Posts By: Julie Elak

Let’s Learn More – Meghan Kennihan

Posted by: Julie Elak on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 12:00 am

It’s time to learn more about team member Meghan Kennihan! Meghan joined the team in January and she brings bright colors and joy with all of her creations!

Blog: **MadeByMeghanK**
Instagram: **MadeByMeghanK**
Twitter: **MadeMeghan**

Meet Meghan, a Personal Trainer and Run Coach who has a nasty craft habit on her “rest” day and loves all things crafty – especially card making and scrap booking. She says her life has always revolved around creating! Her style is BRIGHT colors, pattern papers, CUTE, and whimsical creations. Although she scrapbooks, card making has become her focus this past year as she has really gotten into all the various techniques with cards and coloring. She loves her Copic markers, using Distress inks, die cuts, and stencils. As you can tell from her profile picture, she is a dog mom to Maddie, the love of her life.

What do you enjoy most about paper crafting? I love getting to give the cards I create and bring a smile to friends and family’s faces

Favorite YNS Stamp set? Ellie Loves Lattes

Favorite paper crafting technique? I love stencils and glitter paste lately

What quirks do you have? I have to have a back up of every food item in my refrigerator/pantry for example if I have a jar of almond butter in my fridge I probably have at least 2-3 backups in my cabinet/

What job would you be terrible at? Anything that involves sitting for more than 15 minutes… so truck driver

What can’t you live without? My Puppy, MADDIE

What’s your claim to fame? I won the Inaugural Illinois Marathon, Kettle Moraine 100K and multiple other ultra races. I also qualified for the half Ironman Championships.

What is your ideal way to spend the weekend? Race a 50 miler on Saturday followed by an ice bath then craft all day on Sunday.

Since I am a Run Coach and Personal Trainer I made a card in my “colorful style” for my post…

YNS Supplies: Ewe Can Do It Stamp and Die Sets
Winter Plaids Paper Pad
Chunky Grass Die

Happy Stamping!

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Join in all the FUN! Play along with our latest YNS Challenge!

Let’s Learn More – Noga Shefer

Posted by: Julie Elak on Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 12:00 am

Want to learn more about the newest members of the YNS design team? We are putting each in the spotlight over the next week. Noga Shefer is up first!

Noga joined the YNS design team in January. Her clean and simple design style is effortless and pairs perfectly with all the cuties from YNS!

Blog: Cardmaking by Noga Shefer
IG: @Noga.Shefer

Hi 🙂 My name is Noga. I live in Israel, married to Yaniv and have two cute boys and two dogs. In the morning I work in marketing in our nursery and at night I create cards. This is my therapy 🙂 I’m so happy to be part of YNS DT!

What is your ideal way to spend the weekend? I love to go to the Thai restaurant with my husband and to a movie with my kids. Because of Covid-19 we are locked at home and can’t do it these days.

What do you enjoy most about paper crafting? Crafting is my therapy. After a long day of working in the office and being a mom for 2 small kids, I relax with stamps and inks.

Favorite paper crafting technique? Ink blending with distress oxide inks.

Who inspires you? Nature. Even a nice sunset can inspires me.

Favorite YNS Stamp set? Pigs Can Fly – I adore this set!

Pigs Can Fly stamp and die sets
Cloud Panel Die

Happy Stamping!

Lots of Love with Ushii

Posted by: Julie Elak on Monday, April 6, 2020 at 12:00 am

Ushii Landia, one of our April guests, is sharing her final card for the month. This one is full of love, featuring Ushii’s signature style! It is also a great example of how to combine stamp sets, as there are critters from 3 different stamp sets on Ushii’s card.

Today I want to show you a card with the cute mouse from the So Mush Fun set. I combined it with a deer from the Oh, Deer! set and birds from the Holiday Wreaths set.

All critters were colored in no-line technique with Zig markers. I blended my background with two Distress Oxide inks and stamped a sentiment in brown from the So Mush Fun set… and my card was ready!

Thank you Ushii for joining us again this month! We always enjoy having you as a guest and your creativity is always inspiring!

Happy Stamping!

Winners – Challenge #135

Posted by: Julie Elak on Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 6:00 pm

We have a winner! First, thank you to everyone who played along with Challenge #135 and shared their creations featuring cute critters. YNS has so many cute critters to choose from and we always enjoy seeing them in action!

The randomly selected entry is participant #23, Crafty Hair Lady! Congrats, you are the winner of a $15.00 egift card to the YNS store! Please contact Karen via the contact us link at the bottom of the site to claim your prize.

The Top Pick from the challenge is a birthday card featuring a bunch of cuties! Trina Pham’s card is sure to bring on smiles!!!

YNS Supplies: Photo Booth and Photo Booth Thumbs Up

Want another chance to win? Challenge #136 is going on right now and we are looking for Pastels!

Happy Stamping!

Lena Scheimann – Easter Train

Posted by: Julie Elak on Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 12:00 am

We have another amazing guest for you this month. Please welcome Lena Scheimann! We spied some of Lena’s creations on Instagram and wanted to see more.

Scroll on down to learn more about Lena and see her slimline Easter card featuring the All Aboard train stamp set.

Lena Scheimann

Hello, my name is Lena and I live in Bochum, Germany. I am a primary school teacher and fortunately I can realize my passion for crafting there as well. Even as a child, I did a lot of hand crafts and painting, but my love for paper crafting, coloring and card making started just a few years ago.

What I like most are cute and playful designs, which I create with a lot of joy and give to my family and friends. I enjoy using copics and polychromos. I am also practicing coloring with watercolors, because I love the beautiful and soft effect. I can’t believe that I am a guest designer for Your Next Stamp in April and I am very excited to share my creations with you.

The vibrantly colored train is set against a sunny sponged sky.

All Aboard

Happy Stamping!

Easter Sweetness with Ushii

Posted by: Julie Elak on Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Our April Guest, Ushii Landia is sharing more Easter inspiration with you today. This time around it is a card and it is full of sweetness (and eggs)!

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I just love these chickens from Hey Chickie! stamp set and can’t stop using them for my Easter cards every year! This time I mixed them with the basket from Easter Basket stamp set.

At first I planned it to be an interactive card, but when I laid my colored critters on a card base it looked so sweet that I didn’t want to change anything 😀

Hey Chickie! stamp set

Easter Basket stamp set

Ushii will be back for her final post on Monday, so be sure to stop by!

Happy Stamping!

Challenge #136 – Comment for the Chance to Win!

Posted by: Julie Elak on Friday, April 3, 2020 at 12:00 am

It’s springtime in the northern hemisphere and we are thinking of flowers and Easter. Those thoughts led to our latest challenge…

Challenge #136 – Pastels

Our challenges always come with 2 ways to win:

#1 – Would you like the chance to win a YNS stamp set? Leave a comment on this post by April 8, 2020 at midnight est to be entered in the random drawing. Want more entries in the drawing? Leave comments on YNS’ IG and FB pages too!

#2 – Would you like the chance to win a YNS store e-gift card? Play along with the challenge! Link up your creation at the bottom of this post by April 16, 2020 at midnight est to be entered in the random drawing to win a $15.00 YNS gift certificate. If your creation contains YNS products and you are the random winner then you receive an extra $5.00.

Scroll on down to see inspiration from the team, including from our newest member, Kulbir! Then, be sure to leave a comment to be entered in the draw!

Kulbir

Sue

Meghan

YNS Supplies: Pigs Can Fly Stamp Set
Photo Booth Polaroid

Karen

YNS Supplies: Easter Love
Scalloped Circle Frame Die Set with Piercing Marks
Stitched Rectangle Die Set
Black Olive Ink
Enchanted Garden Gumdrops
Hey Chickie
Hey Chickie Die Set

Noga

Kendra

YNS Supplies: Easter Love
Easter Love Die Set
Treat Topper Die Set
Stitched Fishtail Banner Die Set
Fairytale Magic 6×6 Paper Pad
Black Olive Ink

Kerri

So Ewe-nique
So Ewe-nique Die Set
Cool Tag Four Die Set
Stitched Grass Die
Flower Petal Panel Die
Black Olive Ink

Challenge Details:

YNS’ Challenge #136 ends on Thursday, April 16, 2020 at midnight EST.
Only new creations please.
Limit of 3 entries per challenge, per person, each entry must be different.
Be sure to link back to our challenge in your blog post or gallery entry.
Entries not meeting the challenge guidelines will be removed.
All stamps are welcome, although we love to see YNS stamps and dies on your projects.
One random participant will win a $15 gift certificate to the Your Next Stamp store. If YNS stamps or dies are the focal point then the winner receives an additional $5 gift certificate for a total of $20. The winner will be announced on the YNS Blog the Sunday after the challenge closes.
The YNS Top Pick will receive the “YNS Top Pick” badge and their project will be featured on the YNS Blog the Sunday after the challenge closes. To be considered for the Top Pick, YNS stamps/dies must be the focal point of your project.

Happy Stamping!

Easter Eggs by Ushii

Posted by: Julie Elak on Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 12:00 am

Want to try something new this year with your Easter eggs? Ushii Landia is back with her second project this month and she continues to get you ready for Easter.

Today I have the easiest and simplest Easter egg decoration for you – just grab your Fun Faces stamp set (and Fun Faces 2 as well) and stamp on hard boiled eggs with hybrid ink! How fun is that??

No need to pull out dye and dip your eggs, the supplies in your craft room will work out perfectly! Although, you could dye the eggs first and then stamp.

One safety note…make sure the ink does not get absorbed by the egg shell and bleed in to your hard boiled egg.

Fun Faces stamp set

Check out Ushii’s first guest post here and be sure to stop back on Saturday because Ushii has more ideas for Easter!

Happy Stamping!

Easter Treats from Ushii

Posted by: Julie Elak on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 12:00 am

Today we are welcoming Ushii Landia back as a guest! Her projects are full of whimsy and her signature soft no line coloring technique – swoon worthy, I promise!

Have you created any Easter projects yet? Ushii is ready to inspire you!

I’m Ushii and I’m super excited to be a guest designer for Your Next Stamp!
Who am I? A crafty girl, trying to find a happiness in every moment of life I live in Poland and I’m an architect. As far as I remember, I’ve always loved to design, create, alter, paint, sew something… Ten years ago I discovered scrapbooking and cardmaking with all the colorful papers, embellishments and cute stamps – and I fell in love! I usually have five ideas at the same time, I love to try new techniques, new things and visit new places … and besides, I love good company, good wine and good books
My favorite tools are Copics, Zig Clean Color markers and watercolors, as I love coloring stamps! But I like funny dies and stencils a lot, too. My projects are usually sweet, colorful and joyful

You can follow me on my Instagram (@ushiilandia), my FB (https://www.facebook.com/ushiilandia/) or meet me at my blog http://ushiilandia.blogspot.com/ (in Polish)

Today I want to share my sweet chocolate Easter egg treat boxes made from the Mini Popcorn Box Die.

I just masked some parts of paper, using stencils and masking tape, and blended out with pink and yellow inks.

Then I assembled my baskets and added chickens from the Hey Chickie! set (all colored in no-line technique).

And that’s it, I’m going to use them as a table decoration – one basket with chocolate eggs for every guest 🙂

Hey Chickie! set

Stop back tomorrow for more Easter inspiration from Ushii.

Happy Stamping!

A New Welcome

Posted by: Julie Elak on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 12:00 am

We are excited to announce that Kulbir Kirkland is now part of the Your Next Stamp design team! Welcome Kulbir!!!

Kulbir has been a wonderful guest in the past. Get ready, because her fun style is now going to be on display on a regular basis. Let’s get to know a little more about Kulbir and check out her first official design team creation!

Kulbir Kirkland

IG: @luv2papercraft

Hi, I’m Kulbir living in beautiful Ontario, Canada. I am a mother of 2 teenagers that keep me very busy. In my spare time I love escaping to my craft space to unwind and enjoy experimenting with all types of medium; my favourite is coloring with Copics, water coloring and making all things rainbow.

What movie best describes your life?
The Greatest Showman describes my life. I always feel like I am walking into the big top when I come home.

What is your favorite paper crafting technique?
I love coloring with Copic and Zig markers.

What is your favorite YNS stamp set? All the Photo Booth Sets are my faves, they are so much fun.

What can’t you live without?
I can’t live without everything in my craft room 😊

What do you enjoy most about paper crafting?
Making someone else smile is what I enjoy most

Here is that card we promised… Kulbir is focusing on the good times, with one of the pups from Paw-some Pups!

YNS Supplies: Paw-some Pups
Photo Booth
Tropical Paradise Gumdrops

We are looking forward to sharing more of Kulbir’s creations starting with our new challenge this Friday!

Happy Stamping!