Whimsy Stamps Postage Stamps album

A little late but here are the rest of the photos from my sneak peek I teased you with on Monday!

All of the stamps are the newly released Whimsy Stamps 'Postage Stamps' and 'Birthday Postage Stamps' designed by Ann Vento aka Raindrop Echo Designs!

There is also a new Postage Stamp die available specially designed to cut out these postage stamps, so perfect!

A little mini album held together with ribbon.

With lots of room for decoration!

I used Cosmo Cricket 'Everafter' but with this project being quite small I managed to use only one sheet of double sided paper and the rest are all from the cover sheet!

I used various flower, leaf and butterfly punches.

and lots of rub ons.  

I heat embossed all of the postage stamp images.

These little quotes are all from the cover sheet of the Cosmo Cricket kit, how is that for recycling?

and the very back page of the album

Can you tell, this is a Valentines pressie?

Our wedding photo is 18 years old, yikes!

This was so much fun to make, I enjoyed every minute of it and love the album!  

Challenges I am entering this album into......

A spoonful of Sugar ~ Lets see some love!

Everybody Art ~ Valentine

Incy Wincy Designs ~ Love

Creative Card Crew ~ For a loved one!

Thanks for dropping by, hope you have a fantastic weekend!  

Cute Card Thursday - Hearts and flowers!

For the Whimsy Stamps February Rubber Stamps Release Blog Hop click here!

This week on Cute Card Thursday we have a Hearts and Flowers them, perfect for all those Valentines cards although not necessarily as my card shows.
We are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp!
 I decided to try one of these side step cards finally after seeing this amazing creation on Marlene's blog, she gave the link to the tutorial for the side step dresser card, you can see it here!

I used a variety of punches to create the bed and bedding and hand cut the little dress and vase.

This may be the one and only time the I don't ink around the edges but I wanted a really clean look to this card.

I used the newly released Whimsy Stamps 'Spring Sitter Bunny' designed by Melissa Jenkins.

Challenges I am entering

Cuttlebug Spot ~ Step cards

My Time to craft ~ hears and flowers

Papertake Weekly ~ hearts

I had planned to show the inside of the sneak peek mini album from Monday but it will have to wait until tomorrow, what can I say?  It has been a busy week!

Thanks to you for dropping by, hope you have a great day!  

Whimsy February Rubber Release Party!

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps February new rubber release BLOG HOP!

We have 16 gorgeous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new fantastic dies to show you today! These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Beate Johns, Deb Routledge, Chris Dark, Jacque Beddingfield, Tracy Payne, and Elaine Hughes!

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more fabulousness!

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today:

5 stamps / stamp sets from Crissy Armstrong
Fragrant Rose ~ Darling Daisies ~ Smell the Flowers ~Valerie's Spring Rain ~ Fancy Bench

3 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Balloon Mouse ~ Baby Bunny's Bottle ~ Spring Sitter Bunny

4 stamps from Kenny K
Uptown Angel ~ Star ~ Lady Raven ~ Vicki LeeVicious

4 stamps / stamp sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Postage Stamps ~ Birthday Postage Stamps ~ Balloon Sentiments ~ Birthday Wish List

2 dies
Postage Stamp Die ~ Balloon Set Dies

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Simonne's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Chris's blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday February 9th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday February 16th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop, and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. Also, we have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping! *wink*

For my card I used the incredibly adorable 'Valerie's Spring Rain' and 'fancy bench', these are two seperate stamps so I had to mask off Valerie and her kitty and stamp the bench over to create this sweet little scene.  

Both stamps are designed by Crissy Armstrong for Whimsy.  

  

I used my brand new Prismacolors for this image, my first time with them so will take a little more practice, particularly in the face which I did first, I was a little more confident by the time I coloured the wooden bench.    I used them rather like Copics blending in the darker shades with the lighter pencils and when all else failed I used a colourless blending pencil.  I bought the 72 pencil tin and am so happy with the range of colours.

For my project, I decided to make a book card.  I love these cards as they have plenty of room inside to add little pockets for treats and gifts!  

I created a tutorial for the Whimsy Inspirations Blog last year so if you would like to see how they are made you can check it out here!

I thought the image was perfect for an 'under the weather' card so added tissues and lip balm along with a  matching bookmark, perfect to send to someone who is feeling a little unwell!  

These are the amazing Postage Stamps designed by Ann Vento aka Raindrop Echo Designs and also using the new Whimsy Postage Stamp die to cut them out!  

The back has my custom signature stamp also available from Whimsy Stamps!

The little matching bookmark also tucked inside the pocket.

So now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Crystal's blog!

Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Chris Olsen
Donna Smith
Tracy Payne
Beate Johns
Crissy Armstrong
Simonne Clay
Deb Routledge
Crystal Irwin
Debbie Eastman
Ann Vento
Denise Lynn
Annika Ryan
Iris Wiechmann
Erin Bailey
Jacque Beddingfield
Vicki Parson
Lori Pachkowsky
Marley van der Heijden
Elaine Hughes
Patricia Garcia
Chris Dark
Vanja Stevanovic
Stephanne Maraver

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy the new releases!

Whimsy Sneak Peek!

Today I am sharing a sneak peek from the new selection of Whimsy rubber stamps which are to be released on Wednesday 9th February.  

On Wednesday at 12 noon (EST) Whimsy Stamps will be holding a release party blog hop to which you are all invited, don't forget there will be many opportunities to win these stamps and believe me, you will want them all!

Today we are sneaking peeks at the stamps designed by Ann Vento, aka Raindrop Echo Designs, she absolutely amazes me with her talent for designing creative ways with sentiments. As soon as I saw these stamps I knew I had to have both sets, they are 'Postage Stamps' and 'Birthday Postage Stamps' and I used almost all of the stamps on this creation.  Only showing a sneak peek for today though, you will need to come back on Thursday to see the rest!  There are lots of bits inside to show so lots of photos!

I also have something completely different to share with you on Wednesday so don't forget to pop back then!

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Along with the fabulous new stamps released this week are 2 new dies, one I used here, the 'Postage Stamp Die', it is an essential tool to go hand in hand with these stamps, it cuts out the stamps perfectly!  

If you want to see the rest of the sneak peeks for today pop across to visit

Ann

Annika

Deb

Debbie

Jackie 
Jacque Beddingfield
Linda 
Marley

Patricia

Stephanne

I hope you will pop back here on Wednesday during the release Blog Hop!

Whimsy sneak peek!

Today you can see sneak peeks of the Whimsy Stamps rubber collection designed by Kenny K!

Here is the list of ladies participating in the sneak peeks today!

Ann

Chris

Crystal
Dawn
Donna
Elaine Hughes
Iris
Jackie
Linda

Lisa 

Lori
Marley 
Melissa

Patricia

Tracy Payne

Vanja
Vicki

I will be back tomorrow with my sneak peek as promised!

Sneak Peeks!

Today is the first day of sneak peeks for the new Whimsy Stamps release, today you can see peeks from Crissy Armstrongs designs.  Pop on over to the blogs below for a peek at some of the stamps which will be released on Wednesday 9th February!

Ann

Chris Dark

Crystal

Ellie

Lisa

Pattie

Vanja

Cute Card Thursday - Banish the Blues!

A perfect antidote for the Winter blues, our theme this week on 

Cute Card Thursday 

is 'Banish the Blues' to add some humour to your cards.

We are sponsored by The Stamp Shoppe this week!

I love these fun sentiment stamps from Stampin Up, only bought them the other week but then discovered I don't have a single stamp of someone eating chocolate! Can't believe it!  This Whiff of Joy image is still one of my favourites and as I always have a cuppa with some chocolate or maybe that is always have some chocolate with my cuppa, works for me!

Other challenges ~

Friday Sketchers ~ for the fabulous sketch

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle ~ get punchy

Paperplay challenges ~ stamp it out 

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I have just taken delivery of my very first tin of Prismacolor Pencils and so enjoying playing with them but I cannot find a good tutorial.  Anyone know of one, I would be very grateful for the link!

You can see my results next week when I show the projects I am working on this week for the latest Whimsy Rubber Stamp release, 16 new stamp sets and 2 new dies, all I am going to say is you will love them!  

You can see some sneak peeks from the design team as early as tomorrow!

Check the Whimsy Inspirations Blog over the next few days for the daily sneak peek schedule!

Thanks for dropping in, have a fantastic day!  

WOYWW

Time for another peek at the work spaces around the world!

The sun is out here but it is sooooo cold.  - 15F when I got up at 6am this morning! bbrrrr!

Working on a top secret project, had to hide the stamps as they are not to be released until next week although the sneak peeks start soon!  I will showing mine on Monday!  All I can say is I am so enjoying working on it!

 I can  show you my bargain purchase this week! I am so thrilled with all this, only cost me $6 with my 40% off Michaels coupon too!  Can hardly believe it!  Might be back for more!

If you haven't joined in the fun over at WOYWW why not?  Pop over to Julia's blog for the details!

Thanks for dropping by and have a great Wednesday!

Cute Card Thursday - Sketch by Lynn!

Lynn gave us a fabulous sketch to work with this week on Cute Card Thursday!

We are sponsored by Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps so this week you can win 2 stamps of your choice from their range, fabby prize!

The image is a Belles 'n Whistles stamp called tea time. 

I can enter the  Crafty Creations challenge with this one the theme is 'lets heat it up' it fits either because of the hot tea or because of the lovely summery image!

Must get moving, have an appointment soon so can't hang around this morning!  

have a fantastic day!

Whats on Your Workdesk Wednesday!

 My first WOYWW in 2011!

My big project this year is to make a Scrapbook album for my eldest who will turn 18 later this year, I have to make her a This is your Life album just so I will believe it!  

I have already shed my first tears at the thought of her graduating High School and going off to college in August!  I just know I am going to be a blubbering wreck at her graduation ceremony in June!

Grabbed these magazines this morning in Wal-mart for some inspiration as it is a while since I did any scrapbooking!    

This is the first page I am working on, I loved this hat and coat set, doing this is bringing back so many memories!  I am loving it!

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Thank you for all the messages re our flooded basement, all dried out now and no real damage so we were lucky!    I am finally taking some time for myself this week, doing a little crafting and sorting through photos etc.  Overdid it on the ski slopes on Sunday so my knee is needing some resting up, good excuse  eh?

Hope you play along with WOYWW this week, if you don't know what it is all about see Julia's blog for details here!

Cute Card Thursday -Recipe, 3, 2, 1!

Can't believe this is the first post in a month, it flew by!  I enjoyed a lovely Christmas and New Year with our Mums visiting from the UK.  I thought I would be all caught up by now but we had a surprise mini flood in our basement on Monday which has knocked me all out of kilter again!

Thankfully I managed to finish this card for Cute Card Thursday, the theme is a 

Recipe - 1 of something, 2 of something and 3 of something...easy eh?

I used 1 sentiment, 2 flowers and 3 hearts.

My image is one of the new rubber stamps from Whimsy Stamps from the Kenny K collection, she is called Download Diva and is available to buy here!

The music background stamp is also from Whimsy Stamps designed by Ann Vento aka Raindrop Echo Designs it is called Music Notes and can be found in Ann's sentiments collection here!

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This week CCT is sponsored by Simply Betty Stamps

Please visit CCT for more information about the prize on offer and also to check out the rest of the DT's creations!

Hope you all have a great Thursday and thanks for dropping by!

Cute Card Thursday - Sketch by Lisa!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!

We have a gorgeous sketch for you over on Cute Card Thursday this week, designed by Teamie Lisa!  

I used a sweet Tilda unwrapping gifts by Magnolia, stamp. Underneath you can just see the Whimsy Stamps classified ads background stamp. Papers are Basic Grey 'Curio', and the lace is from Bunny Zoe's Crafts store.

This week CCT is sponsored by

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps

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Keeping it short and sweet this week as not long till Santa visits!

Hope he brings you all the crafting goodies you could dream of!

Have a fabulous Christmas and Best Wishes for 2011!

See you in January!

Whimsy Blog Hop, exciting news!!!

Whimsy Stamps have some fab news to share with you today - we have a new rubber artist joining our team.... KENNY KIERNAN!

As many of you will know, Kenny K is currently a digital stamp artist (amongst many other things) and although Whimsy will not be carrying any Kenny K digis, we are making some of Kenny's existing designs into rubber and then hopefully adding some new designs along the line that will be exclusive to the Whimsy rubber collection!

So to celebrate this wonderful new venture, the Whimsy Stamps DT plus our fab special Whimsy guests Elaine Hughes, Deb, (me!) and Janna, are holding a BLOG HOP to showcase the EIGHT images that are being made into rubber:

All That
Devilish Donna
Download Diva
Kitty Katastrophe
Luscious Linda
Movie Star
Rock Chick
Troublemaker

Remember that Whimsy Stamps will be carrying the rubber versions of these stamps only. Kenny K will continue to offer the digital versions in his store. The rubber stamps are available to PRE-ORDER from today from the Whimsy store, and will hopefully be in stock and start shipping the week of 27th December!

Our super-talented Ann (Raindrop Echo Designs) has designed some wonderful digital sentiments that work fabulously with these images - thank you Ann! These are also being released today!

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Annika's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Simonne's blog.

The hop starts today (Thursday December 16th at noon EST) and ends on Thursday December 23rd at noon EST.

For this hop we have 4 different prize draws! The grand prize of ALL 8 of the new release rubber stamps is being hosted by Denise at the very end of the hop, but there are also 3 mini candy stops throughout the hop! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so you'll just have to keep on hopping to find them! *wink* [Winners will be announced on December 23rd after the hop ends - what a wonderful Christmas present for those lucky hoppers!]

For my blog hop creation I used .......Rock Chick, I can't tell you what a dream she was to colour and I am so excited to have these fabulous images in rubber at last!  I have made this card for my hubby for our anniversary which is straight after New Year so I have to be organised in advance as there will be no crafting done from now until January!  I also used the fabulous music notes stamp designed by Raindrop Echo Designs for Whimsy, I so love this background stamp and intend to use it lots!  The papers I used are Basic Grey 'Marjolaine'.  For the stars I used my new Martha Stewart punch all over the page star stamp, what a versatile punch that is, love it!  Love not having to worry about edges!

So now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Chris's blog where I know she has something amazing to show you!

Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Simonne Clay
Lori Pachkowsky
Donna Smith
Debbie Eastman
Erin Bailey
Elaine Hughes
Patricia Garcia
Annika Ryan
You are here ~Deb Routledge ~ You are here
Chris Olsen
Vanja Stevanovic
Ann Vento
Marley van der Heljden
Crystal Irwin
Janna Sicard
Iris Wiechmann
Vicki Parson
Denise Lynn

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy this exciting new release!

Cute Card Thursday - One for the kids!

My first post of the day, please return at noon (EST) for the last Whimsy stamps rubber  blog hop of the year when we shall reveal some very exciting news! Hint ~ a new artist!

Our theme over at Cute Card Thursday this week is

One for the kids!

This cute Whimsy Stamps image designed by Meljens designs is one from the recent rubber stamp release and is called Cozy Cap Mouse, I knew he was perfect for my project!

I stamped him directly onto a lunch bag and coloured him with Copics which are deep enough in colour to cope with a Kraft background.  

 I also used the new Whimsy Stamps snowflake die which is so pretty, you can just see it under the Whimsy stamps ticket from another recent release called Holiday Ticket Sentiments, which was also cut out with a Whimsy Stamps die the ticket die!

Cute Card Thursday is being sponsored by My Favorite Things! so another fabulous prize on offer!

Please pop over to check out the rest of the design team's creations, so cute!

Hope you will pop back later to join in the Whimsy Blog Hop coming later today!  

Cute Card Thursday - Floral Frenzy

for my Whimsy Blog Hop post please click here 

I have used another of the new rubber stamps today for my Cute Card Thursday project.  This sweet girl is 'Valerie's Gift' designed by Crissy Armstrong now available at Whimsy Stamps along with the music background stamp and the cheers ticket stamp.  You can see all the other stamps by joining in the Blog Hop that commenced yesterday!  You can start the hop at Bev's blog!  there are prizes along the way at different blogs on the hop so you won't want to miss any!  

Okay, back to CCT, the theme this week is 

Floral Frenzy!

Having finished all my Christmas card making ( actually I did cheat and ordered some online made with some of our family photos which I love and am so relieved I don't have to make any more) I am really enjoying making some gifts now.  I have a few things to make  for friends, neighbours and of course the teachers. This wine bottle tag is perfect for a friend of mine who is having a birthday soon and shows how versatile this winter stamp is!   

CCT is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp this week and as usual a fabulous prize on offer from them!

 Some gorgeous floral delights are on offer from our talented Design Team, hope you can go and visit them all!

I am working on all my projects for over Christmas and New Year now as we have family visiting then so my craft room will be largely abandoned for 3 weeks!  Won't be back 'til next week so hope you have a fabulous weekend and thanks so much for dropping by!