Whimsy Stamps Review Day

Good morning and thanks so much for stopping by.

It's Review Day over at the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations blog, and the Design Team is showing you brand new projects made with the November Release stamps. 

I decided to use the cute little "Mushroom Mouse" from Whimsy's Meljen's Designs Collection, to create a bookmark for myself. Thought he would be just perfect for that!

He's been colored using Faber Castell polychromos pencils, and then cut out using a circle nestabilites shape, which I then layered onto a scallop circle. 

I cut a strip of real red card stock for the back of my bookmark, then layered it with some designer paper from My Minds Eye.

The sentiment was computer generated.

I added an eyelet to the top to put some twine trough. This twine can be bought at Whimsy Stamps. This one is Honeydew Chartreuse. It's $3 and you get 15 yards for that price. There are other colors to choose from too, it's a great way to get several colors without having to buy a hole spool.

I'd love to enter my bookmark to the following challenges:

• Going Grey With Scrap-Creations -  Anything But A Card
• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
• Loves Rubber StampsAnything Goes
• Forever Friends - Anything Goes
• Kaboodle Doodles - Use Circles
• Totally Stampalicious - Anything BUT a Card 

 And that is all from me for today. I hope your having a wonderful day. And if you'd like to see some more whimsy creations by the rest of the team, just click on the logo below to visit the Whimsy Inspirations Blog.

Penny Black and More December - It's Your Choice

For the Whimsy Stamps "Prints" Special Blog Hop please click here! 

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Happy Sunday everyone and t hanks so much for stopping by!

I hope you're staying warm where ever you are. We actually were lucky and had some warmer weather these last few days, at least it's warm for December. Today's high is supposed to be 60 F (or about 16 C) Not too bad, as I love opening up a few windows around the house to get some fresh air in without freezing!

We have a new challenge for you over at Penny Black and More. And since we know everyone will have a busy month with the Holiday's just around the corner, we made it an easy one. It's simply

...Your Choice.

Just don't forget to use a rubber or clear stamp as your main focus, to be eligible for the prize.

This month we are sponsored once again by some amazing companies - Penny Black, Stampalot, Joanna Sheen, Crafts U Love.

Here's what I made for this month.

I don't know about you, but somehow I have a hard time using the smaller stamps from PB's clear stamp sets. The I saw this gorgeous card on Beate's blog and thought these cuties were perfect to use with a similar sketch. Thanks for the inspiration Beate. 

To make my card I punched 4 circles out of the designer paper then adhered it onto white card stock. Then I stamped the cuties inside the circles, and I popped up the balloon and flowers on the top left by stamping them a second time and cutting them out.

I embellished with a little flower, some rhinestones and some twine, and a punched out butterfly. When I was done I thought it looks a little plain, so I added the scallops on the left and right, and used the same circle punch as well as my SU scallop circle punch to cut out the scallops for each of the circles. 

The sentiment is a really old one from Stampin Up.

I really liking  how this card turned out.

I am entering my card to the following challenges:

• Hanna & Friends -  Animals
• Crafting for all Seasons -  Flowers
• Flutterby Wednesdays -  punches/dies
• Papertake Weekly -  Free For All
• Party Time Tuesdays -Anything Goes

I hope you liked my card. Would love to see you play along too. Simply click the logo below to visit the challenge blog. 

Have a wonderful day!! 

Whimsy Stamps Store update

  
Whimsy Stamps is having a couple of Store issue, here is a message posted directly from Denise.


To Our Valued Customers and Friends:

Over the past week some of you may have noticed intermittent problems with our website resulting in loss of carts, log in problems, and security errors. We apologize for any frustration this may have caused.

During our attempts to diagnose and correct the issues, we have discovered some problems with our current hosting provider and their servers. In an effort to serve our customers better, we have made the decision to switch providers and move our shop to new servers. 
 This change/move will require our site to be shut down for a number of hours this weekend. We do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. This change will also result in a delay of our regularly scheduled monthly digital release. But as soon as we are back up and running as normal we will release all the fabulous new images...including those from our brand new digital artist Marika Collins!

Our goal is to provide our customers with the best quality of service possible. We thank you for your patience at this time. We will make every effort to have this transition go as smoothly and as quickly as possible. Thank you for your continued support of Whimsy Stamps and our artists!

Have a great weekend!

In the meantime please do go check out our special "Prints" Blog hop for a chance to win some prints for yourself. 

For the Whimsy Stamps "Prints" Special Blog Hop please click here! 

And be sure to check out Whimsy's latest Mini Magazine, featuring all kinds of gorgeous projects using Whimsy Prints.

Simply click the logo below.

C is for Clear it Out

For the Whimsy Stamps "Prints" Special Blog Hop please click here! 


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Hello and Happy Weekend to you all!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Can you believe it's December already!!

And since it's the first of the month we have a new challenge for you at ABC challenges...

Clear it Out

We want to see you use up some of your old things.

Our sponsor this time is

Stamp Fairy,

 they have some really cute digistamps in their store, do go check them out, there is something for everyone!

Here is what I created using two of Stamp Fairy's images.

 Back in June I was the lucky winner of a challenge sponsored by Stamp Fairy, and these two stamps were two that I chose for my prize. I've been wanting to create my card with these for a long time, finally I had a chance to do so.

I printed the trees onto some old Stampin Up designer paper (I flipped one of the trees), and then I cut them out. The snowman was printed on white card stock and also cut out.

I created some snow by tearing white paper scraps and adding glitter to the torn edges. the trees and snowman were tucked under the "hills" to create some dimension.

The paper that I used for the "sky" is also from an old Stampin Up designer paper pack. So glad I was able to use these papers, I think they are gorgeous, but you all know how easy it is to push old papers back and always reach for the new stuff.

I colored the snowman with copics. The sentiment is from the set by "Winter Letter Seals" whimsy stamps. I embellished with an old SU button that I had for ages.

I would love to enter my card to the following challenges

• Copic Marker Europe - A Christmas Card
  
• Dutch Dare Card Challenge - Winter Wonderlands
• Pixie Dust Studio - Winter Holiday Creations
• Shelly's Images -  Use scraps to create your card
• DRS Designs -  Snowfun
• Divas by Design -  Glitter and Sparkle
• Paper Shelter Challenge -  Christmas
• Crafty Sentiments -  Red White & Green 

 
 Thanks so much again for visiting. I hope you're having a wonderful weekend!