Whimsy DT card ~ Pretty in Pink

Just look at my girly Whimsy owl! I couldn't resist doing her in pink....funny how I now call her a she when coloured brown I called it he!

This card is for the Whimsical Wednesday challenge over at SNR the card universe the fabulous sketch was designed by Whimsy design team member Jeanette
Do try to play along, you can win the new Whimsy Stamps Kids Collection Stamps, Baseball Connor and Rainy Day Emma!

You do have to join SNR but it is quick and it is free, drop on in and check out the details!
I am also entering this card into the Stamp Something Challenge which this week has a green theme!
Supplies: Stamps ~ Whimsy Stamps Animals Collection 'Owl'
DP ~ Basic Grey 'sugared'
Embellishments ~ Kaiser adhesive stones, Prima flowers, lace, doily and ribbon.
Images coloured with watercolour paints.


I have just received my gorgeous new Whimsy DT stamps Baseball Connor and Rainy Day Emma and also enclosed was this beautiful card made my Denise. Thank you so much Denise, I love it and I can't wait to get my stamps inked up and coloured, off to do that now!

Happy Birthday Cute Card Thursday!

Exciting things going on over at Cute Card Thursday today! It is our first birthday!

We have a special sketch to follow designed by super talented Katharina and it is also a Celebration theme!

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We decided to give CCT a face lift for our birthday! Lynn and Jo from Siggi Shop have been working so hard all week to make the blog look super duper for today! Well, it is only right that it dresses up for its birthday!

We have an amazing line up of prizes from our fabulous sponsors

Whimsy Stamps

Alota Stamps

Whiff of Joy

Pink Gem and

Emma from Something Sweet

I just had to make one of these special book cards for my son's birthday. He loves to go ski-ing so this Edwin was just perfect!

Katharina's sketch is a dream to use and take a look at the rest of the DT cards they all look so different, it is amazing how many ways you can use the same sketch. Must admit I did switch the image and the sentiment around to suit my purpose!

We have a very special Guest designer this week, lovely Marlene returns for one week only with a beautiful card! We were thrilled when she agreed to return for our bithday week!
I kept the inside very similar to the last one I made, just added a sweet little verse and this time I left the jelly beans uncovered as I really like the colours! I used the little pocket to add some cash and my son's eyes lit up and he announced it was cool!

Of course, now all the kids have spotted this, they all want a little pocket in their card with some cash in! I've really started something now!

Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'Archaic'

Stamps ~ Magnolia 'Edwin ski-ing', Basic Grey 'Archaic', SU 'Circle of friendship'

Embellishments ~ eyelet and twine

Tools ~ sewing machine, cuttlebug, nestabilities

Whimsical Wednesday!

Whimsy Stamps News!

It is Whimsical Wednesday over on SNR card Universe there is a sketch challenge to take part in which will run until march 26th. This is a brand new monthly challenge which will take place on the second wednesday of the month. Do try to take part, you can win the brand new Whimsy Kids Collection stamps, Rainy Day Emma and Baseball Connor!

The new Whimsy Kids Collection stamps are now instock! Baseball Connor is due to be resized so the larger size is available until stocks run out, you can get him at a reduced price now here! Hurry, when he is gone he is gone! He will be perfect for larger projects such as A5 cards, scrapbooking and gift bags etc. I can't wait till he arrives, watch this space!

More fabby Whimsy news........Denise is going to be stocking Basic Grey and matching embellishments....woohoo! All my favourite things in one place!

Gotta run, got lots going on today!! See you all tomorrow for Cute Card Thursday, we have a brand new look to unveil and some amazing prizes!

Blog Candy Winner!

The Winner of my Blog Candy draw is

Shan from Malaysia

Congratulations!

Please send me your postal address by email so I can get your goodies sent off to you.

Don't forget to have a look at the gorgeous Whimsy Stamps and choose which one you would like so that Denise can get it sent out to you!

Many thanks to everyone who entered and joined my merry band of followers!

pS My internet is back on, woohoo! Will catch up with you all soon!

Blog Candy!

Apologies, my blog candy draw might be a little later than planned! My internet is down (full explanation in the post below! )

I hope it will be fixed early on monday but if not I will make the draw as soon as possible after my phone line is working again!

This means you can continue to enter as I will take the list just before the draw!

You can see my blog candy here,

stamp something and truly scrumptious

I may not be around much in the next day or so! Our telephone line and internet are down since a massive thunderstorm last night. We were awoken by such a loud bang and the electricity went off for a few seconds, then the loudest thunder we had ever heard!

Today, everything else seems fine but the telephone line is dead! It would seem that there is no urgency on a sunday!!!! I just hope it gets fixed early tomorrow!

I am using a mobile broadband stick, but it is painfully slow so I will post this and then have to call it a day I am afraid!
Anyway, here is the card I spent 3 days creating and was desperate to show this morning but has taken until now to get some internet access!

I created it for the Stamp Something Challenge which was to use a favourite something, my favourites on this card are the Basic Grey (of course) hardly ever use anything else! Also, this cute little Whimsy boy ' Knight Connor' is my favourite Whimsy stamp, although just wait till next week when the new Whimsy kids come out and I may just have a new favourite!!!

This card is also for the Truly Scrumptious Challenge which had a fantastic sketch to follow! The other part of the challenge was to add handmade buttons, I don't know if I can class these shields as buttons but the sketch was fab and I just had to use it!

This card is a birthday card for my nephew who loves to receive money inside his card, I am sure he will be thrilled to find it in this little pocket and also the roll of Jelly beans! The card is like a book to accomodate the tube and I love the feel of it, so robust and thick!

Here is a close up of super cute Knight Connor, isn't he adorable? I love stamping these Whimsy images, the stamps are a beautiful deep red rubber and stamp perfectly every time!

The shields once again came in very handy as a little extra embellishment without the need for another stamp!


Here you can see how thick the card is, very like a book shape.


The back view!
Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'Archaic'
Stamps ~ Whimsy 'Knight Connor'
Embellishments and tools ~ Cuttlebug and nestabilities, brads, scrappers floss

Thank you so much for your visit, I will be around to visit you back as soon as I can!

tilda and friends ATC - double trouble

Here is my ATC for this week's Tilda and Friends ATC challenge. I love making these sweet little cards, just the right size for using up little scraps!

The challenge this week was 'double trouble' to use 2 of everything on your ATC.I didn't manage 2 images but just about 2 of everything else, 2 DPs, 2 bows, 2 buttons and even 2 words!

I wish someone could slow down time, I don't know where today went!

Hope tomorrow goes a bit slower but I know it won't as I have even more to fit into it than today!

Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'Sugared'

Stamps ~ Sugar Nellie 'Luvvie' and Studio G sentiment

Embellishments ~ buttons and ribbon from stash

Cute Card Thursday ~ Wine and Dine

The theme for Cute Card Thursday this week is Wine and Dine. It can be food or drink related or both. Do check out the amazing DT cards this week, you might be surprised how many of us used alcohol related images!

We have another amazing prize this week a voucher kindly donated by Poppicrafts!

We have a new guest designer this week, Sharon has created a stunning gift bag and tag.

I have seen a couple of these envelope cards around and I thought this was a good opportunity to try one myself as I will add some money or a voucher in with this card. I made the envelope using my scor-pal. The DP wasn't double sided so I had to put 2 sheets back to back resulting in a lovely thick envelope.

The DP and lettering are from the Basic Grey Sugared pack, you can win one of these here!

The sweet image is Magnolia from the summer kit collection. She is my Tilda of choice for adult cards, you can see why! She was coloured with watercolour paints and distress inks.

Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'Sugared'

Stamps ~ Magnolia

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Basic Grey Sugared buttons, Lace and ribbon from stash.

Thank you so much for dropping in, hope to catch up with everyone soon, have a great day!

2 Sweet Challenges!

I made this for the Sugar Bowl Christmas challenge, just had to make one of my Sugar Nellie Gorjuss girls fit! Today as I was making it I realised it also fits the Spoonful of Sugar challenge with my torn edge book page!

This Gorjuss girl was coloured with watercolours and distress inks. I did a lot of stamping around the edges with the distress inks too!
Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey

Stamps ~ Sugar Nellie 'Gorjuss girl', Inkadinkado stamp and postmark, Basic Grey 'Winterland', Autumn Leaves 'for the record 2'

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Basic Grey button, Hat pin from Ebay, pearls and ribbon from stash

Just found out that I won the Ismaki challenge from last week (grin)!

Thanks for dropping by!

Whimsy DT card and Stamp Something Challenge

The Stamp Something Challenge this week has a winter theme, Cold and Windy!

This week Whimsy Stamps are sponsoring the challenge and Denise is giving one lucky winner a $20 gift certificate to spend at the Whimsy Online Store!

This cute couple are the Whimsy Penguin and Seal from the Animal collection! This cute stamp is among others in the Whimsy Winter Sale just now!

This isn't my usual style of card but very occasionally I like to do something clean and simple.

Supplies: DP~Sandylion 'snowflakes'

Stamps ~ Whimsy Animal collection 'Penguin and Seal'

Tools & Embellishments ~ Sewing machine zigzag stitch, MS punch, Cricut die cut snowflakes and tag, doiley, brad and clear baubles. Nestabilities for inside.

My Blog Candy!

As promised my Blog Candy to celebrate making the Whimsy Stamps Design Team and I also just noticed I was over 60k hits!

Okay so here it is.... A Basic Grey Sugared 12x12 collection pack

Basic Grey Sugared Rub-ons,

Basic Grey Sugared Brads

Basic Grey Sugared Buttons

A Sugar Nellie stamp 'Chick-a-dee' designed by Elisabeth Bell

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A Whimsy Stamp of the winners choice.....kindly donated by Denise of Whimsy Stamps!

You can check out the Whimsy Stamps here to choose which one you would have if you win!!!

So what do you have to do?

*Add yourself to my followers list (I will use this list for the draw)

*Please link my candy on your blog, if you don't have a blog leave me a comment here and I will still include you in the draw.

Do this by Sunday March 8th and the winner will be announced on Monday 9th March by midday!

Good Luck!

oh yes, I will post internationally!

Denise is having a design team call for Whimsy Stamps currently, it ends on sunday 1st March, you can find the details here!

Whimsy also has a sale on the Winter stamps at the moment so head on over and get yourself a bargain!

SBS 4 ~ Homepage competition

Just a very quick post to drop in my SBS 4 Homepage Competition Card. I am a member of this fabulous group, we have been together for over a year and become good friends during this time. We have regular little swaps and competitions between us, I always look forward to our next little fun project! This is our current competition, to replace our homepage photograph. I thought this was a sweet phrase which sums us up nicely.

The remit set by Marcia was to make a card in chocolate and teal and add some bling!

Supplies: DP ~ October Afternoon and Basic Grey

Stamp ~ Sarah Kay ~ A little help from Margot, 7 gypsies 'notting hill'

embellishments ~ Papermania adhesive stones, punched out flowers, prima flower

Must go and put my feet up, been a busy day and I am whacked! I have my blog candy to post but will do it tomorrow as my eyes are getting a bit fuzzy.... and that is before the glass of wine!!!

Have a fabulous weekend, hope to catch up with what you have all been doing in the next day or so! Thanks for dropping by!

Cute Card Thursday ~ Animal Magic

The challenge over at Cute Card Thursday this week is......

Animal Magic!

~As soon as this cute Whimsy Stamp arrived at the weekend I knew it had to be him, I just love this naughty bunny! This stamp is called 'Whimsy Bunny with Snowman' and can be bought here!
He reminds me of the hare that runs around in our garden and at this time of year eats my crocus flower heads! He is so naughty too but I love him so I don't mind really!

We have a new sponsor this week, Craftaway have given us a gorgeous cute Riley stamp to give away! They have 20% off until saturday so it is well worth a visit, a good time to stock up on that Bazzill and your favourite DP!

We also have Silvia as our Guest Designer again this week, you can see her fabulous card and the regular Design Teams beautiful creations here!

I decorated the inside but kept it fairly plain as it took me forever to do this card.....why is it that sometimes a card will take a whole day or longer and others will take a couple of hours! I kept moving things about and changing things on here, you know how it is?
Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'Dasher' and 'Figgy Pudding'

Stamps ~ Whimsy Stamps Animal Collection 'Bunny with Snowman'

Inkadinkado 'Merry Christmas Postage stamp set'

Embellishments ~ Prima 'Christmas Pail', charms from Ebay

Tools ~ Sewing Machine,

Colouring ~ Watercolour Paints

Thank you so much for your visit, I hope you find time to play along with us!

Have a great day!

Everybody-Art-Challenge ~ Bag!

I found the perfect challenge for me over at Everybody-art- Challenge this week, the theme is Bag!

Seeing as I am bag crazy this week I just had to play along!
I loved seeing all the other bags on the challenge too, so many bags to make so little time!

This little cutie is Knight Connor from the Whimsy Stamps Kids Collection. Isn't he adorable? My youngest son loves him so I decided he had to be on the party bags! These bags are so easy to make so it won't be a problem to make a few for the party goers! You can see a mini tutorial of some similar gift bags here! The bag inners were sent to me by my good friend Debbie, I can't remember where she got them from unfortunately!

The shield made a perfect little embellishment seeing as boys rarely like flowers on their cards! I will be using this a lot with Knight Connor!!!
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I also made a sweet girly one with Pajama Time Emma, again from the Whimsy Stamps Kids Collection. There are 2 fabulous new kids stamps to be released shortly, you can check them out here!

Don't forget Whimsy Stamps are having a DT call right now, closing date is Sunday 1st March! See here for details!
Thank you so much for dropping by!

Supplies: DP ~ Basic Grey 'Archaic' and 'Sugared'

Stamps ~ Whimsy Stamps Kids Collection 'Knight Connor' and 'Pajama Time Emma' images coloured with watercolour paints and Tim Holtz Distress Ink.

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Karen Foster charm, Scrappers floss, brads, ribbon.

Whimsy Stamps DT card and news!

Here is my very first Whimsy Stamps DT card, yey!

Denise has just announced a DT call which will run until sunday 1st March!

If you are interested in joining this fabulous team (I highly recommend it!)

then check out the details here!

Other Whimsy news....there are sneak peeks of the 2 new kids collection stamps, they are so adorable, check them out here!

I used the amazing sketch from Ismaki 09/008 designed by Beatrix!
The option this week is stitching, well I didn't need an excuse!

I used the super cute Whimsy Animal Collection Owl stamp, I think he is the cutest owl ever!

I created a little pocket inside the card so I can add a little something!

Whimsy Stamps are now shipping to USA , UK and Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, Spain, France, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Poland

Supplies : DP ~ Basic Grey ' Sugared'

Stamps ~ Whimsy Stamps Animal Collection 'Owl'

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Heidi Swapp brads, spacer and charm from Ebay, Kaiser adhesive stones, ribbon, sentiment made in Word.

Tools ~ Eyelet setter, sewing machine, L-Em leaf punch

Stamp Something ~ 3D somethings

The Stamp Something Challenge this week is hosted by my good blogging pal Alex! Her fantastic theme this week is '3D somethings'. This is right up my street just now as I am really enjoying making other items and altering things. A year ago I wouldn't have known where to start but I predict this year, for me at least, will be the year of the handmade gift bag/box!

This was a paper bag with a shop logo on the front and back but I soon covered that up! Most of the flowers were punched out, the sentiment scroll was made with folded card and the flap was made using nestabilities.

The image is Sugar Nellie 'Picking Apples' designed by Elisabeth Bell.

A side view to show that it is 3D!

The back is very plain, I might still add a couple of little flowers yet!

I am off to have a little play with some inks and paint!!! My new DT stamps have just arrived from Whimsy Stamps, I can't wait to ink to them up!

I am so thrilled to have joined this fabulous team that I am sorting out some blog candy to celebrate which I will hopefully post later in the week! Make sure you add yourself to my list of followers as this is where I will choose the winner from!

Supplies: DP ~ Sandylion, Kelly Panacci

Stamp ~ Sugar Nellie 'Picking Apples'

Embellishments ~ heart charms from Ebay, Papermania metal charm (pulled from flower), beads and ribbon from stash. Crystal stickers Pearls.

Tools ~ Cuttlebug and nesties, L-Em leaf punch