YNS March Release BLOG HOP ~ Candy Alert!

Welcome to the Your Next Stamp March New Release BLOG HOP!

We have some amazing new YNS stamps to show you today! These new stamps are available to buy right now from the Your Next Stamp store along with all your YNS favourites.

If you would like to participate in the hop then you are at the right place, as I am the start of the hop!!

The hop starts today (8 March 2011 at 08:00 EST) which also happens to be my birthday!!  Yippee!!  And it ends on 11 March 2011 at midnight EST.

As always here at Your Next Stamp, we have 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 surprise package of new release stamps!  Just add your name to the linky list at the end of this post to be entered into the prize draw!

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 along the hop (although we hope you will visit every blog!). 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 our new release creations!

Karen is also running a special 10% off promotion from today until 14 March 2011. Just enter the code YNSMARCH when checking out to apply your 10% discount. There are also some FANTASTIC special offers and promotions running over at the YNS store at the moment, so once you've finished the hop be sure to hop on over and check out the clearance sections: 35% off selected stamps - 50% off selected stamps - 60% off selected bare rubber stamps - 35% off selected embellishments - 35% off selected DP sampler packs. WOW! What a great time to grab a bargain!

I went a little mad and made 3 cards for you today using 5 different new release stamps!! So here they are:

Spring Stair-step Card
YNS Stamps used: Cute Bunny with Flowers, Cute Sheep with Flowers, Just Hatched (all Dale Designs)

I covered the shell of the egg in Glossy Accents to make it nice and shiny, added some fun white flowersoft to the bunny's tail and tummy, used actual cotton wool for the clouds, some Viva Decor glitter liner (from Quixotic Paperie) for the centres of the flowers and butterflies, and I made the trees using a SU punch and my fair hands, and the banner was made completely from scratch complete with Divine Twine from Elaine at Quixotic Paperie!  I had a LOT of fun making this card! :o)

Blowing Smoke
YNS stamp used: Dante Dragon (Franfou Designs)

I followed the Viva La Verve challenge sketch for week 1 (VLVMar2011) by Amber Hight for this card and used some of my beloved October Afternoon design papers - yum!!

Spring Garden
YNS stamp used: Dixie Daisy (Franfou Designs)

I completely blame my fellow YNS DT teamie Jenny for me purchasing these wonderful MFT Die-namic cloud dies!!  Aren't they the cutest?  I bought them from Tracy at Dies to Die For, who not only offers the BEST service ever, but stocks (I think) the biggest MFT Die-namics range in the UK! Yay!  I used some Echo Park Sweet Sumnmertime paper for this card (available HERE from Quixotic Paperie) and followed this month's sketch over at Sugar Creek Hollow.

I'd like to enter these cards into some challenges:

Spring Stair-step Card
Cupcake Inspiration #101 ; Gingerloft #13 ; Dream Valley #2 ; Creative Inspirations (Green) ; Catered Crop FTR7 ; Little Claire's #2 ; Corrosive #106 ; ECP #33 ; Wags n Whiskers #49 ; Stampin for the Weekend #5 ; Simply Create #38 ; Fairy Knoll #40 ; Card Making Mamas #16 ; OTWC #48 ; Craft Us Crazy #3 ; Crafty Purple Frog ; Cute Card Thursday #154 ; Delightful Challenges ; DYSU #9 ; Some Odd Girl ; SISC49 ; Cooking it Up #51 ; Creative Belli #112 ; Pixie Cottage #59 ; Scrapbook Sisters #25 ; Paper Variety ; Sir Stampalot March Challenge (Spring) ; The Pink Elephant #95 ; Incy Wincy #84

Blowing Smoke card
Corrosive #106 ; Creative Inspirations (Green) ; ECP #33 ; Tellens Place (Embellish) ; Fussy & Fancy (embossing) ; Card Making Mamas #16 ; Charizma #9 ; DYSU #9 ; Pixie Dust #64 ; Creative Belli #112 ; Creative Craft World ;

Spring Garden card
Sugar Creek Hollow (sketch) ; Paper Sundaes #59 ; Crafty Pad #111 ; Little Claire's #2 ; Fairy Knoll #40 ; Cute Card Thursday #154 ; Delightful Challenges ; Fab n Funky #62 ; Scrapbook Sisters #25 ;

So now it's time for you to hop on over to Peggy's blog as she is the next stop on our hop, but I'd love it if you left me a comment before you go!

Thanks so much for hopping with us today! I hope you enjoy our new release!

Hugs,