Sunday, October 31, 2010

Fan Favorites Week - Help Us Celebrate!

Good Afternoon and Happy Halloween!

Whimsy Stamps will be celebrating our 2 year anniversary during the month of November! We would love for all of you to join in the fun and help us celebrate! We are going to be holding special product sales all month long and holding some fun events too! 



We have a special week long event planned and it's all about you, our fans of Whimsy Stamps! We are calling it Fan Favorites Week and we want to see your creations.

Over on the sidebar here on the blog there is a linky feature where you can enter your Whimsy creations. We would like to ask anyone who wishes to celebrate with us, to please post a Whimsy creation on his/her blog and include a little bit of info about your favorite Whimsy products and why. If you don't have a blog but would still like to enter, please send photos and email submissions to whimsystamps@gmail.com and we will add your link using your emailed entry.

Our design team will be stopping by to visit all who enter and on Monday the 22nd we will host a week long Fans Favorite Spotlight! Each day a new fan will be spotlighted with their Whimsy creation entry.

7 fan entries will be selected and spotlighted here on the Whimsy blog, one a day during the week of the 22nd through the 28th of November. The stamps spotlighted in the fan creations will also be on sale for that day at 25% off retail price!

This is our way of saying thank you to all of our customers and fans over these past two years! Thank you for your loyalty and continued support of Whimsy Stamps and our artists!

Now lets see those Whimsy creations! You have from now until midnight on Friday the 19th to enter! Please use the link of the sidebar and if you have questions, let us know! Can wait to see your creations with a touch of Whimsy!Good luck to all who join in the fun!

And stay tuned for more events and activities all month long!

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Holiday Inspiration

Good Morning!

Hope everyone is having a great day and enjoying the weekend.

I wanted to share some Holiday Inspiration from our special guest designers Bev Rochester and Deb Routledge

First up are a couple of lovely cards from Bev. This one uses Starry Night and Holiday Ticket Sentiments...


And this one was created with Vintage Christmas, a set which includes images and holiday sentiments...


Next up are these beautiful creations by Deb. This card uses the new stamp Holly Beary Fairy and Holiday Tickets...


And finally this one using Jingle Bell Ride...


All of these stamps are available in our Rubber Stamp Collections on the Whimsy Shop page. Thanks for stopping by today. Have a wonderful day!

Friday, October 29, 2010

Beautiful Poinsettia

Hello Whimsy fans! Today I have a card to share using some of the fabulous and very beautiful new Whimsy Stamps Holiday stamps.


Initially, I was going to use a different Whimsy stamp for the main focal part of this card (can you guess which one it was?  Just look at the stripey paper for a clue, LOL!), but once I'd made up the base of the card, I decided it just didn't look right, and so I inked up the large poinsettia stamp from the Vintage Christmas stamp set and set about colouring it, then cut it out and popped it up with foam pads.  I also stamped the swirls onto the mistletoe DP and then traced over them with a gold spica pen:


The 'Merry Christmas' sentiment stamp, plus the holly stamp that I used to stamp on the green background paper, are both from the Jingle Bell Ride stamp set.

Thank you for dropping by today!

Hugs,

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Halloween Fun

Happy Tuesday All!

I just wanted to pop in to share some Halloween projects using some of the fun digital stamps available at Whimsy Stamp!

First up...Scaredy Cat and Country Star Pumpkin by Meljen's Designs and Halloween Tickets by Raindrop Echo Designs

Next up...Witch's Broom by Katie of Big Hug Creations and more Halloween Tickets

And lastly...here are Witchy Cat and Bibble Bubble Cauldron from Meljen's Designs

Hope you all have a happy Halloween on Sunday! Trick or Treat!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Whimsy digi Hop Winners and Digi Inspiration

Updated 26th October to add sandra's winner

Hi Everyone I Hope you are all having a fun weekend
Our grand winner of the 5 Digi Images of there choice From Lisa's post for the October blog hop is
Marion http://mycornishcorner.blogspot.com/

and the 2 random winners who each win a digi image of there choice are

From Marjon's Blog - Astrid from http://astridcreative.blogspot.com/
From Sandra's Blog -Debra.....http://twistedmonkeyscraps.blogspot.com

Congratulations ladies if you could please contact me at
eastman.debbie@yahoo.com
and I'll get you all the details you need.
Hugs Debbie x

Now it's time for some gorgeous inspiration from the Digi team which we hope will inspire you! Please drop by their blogs to see more wonderful creations and find out how they were made! You can find the DT's links in the side bar!


Angela

Anneke

Danni

Dominique

Heike

Lisa


Lorraine

Marjon

Melissa

Sandra

Stephanne


Thursday, October 21, 2010

Happy Holidays!

Good Morning Everyone, Happy Thursday!!! Today I would like to share a couple Holiday creations I have made using some fabulous Whimsy Images. The first creation I would like to share with you is using this DARLING new image Starry Night. Isn't this image just soooo precious?? Hope you enjoy my creation today!!

For my next creation I used two WONDERFUL new images Santa's Midnight Snack and Holiday Wish List. These images are JUST perfect for your Christmas Cards!!! Hope you enjoy my creation!!



Don't forget Meljen's Designs Releases NEW IMAGES every Thursday!! To come check out what is NEW today come visit the store HERE!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope everyone has a GREAT Thursday!!

Nestie-friendly stamps

Hi, it's Annika here and today is my turn to give you a little peek at my playtime results.

Our own fabulous Ann (Raindrop Echo Designs) has just recently awed us with a set of new Nestabilitie-friendly digital stamps called Dressed Up Shapes. I love those to bits and had to have a play as soon as I could. The stamp I used is called Leafy Frame and I put in the sentiment from the set called Amongst the Stars Sentiments.

And when I said "playtime" I really meant that I played a lot, lol. I tried a lot of different looks before settling to that one and spent about 3.5 hours making that fairly simple card. Yup. That's me. Inefficient and quite OK with it.

I printed the frame onto pearlescent paper first and glittered using Stickum Powder (it's an embossing powder like substance that becomes an adhesive when heated, similar one is Sticky Stuff by Judikins and Heat and Stick by Stampin' Up), then heat set it again to firmly keep the glitter in place. Next I printed the sentiment into the frame and embossed with clear detail powder. I sponged some Antique Linen DI all over the panel to take the crisp whiteness away - and that's pretty much it.

I printed the frame at 8.4 cm width, that makes a lovely fit for second biggest Nestability matching die.

I used pearly paper because due to it's coated surface ink dries very slowly on it, so embossing is possible. If you don't have pearlescent paper, just cover ANY paper with thin coat of Matte Medium, let it dry (or blast with heat gun if you're anything like me...) and you're good to go. There's A LOT of fun to be had with glitter, embossing powders and digital stamps!

Thanks for looking and happy crafting!!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

A little inspiration

Hi Everyone today it's my turn to share some creations with you, the first bunch is a collection of treat bags I have made for Halloween.


halloween

Ghost in Cauldron image from another Digital company along with one of the new Halloween sentiments from Whimsy stamps the other 2 bags have Meljen images Witchy cat, Bibble bubble cauldron,witchy little gnome and halloween ticket sentiments by Raindropecho designs, all items in blue can be found over at Whimsy Stamps

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My Second creation is using the gorgeous new Digi carousel horse called Autumn Harvest ride and one of the Fabulous Autumn Sentiments from Ann Vento which are also available from Whimsy Stamps

Hope you all have a lovely day
Hugs



Sunday, October 17, 2010

Whimsy Digi Inspiration

Hi Everyone Hope your having a fab week so far I have to say the girls have sure outdone themselves again with this eye candy.

Below are the teams gorgeous creations which we hope will inspire you! Please drop by their blogs to see more wonderful creations and find out how they were made! You can find the DT's links in the side bar!
Don't forget you still have time to enter the Digi Halloween/fall Hop all details can be found Here

Angela

Anneke

Danni

Dominique
Heike

Lisa

Lorraine

Marjon

Melissa

Sandra

Stephanne

Hugs


Friday, October 15, 2010

Fall/ Halloween October digi release blog hop

Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the Fall/ Halloween October digi release blog hop!!!! We have tons of new images to share with you today created by Crissy, Katie, Ann, and Melissa!!!! These ladies sure outdid themselves with their digis again this month!


Please leave comments along the way as there will be two Mystery DT Members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts! These winners will each win a Whimsy digi image of their choice.


The Grand Prize winner of the hop chosen from the very last stop, which is Lisa's Blog will receive 5 new digital stamps of their choice from Whimsy, and will also get a chance to use those new digital images as a guest designer for Whimsy for the rest of October and the month of November.


The hop will run until 12 noon EST 22nd October, when the winner will be announced right here.


First stop on the hop is the lovely

Thursday, October 14, 2010

A few cards to share...

For this first card I used Crissy Armstrong's digi Bobby's Halloween paired with a sentiment from Ann Vento's Halloween Sentiment set. Both are available here.

This card also features another of Crissy's stamps - this is starry night and is available in Rubber. It is just adorable. The sentiment is from Ann's Christmas/Holiday tickets also in rubber.

And for my last card another of Crissy's stamps available in the Whimsy Store in rubber and a different ticket from the Holiday set. These stamps are fantastic and just beautiful to work with. Happy Stampin'! Be sure to check back tomorrow for some wonderful new releases!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Jelly Bean in the Crissy Armstrong Collection!

Good Morning Everyone, Happy Monday!!! Today I would like to share with you a couple creations I made using this darling Whimsy Image Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean is so versatile and just sooo SWEET. First I would like to show you how I used him for Halloween. I added this fun witches hat, added a little broom, and colored him up for Halloween!!! Hope you enjoy my creation!!!

For my next creation, I would like to show you how I used the same image for a Birthday Card. Jelly Bean can be used in many ways, I have even seen him in blog world with a Santa hat on!!! I just love those images that can used for many occasions. Hope you enjoy my Birthday card I created with Jelly Bean.

For this creation, I used fun bright colors, added a birthday hat, and this fabulous sentiment available here at Whimsy Stamps in the Raindrop Echo Designs Collection!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope everyone has a fabulous Monday!!!

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Warm Winter Wishes...

Hello!

I think my favourite cards to make are Christmas/Winter cards. What are yours? :)
I absolutely love cute Winter/Holiday images and today I would like to share with you a card I made a couple of months ago with one of the adorable digital images designed by Crissy Armstrong for Whimsy Stamps.



The image is called Warm Winter Wishes and I added a matching sentiment from the Warm Winter Wishes sentiment set designed by Raidropecho Designs.

As usual, I coloured the image with watercolour pencils.



But, have you seen all the new Holiday rubber stamps that have been released at Whimsy Stamps, including the latest rubber release by Meljen Designs, which you can preorder?!

The blog hop is on right now, it started yesterday, so if you'd like to take part and get a chance to win some of the new Whimsy Meljen Designs rubber stamps, too, go here!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs
Vanja