Whimsical Designs Stamp Release Blog Hop

Welcome to our Whimsical Designs Stamp Release blog hop. If you came here from the very talented Karen then you are in the right spot but if you just happened to swing by then you will want to start at the beginning at Whimsical Designs so as not to miss out on any of the amazing projects or blog candy.

I am so excited to be showing you some of the projects I've made using Stephanie's wonderful stamps. I had so much fun playing with them and I love how beautifully they stamp!!

For my first project I made a card for my friend that just had a baby. I used my new Spellbinders Nestabilities ( Label 17 ) to cut the beautiful background shape. The cute little stork was cut from the Cricut Lite "Sugar and Spice" cartridge. To finish it off I added black crinkle ribbon and stamped the sentiment from the "Whimsical Fun Vol 1" set on to glitter paper.

For this project I chose to do a layout. on this project the stamps are "Elves at Work!" and "No Peeking" both of these sentiments are from the "Snow Much Fun" set.

The cartridges I used are: Paper Doll Dress Up, Winter Frolic, Create a Critter, and Freshly Picked.

Here is my last project. For this card the adorable cake was cut from the Cricut Simply Charmed cartridge. I added crinkle ribbon, Stickles, and white gel pen. For the sentiment I used "Everyday Sentiments". I hope you enjoyed my project. I can't wait to see what I will create when you buy Stephanie's stamps. I know you're going to love them as much as I do!!

Now you are off to the wonderful Margie

GRAND PRIZE

One random winner will get a prize pack that will include two Stampin' Up ink pads (Black and Chocolate Chip), one medium sized acrylic stamp block from Stampin' Up and one pack of Stampin' Up White Card Stock. In order to be eligible for the grand prize they must become a follower of the Whimsical Designs blog and leave a comment on all the Whimsical Designers blogs under their hop post.
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Whimsical Wednesday Challenge

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to another Whimsical Wednesday.

Today's challenge is "Layer It"

Make a card or project with a winter or Christmas theme and it must have layers.

For my card today I colored Cindy's adorable digi stamp, "Sweet Hot Coco". You can purchase it HERE. I paper pieced the polka dot paper on to the cup and added glossy accents to give it the feeling of a real mug. The holly berries were also done twice and popped on foam tape. For the background paper I punched out strips from Martha Stewart's "Double Loop Weave" punch and layered them on red cardstock. To finish it off I used Stickles and my gel pen.

To see what the other wonderful DT ladies have created for this challenge please swing by the Whimsical Designs Blog.

Our sponsor for this week is our fabulous and talented design sister Nanne. Nanne has donated a variety of Webster's Pages Scrapbooking Supplies. Thank you Nanne!!

JUST A QUICK REMINDER.


This Thursday, December 1st and Friday, December 2nd, at 7:00 am EST each day, the Design Team will be sharing their projects and sneak peeks of Stephanie's new stamp sets. We will reveal the entire four stamp sets on Friday night, December 2nd at 7:00 pm EST during the Whimsical Designs Blog Hop!

Scraptastic Mondays!

Welcome to another wonderful Scraptastic Mondays!

For this challenge we are to make a card any fold (no A2 of shape) and must include ribbon and a die cut or punch.

For my card I chose to make a Z fold card. The image is "Snowman Cutie" and you can purchase it from Cindy's store HERE

The image is colored with my Bic markers and the Stickles were added to make the snow sparkle. For the punch element I punched snowballs with my 3/8 punch.

Here is my card when you open it up.

I hope you enjoyed my card. To see what the other DT girls have created please swing by the Scraptastic Blog HERE.

I'm so excited to see what you create when you come and play with us. :)

~ Scraptastic Designs Blog Hop ~

Welcome to the Scraptastic Designs blog hop!!

This hop is to kick off our "SCRAPTASTIC MONDAYS" challenge. Starting November 7th at 10:00am and we will have a new challenge every week.

If you came are here from Karen's blog then you are in the right place but if you just happened to be stopping by you will want to start at the beginning which is Cindy's blog.

For my project today I chose to use the image "Sweet Gingerbread Tags". This actually comes with 2 images a girl & a boy. For my project I chose to use only the boy.

I printed the stamps out on Kraft cardstock and then colored them in with my bic markers. (I was inspired to did this by DCWV's new kraft paper stacks.) I used Viva Decors pearl pen in Cream to color the frosting. It gives it such a great effect! I then added Twine, buttons, and stitching to finish off my card

Here is a close up of this wonderfully cute and fun Digi.

Now you should be off to Shelly's Blog

But before you go I have some surprise blog candy to giveaway.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and come back to see if you have won.

Also Our wonderful Cindy is doing a grand prize giveaway of 3 wonderful digis and a pack of Prisma colored pencils!!

Don't forget to join us every Monday for new fun challenges!!

Digital Snowman Card

I made this to enter in to My Pink Stamper's Christmas themed challenge. You just had to make a card or scrapbook page for Christmas or winter. The snowman is a free digital stamp I can't remember where I got it from but I think it might be from freedigitalstamps.blogspot.com

I colored him with Bic markers and added Stickles to the snow on his hat and also on the ground. I hope you enjoy and have a great day. :)

Gingerbread Christmas Card

This is the Christmas card I made to send out this year.

As I was writing in one of my last cards I realized that I had not taken pictures or blogged about them.

I hate when I forget to do that!

I kept this card super simple since a had to make 20 of these and I didn't have very much time. (hopefully I'll do better next year.)

Recipe:

Card size: 4.25 x 5.50

Cartridges: Just Because Cards for the gingerbread man,

Plantin Schoolbook for the ric rac

(I don't like the kind that comes with the gingerbread man,)

Embellishments: Cuttlebug Polka Dots folder, Green Ribbon, White gel pen.

Hope you enjoy and have agreat day. :)

Snowman Card ~ From the Snow Friends Cartridge

I created this card for 2 challenges that I have never participated in before. (i'm trying to branch out.) :-) The first is E.A.D. Designs Color Challenge, and the second is a sketch challenge at Card Patterns sketch #90.

I'm totally loving this card! My niece lives in Hawaii and I think this card is just perfect to send her for Christmas. The bright colors and the happy little snowman make me smile every time I see it. :)

I hope you enjoy and have a great day!

RECIPE:

Cartridge: Snow Friends

Paper: From my scraps

Punches: 1in & 1 1/2in

Embossing: Cuttlebug Snowflakes folder & white heat embossing

Embellishment: Orange gems with i-rock, Stickles, black gel pen

Digital Delights Nutcracker Challenge

Ok, so this is my first time coloring in a digital stamp. I had tons of fun after I finally figured out how to get it to print the size I wanted. (I am so dumb when is comes to computers.) I have never really been that in to stamps, I mostly just used sentiment stamps and of course my very favorite, Pk face stamps. But after I saw Court from Courts's Crafts post a beautiful card the other day using this stamp I knew I had to give it a try.

I got this stamp from Digital Delights for free. (I think they give one away for free every week. but I'm not positive about that.) I decided to enter it in to their challenge so I could get this super cute fairy they have also for free. :)

Here is a close up of him.

I had so much fun doing this! I felt like a kids again. I used to spend hours coloring in my coloring books when I was a little girl and this is just like coloring books but for grown ups. Although when my kids saw me doing this they all asked my to print ones out so they could color too. :)

Recipe:

Stamp Image: Digital Delights

Markers: Bic, dark gray, lt. gray, red, purple,yellow, black

Paper: from my scraps

Embellishments: Dark purple buttons and ribbon

Other: peach chalk, black,white gel pens, yellow Stickles

If I get the fairy stamp I'll post it later this week.

I hope you enjoy and have a great day :)

Throwback Thursday Challenge - Gingerbread Card

I made this card for Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge. For this challenge you had to make a food project and she wanted you to use "From my kitchen" or any other older cartridge.

The gingerbread man was cut from "From My Kitchen" at 4 inches , I made the bite with a hole punch. The ric rac was cut from "plantin Schoolbook" at 1/4 of an inch, The buttons I got from Oriental Trading Company, and the face was done with PK "Everyday Charter Face Assortment". The sentiment I did on my computer.

I had so much fun making this card for my husband.

I hope you enjoy and have a great day. :)

Throwback Thursday Challenge - Frame it!

This card is for Emma's Throwback Thursday Challenge. For this challenge you had to turn one of the images into a frame and the cartridge she wanted you to use was Paper Doll Dress Up. I chose the Santa bag for my frame. I cut the image twice then on the top layer I used a 1 in Stampin' Up circle punch to make the frame, then used a Stamp from Michael's for the HO,HO,HO.

Here is a close up. I also used Candy Cane, and Black Diamond Stickles on the bag.

Hope you all enjoy and have a great Friday! :)