Special Guest - Waleska Galindo

Hello, Whimsy friends!  Today we welcome the talented Waleska Galindo to the blog!

Hello Friends!!! Waleska Galindo here from craftinglovew. I'm super happy today to be sharing with you my first project for this month as Guest Designer for Whimsy Stamps. I have been a fan of their amazing products for a long time, and I am very honored to be guest designing today!  For my first card I used the cute and funny stamp set "Ants at a Picnic". I mixed this set with the Slimline Meadow Die set to create a fun and relaxed summer scene.

CARD DETAILS:

To create this card I started by die cuttting the Slimline Meadow die set from white cardstock, I then ink-blended this front panel with the new distress ink Rustic Wilderness, I also ink-blended another panel to create the sky for the scene also with distress inks in colors Kitsch Flamingo and Mustard Seed. I love these two colors together for summer. I splashed some water drops for more texture.

I then colored the cute ants with tri-blend markers in colors Dark Red blend, Bright Pink Blend, Citrus Blend and Jade Green blend.  I started creating this fun scene by placing the first two ants into the grass to make them look like they are having fun eating and enjoying a summer day, I love this slimline die set because you can put almost any image into the grass and make it look like part of the scene.

I adhered the sky panel and the flying ant into the scene with 3D foam tape.  I also added some clouds from the Slimline Meadow die. I finally glued this panel to a slimline kraft cardstock cardbase and stamped the sentiment in the corner of the card.

I had so much fun creating this card. I hope you can be inspired to create some fun summer cards and remember to stay safe and stay crafty! Hugs!!!

Tuesday Tutorial with Lauren

Hello! It’s Lauren from the Whimsy Stamps Video Team and I’m excited to change up my tutorials from video to blog post. Today I have for you a slimline card mixing in an older stamp set with some new dies.

I wanted to create a card that used the new Slimline Cloud Die that was just released with the Slimline Meadow Die that was released last month and partner those with the adorable Camping Dragons stamp set.

I die cut the Slimline Cloud Die twice - once with kraft paper where I cut out all of the clouds so I just had the border and second with some grey paper to make dark clouds. I used some Distress Oxide in Mustard Seed on the top of the clouds to give the effect they are glowing from the moon and the bottoms of the clouds with Blueprint Sketch to blend in with my night sky. It doesn’t matter if the ink got on the boarder of the die cut as this will be covered. I cut out any clouds that would be covered by my second slimline die cut.

For my ground, I die cut the Slimline Meadow Die out of some green cardstock, trimmed it down so that I only had bushes and used Rustic Wilderness to create shadows. I left the area where I was going to place my campfire alone with the Rustic Wilderness because I brought back in Mustard Seed to create a glow where my campfire was going to go.

For the night sky, I cut a piece of dark blue cardstock to 3.25 x 8.25 inches and distressed the area that will show behind the clouds with Blueprint Sketch and splattered some white paint and shimmer sprays to create a night sky look.

Once all of my dressing was done, I layered everything onto a card base of kraft paper that was cut to 7 x 8.5 inches and scored to create a card base of 3.5 x 8.5 inches. I glued the blue cardstock to the card base in the center, then layered on the grey cloud die cut, followed by the green ground die cut and finally the kraft border die cut.

I stamped my images from the Camping Dragons stamp set in an alcohol marker friendly black ink and used my Spectrum Noir Illustrator markers to color in the images; I will list out all of the colors at the end of this post. I made sure to use a yellow along the edges of my images where they would be facing the fire to create a look of light glowing onto the critters. Once colored, I cut along the black edge of my dragon and frog sitting, the campfire and the opossums in the tree branch. I used some thin foam squares to adhere them to the card. 

After everything was placed, I stamped “Enjoy the adventure” using a pigmented black ink (to make sure I get a good stamp coverage without having to re-stamp) and glued on some clear stars from my Sparkletz embellishments.

I hope you like this slimline card and try mixing and matching old with new Whimsy Stamps Products!

Spectrum Noir Illustrator Colors:
CR7, BO4, GY1, GY3, GY4, DH1, DG2, DG3, AG3, GT2, GT3, BT3, BT6, TB1, IG2, IG6, BGR1, BGR3, GB2, EB2, EB3, EB6, FS8, TN3

Tuesday Tutorial with Michele

Hello Whimsy Friends! 

Michele here! I have a couple of cards to share with you using some of Whimsy's  Slimline dies. (Slimline Stars and Slimline Hearts) I am a pretty literal person, and tend to use products in the way that they were originally intended. I love the look of these when used as actual dies, but I thought it might be a fun change to use them as an embossed image instead. :)

When running through your embossing machine, you want the die on the bottom, cardstock on top of it.

Place your rubber mat over the paper/die.  You may have to "loosen" up your die cutting machine, as this is pretty thick.  I crank it through twice, to get a deep impression.

 

This is the result.  I love the texture it gives!!

I decided to use Whimsy's adorable Slimline Birthday Scallops Die.  I cut the candles with various colors of card stock and gave them a bit of ink blending for some added depth.

 

I popped up the candles using 3D Foam Squares. 

I used the insides of the candles for a confetti background.  Added a bit of ribbon, flowers and leaves from the Build-a-Pumpkin Patch Die set. 

The sentiments are part of the Simple Sentiment Strips Clear Stamps.  They were stamped with Versamark and heat embossed in white. 

Here's another card using the Slimline Hearts Background Die.  I adhered the embossed panel over grey card stock and added the Smile sentiment and a few flowers from the new Slimline Meadow Die set. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

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