Stamp Something Celebration Hop and a Sneak

Hi all!

Well, I had this post all set and ready to go, but then blogger went down and lost it was! Boo Hoo! I'm sure I'm not alone, but I was tired of waiting to see if it would be restored. So here I sit typing again. Today is our 3 year anniversary over at Stamp Something and we are celebrating with some awesome prizes and a blog hop!

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The challenge this week is "Anything Goes" and there is a fabulous Copic prize sponsored by the Merriartist! And we have a second prize too. AND...the DT members each have blog candy for the hoppers too! So lots of chances for you to win cool stuff this week! Head on over to the SS blog to check everything out! You have until 7pm ET on Thursday, May 19th to hop and enter the "Anything Goes" challenge. Good luck and have fun!

For my card I'm sharing a Whimsy Stamps creation and giving you all some sneak peeks too! On Wednesday, May 18th we'll be releasing 18 new stamps and sentiment sets and 2 new dies and today is our first day of sneaks!

My card uses the adorable new "Baby of Mine" stamp illustrated by Crissy Armstrong. I've colored with copics and stitched the edges on the sewing machine. The papers are Prima and have been distressed and stitched. I've embellished with flowers, pearls, stickles, lace, ribbon, and a baby bottle charm (available at Whimsy). Then to finish off I've used the new Welcome Baby Sentiment set with our new Welcome Baby Die Set! This die is a rattle and I've added one of the seal sentiments.

This card fits at:
Cute Card Thursday: It's so Distressing
Crafts and Me - #34 Punches
Crafty Creations - #118 Anything Goes
Divas by Design -  Anything goes
My Mum's Craft shop - #5 Die-cuts
Penny's Paper-Crafty - #53 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Baby Cards
Stampavie and More - #141 Ribbons
Everybody-Art-Challenge - Flowers
 Bunny Zoe's Crafts -  Lace

Now on to my blog candy chance which is sponsored by Whimsy Stamps! Whimsy is offering one lucky commenter and linker from my blog the prize of 6 of the new release rubber stamps - 2 from each of our image artists - along with some cherry blossom flowers and an assortment of charms! All you have to do is comment and leave a link using the linky feature below by 7pm ET on Thursday, May 19th. My winner will be chosen and posted the following Friday morning with the next SS challenge. Good luck!

The next stop on our hop today is the fabulously talented Erin's blog! Be sure to pop over and see what she has in store for you too. Be aware though that with all the blogger trouble, some of the DT posts are going up late so you might want to plan to hop tomorrow instead. Have a great night and happy hopping!

New Whimsy Digis

Hello All!

Happy Wednesday! I can't believe it's already Wednesday, where did this week go! Hope you've been having fun!

This is going to be a quick post as I have a mountain of stuff to do, but I wanted to share a creation using one of the new Whimsy Stamps digital images. This is called "Sarah the Pansy Fairy" and is illustrated by our newest artist Natalie of Moon Cookie Gallery.

There are 12 other fairy designs in Natalie's collection as well as some super cute new floral images. You can see the full collection HERE. I've colored with image with Copics and then added on some stickles to her wings to make them shine. The papers are Prima and I've embellished with ribbon, pearls, flowers, and some corner accents created with my new Spellbinders dies.

Clear It Out! -  Ribbon/Trim
Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday -  anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope you have a great afternoon! oh and we have a chance to win one of these new fairy digital stamps over on our Whimsy Stamps Facebook Fan page. Head on over and enter!

Something with Wings

Happy Friday All!

And Happy Royal Wedding Day to all you UK readers! I hope you've had a great week. I've been super busy and didn't have time to craft at all. I can't believe it's been a whole week since my last post. Sorry about that! Sadly, though, I think that is how things are going to be for a bit as the summer time approaches and the kids get out of school.

Stamp Something

Today is new challenge day at Stamp Something and this week we want to see Something with Wings! It can be fairies or butterflies or bugs anything with wings will work for this one. I've chosen to use a new Whimsy Stamps fairy illustrated by Meljen's Designs. This one is called "Little Fairy Friend" and she's sweet!

I've colored the image with Copics and then added lots of stickles to her wings to glitter them up. The papers are Prima and have been distressed and stitched on the sewing machine and then painted with crackle paint. I've embellished with flowers, lace, vintage seam binding, pearls, and a tag with a fairy charm - soon to be available at Whimsy Stamps. Just need to get them loaded into the store, hopefully this weekend. The sentiment is from the Handmade Letter Seals set.

This card also fits at:
Crafts and Me - vintage/distress
Creative Card Crew - Child's Play
My Mum's Craft shop -  flowers
Scrapbook Sisters - distress
Stampavie and More -  pearls
Everybody-Art-Challenge - Fairies
Partytime Tuesdays - Anything Goes
The Stamping Boutique - Winged Things
Make it Monday - Anything goes

Thanks so much for dropping by today. Hope you have a fabulous weekend too!

Stamp Something Sweet

Happy Monday!

Hope you all had a great weekend! Ours was nice and relaxing, so relaxing in fact that I totally forgot to post my Stamp Something creation on Friday last week! Ooops!

Stamp Something

Our challenge for the week is to stamp something sweet - it can be a sweet image, papers, or 3d item. As long as it says sweet to you, we want to see it! We are sponsored again by Sugar Nellie with a wonderful sweet treat of 4 stamps!

For my card I used this sweet Gorjus Girl and her little kitty! I colored the image with Copics and then distressed the edges, matted on some cream paper and used brads to accent the corners. The papers are also distressed and are from a Prima pack. I've embellished with twine and buttons, some flowers, and 2 new ticket sentiments from Whimsy's Treasured Moments Tickets set.

This card also fits at:
Gingerloft - Die Cuts or Punches
Let's Ink It Up - Die Cuts or Punches
Send a Smile for Kids -  Anything Goes 
Sugar Creek Hollow  - Anything Goe
Totally Gorjuss - Button It
SCS - Way to Use it - Smile

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you have a great Monday! And if you're up for a challenge, please join us at Stamp Something!

A Sketch with Cream and Green

Happy Friday All!

Hope you've had a great week. I'm looking forward to a relaxing weekend as this week has been super busy! I also hope to get some crafting done as we have the new March rubber release at Whimsy Stamps next week!

Just Magnolia and Stamp Something 

Today is new challenge day over at Just Magnolia and at Stamp Something. The challenges this week are great as a combination, so I've only made one card to share with you. The challenge at JM is a sketch by our super talented Bev and then at SS we want you to create something with Cream and Green as your colors.

I started with Bev's fab sketch and then used some new Prima papers for the cream and green color combo. The image was colored with Copics and cut out and adhered to the embossed circle. I've stitched the edges on the sewing machine and accented with ribbon, a button, pearls, and flowers.

This card fits the challenges at:
ABC Challenge - P is for Pearls
For Fun Challenges - Spring
Paper Pretties  - ribbon
Penny's Paper-Crafty  - green

Flourishes - Real or Faux stitches

Scrap-Creations - Going Green

Thanks so much for dropping over today, I will be back tomorrow with a sneak peek at some of the new Whimsy rubber stamps which will be available on Wednesday next week! Have a great day!

A Special Card

Hello All!

Hope you had a fabulous weekend and that your week is off to a great start. I woke up this morning and couldn't remember what day it was, can you tell it's already been a loooong week and it's only Tuesday! lol Thankfully though, everyone is back to being healthy and back a school this week. And it's suppose to be in the 40's this weekend! Getting all excited here for some warmer weather! lol

I have a card to share today, one that I created for a special reason. My friend Michelle has a post on her blog asking for help from the crafting community. There is a little girl, named Haeli, who is fighting a rare form of ovarian cancer and she's only in the 6th grade. It's just so sad when anyone has to battle cancer, but even worse when it's children. Michelle is asking that anyone can and wants, please send a card to Haeli to let her know people are thinking of her and praying for her to beat this disease! You can read more about this request on Michelle's blog HERE.

The card I made for Haeli uses one of Deb's Creations sweet Emerald Faeries. This is Ebony and she's available in both rubber and digital format. You can find all the Emerald Faeries HERE. I colored this image with Copics and then paper pierced the edges. The papers are Prima Jack and Jill and I've embellished with flowers, glitter, pearls, and some ribbon and twine with a little ladybug charm.

This card fits some challenges too...
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
House of Gilli - Green
Magical Mondays - FANTASY and Spring Colours
Paper Playtime - Anything goes with a Digi
Aly's Sunday Challenge - Anything goes
Crafty Pad  - Use Ribbon
Gingerloft - Use flowers
One Stitch At A Time - Use a Charm

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you have a great afternoon! And if you feel like stamping, why not make a card for Haeli.

Last Digi Bells Project

Morning All and Happy Monday!

It's another cold and dreary day here. We are suppose to get rain later too, which will make a mess out of all the snow we got this weekend. I am so ready for Spring. Who's with me? lol Hope you have a great day and that the sun is shining where you are!

Today I want to share my last creation for my GDT spot with the Digi Bells. I've enjoyed my time working with the talented ladies on the DT and getting a chance to work with all of these sweet Elisabeth Bell digital stamps. Big thanks to everyone for having me!

For this card I wanted to go with a soft color palette and incorporate some new papers from Prima.. These are from the Jack and Jill pack, which is beautiful. I've kept the layout simple to showcase the image. I've colored the image with Copics in neutrals, greens, and blues. The card was embellished with ribbon, a brad, sticky pearls, flowers, and a sentiment from the Postage Stamp Sentiments and was cut with the Postage Stamp Die, both from Whimsy Stamps.

This card fits challenges at:
I Did It Creations - Punches or Dies
Sentimental Sundays - SENTIMENT and anything goes
Crazy 4 Challenges - Flowers
Little Claire's - Anything Goes
One Stop Craft - Spring Flowers

Thanks so much for stopping on by today. I hope you have a great day and if I don't see you tomorrow - be sure to stop by the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for the new digital release hop! Crissy has created the cutest new character - you don't want to miss it!