Penny Black and More - March Challenge

Happy March everyone!

I can't believe it's March already. Not sure I am ready yet for winter to be over.Usually this time of the year I can't wait for warmer weather, but this winter was so mild, it didn't really seem much like winter. Not to mention we didn't even get to build a good snowman this year ...But who knows, there are still a couple of weeks of winter left...

The card I am showing you today is for this month's Penny Black and More challenge. And since it's almost spring our theme for this month is...

Signs of Spring

I just recently purchased this cute Penny Black stamp "The painter and the bee" from PB stamps. Luckily I received it in time to make my Design Team card with it. I love it when my order ships the same day it's being placed! That doesn't happen very often.

It's been colored with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils, which I absolutely LOVE.
I used papers from Stampin Up and My Minds Eye. The flowers were cut out using the "Flower and Leaf trio" die from My Favorite Things and the little yellow flowers were punched out with a Stampin up punch. The flourishes were cut out using the "Vines" shapeology die by Whimsy Stamps. I added some black gingham ribbon from stampin up, and some yellow striped ribbon which I received from my blogging friend Ann. The punched border was done with the lace border punch by Martha Stewart.

I finished it off by sewing with my janome sew mini and added a few pearls. The "Happy Easter" was computer generated.

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

• Card Makin' Mamas - Green
• Clearly Inspired - Anything
• Crafty Catz - Punches and Dies
• Stamp Man - Colours of Spring / Easter
• Wags 'n Whiskers - Spring Break (travel or spring)
• CCEE Stampers - Stamp or create a Spring scene
• Delightful Challenges - Spring colours
• Do You Stack Up? - Things with wings
• Paper Play - Something old, something new
  
• Shelly's Images - SIO - Seeing spots
• S J Papercrafts - (February/March) flowers plus red or pink
• Cooking It Up With Katie - 3 favorite things (cute image, polychromos pencils, vines die)
  
• Divas by Design - Spots or Stripes
• House That Stamps Built -pastels
• Little Darlings Challenges - Pearls
• Scrapbook Sisters - Spring Flowers
• Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
• Sassy Cheryl's - Are You Seeing Spots? Use Spots & Dot's
• The Stamping Boutique - Stitching
• Top Tip Tuesday - Stitches Real Or Faux
  

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you'll join us this month at Penny Black and more. Remember you don't have to use a Penny Black stamp to play along, you may use any company rubber or clear stamp but no digis. As usual there are a lot of prizes up for grabs and you can enter up to 3 times! Simply click the logo below to go to the challenge blog.

Have a great day!!

New Whimsy Inspirations Magazine!!

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Sorry I don't have a card to share today, but I did want to let you all know that the new

Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine

has been released. It is once again packed full of beautiful, never before seen projects and tutorials. And a sneak peek of the soon to be released Elisabeth Bell stamps for Whimsy Stamps. Plus there are a couple downloadable freebies included too!!

Like the previous magazines, it is absolutely free to view! Simply click on the picture below.

Enjoy!

Whimsy Stamps February Release Showcase Day 6

Hello and welcome to Day 6 of our February Rubber Die Release Showcase!

On Wednesday (22 February) Whimsy Stamps released this month's rubber designs and new Shapeology dies. From then until 28 February the Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new stamps and dies 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.


For today's showcase day I am showing you a card I made using the super adorable Easter Bunny Stamp by Whimsy's Sylvia Zet collection. This has got to be one of the custest Easter stamps ever! Of course I love all of Sylvia's adorable little creatures.

It's been colored using derwent coloursoft pencils which I blended with baby oil.

The beautiful papers are from a 6x6 pack by My minds eye lime twist. The tickets (without sentiment) are from Whimsy's set Celebrations Mini tickets, and cut out using Whimsy's mini ticket shapeology die. I computer generated the "Happy Easter". I really need to find a good Easter sentiment set.

I embellished the card with some diecut flowers using the flower and leaf trio die by MFT. The beautiful flourishes were cut using Whimsy's Vines shapeology die.

To finish it off I did some sewing and applied a little bit of glitter.

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

• One Stitch At A Time - Spring/Easter (digital generated sentiment)
• PanPastel UK Challenge - Use a Ribbon
• Scrappy Frogs - Die Cuts
• Hiding in my Craft Room - Bring on some spring
• Fairy Tale - 2W, 2E – Week 2, Spring
• Stamp Man - 2W, 1E/craft type – Week 1, Colours of Spring / Easter
• Aud Sentiments Challenge - Include a sentiment with "Happy" in it
• Crafty Ribbons - Paws for thought (include paws, thought or animals)
• Crop Stop -Include at least 3 flowers
• Delightful Challenges - Use patterned paper
• Hanna & Friends - Person or animal
• Paper Crafting Journey - Make it cute
• Shelly's Images - Make it a triple (use 3 of something) - I used 3 flowers
• Crafts and Me - shades of spring
• Inky Impressions - punches/dies

To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog on 29 February.

To take a peek at the rest of today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below...and don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win.

Jacque
Stephanne
Beate
Heidy

Thanks so much for stopping by today! And don't forget all these new goodies are available for purchase right now at the Whimsy Store along with all your other Whimsy favorites!

Whimsy Stamps February Release Day 3

Hello and welcome to Day 3 of our February Rubber Die Release Showcase!

On Wednesday (22 February) Whimsy Stamps released this month's rubber designs and new Shapeology dies. From then until 28 February the Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new stamps and dies 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.



For today's card I used the super adorable stamp "Sympathy Bugs" from Whimsy's Sylvia Zet collection. Aren't these bugs sweet?


I decided to create a "hang in there" card with them, but I think these cuties would make such a cute "I miss you" card, or anniversary or love....

I used my pencils and baby oil for coloring.

Designer papers are from a 6x6 pack by My Minds Eye. The sentiment is a really old one by stampin up. I embellished with some lace, seam binding ribbon, and twine. The corners were cut out using Whimsy's brand new Corners Shapeology dies. To finish it off I did some machine sewing and added a little bit of glitter.

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

• ColorQ challenge - colors dusty durango, lucky limeaid, baha breeze, basic grey
• Inky Impressions - 2W, SIO - punches/dies (2nd wk)
• Paper Pretties - SIO -PPC194 punches/diecuts
• Paper Shelter Challenge - add a sentiment
• Penny's Paper-Crafty - anything goes
• Truly Scrumptious - All creatures great and small (2nd wk)
• Crazy Amigo Challenge - Use A Tag
• Going Grey With Scrap-Creations -Critter
• The Stamping Boutique Stitching
• Cute Card Thursday - winged things

To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog on 29 February.

To take a peek at the rest of today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below...

Debbie
Niki -
Stephanne
Dena
Heidy

Remember that the entire new release is available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check the Whimsy Inspirations blog tomorrow for more new release creations!