Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes!

The theme over at Cute Card Thursday this week is
Anything Goes!

We are sponsored by Whimsy Stamps this week! 

As it is now December Daily season I decided to create a page for my album. 

I used this super sweet digital image from the 

Whimsy Stamps Digital Range 

she is called

Noelle

she is coloured with Prismacolor Pencils.

Cute Card Thursday - Charms!

The theme on Cute Card Thursday this week is

Charms!

This cute lion is from Whimsy Stamps Digital Image range designed by Crissy Armstrong.  He is called

King Lion

he is coloured with Copics and Prismacolor Pencils.

The sentiment is from a fabulous set of clear stamps by Whimsy Stamps called

Everyday Scripted Sentiments

I also used this set to stamp a sentiment on the inside

The birthday wishes sentiment is from the 

You're my favorite clear stamp set

We are sponsored this week by 

All Dressed Up!

 I hope you can join us! 

Whimsy Stamps Digital Shop Grand Re-Opening!

The long-anticipated Day is here!!

 Welcome to Whimsy Stamps Digital Shop Grand Re-Opening!

Whimsy has a selection of images, sentiments and papers that are now available to purchase, download and use immediately!

This is my creation using Jingle Bell Ride digital stamp. 

 All other items used on this card are also available from the Whimsy Store! 

You can find them individually here - Build a Poinsettia Die, Holly Vine Die, Shaker Builder Sweetest Birthday Die,  Stitched Tag Dies, Joyous Holiday Clear Stamps, Christmas Cheer Designer Paper, Christmas Cheer Enamel Dots.

Digital images are great because you can flip images, use the computer to “mask” and combine images and backgrounds, and re-size everything to suit your personal projects before you print them off. Please read the Terms Of Use with each product purchased for all the details.

Digital images are so easy to use. And they can be printed again and again, as many times as you like for your own personal crafting needs! What a bonus, especially when it comes to patterned paper - no more need to hoard a paper stash - once you have purchased and downloaded Whimsy’s Digital paper packs, you can print off your favourite sheets as many times as you like! What’s more, you can customize the size of the sheet you are printing (there’s less wasted paper that way). How about that, crafters! Surely it doesn’t get much better than that!

Look at what’s being released at Whimsy today! 

 Whimsy will be releasing new digital products on the first of every month, so mark your calendars and be sure to join the release party on FB where we will have games and award prizes to randomly drawn players. In fact, get on over to FB   -   https://www.facebook.com/events/789460344529297/  where the party has just started (Nov 1, 12 PM EST)! 

If you play the games, you could win something Whimsy-cal. The more you play, the greater your chances. (Exciting, right!?) But don’t leave just yet!

You have just got to see what the rest of the Whimsy Digi Designer Divas, and our Very Special Guest Zoe from Make It Crafty have created with the digi’s. 

We are showing off our gorgeous cards for you over the next two days, November 1st and 2nd. Go visit each blog to see what magic each Diva has cooked up. Your eyes will bug out of your head and your jaw will hit the floor. You’ve been fairly warned. Jussayin!

Zoe

Donna 

Tracy 

Ellen 

Michelle 

Bridget 

Crissy 

Thank you for stopping by! Don’t forget to join the Release Party on Facebook to get in on your chance to win Whimsy-cal prizes!! Bye for now!

Cute Card Thursday - No Text!

Cute Card Thursday this week has a No text theme!

Sounds easy doesn't it? No text, numerous times I wanted to add a little sentiment, just managed to stop myself!

We are sponsored by Pink Cat Studio this week!

I used this very sweet digital image from Whimsy Stamps, she is called heartfelt angel  was designed by Crissy Armstrong for the Help for Japan fundraiser.  You can still buy her over at Whimsy along with the other special stamps until the end of April.  

I coloured her with Copics (skintones) and Prismacolour pencils. 

The gorgeous die cuts were made using my fabby new dies by Marianne  Design and Nellie's both were bought from Bunny Zoe's Crafts.

The DP is Pink Paislee 'Queen Bee'

 I couldn't complete the card without some text so as I was making this a sympathy card I decided to add a very poignant verse.  This gave me huge comfort when my dad died 11 years ago and so I wanted to pass it on to the grieving family.

Other challenges I am entering

Everybody art challenge ~ pearls

and 

The saturday challenge ~ stitching

I hope you will join in this challenge with us this week!  Please drop by to see the rest of the Design Team's creations, we have some fabby new Dt members joining us this week! 

Have a great Thursday!

Happy Valentines Day!

If you are looking for the Whimsy February Rubber Release Blog hop please click here!

Hope you are having a great start to the week and a very special Valentines Day!

Chicken Soup has this fabulous pic for inspiration and the simplicity of it was so perfect for Hubby's Valentines card!  He is so not into flowers and frills so I kept it super simple. I loved this little devil so much I didn't mind too much not adding anything else.

He is available from Whimsy Stamps, a digital image designed by Melissa Jenkins.

I coloured him with Prismacolor Pencils.  

The die is the Stampin Up Top Note Die.

I am also entering it into

Stamp Something ~ something for your Valentine

Totally Gorjuss ~ Love

One Stop Craft ~ Love is in the air

A Spoonful of Sugar ~ lets see some love

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Thanks for dropping by!

Cute Card Thursday - The Blues!

The theme this week on Cute Card Thursday is 'The Blues'!

If you are like me and very pushed for time with all the Festive preparations you will find these pre-coloured digital images from Whimsy Stamps an absolute Godsend! 

Now you can finish off all your Christmas cards in a snap! 

The images are available either as pre-coloured or as a normal digital image for you to colour yourself. 

With very little crafting time here I opted for the coloured one and was not disappointed, it printed out perfectly!  

This is one of many that Whimsy have just released this week, it is by Crissy Armstrong and is called 'Touched by Love'

you should pop over to see what Crissy came up with her own pre-coloured images, she teamed them up with Ann's digital frames and made a batch of beautiful cards!

The sweet sentiment is also from Whimsy Stamps.  It is a digital sentiment designed by Ann Vento aka Raindrop Echo Designs which I  printed  directly onto my DP which is from Stampin' Up.

There are so many new designs to choose from at Whimsy.

New digital designs from Ann, Crissy, and Katie, along with many new images released in November to the Meljen's Designs collection.

A brand new colored digital collection. Beautifully colored images, great for making quick cards. Designs by Crissy Armstrong and Melissa Jenkins. Each file is JPG at 300dpi for high print quality. Resize, flip, or rotate to fit your project.

Visit the store to see all the new digital stamps available and then join us again on Wednesday the 8th for a new rubber stamp release! 

The edge punch and snowflakes are Martha Stewart.

This week at CCT  we are sponsored by

The Beary Scrap

a fabulous prize on offer to one lucky winner!  hope you will drop by and see the DTs beautiful blue creations!

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There seems to be an awful lot of snow around the world at the moment, hope you are staying safe and warm wherever you are!  

thanks for dropping by!

Mind your Mummy!

With so many fabulous Halloween themed challenges going on this week I had to play!

A Spooful of Sugar ~ Boo

My time to craft ~ ghosties, ghoulies and long legged beasties

Creative Inspirations ~ Spooky

Meljens Designs DT blog challenge ~ Anything goes

CRAFT challenge ~ Spooky

Crafts 4 Eternity ~ Spooky

and it is digi day over at Stamp Something so this wall hanging is perfect as both the Mummy bear and the Mind your Mummy sentiment are digital images available at Whimsy Stamps!

The fabulous wooden plaque came unpainted from Michaels, I knew as soon as I spotted it what I would turn it into!

A bit of Tim Holtz crackle paint to make it nice and spooky and it was ready for the image and decorations.

Do you like the cobwebs?  They started off as an accident with my glue gun but then I liked the effect and went a little crazy with it!

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I am so glad it is Friday! After a great but busy weekend away last week then a week of catching up I am ready for a nice relaxing weekend at home!  We are supposed to be doing a pre-winter clear up in the garden but snow is forecast so we may be doing more snow-shoveling than anything else!

Hope you all have a good one!

back to school notebook

A really quick notebook cover, this took no time at all but made such a difference to the front of my basic 20cents notebook! I bought loads of these for the kids before they went back to school and still have a few untouched.  I am a list person so need a notebook per theme so this one is for school notes and I will soon have to make one for Christmas lists!  Decorating them is a great way to easily distinguish them and it also toughens up the cover although I like to keep it fairly flat so no bulky embellishments on here.

I used a digi image from Whimsy Stamps Meljen's Designs 'back to school pencil'

A Spoonful of Sugar challenge is being sponsored by Whimsy Stamps this week and the theme is 

anything goes!

Whimsy Stamps have a fabulous new release coming up next week, sneak peeks start on Thursday with a blog hop on Sunday 3rd October!

I will have a sneak peek here on Thursday and will also be taking part in the blog hop!

card drive for Michelle

Over on A Spooful of Sugar there is a card drive for Michelle Oatman, if you haven't already heard about Michelle's accident you can read about it here where you can also give a donation via Paypal or here on Michelle's own blog.

I have used the fabulous Whimsy Stamps digis specially designed for Michelle by artist Melissa Jenkins and sentiments by Ann Vento.  You can download them for free from the Whimsy Store.

Supplies:

Whimsy digital  Image and Sentiments

DP ~ Tim Holtz vintage shabby paper

Flowers ~ Prima

gotta run, have friends visiting soon so beds to change etc!

Hope you are having an amazing summer!

Whimsy Challenge ~ new digi release

Here is my Whimsy Challenge card, the theme this month is summery cards with the option of bugs.

I used one of the new Whimsy digital images illustrated by Crissy Armstrong.  This one is called 'Walking with Daddy'.  The sentiment has been created by Ann Vento to co-ordinate with the images. 

This image is one of the many fabulous new images being released today at Whimsy Stamps. They are all available to purchase from Noon (EST) today!

To see more you can join in the hop, it starts at the

Whimsy Inspirations Blog.

If you would like to join in the challenge you can get the details here on the Whimsy Blog.

There are prizes to be won in both the Hop and the challenge!

I found 2 other challenges with summer themes too

Cupcake Craft and Everybody art!

Thank you for dropping by, have a great day!

Cute Card Thursday ~ for Someone Special

The theme on Cute Card Thursday this week is

Someone Special

I made this card for my nephew but I am worried it might be too young for him so I may keep it for a younger nephew and make him a more 'manly' one, he will be turning 18, what do you think?

I used the fabulous new digital image from Whimsy Stamps designed by MelJen Designs called three pigs.  I so love her designs especially the unique little swirls around the characters!

The sentiment is another of Whimsy Stamps new digitals designed by Ann Vento aka Raindrop Echo Designs who designed suitably matching sentiments for all our new digital images.

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If you prefer the rubber we have a new Whimsy Stamps RUBBER release coming up on Monday 17th May but watch out for  some sneak peeks over the weekend!

All I will say is 'Crissy', 'Ann', ' Carousel Horses'.....oh I have said too much already!!!!!

...and don't forget in the meantime there is a sale on the other rubber stamps in the Whimsy Store!

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The papers are some I have had a while from Stampin' Up. 

The piggies were coloured with Copics. 

CCT is sponsored this week by Simon Says Stamp!  do rush over and see what the rest of the DT have created, beautiful work as always!

Have a great Thursday, thanks so much for dropping by!

Whimsy new release sneak peek!

Here is an early glimpse at one of the new Whimsy Stamps digital images which are to be released tomorrow (Wednesday)they are available to purchase at 9am! 

She is such a sweetie called 'Emma Swinging'.

There are another 2 fabulous images by Crissy Armstrong and also some fun images from Whimsy's newest illustrator Melissa Jenkins of MelJen Designs.  If that isn't enough for you we have oodles of fabulous new sentiments to match the images from our very talented Ann Vento aka Raindrop Echo Designs.

Be sure to drop by here and the other designers tomorrow for the Hop and also a Challenge where you can win some fabby prizes! 

My card fits into the following challenges

Friday Sketchers ~ sketch by Claudia

Charisma Cardz ~ Girly with flowers

and

Pollycraft ~ Here comes the sun

It is a busy week for me but hopefully I will be here in the morning with WOYWW followed by the

Whimsy Stamps Digital Release Blog Hop

at Noon (EST)

have a great day!