Smile for the Holidays

Hello Friends! It's Whimsy release time!

There are fabulous new products in this release. One of them is the New Selfies die set I am using on my card below. I combined it with the cute Santa from the Warm Fuzzies clear set that has been released in October. 

I watercolored with Mijello Gold watercolors and added some detail with F.C. Albrecht Durer pencils. I love this combination of coloring products because with the Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils you can add details and then soften it with a damp brush as you please. The background was dry embossed using the Twinkle stencil and a die cutting maching set up with a sandwich that includes one or two rubber mats. The embossing is much more pronounced in real life than it shows in the photos.

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Elegant Ornament

Good Morning! 

Here is another Christmas card using NEW November products from Whimsy Stamps.

On this card I used the NEW Elegant Ornaments clear stamps and NEW Elegant Ornaments die as my focal point. The background is made using the NEW Elegant Snowflakes and Border die as well as the NEW Twinkle Cluster stencil. 

The frame and sentiment banner is from the Slimline Fancy Frame die set that has been released last month. I cut out the ornament from shiny gold cardstock and stamped and embossed the details with silver embossing powder. The snowflakes were die cut from silver cardstock and the twinkle clusters were added using iridescent Glitz glitter gel from Thermoweb. The sentiment was heat embossed with gold pearl embossing powder.

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Whimsy Stamps November Mini Release - A Fairy Christmas

Happy Monday Crafty Friends!

It's release time at Whimsy! I have to catch up on my Christmas cards and what better way to do that than with one of the super cute new fairies? This is NEW Fairy Grace from Whimsy's Crissy Armstrong collection and I colored her with Copics. Please see full list of colors used below.

The background paper is from the NEW Blurry Flurries  6x6 paper pack.  I adore these papers they are so dreamy and soft. I added a snowflake border and snowflakes that I die cut from white glitter paper with the NEW Elegant Snowflakes and Border die.  The sentiment was stamped onto blue cardstock and cut out using the banner die from the Slimline Fancy Frame die set. I added a few crystal clear dew drops to finish off my card.

Copic colors used:

Blue B21, B23, B37

Violet BV000, BV00, BV01, BV02, BV04

Skin E21, E23, E25

Hair N9, N7, E79, E18

Eyes YG17

Gray C00, C1, C3

Red R43, R46, R000, R01

Colorless Blender

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Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Everyone! Here comes my last card for this month and of course it has to be a spooky one. I am using several of the new Halloween products Whimsy released this year. I've listed them all further down and a click will take you to the actual product in the store.

I started out by creating a light violet slimline card base (8.5' x 3.5', vertical top fold). Then I die cut the Slimline Hill House die from black cardstock and adhered it to my card front using liquid glue. And voila I had a spooky background within minutes.

At that point I still had no clue what stamp I wanted to use and after going through all my Halloween stamps I decided on this 'Dead Dolly' clear stamp set.....they freak me out....LOL
Dolls and Clowns are not my friends! Even as a child I hated dolls, never wanted to play with them. All the dolls I had were converted into something else and my doll's pram was repurposed into a tank, hahaha. Yep, I preferred cars, military toys, cowboy stuff and lots of stuffed animals over all girly things, I was a total tomboy.  

Ok so onto my card, I stamped my images onto Bristol smooth cardstock with Versafine black ink. This time I colored using Peerless watercolors. When I was done coloring I cut out the images.

Then I stamped the word Halloween from the Slimline Vertical Sentiments onto a piece of vellum paper using black Stazon pigment ink. I die cut the bat and the spider from black glitter paper using the Spooky large word die and the ghosts from white shimmer cardstock using the Boo die set.

I arranged all the elements on my card front and when I was satisfied with how it looked I adhered them with foam squares and dots to add some dimension to my card. A few confetti sequins and rhinestones here and there and my card was done!

    

 

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Make a Wish

Hello Friends! I haven't done many Christmas cards yet but I'm planning on changing that during the next few weeks. Here is one of the few I've created so far using the NEW Gossip Holiday Girls stamp set, the NEW Slimline Cityscape die set, the Comic Speech Bubble die set and the A2 size Peekaboo Window 4 die. 

I colored my images with Zig brush markers again. Sorry as this has been a while since I made the card I can not remember the colors I've used. 

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Spectacular!

Hello Everyone! Here is a card I made using the NEW Comic Book Page background stamp. I've paired it with the 'Bam You're Old' clear stamp set also from the Comic line and the NEW Slimline Cityscape dies.

This large Comic Book Page background stamp makes for quick and easy cards. I colored it with glitter brush pens but you could leave it black & white as well. The super hero image was colored with alcohol ink markers and then cut out. In the background I've added the Slimline Cityscape that was die cut from black cardstock and then cut to fit in the burst bubble.

  

        

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