Annual 31 Nights of Halloween Event

Good evening my DAH-lings, Franken Schmutz here with some SMASHING news.  All my frightful friends and I over at Whimsy Stamps welcome you to join us for our annual 31 Nights of Halloween blog extravaganza. 

Get ready for Whimsy's creepy Creative Team and spooky Special Guests sharing
31 haunted Halloween projects and inspiration all month long!  

In celebration of our annual 31 Nights of Halloween event,
we will be giving away $300 in Whimsy Stamps gift cards throughout the month of October! 

Here’s how you can enter…

GRAND PRIZE: $100 Whimsy Stamps gift certificate – To enter, create a Whimsy Stamps Halloween project and post it on social media using the hashtag #whimsystampshalloween, then enter the link below. You have all month long to enter, and you can enter as many times as you want as long as each post/link is a different Whimsy Halloween project.

AND

Every Wednesday in October (Oct. 6, 13, 20, 27) we will pick TWO random winners each receiving a $25 Whimsy Stamps gift card! The two weekly winners will be drawn at random from all the customers who placed an order in the Whimsy store the previous week.

Weekly winners will be announced in our weekly newsletter, and the grand prize winner will be announced here on the Whimsy Inspiration blog on Halloween night October 31, 2021 at 6pm ET. All winners must claim their prizes by 11/7/21.

Have a frightfully good time and good luck!

Mwaaahaahaha!

 THANK YOU to EVERYONE who participated and who shared their WONDERFUL Halloween Whimsy Stamps creations on the blog and across social media, we enjoyed every single one of them and we hope you're already looking forward to next years party!!

The GRAND PRIZE WINNER of a $100 Whimsy Stamps shopping spree is...

Waleska Galindo

CONGRATULATIONS Waleska, you have until November 7, 2021 to claim your prize by emailing WhimsyStamps@gmail.com

$25 Whimsy weekly winners have all been sent gift certificate confirmations via email, there's no need to claim your prize.

CONGRATULATIONS to:

Week 1 - Sylvia Riet & Monica Ornelas

Week 2- Mari Campbell & Londa Beebe

Week 3 - Melanie Tong & Heather Armstrong

Week 4 - Anne Trouw & Debra McGill

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Special Guest - Tina Smith

Hello, Whimsy friends!  Today we welcome the lovely Tina Smith back with her second guest-designer post!

Here's the Scoop card with the Monkey Sundae Stamp Set!

Hello Crafty Friends! I am very excited to be joining Whimsy Stamps this month as a Guest Designer:) It is going to be yummy and I am so happy you can join me! For my final project for the month, I will be creating with oh so delicious Monkey Sundae Stamp set available at the Whimsy Shop. I think everyday is a great day for a sundae!! Add a monkey and it will surely make you smile!! I added the Connected Rectangle Die set in my background for a playful look:) I hope you like my project!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you would like to see how I created the project in the picture below you can check it out over at my YouTube Channel, Just Click Here:)  Grab your coffee, friends, and lets get to crafting!  Have a Lovely and Crafty Day!  Hugs, Tina

Watch the Tutorial Below!

https://youtu.be/XhlbUAbbdZ0

Supplies

Special Guest - Toni Maddox

Hello, Whimsy friends! Today we welcome the amazing Toni Maddox to the blog!

Hi, everyone!  I'm delighted to be guesting on the Whimsy Stamps blog!

With Halloween in the air, I chose to play with a variety of Halloween products, combining them with Caveman Zog for a twist.

I sponged the card base using, from the bottom up, Distress Oxide Vintage Photo, Wilted Violet, Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, and Mustard Seed. I then stamped the Goth Skulls randomly onto the background using Distress Oxide Salvaged Patina and Candied Apple.

That tiffany blue really pops against the background colors so I chose to use it to cut out the Hill House, Build a Graveyard fence, and Ugh! outline.

I colored up Caveman Zog using Copics in the no line style.  He was pretty darn easy to color that way since he's mostly naked so not too many little areas to color--at least not above the loin cloth.

For the sentiment combination, I sponged Distress Oxide Mustard Seed, Candied Apple and a touch of Wilted Violet onto the Ugh! letters. I love the look of the tiffany blue on top of the colors of the background then those colors on top of the tiffany blue.

I created the sentiment in MS Word and printed it onto printer paper which I then adhered to cardstock for more body.  I cut that out with one of the Comic Speech Bubbles.  I particularly like how it looks nestled beneath Ugh!, don't you? 

I hope you enjoyed my card and have a great rest of your week!  If you'd like to check out my other creations, you can visit my blog, Frankie Helps Craft, my Instagram, or my Pinterest Board.

And, don't forget that the Annual 31 Nights of Halloween blog celebration starts on Friday. You'll see me there for sure!

Special Guest - Jennifer Snyder

 

Hello, Whimsy fans!  You are in for a treat today as we welcome the talented Jennifer Snyder to the blog!

Today I am thrilled to be a special guest blogger for Whimsy Stamps as we celebrate the start to the Halloween season.   I created shakers cards using some of the sweet and some of the spooky designs.  

Whimsy Stamps is more than stamps.  They have an amazing selection of unique dies with a variety of themes including build-a-scene die sets that really caught my eye. 

Sweet Shaker Card

Here is my first shaker card - sweet before scary - stamped onto watercolor paper and painted with watercolor pencils. 

This card features a few products:  Spider Web Frame Rubber Cling Stamp by Deb Davis Amped2Stamp andSpooky Kitties Clear Stamp by Dustin Pike.

Easy DIY Instructions

Here are my easy DIY instructions:  

I'd also like to take a moment to mention the embellishments added to the card. The shaker mix is Monster Mash Sprinkletz (NK150) shaker mix from Buttons Galore. Totally adorable and perfect for this crazy shaker.  

I also added a 3D button Bat and spider also from Buttons Galore and More.  These are from the Happy Hauntings 3D button pack HH104. They make perfect finishing touches.

Next up - spooky.  

This card features the  Whimsy Stamps - Build -a-Graveyard Die Set - designed by Deb Davis (Amped2Stamp).  Well actually this is a combo of the sweet and the spooky because I used the sentiments from Spooky Kitties Clear Stamp by Dustin Pike as the stamped sentiments  for the grave stones.   

This is the wonderful way to mix and match products.  I like to keep thinking of ways to combine products to get the most "bang for my buck" as the saying goes. 

I want to highlight that 31 Days of Halloween hosted by the Whimsy Stamps team.  Stay tuned because there are prizes, frightful inspiration and lots of fun.  

Thanks for stopping here today.  Happy crafting. 

To see more of Jennifer's work, be sure to visit her blog.

Whimsy Stamps Digital Divas ~ Wrapping up September

Hey Whimsy friends,
we're back with our final post of the month and we're kicking things off
by sharing the gorgeous creations that our lovely Digital Guest Designer
Larissa Walgemoed has shared with us this month!

 

September Digital Guest Designer

Larissa Walgemoed

Larissa's first creation used the cutest wee Autumn Mouse from our September release by Meljen's Designs.

I love the sweet scene she created for this cutie and her gorgeous colouring!

The next image Larissa worked with was this super cute Bat with this candle for our fabulous Dustin Pike Collection

and she had so much fun with this image, she created not one, but two gorgeous cards! I love the fantastic scene

Larissa created with this first card and the shine from the candle. Gorgeous!

How cute is Larissa's second creation with this same stamp?! I love that this is done to add to a Memory Dex,

she's made me want to get one! Such a cool idea to showcase your gorgeous makes like this!

Check out Larissa's post to see this cute creation on her Memory Dex.

Larissa's final creation used the sweetest little Bumble Butterfly bug from the brand new set from

Sylvia Zet called Bug Friends and it has the sweetest collection of adorable wee bugs.

Larissa's sweet scene here is utterly enchanting! I adore her inky background.

Huge thanks to the lovely Larissa Walgemoed for all her gorgeous creations this month,

it was pure pleasure to have her designing with us here at Whimsy this month.

You can check out all the Whimsy Elements Larissa used in her designs via the thumbnails below,

but be sure to stop by her blog too for all the delish details! Photos above are linked.

Now let's check in with the Divas and see what they got up to this month!

We've had a huge month and we shared some amazing creations from the Divas last week

which focused on stamps and elements they love using from their Whimsy stash, so if you missed that,

be sure to go back and have a look at that fabulous showcase.

Crissy Armstrong Digital Collection

Aussie Friends Set

Dustin Pike Digital Collection

Bat Candle

Witchy Toad

Some Odd Girl Digital Collection

Pumpkin Scarecrow

Hay Scarecrow

Scarecrow

Our lovely Janette, so enjoyed working with this sweet line of Scarecrows this month,

she made three designs with gorgeous Autumnal paper weave backgrounds! Here they are all together.

Wee Stamps Digital Collection

Bug Friends

Meljen's Digital Collection

Fall Wreath

Farmer Crow, Scarecrow Mouse & Stanley Scarecrow

We've had so much to showcase today from the release and yet there's still more!

You just can't hold the Divas back, they've been creating up a storm this month,

so here are a few extra gorgeous creations from them.

(Creations below linked directly to the image or design element in store)

We hope you've had a wonderful September everyone,

be sure to share your Whimsy creations with us over in our Facebook Group,

we so love to see what you're inspired to create and watch for our Spotlight pics,

you might just find your creation showcased there!

We'll be back very soon with our October release and of course,

we do it a little different in October because we have such fun all October long,

so look for our creations in the Facebook Group and the Divas will wrap up the month

on our inspiration blog with a fabulous Halloween showcase.

Hugs and happy crafting from me and all the Digital Design Divas