than if you’d just bought the dies alone. So I thought it would be fun to make use out of the dies besides simply die cutting out the stamps. First I used the dies to create masks for overlapping images (tip for that below in instructions) and also I combined the bunny and cart die to create a large shaker window (again details on how to achieve the effect are in instructions).

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Your Next Stamp May Release Preview: Farmtastic

Your Next Stamp May Release Preview: Farmtastic

Welcome to Day 1 of Your Next Stamp May Release. I am having fun playing with Farmtastic stamp set and the barn die which works perfectly with the set.

So the barn die is the perfect size to use with the farmtastic farm animals. However I wanted to sneak a peak at life inside the barn. So I recreated the barn doors for the exterior of my card and used the barn die to create a complimenting tag.

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Purple Onion Design: Stencil Over Masking

Purple Onion Design: Stencil Over Masking

So, here is a really cute set of cards with the super characters from the ‘A Happy Little Place’ release at Purple Onion Designs.

Don’t forget there is still a day left to enjoy the special bundle price on the complete 21 stamp collection "A Happy Little Place". The set includes a collection of buildings, the adorable characters and “The Around the Town Sentiment set”. This special bundle offer is $105, which is a 30% discount that ends tomorrow Friday, May 14th at Purple Onion Designs. Of course all of these stamps can also be purchased separately.

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