Chocolate

Hi Everyone,

This card was inspired by some fancy chocolate I saw on the Web and a layout from my card here.  I figured if it worked for one card, it could work for me again. 

I used a square punch, rounding off the corners before stamping and heat embossing the little chocolates with some gold powder. I layered them onto a stamped heart background, adding a die cut row of hearts.

The Cheap Chocolate Eve Greeting was chosen for the sentiment, and it was die cut and added to the card. 

The background stamps I used are as follows and you can find many more Valentine stamps over at the DRS Designs store!

Scattered Hearts

Splatter Background

Interlocking Circle Background

Happy Stamping!
Karin

 

Happy Valentine's Day

Hi Everyone,

I was inspired by my design teammates past cards and decided to color up some Candy Hearts for the background on today's card.  They're easy and fun to color, so I simply added a matching embossed background (Darice) along with the new Double Line Happy Valentine's Day Greeting.  A few half pearls completed the look.

I couldn't resist making another chocolate card.  Last week I made bon bons on my card, and here is a regular old chocolate bar.  I'll take chocolate in any form!

I used my rectangle and square Spellbinders dies for my bar, and I wrapped it in foil and some pink paper that I stamped using Scatters Hearts.   For embellishment, I stamped and fussy cut a heart, and wrapped the bar in a piece of tulle.

I attached my candy bar to an embossed heart background (Darice) and used the new Love You More Chocolate Greeting that I divided into two parts, using some punches.

Thanks for visiting!  Be sure to stop on over at the DRS Designs store and see all of these stamps and more!

Karin

Candy & Wine

Hi Everyone,

I'm featuring the new Cheap Chocolate Eve Greeting on my Valentine card in today's post.  I love any kind of chocolate, so I decided to make some bon bons to match up with it.   

I used a 1 1/4" circle punch and then sliced off the bottom portion to form the little truffle, and I did the same to the sentiment.  The cream colored white ones I dry embossed and the brown chocolate colored ones I left plain. I added a punched flower and little hearts to top them off.  The hearts were fussy cut from the Candy Heart Background. 

All the pieces were attached to the pink background that I stamped using the Chocolate Chip Background and pink ink.  To finish it, I added a strip of lace to fancy it up!

This is just a quick birthday card I made for my sister in law's 60th birthday.  Unfortunately any large celebration had to be scrapped due to Covid, but my niece planned an intimate wine tasting dinner for her, and the extended family and friends sent in videos.  Of course I realized I forgot to take a picture of it until I was getting ready to send it, so ignore the weird background...lol.

  

Here are the stamps I used:

Pour Me Bottle and Glass

Bunch of Grapes

Magnificent Birthday Greeting

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Karin

Heartbeat

Hi Everyone,

I hope your holidays last year were great and that you're ready for the next great card making holiday, which is Valentine's Day!

DRS Designs has some fun new stamps, and a couple of my favorites are on the card below.  Heartbeat and Every Beat of My Heart Greeting are a total match, so I took inspiration from one of the cards I made last year, here.

I decided to make my die cut hearts into "people", by drawing hands and feet, and used the bow image from the 4 in 1 Fashion Accessories stamp for the girl and boy. To finish the card, I added a little fussy cut conversation heart that had the xoxo on it from the new Candy Heart Background.

This card is all about the love of my life...Chocolate!  I mean, my husband first, but then definitely chocolate.

I decided to make the stamped Chocolate Chips white chocolate, so that they would stand out on the red heart and embossed them to make them shine.  I paired the heart up with the new Love You More Chocolate Greeting 

Again, having leftover hearts from the first card, I fussy cut some as embellishments and added them to complete the card. 

Hope your valentine stamping is off to a great start!


Thanks for stopping by!
Karin

 

Cheers!

Hi Everyone,

Since were staring 2022 right in the face, I'm celebrating the new year with this great new card sentiment, Best Year Cheers Greeting!  I love the fresh hope a new year brings. Whether you celebrate with adult beverages or sparkling water, whether you say cheers, prost, or salud, like the greeting says, Let's make the coming year the best!

For the first card I tried to go retro, using a martini embossing folder and some avocado colored flock along the side.  

Here I chose an embossing folder that has clocks, to play off of the idea of the countdown that happens on New Year's Eve. I added a fussy cut glass from the Pour Me Bottle and Glass stamp, and a recycled embellishment from a Christmas card I received. 

Cheers to 2022 and as much stamping as your heart desires!

Happy New Year!
Karin

Winter cards

Hi Everyone,

Do you know someone with a winter birthday?  Well, I have just the stamp for you!

Here is the new Ice Day Birthday Greeting that I paired up with some embossed mittens, to match up with the gloved portion of the sentiment.  After adding some gems, I need another embellishment to balance out the card, so I used a reverse image stamp and fussy cut a couple of mittens from the Raised Mittens Skip Winter Greeting.

I already needed some thank you cards for holiday gifts I've received, so out came a favorite stamp, the Blizzard of Thanks Greeting!  Just add any manner of snowflakes, and you have a cute card :)  Here I used Interlocking Snow Background and Simply Snowman.

Stop on over at DRS Designs to take advantage of the sale happening right now!

Happy Stamping!

Karin

Happy Valentine's Day

Hi Everyone,

Is it too early for a valentine card?  Not when I've got some new stamps to preview.  Be sure to pop on over to the DRS Designs store to see all of the new stamps beginning December 15th! 

Until then, this card features the new Candy Heart Background (1065G) stamp, which I stamped onto pink paper, coloring in the tiny hearts.  I added a die cut heart banner along with the new Double Line Happy Valentine's Day (1067G) for the greeting. 

All that was left was to add Leonard the Cupig, because he is just beyond adorable! I simply fussy cut him after he was colored up and I attached him with some dimensional tape.

DRS Designs is running a sale right now, so stop over and order what you need to get stamping!


Happy Holidays!
Karin

Merriest Wishes

  Hi Everyone,

I feel like I'm finally into the swing of things for this holiday season!  My house is decorated for Christmas, and we hosted friends for games and snacks on Saturday night.  During all this, holiday music has been playing in the background, and I'm sure the song Silver Bells had to have come up at least once in the rotation.

I stamped, colored and die cut the Bells Holly and Bow image for my card, and tried to color them to appear silver.  Taking inspiration from the colored image, I embossed a die cut piece of yellow cardstock and layered it onto a background that was stamped, and silver embossed using the Interlocking Snow Background.

For the greeting, I used the new Merriest Wishes Greeting, die cutting it and embellishing it with a bit

 of sponging. To finish it off, I added a few punched holly leaves and berry gems. 

If you're looking for a few stamping goodies for yourself, DRS Designs is running a customer appreciation sale just for you!  

Happy Holidays!
Karin

Jesus is the Reason

Hi Everyone,

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving last week, and that you're ready to get into the swing of things for Christmas!

Starting off the post with with the new Jesus is the Reason Greeting, which I stamped, die cut and embellished the star using a silver gel pen.  I paired it up with that sweet little country looking church from the group of Christmas Village stamps.  Also die cut, colored and embellished with a bit of glitter glue on the snow. 

I attached it to a dry embossed background and added a few snowflakes for embellishment.

 

Remember then new Ugly Christmas Sweater Designer stamp that was in the recently released group of stamps?  Well, these tiny holiday images are from that set.  I used them without the sweater image along with my punches to create this simple card.  I stamped the new Christmas Star Merry Christmas and attached it to the bottom of the card, and then cut off the bottom with a scalloped die.  

A bit of embellishment using a gold gel pen on the sentiment along with some twine finished off the card.  

Thanks for stopping by!
Karin

Season of Peace

Hi Everyone,

I love this new Small Season of Peace Greeting! To me, it just begged to be paired up with a snowy, winter scene.  

I stamped, die cut and added some blue chalk around the edges of the Winter Trees, while spray adhesive and some glitter completed the look for that image.  I attached it to a background stamped using the Snow Background and added a dry embossed snowflake strip behind my die cut greeting.

I used my trusty bird punch to make a dove to complete the card. 

I used the Small Season of Peace as the sentiment for my easy card as well.  It's been awhile since I bought myself a new holiday die, and I thought this one from Momenta would do the trick when I needed to make many cards in a hurry.  Any great sentiment from the DRS Designs store would work to complete the card!

Thanks for visiting today! 

Karin

Plaid Tree

Hi Everyone,

I decided to feature the recently released Plaid Fir Tree on my card today, and I began by stamping and fussy cutting 3 trees.  Once they were cut, I turned them over and stamped them on the opposite side, and then glued them together by adding glue down the center of the trees.  

I attached my three dimensional tree to a die cut and plaid embossed panel, which was attached to a background made using the Woven Plaid Background stamp. 

A die cut border embellished with enamel dots was added at the bottom and I finished the card with the new Tis the Season Greeting.

Here is a close up of the tree...

Thanks for visiting and be sure to check out all of the newest holiday stamps over at the DRS Designs store!

Karin

Season of Thanks

 Hi Everyone,

One of the newer fall stamps from DRS Designs is this Large Happy Fall Y'all greeting, and I matched it up with one of my favorite fall images, Bountiful Basket.  My husband says that everyone makes fall about pumpkins and pumpkin spice, but apples are what he thinks of when it comes to fall. This lovely image has both!

The image was colored and die cut, the sentiment was made using punches and the Medium Silhouette Leaf stamp, and both were layered onto an embossed leaf background of bright fall colors.

I added a few die cut leaves in those same colors to complete the look.

Here I made a Z Fold card using the Season of Thanks Oval stamp, and the Medium Silhouette Leaf which was stamped using a rainbow stamp pad. (Kaleidacolor)  Since the multicolored ink did most of the work, all I did was enhance the swirly leaf using some glitter glue.

Here is the inside panel that I stamped using the Open Leaf stamp.  I figured this would make it easy to write a personal greeting on top.

 

Thanks for visiting and be sure to pop on over to see all of the new holiday stamps from DRS Designs right here!

Have a great day!
Karin

Ugly Christmas Sweater

Hi Everyone,

DRS Designs has released lots of great holiday stamps this past weekend.  If you are behind in your holiday stamping,  (Me, me! I'm raising my hand along with you...) the stamps on my first card are sure to jump start your mojo. 

This one features Ugly Christmas Sweater Designer.  It's a group of stamps that includes a sweater, some stitching lines along with 3 tiny images for the sweater!  I mean, it was the first thing I wanted to ink up when I opened my new stamps, because it looked like so much fun.  I'm not sure what this says about me, but I would wear this blue and red candy cane sweater unironically.  It's sooo cute!  Anyway, you can make yours any color and set comes with a string of lights and a gingerbread man too.

Also available is a matching Ugly Christmas Sweater Greeting, which was a must have to go with all the sweaters I'll be making.

Everything was layered onto a background made by sponging over a die cut snowflake, along with a snowflake border made using Interlocking Snow Background stamp.

A couple of punched snowflakes embellished with gems finished it off.

This card was a quick masculine birthday card I made for a friend.  No frills,  just some good old stamping, some Stickles to enhance the beer foam, and a few metal brads :)

The stamps used here are as follows:

Small Beer Mug

Splatter Background

Brew-tiful Day Greeting

Don't move on until you've clicked on over to see all the new stamps at DRS Designs!  

It's almost the holiday season, so don't be caught unprepared :)

Have a great day!

Karin 

Blessings

Hi Everyone,

One of my favorite fall stamps from the DRS Designs catalog is Framed Thanksgiving Greetings. I just love the images in those frames!  So I decided to pair them up with the new Blessing For You Thanksgiving Greeting.

I stamped, colored and fussy cut those little pictures, and attached them onto an embossed background with autumn words.

I stamped the greeting, die cut it and added some yellow and green inking.  To give the greeting a space to land, I added a strip of scrap orange paper embellished with a striped ribbon. 

Thanks for visiting the blog today! 

Karin