Sites of the week

Welcome to your next stop on the Your Next Stamp January release blog hop. Did you happen here by chance? If so, rewind and make your way to the beginning at Wendy’s blog. If you are hopping right along, you should have come here from Linda’s blog.

As always at Your Next Stamp, there is a wonderful prize for you to win! One lucky winner will be drawn at random from the links in the linky list to receive a new release stamp package!
You will see that every stop along the hop has a linky list - this is the SAME linky list posted on every blog, so that you can enter the prize draw from any stop (although we hope you will visit all the blogs on today’s hop!). The linky will update itself on everyone’s blog when a link is entered - how cool is that? Please remember to only enter your name ONCE into the linky list during the hop - you do NOT need to enter your name at every stop and multiple entries will be removed. It’s not a requirement for you to comment at every stop along the hop to be eligible to be entered into the prize draw, but the DT would sure love to hear what you think of their new release creations!

This card uses the new release, Musical Ellie…

She’s cuuuute, huh? Although I didn’t use a sentiment, I think a simple “Just a Note” or “Take Note” would be great for this image. I don’t know why, but I used the same color scheme as I did on another music card earlier this week. I guess I have it stuck in my head. Gotta shake that one loose! LOL!

Ready to keep hopping along? Off you go to Kerri’s blog. Happy hopping!

Enter here or anywhere along the hop!

Happy Saturday folks! It’s another Copic teaching day {at Scrapper’s Boutique} for me and then I will be stamping my heart out the rest of the afternoon and evening. YAY! I have lots of new goodies to play with that I will be showing off in the next week or so.

I realized that the time wasn’t in line with what I said the cut-off was, so everyone that left a comment with a link {there were only a few} after the link system closed I included in the drawing for some fresh from the farm THE GREETING FARM stamps. Thank you again to TGF for their sponsorship!! The winner is…

#16 SWLDEBBIE with THIS fabby creation using last week’s sketch.
…email me {link under my pic to the left} and we will get you all set up with those new stamps!

Are you ready for a fun sketch that has so many possibilities? I hope you go crazeeee for this one…

I mentioned above that I have lots of new goodies to play with, and a good chunk of those goodies are from MY FAVORITE THINGS. There’s a new release coming up on Wednesday and there are some super duper cutie patootie sets coming out. You can check out more sneak peek samples on Kim’s/The MFT blog, where she has a list of all the peekers.

Detail shot…

In this set there are 3 house images. I used 2 of the same side by side and then popped up a different one right in the middle of them. The “Boo Time” paper is also created from one of the sentiments in the set. I love making my own DP from sentiment sets, especially when I can’t find a good place to put one otherwise!

A little more MFT Info…
1. The release party is at the MFT Forum on SCS HERE from 8-10 EST on Wednesday, September 1st.
2. Leave a comment on each of the peekers each day for a chance to win some FREE stamps! Winners will be announced on Kim’s/The MFT blog daily. Good luck!
3. Don’t forget to check out the Guest Designer challenge, too!! You can find all the deets for that right HERE.

Ashley N. Newell, this month’s Designer of the Month, created this wonderful sample. THANK YOU to Ashley for being such a fun and fabby Designer of the Month!

All the SFYTT Sisters are gonna make your head spin with all the circles on this sketch! Be sure to check ‘em out…
Susan Liles
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Megan Lock
Amber Hight
Sony Christoph
Jodi Collins
Kelly Lunceford
Jenn Diercks
Carole Burrage

Wanna play along? I’m looking for a future Designer of the Month from each week’s participants.

Have fun with this sketch and link it here. When uploading to any online galleries, please use the keyword SFYTT. Thank for playing!!

Happy Saturday SFYTT fans! As you are reading this, I am probably getting ready to or already teaching a couple of Copic classes at my local LSS, Scrapper’s Boutique.

This week’s SFYTT is sponsored by another great company…THE GREETING FARM! Their stamps are so fun and original! One participant from this week’s sketch will win their choice of any 4″x6″ set in stock! THANKS TGF! Be sure to check out their blog as well, it’s chock full o’ ideas and great challenges to play along with!

Here’s this week’s sketch…

Here’s my flipped sample using the oh-so-cute, Dressy Ebony…

Detail shot…

Designer of the Month, Ashley N. Newell, created this fun card by flipping the sketch, too…

Of course THE SFYTT SISTERS have some great inspiration for you to check out, and you’ll be sure to see more of THE GREETING FARM stamps, too!…
Susan Liles
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Megan Lock
Amber Hight
Sony Christoph
Jodi Collins
Kelly Lunceford
Jenn Diercks
Carole Burrage

Want to play along? Each participant will be eligible to win their choice of an in stock 4″x6″ TGF set. Just upload your creation to the link system below by Friday, August 27 at 5pm CST! Winner will be announced on next Satruday’s SFYTT post. When uploading to any online galleries, please use the keyword “SFYTT” and if you want to get the sketches early, just become a Facebook friend {link over there on the left}. I post the sketches on Friday’s over there

Happy Saturday Everyone! Today is Ellie’s PURPLE PARTY AT THE PARK! It’s a purple themed birthday party at one of the coolest parks that I have been to. We are all pretty excited about it! I promise pictures of the fun, as well as my cookies and cupcakes are coming!

Today’s sketch is sponsored by the oh-so-cute stamp company YOUR NEXT STAMP! I love their Fhiona and Ellie {of course!} stamps! As a prize to one very lucky participant this week YNS is giving away all 10 mini Fhionas and an Ellie of the winner’s choice!…WOWZAS!

AND…SFYTT fans get 15% off their orders by using the code “SFYTT15″ THANK YOU YNS!!!

Here is this week’s sketch…

Here’s my birthday card to Ellie using, Ellie Loves to Bake {my Ellie really loves to help me in the kitchen…just don’t ask her to try anything new!!}.

I tweaked it a little…

A couple detail shots…

BTW, the word “Ellie” was stamped using my super favoritest alpha set, TCP’s Coolvetica!!

Sandra MacLean has a beautifully colored card using this sketch…

Want more fabby samples of the sketch? Check out what the SFYTT sisters have for in store…you might just cathc a glimpse at some more of those uber cute Your Next Stamp images…

Susan Liles
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Megan Lock
Amber Hight
Sony Christoph
Jodi Collins
Kelly Lunceford
Jenn Diercks

Post your creations to the link system below. If you do not have a blog, but would like to be eligible to win the fabby YNS prize package, simply {directly} link your creation in the comments section. When uploading to online galleries, please use the keyword SFYTT. Thanks and good luck!!!

Before I dive into the VERVE BLOG HOP, I want to announce last week’s winner of the PixiePetals gift certificate…

Congrats to GARDENIA!!!
Gardenia, email me {link over there on the left} and I will get you your $10 gift certificate to the fabby Pixie Petals shoppe!

Did you check out all the Verve-y goodness on the Verve blog the last few days or at the Release Party last night? I doubt you missed it but just in case you are hopping away now, so there is more to come! You should have hopped along from Julee’s blog and when you hop along outta here, you will head on over to Charmaine’s blog {I’ll link her later in this post, too}.

In the essence of multi-tasking, this is the Verve Blog Hop and my SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY post. And, guess what??? Participants of this week’s sketch will be entered to win a $30 VERVE GIFT CARD!!! Hello!! How wonderful is that {in my humble opinion}!?!? So here’s the sketch…

I just realized that I forgot the skinny horizontal panel under the main image panel…oops and oh, well. This is still my favoritest {yep, it’s a word!} Verve card ever {again, a humble opinion of mine}. This card uses a combo of October Afternoon Fly A Kite movie with the new Verve release, Blue Skies…

Be sure to check out all the new releases {and DEALS through July 5, too} on the Verve site HERE.

I want to give a huge THANK YOU to Julee for donating such a generous gift certificate to one of this week’s sketch participants!! Somebody will be doing some serious happy shopping about this time next week!!

Another big THANK YOU goes out to Andrea Ewen, this month’s Designer of the Month! She came up with this beauty for the sketch…

For you blog hoppers, bounce on over to Charmaine’s blog, but don’t forget to check out what all the SFYTT Sisters have in store for you {a lot of them are featuring Verve Stamps on their blogs, too}…

Susan Liles
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Megan Lock
Amber Hight
Sony Christoph
Jodi Collins
Kelly Lunceford
Jenn Diercks

If you want a chance to win the $30 Verve Gift Certificate, just play along with the SFYTT this week and link your project below no later than 6pm on Friday {July 2nd}. If you do not have a blog, please leave a comment with a link to your project in the comments section.

PS-One lucky commenter along the hop will win the entire Verve release. Comments entered before 8PM on Monday, June 28 will be entered to win.

Good luck and happy stamping…