Stuck on You Cactus

Hello!

I have a simple layered card to share with you today using the cute and pretty 

Fairy and Puppy rubber stamp.

I coloured this one all in Distress Ink markers as a bit of a change from Zigs and used some layers of patterned papers from my stash to match the colours to. 

These aren't at all my 'usual' colour choices but I love them and I actually think they suit the stamp very well.

The sentiment is from the the clear stamp set Polka Dot Fun which has a great selection of simple sentiments that don't take up heaps of room and are great on little 'badges'.

I've listed the products available in the Whimsy Store at the end of my post, along with links to take you directly to the items, just click on the pictures.

Thanks for visiting!

31 Nights of Halloween - Night 27: Treat Decorations

Happy & spooky Friday, it's Ellen here. Today it's my turn to show you something special. I didn't see some treat bags yet, so I thought that was the perfect moment show some ideas.

The first bag I will show you a craft bag that I decorated the bag with the "Boo to You" stamp set and the "Dracula I Compel You" stamp and dies set. The rectangle background was created with distress ink, water sprinkles and white ink. The grass did go further than the square (that's what I wanted). On top of the square I placed the sentiment and of course my cute witch. At the end I placed the bats.

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The second item is a tag for a glass jar. The little kitten from the "Boo to You" is just perfect for a little tag. The tag was made the same way as the craft bag.

I think this kitten is adorable and they go perfectly together as a witch-team, for sue when you use the same colors for their outfits.

I hope you enjoyed my little post and be sure to check out all the other fun posts.

Tilly Dancing

Hello!

It's Linda here with you today sharing a card made with the sweet little Tilly Dancing.

I coloured her with my Distress Ink markers, you can find the colours on my blog.

I fussy cut Tilly once I'd coloured her up and because that meant I lost the sparkles from her wand, I sort of added them back in with some bling.

I kept the colours subtle and delicate to suit the image. 

I also used the Hand Stitched Nested Rectangle dies on my card.

A bit of cheesecloth between the layers helps add a softness to the card.

That's all from me today, but stay tuned for lots of inspiration from the team!

Bunny Balloon Shaker

Hello!

It's Linda here with you today sharing a sweet little shaker card using the new Bunny Balloon stamp from Whimsy's Kirsten Winkelbauer collection.

I paired this with the Big Balloon Celebrations die set to add a fun shaker element and the balloon string and Celebrate sentiment are from the Big Balloon Celebrations clear stamp set.

The white rectangle is cut with one of the Hand Stitched Nested Rectangles dies.

That's all from me today, see you next time!

Braided Sweetie

Linda here and oh my, I'm running a little late. I did not realise it's already the 4th Saturday in the Month and my posting day on the Whimsy blog. 

To make matters worse I've been very busy trying to clear stuff in my spare room as I'm finally getting a craft room! Woohoo! It will still need to act as a spare room so it's definitely going to have to be adaptable storage etc.but at least it means I should have everything in one room instead of racing up and down stairs lol.

Anyway, I'm here now and sharing this pretty card made with a lovely stamp from our new artist 

Kirsten Winkelbauer

She's called Braided Sweetie, isn't she just so pretty?

I've coloured her with distress ink markers and if you would like to know more about this card, pop over to my blog here.

Right, back to sorting out storage!

Happy crafting!

Day 8 of Whimsy Stamps' Countdown to Christmas

Hello!

It's Linda here, swinging in on day 8 of our Countdown to Christmas. I hope you are enjoying all the fab makes my talented team mates have been sharing, and there's so much more to come. 

Today it's my turn and I made a little card with the adorable Snow Family from the Lee Holland collection.  Apart from the plain white and coloured cardstock, and the large shaped die to cut the card shape, everything on my card today is from Whimsy Stamps, so I've made a little list with links at the end of the post.

I coloured this sweet little family up with my distress ink markers.

If you would like to know the colours just pop across to my blog here.

I have to admit that I had this image stamped up and partially coloured for a while now, but just couldn't decide what I wanted to do with it. I originally thought I'd make a shaker card, but then I thought there wouldn't actually be very much 'shaker' visible behind my snow family, so I didn't.

I used some papers from the Winter Wishes pad and used some of the matching enamel dots as centres for my snowflakes.

I do have to say that in the light the geometric snowflakes all matched my colouring, but as by the time I'm home from work it's really dark here, it doesn't look that way on the photograph, my lovely violet snowflakes look more burgundy!

The little sentiment is from the Penguin Adventure clear stamp set, I thought it was perfect for this little group.

Lee Holland - Snow Family

Geometric Snowflakes Die

Winter Wishes 6 x 6 Pad

Winter Wishes Enamel Dots

Penguins Winter Adventure Clear Stamp Set

That's all from me today but you can find more inspiration here every day in the run up to Christmas!

Cupcake Treat

Hello! Linda with you for some inspiration today.

It's no secret that I love Sylvia Zet's sweet images. Honestly if I had the time I would colour every one of her stamps up as soon as they were released, but with work and other commitments sometimes I have to wait till I can get them on a card.

I adore this sweet image called Cupcake Treat, it's totally sweet and lots of fun and perfect for all sorts of cards.
Today I've made a card in my more usual softly shabby style, and kept the colouring pretty light.

Coloured in my usual distress ink markers, I've mostly stuck to neutrals and pinks, though the pink is fairly bright to give it a little lift.

You can find the colours used on my blog.

I used some Wink of Stella on the wings, which you can just about see in the pic below, but it's so much more sparkly in real life!

Thanks for dropping by,

Moose Friends

Hello lovely crafters! Linda here with my turn to post on the blog and this time I've gone all CAS. This is not my usual style but I do love it when you want to send a quick card in the post and it really does seem to suit some images more.

This stamp, Moose Friends by Crissy Armstrong, appealed to me as soon as I saw it, it's just so fun and heart warming. I love the punny sentiments that come with it too and just had to use one of them on my card.

I coloured them up with my distress ink markers, (if you would like to know the colours just pop over to my blog here), to match these lovely papers. You're getting a bit of a sneak peek of these as they are being released next week!

I thought this would be perfect for sending to a couple for Christmas, but you could also send it to a loved one or from the 2 of you etc or just to a friend, the choices are endless depending on which sentiment you use.

That's it from me today, have fun!

Birdies on Corn

Morning all! Linda here with some inspiration today.

I have a quick make using Crissy Armstrong's Birdies on Corn stamp.

I coloured it with my distress ink markers and matched it to some pretty Galeria Papieru papers.

I cropped them and gave them a pretty background with some distress ink, a blending sponge and a home made acetate mask.

The fun sentiment was part of a gift from a blogging friend which I thought it was perfect for this image.

That's all from me today, until next time.

Happy crafting!

Mr & Mrs

Hi everyone! It's Linda here today and I'm sharing a wedding card I made with this delightful stamp from the Art by MiRan collection called Wedding Day.

I coloured it up with my distress ink markers to match some lovely vintage style papers and added a chipboard sentiment, but you could do something similar with a die cut if you have one.

I don't know about you but I seem to get a lot of requests for Wedding Cards this time of year, so it's good to have some made up! If you want more details, just pop over to my blog.

Have fun!

Emily

Hello lovely crafters, it's Linda popping by today with a little Wee stamps inspiration.

I've used a bit older stamp for my make today but just as lovely as the newer ones. 

This is Emily, she's very sweet isn't she? But then I say that about the whole Wee Stamps Collection, I just love the artist Sylvia Zet's lovely images, and they are a joy to colour.

I've coloured her in distress inks to match this beautiful brown and pink paper, and chose some pretty embellishments to co-ordinate. I think it has a lovely vintage feel to it.

That's all from me, enjoy your day!

Lee Holland - Elephant with Bouquet

Hi everyone. Linda here, I have another CAS card to share with you today, I'm really starting to like my CAS makes, but don't worry, I won't be abandoning my usual style.
This one is using the super sweet
Elephant with Bouquet
from Whimsy Stamps. I love Lee Hollands' animals, they are all so cute!
This card was featured in the new Whimsy Inspired e-Magazine. If you haven't checked it out, you really should, 50 pages of lushness and it's completely free!

First of all I stamped my image onto some water colour paper, this particular paper was a new try for me, but I wasn't happy with the way it took the inks so I won't be using it again, therefore I'm not listing it. I have another new one to try out in coming weeks so we'll see how that goes. I'm quite happy with my regular watercolour papers, but I like to try out new things now and then.

After colouring my image in with my distress ink markers, I cut it out with the largest die of Whimsy's new
Hand Stitched Nested Rectangles 
and then shaped the bottom with the stitched curve die from the
Stitched Border Die Trio

I cut out half of a rectangle out of a scrap of lime green design paper, and stamped the sentiment, (this is from an older whimsy set that's not available any more), with the same die I used for my image, sliding it underneath and filling in the missing part to make a full rectangle again, and mounted them both on a slightly larger rectangle of bright pink cardstock.

I mounted the whole thing with some adhesive foam tape on a a card base made with some plain white cardstock and measuring a quarter of an inch bigger than my pink cardstock.

Since this was a CAS card I embellished very simply with a few enamel dots I had in my stash and a little Wink of Stella on the butterfly wings (which of course doesn't show up in my photograph!).

I hope you liked my make for today, you can find more of my Whimsy makes on my blog.

Happy crafting! :) xx

Milly- Spring Helper

Hi everyone! Linda here again. I hope you've had a great week, mine has been super busy which is why I'm posting today instead of Tuesday.

Today I made a super cute vintage style card using the sweetest little girl from 

Elisabeth Bell's Little Cottage Cuties Collection. 

This is 

Milly - Little Spring Helper,

 and she was one of our new releases for January, I can't believe that we are already in February can you? Next week we will have more new release cuties for you, so stay tuned for those!

I coloured her with my distress ink markers, and you can find the colours used on my blog.

Using gesso and cheesecloth are great when you want to make your projects look vintage as well as choosing quite muted colours. Of course the right image really helps your projects look vintage and Elisabeth's Little Cottage Cuties are just perfect for that!

I hope you enjoyed my make for today, don't forget to keep checking back for all my fabulous team mates' wonderful designs.

Have a great weekend! 

Linda :) xx

Rudolph

Hello!! It's Linda here and I'm super happy to be joining the DT over here at Whimsy Stamps :)

To kick off my first post I'm sharing a Christmas card (yes, yes I know, but I was late making them so I'm late sharing them lol, besides you can never start too early on getting some made for this year right?!), made with Wee Stamps adorable little Rudolph.

I have to admit that I just fell in love with this little guy as soon as I saw him, I mean, how could you not? Isn't he cute? I just love Sylvia Zet's images, they are always super sweet.

I coloured him with my distress ink markers to match these pretty Kaisercraft papers - Silver Bells.

You can find the colours listed over on my blog.

I added some Glamour Dust to the bauble and bead, (I think this might have been meant to be a berry, but I wanted more sparkle!).

I don't have a photo of the inside of the card this time as I'd already written it out before I took photos duh!

Well that's all from me today, I do hope you enjoyed my make, I'm looking forward to sharing more with you in the coming weeks/months, (I've been playing with some of the new release stamps for January and I can't give anything away but I can say they are Fab-U-lous!)
Bye for now

Linda  :) xx