Penguin's Present

Good Morning,

Happy Tuesday to you! Hope that you are having a great week. This is going to be a quick post to share a card and then I have to get back to work.

I've used the new Whimsy Stamps rubber stamp Penguin's Present from the Meljen's Designs collection. He's super cute with his little boots and hat as he's waddling on his way with his gift box. He makes a great holiday or birthday image.

I've used the beautiful new Marjolaine papers from BG and then stitched the edges on the sewing machine. I was going for a more masculine feel for this card so I kept the layout and embellishments simple. The image was colored with copics and then I used chalks to create the background. I added some glittery touches with Stickles and then finished off with a couple of buttons.

This card fits the challenges at:
Ellephantastic  - Christmas / winter
Alphabet - g for glitter
Mami Doodles - anything goes
Stampin With The Dragon  - make it sparkle
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - animals or insects
Fab 'n' Funky - Christmas for children
Inktegrity - non traditional holiday colors

Thanks for stopping by today. Please be sure to stop in on Thursday for a new Whimsy Stamps release and blog hop....it's for our NEW artist!

Have a great day!

Penguin's Little Letter

Morning!

Today is my day to post over on the Whimsy Inspirations Blog so I thought I would share a little sneak peek here and then have you visit the Whimsy blog to see the full card!

Hope you all have a great Tuesday!

Fisher Moose

Happy Tuesday All!

Hope your week is off to a good start. I actually had time yesterday to make some cards! Been a while since I had time for myself, so I really enjoyed it. Today over at Whimsy we have a special Meljen's Designs digital release. Melissa created some super cute images and sentiments in honor of her Dad and some of his favorite things!

I chose to make a card with this new image called Fisher Moose. He's adorable and perfect for masculine cards. I think I will send this one to my stepdad who is recovering from arm surgery. He's an avid fisherman and should appreciate this one!

 I colored the image with Copics and then distressed the edges and used a piercing tool to make the faux stitching. The papers are BG Oliver and have also been distressed. I accented with some eyelets and hemp twine and a fish charm. The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps Ticket Sentiments and I cut it out with the new Ticket Die.

This card fits the challenges at:
Gingerloft - great outdoors
Sew Many Cards - DIGI STAMP and blue & white
Stamp Something - use something digi
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - cards for men
Pixie Dust Studio - cards for men or boys
Freshly Brewed - 2 or more patterned paper
Simon Says Stamp - Prince Charming
Meljen's Designs: Food (worms are fish food and fish can be eaten)

Thanks for dropping by today. Hope you have a super Tuesday! I hope to have more crafting time and something else to share tomorrow. We shall see! lol

Christmas and Halloween

Happy Friday!

Boy these short weeks always overwhelm me! It's nice to have the extra day off, but I spend the rest of the week playing catch up. Hope you've had a good week. I'm looking forward to the weekend for sure!

Today is new challenge day over at Just Magnolia and Stamp Something. And I've chosen to make some seasonal cards for these challenges.

Just Magnolia

First up is my card for Just Magnolia. This week our challenge is a sketch by the talented Dawny P! It's a great sketch to work with so I hope you will give it a try too. Don't forget you also need to add a Magnolia image in there too.

I used Dawny's sketch for a holiday card with these pretty BG Jovial papers and some stitching and distressing on the edges. The image is the new Brother and Sister stamp and it has been colored with Copics and then cut out and popped up on foam tape. The circle behind the image has been embossed with a poinsettia folder from SU for the Big Shot. I've embellished with lace, ribbon, a charm, some flowers, and brads. The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps' Handmade Letter Seals.

This card also fits at:
7 Kids Challenge: Flowers and Layers
ABC Challenge: F is for Flowers
Simon Says: Recipe
Spoon Full of Sugar: Winter Wonderland
Die Cut Creams Christmas: Recipe

Stamp Something

Next up is my card for the challenge at Stamp Something this week. Keeping with the season, we would like to see your Halloween Somethings. This week we have Nikki from Bunny Zoe's Crafts as our sponsor!

I've used a sweet Meljen's Designs digital stamp called Ghost Cutie! He reminds me of those fun ghost lollipops we used to make for Halloween with Tootsie Roll Pops! Did you ever make those?

I colored the image and then framed with Oval Nesties. The papers are BG Eerie with SU card stock. I've kept this card pretty simple and only embellished with ribbons and sticky gems.

This card also fits over at:
Polka Doodles: Something Spooky

Be sure to check out the Whimsy Digital Team blog hop today at Noon EST starting over at the Whimsy Inspirations Blog! Lots of new digital images now available and just released today! Happy hopping!

Thanks for stopping on by today! Hope you have a great Friday and a fabulous weekend!

Adorably Spooky

Hi All!

Happy Thursday!  I have a quick post today to share a new card using some new Meljen's Designs Digital Stamps.

This card uses two images, Bibble Bubble Cauldron and a brand new released today image called Witchy Cat. Melissa has been releasing really fun Halloween images over the last few weeks so there are lots to choose from. I don't usually make too many Halloween creations, but these images are just too cute not to work with!

I started with some BG Eerie papers.. Then colored my images with Copics and added some stickle accents. The cauldron image has been framed with circle nesties and then the cat was cut out and popped up on foam tape. I've embellished with faux stitching dots, sticky gems, and ribbon, and stickles.

This card fits the challenges at:
Moving Along with the Times: Halloween
The Pixie Cottage: Stitching
Digital Tuesday: Sew Special

Thanks so much for dropping by today! Have a great day!

Halloween Fun

Happy Tuesday All!

So did you have a nice weekend? As always ours went by super fast. We didn't do too much, cleaned up around the house and hit Ikea for some organizational stuff for my stamp room and my son's bedroom. Then spent Sunday cleaning his room. It's amazing the stuff kids can accumulate. Needless to say he doesn't have as much stuff anymore!

I was busy this morning with work and getting orders in the mail, but I did have some time this afternoon to stamp a bit. I haven't stamped in days so it was nice to take the break and get crafty! I've created 2 cards for Halloween, both using digital stamps available at Whimsy!

The first one uses 2 new images from Meljen's Designs. The main image is the Country Star Pumpkin and then I cut out and popped up the cute Scaredy Cat image. I also added in one of Ann's Halloween Tickets, also available from our digital collection. 

I've used some old designer paper, not sure who makes this one with some black and purple card stock. Then used the layout from Friday Sketchers and framed my image with Circle Nesties. Both images were colored with Copics. The card was embellished with ribbons and flowers with pearl centers.

This card fits the challenges at:
Cupcake Craft: Spooky Creatures
Everybody Art: Halloween
Double Dutch: Boo to You
Meljen's Designs: Halloweeny

Next I have a card using a new digi from our artist Katie of Big Hug Creations. Katie has some fun and quirky images available in her collection and I just think this Witch's Broom is hilarious! I also added in some more of Ann's Halloween Tickets.

The papers on this card are BG Eerie and I've used the layout from Stamp with Fun. The image was colored with Copics and then sprayed with Glimmer Mist. I've embellished with flowers and sticky pearls.

This card fits at:
Papertake Weekly: 3 of a kind
Paper Romance: Halloween
Fussy and Fancy: Halloween

Thanks so much for stopping by today. If you are up for a fun blog hop and a chance to win some prizes, the Whimsy Stamps Meljen's Designs rubber release hop is still in full swing! You have until Friday to hop and enter for a chance to win some new rubber!

Have a great afternoon and evening. Hope to be back again soon!

School Time Bunny

Morning All!

I'm going to make this a quick post because it's almost time to pick my daughter up from school. Hope you have a fabby Thursday!

Today is new Meljen's Designs release day at Whimsy Stamps. Each Thursday Melissa adds more fun digital stamps to her growing collection! You can see all the new images HERE. I used the new image School Time Bunny and Little Chalk Board to make my Back to School themed card today.

I found these papers in my stash, not sure what brand they are, sorry. I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday and stitched the paper edges on the sewing machine. My images were printed out and then colored with Copics. I framed the chalk board with circle nesties and then cut out and adhered this sweet little bunny to the image. I've embellished with eyelets, flowers, ribbon, and some Scrabble game letters. This card also fits this week's Meljen's Designs challenge of Back to School!

Thanks for dropping by today. Hope you have a great afternoon!

Happy Stamping,

Ready for Some Football

Morning!

Hope your day is off to a great start. I know mine will be busy as usual, but before I get started I wanted to share a card I made for the new Meljen's Designs release. Melissa has created 5 more fun and fabulous new digital images to add to her Meljen's Designs digital collection.

The image I chose to work with for my card today is called Fall Ball Teddy Bear and he's all dressed and ready for some FOOTBALL! And since football season is upon us, he's perfect!

I decided to go for bright and fun on this card. I colored my image with Copics in reds and blues with a touch of orange to match these Cosmo Cricket papers. I've been wanting to try the little pennant banners and so I thought it was perfect on a football themed card. Super easy to make these, so I will be doing it again. Then I embellished with glitter and buttons. Pretty simple, but still fun!

This card fits the challenges at:
Paper Romance: Furry Friends
Cookin it up with Katie: Furry Friend, Button, Patchwork
Pollycraft: a little nature
Sentimental Sundays: Clean and Simple (maybe a stretch, but this is simple for me, lol)
Bee Crafty: Anything Goes
Meljen's Designs: Stripes

Thanks for dropping by today. Hope you have a wonderful day, stay cool! It's suppose to be almost 100 degrees here today....HOT!

Happy Stamping,

Another Bookmark

To enter my blog candy, please click HERE!

Hi There!

Hope you're having a nice day today. Today is new release day for the Meljen's Designs digital stamps at Whimsy Stamps. Each Thursday Melissa releases 5 more of her fabulously cute designs and this week she has created a great assortment for back to school projects!

I decided to use one of the new images, Little Book Worm, to create two thank you bookmarks for my son to give to his teachers. These are going to go in the little buckets of treats I shared on Monday this week. You can see that post HERE. Instead of making a card and a bookmark, I combined the idea and made a pocket card with the bookmark insert. Then my son wrote his message on the back of the bookmark.

The papers are some Riding Hood Red card stock from SU! with some Cosmo Cricket designer papers. I went with a primary color combination. I tied some black and white gingham ribbon and a button to the pocket and finished with the thankful ticket available at Whimsy Stamps. For the bookmark, I just printed and colored my image and then used more of the same papers and finished with a jumbo eyelet and some ribbons.

This bookmark fits the challenges at:
The Pixie Cottage: Fancy Fold
Going Grey Challenges: back to school
Incy Wincy: A Bugs Life
Sentimental Sundays: Anything Goes
Allsorts: Primary Colors

Thanks for dropping by today. I hope you have a great Thursday. See you all back here tomorrow for brand new challenge projects for Just Magnolia and Stamp Something.

Happy Stamping,

Teacher Gift

Morning!

Happy Monday! Too bad another weekend is already over, hope it was a fun one for you. We stayed busy and enjoyed the outdoors before the real humidity hit us again yesterday. Today is suppose to be another scorcher! Good day for the kids and the pool!

I saw the cutest teacher gift idea over on my sweet friend Crystal's blog the other day and I just had to CASE it! Crystal used a super cute Meljen's Designs image to make a perfect set of gifts for a teacher. My son is taking some summer fun classes and I wanted to give his teachers something to say thank you and thought this idea was perfect. And Crystal being Crystal (one of the nicest girls you will ever meet!) of course shared where she found the little box and I was lucky enough to find one too! BIG thanks Crystal!!

As Crystal did, I left the little box as is and then filled it with various trinkets perfect for a teacher. By the way, got everything at Target. There's a magnetic notepad, some pencils and a pen, a bottle of Purell, an altered little notebook that I used the fun Back 2 School Pencil image from Meljen's Designs on, then of course a candy bar (who doesn't want a bit of chocolate), stickers, post it notes, and some red shredded filler. The front was decorated with another of Meljen's Designs, this one is Teddy Bear ABC's and I added a couple ribbon tabs and a red ribbon bow to the side. Quick and easy little gift that was also inexpensive!

Now I just need to make a couple of cards and maybe a matching bookmark and these gifts will be ready for my son to give to his teachers on Thursday. Meljen's Designs has a great selection of Back to School images and I think there will be more to come too! So stay tuned! New Meljen's images are available each and every Thursday over at Whimsy Stamps!

Have a great Monday!

Happy Stamping,

Cute Card Thursday GDT

Hi All!

Happy Thursday to you! Today I have a card to share for one of my last weeks as guest designer for Cute Card Thursday. I have really enjoyed sharing in the challenges and being part of this amazing team and challenge blog all month long. This week we have a sketch challenge for you. Please follow the sketch to enter for the blog candy prize. You can flip it and/or rotate it, but please be sure the original sketch is visible.

For my card I used this sweet new image from Meljen's Designs called Brooke at the Beach, which released this morning at Whimsy Stamps. Melissa has created 5 fun new images for her weekly Thursday release, head on over to Whimsy and check them out.

 I went with a blue color combo and used these fun Magnolia Lazy Summer papers. I thought the clouds and stripes would be perfect on a beach themed card. I followed the sketch from CCT as it was and then embellished with shell themed brads, flowers, and a Ticket Sentiment from Whimsy. The image was printed on Neenah CS and colored with Copics.

This card also fits the challenges at:
Everybody Art: blue and white
Paper Take Weekly: Cutie Patootie

I also wanted to mention the "Sizzling Summer Sentiment Sale" going on at Whimsy right now. For the rest of July you can save 25% off on all of Ann's fabby digital sentiment sets. Please note this sale is for DIGITAL sentiments only! Stop over and check out the beautiful word art!

Thanks so much for stopping over today. I hope you have a great day and if you're up for a challenge head on over to CCT and join in!

Happy Stamping,

Donkey Smiles

Good Morning,

Happy Thursday, can you believe tomorrow is already Friday! This week has been super HOT here so not getting much done because of the heat, but have found some time to craft in the A/C.

Today I'm a guest designer over at Cute Card Thursday and thought I would combine that challenge with a card for Michelle Oatman.

If you've not heard about Michelle and her tragic accident, please visit the Spoon Full of Sugar blog. They are hosting a card drive in honor of Michelle and Whimsy Stamps is taking part by offering a FREEBIE image and sentiment set which can be downloaded from our shop page now. We are also sponsoring the drive with a prize. Be sure to check things out, there are lots of wonderful sponsors taking part and we hope to be able to flood Michelle's mailbox with lots and lots of well wishes from around the world.

This is my card for Michelle using the Meljen's Designs FREEBIE Sweet Donkey with the coordinating sentiments created by Ann Vento of Raindrop Echo Designs.

The challenge at CCT this week is School's Out. I was thinking summer time with this card and went with flowery papers and added lots of flower accents. The image was colored with Copics and then I added some glitter accents. The sketch is from this month's Whimsy Stamps Challenge and the papers are SU!. I've stitched and distressed the edges and framed my image with an Oval Nesties set. I embellished with pearls, flowers and chandelier drops, ribbon, hemp twine and a charm, and a Whimsy ticket sentiment with the Donkey Smiles FREEBIE sentiment.

This card also fits over at:
Crafty Pad: Animal Fun
Stampavie and More: Sparkling
Crafty Catz: Distressing
Quixotic Paperie: Pretty Pearls

Today is also new release day for the Meljen's Designs digital collection at Whimsy Stamps. Every Thursday Melissa will bring you new digital designs! Head on over and check out what she created for this week!

Thanks for visiting today! I hope you're staying cool! Have a great Thursday, see you back here tomorrow for new challenge projects for Just Magnolia and Stamp Something. 

Happy Stamping,

Fruity Bunny

Hell All!

Today is digi release day over at Whimsy Stamps! There will be a release party starting at Noon EST over at the Whimsy Inspirations Blog and all the new digital stamps will be for sale at 10am EST! There are lots of really cute images and brand new sentiment sets as well as some new custom design options. And if that's not enough excitement, Meljen's Designs has moved to Whimsy Stamps! All of the Meljen's Designs digital stamps can now be found exclusively at our shop. Head on over and check it out!

I was asked to be a guest designer on Cute Card Thursday for the month of July, which of course I jumped at! I love that challenge and Deb is a wonderful friend, so it's an honor to help out. Today's challenge is Fruity! I've decided to go with a new Meljen's Desings digi stamp for this card, it's called Garden Bun Bun Fairy and paired it with some fun and bright fruity colors.

I've colored the image with Copics and then framed it with Oval Nesties. I had every intention of glittering up her wings, but I totally forgot! Oops! The papers are BG Green at Heart and have been stitched on the sewing machine. The sketch is from the challenge over at Quixotic Challenges. And I've embellished with ribbon, brads, flowers, and a strawberry charm.

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to check out all the beautiful DT samples using the new Whimsy Digital images! There are prizes for the hop and we are posting a new monthly challenge today too, play along if you'd like. We'd love to see your creation with a touch of Whimsy!

Happy Stamping,