Burst of Colors

Hi Everyone & Welcome to Day 4 of the Whimsy Stamps May Rubber Stamp and Die Release!   The entire May release is now available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and from all good Whimsy Stamps retailers!! PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden FOUR prizes of 2 new release rubber stamps somewhere on the DT’s blogs throughout our 5-day release event this week. As the location of the prizes are secret, be sure to leave a comment on ALL the stops on each daily blog hop to maximize your chance of winning! We will draw the lucky winners over the weekend and announce them on the Whimsy blog next week. For a full reveal of this month's fabulous rubber stamp, die and paper release, visit the WHIMSY STORE ! Today the Whimsy DT is showcasing stamps from Crissy Armstrong and Sandy Allnock. For a full hop list please scroll down. For my release creation today I choose 'Happy Birthday to Ewe' from Crissy Armstrong .

Hi Everyone & Welcome to Day 3 of the Whimsy Stamps May Rubber Stamp and Die Release! It's RELEASE DAY today at Whimsy Stamps!!  The entire May release is now available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and from all good Whimsy Stamps retailers!! PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden FOUR prizes of 2 new release rubber stamps somewhere on the DT’s blogs throughout our 5-day release event this week. As the location of the prizes are secret, be sure to leave a comment on ALL the stops on each daily blog hop to maximize your chance of winning! We will draw the lucky winners over the weekend and announce them on the Whimsy blog next week. For a full reveal of this month's fabulous rubber stamp, die and paper release, visit the WHIMSY STORE ! Today is"Anything Goes" day, so you will see a wonderful variety of the stamps and dies we have released this month in today's hop. For a full hop list please scroll down.

Hi Everyone and Welcome to Day 2 of our ... May rubber stamp and die release! Whimsy is releasing a fabulous selection of new goodies this week, and the entire release will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and from all good Whimsy Stamps retailers from tomorrow (21st May). Today we are excited to show you the brand new SC Design and Raindrop Echo Designs sentiment stamps and dies released this month.   I used 'Notables 7 Silhouettes' sentiments from Raindrop Echo Designs to design this CAS card: I stamped the sentiment with Memento Lady Bug ink and cut it out using the matching Notables 7 die. To do the honeycomb background I used a stencil, Distress Ink marker and the Tim Holtz Distress Marker spritzer tool. To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below and visit my fellow teamies blogs: Danielle Copley Debbie Eastman Iris Wiechmann Jacque Beddingfield Simonne

Hello Stamping Friends and Welcome to Day 1 of the Whimsy Stamps May rubber stamp & die release! Over the next 5 days we will reveal the new May 2014 Whimsy Stamps products .  We are releasing a fabulous selection of new goodies this month, and the entire release will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and from all good Whimsy Stamps retailers from Wednesday (21st May). We are thrilled to welcome Danni and Linda as our Guest Designers this month.  Welcome girls - we can't wait to see what you have created! PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden FOUR prizes of 2 new release rubber stamps somewhere on the DT’s blogs throughout our 5-day release event this week. As the location of the prizes are secret, be sure to leave a comment on ALL the stops on each daily blog hop to maximize your chance of winning! We will draw the lucky winners over the weekend and announce them here on the Whimsy blog next week. Today we are ex

Hello Stamping Friends! The card I want to share with you today is more on the simpler side, well, let's say it's clearly CAS. :-D I colored this sweet Whimsy - Time for Tea Designs image, called 'Short Stroll' , in the 'no-lines' technique using my Copics. This is a first for me with 'no-lines' so please bear with me on the coloring...I still need lots of practice with this technique! To decorate the card I only added some ribbon and buttons. The DP is from Fancy Pants's 'The Good Life' collection.   I've added the sentiment right next to the image. It's from Whimsy's SC Designs collection 'Girl Talk' .  I like to enter the following challenges: Crafty Girls Challenge - Anything Goes  - until 5/28 DL.Art Challenge - Anything Feminine - until 5/20 Penny Black and more - Anything Goes - until 5/28 Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful rest of the week!

Hi Everyone! Today I want to share a Criss-Cross card with you I made using 'Miss Apple Blossom Vignette' from Whimsy's Little Cottage Cuties Collection by Elisabeth Bell. I colored using Copics and the Background is done using Sennelier L'Aquarelle water colors. Papers are from Bo Bunny and Flowers are from my stash (most of them are from WOC) The large flower die is from Memory Box. On the inside is a sentiment from the Spring Notables 8 set cut out with the matching Notables 8 die . I like to enter the following challenges: 7 Kids College Fund - Anything Goes w/ optional twist of flowers DT Favorite Thank you Simon Says Stamp - Spring Flowers Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes   DT Favorite :-) Thank you! Love to Create - Say it with Flowers Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful rest of the week!

Hello Everyone! Sorry for being MIA for the last few weeks but there was a lot going on in my life which needed 100% of my attention. Also my creative mojo and my batteries enjoyed the break and a chance to recharge ;-) I'm back today with a creation with one of Whimsy's Crissy Armstrongs images from the March release called 'Playful Tiger' . I colored the image using my Copic's and for the background I used Caran'd Ache Gouache colors. The sentiment is from the Whimsy Stamps 'Girl Talk' set by SC Designs. The cute banner is made with the 'Built a Banner Die Set'  also designed by SC Designs . Flowers are from WOC and the butterfly and honeycomb deco art are from Dutch Doobadoo .Filmstrip is from Tim Holtz. All other embelleis are from my stash. Here's a close-up on the image: From a different angle: Thanks for stopping by! Hugs,

Happy Sunday To You All! Today I would like to share a vintage style tag I made a while ago for the CreateExchange FB-group February tag swap. It reached it's destination in Australia last week so I'm able to share it with you here now. But first I would like to announce my winner from the Graph'It Marker & Whimsy Stamps combined challenge. The prize is a 3 pack of Graph' It markers! Without further ado here is the randomly drawn winner: Fiona from Fi's Cards and Crafts Congratulations Sweety! Please contact me with you snail mail address at cocoacrafts(at)gmail.com  Ok now onto my project for today. The February theme was to create a vintage style tag using burlap . This is what I came up with: No colored image on this tag though. Instead I used a Whimsy Stamps sentiment as my focal point. It's from the Vintage Seed Packets 2 sentiment set. Stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa onto kraft cardstock. Design papers I used are from Pio

Hello Everyone! Today I have a card to share made with the brand new 'Clearly Whimsy Stamps'! These are highest quality photopolymer clear stamps!  Usually I'm not a big clear stamps fan but these are AWESOME! They stamp crisp and clean like red rubber! No ink pools building up on the stamp surface and they really do stick to your acrylic block and not falling off! They are nice and sturdy and don't feel like 'Jello' and are stretching out like a bubble gum.  The designer and artist behind all this gorgeousness is no one less than my Whimsy DT-Sister Simonne Clay - SC Designs. Brilliant design job Sem!! This new line features more simple designs perfect for all the CAS creations. As much as I love doing embellished cards I also enjoy creating CAS! For this card I used Sweet As Candy - Sweet Lables and  Sweet As Candy Sweet Images . I've stamped the candy images using Memento 'tart pear', 'dandelion', and c