Friendship Knows No Distance

Hi all!! It's Ellen here for you today. The elegant phrase stamps ("From A Friend") from the shop is one of my favorites from current clear release. I just had to make a card with a matching envelope with them.

I started to make a backgroudn with dies and distress ink. After that, I colored the bunny ("Baby Animals" stamp set) and his hearts in similar bold colors and had cut them out with the coordinating dies. The words where embossed with a light blue embossing powder. At the end I glued down my complete scene on the card base and I embossed with an embossing plate.

I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

Mother's Day Card

Hello!! It's Ellen here with a post.

In a few days we celebrate the kindness of our mothers with Mother's Day. Of course I needed to make a card with the Mom's Layered Flowers. Because I like to combine stamp sets I ended up using the Hedgehugs stamp set too.

How did I make the card? With some masking I could start to layer some stamps on top of each other in the circle. After coloring was done (with copics), I had cut the brown background piece. I embossed the sentiments from both sets on that brown background. To cover up a little bit of the white gab on the circle, I sprinkled some red en gold sequins on top of the card. The bow is an extra thing on the card; something I love to do lately.

The sentiments and that little bug on top of the flowers make
the card so cute in my opinion; What do you think?

Sharing a ride in the Moonlight...

Happy Tuesday Everyone!! I hope all is well with you and you are having a good beginning to your week.  Today I have the honor of sharing some of my Whimsy creations with you.

My first creation is one I made for yesterday's blog hop using the new Moonlit Ride image illustrated by Crissy Armstrong.  She has such talent and her images are a so much fun to color. If you have not seen the creations on the hop, you still have time to join us.  The start of the hop is here.  This hop will last until next week Monday, July 26 at noon EST until Monday July 26th at noon EST.

And of course, for joining us, we have a special blog hop prize of all six stamps being released this week. All you need to do is leave a comment on each of the blogs and enter your name for the random drawing at the end of the hop!!

My second creation uses the fun Whimsy dog and sign image and Ruff Day sentiments.  The dp is from Basic Grey Max and Whiskers.

 Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you have enjoyed my creations.

Have a great day!!

Featured Stamper - Noela and Deb

Good Morning!

Happy Saturday! Sorry I missed our featured stamper post last week, I got so busy that I totally forgot! I hope to make up for it today by sharing a couple featured stampers with you!

First we have Noela! Noela's husband Steven recently emailed me with a card Noela created using Shy Ann from our Mythical Rubber Stamp Collection. I was touched that he cared so much about Noela and her design that he wanted me to see. Now that's one wonderful hubby! And Noela's card is beautiful and shiny and all things girlie!

I love the pretty purples and pinks and all that glitter! This card sparkles perfectly! Thanks to Noela and Steven for sharing this fun and sparkly card with us!

Next we have Deb of Deb's Creations! Deb is also one of our Whimsy Stamps retailers and the owner of Deb's Creations. She carries a huge variety of crafty goodies in her online shop based in Australia!

Deb has created these two fun cards using 2 of Whimsy's very first rubber stamps....

Whimsy Duck 

Whimsy Turtle

Both of these stamps can be found in our Animals Collection in our shop. The papers and layouts are both fabulous and I love the pretty details on each of these cards! Thanks for sharing with us Deb!

We hope you have a wonderful and maybe even whimsical weekend! If you would like to be a featured stamper here at Whimsy, please contact us to share your Whimsy Stamps creations!

Happy Stamping!

It's a Jungle Out There

Good Morning!

Hope you're having a great week! I'm here today to share some Whimsy creations with you. I have a new creation and a couple oldies but goodies too....and it's a jungle out there! Hope you like this "wild" post!

Birthday Card using Whimsy Lion....

Hang in There using Whimsy Monkey....

For You using Whimsy Giraffe....

Wild About You using Whimsy Monkey, Giraffe, and Lion....

Each of these stamps can be found in our Whimsy Stamps online shop in the Whimsy Animals Collection. Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you have a "wild" day too!

Happy Stamping,

Sharing Some Whimsy

Happy Friday All!

This is just a quick post to share some Whimsy with you! If you have some Whimsy to share with us, be sure to let us know by leaving a comment. We'd love to see your Whimsy too!

Card by GDT Marley - using Whimsy Frog

Card by artist Crissy Armstrong - using Maya Blowing Bubbles

Have a great Friday!

Belated Masculine Birthday

Good morning all!!! And a very happy Tuesday to you. Today I would like to share a masculine card I made for my nephew using the adorable Whimsy Turtle and the Whimsy Circle Postmark sentiment set. I thought since I was fashionably late for his birthday it would be very appropriate to use a SLOW turtle. Isn't he just darling.


I colored my image in with water colors and distressed all the edges on my card. The layout uses today's Midnight Madness Sketch challenge. The dp is Basic Grey Marakech. I added some stitching with some thicker thread to make it more masculine.

My Whimsy dt sister, Debbie E. also asked many of us at Whimsy to be guest at today's challenge at Spoon Full of Sugar as well since Whimsy is the sponsor this week. What fun!! Today's challenge there was to create a birthday card. This is my entry for this challenge. For more inspiration from several of my Whimsy dt sisters for this challenge, please visit: Debbie, Erin, Sue, Ann, Denise, Simonne, Marley and Rowena.

Have a great day!

Chris

Featured Stampers - Kim and Elaine

Good Morning!

Happy Saturday to you! I hope your weekend if off to a great start! Happy Easter to all who plan to celebrate. My kids are eagerly awaiting Mr. Easter Bunny!

Today is Whimsy's Featured Stamper day here on the Whimsy Inspirations Blog! And I have two cards to share with you from two very talented crafters.

First is Kim Dellow of Crafty Makes with her card using Whimsy Giraffe...

I love all the fun layers and the hand made flowers Kim has created on this card. The image is beautifully colored and the papers work so well with this design. To read more about how Kim crafted this card, please click HERE.

Next we have a card from Elaine Hughes of Quixotic Cards. I've known Elaine for some time now and her creations are always gorgeous. Elaine is also the owner of Quixotic Paperie, one of our Whimsy retailers. Elaine created this beautiful card using Whimsy Frog...

I just love Elaine's coloring, it's beautiful and really makes this froggie pop off the page! Love the pretty papers and attention to detail too. To read more about how Elaine created this card, please click HERE.

Thanks to both Kim and Elaine for their beautiful Whimsy creations!

Happy Stamping,

Just Hangin' Around!

Thank goodness for Thursdays! Just one more day until the weekend :)

Today I have a card to share using the oh-so-cute Whimsy Monkey!  I made this card for my niece who's going to be turning five soon and I'm sure she'g going to love this little guy.  How can you not with those sweet eyes and that that funky hair style?

Make sure to check back soon because we've got a lot of things happening at Whimsy Stamps including the introduction of a new line of digital stamps!  We will have a good mix of images from Katie and Crissy as well as some sentiments, too.  You are going to LOVE them!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful week so far! See you again soon!

Froggie for Your Monday

Good Afternoon All!

Hope you've been having a great Monday! I tried to post a card earlier, but Mr. Blogger was giving me trouble. So I posted a little news instead. Now I'm back to try again.

I'll be quick as my last post was rather long....

This is a card using Whimsy Frog, one of our very first Whimsy Stamps products. I just adore his sweet smiling face.

I went with some fun Lime Rickey papers from BasicGrey with different shades of green card stock. Then I embellished with flowers and ribbons and buttons.

This card fits the challenges at:
Quixotic Challenges: Monochromatic
Creative Card Crew: Going Dotty

Thanks for coming on by again today. I hope you have a nice afternoon. Join us here tomorrow for another fun Whimsy creation!

Happy Stamping,

Featured Stamper Saturday

Happy Saturday All!

Wow, what a great week! The sun was shining and the weather is finally warming up and Spring starts today! I hope you've had a nice week where ever you are! A big thanks to all the Whimsy DT gals for their hard work on our latest release and blog hop. We hope you are all enjoying the daily inspirations they are posting here on our new blog.

Today we are giving the DT a rest to showcase a couple projects from some Whimsy fans. This week we have two Featured Stampers! First, we have Marlene of Disguised as a Grown Up, and her card using Pretty Peartunia from the Whimsy Mythical Collection.

Marlene colored this image beautifully and really captured the fun of the image itself. Love the pretty papers and accents too. And, if you need a giggle be sure to visit her blog and read her post! She's quite the funny lady!

Next we have a card made by Piali of Touch of Creation, using Whimsy Pet Friends from the Whimsy Animals Collection. Piali created this card for a challenge which Whimsy recently sponsored. I think she did a great job bringing these sweet little friends to life.

I love the layout and fun papers and of course that sentiment is just perfect with this image. To read Piali's post, you can click here.

Whimsy would like to thank both Marlene and Piali for sharing a bit of Whimsy with all of us! We hope you will both grab the code from our sidebar, for the our Featured Stampers badge, to display on your blogs.

Have a great weekend everyone! Happy Stamping,

Nostalgia, Summer Days and a Duck!

Happy Friday everyone!

I'm a sentimental old soul, and so I thought it would be nice to share with you some of my Whimsy nostaligia today! :o)  September 2009 was a very special month for me, because it was the month I received an email from Denise inviting me onto the Whimsy DT!!  Of course I immediately replied with a very loud "YES"...accompanied by some air-punching and general leaping around in excitement! LOL!  Wind forward to today, and March represents my 6th month of being on the Whimsy DT!  I am having the BEST time, and I cannot thank Denise and the rest of the team enough for all the fun, laughter, support and friendship!!

So I'd like to share with you a couple of my very first Whimsy creations, and dedicate them to Denise and my wonderful team mates!

Summer Day Emma

Whimsy Duck

Have a FAB day everyone!

Hugs,

Always On My Mind

Hello All!

I am so honored to be a Guest Designer for Whimsy Stamps this month. Don't you just love all the fun images that Whimsy has to offer. The very first time I saw this cute Whimsy Frog I knew I had to get it. He is just the sweetest thing. I think he looks like he is deep in thought. Thinking about something that makes him smile.

I colored him with copics and then cut him out. I decided to embellish him with a handmade flower. You can make your own by simply layering various sized circles of paper. I distressed mine a bit for some texture. The leaves in the back were cut out of card stock vellum and then colored with copics for a hint of color. I believe my paper is by My Mind's Eye. Almost everything is a leftover scrap so I'm sorry I can't be more specific. I used a rub on for my sentiment and cut it out with a horizontal punch.

Well, that's it for me today. Thanks so much for popping in!

Nikki

T-wit T-woo ...

Happy Whimsical Wednesday everyone! This is my first post here at Whimsy Inspirations, and I don't mind admitting that I'm a teeny, tiny bit nervous, LOL! Today I would like to share with you my latest Whimsy creation which is also my DT card for this week's Sketch Saturday Challenge.

It's my dad's 65th birthday this week, and so of course I had to make him a special card! Whenever I need to make male cards, the first images that pop into my mind are the fabulous Whimsy Animals Collection stamps. I find that everyone in my life (whether they be female or male) adore these funny images!!

I chose this orange/brown/cream colour combo after leafing through my Basic Grey 'Mellow' 6x6 paper pad (an oldie, but a goodie!). [I apologise if the colours are weird - we had a power outage last week when the PC was on, and ever since then we have a pink tint to the screen!!!!]. The colour combo and the sketch just sang out "Whimsy Owl" to me!

I also used the "Happy Birthday 2 U" stamp from the fabulous Whimsy Circle Postmarks stamp set, designed by Raindrop Echo Designs. Whimsy have 2 of these circle postmark stamp sets, and I have to say they are by far my most favourite sentiment stamps! I stamped the circle postmark twice, cut out an inner circle from one image, flipped it over, chalked around the edges, wrote the number "65" in the middle, and then stuck it over the "2 U" of the other image!

Well, I think that's about enough from me, LOL! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Whimsy's Sweetness and Love challenge!

Posted by Vicki Parson (Whimsy DT coordinator/Sr. Designer):

Hello friends and welcome to our new Whimsy Inspirational blog!  You may already be familiar with Whimsy Stamps.  Weather or not you are, you will want to grab your cup of coffee every day to sit, enjoy the blog and become inspired with the fabulously talented Whimsy Design Team as we share daily creations and lots of inspiration with you!  We hope that you will enjoy this blog as your creative place to explore everything Whimsy and we are very excited to be bringing it to you!

So please enjoy and come back for more! :) 

 

He's such a cutie pie, isn't he?!!  He's the Whimsy Dog & Sign from Whimsy Stamps!   (Here's your sign!)

And if you haven't been in the Whimsy store lately...what are you reading this sign for anyway?!!  GET OVER THERE and check out some new products just added to the store!!  They have some brand new ADORABLE charms!!  (looks like I need to do some shopping myself!)  They have some really sweet charms and even little paw prints that would work wonderfully with this image!! ;)  **Don't forget that when you spend $50 or more, you will receive FREE shipping!**

I've created this card today for the new Whimsy Stamps challenge on the SNR Whimsy Group that started today!  Denise is asking us to make something that resembles "Sweetness & Love"...and if you don't have a Whimsy Stamps image to use, there's a free digi you can download to play along with us!!  So  hop on over there and check it out!!  We'd love to see you using your Whimsy Stamps!! :)

For my card I decided to break out some of the unloved designer papers that I've been hoarding.  I think he looks adorable with the dew drop hearts I've got above his head and on top of the dimensional flower center.  I've also combined this Whimsy Dog & Sign with the Whimsy Ruff Day Sentiments and the Whimsy Simply Said Sentiment sets.  I think it makes for a really sweet Valentine for someone special!! :)