Whimsy Stamps May Rubber Release Hop

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps May new rubber release BLOG HOP!

We have 18 fabby new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new wonderful Shapeology metal cutting dies to show you today! And Ann and Melissa have also released some new custom rubber options today too! These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favorites. We also have our super talented special guests joining us for this hop - Beate Johns, Deb Routledge, Jacque Beddingfield, Deb Mitchell and Elaine Hughes.

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more inspiration!

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today:

5 stamps from Crissy Armstrong
Baby of Mine ~ Mystic ~ Thunder Lizzy ~ Wee Snippet ~ Wee Snippet and Mystic

4 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Birthday Cake Mouse ~ Birthday Cup Mouse ~ Gruffy Little Gnome ~ Happy Little Gnome

4 stamps from Kenny K
Devastatia ~ Hockey Girl ~ Queens Cutie ~ Super Mom

5 stamps/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Celebration Pennants ~ Film Strip Sentiments ~ Magical Mini Letter Seals ~ Street Art BG ~ Welcome Baby Sentiments

2 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Film Strip Die ~ Welcome Baby Die Set

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Deb's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Lori’s blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday May 18th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday May 25th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. We also have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping!

Wee Snippet and Mystic and Magical Mini Letter Seals

For my blog hop creation I used the new image stamp "Wee Snippet and Mystic" along with a sentiment from the new "Magical Mini Letter Seals". Crissy has illustrated these beautiful new characters called Mystic and Wee Snippet and Ann has done a fabulous job creating a sentiment set to coordinate perfectly.

My image was colored using Copics and some Stickles accents. I've used papers from Memory Box and distressed all the edges. The Double Scallop Border Die is accenting the edge of one paper layer and has been embellished with ribbon, a button, twine, and a mushroom charm (also available at Whimsy). The rest of the card was embellished with lots of flowers, more glitter, and some butterflies cut from the papers. The sentiment was stamped with brown ink and it says "Fairy Happy Birthday".

This card fits the challenges at:
Crafts and Me - Anything goes, Optional Kraft
Crafty Creations - Flowers, Patterned paper, ribbon
Divas by Design - For the Girls
Creative Card Crew - Cute & Girly
Flutterby Wednesdays - must include butterfly, fairy or angel - #155 Open, Optional Sketch*
Paper Pretties -  Flowers
Penny's Paper-Crafty -  Anything Goes
Truly Scrumptious - Anything Goes
A Spoonful Of Sugar -  Anything Goes
Claudia & Co -  Girls Birthday Card
Creative Craft Challenges -  Distressed/Vintage
Stamping Scrapping Central - Birthday Theme


Thank you very much for stopping by to see my hop creation today, now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Beate's blog to see what she has in store for you! And in case you get lost along the way, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Lori Pachkowsky
Patricia Garcia
Donna Smith
Simonne Clay
Vicki Parson
Iris Wiechmann
Deb Routledge
Crystal Irwin
Minna Paajanen
Stephanne Maraver
Chris Olsen
Ann Vento
Deb Mitchell
Denise Lynn
Beate Johns
Marley van der Heijden
Debbie Eastman
Elaine Hughes
Annika Ryan
Erin Bailey

Happy hopping your way through our May rubber release at Whimsy Stamps!