Gift for teacher going on maternity leave with Little Baby Dragon by Meljen's Designs

Hello everybody!

Back with another project. Yesterday morning I realized that today was going to be the final day before the start of the maternity leave of Leon's teacher Tamara so that asked for a quick gift. I went to one of my favorite Dutch stores the Hema (where I also buy my white gelpens) and bought a couple of cute baby socks, put them in a transparent bag and made a topper.

I decorated the topper with this adorable Little Baby Dragon by Meljen's Designs (available as a digi HERE and as a rubber stamp HERE). The teacher already knows she's having a little boy so I tried to make it cute but boyish but had to go with a bit of glitter on his purple parts.

Since Leon is going to give the gift to his teacher this morning I didn't go for a sentiment. I just cut out some stars out of corrugated kraft cardstock and green cardstock that I glittered up with stardust Stickles (used those on the purple parts of the dragon as well). The topper was cut out using Go Kreate Dies, I think these are the Frilly #7 dies but I'm not sure. The paper is just kraft and green cardstock and one old piece of Echo Park paper.

The cute little socks in the package, there are four pairs of socks in there :).

And the little pieces colored, cut and embossed to make the image.

Well hope you like my little gift, Leon was really excited to give it to his teacher, in fact, Amy who has had the same teacher for the past two years really wanted to give it together :).

Have a great day everybody!!!

Hugs,

Second Whimsy Stamps release showcase day with sample

Hello and welcome to Day 2 of our October Rubber & Die Release Showcase!

On Wednesday (24 October) Whimsy Stamps released this month's new rubber designs, Shapeology dies, Whimsy Designer Paper packs and Shape EZ templates. From then until 30 October the Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new goodies with a daily mini blog hop! Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw. To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy blog on 31 October.

This is my card for today, it's a card I have already showed you when I was guest designer for Meljen's Designs last year but since this beauty has now been turned into a rubber stamp I thought I'd show it to you again. Besides, I have so much more followers then I had back then.

This precious image is called Holly Christmas Fairy and the first time I saw her I thought... wouldn't she be perfect to place on a Christmas sentiment... and so I did :) :

Hope you like the bold colors with the white. It isn't what I usually do but I sort of love how it turned out. The papers are Echo Park Holly Jolly Christmas (the 6x6 paper pad), the poinsettia is from a die-set by Magnolia and the ribbon and brads I bought at the Krea Doe (Dutch Fair) earlier this year and I have no idea what brand they are.Then all that's left is some white cardstock, two different embossing folders by Cuttlebug and again the square doillies I bought on Ebay. I've been distressing with my Frayed Burlap distress ink again and the image and papers has been spiced up with some stickles. The sentiment is an old one by Elzybells that no longer excists unfortunatelly. Here is a close up of the cute fairy:

Isn't she cute!! As always she was colored with Copic Markers and 3D paperpieced. The furr parts have been done with Fun Flock again.

I also decorated the back of the card. Again, you can find this gorgeous personalized stamp HERE and yes, the design is also by Melissa of Meljen's Designs together with Ann Vento of Raindrop Echo Designs. Finally... the little pieces:

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below

Deb
Michele
Niki
Erin

Remember that the entire new release is available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites.

Hugs,
Mariska

Whimsy Stamps showcase day 7

Hi everybody!!

Welcome to Day 7 of our September Rubber & Die Release Showcase!

On Wednesday (19 September) Whimsy Stamps released this month's new rubber designs, Shapeology dies, Whimsy Designer Paper packs and Shape EZ templates. From then until 25 September the Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guests are showcasing these fabulous new goodies with a daily mini blog hop and I am part of today’s hop! Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you have 24hrs to enter each prize draw. To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy blog on 26 September.

For todays sample I have a card using Gift Bow Christmas Fairy by Meljen's Designs.

The sentiment if from the Holiday Mini Postage stamps set. The papers I used are from the My Mind's Eye Lost&Found Christmas 6x6 paper pad, together with kraft cardstock and glitter paper from Olba. The holly is from Prima Marketing and the ribbon is from stash.

Here is a close up of the pretty fairy. Getting the bow in 3D was a bit tricky but I managed it in the end :).

And the little pieces that this little cutie was made with.

I do hope you like my card, to take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below...

Debbie

Stephanne

Tammy Louise

Bev

Sylvia

Michele

Simonne

Jacque

Ann

Heidy

Remember that the entire new release is available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pop back to the Whimsy blog tomorrow to see if you are one of the mini blog hop winners!

Hugs,

 

Whimsy Stamps April release review with Sweet Little Donkey

Hi Everybody!!!

As promissed today I'm back with a project i did with Sweet Little Donkey by Meljen's Designs. I have loved this cute little creature ever since I first saw him and I'm so glad i finally got around to using him.

 This is actually a clear heartshaped box that All That Scraps used to sell, I was very sorry to see yesterday when I tried to order myself a few more that they no longer have them in store. The paper is an oldie by Basic Grey and all the flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts. The lace, the tag and the cardboard were in the package from Tiet's clubday I spoke about earlier. This box in fact is going to one of the ladies participating this day who got into a trainaccident on her way home. Though you can probably say she is lucky she is still in a lot of pain and under stress because of the accident so I thought this would maybe cheer her up a little.

This is a close up of the little donkey, as always colored with Copic Markers, 3D paper pieced and I've added some stickles here and there.

A side view of the box with the label that's stuck under the image.

The little pieces :) The cheek is actually missing in the picture, I had to do that again because I lost that little piece somehow.

And the back of the box with my personal stamp that I love so much. I always stamp it twice, once on my coloring paper and once on matching Design Paper, this way I can cut out the heart and have everything match... such a perfect finish!! You can buy yours HERE. The box is filled with "framboosjes" traditional Dutch raspberry flavoured candy. Hope she likes them :) and hope you like my project of course!!! On the Whimsy Stamps blog there is more inspiration from the team with the April release. Enjoy!!

I'd like to enter this box into the current challenge at Paper Sundaes which is Ribbon and pearls

Hugs!

Hi everybody!!
This is already my last post as December Guest Designer for Meljen's Designs and also my last post for this year! This of course had to be a happy new year's card and here it is:

For this card I used this gorgeous Meljen's digi called Patriotic Bear. This bear was officially made for the 4th of July I think but I figured that with non-American colors this cute bear with sparkles would be perfect for New Years as well. The pretty papers are by Basic Grey (Ambrosia) and My Minds Eye (Breaking Free) both from older lines, together with some orange and grey cardstock. The ribbon I bought at the Krea Doe I think, not sure what brand they are. The pearl stars are from Wild Orchid Crafts and colored orange with my Copic Markers as are the pearl parts of the Karen Foster Star Burst Brads that I bought ages ago. The star with the (computer generated) sentiment is a die by Magnolia that I actually won in the advent on the amazing Tab's blog (thank you again Tab and Magnolia!). Here is a close up of the image

As always colored with my fabulous Copic Markers and 3D paper pieced. There is some stickles on the bear and the edges were done with silver German Glass Glitter 80 grit that I bought at Wild Orchid Crafts. Here is a sort of side view:

And here are the little pieces:

Well that's it for me as Guest Designer for Meljen's Designs. I loved working with their gorgeous images this past month... but then I always do and I always will :). I guess all that's left is wish you all a safe and wonderful evening and night and just in case you read this tomorrow... a wonderful, healthy and creative 2012 filled with love!

Big hug!!

Third project as Guest designer for Meljen's Designs Party Time Cat

Hi everybody!

I'm back with another card as this months guest designer for Meljen's Designs. Today I have a card to show you that I made for my "little" brothers upcoming birthday. I used the funny little Party Time Cat by Meljen's Designs for this card:

The papers that I used are kraft colored cardstock and Maja Design, Life by the Sea. The larger stars are cut with Nestabilities, the small stars are from Hotfix. The little golden sequins I bought on the Krea Doe and I love how they shine. All the edges were distressed again with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. Here is a close up of the cute Party Time Cat:

As always, colored with my Copic Markers and 3D paper pieced. I've added lovely stickles here and there and the balloons are nice and shiny with a little help from Paper Glaze (after the stickles were dry). Here are the little pieces:

Well hope you like!!

I want to wish all of you a wonderful Christmas. Hope you get to spend it with the people you love!

Big hugs!

Card with new Meljen's Design rubber release Lovin' Turtle

Hi Everybody,
Finally my first card for the new Whimsy Stamps rubber release. Today I'm showing you a card I made with the extremely cute Lovin' Turtle by Meljen's Designs. When I first saw this image I knew I had to use my red or pink fun flock on the hearts, I bought them together with the white fun flock but never got around to actually using any other color then white. Making this card was a lovely change to all the Christmas projects I've had lately:

Now that's some color for you :). The gorgeous papers are by Bo Bunny from an older line called Sweetie Pie. I had all these ribbons in a back that fitted perfectly with the papers... they must have been in a kit but I don't remember which one. Anyway... since all these cute ribbons fitted so perfectly I decided to use a couple of them, love how they look. The gorgeous white flowers are by Wild Orchid Crafts except for the small white ones, those are by Creative Treasures. The pearl heart is also from Wild Orchid Craft and the gorgeous shiny heart button that doesn't come accross as pretty as it is is from The Ribbon Girl. The sentiments are computer generated and then with a little help from my Stamp-a-ma-jig I stamped the blanc frame from the new Friendship Notables 2 by Raindrop Echo Designs over them. The sentiments were then cut using the new matching Notables 2 Die. The sentiments read "I'm Thinking about you" and "The power of thought" in Dutch, I send this card out to somebody who has been diagnosed with cancer and has a long difficult treatment and operation ahead. I'm hoping this card will lift her spirits. Here is a close up of the gorgeous turtle:

As always colored with my beloved Copic Markers and 3D paper pieced for extra dimension. As mentioned the hearts have been fluffed with Fun Flock and the pink shell has been given a coat of gorgeous Stickles.

Hope you like my card!! I'm working very hard to have another preview for you ready on Wednesday. In the meantime... if you leave a comment on my blog and the blogs of the other girls from the Whimsy team displaying samples today you might just win yourself a prize from this new release! The talented girls and boy you also want to be visiting and leaving some love today are:

Erin

Simonne

Lori

Beate

Debbie

Sylvia

Hope to see you guys back on Wednesday!!

Third post as a Meljen's Designs Guest designer

Hi everybody,

Already my third post as a guest designer for Meljen's Designs... boy is this month going by fast!! Today I have two projects to show you. The first I made for my dad who's birthday is today. My dad loves to fish and has done so for as long as I can remember. When I looked through the gorgeous digi's Meljen's Designs has for sale I decided that there wasn't a more perfect image to use for my dad's birthday then the Fisher Moose. Since they aren't the type to leave a birthday card standing around for forever I decided to make him a picture frame:

I know... I wanted to put a picture in the frame of my dad proudly holding a huge fish he had cought but the only pictures I had of him doing that were send to me by my parents and so small that they couldn't be printed so I decided to use this one and he can insert a better picture if he wants to. The cute fish is also a Meljen's digi and she is called Little Fish. Since it's a frame for my dad I wanted to keep it manly so the only things I added are webribbon, and a bit of fishing gear I bought at the local pet store. The wooden frame I bought at a Dutch store named "Blokker" for the Dutch ladies. Sorry for the terrible pictures by the way... I didn't finish this project until yesterday evening and by then the light was terrible and since we went to my dad early this morning I didn't have time to make a better picture. Here is a close up of the Fisher Moose though:

 As always colored with Copics and 3D paper pieced, and so is this cutie Little Fish:

 And this time I didn't forget to take a picture of the little pieces:

And I have a second project to show you this week. I made this tag for the Dutch club, Kaarten maken met Tiets. In the tradition of the fabulous Mr. Holtz we had our own seven tags of XMas and I made this tag as a sample for day three where the challenge was "Winter". Nicole from Meljen's had send me this gorgeous Cozy Winter Wolf Pup and I figured he was just perfect to use for this theme:

 The papers used are brown and white cardstock and very old design paper by My Minds Eye. I've distressed the papers with Distress Ink Walnut Stain, Aleene's Glitter Snow and Platinum Stickles. Here is a close up of the cute Wolf Pup:

Isn't he adorable? I also used my new Tim Holtz Snow Flurries die and decided to treat it as Tim Holtz treated his snowman on his (I think) third tag this year. I didn't like the result though, probably because I used to little Crackle Paint Rock Candy, so after painting it white, painting it with the Rock Candy and distressing it with stains I added Stickles and paper glaze. I love how it looked after that (you can click the picture to see it better):

The fabulous sentiment is by Ann Vento for Whimsy Stamps, the set is called Winter Letter Seals.

Hope you like my two projects!! Love to hear what you think!!

Big hug!!

Second project as Meljen's Designs Guest designer

Hi everybody!!

Back with my second project as Meljen's Designs Guest Designer. For this card I used the absolutely adorable Snow Bunny that I've been SO wanting to use for forever!! I used gorgeous Basic Grey paper that I've had and treasured for ages and a lot of new stash that arrived from SCACD the other day. First... here is my card:

Don't you just LOVE the gorgeous die that I used on the bottom of the card? It is the Frostyville Border by Memory Box. I've stickled it up and added some pearls. A little part that I cut off I used on the left and I've also added some gorgeous snowflakes from a punch by Martha Stewart, again with pretty pearls and stickles. The snow on the floor was created using this fabulous new (for me) product that I also bought at SCACD, it's called Shaved Ice and it's by Stampendous and I'm in love with it. Now it says very clearly in Susana's shop that she doesn't ship the product internationally but she did me a big favor and I'm so glad she did! If you read this... thank you so much Susana, love it!! You'll get a better view in the next close up picture. The furry part was done with a new product as well that I bought at SCACD, Sparkly Fluff. The ribbon is from my old stash and today I've used an also new buy, Distress Stickles Frayed Burlap, the same color I used as a distress ink to distress the edges again. Here is a close up of the image:

 Colored with Copics as always, 3D paper pieced as always and don't you LOVE the shaved ice!!!? I forgot to take a picture of the little pieces... was to busy loving making this but here is a picture of the back:

 Hope you like!! Be back soon!! Big hug everybody!

Guest designer for Meljen's Designs

Hi everybody!
I am very proud to announce that during the month of December I get to be the guest designer for Meljen's Designs. I adore Melissa Jenkins', the artist behind Meljen's Designs, gorgeous style. Her characters are SO cute and I love all the little stripes, hearts and dots she places around the images, besides that, there isn't a stamp brand more suitable for the 3D technique I love to apply so much. Thank you so much for having me Melissa and Nicole!!

My first project is with one of the newer images by Meljen's, this precious image is called Holly Christmas Fairy and the first time I saw her I thought... wouldn't she be perfect to place on a Christmas sentiment... and so I did :) :

Hope you like the bold colors with the white. It isn't what I usually do but I sort of love how it turned out. The papers are Echo Park Holly Jolly Christmas (the 6x6 paper pad), the poinsettia is from a die-set by Magnolia and the ribbon and brads I bought at the Krea Doe (Dutch Fair) earlier this year and I have no idea what brand they are.Then all that's left is some white cardstock, two different embossing folders by Cuttlebug and again the square doillies I bought on Ebay. I've been distressing with my Frayed Burlap distress ink again and the image and papers has been spiced up with some stickles. The sentiment is an old one by Elzybells that no longer excists unfortunatelly. Here is a close up of the cute fairy:

Isn't she cute!! As always she was colored with Copic Markers and 3D paperpieced. The furr parts have been done with Fun Flock again.

I also decorated the back of the card. Again, you can find this gorgeous personalized stamp HERE and yes, the design is also by Melissa of Meljen's Designs together with Ann Vento of Raindrop Echo Designs. Finally... the little pieces:

Hope you like my first guest designer card!! Remember, much more of these gorgeous images can be found at Meljen's Designs!

Whimsy Stamps Release day, Bundled Little Snowman Meljen's Designs

Welcome to Whimsy Stamps November rubber stamp and die RELEASE DAY!

Whimsy Stamps has released 20 fabulous new rubber stamps and 4 wonderful new Shapeology die sets today. These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites.
From today until 23 November the Whimsy DT and Special Guests will be showcasing these fabulous new stamps and dies with a daily mini blog hop. Each mini blog hop has a new release prize hidden somewhere along the way and you will have 24hrs to enter each prize draw by leaving a comment on every blog listed for that day.

To be entered into today's mini blog hop prize draw, be sure to leave a comment on ALL of the DT's posts listed below by 12.00PM EST tomorrow. All winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations blog after 12.00PM on 23 November.

Well, here is my sample for the release day hop:

The cute image is Bundled little snowboy by Meljen's Designs and decorated a paper bag with him that I filled with a bag of the yummy white candy (spekjes in Dutch) that you see in front of the bag. The poem is in Dutch and you'll find it on the third picture but it's inspired by a lot of different English poems I found on the net about snowman poo... I made my own Dutch variation. Here is a close up of the cute snowboy:

As always colored with Copics, stickled up and 3D paper pieced. The papers are from a 6x6 paper pad from Echo Park called Seasons Greetings. The brads I bought on the Dutch Krea Doe and they didn't have a brandname on them and the snowflakes are by Unique Hobby Products and I also bought those on the Krea Doe. The snowaccents are Aleene's Glitter Snow and the "furry accents" were again done with Fun Flock again Fun Flock. All the edges were distressed with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink and then stickled up with Platinum Stickles. Here is a close up of the handwritten "poem":

A free translation, around Christmas a little gesture, a bit of chocolate or candy. Or in this case, perhaps a bit strange, a bag of snowman poo. Sounds really stupid in English but in Dutch it makes sense and it rhymes. Like I said if you search for Snowman Poo on google you'll find a lot of different English poems.

I'll leave you with the details about the release and the blog hops!! Hope you liked my sneak peek. Have fun everybody!!

xxx

To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations by the Design Team, please click on the links below...

Beate Johns {Special Guest}
Debbie Eastman
Deb Routledge {Special Guest}
Ellie Stover
Erin Bailey
Mariska van der Veer {Special Guest}
Stephanne Maraver
Tammy Louise Cunliffe

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies released today:

5 Crissy Armstrong rubber stamps
Cool Pony ~ Penguin Skier ~ Sealed With A Kiss ~ Served With Love ~ Snow Fun


4 Kenny K rubber stamps
Brianna Blaster ~ Sexy Elf ~ Superhero ~ Toy Soldier


3 Meljen's Designs rubber stamps
Bundled Little Snowboy ~ Cozy Little Chickadees ~ Cozy Winter Owl


5 Wee Stamps rubber stamps
A Letter For Me ~ Christmas Bunny ~ Let It Snow ~ Suzi With Bunny ~ Wee Florist


3 Raindrop Echo Designs rubber stamp sets
Cozy Hands sentiments (co-ordinating die set available) ~ Sleigh Ride ~ Winter Notables (co-ordinating dies available)


4 Raindrop Echo Designs Shapeology dies
Layered Snowflakes ~ Mittens (co-ordinating stamp set available) ~ Notables 1 (co-ordinating stamp set available) ~ Elegant Notables 1 (co-ordinating stamp set available)

Don't forget to visit today's DT and leave a comment on their blog posts to be entered into the draw to win a new release stamp, then pop by the Whimsy Inspirations blog tomorrow for the next list of showcase posts!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy our new release!