Meet Our Creative Team - Sabrina

My name is Sabrina, I live in Italy, in the province of Turin, I am 36 years old and I am a mother of two beautiful children, a kitten and a little Chihuahua. I am a card maker, I love coloring and creating projects in 3D. I like to keep myself active and I do not really love to idle and those who hang out! I eat a lot, I love the tranquility, the aromas and the mystery of the woods and the mountains and I love listening to the sea on the rocks.

1) If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why?  There are many stamps that I love, I confess to be a serial accumulator of stamps ... but I would say that in the first three places there are definitely the digi penguins, Cindy and Love Me Tender.
2) If you could have a super power, what would it be? If you could have a super power, what would it be? Difficult to answer, I would like so many super powers, LOL, but if I have to tell one, I definitely choose to stop the time!
3) List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you? I love pink, rabbits and bears ...
4) What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why? well surely I could not be without stamps ... this is a difficult question for me ... as I explained before ... I am a serial accumulator of LOL stamps
5) What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium? I love all the shades of brown and pink! I love coloring with the Tombow, distress and with the prismacolor ... in short, I like to color!
6) If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be? Oh my ... I eat a lot!! I'm Italian so I can answer that I could never live without spaghetti, polpette and tiramisu!
 7) What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team? the opportunity to color the magnificent timbres proposed, and be together with the fabulous people that make up the whole DT.

Meet Our Creative Team - Hester

Hello, I am Hester, I am married and we have a daughter. I work part-time as an intermediary and I am trainer /coach for a Korfball team. In my spare time mostly Sundays, I do some crafting. Crafting works so relaxing for me. Years ago I started to cut cards that we received and make other cards of it. Then with 3D images. Now mainly stamps and digis. Now I make all my cards with the Silhouette Cameo. I design most of them myself.  I make cards, scrapbooks, treats and home deco.

1.)    If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why?  The digital image, paper and sentiment. You can all mix and match them together.

2.)    If you could have a super power, what would it be? To stop the time so that I have more time for crafting.

3.)    What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium? Purple, pink and red. I always color with Copics.

4.)    If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be? Donuts, Indonesian food and water

5.)    What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team? I have a new creative family. Thank you all for being part of it.

This Lantern card is my favorite card because this was my first design in the Silhouette Cameo. You can get the template for free in the store https://whimsystamps.com/pages/digital-freebies

Meet Our Creative Team - Jackie

Hi! My name is Jackie Cornfield.  I have been involved in Art in some form or other most of my working life. I worked in the Art Room at Denby Pottery for 17 years painting table and giftware. I later moved into retail and now the very non-arty Post office. Hey! I have to make a living! I am married to Brian, have two wonderful amazing girls and the sweetest granddaughter. I am blessed.

If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why?
Fawn digi, Blue Cream papers, Unicorn Sentiments

If you had a super power, what would it be?
To colour like Alyce!

List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you...
I don’t drive, I don’t have super powers, I have circumnavigated the globe.

What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why?
Merry and bright digital sentiments, I use the sooooooooooooo much

What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium?
Blue and green and using pencils

If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be:
Bread, tea and chicken tikka masala

What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team?
The great team camaraderie

What challenges you when stamping/crafting?
To think up a new way of presenting the stamps, papers and sentiments

I chose my favourite Whimsy project simply because it gladdens my heart when I see it.

Meet Our Creative Team - Astrid

Hi, I am Astrid, and I live in the Netherlands. I do crafting for many years now. I love to make cards, but also Mini albums and cards who are not normal of shape. And also love how you can meat many people worldwide who do the same as you do.

1.)    If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be?
Digital stamps, digital papers and dies.

2.)    If you could have a super power, what would it be?
To make more hours in a day for making more projects.

3.)    List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you?
I live on an Island called Texel, I become a Grandma in July 2018 and I love my cat Isabelle very much.

4.)    What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why?
There is no stamp set I could live without, everything is beautiful.

5.)    What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium?
The color combo purple and pink and light green I like the most, and my Copic Markers.

6.)    What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team?
Its every day fun to work with the Team and always a good word, and all the great products.

7.)    What challenges you when stamping/crafting?
To make every card or project, the most beautiful creation there is.

Meet Our Creative Team - Wendy

Hi I’m Wendy, known in the crafty world by the handle Crafty Kiwi Mama, which hints to my homeland of New Zealand. I returned home to New Zealand 5 years ago after living 13 years in London in the UK. It was there that I discovered the awesome ‘blog’ world of paper crafting. I had picked up a couple of crafty magazines at my local Tesco and Whimsy Stamps designer Bev Rochester had some cards featured in it. I have always been crafty and love all things papercraft, so seeing her beautiful designs, I started exploring this new world. I bought my first image, some ink and the magazine was doing a giveaway on Promarkers so the rest is history!

1.)    If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why? My favourite Whimsy product is an older die called the Country Heart Die. I have had it for years and it’s still my ‘go to’ die for romantic creations. Their dies are timeless and cut so well. So dies for sure! I also love their digital images and papers, they’re SO easy to work with and can be printed different sizes and even printed flipped to mirror image. So versatile and so quick and easy to download. No waiting for the post! My final favourite product would be actually not be a ‘product’ as such, but the people! Whimsy Stamps has some of the finest artists and designers working for them. The images are fun, beautiful, whimsical, sassy, they cover all the bases and the talented team bring it home every time! So my third favourite is the amazing Whimsy Creative Team.

2.)    If you could have a super power, what would it be? Ah, this is simple, I’d eradicate pain. I’d love to live in a world where no one inflicts pain on another person, emotional or physical, but also where illness and loss doesn’t create the kind of heartache it currently does. Utopian I know, and without the lows in life, we can’t appreciate the highs, but that would be the super power I’d choose.

3.)    List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you? I am one of seven children, so my family is HUGE and we are very close. I struggled to have my own two, so I count myself very blessed there. I’m a Paediatric Nurse (no longer practising) and also a Clinical Aromatherapist. Finally, I married my teenage sweetheart and we are about to celebrate our 24th Wedding Anniversary!

4.)    What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why? Ooh I can’t choose just one! I have a huge soft spot for Crissy Armstrong’s sweet characters. I LOVE her Christmas images, her kiddies, her critters, don’t make me choose just one! I LOVE Crown of Daisies, but then there’s Little Christmas Angel, and Touched by Love and have you seen My Significant Otter?! I mean seriously, ‘only one’! I just can’t...


5.)    What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium? I love colour, but I also love subtlety. I love soft colours, white with any other colour I think is always gorgeous. Soft pink, soft fawn, soft blue. But I do love bold striking colour combos too and one of my favourites is black and red! My preferred colouring medium is alcohol ink. I’ve always been a Promarkers girl and I’ve just started using a few Copic Markers too, so it’s super exciting that Whimsy now stocks these!

6.)    What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team? The Whimsy Digital Divas are amazing and I still pinch myself occasionally to check I’m not in a dream! I LOVE the amazing digital designs we are privileged to work with and this team is so incredibly supportive and lovely. I totally see, why Whimsy Stamps has some of the longest serving designers! Whimsy is a family.

Meet Our Creative Team - Ute

Hi, my name is Ute… I grew up in Germany and leave it, because I want to go to America, but my journey ends in Switzerland… There I fall in LOVE with the best hubby from the world… He made my hobby to his business and is the owner from a craft store. In our house live two kids and 2 cats… Since my childhood I love to color and to create something…. In real life I am a RN.

1. If you had to choose, what would your TOP 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why?  Oh , this question isn’t easy for me… As I started to made cards I bought years ago red rubber stamp and I love the quality… Mostly I prefer Clearstamps because I can look through and stamp perfectly, where I want. Since I am in the DT I use Digital Stamps (digital papers and sentiments) and I LOVE, yes I really fall in love with them, because, they are cute, you can change the size and you can mirror them easily…. also you can arrange them where you wish…  You can print they with a Laser Printer and you can foil the sentiments (for example)…I have also a few dies and the quality is really great, I should use them more often.

2. If you could have a super power, what would it be? Hmmm, I think to stop time…. So that I can craft and the time stands still… I think I would have more time for to be a lovely mum, a blessed wife, for god and for crafting… Sometimes it is not easy to have for all enough time in this busy world…

3. List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you?  As I was a young child I loved to color. Often I sit on the table and I have pencils and paper, instead to play with dolls or so… As I was in the primary school, one teacher saw me color and decided to ask me, if I had fun to come in his art class… Normally the students there were 3 years older than I… I  don’t think about for long, color all the time… YES, was my answer… I was so happy… The teacher tells me, that I have to learn to create own things… I was very good to copy others… It was so bad, that the teacher was 3 years later retired… After than there wasn’t a new course, where I had learn this. I have ideas in my head, but I have still problems to bring this on paper…

On our Wedding day was an old woman, nobody knew her. She came to us, for congrats wishes and gave us a little box… This was decorated with fabric. The old woman says to us: You are a beautiful couple, also the wedding in the church was wonderful… If you have someone the feeling that the fire of love will be go out, than take one of the match and burn it and your love will come back…“ With God blessings she leave the celebration and never saw her again. It was really magical.

I love to learn new techniques and practice my coloration. I like it also to try new stuff :)

4. What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why?  I love all the cute critters and fantastic sentiments… You can made so much cards for all occasions.


5. What is you favorite color combination and favorite coloring medium? Oh, I LOVE colors… My favorite combination is the RAINBOW combo… I love to color with different mediums, for example watercolor, pencils (Prisma, Polychromos, Luminance…), inks or ZIG real color brushes, sometimes with Alcohol Marker…

6. What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team?  I love that DT, because all members are like a family and all have their own style. You get a lot of inspiration and people help each other, if you have any questions… Denise is such a great boss and all are so friendly and kind. It is a joy to be part of it all.

I have a lot of favorite picture from cards, so it wasn't easy to made a choice... I decided to share this one, because I love the image, the scene looks so peaceful, friendly and it was so great to color... You can practice so much color skills here...

Meet Our Creative Team - Donna

Hi! My name is Donna Rudy and I live in Ontario, Canada.  I am married and step mom to two grown children and mom to my fur baby.  My bills are paid by my fulltime job as a Sales Manager for a community newspaper, but my head is usually thinking of the next card layout or colour scheme...shh don't tell my boss!  I started scrapbook over 12 years ago but it is only in mid 2013 or so that I started making cards….and the rest is history as they say…..I’m addicted!

If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why?
My top three favorites are the stamp options – rubber, clear and digital, dies and enamel dots. I love that you can resize the digital stamps to meet your needs and they don’t take up much room for storage.   Some of my fav Whimsy stamps are in rubber and nothing beats the clear mini sentiments that are always perfect for any card I am making.
The enamel dots are my go to embellishment……..I’m addicted!!

List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you...
When I was 12 I fractured my skull being thrown from a horse and landing backwards on the pavement of a highway. Years later I bought a young horse so I could do the training myself which was an adventure all in itself!
I am a patterned paper hoarder in need of a serious intervention!
I have a dry, cheeky sense of humor  that is a surprise a lot of people.

What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why?
I cannot live without the animals – specifically Crissy Armstrong’s horses. They are the most realistic stamps I have seen and they have a fun, whimsical, country style that matches my style  perfectly.

What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium?
I love the natural tones of browns, greens, beiges, blues and yellows  – country colours as I call them.  I use Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and a few Copics that have somehow “added” themselves to my collection

If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be?
Cheesecake, Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Blizzards and Turtles

What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team?
I am a newbie on the digital team so I’m still getting my feet wet! I like the support of my fellow DT – everyone is very quick to jump in and help with a question or send me something I need.  I love that I can “do what I do” when it comes to my style of card making. I love the friendships I have made and the support of the company owner Denise, always there with a kind word or encouragement  and always here to help in any way possible.

What challenges you when stamping/crafting?
My biggest challenge is time like many others – I wish I had more time to craft…..or “color” as I tell my dog. This always results in “stink eye” from him!
My other HUGE  challenge is that I am very quickly out growing my craft room! 

Picking one favourite card I have done using a Whimsy stamp is a challenge but I have chosen this one.  This is one of my first cards as a digital team member and it is colored to match my heart horse. Hand fussy cutting this was a challenge but the end result was exactly what I pictured in my head.

Meet Our Creative Team - Janine

Hi, my name is Janine, and I live with my hubbie in NE England. I have one grown up daughter who lives in London and I miss her every day. I’ve always loved arts & crafts, especially drawing and painting.  Over the years I've tried lots of different crafty things such as calligraphy, cross stitch, flower arranging, even face painting. I got hooked on card-making about 12 years ago and love it, especially when I can combine it with digital images and colouring.

1.)    List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you? I’m a total gadget and computer geek (mmm, maybe that’s not such a surprise!), I worked for a year on an Archaeology dig when I was in my late teens (I was the only girl for a long time), and despite being very shy as a child I became a trainer in the adult education sector and taught different computer and job skills to adult learners, and loved it.

2.)    What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium? Ooo, that’s a hard one. Well my favourite colour is blue, and love all shades of it and adore it combined with other colours such as green or pink. Favourite medium, now that’s another toughie, I love working with my Copics, but every now and again I enjoy working with my many pencils and watercolouring mediums.

3.)    If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be?
It would have to be dark chocolate Kit-Kat biscuits, pizza and Cheerios --- and not necessarily in that order either.

4.)     What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team? That has to be the fabulous products I get to work with - the quality and variety is amazing. Every time I get to work with a new launch I just sit with my mouth open, and thank my lucky stars.  The cherry on top is that I get to work with Denise and a bunch of friendly, supportive teamies who are incredibly talented, many of whom I’ve admired over the years. We have so much talent in one place. As a relative newbie, I’m still a bit in awe of them….ssh!

5.)    What challenges you when stamping/crafting? Now that’s easy….getting things straight and even in my layouts. If something is even slightly off it goes in the bin. I have so many rulers and trimmers to help me get my background papers, card and toppers straight I now need a bigger craft room. LOL

Meet Our Creative Team - Michelle

Hi my name is Michelle I have always loved craft any kind I started scrapbooking in 2001 and then about 3 years ago I got hooked on card making. I have tried all sorts of card making but I really love colouring images I find it a huge stress relief. I had no idea how to colour when I first started I got some copics and went and did some classes at the local scrapbook store and then I discovered Kit and Clowder classes and I love them they have made me feel more confident and I love how my images look now. I also colour with Prima pencils which I adore them and I have inktense pencils as well but I am only new to these but they are great also. I am only new as a DT member for Whimsy Stamps but have loved their images for a long time.

What are 3 of your favorite Whimsy Stamps products? If I had to choose 3 Whimsy products as my favourite I would choose the Digi images, Rubber stamps and their flower dies.

What Whimsy Stamps stamp could you not live without? The whimsy stamp I could not live with out is the penguins for sure I just love to colour them up and watch them come to life

What is your favorite color combo? My Favourite colour combo is Teal and purple

If you could have a super power, what would it be? If I had a super power I would x-ray vision so I can find things quicker in my craft room.

What do you enjoy most about being a member of the Whimsy Stamps DT? The best thing about being on the Whimsy DT is the people I have met and how helpful everyone is and of cause to be able to work with the gorgeous images.

Meet Our Creative Team - Denielle

Hi, I’m Deni, 34 years old from Sydney Australia. I am a Mum of 2 , Getting Married in March 2018, I will then have 3 Step Kids.

I love to create cards, My go to Medium is Copic Markers, although I am starting to work with other mediums at the moment. I love both Rubber Stamps and Digital Stamps.

1.)    If you could have a super power, what would it be? To click my fingers and my house be tidy so I can colour and create all day long.

2.)    List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you?
I am super critical about myself and my crafty work. I am my own worst enemy at times.
I hate new.. doesn’t matter what it is I find it very difficult to handle new situations.
I am OCD, a clean and tidy freak.. yes I am that person who cleans up their desk after every project haha.

3.)    What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why? Wee One,  It is one of my first Whimsy Rubber Stamps and is my go to Baby Card Stamp.

4.)    What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium? Pink and Blue, R81, R83, R85, B93, B95, B97, B99 Copic Markers

5.)    If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be? Lasagna, Hot Chips, Ice Cream

6.)    What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team? Our Girls are all so friendly and supportive, makes working for Whimsy Stamps a pleasure and not a chore.

This is my favourite Whimsy Stamps card, it is one of the first Whimsy Stamps cards I had ever made which is why it makes me happy and I would refer to it as one of my favourites.

Meet Our Illustrators - Jennifer Dove

My name is Jennifer Dove, I have 2 adult boys and a 3 year old daughter as well as a supportive Hubby.  I live full time in an RV, giving me the opportunity to travel and teach.  I am a Copic Certification Instructor for both the Fine Arts and West Coast Regional Education team through Imagaination International Inc.  I am also the owner of DoveArts Studios and love to create and color as much as I can.  I am blessed to be apart of the Whimsy family and look forward to a long future with such talent.

 1.)    If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why?   I just adore all the sweet animals.
2.)    If you could have a super power, what would it be? Creating more time - to be able to juggle a 3 year old, and life…and still have extra time to create, design, color and make lovely artsy messes.
3.)    List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you?  I lived in Alaska for over 10 years and was a heavy equipment operation by trade.
4.)    What is your favorite coloring medium?  My favorite coloring medium are the Copic Markers.
5.)    If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be? Coffee, Coffee and Coffee with Baileys
6.)    What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team?  Whimsy is a wonderful company with so many different design options to choose from, making it quite easy to create a lovely little masterpiece7.)    What challenges you when stamping/crafting?  Researching and figuring out how to color something more realistic that I haven’t colored before.

Meet Our Illustrators - Deb Davis

Hi I’m Deb Davis and I work full time as the creative director at Whimsy Stamps.  It’s my job to keep us on trend, to develop fun new products and to be Denise’s right hand woman (best job ever).  I also have my own Amped2Stamp line of Whimsy products.  And since I’m a long-time avid stamper it’s a huge bonus that I get to design with our amazingly talented creative team too (best team ever).

1. If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why? 1-Our clear stamp sets.  Because each set has so many options/possibilities and many combine with one another for even more versatility, I like getting the most I can out of any stamp set.  2-our new stencils, I love our designs and the quality is the best I’ve ever used.  3-our complementing dies, because I love the fact they can be used to cut out their matching stamp set images but they also include dies that can be used independently of the stamp set. 

2. If you could have a super power, what would it be?  Definitely time travel but if I could have a second one it would be to talk to animals.

3. What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why? I’d have to say Deepest Sympathy and Magical Birthday Wishes, because you always need birthday and sympathy sentiments.

4, What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium? There’s no way I could pick just one favorite color combo because I love every color I ever met.  I do like some more than others so here are 3 long-time favs, pink-grey-white, red-black-white and anything pastel peachy/ corals with pastel turquois/aqua.  But ask me tomorrow and I’d probably give you a different answer.  Just like color combos I love all color mediums but this answer is a little easier since my go-to mediums are water coloring with either distress inks or pencils and Copic markers.

5.  If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be? Well between what I don’t eat, what I can’t eat and what I won’t eat that pretty much really does leave me only 3 foods to survive on.  So those three foods would have to be fruit, seafood, potatoes and veggies, oh wait that’s 4 foods, okay I survive on 4 foods not 3.

6. What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team? Brainstorming with Denise, seeing all the creative projects the team makes with our products and being part of a diverse, innovative, professional team of encouraging and talented artists.

7. What challenges you when stamping/crafting? Not smudging in some way or another every single project that I make.

My favorite project would have to be this one using the Paws to Remember stamp set.  This was the first set I created for our Rainbow Bridge collection and is near and very dear to my heart for many reasons.

If I could pick another one it would be this one of Franken Schmutz, because he just cracks me up every time I see him and I love that my Monster Mash collection can be used all year long and aren’t  especially for Halloween at all.  Although Halloween is my favorite hands down. 

Thanks for letting me share some stuffs about myself, I’m so very blessed and grateful to be part of this amazingly wonderful world of Whimsy!

Stamping Hugs, Deb

Meet Our Illustrators - Krista Heij-Barber

Hi, I'm Krista. I am a Canadian, transplanted to Florida, transplanted to the Midwest...so what does that make me besides super cold?! Haha! I used to work at Walt Disney Animation in Florida and am now Illustrating full time and enjoying the work I do for Whimsy Stamps!

1. Some of my favorite Whimsy products are the rubber stamps of course ;) and if I could
have matching die cuts, that is the “look” I like best. I love to co-ordinate my images with
patterned papers as a background or even an accent, such as a heart.
2. My super power..... oh boy, I really wish I had super speed. So I could get everything done in a day that needs to be done.
3. A couple things that would surprise anyone....1. I can pick up objects with my feet. 2. I am
quite an introvert, although many artists are.
4. My favorite color combo has to be teal/aqua, grey and a pale, pale pink. Really anything
combined with teal. My favorite coloring medium is digital. As you can tell by the Whimsy
ads I color all my stuff digitally. I also love coloring with colored pencils. I am really hoping
to do some videos on that in 2018.
5. If I had to survive on 3 food, I think it would be water, cream and coffee. That pretty much
says it all. :)

My favorite stamp that I’ve done for Whimsy... that’s a hard one. I never am happy with what I do, like a true artist. ;)  I am partial to the “Sledding Time” and the “Sledding Snowman”. I love the movement these have.


                      

Meet Our Illustrators - Kirsten Winkelbauer

My name is Kirsten and I'm an illustrator and designer working with the incredible team at Whimsy Stamps! I love coming up with cute, fun designs that can vary from silly to spooky, and using vibrant colors in my finished pieces. While I'm new to stamping and paper crafting, I've loved how easily I've been able to merge my experiences with illustration into a new medium!

List 3 Things Someone Would Be Surprised to Learn About You:
1) I love spooky things, but I'm terrified of scary movies and stories
2) I will eat almost anything except rice pudding and quiche
3) Even though I've had dogs my whole life, I have a mild pet dander allergy. I just deal with it :)

What Is Your Favorite Color Combo and Favorite Coloring Medium? I love how different hues of mint and peach look together! I think pastels are super pretty but that's definitely my favorite. I prefer working in watercolors or markers more than anything else.

What Do You Like Most About Being A Member of the Whimsy Creative Team? I love being in a community of other crafters and creators who not only inspire me to make beautiful, fun things, but are also incredibly sweet and supportive people!

What Challenges You When Stamping/Crafting? I feel like I struggle with making up my mind about a design before jumping into it. I always have a million different ideas I want to try, so sometimes I'll be halfway through a project and decide to try something new right in the middle of it. Sometimes it works and I come out with something great, but other times it'll end up more of a learning experience of what does and doesn't work well together. In some situations, reigning in creative energy can be just as hard trying to generate it! But I feel lucky to have a creative outlet that lets me try all those new ideas, even if they don't always work.

My favorite Whimsy design that I've created do far is "Smiles and Surprises." I just like the pose and design of how silly and big the present is. It's also the stamp I use the most when making cards and gift tags for presents I give to people, so it's been well loved and used by me!

Meet Our Creative Team - Jeanette

Hi! My name is Jeanette and I live in "la belle province" Quebec, Canada! I am married to my college sweetheart and after a few years living in the "big city", we settled down to live in the same little town that I grew up in.  After many years of working in the health-care system, I now stay home and take care of my 3 boys. It is organized chaos at the best of time, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.  I discovered this incredible world of stamping in February 2008 and I fell totally head over heels with this amazing craft. I especially love cute and whimsical images.  I am incredibly lucky to now be a designer for Whimsy Stamps! Sometimes I need to pinch myself when I think of the amazing girls that I am working alongside. I am grateful for this tremendous opportunity.  I try to spend a little bit of time every day for stamping and creating. I do believe that is what keeps me sane! I hope the results will make inspire you and make you smile!

1.     My Top three Whimsy Products are: The Hand Stitched Nested Rectangle dies, Pierced Border Trio dies and the Card Builder Many Thanks die set. These die sets are my favorite because they are the foundation to all my cards and album projects. I can easily create landscapes, scenes and multi-dimension cards using these die sets!

2.     If I could have a super power, it would be to make time stand still for everyone else EXCEPT me. That way I would have some extra time to craft….and nap.

3.     My favorite color combo is red, aqua and white and my favorite coloring medium is Copic Markers.

4.     If I had to survive on just 3 foods, they would be rice, oranges and sunflowers seeds. They are my favorite things to eat!

5.     What I like most about being part of the Whimsy Creative team is the wonderful, creative and respectful people who make up the team and Denise, who is the loveliest, most sincere and generous person.

My favorite Whimsy creation is this one: http://jeanette-happythoughtsinkspots.blogspot.ca/2016/10/christmas-series-2016-day-2-december.html

The image is just absolutely beautiful. I created a page for my December Daily album with it and the page just went together so quickly. It was such a pleasure to create. I pulled the color palette directly from the Whimsy Paper pack and I LOVED that I had enamel dots that exactly matched the paper. I also loved the delicate look of the snowflake that I was able to create out of glittered paper using one of Whimsy’s beautiful snowflake dies.

Meet Our Creative Team - Becky

1.)    If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why?  Get In Line, Hand-Stitched Rectangles die set, and enamel dots.  I could use these on every card if I could!  You can do SO MANY backgrounds with Get In Line, and the rectangles dies make the perfect panel!
2.)    If you could have a super power, what would it be? The ability to conjure money out of thin air so I can buy as many crafty supplies as I want to. 
3.)    List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you? I’m a teacher-turned-administrative-assistant by trade, my hubby is a two-time cancer survivor, and I eat a gluten-free diet. Unfortunately.
4.)    What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium?  My favorite color combo is aqua, kraft, and red, and since I’m a total poser when it comes to coloring, I do like copic markers.  It does a lot of the work for you and makes you look better than you might be!
5.)    If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be? Doughnuts, pizza, and cinnamon rolls, yum!
6.)    What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team? Denise is so kind and flexible, and my teammates are extremely talented!
7.)    What challenges you when stamping/crafting?
 My biggest challenge is time.  Years ago, I stamped almost every day, and now I’m lucky if I manage once a week.  A challenge that goes along with not having as much time as I want to stamp is that the mojo disappears quickly the less time you exercise it!

The reason I chose the card I’m attaching is that it turned out how I imagined it, and I love the soft colors and how the images all layer.

Meet Our Creative Team - Kerys

Hi! My name is Kerys and I moved to the USA from the UK in 2010. I was never a crafter of any kind until I moved here. I used to be a teacher of young children with Autism, and so I guess you could say I had an arty background. I began scrapbooking, but was then introduced to cardmaking, which quickly became my love and passion. I find the coloring, design and crafting very therapeutic and calming in a crazy family life.

If you could have a super power, what would it be?
To stop time. That way, all the household jobs and chores could wait while I had unlimited crafting time.

What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium?
I love working blues and greens. I use prismacolor pencils for all of my coloring. I have tried to use copics, but it just ends up looking like a 2 year old has done it! Linda tried to teach me how to use zig markers at the last Whimsy retreat – that wasn’t much more successful, but I’m still practicing!!

If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be?
Chocolate, Bacon and Coffee (that’s a food group right??!!)

What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team?
It’s such a fun and supportive group of ladies, led by the sweetest, most generous person ever. I love having a sneak peek of the products coming up for release, and being given the opportunity to showcase them for everyone. We really are given free rein on what we create and how we use the products – it allows out individual styles to shine through.

What challenges you when stamping/crafting?
I could never get the hang of stamping properly! I always ended up smudging the images or not stamping the whole image in one try. The misti has been a life saver for me! I also struggle with choosing color combinations  for images and cards – that often takes me more time than actually making the card.

My favorite Whimsy Creation:
This was super hard to choose! I love so many of the images, but anyone that knows me knows that I just LOVE Crissy Armstrong’s penguins. This is one of my favorite images, with the penguins dressed up in costumes. The layout just came together with Halloween papers, twine and punches I had at home. And I actually got my coloring and shading right! Lol!

Meet Our Creative Team - Faye

Hi, I'm Faye and I have been on the Whimsy Stamps Design Team for over two years. It is a completely fab family to be a part of. As well as being addicted to Copics (and choklit), I'm Wife, Mum, Obsessive Colourist, and E-mail/ Facebook/ Instagram/ Pinterest/ Blog Stalker. How do I fit all that into a day? Simples. I run on Fairy Dust. Yep, sense of humour features in here too. When I’m not doing any, or all of the above, you’ll find me daydreaming about doing them. I've burnt the dinner on many occasions because of it!

1.)    If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why?  From Me to You. I ADORE this image and I use her in quite a few of my classes because she is fab for beginners, or you can go a bit fancy with her if you feel more confident. FaDoodles and FaDoodles Too. I’m a little bit proud of these.  Have you seen the new fairies? Oh. My. Word! Is that a good enough reason?

2.)    If you could have a super power, what would it be? Flash. I’d be him. You know the chap who runs around really, reeeeeeaaaaaalllly fast? I think that would be handy and might help me fit 36 hours into 24…

3.)    List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you? My favourite colour is yellow, but I find it hard to use in my work. I don’t like choklit ice cream. Try taking away my choklit though… I am painfully shy. I’ve just got very good at pretending!

4.)    What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why? Scripty Occasions. I love this sentiment set as it covers pretty much everything and I love the font too. It’s the set I always reach for if I find myself in a bit of a sentiment tight spot!

5.)    What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium? Oh. No Fair! You’d get a different answer every day. But my medium is Copics. Ok, I’ve been using a lot of red recently (I wonder why!) and my current fave is; R43, R35 and R37. Or is it R22, R14 and R24? Ummmmm…

6.)    If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be? Cake. Biscuits. Choklit. My dentist LOVES me!

7.)    What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team? Working with Denise, who is awesome and the super talented design team.

8.)    What challenges you when stamping/crafting? I love colouring. But I don’t always love making cards. I struggle with that part, which is why my cards are so clean and simple. It means I can get back to colouring.

It's too hard to choose one favourite Whimsy card, (tooooo many gorgeous images!) but it's my favourite one at the moment. I think you could look at this card and know I had made it. And I'm pretty pleased with how the colouring on kraft went.

Meet Our Creative Team - Michelle

I am a Texas girl that loves raising Miniature Donkeys, Dwarf Nigerian Goats. With pet Chickens, Cats and Dogs. I am married to my best friend happily for over 30 years, who is my biggest supporter in my crafting. We are Antique Dealers to try and support us and our animals and love to repurpose and restore antiques.


1.) If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why? I love Whimsy Dies - they always work perfectly and have great details to them. I am addicted to Enamel Dots... a decade ago it was buttons for me, then came along these adorable self adhesive Enamel Dots. They are like Candy for your projects! And I of course have to say the STAMPS... so many styles and such beautiful image from great artist. You just fall in love over and over!

2.) If you could have a super power, what would it be? Wow that is hard. To blink and clean the house? Then I could have more time to stamp and color? I probably should say to have world peace, but a clean house would start world peace in my little world.

3.) List 3 things someone would be surprised to learn about you? hmmm. I am usually a pretty open book. One - I would rather stay home than go most places, I love my farm and being there with my animals. Two - My husband and I are usually always together, and I am sad when he is gone. We have worked together most of our married life, I really love that. Three - I am not the most organized person. Now that wouldn’t surprise you if you visit. But between the animals and the antique business - things pile up around our place. Sadly my Husband is as bad as I am.

4.) What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why? I guess that would be what is my favorite stamp... It leans on my craft desk in its original package as a little piece of art. “Pin the tail Donkey” ... yeah I know shocker there huh?

5.) What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium? I lean towards my Copics 99% of the time. Combos.. it is a mood thing. I love Pinks with Brown and in Spring Greens with Purples... But then again I do love the country feel of Reds/Blues/Browns.

6.) If you had to survive on just 3 foods, what would they be? Mexican Food of any kind. Mongolian Beef is a top favorite and sadly I love cookies... Not the best for loosing weight for sure!

7.) What do you like most about being a member of the Whimsy Creative Team? My favorite part is simply the honor of being a member of one of the most talented group of ladies and working with the best stamps that come out.

8.) What challenges you when stamping/crafting? Trying new things. Especially when life gets busy - I hate to fall in a comfortable place and do the same thing over and over. I do love Clear and Simple cards but don’t think I pull it off like others do.

Meet Our Creative Team - Bridget

Hi I’m Bridget and I’m now coming up to my 4th year with Whimsy stamps and have been crafting since early 2000’s.  Which is when Create and craft first aired in the UK, Scary…
I Love crafting, exercising and walking my 2 beautiful Alaskan malamutes, Pandora and Dexter, who make me laugh out loud at least 3 times a day and they are always company for me when I’m alone crafting, lying at my feet.

1)    If you had to choose, what would your top 3 favorite Whimsy products be and why?  (1) The red rubber stamps, because you always get a good clean impression. (2) The Whimsy digital stamps because they are cute and there is a lot to choose from. (3) Whimsy ‘shapeology’ dies, because they always give a crisp cut.

2)    If you could have a super power, what would it be? I would love to have loads of superpowers but I would have to settle for Super speed, aka, ‘The Flash’

3)    What Whimsy stamp or stamp set could you not live without and why? Crissy Armstrong and Wee Stamps Collections, they are so diverse because you can use them for any age, plus there is such an amazing selection to choose from.

4)    What is your favorite color combo and favorite coloring medium? Purple, Copics

5)    What challenges you when stamping/crafting? Finding inspiration, especially at the beginning of the year and card layouts.

My Favourite stamp/project.
Is Wee stamps Freddie.  First he is the cutest little dragon and also I love how the colours have blended together, it was one of those days, when everything was coming together perfectly and one of the few pieces I’m happy with, because I’m normally super critical of my own work.