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Tuesday 28 May 2013

Winner of the Wee Stamps......

and the winner is.......
Congratulations Antoinette!  You have won your choice of either 3 digital Wee Stamps or 1 rubber Wee Stamp from Whimsy Stamps. Please email me to claim your prize!
Huge thanks to Sylvia Zet who sponsored this giveaway and for having me as a guest designer during the month of May!

Thursday 23 May 2013

Whimsy Stamps May Release Review Day Blog Hop!

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps May Release Review Day Blog Hop! 
 Yesterday (22 May) Whimsy Stamps released this month's new rubber designs, Shapeology dies and Whimsy Designer Paper packs. From 21 May until today the Whimsy Stamps DT are showcasing these fabulous new goodies with a daily blog hop!
 Each blog hop has a prize of 2 new release stamps hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw. To be entered into today's blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow.
 All winners will be announced here on the Whimsy blog tomorrow (Friday 24 May).
 For my blog hop card, I inked up 
 They are such a cute set of little puppies.
******Giveaway Alert******
Because I am the Wee Stamps Whimsy Guest Designer this month I am able do a Wee Stamps giveaway!
Just leave a comment below to be included in the draw!
The winner gets to choose between either 3 digital Wee Stamps or 1 rubber Wee Stamp of their choice!
This Candy will end on Monday 27th May at midnight, the winner will be chosen at random and will be announced here on Tuesday 28th May!
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I created a handbag template to make this project.  
I also made this for the Cute Card Thursday Challenge this week which is
Tie it Up!  

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below...
Deb Routledge Erin Bailey Heidy Blom  Mary Lou Schroeder (May Special Guest Designer)
Remember that the entire new release is available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Whimsy Stamps May Release Day Blog Hop!

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps May 2013 Release Day BLOG HOP!
 Please visit the Whimsy blog for a full reveal of this month’s new release.
 Just as we did last month, we are now hosting a 3-day new release event each month where we will have a Sneak Peek Blog Hop on the day before the release (today!), a Release Day Blog Hop on release day (tomorrow), and finally a Review Day Blog Hop the day after the release.
 Each blog hop has a prize of 2 new release stamps hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw. Today we are excited to share sneak peeks of some of the brand new Crissy Armstrong, Elisabeth Bell, Meljens Designs and 2 Cute Ink stamps that are available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store! For today’s card I used …
Crissy Armstrong's The Little Captain, Nautical Postage Stamps by Raindrop Echo Designs and the Anchor die.  I love this release, all the nautical stamps and dies are just so fabulous together!

 This is also my Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Challenge card.
 Today the Whimsy Stamps rubber team are posting their challenge creations on the challenge blog. You have until June 4th to join this month's challenge which is "Anything Goes" and as always we have 3 prizes up for grabs: a $15 gift certificate, 5 digi stamps, and 1 surprise rubber stamp. To be entered into today's blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy blog on Friday. To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below...
Don’t forget to stop by the Whimsy blog again tomorrow for our final May Release Blog Hop! Thanks so much for stopping by and happy hopping!

Tuesday 21 May 2013

WOYWW

I print way too many photos!  I won't ever fully trust technology so end up saving my pics everywhere and still print out every one that I want to keep!
Those ones on my desk are just from Christmas!
I found this Smash book in Michaels last week and thought it would be perfect for a lazy person's version of Project Life.  I am never going to keep up with a weekly thing so I am not going to try.
  This is ideal though, there are a few pages for each month of the year.  This one is the 365 Folio.

Any of you Brits remember this advert from the 70's?  It came up in conversation this morning when I was having coffee with some friends so I just had to try and find it.  You can find anything on You Tube eh?


here is the link for those the video isn't showing for  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9FsEi2us88

Guest room update, walls are back and painted yey! Just waiting for flooring and then the baseboards and we can get everything back in!  If you are wondering why I am showing my guest room in this state, this is what it was like a couple of weeks back.. following water damage.
If you would like to know more about WOYWW or would like to join us pop over to Julia's blog for more details!

Thursday 16 May 2013

Cute Card Thursday - Dancing Queen

The theme for Cute Card Thursday this week is 
Dancing Queen
I didn't have a lot of time so I coloured this sweet Mo Manning image very quickly.  I was running out of time and photographed it hastily only to realize that I had forgotten to put on some bling!
Oh well, it will be a good one to put in the mail at least!
The papers are My Minds Eye as is the sentiment stamp.

Hope you can join us this week, we are sponsored by Whimsy Stamps, a fabulous prize as always!
thanks for dropping by!

Tuesday 14 May 2013

WOYWW

On my desk this week - some new stash!
Some My Minds Eye collections, they were a huge bargain, really it had to be done!
Oh, and my enormous tub of marshmallows!  I need a sweet treat whenever I have a cup of tea and these being fat free hit the mark! Of course I would prefer a nice big slab of something chocolately but I am on a health drive so fat free it is for the next few weeks at least!
 My knitting coming along ever so slowly!  With tendonitis in my elbow I struggle to do more than a few rows, I am trying to rest it as much as possible from the things that aggravate it, knitting being one of those!
At this rate at least it should be finished by winter!

update on the guest room, some progress there!
If you would like to join us this week pop on over to Julia's blog for the details!

Thursday 9 May 2013

Cute Card Thursday - Something Blue

Just look at this cutie! She is from Whimsy Stamps part of the Little Cottage Cuties range designed by Elisabeth Bell called Skippy and Bobbin.
The Keep Calm stamp is also a Whimsy Stamp in the Birthday Greetings Set designed by Raindrop Echo Designs.  The die is the Lace Doily Border Die 1, also from Whimsy stamps this has become my go to die border!
The theme for Cute Card Thursday this week is Something Blue, think this fits the bill!
WE are sponsored this week by Whiff of Joy, a fabulous prize as always!
Thanks for dropping by!

Tuesday 7 May 2013

WOYWW

On my desk today is a little cutie from Whimsy Stamps that will soon be transformed into a card using the Authentique paper collection underneath.  Above those are my latest purchases, a couple of memory box dies and a lovely pack of travel stamps a la 7gypsies.
This one is for Jan, we rather enjoyed a butterbeer or 2.  

 Update on the guest room.  All dried out now although we did have a secondary leak that we found last night. We discovered that some of the water had come from an outside hose bib that has a hole in the pipe that was inside our walls!  No wonder there was so much damage, leaks from two sides!  We were just lucky that we turned on the tap last night as it only leaks when it is turned on.  The reconstruction part was about to begin today!
Just waiting for the plumber to fix the pipes now and then we should be back on schedule.  I can't wait until it is all done, this is totally stressing me out and sabotaging my mojo!
Hoping for a more pleasant picture next week!
If you would like to join in and show us what is on your workdesk this Wednesday pop over to Julia's blog for all the details!

Thursday 2 May 2013

Cute Card Thursday - Come Fly with Me!

Our theme over at Cute Card Thursday this week is Come Fly with Me!
This cute little dragon was in the Whimsy Stamps April Release and I couldn't resist using her!  I say her, although she could be used for girl or boy depending what colour you make the nappy/diaper. 
You can find the dragon here - Meljen's little baby dragon

WE are sponsored this week by Bunny Zoe's Crafts. a great prize as always.
Hope you can find time to play along!

Wednesday 1 May 2013

WOYWW

Not a lot of crafting to show this week, it has been quite a week, more about that in a minute.  I am trying to work on this...... love this box which was once filled with chocolates and will soon be getting a makeover.  It will be on here on Thursday all finished.....I hope!
 My distraction at the moment......
 a leak from a waste pipe caused a huge amount of damage in our guest bedroom in the basement.  Of course this is the only room we had finished decorating in the basement since we moved into this house last year!
The walls and ceilings are pretty bad but the wooden floor just buckled upwards and it was like walking over hills and dales.  
The restoration guys have been here this afternoon and we now have no floor or skirting boards down there and there are a gazillion fans drying the room out.  It is rather upsetting but I am trying not to think about it too much and just let them get on with it!
 The reason for my absence last week, we were away on vacation in sunny Florida.  The wizarding world of Harry Potter was amazing!
 But my favourite place of all is Seuss Landing.  I could live there.  I so want a who house to live in.
Who wouldn't want to live on Bliss Street?
 My favourite ride, the cute Seuss train.  
I have just had a lovely visit with Bernie!  I only found out this morning that she was in the area and she did a little detour from her road trip to meet up with me! I have to say, she is as lovely in real life as she is in blogland!

Looking forward to catching up with all you WOYWWers this week!
If you would like to play along go over to Julia's blog for details!