Special Guest - Esther Asbury

 

Today we welcome Esther Asbury back to the Whimsy blog.

  

Hello friends. Esther Asbury here with another guest design post for Whimsy Stamps. This time I created a sweet little winter scene using their adorable Tweetie Pie stamp set and one of their stencils and dies. 

I colored those adorable images from Tweetie Pie with watercolor markers and fussy-cut them.  I blended the background with Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Oxides and then applied Glitter Snow through the Twinkle Stencil.  To frame my images, I die-cut the Connected Rectangle Frame Die from black cardstock.

Thank you, Esther, for this beautiful inspiration!  To see more of Esther's work, you can follow her on her blog or Instagram.

 

Tuesday Tutorial with Andrea

 Hi, Whimsy friends!  It's Andrea with you today, and I'm taking a break from Christmas crafting to share a fun, colorful, birthday card with you.

Have you checked out the Retiring Products section of the shop?  There are some fabulous products in it, including the Happy Sky stamp set I've used, and everything is 60% off!  I love a good deal, and that is an amazing one!  Hurry, though, because supplies are limited.

I started by stamping those adorable images from Happy Sky in black and colored them with my Copics.  I have listed all of the colors I used at the end of this post.  Once I was finished coloring, I cut  out the images with the coordinating dies (retired).

To create my background, I blended a panel of white cardstock with the following colors of Distress Oxides: Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet, and Blueprint Sketch.  I went back and forth between the colors, allowing them to overlap a bit, to achieve a (mostly) seamless blend.  After I was finished blending, I splattered Shimmer Spritz all over the background.

I die-cut the Slimline Wonky Window 1 Die from white cardstock and trimmed my ink-blended panel to size.  After adhering the frame to my panel, I white heat-embossed a sentiment from Magical Birthday Wishes.

I adhered my framed panel to a white card and arranged my colored images on top with foam tape. I finished the card with a scattering of Crystal Stars Sparkletz.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Copics:

Clouds - N0, N1, N3

Giraffe Balloon - YR21, YR24, E50, E51, E53, E55, E57, E59, 

BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y18,

RV02, RV04, RV06, RV09, V15, R35

Zebra Balloon - E51, E53, E55, W1, W3, R11, R20, Y11, Y13,

Y15, Y18, R32, R35, R37, R49, RV02, RV04, RV06, RV09

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Our Wonderful Whimsy Digital Guest Designers of 2020

 Hey there Whimsy friends,
I'm delighted to be here today, to share with you,
the awesome line up of fabulous Digital Guest Designers
that we had share their talents with us in 2020.

We started off the year with the lovely

Jennie Davis Amaker

In February, we had the wonderful

Madeleine Scrapkonst Palomaa

In March, we had the fabulous

Saskia van den Berk

In April, we had the awesome

Dina Davids

In May, we had the fantastic

Wenche Wold

In June, we had the lovely

Wendy Peterson

In July, we had the wonderful

Cathy Arenzana

In August we had the fabulous

Maaike Uijthoven

In September we had the awesome

Eva Schoch

In October, we had the fantastic

Tammy Bowlus

Rounding out our Digital Guest Designing year

in November, we had the lovely

Marlies van Es

(Click on any of the images above to pop them up full size)

Thank you to each and every one of you for your beautiful contributions

as Digital Guest Designers for Whimsy Stamps this year.

Your creations were inspiring and stunning!

The Divas will be back next week with a round up of our December designs.

So be sure to pop back and check those out!

Wishing you all a magical and beautiful Christmas

and New Year full of fabulous and fun crafty adventures.

Thanks for sharing this year with us here at Whimsy Stamps!

Hugs from me and all the Digital Design Divas