{YNS Blog Hop} Jenny Suchin Designs

Today is the release day over at YNS, featuring a great new line of rubber by YNS DT team member Jenny Suchin, and we are celebrating Jenny's first ever release with a fun blog hop!! You should have arrived here via the hilarious and talented Carole Burrage's blog. If you would like to start at the beginning, then head back to the creative mind behind all this stampy goodness, Miss Jenny Suchin's blog!
I previewed a card a few days back (remember the cute koala in a air balloon?), and I am back today with a completely different looking card using the same set, Up, Up & Away.
I made a sweet wedding card for a friend of mine that is getting married soon....

This is a long card, measuring 4 1/4 x 7 1/2. I paper-pieced the balloon again (I'll give you a little photo tut later on on the post;), and stamped 2 koala's instead of just the one, and cut them out and added them to the balloon basket with dimensionals. The balloon and basket are completely off the DP, essentially 'floating' through the sky:) For the balloon strings, I used the Ribbon Carousel's Coloured Wire String in white. The Wire String works so well because it holds it's form! I have done this look with string or twine and trust me, my new find has made it WAY easier!!!

Some TCP seam binding and a vintagey button threaded with TCP linen thread add some romance. I used an MFT border die under the black zigzag stitching on the lower portion of the card and the clouds above the balloon are die cut using TCP's cloud border cutup. The sentiment on the front, as well as the inside scripture, are by Verve. The DP is MME and the CS is SU.

Here are a few pics to show you how I paper-piece without worrying about trying to fit the pieces together like a puzzle. It is the easiest way to piece something like this (stripes or strips that are side by side). Plus it provides slight dimension by stacking the papers on eachother!

I first stamp my image on my base cream CS (that is, if you aren't planning to piece directly onto your stamped panel and are going to cut out your main image, as I did). You also stamp the full image onto your first DP (plaid). Stamp again onto your 2nd DP (pink doily), and don't worry if you don't get the outer stripes- you don't need them!  Now again onto the 3rd and 4th DP (red dot and cream flag)

The 1st DP is the DP that will be the outer stripes on my balloon. Both the cream CS and the plaid images are cut out and the DP is then glued to the CS balloon.

Next cut out the 2nd DP, cutting out one less outer 'strip' than on the first DP balloon. Adhere.

Finally add your inner sections (from the cream flag and red dot DP) and finish off with the little patches...Now you have a completed paper-pieced balloon that doesn't look as if each piece was shoved in, next to the other! A smooth and slightly dimensional paper-pieced balloon! You could also adhere with foam boosters to get ALOT of dimension!

I left the inside blank, as I am in this wedding and I'm sure I'll have a bog ol' message to write to the bride;)

And when I was busy making my card, my little Jake was busy making his own (of course he had to use the same stamp!! YNS is his favorite brand;) and he really wanted me to 'put it on the computer for all the ladies to see' (his words;). So here is his Up. Up & Away card! He did this all himself!! The only thing I did was give him my trimmed cloud scrap, tie the twine bow and help with the hot glue gun:) And he is only in kindergarten!! I think he is a pretty crafty little fella:):) And yeah- did I mention that he was rooting through my brand new PTI buttons!! Eek! Expensive taste too;)

Next up on the hop is the uber-talented Amy Rohl! She has the sweetest little project to show you:)

WAIT, THERE'S MORE!!!
There is a fun prize hidden on one DT member's blog, so if you want to be the winner of a new Jenny Suchin stamp set of your choice, then you MUST comment! You won't know which one of us is the candy holder, so the more hoppers you post on, the better your chances at winning:) Winner will be posted on the YNS blog Jan 17th.

The hop will start Wed, Jan 11, 3am (est) and end on Mon, Jan 16, midnight (est), so you have until then to comment!

AND A SALE!?!?!
Karen is also offering a deal: 15% off your ENTIRE order!! Use online coupon code YNSJAN2012 at checkout:)
Sketch- The Deconstructed Sketch 33

{TCPTUES192} Love Stinks...especially when your present is trout.

Hi there! Welcome to The Cat's Pajamas January release blog hop/ TCP Tuesday challenge! Today, Julie is our hostess and she is challenging us to emboss..either wet or dry. Eek! I loathe wet embossing, so of course I took the easy way out and went with my embossing folders and Bigshot;)And since this ia also a blog hop, you should have arrived from sweet Miss Leigh's blog....if not, then you are lost my friend, and the best thing to do, would be to go back to the beginning and visit Julie's blog!

 
Unfortunately, this card got away from me in scale and you can see very little of the embossing that I actually did! According to Jen's SFYTT for this month (which TCP is coincidentally sponsoring;), the bingo card panel (from our new Build-A-Bingo set) was supposed to be tucked behind the red vertical dp, but of course I wanted the bingo biz to be seen, so I moved it to the front. Thereby covering up the pretty bingo themed EF pattern! Grrr! I also embossed the sentiment panel with large polka dots and the main kraft panel was embossed with another valentine-themey folder, although you can't see much of that either!
Don't cha love that new Build-A-Bingo set?? I stamped the 'free' in black in the free centre spot and accented the number 14 with a pink stamped heart. I also added the 'lovey' above the BINGO title. The penguins from the new set, Love Stinks, were stamped on white with versafine, cut out and popped up on dimensionals. The fish was paper-pieced and the stickles and a fine dusting of glitter were added to the fish scales and cheek and the heart. I added some spica buttermilk glitterpen to the beaks and feet.
The new Heart Rosette cutup was used as well, in place of the circle element on the sketch (and pushed out a fair bit as well...can you even tell I used the sketch here??;) Sorry Jen- I seemed to have butchered a perfectly lovely sketch:( I left the rosette flat and unfolded, showing you another way to use the it, in a non-rosette fashion;) hehe! Zigzag stiching and a red vintage button threaded with the new peppermint divine twine finishes it off! Ready to give to my special sweetie;)
And I should mention that I used a gorgeous new pack of 12x12 Pebbles paper that I got as a gift from my kitty-sister, Miss Susiestampalot! Thanks Susan! I love my new goodies;)

See my severley smudged sentiment?? This is what happens when you decide to stamp the sentiment onto an embossed panel on a completely finished card front:S

Up next on our swanky hop is Nancy Thomas- she has been blowing us away lately with her ingenious ideas and out-of-the-box thinking (we might have to have her looked at...thats the kind of thinking that gets one in trouble;)
Thanks for hopping in, and don't forget to link up your creation to Alma's blog for your chance at fame and fortune with weekly prizes and our monthly grandprize of Swanky Stamper...you too, could help us with our next release! Use keyword TCPTUES192 if uploading to SCS online gallery!

{YNS Preview} The Sky's The Limit!

Today I have a fun new release peek from Your Next Stamp to show you. This is an exciting release because it features a new line of YNS stamps by Jenny Suchin Designs, and boy are they cute!!!

I've used some Jillibean soup DP (not sure what brand the woodgrain DP is), a swirly embossing folder, and a few copper brads...

Koala's basket and balloon were paper-pieced and he was coloured with copics (E30-34). Koala and the clouds- Eek!~Don't you just LOVE them!!- were popped up on dimensionals....

There you have it! Check the YNS blog for links to more peeks:) The new Jenny Suchin Designs stamps will be officially released this Wednesday, January 11, at the YNS store, where they will be available for purchase!

Sketch- VLVJan2012

{KKS110} Shape Up!

Hi there! I'm here with this weeks Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge. This week, new Krafty Girl, Sharon is our hostess and she has challenged us to 'shape up'...not in the usual New Year's resolution style, but in the papercrafting department: Use 3 different shapes on your card!
My card is a square, Mad Hatter is stamped on a rectangle, my flower embellie I counted as a shape and the circle button:)

  I used the fabulous Mad Hatter from KKS's last release, colouring him up with my copics (completely WRONG, according to my 5 year old!), added a Tim Holtz queen of hearts embossing folder card, some bling (he is a flamboyant fellow, after all;), some SU black lace, and crazy stitching! I also used TCP's Circus Border Cutup along the bottom edge. MFT's prima donna flower die and a threaded button finish off the look. I wanted this card to have a really eclectic feel...I think I achieved the style:) What do you think??

Check out the Krafty Blog for more inspiration and challenge details! We'd love you to play along for your chance to win!

{TCP Release} Warm Fuzzie's

Hi there! I took a little break from peeking yesterday, but I'm back today, ready to rock your crafty little worlds!! Bahaha!
This is my FAVORITE set of this release, as I am in love with these little OuOu characters by Laurie Nadeau...they are so Tim Burton-ish and I love their creepy-cuteness;)
This little sweetheart is called Warm Fuzzie's and she totally lives up to her name!

 
I coloured her face, hair, hands and boots up with copics, as well as the birdie; and paper-pieced the rest. I used the new Lacey Floral Doily cutup to punch out some little flowers and made her a dimensional little hair-barrette and topped it with an adhesive pearl. It's pretty cute IRL! Under the flower is a stamped barrette, so I could have also just coloured that up to match her outfit.
The Lacey Floral Doily was also tucked behind the stamped panel, cut once from white CS and a second time with green DP....I just didn't pop out the white paper flowers so that you could see them through the green cutouts. The new Queen of Hearts border was used vertically along the left side of the card, just using the scallop side...Thats the coolest thing about this die: You can use the regular scallop side, the heart inverted scallop side, or use them together- that's 3 different options for the price of one border die! CRAZY! Plus you can use the little heart cutouts for teensy weensy embellies;)
The sentiment was separated into two lines and stamped on a cloud from the Cloud Border Cutup.
The buttons were threaded with TCP's linen thread in Ivory.

Head over to Alma's blog for a complete list of designers previewing today:) And don't forget about our In It To Win It thread on SCS for your chance to win this set!

{TCP Release} Feelin' Cupidy

Day 2!! Whoot whoot! I love this next TCP set we are peeking today! This bunny is the sweetest thing evah!!
He is called Feelin' Cupidy, and it is a fun one! The sentiments are hilarious!

I also used the new Heart Rosette cutup die, cutting just one and folding it mountain/valley style and fanning slightly, adhering under the sentiment and bunny circle panel. It is really nice and has the little perforations around the scallops and heart cut outs.
A TCP seam binding crinkly bow was added and little stick pins were added to play on the inside sentiment;)

Check out Alma's blog for more designers previewing today...and don't forget about our SCS forum for a chance to win this set!!

{TCP} Sneaky Peek Week- Day 1

Hi there!!! Today the TCP Catpackers are showing you a peek from our January release....and we are doubling the fun with an inspiration challenge, brought to you by Jen!

Our first peek this week features the one and only Sprinkles in Gimme Some Sugar (I know some of you have really been itching for a new Sprinkles stamp, and I think this is my fave kitty set yet!)...

And here is a less-blurry close-up;) Shiney lollies, sparkly heart candies and a yummy jar of cookies! What could be better? This is such a fun builder set! You can use whatever treats you want to display and build a scrappy, paper-pieced banner like I did...seriously kids, the possibilities are endless!!

Alma has a list of deigners previewing today. Trust me, you need to check out what the other girls did with this set! So. Much. Fun.

And play along with us in this week's challenge for your chance to win some Cat-Cash! It's the perfect time with the new release!!! Link up your card to Alma's blog and use the keyword TCPTUES191 if using an online gallery:)

Don't forget about our fun contest over at SCS....all you have to do is post a comment on the In It To Win It thread for your chance to win Gimme Some Sugar. It's just that easy!

Sketch: SSSC149