Hi readers! Happy Friday! We’re so happy to spotlight Darlene DeVries on our blog today and all of the educational elements that it consists of! She also has a very special giveaway going on right now that you just might want to check out!

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Hi Everyone!

My name is Darlene DeVries and I’ve been video blogging every week for six years! Wow, time flies when you’re having fun. :)

I have created over 400 videos on card-making, including techniques, product reviews and comparisons, and basic 101’s. I love card-making so much that one year ago, I started an online community called LiveLoveCards. In addition to all my videos, we have an active forum, challenges, and other fun features such as polling, “favorites” bookmarking, thumbnail galleries by product and technique, and a special section for member craft rooms (including my step-by-step work-in-progress – a craft room from heaven with a target completion of February!).

For me, card-making is more than just making cards – it is teaching and interacting with fellow card-makers… literally the kindest people in the world. To help members get the most for their craft-spent money, I show multiple uses for products and compare similar products. I just started a new video series called “One Flower, Eight Ways”, where I am coloring the same stamped flower with 8 different coloring mediums.

I’ve made Session #2 available for free – you can check it out HERE. There is a nominal fee for membership: $2.50/month. Here are a few other free videos you can view:

Enjoy your visit and I hope to see you more often! :)
Darlene

Thanks for reading today! Have a great day!

Hi readers! Please join me in welcoming back the amazingly talented Yoonsun Hur back to the blog today! Let’s see what she’s created most recently… enjoy!

Hello crafty friends, Yoonsun here!

I am so excited to share my cards with You Have My Heart Perfect Shapes stamp set. Perfect Shapes stamp set has each 4 different sizes of hexagons, triangles, squares, and circles in one set. It’s literally perfect for making my own geometric patterns.

For the background, I stamped the images from Perfect Shapes set repeatedly onto watercolour paper using black pigment ink, coloured the stamped panel with Distress inks using a wide paintbrush, then spritzed on it with Ranger Perfect Pearls Mist. For the sentiment, I used Big U Words stamp set and I Love You Word dies.

Supplies:

We’re not expecting you to use their tails as a water brush or sit your puppy or kitty on your craft table while you create, the theme this week on the  Wednesday Challenge  is Create With Critters, we would like them to be the centre of attention on your creation! If you do have a pet we would love to see a photo of them on your blog post too.

We are showcasing Lawn Fawn products this week. You don’t have to use them to join in with the challenge, but if you have them we would love to see them used!

Once you have made your creation just go ahead and upload it into the linky on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog!  We can’t wait to see what you make!

As always, we’re offering a chance to win a $50 Gift Voucher to Simon Says Stamp!  All YOU need to do is join in with the challenge!

Below are three projects created by the design team, that showcase this weeks theme! You can visit the challenge blog  to get all the details and see the amazing cards and projects that the design team has created this week. If you click on each designers name, you’ll be taken directly to their blog where you’ll get more details about their project! Be sure to give these talented ladies some comments!

Created by Lols Aquilina:

Lols used:

Created By Melissa Bove:

Melissa used:

Created By Teresa Kline:

Teresa used:

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