Grateful for all you do

Hi there! I have a new Whimsy Inspirations Challenge for you today! We're Making Our Own Flowers this week and we really hope you'll join us! Here's my card for the challenge...

I have used this sweet sentiment from Raindrop Echo Designs...it's from the Warm Winter Wishes Sentiments set available at Whimsy Stamps!

Lots of Spellbinders dies used on this one...I cut the sentiment out with the Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two set and I cut it out a second time in green as an extra layer. There are two layers cut with the Labels Twenty set. I also made the large rose with a Spellbinders die...it's the Spiral Blossoms One die. The leaves peeking out at the corner are cut with the Foliage set too.

The two smaller roses are cut with the MFT Mini Rolled Roses dies and stacked inside each other. I added some Marianne's flourishes, a sheer pink ribbon, some pearls and a bit of Sticles on the decorative part of the paper!

I hope you'll join us for the challenge! Stop by the Whimsy Inspirations Challenge blog and see what the rest of the Design Team has to inspire you with today!

Happy Winter - New Stamps at Paper and Such!

Hi there! It's my first new release with the Paper and Such team and I am thrilled to show you a peek of the new Swirly Trees set! I decided to use the snowflake tree from the set, so I inked it up with Memento Bahama Blue and added a bit of Stardust Stickles to the centers of the snowflakes. You can see it better in the detail picture...just click on it to make it larger!

I added a sentiment from the same set and kept this card pretty simple...in my opinion! There's some snowflake embossing on the white background panel, a bright blue snowflake dp panel, some white sheer ribbon and a ton of snowflakes layered up and topped with an irridescent snowflake! I used snowflake dies by several companies on this one and even used some vellum as one of the layers!

Be sure to stop by the rest of the Design Team blogs to see what they have created using this great new Swirly Trees Set! All of the new stamps sets will be available for sale on October 9th at the Paper and Such Store!

Julie

Amber

Janice

Jen Marie

Kim

Mindy

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Whimsy Stamp October Digi Release Blog Hop!

Hi there! Welcome to the Whimsy Stamps October Digital Release Blog Hop! I hope you arrived here from Marilyn's Blog and if so, you are on the right track!

Whimsy Stamps is releasing new Digital Designs today from Crissy's Digis, Moon Cookie Gallery, Stamp Art Design and Lia Stampz too! All of the new images are available now!

Your first stop on the hop is always the Whimsy Inspirations Blog. You can find the complete list of participants there. And...you'll want to leave some love along the way too as there will be two winners...these will be chosen from two mystery blogs. The blog hop runs from today until Saturday, October 8th at 12:oo pm EST.

The Grand Prize Winner of the hop will be chosen from comments left on the final stop...the lucky winner will receive 5 new digital stamps of their choice from Whimsy and will also get a chance to use those new digital images as a guest designer for Whimsy for the entire month of November! So, what are you waiting for? Head on over there and get hopping!

Here's what I made for the hop...


I've used a new image from StampArt Design by Kathryne called Autumn Friends! I just love the expression on the scarecrow's face and the little crow is what made me choose this image! It's colored with Copics to match my Imaginisce papers. I added a couple of Marianne's die cuts, a seam binding bow, a metal leaf brad, my sentiment from the Autumn Sentiments set by Raindrop Echo Designs at Whimsy Stamps and a few pearls!

Your next stop is Anita's Blog! Be sure to visit the Whimsy Stamps Store to see all the new digital stamps available today!

Have fun hopping and thanks for stopping by today!

Wherever you go...

Hi there! I have a new Whimsy Inspirations Challenge for you today! I actually chose the challenge theme this week so I hope you lie it! It's Polka Dots! Here's my card for the challenge...


Here's a super cute image by Moon Cookie Gallery at Whimsy Stamps...it's called Mary the Magnolia Fairy...isn't she sweet?! She's colored with Copics and I added lots of Stickles to her wings! I used my Spellbinders dies to cut out the image and layered it up with my mat and some coordinating polka dotted papers by K & Co. I added some ribbon topped with a BG brad, my sentiment, a little MS punched butterfly and some swirls, a few gems and some pearls!

I hope you'll join us for the challenge! Stop by the Whimsy Inspirations Challenge blog and see what the rest of the Design Team has to inspire you with today!

Enjoy Today!

Hi there! I'm thrilled to be a Guest Sweetie at the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge this week! I was equally thrilled when I saw this awesome inspiration photo...it's no secret I love, love, love pink and green!!!

For my card, I used this beautiful butterfly image called Daisy Butterfly by Crissy Armstrong at Whimsy Stamps! I colored it with Copics and cut it out with a Spellbinders die...(I wish I had a nickel for every time I typed that!) The sentiment is from Verve and I cut it out with the banner Spellbinders dies. I added some black gem flourishes and some clear gems in the corners!

Stop by the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge to see what the other Sweeties have made! Play along for your chance to win a prize too!

Challenges:
Stamptacular Sunday 129 - Just Sayin'

Fall Fairy Wishes

Hi there! I have a new Whimsy Inspirations Challenge theme for you today! It's so easy and so much fun! Can you handle The Color...Green?!! I knew you could! Here's my card for the challenge...


I used this adorable new digi stamp called Fall Fairy Wishes by StampArt Design by Kathryne at Whimsy Stamps! I kept this one CAS and let the image with the sentiment take center stage! She's colored with Copics to match my papers and I just added a big bow and gem to this beauty!

I hope you'll join us for the challenge! Stop by the Whimsy Inspirations Challenge blog and see what the rest of the Design Team has to inspire you with today!

A Garden is...

Hi there! Today, over at the Whimsy Inspirations Blog, you will find the Whimsy Stamps September Digital Release Blog Hop!

Whimsy Stamps is releasing new Digital Designs today from Crissy's Digis and Raindrop Echo Designs. There's lots of new images from Natalie Michalski of Moon Cookie Gallery and Kathryne Kittmer of Stamp Art Design too! And....there a new artist being showcased today...Lia Stampz! All of the new images are available now!

Your first stop on the hop is always the Whimsy Inspirations Blog. You can find the complete list of participants there. And...you'll want to leave some love along the way too as there will be two winners...these will be chosen from two mystery blogs. The blog hop runs from today until Thursday, September 8th at 12:oo pm EST.

The Grand Prize Winner of the hop will be chosen from comments left on the final stop...the lucky winner will receive 5 new digital stamps of their choice from Whimsy and will also get a chance to use those new digital images as a guest designer for Whimsy for the entire month of September! So, what are you waiting for? Head on over there and get hopping!

Although, my team is not hopping today, I do have a card to share using one of the new images...

Here's Birdie Friend by Crissy Armstrong...isn't she adorable! It was so hard to decide which image to use this month because there are so many great ones, but this one caught me eye right away! I just love the little birdie sitting on those poppies! I've colored the image with Copics and cut it out with my Spellbinders dies. This sweet sentiment is new too...it's by Raindrop Echo Designs and it's one of six sentiment from the In My Garden collection.

I used my favorite papers from My Mind's Eye Lime Twist and added a seam binding double bow with a brad, some leaf trinket pins, a few swirls, a double punched butterfly with some pearls and a cute little watering can brad!

Visit the Whimsy Stamps Store to see all the new digital stamps available today!

Have fun hopping and thanks for stopping by today!

Friends are Flowers...

Hi there! I have a new Whimsy Inspirations Challenge theme for you today! It's so easy and so much fun! Can you handle Anything Goes with a Sentiment?!! I knew you could! Here's my card for the challenge...

Today, I'm using a sweet flower image called Row of Flowers by Moon Cookie Gallery along with my sentiment from the Flowers in Bloom set by Raindrop Echo Designs. I cut my sentiment out with a Spellbinders Labels Eight die and framed my image in purple with their Fleur de Lis Rectangles die. The flowers are colored with Copics to match my dp and I added some ribbon and pearls to this sweet card!

I hope you'll join us for the challenge! Stop by the Whimsy Inspirations Challenge blog and see what the rest of the Design Team has to inspire you with today!

What's Up? - Whimsy and Make It Crafty Blog Hop!

Whimsy Stamps & Make it Crafty have come together to create a fun Urban Themed digi collection!

Ann Vento has whipped up her magic and designed an incredible collection of
funky wall sayings, city landscapes and of course a range of super cool street signs.

Check out the Sentiments Collection HERE

Make it Crafty is trying something new offering all the different elements for you to build your own urban backdrop.

Check out the Urban Street Collection HERE

Then of course, what better characters to incorporate into such a scene than the fabulous KennyK rubber stamps available from Whimsy Stamps!

Our incredibly talented Design Teams have had a blast playing with all the different elements to bring you LOTS of inspiration!

We have broken it in to TWO HOPS
HOP A Starts Here & HOP B Starts Here!

There will be a winner for EACH HOP and if you hop your way through BOTH, you’ll go in the draw for the GRAND PRIZE TOO!

HOP A & B Winners will each receive a $15 voucher from both Whimsy Stamps and Make it Crafty

The GRAND WINNER will win our full Urban Digital Collection,
4 Digi Sentiment sets by Ann Vento & the Urban Elements Collection from Make it Crafty

You are currently on HOP B and should have arrived from Debbie's Blog!
Here's my card for this fun hop...

Here's Kenny K's sassy Rock Chick image paired up with one of Raindrop Echo's new City Talk sentiments! She's colored with Copics and popped up on pop dots for some dimension. Her guitar is paper-pieced and blinged up a bit with silver beads and gems. I added a striped ribbon and sheer bow. Then comes more bling...a big gem brad on my bow, a super cool arrow...pointing up of course and some gems in the corner finish it off!

I created my background by starting with the brick edge image and flipped it to create a wall effect. Then, I added the little broken brick wall image. It's colored with various shades of red Copics to achieve and aged look and the edges and center area were 'dirtied' up a bit with some gray tones. The edges of my papers are distressed and inked too!

Your next stop on HOP B is Ann's Blog, but before you go make sure you leave a comment below!

You have until August 21st 8PM Australian QLD time to make your way through the hops!

New Whimsy Inspirations Challenge Blog - You Are My Sunshine

Hi there! Today is the day! It's our first challenge at the Whimsy Inspirations Challenge Blog! Yay! We have a super fun theme for you...it's one of my favorites too...Ribbons and Bows! Here's my sweet card for this week's challenge...

I am showcasing this new digi image called Forget Me Not by Crissy Armstrong...isn't she the sweetest?! She's colored with Copics and her skirt and headband are paper-pieced. I cut her out with the Spellbinders Labels Eight dies. I added a little extra grass all around her with my Copics and stamped a sky background and highlighted it with some soft Copic colors! My sentiment is from the Emma Swinging Sentiments by Raindrop Echo Designs which you can find at Whimsy Stamps! It sorta reminds me of a sun peeking out from the clouds...and what a beautiful day this scene depicts so the sun must be out!

I added some fun embellishments including a felt cloud, my ribbon and big ole' bow, some Spellbinders flourish die cuts and a crystal button with a second bow tied from some pink and white baker's twine! A few pearls on my sunshine sentiment and a pearl in each corner are the finishing touches!

I hope you'll join us for this first challenge and every week! Stop by the Whimsy Inspirations Challenge blog and see what the rest of the Design Team has to inspire you with today!

Challenges:
Copic Creations #55 - Landscape Design
Really Reasonable Ribbon #29 - Summer plus Ribbon

Whimsy Stamps August Digi Release Blog Hop!

Hi there! It's time for the Whimsy Stamps August Digital Release Blog Hop! I hope you made it here from Kindra's Blog! If so, you are on the right track!

Whimsy Stamps is releasing new Digital Designs today from Crissy's Digis, Raindrop Echo Designs and Meljen's Designs. There's lots of new images from Moon Cookie Gallery and Kathryne Kittmer too! All of the new images are available now!

Your first stop on the hop is always the Whimsy Inspirations Blog. You can find the complete list of participants there. And...you'll want to leave some love along the way too as there will be two winners...these will be chosen from two mystery blogs. The blog hop runs from today until Monday, August 8th at 12:oo pm EST.

The Grand Prize Winner of the hop will be chosen from comments left on the final stop...the lucky winner will receive 5 new digital stamps of their choice from Whimsy and will also get a chance to use those new digital images as a guest designer for Whimsy for the entire month of August! So, what are you waiting for? Head on over there and get hopping!

Here's my card...

I'm featuring a new stamp by Moon Cookie Gallery...it's called Summer Shade! I knew the minute I saw this stamp that I wanted to use it! I just love the little flowers and all the details in the tree! I colored it with Copics and fussy cut it out. My sentiment is from Raindrop Echo Designs Flowers in Bloom Sentiments digi set...but my little felt cloud is strategically hiding the flower that got cut off a bit!

I just love cloud papers...I buy every one I see for just this reason...there is always an image that I am looking for an outside scene to create for it and can never find just the right sky. I have a new cloud stamp too, but I just used that. My felt clouds are cut using PTI dies and the brad is from BG. I added a ruffly edged ribbon and a few pearls and this one is done!

Visit the Whimsy Stamps Store to see all the new digital stamps available today!

You're next stop is Anneke's Blog!

Have fun hopping and thanks for stopping by today!

For a Great Friend!

Hi there! It's time for the Stamp Something Challenge! This week our theme is Summer Fun and our fabulous sponsor is Simon Says Stamp! I'm getting ready for a much needed vacation today...and before I know it, I'll be sitting on a beach so this is the perfect theme for me!

Here's Balloon Emma sitting on her Swing! Both images are by CC Designs...and I know what you are thinking...where's the balloon? Well, I've decided that she is holding a kite balloon (since we all know you can't sit on a swing and fly a kite!!!) She's colored with Copics and her shirt is paper-pieced at the bottom. The kite is made with some coordinating American Crafts dps and cut with the Kite Die-namics by MFT! I used my new cloud stamp by Great Impressions for the clouds in the sky behind her...she's so cute!

There's even more die cuts here too...another MFT Die-namic was used for the grass border and I used my Spellbinders dies and Fiskars circle punch for the sweet Whimsy sentiment from the Friendship Ticket Sentiments set! What's left...some zigzag stitching on my fun, glittery kite paper, a seam binding ribbon and bow topped with a bumble bee brad!

I hope you'll stop by the Stamp Something Challenge blog to see the rest of the Design Team samples. Play along with us for your chance to win a great prize!

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by today!

Live * Laugh * Love

Hi there! Just had some extra stampy time after catching up on some DT stuff, so I just had to play along with one of my all time favorite challenges! It seems that life has been a little busy around here with graduation and parties and work...you know how that goes! So here the awesome sketch for the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #142 this week...

I used these super fun WRMK papers I found in my stash...I just have some scraps left though! I used the Banner Pennants die set from Whimsy Stamps for my small pennants and winged it for the big one! Each of the smaller ones is edged with a different color ink.

The butterfly is from the TE Discover Your Wings set and it was heat embossed with clear, then outlined with a fine liner pen, cut out and covered with ultra fine glitter.


My sentiment is from the TE set called Tweethearts and it's matted with a PTI die cut banner. I added a couple of silver beads to the sentiment and a row of them on the butterfly too. The orange cording give it just enough of a 'hanger' for my banner without being too much!

Thanks for taking a peek...

Whimsy Stamp Digital Release Day!

Hi there! Today, over at the Whimsy Inspirations Blog, you will find the Whimsy Stamps July Digital Release Blog Hop!

Whimsy Stamps is releasing new Digital Designs today from Crissy's Digis, Raindrop Echo Designs and Meljen's Designs. There's lots of new images from Natalie Michalski of Moon Cookie Gallery and Kathryne Kittmer too! All of the new images are available now!

Your first stop on the hop is always the Whimsy Inspirations Blog. You can find the complete list of participants there. And...you'll want to leave some love along the way too as there will be two winners...these will be chosen from two mystery blogs. The blog hop runs from today until Friday, July 8th at 12:oo pm EST.

The Grand Prize Winner of the hop will be chosen from comments left on the final stop...the lucky winner will receive 5 new digital stamps of their choice from Whimsy and will also get a chance to use those new digital images as a guest designer for Whimsy for the entire month of July! So, what are you waiting for? Head on over there and get hopping!

Although, my team is not hopping today, I do have a card to share using one of the new images...

This image is called Patriotic Cupcake by Meljen's Designs! It's colored with Copics and I added lots of super fine glitter to the frosting! It's layered up with some festive star dp and dies cut with the Spellbinders Lacey Pennants set. I added a sheer ribbon and bow and some gem flourishes too! The sentiment is from PTI and cut with the same die set.

Visit the Whimsy Stamps Store to see all the new digital stamps available today!

Have fun hopping and thanks for stopping by today!

Challenges:
Colour Q #91

Whimsy Stamps June Digital Release Blog Hop!

Hi there! Welcome to the Whimsy Stamps June Digital Release Blog Hop!

Whimsy Stamps is releasing new Digital Designs today from Crissy's Digis, Raindrop Echo Designs and Meljen's Designs. There's lots of new images from Natalie Michalski of Moon Cookie Gallery and our new artist...Kathryne Kittmer! All of the new images are available now!

Your first stop on this hop is the Whimsy Inspiration Blog. You can always check back there for the complete list. And...you'll want to leave some love along the way too as there will be two winners...these will be chosen from two mystery blogs. The blog hop runs from today until Wednesday, June 8th at 12:oo pm EST.

The Grand Prize Winner of the hop will be chosen from comments left on the final stop...the lucky winner will receive 5 new digital stamps of their choice from Whimsy and will also get a chance to use those new digital images as a guest designer for Whimsy for the entire month of June! So, what are you waiting for? Get Hopping! Here's my card...

I used this 'sweet' new image by Moon Cookie Gallery called Sprinkle Sundae! If there's one thing I can't resist, it's ice cream! I cut my yummy sundae out using a Spellbinders nestie leaving the spoon to hang over the edge and layered it up with some fun papers from the Tiffany's collection by WRMK. I added a seam binding bow with a sparkly pink brad, some gems in the corners and my sentiment from the Party Mini Letter Seals stamp set by Raindrop Echo Designs at Whimsy Stamps! It's topped off with multi-colored sprinkles in various bright colors of Stickles and some Diamond Stickles on the whipped cream topping!

Visit the Whimsy Stamps Store to see all the new digital stamps available today!

Your next stop on the hop is Bettina's Blog, and I'm sure she will have something fun for you to see! Have fun hopping and thanks for stopping by today!

Whimsy Stamps-May Release Sneak Peek-Day 5!

Hi there and welcome to Day 5 of the Whimsy Stamps May Rubber Release Sneak Peeks! Today, the designers can choose any of the new stamps to showcase! Here's mine using the new Celebration Pennants by Raindrop Echo Designs!


I chose several colors of cardstock to match my fun dp by DCWV and cut out my banners using the Whimsy Stamps Banner Pennants die set! Then I stamped my Celebration Pennants on white using coordinating colors of ink and layered them up with some matching gems! I strung them all together using some green and white twine and added a sweet bow!

Stop by the Whimsy Inspirations Blog to see what the rest of the designers have chosen to showcase today! Have a great day!

Monochromatic at The Shabby Tea Room!

Hi there! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I attended my step-brother's "Big Fat Greek Wedding" this weekend and what a great day it turned out to be! We had so much fun!

Monday means it's time for a new challenge at The Shabby Tea Room! This week our theme is Monochromatic and Sheri has given us this beautfiul inspiration for our card or project. You need to use one color and a neutral for this challenge. Our sponsor is The Beary Scrap! Here's my card...


I chose to use purple as my color and layered up some cardstock with this beautiful embossed and lilac printed velum. I used the Spellbinders Parisian Motifs set to cut my base for my circle sentiment from the Spring Letter Seals rubber stamp set by Raindrop Echo Designs at Whimsy Stamps! I used a few Copics to color the butterflies and added a shabby little bow with Lilac Lace vintage seam binding from Deb's Simple Treasures Etsy Shop! A few pearl flourishes were colored with a Copic to match too! This lace butterfly is the perfect finishing touch!

Be sure to visit the rest of The Shabby Tea Room Design Team blogs:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Charlene Crundy
Danielle Greenwood
Melissa Bove
Sheri Holt

Whimsy Stamps-May Release Sneak Peek-Day 3!

Hi there and welcome to Day 3 of the Whimsy Stamps May Rubber Release Sneak Peeks! Today, we have some new stamps by Kenny K! Here's mine using the new image called Queens Cutie!

This little darling is colored with Copics and cut out to sit upon a silver chipboard star! I was going for a teenage girl kinda theme here! My dp is so much fun with stars and the volume level, headphones and splotches! I added a few punched black stars, some silver beads in the corners, a silver edged ribbon knot, s strip of black and silver mesh and I even gave her a silver bead earring. My ticket sentiment is from the Treasured Moments Tickets set by Raindrop Echo Designs at Whimsy Stamps! It's popped up and held on with a sparkly red brad!

Stop by the Whimsy Inspirations Blog to see what the rest of the designers showcasing Kenny K's new stamps have to show you! Have a great day!