Burst of Colors

Hello Everyone and Happy Thursday! Today I have another Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps GD creation to share. I made a little note card using 'Flower Fairy' . The image was stamped with Versafine Onyx  Black ink onto Fabriano hot press, extra white watercolor paper. I colored it using Distress Ink markers. The sentiment is from the Dragonflies 2 set. I've decorated the card with some mulberry paper flowers, satin ribbon, paper doily, pearls, rhinestones and a pearl brad. The paper was from my scrap box, don't know the make anymore. Close-up on the image. I've added Stickles to parts of the dress for some bling.   Thanks for stopping by and have a great rest of the week! Hugs,

Hello All and Welcome! Today is the final hop day of the Whimsy Stamps January Release .The Whimsy DT shares creations made with the brand new Wee Stamps and Time 4 Tea Designs stamps that were released on Wednesday. The entire January release is now available to buy from the Whimsy Store and all good Whimsy Stamps retailers! We are hiding FOUR prizes of 2 new release rubber stamps on the DT’s blogs throughout the 5-day release event. You have until the end of the release week (Saturday January 25th at 12.00PM EST) to leave comments on ALL the daily DT blog posts. We will draw the lucky winners over the weekend and announce them on here the Whimsy blog on Monday (January 27th). Here's a list of blogs joining the hop today:   Deb Routledge Debbie Eastman Ellie Stover Heidy Blom Iris Wiechmann Jodi Amidei Louise Roache   This card is also my inspiration for the new Graph'It Marker Color Challenge . This weeks theme is 'Dar

Hello Everyone and Happy Thursday! Today is Day 4 of the Whimsy Stamps January Release and the Whimsy DT is holding a blog hop to share creations made with the brand new Crissy Armstrong and Elisabeth Bell stamps that were released yesterday. All of our January release is now available to buy from the Whimsy Store and all good Whimsy Stamps retailers! We are hiding FOUR prizes of 2 new release rubber stamps on the DT’s blogs throughout the 5-day release event. You have until the end of the release week to leave comments on ALL the daily DT blog posts. We will draw the lucky winners over the weekend and announce them here on the Whimsy blog on Monday (January 27th). My card today features one of Crissy's new stamps called 'Think Spring Bunnies' For a change I colored the image using Distress Markers. The image was stamped onto hot press watercolor paper. DP is from Bo Bunny and the Butterfly dies are from Joy Crafts. Flowers ar

Hi Everyone and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps January Release Day Hop! Our brand new January release of 30 image stamps, 8 sentiment sets, 9 shapeology dies and 1 designer paper pack is available now at the Whimsy store. Today the Whimsy DT is holding a release blog hop to share creations made with the new images, dies and sentiments. To see a full reveal of all the new goodies please visit the Whimsy blog . For my release creation I used Kari and SkyDog from one of our new artists Sandy Allnock . I colored the sweet image using my Graph'It markers. See a full list of markers used below the next photo. DP is from Bo Bunny, the sentiment is from the Kari and SkyDog set as well. I also used the new Shapeology die set Pet Accessories Die Set on my project. Markers used: Skin: 4115, 4155, 4180 Hair & Shoes: 3140, 3190, 4155 Dog: 9400, 9402, 9404, 3210, 3245, 3250, 3280, 4135, 4145 Pants: 7140, 7145, 7155, 7165 Shirt: 9100, 9102, 91

Hi Everyone and welcome to Day 2 of the Whimsy Stamps January Rubber & Die Release! Today the Whimsy DT is holding a blog hop to share sneak peeks of some of the brand new Sentiment Sets and Shapeology Dies that will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store  TOMORROW ! We are hiding FOUR prizes of 2 new release rubber stamps on the DT’s blogs throughout the 5-day release event. You have until the end of the release week to leave comments on ALL the daily DT blog posts. We will draw the lucky winners over the weekend and announce them here on the Whimsy blog on Monday (January 27th). My sneak peek creation today shows a sentiment and matching die from Simonne's new line of sentiments and dies. This CAS style card is just embellished with some W ashi Tape and silver pearls. The die is the *NEW* 'Crown' die and the sentiment set is the *NEW* Fairy Tale Dreams set . To take a peek at today's fabulous new re

Hello Everyone and Welcome to Whimsy Stamps January Rubber Stamp and Die release!  Things have changed slightly if it comes to our release routine for 2014. Whimsy is now releasing every other month and we will have a full week of sneak peek and release hops where we feature different artists every day! We also have 3 new artists joining the Whimsy team: Sandy Allnock , Cathy Delanssay and our very own Simonne Clay ! We are releasing 30 new stamps by 6 artists, 9 dies, 8 sentiment sets and 1 paper pack!   Today we are kicking of the release week with images from Sandy Allnock and Cathy Delanssay!  We are hiding FOUR prizes of 2 new release rubber stamps on the DT’s blogs throughout the 5-day release event. You have until the end of the release week to leave comments on ALL the DT’s blogs each day. We will draw the lucky winners over the weekend and announce them here on the Whimsy blog on Monday (January 27th). My release creation for today fe

Wonderful Thursday Everyone! Today I like to share my 3rd GD creation for Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps with you. This cute Giraffe stamp is called 'Thoughtful Giraffe' and is available in red rubber. The sentiment is also availabe in red rubber and can be found HERE . I stamped the image using Memento Ink Rich Cocoa and colored it using Graph' It markers (see a list of markers used beneath the next photo), available to purchase HERE . Papers are from Basic Grey's collection 'Clippings'. Flowers are from WOC and pearl accents form Martha Stewart. Leave dies are from Memory Box and the ribbon is from my stash.  Here's a close-up on the image and a list of Graph'It markers I've used: 2130, 2120, 2105, 1270, 1250, 1210, 4125, 3170, 3130,  Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day! Hugs,

Happy Monday Everyone! I hope you are all having a good start into the new week! I'm still dealing with an injured knee and have to take it easy. So not much walking around for me these days :-/ But on the happy side that gives me more time to sit down and be creative ;-)  Before we are completely into Valentines and Spring creations I like to show you another Christmas card I made. It was published in the latest Magnolia Ink magazine 'Winter Wonderland', page 61. Whimsy Stamps was featured in this magazine and this cute image is called "Little Jack and Bobbin Christmas" by Elisabeth Bell. Here's what I made: Coloring: Copic Markers, X-Press It Card and Memento Tuxedo Black ink Dies: Choo Choo Train , Layered Snowflakes , Holly & Berries - all Whimsy Holiday Goodie Border - Memory Box Design Paper: Echo Park Other: Flowers (WOC), small jingle bells, coarse glass glitter, pearls and rhinestones (Hobby Lobb

Hello Everyone and welcome to a new Graph'It Color Challenge - Spring inspired yellows and blues! What a great color combo to start thinking spring! I used Dolly Daydream from the NEW Dolly Daydream Girl Talk CD - available HERE Isn't she sassy? I loved coloring her! Finally I got me some brush nibs for my Graph'It's and what shall I say ... it's like a dream come true...LOL. I promised I was giving you an update on how I like these markers down the road and I can say I'm still very impressed! Now that I have brush nibs on all my skin tones it really is a charm! I new it would be great but honestly the blending abilities are beyond my expectations. The juiciness is one thing but how the colors are 'melting together' so easily, so smooth and even without any lines is absolutely amazing! BTW this is my judgement based on my experience with these markers and not because I'm happen to be on the DT - just saying!   Colors used:

Hello Everyone! I'm here today with my second posting for Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps as a guest designer. This time I have an 'All White' card to share..well almost....the sentiment is stamped with black ink and I've added 3 tiny blue rhinestones...but see for your self: The gorgeous dragonfly is from the Dragonflies 2 clear stamp set and cut out with the matching Dragonfly Die . I stamped with VersaMark ink onto white cardstock and heat embossed using clear super fine detailed embossing powder. The sentiment is from the Dragonflies 2 set as well.  Here's a close look on the dragonfly: And here you can see how nice the heat embossing looks. Other dies I've used are from Memory Bo. The white grosgrain ribbon and the three tiny blue rhinestones are from my stash.  Thanks for visiting me here today. I'll be back tomorrow with a new Graph'It marker creation for the new challenge!  Hugs,