Whimsy Stamps November Release and Mini Hop Day 1

Welcome to the Whimsy Stamps November 2012 rubber stamp and die release!

Today, Whimsy Stamps is releasing

•  21 fantastic new Rubber Stamps & Stamp Sets,
•  5 wonderful new Whimsy Shapeology Dies, 
• 2 fabulous new Shape EZ by TLC templates,
•  2 beautiful Whimsy Designer Paper 6x6  packs and
•  2 new Whimsy Prints Collection pre-coloured topper sets. 

 These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. From today until 27 November, the Whimsy DT and Special Guests will be showcasing these new products with a daily mini blog hop. Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw by leaving a comment on every blog listed for that day. At the end of release week (Wednesday 28 November) a 'Release Round-Up' will be posted on the Whimsy blog. This will include a selection of DT work from the new release week together with a complete list of winners from the daily mini blog hops.

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For today's hop I decided to use the cutie "Christmas Hamster" from Whimsy's Wee Stamps collection. Oh, how I love this cutie!!

He's been colored using my Faber Castell Polychromos pencils, face was done using copic markers.

The beautiful snowflake paper in the back was made using the new snowflakes background stamp, from the Raindrop Echo Designs collection. Love love love that stamp!! I used versamark ink and white embossing powder to heat emboss.

The designer paper is from basic grey (olivia collection). Sentiment is from the whimsy Stamps set "Holiday Notables 2". It's been cut out using the notables 2 die.

I embellished with some ribbon, gold cord, glitter on the ornament, and finished it off by sewing around the edges.

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

• Basic Grey- with the theme of scallops, swirls and stitches (My swirls are on the golden part of the ornament)
• Crafty Cardmakers -  More than One Punch and/or Die Cut
• Pretty Little Ribbon - Die Cuts/Punches 
• The Paper Girls - Christmas/Winter
•  Gingerloft -  A touch of Gold (I used gold cord)
• The Crafty Pad - Christmas  
• The Squirrel & the Fox -Anything Goes 
• Fairy Tale -  Embossing (I heat embossed the snowflake stamp)
• Stampin' For The Weekend - Stitching
• Winter Wonderland -Oh Baubles

 To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT posts listed below by 12.00pm EST tomorrow: 

Debbie
Ellie
 Heidy
Iris
 Simonne
Tammy Louise
Beate - Special Guest
 Colleen - Special Guest
 Zoe - Special Guest

** Guest Designer Contest - January 2013 ** Would you like to join us as our guest designer for our January 2013 release? If you would like to be considered for this, please make a new post on your blog telling us why you would like to be a guest designer for Whimsy Stamps and add the direct link to your post in the Linky tool on the Guest Designer Contest page HERE. Please ensure you include at least one Whimsy Stamps creation in your blog post (this doesn't have to be new, but it would be great if it was a recent creation). The contest will remain open during the entire November release week and will close at 12.00pm EST on Wednesday 28 November. The winning entry will be announced in the "Release in Review" post on the Whimsy blog on Wednesday 5 December.

 Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy our new release!