Whimsy Inspirations Blog

Special GDT Creations

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Happy Sunday!

Here are some fabulous creations for our Special Guest Design Team! Hope you enjoy them!

Beate - using Elf Bell Mouse

Beate - using Peace on Earth

Bev - using Little Christmas Angel and Calendar and Winter Letter Seals

Bev - using Peace on Earth and Holiday Tickets

Deb - using Whimsy Designer Paper Holiday Folly and Winter Letter Seals

Deb - using Santa's Puppy Helper and Holiday Tickets

Wow! Thanks so much to all those who stopped by this week to play along with our Stamp-a-Day Giveaway! We had a lot of fun and hope you did too! And another big thanks to the 6 ladies we featured in our Fan Favorites for sharing their beautiful Whimsy creations with us! Thank you all for making this a great month at Whimsy Stamps!

The winner's of the Stamp-a-Day prizes are....as chosen by random.org....winners can contact us at whimsystamps@gmail.com to claim all prizes.

Day 1 - Starry Night...

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2010-11-27 14:03:13 UTC

That is #20 - Amanda R! Congrats, please contact me to claim your rubber stamp prize!

Day 2 - Whimsy Frog....

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2010-11-27 14:05:46 UTC

That is #14 - Mary Lou! Congrats, please contact me to claim your rubber stamp prize!

Day 3 - Mr. and Mrs. Teddy Claus...

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2010-11-27 14:08:11 UTC

That is #91 - Rosa Kreattiv (Italy)! Congrats, please contact me to claim your rubber stamp prize!

Day 4 - Summer Day Emma....

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2010-11-27 14:10:49 UTC

That is #37 - Ma! Congrats, please contact me to claim your rubber stamp prize!

Day 5 - Ticket Sentiments....

Here are your random numbers:

Timestamp: 2010-11-27 14:14:01 UTC

That is #40 - Tanya Phillips! Congrats, please contact me to claim your rubber stamp prize!

Big congrats to all the winners! Have a great weekend!

Be sure to stop by the shop now through Tuesday, November 30th, to take advantage of free shipping on all orders! Enter the code FREE at check out to receive the free shipping special. If you forget or have any trouble, we will issue you a refund during order processing!

Stamp Chance - Day 5

Friday, November 26, 2010

Today is our last Stamp-a-Day Giveaway!
Day 5

And today we have a stamp from our Whimsy Sentiments Collection designed by Raindrop Echo Designs! This is the Whimsy Ticket Sentiments set! One lucky person will win Ann's fab set of every day use tickets!

All you need to do to enter is leave a name and link in the linky feature below by midnight tonight. We will announce all prize winners on Saturday this coming weekend, the 27th! Good luck and be sure to stop by each day for a new showcase of fan favorites, a new sale, and a new stamp giveaway chance!

To enter for a chance to win today's rubber stamp giveaway, please click on the blue frog and enter your link. Good luck!

1.	Heidi	26.	hazeyj	51.	lalkygirl
2.	annemarie en merit	27.	Cynthia	52.	Tracy
3.	Rae Ann	28.	Yolanda	53.	MissD
4.	hellerlittle	29.	Marie-Anne	54.	Ellie
5.	Carol	30.	Linda w	55.	Simone R.
6.	Lionelsa	31.	Frea	56.	Tejal
7.	A-len-ka	32.	xGemmax	57.	rosa-kreattiva (italy)
8.	linda dekker	33.	julye	58.	Kimberly S
9.	CHRISSY	34.	Heather	59.	Lorraine
10.	karen lang	35.	Lynne (Lyndi)	60.	Dorte
11.	Jen McLaughlin	36.	gila	61.	jane Kylewww
12.	xXx Tamara Morton xXx	37.	Astrid G	62.	Kim T
13.	Kym's Crafty Cards	38.	Diamantin	63.	Tiiti
14.	Julie W	39.	Peggy R	64.	Shazza
15.	Suzi	40.	Tanya Phillips	65.	Netty
16.	Debra B	41.	Tracey	66.	Stacie
17.	petra wetzels	42.	mustavcoffee	67.	FarHai
18.	Becca fabozzi	43.	Boryana	68.	Erika
19.	Ruby	44.	Nicola W	69.	Annette
20.	Pat	45.	Rose C	70.	Trish Lucey
21.	theCook	46.	Joyce	71.	Moni
22.	Message Keeper	47.	Cheryl (Shestamps)	72.	Benny
23.	heaney	48.	Sammibug	73.	Dawn Bennett
24.	snowyulia	49.	Charline	74.	Beth R
25.	DQ	50.	Annelies	75.	Casper

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Stamp Chance - Day 4

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanks to all of our fan favorites ladies for their beautiful creations! It was fun to showcase each of those earlier this week. If you missed them, scroll down for previous posts.

Today is our Stamp-a-Day-Giveaway day 4!

And today we have a stamp from our Whimsy Kids collection called Summer Day Emma!

To enter for a chance to win today's rubber stamp giveaway, please click on the blue frog and enter your link. Good luck!

1.	Dawn Bennett	19.	Annette	37.	Shazza
2.	miranda (miepeke)	20.	DQ	38.	ma
3.	Becca Fabozzi	21.	Marianne Mail	39.	rosa-kreattiva (italy)
4.	Tejal	22.	gila	40.	Kimberly S
5.	linda dekker	23.	Bev Code	41.	Marie-Anne
6.	Message Keeper	24.	Tiiti	42.	Lillian Child
7.	hellerlittle	25.	Kim T	43.	Pinklilac
8.	xXx Tamara Morton xXx	26.	Heike	44.	Netty
9.	Kerstin	27.	Astrid G	45.	tracy
10.	Ruby	28.	Rose C	46.	Nicola
11.	Linda wescott	29.	FarHai	47.	Dora
12.	Frea	30.	Heather	48.	xGemmax
13.	Nicola W	31.	JLJ Designs	49.	Lorraine
14.	Carol Meadows	32.	Debra B	50.	MissD
15.	Diamantin	33.	Dorcas	51.	margaret mp
16.	hazeyj	34.	Mary Lou	52.	Trish Lucey
17.	snowyulia	35.	Rhonda Miller	53.	Sue P
18.	julye	36.	Sammibug	54.	Cathy

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Happy Thanksgiving Eve!!!!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Have a wonderful holiday everyone!!!!
Hugs,
Erin!!!

Fan Favorites - Stamp Chance - Day 3

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Welcome to Fan Favorites Showcase
and
Stamp-a-Day-Giveaway

Day 3

We would like to thank each of the ladies who entered our fan favorites contest to share their beautiful Whimsy creations! We featured 2 fans yesterday and are featuring our final 2 fans today. And we are holding our final 3 stamp a day giveaway chances today and the following two days. You can enter each day, but please only enter one time for each drawing. We will offer up a chance at a rubber stamp here on the blog and a chance to win a digi stamp over on our Facebook page each day from now through end of day on Friday this week!

And you can visit the Whimsy shop to find special savings on select stamps and collections each day this week! Today is our Fan Favorites Meljen's Designs and Crissy Armstrong showcase!

We have two lovely cards submitted by two talented ladies, one using Meljen's Designs and the other using Crissy's new Christmas Turtle.

First up is....

Mary J

and next is....

Tina

Thank you both for sharing your beautiful creations! Please contact me at whimsystamps@gmail.com as we have a little prize for each of you!

Now on to our stamp giveaway for today! Today we are offering up a Meljen's Designs stamp, one lucky person to win the Mr. and Mrs. Teddy Claus rubber stamp.

To enter for a chance to win today's rubber stamp giveaway, please click on the blue frog and enter your link. Good luck!

1.	Rhonda Miller	35.	Kim T	69.	Lorraine A
2.	Becca Fabozzi	36.	Lyse-bricomanie	70.	Netty
3.	Maris M	37.	Rose C	71.	Heather
4.	xXx Tamara Morton xXx	38.	Dawn	72.	Lorraine
5.	linda dekker	39.	Astrid G	73.	Marie-Anne
6.	alethea	40.	Peggy R	74.	Victoria H
7.	Sharon	41.	rinat	75.	Ardilla
8.	Dorte	42.	Frea	76.	Moni
9.	Margreet	43.	Beth R	77.	Benny
10.	Simone R.	44.	xGemmax	78.	snowyulia
11.	Happy Expressions	45.	Mary Lou	79.	Tracy
12.	Astrid	46.	Ruby	80.	gila
13.	Mary	47.	Lana Cisinski	81.	Jaqi van Jaarsveld
14.	Annette	48.	chrisd	82.	Trish Lucey
15.	Diane Whitehouse	49.	Nicola W	83.	miranda (miepeke)
16.	Carol Meadows	50.	Tracey	84.	sally k
17.	Tiiti	51.	Joyce	85.	Emma O.
18.	Yolanda	52.	Lillian Child	86.	Gini Cagle
19.	Trine A	53.	Patti Jacobs	87.	Lilla
20.	Message Keeper	54.	Brook	88.	Tinemor
21.	Djam	55.	Fernie	89.	Nicola
22.	Heike	56.	Shelly Schmidt	90.	Stacie
23.	Sammibug	57.	Jen McLaughlin	91.	rosa-kreattiva (italy)
24.	Tina	58.	charline	92.	Tiggerchen
25.	Cyprus Anne	59.	Cathy Pulickal	93.	Diamantin
26.	Pat	60.	Dawn Bennett	94.	Scrappyrat
27.	Carly-Ann	61.	Lelia Pierce	95.	Debra B
28.	julye	62.	lalkygirl	96.	Carole RB
29.	Lorraine	63.	Debs xx	97.	Kylie F
30.	khrestel	64.	Caroline T	98.	Julie W
31.	hazeyj	65.	Judy Inhoff	99.	heaney
32.	Joyce	66.	Shazza	100.	Dawn Frost
33.	JLJ Designs	67.	miria	101.	debbi
34.	MissD	68.	Moni	102.	Nana Donna

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Fan Favorites - Stamp Chance - Day 2

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Welcome to Fan Favorites Showcase
and
Stamp-a-Day-Giveaway

Day 2

We would like to thank each of the ladies who entered our fan favorites contest to share their beautiful Whimsy creations! We featured 2 fans yesterday and will feature another 2 fans today and then on Wednesday this week as well as hold 4 more days of stamp giveaways! You can enter each day, but please only enter one time for each drawing. We will offer up a chance at a rubber stamp here on the blog and a chance to win a digi stamp over on our Facebook page each day from now through end of day on Friday this week!

And you can visit the Whimsy shop to find special savings on select stamps and collections each day this week! Today is our Fan Favorites Raindrop Echo and Crissy Armstrong showcase!

We have two beautiful cards submitted by two talented ladies, one using Crissy's Autumn Harvest Ride and Ann's Autumn Sentiments and another using Crissy's Gracie's Roses.

First up is....

Vicky

and next is....

Shazza

Thank you both for sharing your lovely creations! Please contact me at whimsystamps@gmail.com as we have a little prize for each of you!

Now on to our stamp giveaway for today! Today we are focusing on our artist Katie and she would like for one lucky person to win her Whimsy Frog rubber stamp.

To enter for a chance to win today's rubber stamp giveaway, please click on the blue frog and enter your link. Good luck!

1.	juelmarie	27.	pinky	53.	Rene from OZ xo
2.	Margreet	28.	debbi	54.	Craftykitten
3.	julye	29.	Chrissyxx	55.	Penni
4.	Frea	30.	cratypat	56.	karen lang
5.	hellerlittle	31.	Jenny V	57.	Becca Fabozzi
6.	Trine A	32.	Lillian	58.	Beth R
7.	Linda wescott	33.	Dorte	59.	Lorraine
8.	KymKreates	34.	Astrid G	60.	sarahwrightdesigns
9.	Debra B	35.	terriavidreader	61.	Ruby
10.	miria	36.	Berit	62.	Lesley
11.	rosa-kreattiva (italy)	37.	Heike	63.	Rose C
12.	Kimberly S	38.	Mickie	64.	Pat
13.	Tina	39.	ARDILLA	65.	Nicola W
14.	Mary Lou	40.	Joyce	66.	Anne F
15.	Sammibug	41.	Moni	67.	Crafting Cathy
16.	Rae Ann	42.	Ms. Jen	68.	Suzanne
17.	Peggy R	43.	Moni	69.	Trish Lucey
18.	xGemmax	44.	Clare H	70.	JLJ Designs
19.	Shazza	45.	Cyprus Anne	71.	CHRISSY
20.	Deb Hurtig	46.	Anne H	72.	Heather
21.	Julie W	47.	Kym's Crafty Cards	73.	charline
22.	Marina	48.	lalkygirl	74.	Manasa
23.	Yolanda	49.	Benny	75.	Amber R.
24.	Jeanette Tinholt	50.	Stacie	76.	Trina
25.	linda dekker	51.	A-len-ka	77.	Rufus
26.	Linda J	52.	Nicola

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Fan Favorites - Stamp Chance - Day 1

Monday, November 22, 2010

Welcome to Fan Favorites Showcase
and
Stamp-a-Day-Giveaway

Day 1

We would like to thank each of the ladies who entered our fan favorites contest to share their beautiful Whimsy creations! We will feature 2 fans today, tomorrow, and Wednesday this week as well as hold 5 days of stamp giveaways! You can enter each day, but please only enter one time for each drawing. We will offer up a chance at a rubber stamp here on the blog and a chance to win a digi stamp over on our Facebook page each day from now through end of day on Friday this week!

And you can visit the Whimsy shop to find special savings on select stamps and collections each day this week! Today is our Fan Favorites - Crissy Armstrong - showcase!

We have two beautiful cards submitted by two talented ladies using Crissy's sweet Little Christmas Angel digital stamp.

First up is....

Mary Lou

and next is....

Rhonda Miller

Thank you both for sharing your lovely creations! Please contact me at whimsystamps@gmail.com as we have a little prize for each of you!

Now on to our stamp giveaway for today! Crissy would like for one lucky person to win her new Starry Night rubber stamp.

To enter for a chance to win today's rubber stamp giveaway, please click on the blue frog and enter your link. Good luck!

1.	Rachel A	18.	Peggy R	35.	Frea
2.	jan farnworth	19.	Pamela	36.	hellerlittle
3.	linda dekker	20.	Margreet	37.	Tanya J
4.	Tina	21.	Amanda R	38.	SarahS
5.	theCook	22.	Lorraine	39.	Christine Craig
6.	Annette	23.	Chrissyxx	40.	Tracy Payne
7.	julye	24.	Simone R.	41.	Cheryl (Shestamps)
8.	Tracey	25.	xGemmax	42.	Doreen
9.	JLJ Designs	26.	Ellie	43.	Debra B
10.	debbi	27.	Dora	44.	Carole RB
11.	Victoria - Angeldrummer	28.	Linda wescott	45.	Heidi
12.	Kimberly S	29.	Aunty Sue	46.	Sammibug
13.	Rae Ann	30.	Bella	47.	Rufus
14.	sallysbitz	31.	Stampersue	48.	Linda C.
15.	Jacky	32.	Alison Walker	49.	Casper
16.	Rhonda Miller	33.	Astrid G
17.	Tejal	34.	Julie W

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Some Digital Team Inspiration

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Good Morning!

Today I would like to share some beautiful creations from the Whimsy Digital Team members. And I would also like to give a big welcome to our newest Digi Team member Pattie Goldman! We are very excited to have Pattie joining our team and we hope you enjoy her work!

Angela

Anneke

Domi

Heike

Lorraine

Marjon

Melissa

Pattie

Sandra

Stephanne

Tis The Season....

Friday, November 19, 2010

Hello it's me Patricia, and it's my turn to share on the Whimsy Inspirations Blog. I have an older Stamped image to share with you, it's one of my top favorites by the Super talented Crissy Armstrong, this one is called Cool Ride. I colored my image with Copic Markers. When my card was all finished I spritzed it with Tattered Angels for a nice Winter mist!!

My sentiment is by Raindrop Echo sentiments, Holiday Ticket Sentiments, just really cute and adds the perfect touch to your card! Don't forget Whimsy has the Shapeology "New Ticket Die" for your ticket sentiments, perfect cut every time!!

Thank you for peeking in!!

Meljen's Special Release

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Good Morning Everyone, Happy Thursday!!! I wanted to share a creation with you that I made with this darling NEW image in the Meljen's Collection Fisher Moose. This was a special release this week in honor of Melissa's Father....Oh my goodness he is just PERFECT for those dad cards!!! Hope you enjoy my creation!!

I used this FUN Basic Grey Paper Max and Whiskers along with some Basic Grey buttons. I added stickers to the buttons to spell out DAD!!

Also I wanted to remind you that EVERY THURSDAY there is a NEW Meljen's Release, stop by the store and check out what she released today HERE.

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

Fisher Moose

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Hi Everyone
Today is my turn to share a bit of inspiration with you I would like to show you a card I made yesterday
using one of the special Meljen's Designs digi images. Melissa created some super cute images and sentiments in honor of her Dad and some of his favorite things! these little cuties were also released yesterday

I have made my card with this new image called Fisher Moose. He's so cute and perfect for male cards.The gorgeous DP is Basic Grey Marjolaine and was a present from the lovely Denise Lynn, Thanks Hun I love it.
Well i'm off back to bed it looks like i have finally caught the dreaded cold that has plagued my house for the past couple of weeks
Hugs

Mel Jen Rubber Designs!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Morning everyone!! I don't know about you but I am in LOVE with all the new MelJen rubber! Of course I'm also in love with the digis....... Anyway, I just wanted to show you a couple designs I made with the MelJen rubber holiday line now available at Whimsy!!

This one is chilly bun bun fairy!!! She's so fun to make sparkle with lots of glitter!!!

Next is elf bell mouse!!! What a furry little cutie he is!!!!

And finally it Mr. and Mrs. Teddy Claus. Aren't they just the cutest couple??

And don't forget that the Whimsy 2-year anniversary celebrations are going on through all of November. This week you can stock up with 20% off ALL custom designs (includes all digital and rubber designs). WOW! Ann added 10 new customer rubber stamp designs to the store last week(including a fabulous holiday seal!!!), so there are now 50 custom rubber designs and 22 custom digital designs to choose from! I'm sure you will agree that this is a perfect time to stock up and make use of that 20% discount!

Last but not least, head to CRISSY's BLOG if you haven't hopped the new release yet!!! It's amazing!!!
Enjoy the day,
Erin

Winter Seal Tags

Monday, November 15, 2010

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. :o)

Just a quick post from me today to show you these cute Christmas tags I made using one of the brand new rubber stamp sets that were released last week - Winter Letter Seals:

As soon as I saw Ann's new Winter Letter Seals stamp set, I knew I needed to use them to make tags ready for Christmas. I stamped one of the Winter Seals onto some SU Kraft card stock and then used my Cuttlebug and one of my small scallop circle nesties to cut them out - perfect size! I then used my Nesties Labels 1 to cut out and emboss the back shape. I inked around both die cuts with some brown chalk ink and then glued them together. I punched a hole and threaded through some double-faced satin ribbon, added two matching pearls for the holly berries, and finally stamped "To" and "From" on the reverse. They were very labour intensive, but everyone who has seen them has asked me to make some for them! I have also made some using wine coloured ribbon and matching pearls which makes them even more 'vintage' looking. All my family have now put their orders in, so guess who will be making a LOT more of these over the next few weeks, LOL?

The Winter Letter Seals are currently out of stock as they have been SO popular, but new stock will be arriving on Friday (Nov 19), so get yourself on over to the Whimsy Store and pre-order them now and they will shipped out to you when the new stock arrives!

And don't forget that the Whimsy 2-year anniversary celebrations are going on through the whole of November. This week you can grab 20% off ALL custom designs (includes all digital and rubber designs). WOW! Ann added 10 new customer rubber stamp designs to the store last week, so there are now 50 custom rubber designs and 22 custom digital designs to choose from! I'm sure you will agree that this is a perfect time to stock up and make use of that 20% discount!

Perhaps a few more Whimsy goodies will fall into your shopping basket along with the Winter Letter Seals and a custom design? How about some of the new and gorgeous Designer Papers and maybe a Whimsy Shapeology Die or two?

Hope you have a wonderful day!
Hugs,
Simonne

Whimsy Shapeology - Ticket Die Tutorial

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Hello all and welcome to my Ticket Die Tutorial! Today I like to show you how fun and easy it is to use the new Whimsy Shapeology Ticket Die and alignment tool. I love this die! It's easy to use and makes a clear and perfect cut each time! The Whimsy Shapeology Dies work well in most leading brand die cutting machines and cut papers in various weights.

Ok lets get started:

Gather your supplies! What you need is:

- the ticket die

- the clear plastic alignment tool that came with the die

- a stamped ticket sentiment,

- a pencil and

- your die cutting machine.
My tutorial shows how to use it with the Provocraft Cuttlebug.

First stamp your ticket sentiment of choice onto cardstock. I used 'happy holidays',
one of the ticket sentiments from the Holiday Ticket Sentiments by Raindrop Echo Designs.

Then take your die and plastic alignment tool ...

... and place it over your stamped image how you want it to be cut out. Make sure you
have the alignment tool with the correct side up (it is marked on the tool) otherwise your
pencil markings wont match with the die!

Now take your pencil and draw either around the little loops on
the sides or mark the wholes. For demonstration purposes I marked it both ways.

Remove the plastic alignment tool. This is how it looks now.

Place your stamped sentiment onto your cutting plate of your die cutting machine.
As I mentioned before I'm using the Cuttlebug. My Cuttlebug plate sandwich for cutting with
the ticket die is A, B, C and I'm cutting on plate B.

Now take your ticket die and place it, with the cutting edges facing down towards the paper,
over your sentiment. Make sure the metal loops align correctly with your pencil markings!