Nursery Rhymes at Double Trouble Challenge

Hello everyone, I have one more card to share for my guest designer spot at Double Trouble challenge where the Trouble Maker chose the main theme of  "a favorite nursery rhyme" from the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes as the main theme. In addition to the main theme, there is an option to also include a heart or the words heart or love set by the Twister Sister.  If you have included both of the above on your project, it will also be eligible to share with their collaborating partner, this time it is  Heart's Quest Challenge. 

I was recently looking through a box of old Whimsy rubber stamps searching for a stamp for another project (to be shared soon), when I came across this cutie here and knew it was going to be the stamp for this challenge. I selected the nursery Rhyme "Mary had a little lamb" and included both Mary and her little lamb.

I've had this stamp from my time as a Whimsy DT member many years ago and it is no longer available in rubber but illustrator Sylvia Zet now sells many of her images in digi format through Whimsy, including Mary. 

Related Products:

My card is very CAS, I stamped with Versafine Onyx and colored with Distress inks and Zig Clean Color markers. The sentiment is also retired from Whimsy Stamps. To "ground" the image I used a new grass border stamp from Colorado Craft Company. I just wish I had not stamped it with black ink as it stands out too much.. 

All details about the challenge are at a glance above. I am sure the ladies at Double Trouble would love for you to join in!

 

I would also love to share with these challenges:

• Heart's Quest Challenge - include a heart
• Digi Choosday Challenge - AG
• Unicorn Challenge - add an animal
• Path of Positivity - AG positive, opt. Literature
• Colourful Options - Pastels
• Through the Purple Haze - For Girls
• Simon Says Stamp - AG
• The Card Concept - Inspiration Photo (I was inspired by the pretty pastels in the photo and my card style this time is CAS). 

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Let's Color - Linky Party 7

Good Morning and Welcome to the new Let's Color Linky Party! 

Wonderful entries again over the last two weeks, thanks so much to everyone that played along! Be sure to scroll down to see if your entry was chosen as a top pick! I just completed visiting you all, if you haven't received a comment from me it's because commenting required a google plus account or I am not a member of the gallery you posted your creation to. But I am pretty sure I was able to leave a comment on each entry this time :-)

As always the theme is

Anything Goes with Something Colored

Here is what I made:

For my card today I inked up the cute stamp set "Jillian and Friends" from Whimsy Stamps' March release. 

I used mainly copics for coloring, but also used two colored pencils for her hair, in addition to copic marker E50. I like to use this technique when the image is very detailed, to prevent ink from the copic marker bleeding out of the lines.  I used memento ink on xpress it blending card for the image.

All other papers are from Stampin up. 

Sentiment is part of the Whimsy Stamp set. I embellished with some ribbon and twine and a button. 

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It is never easy to choose the top picks, but I did manage, and here they are in no particular order:

Pat 

 

Sanja

Donna 

 

Well done everyone, below is your Top Pick badge!

 

Can't wait to see what everyone is going to be coloring this time!!

You have until April 22nd 10AM EST to play along!

Just a few reminders:
Must include something colored

Blog post must include link back here

Unlimited entries and feel free to combine with other challenges

Anything goes with something colored

ETA 5/20/18:

To protect the privacy of those who entered this challenge, the linky tool has now been removed.

Whimsy Stamps - New E-Magazine

Hello and Happy April Fools Day :-)

Did you hear the happy news yet? Whimsy Stamps is publishing their FREE online magazine once again! No, I am not trying to fool you :-)  Be sure to subscribe to it, this is a free publication packed with Whimsy Inspiration. Click this link to go directly to the magazine.

Today's card was one of the cards featured in the magazine.

I used the super adorable stamp "Wee Bonnie" illustrated by the super talented Sylvia Zet, available in rubber only at Whimsy Stamps. 

Bonnie has been colored with copic markers and Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. The banner sentiment is part of this cute set.

I used the stitched border trio die set along the edges. This specific part of the die set actually just embosses the stitch lines, so it's perfect if you only want to add a stitched border without cutting anything. I used papers I recently purchased along the edges and the top scallop border. An old SU punch was used for the scallop border. Tiny dots of glitter finish off this cute CAS card.

That would be all for today, I hope you liked today's card. Be sure to check out the magazine to see all the other amazing creations made by the Whimsy team. You won't regret it!

Have a great day everyone!!

Whimsy Inspires - February Challenge

Good morning!

It's the 3rd Wednesday of the month, time for the monthly Whimsy Stamps challenge. This month the theme is anything goes, so come play along for a chance to win a Whimsy prize.

When I shared this cute little goody bag I made for my daughter a little while ago, I mentioned that I would be making a boy version too. Here it is using Whimsy's new "Frog Prince" stamp. I made this one for my son and filled it with some goodies.

 

The image has been colored using copic markers and Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.  The two hearts in the "sky" part are from the Whimsy stamp set "All you need is love" from an older release. When I was taking this photo, I was still playing with the thought of adding the die cut "Love" to the bag, but in the end I left it off. The love die is also from Whimsy, and  I also used one of Whimsy's stitched border dies for the hill behind the frog. The grass in front has been simply cut using scissors.

The goody bag instructions can be found HERE on Splitcoast Stampers. If you ever need a little treat bag, this one is super easy to make. Of course mine took a little longer because of the colored image, fussy cutting, etc, but the basic instructions are really quick and easy.

I am also playing along here: 
Creative Chicks - Anything Goes 
Deep Ocean Challenge - Hearts (Week 2) 
Craft-Dee BowZ - (February) Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow 
Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes 
Get Creative Challenges -  Hearts 
Stamps & Fun = Creativity -  Dots 
Where the HeART is - (February) Love 
Dragonfly Dreams - Projects With Hearts and Flowers 
Eclectic Ellapu -  Purple Team ~Mark or Decorate Gift Box/Bag

Thanks so much for visiting!!

Wee Freddie

Good morning!

Time for a little Whimsy inspiration here on my blog, and I decided to color up the cute stamp  "Freddie" from the November release. Such a cutie and I had so much fun coloring him!

 

After coloring with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils, I fussy cut the image. I left out some of the thin lines when fussy cutting, that's why the little heart is attached right at the end of the tail and not at the end of the thin line as seen on the actual image. 

The sentiment is from a Wee set also available at Whimsy Stamps (Flower Fairies). I thought it was perfect to use with Freddie too. It wasn't originally planned to fussy cut the image, but after choosing this pretty paper, that matched my coloring perfectly, I didn't want to cover it up, that's why I decided to cut it out. Unfortunately this paper is  no longer available, it was also from Whimsy. I finished off by adding some extra flowers to the top (which I cut out from this designer paper) and I added some hemp twine. The sentiment has been popped up with dimensionals. 

Playing along here:

Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
Creative Card Crew- Anything Goes
Everybody-Art-Challenge- Anything Goes
Sweet Stamps - Anything Goes 

ABC Challenge - Y is for Your Choice 

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything goes with Patterned Paper
Craft-Dee BowZ - (January) Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Crafting from the Heart -  Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes
One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting!!

Wee Christmas Bunny with Presents

Happy Thursday!!

I have a new card to show you today using a cute rubber stamp from Whimsy's Wee stamps collection and a Whimsy sentiment. Both stamps are from a couple years ago but definitely favorites! 

The image has been stamped onto blending card using memento ink, then colored usingn copic markers. I decided to fussy cut the image to work with the sketch I had in mind. 

Sentiment was stamped onto a die cut circle then mounted onto bo bunny designer paper. I embellished with some snowflake brads, glitter and a little white pompom. 

Products used:

Christmas Bunny, Holiday Cheer

(both by Whimsy Stamps)

designer paper by BoBunny

xpress it card, recollections 110lb card stock

snowflake brads, stickles glitter

copics for coloring

This card was just listed on my ebay if you are interested :-) 

Thanks so much for visiting!!

Buckets of Love

September already, it's starting to look a little bit like fall outside, squirrels are busy collecting and eating acorns, and some pretty yellow leaves are already on the ground. But we're having a heat wave this week, and I also have another Whimsy Stamps Summer card to share :-) It's probably the last Summer card on my blog for a while...

For today I decided to create a postcard style card. It was quick and simple to create. Everything was directly stamped on to the card stock. I drew the line down the middle using a ruler. Colored in the image and postage stamp using Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. 

Whimsy Products used:

Hopepful

Nautical Postage Stamps 

I also used

Fancy Address (JFF Rubber Stamps)

Neenah card stock

Faber Castell Polychromos

versafine onyx ink

I am entering my card here:

Crafting By Designs -September Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp -  Make It Colorful
Sweet Stamps - Anything Goes
Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion -  Always Anything Goes
Crafty Cardmakers -  No Patterned Paper
Amusing - Anything Goes

 

Thanks so much for visiting!

 

Summer Dreams

Happy Wednesday and thanks for stopping by!

It's been so long since I colored something and made a card! I enjoyed my month off very much, but was so excited to get my markers out again this morning and do some coloring! 

Since we aren't having a release this month at Whimsy, we thought it would be fun to showcase some older summer themed stamps this month. 

I decided to ink up "Goldie" from Whimsy's Wee stamps collection. Isn't she adorable!!! 

I used copics for coloring and watercolor paints for the background. I actually wanted to do the bokeh technique, which I did, but for some reason it isn't showing very well. 

The sentiment (which I also stamped in turquoise ink on the background) is part of a set illustrated by Crissy Armstrong - Summer Garden.

I am entering my card here:

Addicted to Stamps and More -  Anything Goes

Fab 'n' Funky -  No Patterned Papers 

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes 

Sweet Stamps - Summer

Have a great day!!

Sugar and Spice

Friday already, this week just flew by like crazy! 

I finally have a card to share, it's been way too long since I sat down to make something...but I had some time yesterday morning to ink up this cutie from Whimsy's Wee stamps. 

I stamped with memento ink on xpress it blending card, and colored with copics. I also used a faber castell polychromos pencil for some of the hair. 

My colors were inspired by the mix of pansies I have growing in my backyard :-)

I decided to use several circles in my design. Sentiments are all from the set "Girl Talk" from Whimsy Stamps. The button was from the latest release, and is part of a 4 button die set. I embellished with little prima flowers and some sticky pearls, and then added some glitter to the wings. 

You can find the Whimsy Stamps products here:

Daphne, Girl Talk

Button Die Set

I am playing along here:

Creative Corner -  Spring Is In The Air
Polkadoodles  – Things with Wings
Sister Act Card Challenge -  Always Anything Goes
The Stamping Boutique -Die Cut or Punch
Crafting By Designs - Flowers
Fresh Brewed Designs -  RIBBON OR TWINE
City Crafter Challenge  -Focus on Flowers

Deep Ocean Challenge - Flowers

Fan-Tastic Tuesday -  Anything Goes with a twist: Add Some Flowers*

Thanks so much for visiting!

Winter Friends

Happy Tuesday! Hope you are all doing great and are ready for the Holidays. I am stressing myself out today as I forgot to get stocking stuffers and need to do some grocery shopping, but at least all the other presents are wrapped.

Today's card is pretty Clean and Simple as you can see. I already had the image colored a week ago, so it didn't take very long to create this card.

Here is the product list:

Winter Friends, Season's Greetings Notables 7 (both by Whimsy Stamps)

Authentique designer paper, SU card stock, copic blending card

Notables 7 die (Whimsy Stamps)

SU ribbon and silver cord

I would like to play along here:

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes
Card Mania -  Christmas
Stamp and Create - Christmas

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! 

 

Wishing you all a 

Merry Christmas 

and

 Happy Holidays!

A Friendship Blog Hop

Hello everyone and thanks so much for visiting!

Today the Whimsy Design Team members are hosting a  friendship hop in honor of a special member of the Whimsy Stamps family, Simonne Clay. Simonne has been a fixture  at Whimsy for many years and we all just wanted to show our appreciation for all that she does for each of us and for sharing her amazing talent as an illustrator.

A little note for Simonne.

Thank you so much Simonne for the amazing and gorgeous stamp sets we got to create with, thank your for your friendship over the years and for all you have done for each one of us at whimsy.

 Not to mention your amazing cards always inspire me! Sending lots of  hugs your way my dear friend!

I hope you like the card I created just for you!

The beautiful chalkboard sentiments are from one of the sets designed by Simonne. I've surrounded it with the cute Whimsy Wee stamps kittens which were fussy cut. I simply embellished with some sequins and did some paper piecing.

Product list:
 Playful Kittens, Mini Chalkboards, Everyday Moments
(stamps all by Whimsy)
Papers from stash
butterfly punch, paper piecing tool
copics for coloring

If you are hopping along with us today, you should have arrived from Debbie's blog. If not, and you'd like to, simply click here ( Whimsy Blog ) to start. 

Your next stop after my blog is Amy's blog, and I am sure she will have something wonderful to share too. 

Here is the complete blog list for you in case you get lost along the way.

Whimsy Blog
Alanna Moses
Debbie Eastman
My Blog *** you are here***
Amy Kolling
Iris Wiechmann
Danni Bindel
Heather Pulvirenti
Jen Carter
Louise Roache
Shannah Bartle
Shelby Thomas
Becky Carafa
Bev Rochester
Deb Routledge
Crissy Armstrong
Denise Lynn 

Thank you so much for stopping by and for hopping with us to celebrate Simonne's friendship with us all! I hope you have fun hopping!!

A Christmas Hamster

If you are here for my Monday Morning Challenge, simply click the tab above.

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Happy Wednesday everyone and a  

Warm Welcome to all my new blog readers!!!

I have a new card to share with you today, using an older but super adorable stamp from Whimsy Stamps.

He's been stamped onto 110lb card stock (I ran out of copic blending card but luckily it's already ordered), and colored with copic markers.

The sentiment I used is from the November release. I kept the sketch simple, embellished with a little bit of designer paper and an ornament border die cut.

Products used:
Christmas Hamster,  Winter Brackets, both by Whimsy Stamps
Ornaments Border die by Whimsy Stamps
Authentique designer paper, SU and recollections CS
glitter and red cord

I am entering my card here:

Creative Card Crew -Stripes -
Party Time Tuesdays - -Anything Goes 
Try It On Tuesday - Christmas is Coming
2 Cute Ink Challenge -  Pets
Cutie Pie Challenge - Festive Furry Friends

Little Snowflake Dancer

Good Morning and Happy Monday!

I just couldn't wait to use this adorable stamp illustrated by Sylvia Zet. It was one of the new releases this month, available in red rubber from Whimsy Stamps.

I created a stage around her by cutting out some "curtains". I simply used an oval die and then cut it to shape the curtains. Since my paper was double sided, I had to cut out two ovals, but if your paper has the same pattern on both sides, you can just use one oval. For the valance I layered some lace, a punched scallop border and then added the snowflake border. As tiebacks I used snowflakes and some black gingham ribbon. The image was stamped onto copic blending card and colored with copic markers. 

Here is a view of the inside of my card. This is how I usually decorate my insides, just a little bit of stamping and a bit of matching designer paper. Other than that I like to keep lots of room for writing on the inside. I used an older snowflakes background stamp randomly, and then in the corner I stamped one of the sentiments from the new set "Bracket sentiments".

Product list:

Snowflake Dancer, Girl Talk, snowflake background, winter brackets sentiments (all by Whimsy Stamps)

copic blending card, recollections 110 lb card stockstock, SU designer paper

snowflake border die, layered snowflake dies (both by Whimsy Stamps)

gingham ribbon, glitter

 

I would love to play along here:

Challenge Up Your Life- ANYTHING GOES
Crafty Catz -  Ribbon & Lace (lace is placed behind the punched scallop border in valance - a little hard to see, but it's there peeking out)
Really Reasonable Ribbon - Winter Holiday with Ribbon or Trim
Stempelsonnen Challenge - t's Winter

Thanks so much for visiting!

 I hope you're having a good week and stay warm!

Season of Change

I know we aren't close to fall yet, but I just had to have this cutie from Whimsy Stamps.

It's one of Whimsy's recently released rubber stamps illustrated by Sylvia Zet - Oak Tree Girl. She's been stamped onto copic xpress blending card and then colored using copic markers.

As with most my recent cards I have kept this one clean and simple, to keep the focus on the cute image.

 Products used:

Oak Tree Girl rubber stamp by Whimsy

Autumn letter seals sentiment set by Whimsy

 Feather and Flourish sentiment set by Whimsy

  lace doily 1 border die by Whimsy

memento tuxedo ink

twine, copics for coloring  

copic xpress blending card

Have a great day!!

 

Sugar and Spice...

Happy Monday! I hope your week started of good. It's nice and sunny here today which always makes me happy :-) 

I have a card to share today which I made for the new Whimsy Stamps Facebook challenge. This month we'd like to see things that sparkle. I hope you'll join us. As always we have a fabulous prize to give away to one lucky winner! You find all the details on how to play along HERE.

I used one of the new stamps from Whimsy's Wee stamps collection - Mary. Of course I had to have this stamp because my daughter loves anything sheep.

The image has been stamped onto copic xpress blending card using Memento tuxedo black ink. I colored it using copic markers. I also used a Whimsy Stamps sentiment from the new stamp set "Girl Talk" by SC designs.  The little white picket fence was cut out using Whimsy's Picket fence die.

A Martha Stewart punch was used for the grass border. I added a few flourishes around the image using one of my most used stamp sets "Lavish Flourishes"  from Whimsy. Designer paper is from MME, flowers are by prima. I added some sticky pearls to the centers and glittered all the flowers using stickles. 

I am playing along here:

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations -  Anything Goes
A Gem of a Challenge - Cute and Cuddly
Kitty Bee Designs - Animals
Fairy Tale -  Cute Only

Before I go I wanted to share a cute photo. The other day we planted a fairy garden. Thought it would be fun to add a couple strawberry plants. 

Someone else thought it was a good idea too! The little stinker ate all the berries!!

 And here is my cute useless cat Thomas trying to scare him away :-)

Of course he loves chewing the grass we planted into the fairy garden. (Can you see the bunny in the back? He seems to be very curious watching what's going on between Thomas and the squirrel LOL). 

Thanks for visiting!!

Whimsy Stamps -January Release Day 5 Blog Hop

Hello and thanks for visiting! Today is Whimsy Stamp's last day of blog hops for our January Rubber Stamp and die release. I hope you enjoyed the last 4 days of hops, and picked up lots of inspiration. 

You have until Saturday noon EST to hop along in today's hop, don't forget to comment along the way for a chance to win. During these 5 day hops, 4 winners will be selected who each will win 2 new release stamps!! Winners will be announced on Monday on the Whimsy Stamps Blog.

Here is what I created today, using the super cute stamp "Miss Frosty" illustrated by Sylvia Zet. 

Isn't the image adorable!! And although Christmas is over, we are still in the midst of winter here, it's been such a bitterly cold one this year for us...that I really wish it was over. But it is never too early to start cards for next year. Since I really am wanting to make Christmas cards each month this year, this was a perfect start!

It's a very CAS card as you can see. Just added a little bit of designer paper, and the sentiment with a little button and twine. Of course it needed glitter too! And I don't know if you can tell, but I added some glassy glaze onto the berries. Colored with copic markers.

To hop along in today's hop, just visit each DT member listed below, and don't forget to leave comments.

Deb
Debbie
Ellie
Heidy
Iris
Jodi
Louise

Have a fabulous day everyone!!

 

Products used:

Stamps: Misss. Frosty, Snowflake mini letter seals

Inks: copics for coloring, memento black

Papers: SU, copic xpress

Tools: circle punch, scissors

Embellishments: twine, button, glitter

A little Bookmark

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you are all doing great and staying warm! Arctic  weather here again, we got snowed in on Saturday and Sunday, and now it's bitterly cold again.

I had a chance to create something this weekend, and thought I'd get out the cute "playful kittens" set from Whimsy stamps, and create a cute corner bookmark with it.

There are lots of tutorials on how to do it. Can't believe how simple it was to make. Here is a tutorial by Iris. Her verion is slightly different, I didn't cut any of my corners off, but I used the same steps up until that part.

I colored the image  using copic markers. Glitter was added to the heart. The corner I added to the bookmark was done using Whimsy's Lace Doily Corner Die 2.

These are so quick to make too, perfect for little valentines, and you could even hide a little wrapped candy inside. I am giving this one to my daughter. Will make a boy version for my son soon too!

Would love to play along in a few challenges:

Colour Me Creative Challenge -  Anything Goes

A Creative Need -  Die cuts/ Punches 

Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too -  Anything Goes

 Creative Knockouts-All that Glitters 

Crafter's Cafe - Animal Friends

Have a great day!!

 

Products used:

Stamps: Playful Kittens (Whimsy)

Papers: Winter Blues (Whimsy) xpress blend it card, SU

Tools: Lace doily corner 2 die, circle nestablities shape, scallop border punch