WOYWW

Whats on your work desk Wednesday?

Only a pile of dirty rubber!  Shocking! I normally clean them instantly but lately with very little crafting time I have been cutting corners!  That isn't a real pie next to them but a candle shaped like an apple pie, smells good enough to eat though!

 A card my son is busy making for his Dad's birthday!

 and far more interesting than what is on my desk today, what was across the street today nibbling at my neighbour's shrubs!

 Three moose, only showing you two of them as the large one ?Mom was hiding behind a large tree and I couldn't get a picture of her!

If you want to play along with WOYWW go along to Julia's blog to find out what it is all about!

and the winner is............

The winner of the rubber stamp of your choice from the new Meljen's Designs collection at Whimsy Stamps is

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 Number 9 - Claudia

Please email your postal address and choice of stamp  to Denise at whimsystamps@gmail.com

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I apologize for my tardiness in posting the winner,  the kids had a long weekend off school so we took off for a short break away.  We had a fantastic time but of course I now have a huge mound of laundry to wade through and the dog has come home from the boarding kennels this morning a little unwell!  She has an upset stomach which she does get occasionally but as the kennels are attached to the vets they went into the heroics and gave her some intravenous fluids and some antibiotics!  A little excessive I thought for one bout of

 D & V!  !  After all that she is feeling very sorry for herself!  

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Must get crack on in the hope that I will have some creative time this week!

have a great day!

Cute Card Thursday - Whats buggin' ya?

Last day to do the Whimsy Blog Hop and celebrate the launch of Meljen's Rubber stamps.  You can visit my post for the Hop here and also enter into a drawing to win one of Meljens fabulous stamps!

Hurry though, it ends on Friday 15th 12 noon (EST)

The theme over at Cute Card Thursday had me perplexed this week until I remembered this stamp I bought a couple of years back, think I may have used it once before! It is from High Hopes Stamps.

The theme is 'Whats buggin' ya?' to use bugs, bees and/or butterflies on your card.

I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder and the Stampin up top note die for the layer beneath the image. 

The metal embellishments are all Tim Holtz, apart from the brads, not sure of the make, had them a while.

Stamp Something's challenge this week is something punchy, use punches and dies.

I am also entering the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge, the theme being distressing!

We are sponsored this week by one of our regular sponsors

Simon Says Stamp 

Please drop by the rest of the DT and see their fabulous, buggy creations!

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Kids are on their jollies for the rest of the week so our weekend starts early this week! Looks like good weather too!   Hope you all have a fab one, thanks for dropping by!

Christmas Organizer

There is still time to join in the Whimsy Stamps Blog Hop and don't forget to leave a link on my post to be in with a chance to win one of Meljen's Designs new rubber stamps from Whimsy!

I was so thrilled to have won the 

Spoonful of Sugar Challenge last week so I absolutely had to play along again today!  Still trying to decide what to spend my voucher on at BunnyZoe crafts! So much to choose from!  

This week the challenge is Winter Wonderland!

So perfect as I have been meaning to make myself a 'Christmas Lists' book for a while, well probably years!  I always have one but it has never been 'altered' before!

I found this notebook in a Yard Sale for pennies and love it, it has lovely old paper inside and the outside wasn't too bad but not at all festive.  I soon sorted that out!

I love it even more now, it  is one of those books that feels as good as it looks!

Paper Sundaes challenge is all about changing seasons and as the snow and festive season will soon be upon us I thought this would be appropriate!

Bah-Humbug Christmas challenge asks for Favourite Cuties!

This one is certainly one of my favourite Cuties!  I even coloured the dog to look like our little pooch!

The stamps I used are

Lily of the Valley ~ skating along

Whimsy Stamps ~ 'Newsprint Ads', 'Holiday Ticket stamps'

Cats Life Press ~ Merry Christmas

Stampin up ~ post card and postcard

The paper is one of my favourites, Basic Grey 'Figgy Pudding - Pepperberry', I have used this every year and the year before last bought heaps of it but it is now sadly dwindling away!

Thanks for dropping by have a great day!  

Meljen's Rubber Release at Whimsy Blog Hop

At last the day we have all been waiting for, the release of Meljen's Designs in rubber now available as a pre-order at Whimsy Stamps!

Welcome to the blog hop!

If you arrived here from Jacqui's blog then you are on the right track, if not you will most definitely want to start the hop at the beginning at Chris' blog!  You won't want to miss a thing on this hop!

There are prize spots all through the blog hop, including here so make sure you add your name below to be in with the chance to win one of the fantastic new stamps! Right at the end of the hop you will have an opportunity to win all the stamps in the release!

WE have some incredible guest designers joining us on our hop this week so make sure you follow carefully the cards are all amazing!

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The stamp I used is called 'Holly Beary Fairy', isn't she adorable?  She is coloured with Copics and has stickles added to her wings.  The sentiment stamp is also available now at Whimsy Stamps, it is from the Holiday Ticket Stamps designed by Ann Vento aka Raindrop Echo Designs.

All this sparkle means this card is perfect for the A Spoonful of Sugar Challenge this week which is sparkle and shine!

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Now to continue on with the hop, pop along to Vanja's blog but don't forget to add your link below to be in with a chance to win one of these fabulous stamps!  Winner's choice! The blog hop ends next Friday 15th October  at Noon (EST) when the winners will be announced.

Cute Card Thursday - No Embellishments!

Cute Card Thursday this week has the theme I dread!

No Embellishments!

At first I think the plan was to have literally no embellishments but then we added to allow any embellishments you make yourself i.e. out of paper and card. 

I hope you will have a go at this theme, if I can do it anyone can! 

This little cutie is ' Mae as Alice' from

Some Odd Girl

our sponsors this week!  Their  digital images are so adorable!

I used the new Whimsy Stamps Newsprint Ads stamp to sit behind the image and the ticket stamps are also from Whimsy Stamps, the make a wish from the  Ticket sentiment set and the to, from stamp is from the newly released Holiday ticket stamp set.

Speaking of new releases, Whimsy are having another blog hop tomorrow at noon to launch the brand new rubber stamps designed by Melissa Jenkins of Meljen's Designs, woohoo, can't wait!

Hope to see you then!

Whimsy blog hop Holiday 2010 release!

Whimsy Stamps Holiday 2010 rubber stamps release blog hop!

I hope you are enjoying your little hop with us today, if you are following you should have arrived here from Marley's blog

if not you might want to start right at the beginning of the hop, at Bev's blog,  so you don't miss out on any of the prizes along the way!

The hop will run until Thursday 7th October 12 noon (EST) and the winners will be announced soon afterwards. 

We are showing all the new stamps today, you may have seen some of the sneak peeks we have shown over the last 3 days and today is the day you can purchase them in the Whimsy Online Store!

I have used the stunning Carousel Horse 'Jingle Bell Ride' designed by Crissy Armstrong

I never think there will ever be a better Carousel Horse than the last one but somehow Crissy always manages it and I so love this one!

I couldn't pass up the chance to enter a few challenges today so here they are

ABC ~ easel cards

Creative Inspirations ~ Christmas in September

Cupcake Craft ~ Pink and brown

Charisma Cardz ~ Christmas

Creative Card Crew ~ blooming marvelous 

Secret crafter Saturday Challenge ~ Easel Cards

to continue on with the hop, trot on over to 

Ann's blog

to see her amazing creation and there might just be a little treat in store for some lucky person there!

Whimsy sneak peek!

Todays sneak peek is the fabulous background stamp Newsprint Ads from Whimsy Stamps this is part of the new Holiday Stamps releasing tomorrow!

I absolutely love this stamp and am using it on everything I make!  Although it is part of the holiday collection it is so versatile, the ads are not Christmas related so can be used for any type of card or project!

Please check out the Whimsy Design Team for more sneak peeks from this fantastic rubber stamp release!

The stamps are all available to purchase tomorrow from Whimsy Stamps and we will be holding a huge blog hop to celebrate with prizes to be won throughout hop!

My youngest two were off to a birthday party yesterday so I made this card and matching gift bag for the birthday girl!

The challenges I am entering are

Stamp Something ~ Something to celebrate

Just Magnolia ~ Anything goes

CRAFTchallenge ~ fancy floral

Supplies

Stamps Whimsy Stamps 'Newsprint Ads', '  Ticket Sentiments', Magnolia 'sneaky Tilda'

Paper ~ Tim Holtz 'Vintage Shabby'

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and Michaels

I hope you will join us tomorrow for the Whimsy Holiday Stamps 2010 release Blog Hop!

Other fantastic news from Whimsy! 

Meljen's Designs are now releasing some new designs in Rubber all available at the Whimsy online store!  Yahoo for all us rubber lovers!

Next week the Whimsy Design Team will hold another Blog Hop to celebrate the launch of this amazing collection!  They will be ready for pre-order on Friday 8th October when we will hold the blog hop so you can see all the new stamps!

Cute Card Thursday - Tic Toc

Today I am going to give you a sneak peek of some of  the brand new rubber stamps to be released this Sunday October 3rd at Whimsy Stamps.  I already gave you a tiny peek of Santa in my game guess the stamp.  

The winner has to be Miria who was spot on down to the apron and bunny slippers!

Congratulations!  Please email your details to Denise at whimsystamps@gmail.com

This stamp was so perfect for the theme at Cute Card Thursday this week

Tic Toc - a clock or time inspired card

The stamp is called 'Santa's Midnight Snack' and will be available to purchase on Sunday along with some other fabulous stamps including a new set of ticket stamps including the one I have used, all Christmas themed!  To see more of the new releases check out the DT links in my side bar, lots of sneak peeks over there today, tomorrow and Saturday then a huge blog hop on Sunday, including DT and guests with prizes to be won!

The clock face is a Tim Holtz Timepiece and the hands are Tim Holtz game spinners!

I pulled apart a bouquet of flowers I bought in Michaels for my holly berries, didn't want to use flowers so I can give this card to one of my boys!

The candy cane is another sneak peek from a set that will be shown tomorrow so make sure you check out the DT blogs!

Other challenges my card fits into

Creative Inspirations ~ Christmas in September

Stamp, scrap and doodle ~ stitching

CCT is sponsored this week by The Stamp Shoppe fabulous prize on offer as always!

Hope you pop along to see the  amazing cards the rest of the  DT have made!

Thank you for dropping by, I will be back with another Whimsy sneak peek on Saturday and then all singing and dancing on Sunday for the big blog hop!  Hope to see you then!

Whimsy rubber to be won here!

I have a little Whimsy game for you today! 

It is called guess the stamp!

How would you like to win one of the very soon to be released new rubber Whimsy holiday stamps?

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To play along all you have to do is leave a comment telling me what you think the image is in this little sneak peek.

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The winner will be the first person to guess correctly or at least the closest. The winner will win this stamp and let me tell you it is well worth winning, soooo cute!  It is designed for Whimsy by Crissy Armstrong!

You can see the full version of this card on Thursday when the real sneak peeks for this release begin!

I will also reveal the winner of the game on Thursday.

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There will be sneak peeks from the Whimsy Design Team  daily from Thursday  until the actual launch party which will be in the form of a blog hop on Sunday 3rd October.

So hope you can join us!

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!

Cute Card Thursday - Sketch by Leann!

Leann has designed us a fabby sketch over on Cute Card Thursday this week!

These adorable Halloween stamps from Hanglar and Stanglar arrived last week and just had to use them immediately!  Mine are coloured with distress inks.

The paper is Basic Grey Eerie, how perfect is it with the bats hanging from the trees?

The flowers are Primas and I distressed these a little too!

WE are sponsored this week by Kraftin' Kimmie stamps.  Please check out the rest of the DT creations, fabulous as always!

As well as CCT this card fits into 

Allsorts ~ at least 3 punches ( leaf punch, border punch and oval punch)

and

cutie sunday ~ fall colours

I love Halloween, as do the kids, the younger ones have already pulled out the Halloween costume box and started planning their very busy Halloween weekend!

Hope you have a fabulous Thursday, thank you for dropping by!

WOYWW

Time once again for WOYWW!

Rather less tidy than it has been of late, not had time to tidy between makes this week so it is a confused jumble.

The card is turned over as it is a secret until tomorrow's CCT post but that is what I am working on, just the embellishments left to add!

Also, what you can't see is my little pile of new Whimsy stamps for the upcoming rubber release, watch out for these next week, they are fantastic, saving some time to have a play with those later today!

Hope you get time to play along, if you don't know what WOYWW is, pop along to Julia's blog to find out and join in!

A little Christmas shopping!

Love new sneaky Tilda from the Christmas 2010 collection but didn't realise until after I had already masked her and stamped the boutique behind her, then coloured her that she was in her pjs!  I cunningly cut off her socks so it was less obvious!

I followed the sketch on Friday Sketchers and also added the lace so it also fit into the Just Magnolia challenge which is 'lace it'.  

Moving along with the times has a Christmas theme 

and 

Winter Wonderland has a monochromatic theme.

Papers are Tim Holtz, flowers mixture of Prima, Wild Orchid Crafts and Michaels.

Stamps are of course Magnolia 'sneaky Tilda' and 'boutique' and the Merry Christmas stamp is Cat's Life Press. 

gotta go and do some housework now, boo hiss!

have a great day!

Important information regarding Whimsy Stamps

Important information from Whimsy Stamps

The recent problems with the Whimsy Store have all been rectified and so I am happy to announce that the 

Whimsy Online Store is open

for business as usual!

Cute Card Thursday -Tweet and a flutter

This week the theme on Cute Card Thursday is

Tweet and a Flutter!

Another sweet Lily of the Valley stamp, yes it is an addiction!  

Paper is Basic Grey 'Eskimo Kisses' and flowers assortment of Prima and also some from Wild Orchid Crafts and Michaels.  

I used the fabby sketch over on Friday Sketchers this week.

The Whimsy Online Store is down at the moment but you can still order direct, you can see Meljens latest release here you will also find directions on how to order.

Guess what? I am still behind with everything so rushing off now, hoping to get caught up today and have a nice crafty, bloggy morning tomorrow!  

Hope you have a great day!