Coffee and Friends

I had so much fun with these Whimsy Stamps  Coffee Break and Coffee Break Additions stamps! 

They are so perfect for more project life cards! 

 I am getting a lot of use of the Wonderful Word Die too!

Thank you so much for dropping by!

Clearly Whimsy Stamps April Release Day

Hi everyone and welcome to the Clearly Whimsy Stamps April Release BLOG HOP! 

 All 9 new clear stamp sets AND 8 coordinating die/die sets are now available to buy from the

  Whimsy Stamps store!

 Today we are excited to introduce you to the final stamps sets and die of this month's release - two FAMILY WORDS stamp sets and a coordinating WONDERFUL WORD die!

 Hop on over to the Whimsy blog to take a peek at the new products.

 The DT are holding a blog hop to celebrate this month's release.  The hop starts today (Wednesday April 23rd at 8.00AM EDT) and ends on Sunday April 27th at 12.00PM EDT.

PRIZE ALERT ... One lucky hopper will win 2 new release stamps sets and 1 coordinating die! To enter the draw, simply leave a comment at EVERY stop along the hop!

Simonne ClayHeather Pulvirenti

Jen Nelson Debbie Eastman Deb Routledge Amy Kolling Rosemary Dennis Pop's Morfitt (Guest Designer)

I made a 6 x 4 project life card using the Coffee stamps and dies and stamped the words You and Me from the Family words stamp set and finished off with the Wonderful word die.

Day 2 Clear Stamps sneak peeks

Hi everyone and welcome to DAY 2 of the ...

This week we are releasing 9 new clear stamp sets and 8 coordinating die/die sets, and they will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and all good Whimsy Stamps retailers from TOMORROW (23 April). Yesterday we introduced COFFEE BREAK and HAPPY HELLO, and today we are excited to introduce you to HAPPY TRAVELS and IN THE GARDEN stamp sets and dies! Hop on over to the Whimsy blog to take a peek at the new products. 

I created a Road Trip Travel Album using the Travel Stamps 

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left here and on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment to be entered into the draw.

Pop's Morfitt (Guest Designer) Simonne Clay Rosemary Dennis Deb Routledge Debbie Eastman Amy Kolling Jen Nelson

Hope to see you again tomorrow for our RELEASE DAY HOP and the final reveal of our last set of products!

Whimsy Stamps Clear Stamps Sneak peek

Hi everyone and welcome to the first sneak peek day of the ...

Over the next 3 days myself and the rest of the CWS design team will reveal the new

  April 2014 Clearly Whimsy Stamps products.

 Whimsy is releasing 9 new clear stamp sets and 8 coordinating die/die sets this week, and they will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and all good Whimsy Stamps retailers from Wednesday (23 April).

 This month we are thrilled to welcome Pop’s Morfitt as our Guest Designer. Pop’s will be joining us for the entire 3 day release event and sharing her wonderful creations featuring our April release. Welcome Pop’s! Today we are revealing the COFFEE BREAK 4x6 and 3x4 stamp sets together with their coordinating die set, PLUS the HAPPY HELLO 4x6 stamp set and coordinating Hello large word die. Hop on over to the Whimsy blog to take a peek at the new products. 

I created 2 project life cards using the coffee break stamps  I had way too much fun putting these cards together using the fabulous stamps and co-ordinating coffee cup die!

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left here and on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment to be entered into the draw.

Amy Kolling Debbie Eastman Deb Routledge Heather Pulvirenti Rosemary Dennis Jen Nelson Simonne Clay Pop's Morfitt (Guest Designer)

Hope to see you again tomorrow for Day 2 of our release sneak peeks!

Cute Card Thursday - Easter!

The theme for Cute Card Thursday this week is

Easter!

It will soon be here!

I had a look around the internet for some inspiration and came across this very cute little basket and just had to try to make one.  It was so simple, I will definitely be revisiting this tutorial again soon!

I used the Whimsy Stamps Mini Chalkboard Sentiment stamp - Home Sweet Home as I want this to be a home decoration rather than as a gift.

We are sponsored this week by Whiff of Joy, hope you can join us!

Whimsy Stamps Facebook Challenge

The Whimsy Stamps Facebook Challenge for the month of April is

Something Sweet!

How perfect are these new Whimsy Clear stamps for this challenge?

I used the Sweet as Candy image stamp set and the Sweet as Candy Large Word Die.

Thank you for dropping by!

Boo!

Another Project Life card from me.  Dressed up this time with a fabulous stamp by Whimsy Stamps!

This one is from the Mini Chalkboard sentiment set by SC Designs.

 I love the Mini chalkboard die frame which matches these stamps. The embossed texture on it is so perfect!

Thank you for dropping by, have a great weekend!

Cute Card Thursday - All Boy!

The theme on Cute Card Thursday this week is

All Boy

we want to see masculine cards/creations.

We are sponsored this week by Bunny Zoe's Crafts.

I used the Whimsy Stamps Clear Stamp set Feeling Fruity Additions.

I am entering this card into the CAS-ology challenge this week the cue is JOKE!

Many thanks for dropping by!

WOYWW

For the first time in a while I have thought the week is going slowly!  The snow forecast all week isn't helping much!  Roll on the weekend, some warmer weather, I hope!

Today I have been working on a card, this one for my younger son's birthday so keeping it suitably masculine in colour!

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For those interested in the books I posted about last week here they are a series of historical fiction with a sci-fi twist.  It is not my normal type of book, I don't go in for romance novels as such and there seems a lot of it in there!  Still, it is turning out to be a bit of a page turner and with another 5 books + in the series that is a good thing!  They start out set in post WW2 Scotland but with a bit of time travel it mostly takes place in 18th Century Scotland.  The later books do arrive in the US in North Carolina but I am way off reading those just yet!  More info here!

Once I realised she was an American writer I was ready to nitpick at the language and realism but I have been pleasantly surprised and often thought she must be British to use those phrases!  She has certainly done her homework although I have found a couple of little things I thought were out of place but then I was being very picky! So far it hasn't spoiled my enjoyment of the book!

Homemade enamel dots.

 Another update from last week - the hama beads that I tried to melt last week were totally unsuccessful so I headed out to Walmart and got these Pony beads which had great reviews.  The result is below.  They melt very quickly, within 10 minutes and there is very little smell so I didn't mind doing a couple of batches in my regular oven.  I did 400 degrees F.

The results are super shiny enamel dots.  Some turned out better than others but the success comes from having a very flat piece of parchment and watching them and removing them from the oven as soon as they have closed so you retain the rounded top and then they don't spread so much. 

My little treasured purchase this week!  I have been wanting one of these for a while, do we all know what it is yet?

Sorry for going on but I thought I should answer some of the questions from last week and this seemed the most sensible place to do that!

If you are wondering why I am showing all this stuff head over to Julia's blog for more details of our little Wednesday party!