Your Next Stamp Designer Showcase - Birthday!

It has been a great month as we continue to celebrate Your Next Stamp's 7th birthday. We are continuing the party with a great feature series and another chance this week for a prize!

This week we have a special series taking place over on the Your Next Stamp blog and it's all about birthdays! There will be a variety of birthday themed projects showcased all week, so you will want to check it out each day.

My birthday project is a great gift for that bookworm in your life. I created a card along with a gift card holder and a bookmark. The card is decorated using Birthday Phoebe along with the Overdue Library Card and the Happy Birthday sentiment is from the Big Birthday Balloon dies set. All of the paper is from Simple Stories Sunshine and Happiness collection.

If you book lover is more than a bookworm, then perhaps a book MONSTER would work better. I used the books from the Birthday Phoebe stamps, adding one of the cute monsters from the Silly Monsters set. The bookmark was created with the second largest die from the Bookmark/Tag set.

I find most avid readers are very happy receiving a gift card from their favourite bookstore. I created a gift card holder using the Medium Tear Away die and Tear Away Tab Sentiments Two.

If you want to see more amazing birthday projects head over to the YNS blog.

There is a chance to WIN a stamp set of your choice by leaving a comment over at the YNS blog. Leave a comment each during our birthday features (August 15 to 18) for greater odds of winning. At the end of the feature week, a winner will be drawn from all the comments.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a wonderful day!

Supplies Used
Stamps: Birthday Phoebe, Overdue Library card, Silly Monsters, Tear Away Tab Sentiments Two
Dies: Big Birthday Balloon, Bookmark/tag, 
Medium Tear Away Tab die 

Paper: Simple Stories Sunshine and Happiness

Your Next Stamp June Feature + Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Welcome to the June YOUR NEXT STAMP feature post. Each month the design team uses specific stamps, dies or follows a theme to create a project that will hopefully inspire you!

This month our theme is.......Yellow!

As we are nearing the end of the school year, I thought I would work on a few more thank you cards. I am sure all of the teachers are ready for summer. I used fun yellow paper to brighten the card, adding my Java Geek, Mini Ink Splatter and Overdue Library Card stamps, as well as the Fancy Thanks and Apple die.

YNS Supplies: Java Geek, Overdue Library Card, Mini Ink Splatter, Apple Die, Fancy thanks, Retro Gumdrops. Other Supplies: Lawn Fawn Let's Polka in the Meadow

Head over to the YNS blog to see all of the Design Team member sharing projects for this month's feature. Leave a comment on the blog post for the June Feature and you will have a chance to win a prize. One lucky stamper will WIN a YNS stamp set of their choice!

I am also excited to include this card as part of the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop. Did you know that Your Next Stamp is one of the sponsors for this amazing hop.  You can check out Karen's fabulous summer coffee card (here) and see how you could win some YNS blog candy.

Thank you for stopping by today. Have a wonderful and crafty day!

Your Next Stamp Summer Feature (Journal Notebook)

This month on the Your Next Stamp blog, the Design team are featuring projects that are all things SUMMER and all things FUN!

With a theme like summer fun, there really is so much you can do.

For my Summer Fun project, I created a journal for my oldest daughter to use for her upcoming summer holidays. My Letter Board Die really got a workout, as I made titles for the journal cover and insert pages inside the book. On the cover, I also used Happy Dance, the Overdue Library Card stamp and delicious Gumdrops.

Inside the first pages of the journal, I created pockets to hold a few tags and journal pages.

My daughter will have the chance to create her own summer bucket list of activities. I used Zero Calories to decorate this insert page. The tag, which will make an ideal bookmark for this avid reader, was created using the Cool Tag Three and Zero Calories. The other insert page is a chore list, because the summer can all be about fun and games.

The next part of the journal includes an additional pocket and a notepad.

This insert page which is decorate with the Spectacular Teacher stamp and die, will allow my daughter to record her summer reads.

Thanks for checking out my summer fun feature project today. If you head over to the YNS blog, you will also see projects by Holly and Martha. Stop back each day this week to see more fun Summer projects and on Friday the continuation of our current sketch/colour challenge.

Have a wonderful and crafty day!

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Happy Dance, Overdue Library Card, Spectacular Teacher, Zero Calories
Dies: Stitched Rectangles, Spectacular Teacher, Letter Board, Cool Tag Three
Paper: Echo Park Summer Bliss
Other: YNS Gumdrops