Super Pig!

Happy Tuesday! I hope that your week is off to a great start! This is Jeanette and today I want to share a card that I made with some of the new products that were just released this month!  I have also used some previously released products. I say this often; I love how easily all these products work with each other!  It makes the card making process so easy!

I thought that this new Pig Puns 2 Clear Stamp Set was so cute and the accompanying sentiments are so clever and funny.  I chose this combination because honestly, it makes me smile every time I look at it!  I stamped the image onto some Bristol Smooth card-stock using Tattered Rose Distress Ink.  This allows me to have a no-line effect once everything it colored.   For the coloring, I used water-color pencils.  The created a lovely soft coloration which is what I was going for.

I used the Pierced and Stitched Circles Die Set to cut out the image as well as to create a blue frame for it.  This makes it pop right out.  I was able to have the sentiment curve along the bottom because it is a clear stamp and so easily made to follow the contours of the circle.  The other sentiment was cut out using the Quick Strips Die Set.  I was able to create my patterned paper by using the awesome and quirky Checkerboard Doodles Background Stamp.  I love this stamp and used the same ink that I had used for the small sentiment so that everything ties in perfectly!

Pig Puns 2 Clear Stamp Set

Checkerboard Doodles Background Stamp

Pierced and Stitched Circles Die Set

Quick Strips Die Set

Tattered Rose Distress Ink

Thanks so much for stopping by and I do hope that this card made you smile today and inspires you to create one of your own!

Hugs Jeanette xxo

Welcome Our NEW Creative Team Members

Hello there Whimsy Fans, it is with great pleasure that we get to introduce to you today, three new and wonderfully talented designers to our already amazing Creative Team. 

All of these lovely ladies have diverse and unique stamping styles that are sure to inspire you as much as they inspires us. 

Below is a short bio from each of our new designers, with links to their blogs. Be sure to follow them so you don't miss any of their Whimsy Stamps projects. They're already fast at work on creative projects to share with you beginning on 7/1/19.

Please join me in giving a warm Whimsy welcome to:

 Amanda Bodine, Candice Fisher, and Pam Schumacher.

WELCOME to the team!

Hello everyone, my name is Amanda Bodine and I'm so excited to be joining this highly creative team at Whimsy Stamps! I've been into papercrafting for 20 years, starting out as a scrapbooker and then discovering a love for cardmaking 8 or so years ago. I've been married to Rob for over two decades and together we have a son in college, 2 rescue dogs and 1 rescue cat.  In my free time, I'm often found in my studio with a cup of tea, listening to podcasts, coloring up my favorite images. You can find my blog here: RutabagaPie Designs and Instagram: rutabagapiedesigns

Hi! My name is Candice Fisher and I live in Minnesota with my family.  I have tried almost all crafty hobbies over the years, but these days you will find me making cards most of the time! My favorite “go to’s” are stamp sets with great sentiments, stitched dies, word dies, and copic markers.  You will see me add sparkle to all my projects!  I am excited to share my creations with you using the amazing products here at Whimsy Stamps!  My blog is: CandiCardsCreations and Instagram is Candicards

Hello everyone!  I am so excited to be here!  My name is Pam Schumacher and of course I love all things crafty.  I live in Eau Claire, WI and work full-time as an accountant.  I have been married to my high school sweetheart for 36 years.  We have three amazing daughters and 4 beautiful grandchildren…soon to be 6 (twins are on the way).  I also have two Mini Aussies and a tropical bird. When I am not working, I am either creating something crafty, taking long walks, or I am outside in one my many flowers beds. Come say hello on my blog here: Pretty Pink Peony and Instagram here: Pam A Pretty Pink Peony

Thanks for stopping by to meet our fabulous new Creative Team members, we're so pleased to have them become part of our team!

Have a great day and happy stamping everyone!

Thanks a Melon - Ants at a Picnic

Hello Whimsy Fans! It's Iris here today and I want to share this fun shaker card I made with one of the newly released clear stamp sets called 'Ants at a Picnic' by Dustin Pike. Look at those adorable smooshy faces.  Usually I am not very fond of ants -yikes- but I would love to have these guys in my yard.

To create the blue and red backgrounds I sponged distress oxide inks (chipped sapphire, broken china, festive berries, worn lipstick) onto mixed media paper using an ink blending tool. I added white and metallic pink ink sprinkles to the blue sky background and sprinkled some water and white ink onto the red shaker background.

I colored using Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils, and the images were stamped onto mixed media paper with hybrid ink. Sometimes, if I am not sure what medium I want to use to color my images, I use mixed media paper and a hybrid ink to stamp. This way I have lots of options to choose from including alcohol markers. It also gives me the option to combine different mediums without worrying if the ink might bleed, etc.

I also like to use mixed media paper for blended backgrounds because the ink blends like butter on these papers. My favorite is Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media Paper. It is bright white and has a heavy 140 lb / 300 gsm weight.

For the grass I used the darkest plain green from the Otters designer paper pack and the grass dies from the Cloud and Grass edger die set. I sponged the grass edges with Peeled Paint distress ink and used a soft, dense blending brush. The sentiment is included with the stamps. 

I also used foam tape to pop up some of the images and paper layers to give the card a 3D look.

Products I used from the Whimsy Stamps store:

            

      

          

         

   

Thanks for visiting today!

Hugs,

Gnome Me So Well

Hi Everyone, it's Faye here today :)

I have a serious girl crush on gnomes and there are certainly plenty to choose from in the Whimsy Stamps Store at the moment! I've decided to play with the Gnome Me So Well Stamp Set by Dustin Pike. Swoon!

I've coloured this guy a couple of time already, so this time, I challenged myself to use colours outside of my normal comfort zone. I've used the following Copics...

Skin; YR30, E50, E51, BV20
Beard/ Blue; FB2, B26, B37, B39
Yellow; YR31, Y15, Y17
Silver; N0, N1, N3
Brown; E23, E57, E59
Green; YG01, YG03, YG63

I wasn't very happy with the way the trousers turned out, so I added a plaid pattern with a black multiliner and white gel pen to disguise the bits I didn't like ;)

I doodled a border around the image and sentiment, but if you're not confident enough to do that, Whimsy has a solution. Check out the FaDoodles Stamp Sets. I love to finish off a card with a few well placed enamel dots, so that's what I did!

Whimsy Goodies Used...


Thanks so much for stopping by... Have a great day.