Wee Stamps for Whimsy Stamps - Release and Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Wee Stamps for Whimsy Stamps BLOG HOP!

On Sunday we announced the wonderful news that Whimsy Stamps is exclusively releasing Sylvia Zet's beautiful wee stamps collection in rubber!

Whimsy Stamps is releasing 6 new Wee Stamps for Whimsy Stamps today and these new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites.

The Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guests have been showcasing these fabulous stamps for the past 3 days, and today we are celebrating their release with a BLOG HOP! We are delighted to welcome our wonderful special guests who are joining the Whimsy DT for this hop - Elaine Hughes, Alberto Gava, Mariska van der Veer, Jacque Beddingfield, Dena Concienne, Tab Robinson and Sylvia Zet herself!

The hop starts today (Wednesday October 5th at noon EST) and ends on Tuesday October 11th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 5 different prize draws! One lucky hopper will win the entire new release of 6 stamps. We also have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! Be sure to leave comments along the way for a chance to win.

If you would like to hop along with us today and haven’t arrived from Erin's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Ann’s blog.

I am so excited to show you the card I created for today. I absolutely love this stamp! And I am so in love with the earthy colors I used on today's card.

I colored the image using my derwent coloursoft pencils and baby oil, skin tones with copic markers.
The sentiment is from an old and retired set from Stampin Up. I used the direct to paper technique on the sentiment and distressed the edges.

I would love to enter this card to the following challenges:

• Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes (plus Ribbons)
• Crafty Cardmakers - 2W, C15 - (1st week) Anything Goes (ends 16th Oct)
• There's Magic in the Air - SIO - Go Green
• Sentimental Sundays - must include a Sentiment - Sewing or Stitching
• Catch The Bug - 3E, SIO - Anything goes Freebie available (see challenge for full details)
• Crafty Emma - E3 - #56 Totally Gorjuss/Pretty Girls
• Fab n Funky - die cuts or punches
• Truly scrumptious - distressing

I have another project to show you too, I have always wanted to try "stamping" on a candle, and I thought this stamp would be perfect for it. I can't believe how easy it actually was to do. If you'd like to try it, here is the tutorial I used from Splitcoaststampers.

After transferring the image onto the candle I used some gold stickles for some sparkle.

And now it’s time for you to continue the hop by hopping over to Mariska's blog.

Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order in case you get lost:

Ann
Chris
Tammy Louise
Debbie
Dena
Stephanne
Sylvia
Jacque
Erin
Ellie (you are here)
Mariska
Alberto
Simonne
Annika
Tab
Sylvia

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy the new release!