Burst of Colors

Hello Friends. I am sharing a cute little card today made with one of the newly released Whimsy clear sets illustrated by no other than the super talentend - and my fellow teamie -  Melissa  Andrew.  It's called  Nope Rope . It's a fun snake themed set for many occasions. I like snakes, not only as a stamp set ;-) Living here in Florida they are frequent residents in our backyard.   I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto 100lb Hammermill Digital Cover Stock, colored with Copics and cut the image out. For the background I used the Farmhouse Basket Stencil to airbrush with my Copics.  On the top part of the same card layer I used the Polka Dot Stencil and some NUVO Glimmer Paste - Moonstone. It's quite hard to see in the photo - here is a close-up The sentiment is also from the same Nope Rope set and was stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and layered onto black cardstock. I adhered the images and the sentiment with foam tap

Happy Sunday and Welcome to Day 5 of the Whimsy Stamps August Release. Today I have a beautiful image from Whimsy's DoveArt collection to share: Apple Branch The image was stamped with Distress Ink Antique Linen onto Hammermill 100lb paper. I colored the image with Copics in the no-lines technique. I also used the NEW  Notched Rectangle die  set to cut out the image and the orange layer as well as the ticket shaped sentiment. The background layer was made stamping the Shiplap background stamp with Memento Toffee ink onto kraft cardstock. The sentiment is from an older set called 'You're my favorite' and the little heart can be found on the 'Holiday Occasions' set. Copic colors used: Red: R02, 14, 24, 46 Yellow/Orange: Y02, 11, 15 YR15, 18  Brown: E42, 43, 47, 49, 87 Green: G40, 82, 85 BG96, 99 Whimsy products used: (the links below are affiliated links at no extra cost to you)                               Thanks for

Hello All! Welcome to Day 2 of the Whimsy Stamps August Rubber and Clear Release!  Today I want to show you 3 new products all combined in my card - Cherry Blossom Background Stamp, Notched Rectangle Die set and Cheeky sentiment set : I stamped the Cherry Blossom Background with Memento Tuxed Black ink onto Hammermill paper. I colored with Copics and cut out the center of the card using the Notched Rectangle dies . I also cut the same rectangle frame from black cardstock several times and used it to pop up my cut out cherry blossom frame. I added some blue outline to the cut out center of the cherry blossom background with a Faber Castell PITT Pastel Pencil. The sentiment from the Cheeky sentiment set was stamped with Versamark ink and white heat embossed onto black cardstock Here are the Whimsy products I've used:                               Thanks for stopping by Hugs,

Welcome Whimsy Friends. It's August 1st and the newest release for Whimsy Stamps is available NOW in the store. There are 5 days scheduled on the Whimsy blog to introduce all the new goodies to you and give you lots of awesome inspiration from our super talented Whimsy Creative Team. All of the new products are AVAILABLE NOW for purchase.  CLICK HERE  to be taken directly to the Whimsy store. It's the first release day today and I will be back with my first creation from this release tomorrow on day 2! So please make sure to stop by again tomorrow :-D Thanks for stopping by! Hugs,

Hello Everyone! Today I have my last project from this years Whimsy Weekend Craft Retreat to show to you. A Mixed Media Hanging Beach Canvas. This was the project I was teaching in my class. It's a lot of fun to make and what I especially like with Mixed Media it is very forgiving and there is actually nothing that can go really wrong. Just have fun, dive into all the different mediums and have fun, fun, fun and let your creativity  take over! To prime the canvas I used gesso and after it had dried I added acrylic paint in shades of turquoise and blue. I stamped the awesome Whimsy Seashell background onto tissue paper (tim holtz plain tissue paper) with Versafine black ink. Let dry thoroughly then add part (or all if you prefer) of the shell tissue paper to the canvas using Super Heavy Gel Matte Medium (Liquitex). Then I started decorating the canvas with structure paste and stencils and added my embellishments and fussy cut images.  Here are all the Whimsy products I

Happy Weekend! I am back today with an ocean themed card. The main image is Naia the Mermaid from Whimsy Stamps. I had this image colored for a while and never came around making it into a card. So today I was browsing YouTube a bit and came across a video from Vicky   where she made an art journal page with an ocean / underwater background.  I cased her technique of the background for my card: I added some distress stain (dauber bottle) to a white card panel (I used mixed media paper), let it dry and used the Whimsy Waves Stencil to sponge on some waves with distress ink. After all the ink was dry I added some white splatters with picket fence distress paint. Using a white, super fine Sharpie poster pen I drew some bubbles and added 3D glaze to make them stand out more. I then stamped the castle from the Salty Hair clear set with Versamark ink and gold embossed the castle. The sentiment is from the same set as are the seashells and starfish stamps I used.  Naia the M