Whimsy Digi Team DT Call

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Good Morning All!

Happy holidays to everyone, hope you are all ready for this holiday season! I'm here today to share a little news...

Whimsy Stamps is in search of  new designers to join our Digital Design Team! We've recently had a couple of changes and so we are hoping to start 2011 with some fresh new faces and talent! 

If you like working with digital images and being part of a design team, this call is for you! 

The term will be for 6 months, starting on January 1st of 2011 through June 30th of 2011. 

Requirements:

- post 3 to 4 projects per month on your blog (preferable once weekly) - you must have a blog to enter this call and be able to photograph your work to share

- become a member of our Yahoo group - submit work to the group for our DT coordinator to share on our blog twice monthly

- participate in all new release digi events

- promote all Whimsy events on your blog - post badges, etc.

Benefits:

- each digital member receives all new digital stamps and digital sentiments released during their term 

- a 20% discount on Whimsy products for the length of the term

- get to work with a wonderful group of designers

If you are interested in applying for the Whimsy Stamps Digital Design Team....

Please email me at whimsystamps@gmail.com and include...

Your name, contact info, a little bit about yourself and why you want to join the Whimsy DT, and then attach 3 samples of your best work. 

This call is open from today, December 22nd until Friday December 31st. New team members will be announced here on Monday, January 3rd.

Good luck to everyone and Happy Holidays!

Some Favorites

Morning All!

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and that you got spoiled good by Santa! I want to share some of my favorite Whimsy creations from this year. There have been a lot of people sharing their top 10 cards of 2011, so I thought it would be perfect to share my top 10 Whimsy creations. If you have a Whimsy creation that is in your Top 10 cards this year, be sure to leave a link to it on the comments for this post. We'd love to see it!

Here they are, in no particular order....

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Denise

Last Minute Christmas and the new Kenny K!!!

Happy Tuesday all!!  I hope you are all enjoying the holiday preparations.  I know I have been very busy finishing up so I can sit back and just enjoy the holidays.  Today's card is one of the last cards I am creating for the holidays using the Cozy Little Snowman from the Meljen's Collection and the Winter Letter Seals created by the ever so talented Ann from Raindrop Echo Designs!!

 I had fun using my Cuttlebug winter borders embossing folders and my scorer to create my background.  The image is colored with copics.  The snowflake is felt and from SU.  The dp is from my scrap bin and I am unsure of the company who made it.

In addition to my Christmas card, I would like to share the newest attraction at Whimsy!!  Yes.... the Kenny K rubber collection!!  We still have a blog hop going on and you have a chance to win some awesome prizes including the entire release, click here to join the hop starting at Sem's blog. The hop ends on Thursday December 23rd at noon EST. 

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 after the holidays!




Anywho..here is one of my creations using Download Diva available as a Pre-order.





  I colored her with copics.  The paper just seemed so perfect with this image.  It is from DCWV Music.  I don't usually use bright colors but I just love bright colors with these particular images.  Since there were instruments in the background and I did not want to cover them up in my layout, I chose to add a banner instead of panels.  The letters were punched with a Martha Stewart Alphabet punch.

I hope you enjoyed my creations!!  Thanks for stopping by and for your comments.

stamping hugs,

Holly Beary Fairy

Hello it's my turn to post on the Whimsy Inspirations Blog. I want to show you a card I made using three diffrent Stamps from Whimsy Stamps.



I used Holly Beary Fairy by Meljens Designs, Calendar Stamp by Raindrop Echo, Holiday Ticke Sentiments also by Raindrop Echo. My paper is the Holiday Folly Paper Pack, really pretty paper!! I colored my image with Copic Markers, I left off the embelishments, sometimes a little is a lot!!



Thanks for peeking in and enjoy your Friday!!

Whimsy New Release - KennyK Collection

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, KennyK is currently a digital stamp artist (amongst many other things) and although Whimsy will not be carrying any KennyK 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, 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. KennyK will continue to offer the digital versions in his store. The rubber stamps are available to PRE-ORDER today from the Whimsy store, and will be in stock and start shipping right after the Christmas holiday! We expect these stamps to arrive and begin shipping during the week of the 27th.

Our super-talented Ann (Raindrop Echo Designs) has designed some wonderful digital sentiments, Fast Lane 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 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 me, 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! [Winners will be announced on December 23rd after the hop ends - what a wonderful Christmas present for those lucky hoppers!]

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
Deb Routledge
Chris Olsen
Vanja Stevanovic
Ann Vento
Marley van der Heijden
Crystal Irwin
Janna Sicard
Iris Wiechmann
Vicki Parson
Denise Lynn

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

Festive inspiration

Hi Everyone it's my turn today to share some festive inspiration with you, my first project is a cute little snow globe, I have used one of Crissy's NEW Pre coloured digital images called Teddy's First Christmas isn't he a cutie!

I have also made a card using the cute Whimsy stamps Holly Beary Fairy which has been water coloured with tim holtz distress inks,the gorgeous Dp is also from the new paper range from Whimsy stamps which is called Holiday Folly,I have also created some of my own DP using the fab Music Notes Rubber stamp which you can also find here at Whimsy Stamps

Please be sure to stop by on Thursday the 16th, for a fabulous rubber stamp release. It's with our NEW artist and there are 8 new stamps to choose from! Our DT will be hosting a blog hop with prize chances and lots of eye candy! Stay tuned!

Have a great day!

A Card and Some News

Good Morning All,

Today I have a card to share using the sweet new stamp, Penguin's Present, by Melissa Jenkins of Meljen's Designs. 

For the card details, please visit my blog Stamping with Denise. Penguin's Present and other new release stamps are available now in the Whimsy Stamps shop!

Please be sure to stop by on Thursday the 16th, for a fabulous rubber stamp release. It's with our NEW artist and there are 8 new stamps to choose from! Our DT will be hosting a blog hop with prize chances and lots of eye candy! Stay tuned!

Have a great day!

Whimsy Treats

Good Morning Everyone, Happy Monday!!!! I wanted to share a couple projects with you that I made using these FABULOUS Whimsy Winter Letter Seals. The first project I would like to show you is what I am making for my kids teachers. I filled these sweet mugs up with treats and added one of the seals from the Winter Letter Seals set to finish it off...... Hope you enjoy!!!

The next little project I am showing you is how you can fill up a treat bag and add a Winter Letter Seal to give it the final touches...Hope you Enjoy!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today......Hope you enjoyed my Holiday Treats!! Have a GREAT Monday Everyone!!!

Tidings of Comfort and Joy

Hello!

Have you seen all the new gorgeous Whimsy Stamps released on Wednesday?! If you still haven't participated in our blog hop, you should check this post to see the full blog hop list and take part. The DT projects are beautiful and there are prizes to be won, too. :)

I would like to share with you today a couple of my Whimsy Stamps creations. On my first card I used an image from the Digital Stamp Collection.



The stamp is called Christmas Tree designed by Meljen Designs, while the sentiment is from the rubber stamp set Peace on Earth designed by Crissy Armstrong. I loved colouring in this beautiful image.



On my second project, I also used stamps from the Peace on Earth set designed by Crissy Armstrong and papers are also Whimsy Stamps from the Very Merry pack.



I made a note card box, with four cards inside.



I used the gorgeous branch stamp and two sentiments.



You can see more of these and my other Whimsy Stamps project on my blog. Thank you so much for stopping by today and have a great weekend! :)

hugs
Vanja

Christmas Cheer....

Hi everyone I hope you enjoyed the Whimsy Blog Hop yesterday, what gorgeous creations! Don't forget to check the shop to see all the newly released rubber stamps and new digi's! For the top card I have used MelJen's Santa's Puppy Helper and the Sentiment is also available in rubber from Raindrop Echo Designs at Whimsy. The bottom card is Crissy Armstrong's Santa image. He is so jolly and fun. Hurry over and pick up these wonderful stamps to add to your collection! I wish you all a wonderful weekend. You can visit my blog here for more Whimsy Inspiration!

Whimsy New Release Blog Hop

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

We have NINE gorgeous new Whimsy Stamps to show you today! These new stamps are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favorites including our Shapeology Dies and Holiday Designer Papers. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - the amazing trio of Bev, Deb, and Beate!

Here is a full list of the super fabulous new rubber stamps being released today:

Winter's Joy (Crissy Armstrong)

Valerie's Gift (Crissy Armstrong)

I'd Follow You Anywhere (Crissy Armstrong)

Love in a Bucket (Crissy Armstrong)

Cozy Cap Mouse (Meljen's Designs)

Penguin's Present (Meljen's Designs)

Love Letter Seals (Raindrop Echo Designs)

Music Notes Background (Raindrop Echo Designs)

Friendship Tickets (Raindrop Echo Designs)

If you would like to participate in the hop todday, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Bev's blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday, December 8th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday, December 15th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 7 different prize draws! The grand prize of ALL 9 of the new release stamps is being hosted by Simonne at the very end of the hop, but there are also 6 mini candy stops throughout the hop! We're not going to tell you where they are, so you'll just have to keep on hopping to find them!

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

Bev Rochester

Crissy Armstrong

Beate Johns

Vanja Stevanovic

Lori Pachkowsky

Debbie Eastman

Patricia Garcia

Donna Smith

Annika Ryan

Ann Vento

Chris Olsen

Marley van der Heljden

Vicki Parson

Denise Lynn

Erin Bailey

Iris Wiechmann

Deb Routledge

Crystal Irwin

Simonne Clay

Thank you so much for joining us today! We hope you enjoy seeing all the new releases and are inspired by our talented Whimsy Designers! Have a great day!

December Digi hop Winners

Our grand winner of the 5 Digi Images of there choice From Crissy's post for the December digi blog hop is
Crafting Granny
http://craftingranny.blogspot.com/

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

From Debbie's Blog
Annette Bowes at http://mypommiepurplepatch.blogspot.com/

From Pattie's Blog
Tanya at http://myscrappinandstampincorner.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

A Sneak Peek and More

Morning All!

I'm here today to share 2 cards with you, both using Meljen's Designs images. The first one is actually a sneak peek at a brand new rubber stamp, which will be released tomorrow! We are releasing a total 9 new stamps and sets to our Rubber Collections and we'll host a blog hop with lots of inspiration and some prize chances too! All the fun starts at Noon EST, Wednesday December 8th!

This is Cozy Cap Mouse....isn't he just adorable!

For more details on how I made this card you can visit my blog and read more.

The next card I have to share uses one of Melissa's sweet new penguin digital stamps. Meljen's Designs has a huge selection of holiday digital stamps that can be resized, flipped or rotated to fit your project and you can download them immediately after purchasing and get started on your holiday projects right away!

This is Penguin's Little Letter....

I've used some holiday Bo Bunny papers and then embellished with ribbon, snowflakes, and sticky gems. Sorry if the image seems blurry, I tried to photograph this card 4 or 5 times and each time it was fuzzy looking. I think the camera was picking up the shine on the gems or something!

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you have a great Tuesday and I hope we'll see you back here tomorrow for our newest rubber release!

Christmas Present & Christmas Past

posted by Vicki-Stamped Smiles

Hello friends!!  I'm back with another post for you.

One of my favorite Christmas movies to watch is the classic "A Christmas Carol" with George C. Scott as Mr. Scrooge...it just wouldn't be Christmas for me without watching that!

They always say that you must always remember your past, live for today and look to the future, so I thought this would be a good time of year for that!

Since I've been with Whimsy Stamps for a while, I thought it would be fun to make something current and then take a look at a past creation I made!

 Christmas Present - For my creation today, I've used this adorable Holly Beary Fairy rubber stamp by Meljen's Designs available at Whimsy Stamps.  I've also taken the sentiment from the Peace On Earth stamp set by Crissy also available from Whimsy Stamps. 

I've colored the image with Copics, I then glittered her wings and used my Zig Painty paint pen and added silver dots to parts of her dress, around the image and for accents around the frame.  I've used all of the rhinestones and ribbons to follow a sketch, which I thought worked nicely with this image.

Here are my challenges for this card:

Midnight Madness - MMSC84

Top Tip Tuesday - anything goes (Whimsy is sponsoring...but hurry!)

C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas birthday

And here's a look at Christmas Past - 

I took Crissy's Jolly Puppy Kisses stamp and made a fun Christmas style wall hanging.

As I was digging out some of Christmas things, I came across this frame, so I thought it would be fun to share with you again.

Christmas Future -  I certainly CAN'T show you anything from Christmas future as I'm not quite aloud to...yet!  But please stayed tuned in to this blog to find out information about a rubber stamp blog hop and other really fun new releases!!  Hope you enjoy your Christmas and thanks for joining me today!! HUGS

Whimsy Digi Inspiration

Hi Everyone!

Today I would like to share some beautiful creations from the Whimsy Digital Team members.

Stephanne

Sandra

Pattie

Melissa

Lorraine

Domi

Anneke

Angela

Hugs Debbie x

Please be sure to pop back on Wednesday for a brand new Rubber release you won't want to miss it

Wintery Letter Seals

Hi, it's Annika here and this time I'm showing something a bit different. I love those Wintery Letter Seals - so versatile. This time I've decided to use them as a main focus of my little project:

These little pyramid boxes open from the back. You could stuff them with chocolates and use on Christmas tree or as an advent calendar. I decided to hang them on wine bottles and fill with packets of mulled wine spices - it makes a lovely Christmas gift, don't you think?!

The big snowflakes underneath the seals are actually cheap plastic tree decorations but they work brilliantly here and add just enough oomph.

It's a perfect little project to do with your kids - my 4-year old helped me with pleating the paper for rosettes and punching out the circles and snowflakes. And glittering. Sigh.

If you want to try yourself you can find the template and tutorial for the project HERE.

Thanks gor looking and happy crafting!
Hugs
Annika