Giraffe Advice...

Happy Saturday lovely friends

Here's some advice from a Giraffe...

Stand tall

Eat fresh greens

Don't be afraid to stick your neck out

Preserve wild places

Be head and shoulders above the rest

Reach for new heights 

Keep your chin up

Fab advice isn't it!

Ingredients from Whimsy Stamps

Giraffe Rubber Cling Stamp by Jennifer Dove

Hand Stitched Nested Rectangle Dies

Other Ingredients

Kraft Card

Faber Castell Polychromos

Burnt Sienna 283, Burnt Ochre 187, Yellow Ochre 183

Black 199, Nougat 178

Earth Green Yellowish 186, Olive Green Yellowish

Vellum,

Emboss Pad and Back Embossing Powder

Paper Doily

Wooden Button and Twine

Be sure to pop to 

Whimsy Stamps Blog 

to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 

Whimsy Stamps 

to engage in some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by,

Happy creating! 
love from Sue...xxx

Baby Days Notebook

Hey there, welcome to a Digital Design Divas inspiration post. I am sharing with you today, a follow up to my previous inspiration post. This is 'part 2' of the gift I gave my sister and her hubby when their baby arrived. The first was of course, the 'new papa' card I shared with you recently and this time, I'd like to share the sweet baby diary I made for my sister, to record all her 'baby days' notes in. If you are a mama, you might recall the 'haze' that accompanies the baby days and how forgetful we become! So this wee diary is a great way to record and remember all those important little details... what the midwife said when she visited, which side you fed from last, that first sweet milky smile. 

This image is a beautiful one called Little Angel Mother from our fabulously talented digital designer Crissy Armstrong. I coloured mum and bub with my copics, which did you know you can buy right here at Whimsy Stamps now?! Love that!! I used a beautiful digital paper designed by Denise Lynn called Vintage Pink. It's so pretty and is another in the same set that I used on my previous post. I stamped a sweet sentiment directly on the pretty paper and edged the paper with distress ink before adding it to the notebook. LOVE these beautiful papers.

I used some pretty hessian wrap, a tag die behind the image and some cheesecloth for softness. A simple seam binding ribbon to finish the tag, some little ditsy flowers and the sweetest lil' rocking horse layered on kraft coloured foam finish this design. That sweet rocking horse is an older Whimsy Stamps die and was just perfect to finish this creation. It's no longer available, but there are so many gorgeous dies in the Shapeology range. Timeless designs, means maximum use from your stash! I LOVE my Whimsy dies. 

Here are the two creations together. They were very well received by my sister and brother in law. He was especially chuffed with 'his' card and my sis' has half filled her journal already! These images are just perfect for those 'new baby' creations. So look no further than our Digital Designs Library if you need that 'special' image. We've got it all. Thanks for stopping in to visit today. I'll be back again next month with another Digital Design Divas inspiration post. Hugs to you all and happy crafting xoxo

Day 17 of the Whimsy Stamps Countdown to Christmas

Eeeeps sweeties, I have another Christmas card for you. For this card I made a little snow scene with the "Led by Love" digital stamp, "Holiday Mini Sentiments" clear stamps and the "Bold Banners" dies.

I first made the background with distress ink with sprinkles of water and white/blue ink. The snowflakes on the background are made texture paste. After that I colored these two cute critters with my Copic markers. With a little glitter glue I finished the heart. At the end I cute out the flishtail banner and embossed a mini sentiment on it.

 I hope you loved this little winter wonderland.

DIY: Christmas Ornament

Hello creative peeps! It's Ellen here!! In this post I like to share how I made an ornament with my favorite Whimsy Stamps dies: Sketched Elephants & Brush Script Lowercase Alphabet. I would love to show you the tutorial below.

1. Cut two hearts and letters out felt with dies. Of course you can use other shapes (e.g. a star). In my explanation I talk about the heart.

2. Make words with your letters and glue them down on the heart. I use "Glossy Accents" for it.

 

3. Start to sew the two hearts together. I used white treat, I wish I had red, because I'm not the best at sewing (hihi)...

4. Fold the ribbon in half and sew it securely between the hearts.

 

5. When you're almost all the way around, stop and fill the heart with wimps. Sew your heart further and tie the string onto the start point from the starting point of the wire.

Here you can see how mine looks:

I think its super fun to make with kids.

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

Have Hopping Happy Holiday

Hello Whimsy Fans I have a tutorial for all 

you fine folk to follow today, it's to make a Gift Bag.

I found the tutorial on Pinterest, but for those of you who do 

not use Pinterest here goes.

You can use an A4 sheet of card or 12x12

its entirely up to you. Measurements for A4 Card

Card Length 11'card width 8 1/4 '

Portrait Score Lines are at 1 7/8' of an inch and 6 3/8' of an inch.

Landscape Score Lines 3/4 of an inch, 4 1/2 inches, 6 1/2 inches and 10 1/4 of an inch.

whilst you have your card on the landscape you will need to score a diagonal line

from the 4 1/2 and 6 1/2 line of 1 7/8 inches on both sides of your card as 

shown above, if you have scored and folded correctly you should end up with the picture below. You can now glue from the top to the diagonal score lines.

I would then pierce the holes for your handles and decorate the outside of the bag.

before popping the box into it's upright position and gluing, the sides will not stay up otherwise.

To decorate the outside of my bag I have used the absolutely adorable 

Christmas Bunny Stocking by Artist and Illustrator Crissy Armstrong

and Whimsy Stamps Shapeology Die Merry, I coloured the image with copics.

Have a lovely day Whimsy peeps, don't forget that the challenge will be going live

shortly, so why not have a go at making the bag for the Whimsy Challenge

Take care have fun..... Happy Crafting..

Hugs Bridget 

dream

Hello friends, Its Chitra here to share a card with you today!!

I have used Flowers in my Pocket for my card. Stamped it on Neenah cardstock and colored using copics. The dream die is from Whimsy Shapeology Dies. I added lots of glitter to the colored image.
Here is a close up..

Hope you liked my card. Thanks for stopping by!!

Hugs,

Chitra