* 3rd post of the day *
Please scroll down for my Sparkle Creations Sneak Peek and Paper Makeup Stamps Hop post
Welcome to the
Your Next Stamp Winter Release BLOG HOP!
The YNS DT (plus some fabulous guests!) are showcasing some fabulous new YNS Winter and Christmas stamps 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 and you didn't arrive here from
Beth's blog, please
CLICK HERE to return to the
start of the hop at the Crystal's blog, as you don't want to miss these fab new releases!
The hop starts today (Thursday, October 7th at 9:00 EST) and ends on Tuesday October 12th at midnight (EST).
For this hop we have 4 different prize draws - how FAB is that? The grand prize of a surprise new release stamp package is at the end of the hop (
Karen's blog), but there are also 3 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so you'll just have to keep on hopping to find them, but I can tell you that I'm hosting one of the mini candy draws!! Yay!!
So to enter my mini candy draw to win this adorable
Merry Mouse Candle stamp, all you need to do is
add your link to InLinkz at the end of this post and also
leave me a comment (just in case there is a problem with the widget!). I will draw a winner on October 13th after the hop ends.
Not only are we hosting 4 prize draws, Karen is also holding a
15% OFF sale at the YNS store to celebrate the new release!!! WOO-HOO!!! So once you've finished hopping, get yourself on over to the store and spend up large!!
Now, I have somewhat of a sad story to tell you about my blog hop creations. I did actually make a fabulous
stationery box using
this tutortial at SplitCoast Stampers. I used the new Cosmo Cricket Mitten Weather paper (12x12 sheets plus 6x6 pad), and made 6 cards, 6 notelets and 6 tags using 6 different YNS new release stamps. My crafting table was a bit of a mess, and unbeknownst to me, under this mess was an almost finished cup of tea. I wanted to add some paper piercing to my notelets, but as I was pulling the end cap off the plastic cylinder that my SU paper piercer lives in, it popped off all of a sudden, causing my right hand to 'fling' and yep, you've guessed it, knocked over the tea....all over my neatly put together stationery box. I don't usually curse and swear, but let me tell you the air was pretty blue at this point! I tried to carefully sponge dry everything with copious amounts of paper towels, but after everything had dried it was slightly tea-stained (I drink Earl Grey, so not too strong) but extremely wrinkly, so I had to throw it all in the recycling ... SOB, SOB!!! Oh, I'm SO upset with myself. It looked awesome! And of course, because it wasn't completely finished I hadn't taken any piccies. I was going to send it to Karen as well so she could take it to ScrapFest, as I thought it was a great way to show off several YNS stamps at once. Oh, I'm gutted!!!! I
will make another, but as this happened yesterday I couldn't make one in time for today.
Okay, so enough of my sob story. What I can show you today are the 3 cards I made with the Winter Warm Up set of stamps. I sneak peeked the first of these cards on Monday, but here is it again along with the other two. If you're a regular visitor of my blog, you will see that I'm definitely getting into a more CAS style at the moment, and these cards are no exception:
So now you need to continue the hop by hopping over to
Sylvia's blog but remember to
enter my mini candy draw below and leave me a comment before you leave!
Thanks for dropping by!
Hope you enjoy these amazing new releases!
Hugs,