Whimsy Stamps February Showcase Day 6 with Bunny's Choice

Hello and welcome to Day 6 of Whimsy Stamps February Rubber & Die Release Showcase!

On Wednesday (20 February) Whimsy Stamps released this month's new rubber designs, Shapeology dies, Whimsy Designer Paper packs and new Shape EZ templates. From then until 26 February the Whimsy Stamps DT and Special Guest 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 27 February. I'll give you a list of today's hops at the end of this post.

Today I have a card to show you using one of the new Little Cottage Cuties stamps, Bunny's Choice.

 Isn't that little bunny just adorable? The papers I used are also new this release, they are from Michele Roos' Easter Eggstravaganza 6x6 paper pack and they are absolutely perfect for your easter projects. I have matched them with orange Bazzill cardstock so I guess you do need to like orange to appreciate my card :). The pretty corner is also by Whimsy Stamps, it's part of the Corner Die set and the sentiment stamps are part of the Everyday Mini Postage Stamps and are cut with the matching die. The flowers are all Wild Orchid Crafts and the leaves under the flowers are Prima. The pearls are Magnolia Knicker Knackers or whatever they are called that were with the newspaper Magnolia magazine and the buttons were bought at a market in Leiden. The corners were cut with Martha Stewart corner and edge punches Cherry Blossom, I bought those a long time ago and never ever used them but I thought they were perfect for this spring card. Some cheese cloth, some stitches done by hand and some platinum Stickles finish things off.

A close up of the cute image, as always colored with Copic Markers and completely 3D paper pieced.

And the little pieces. As you can see I did the flowers one by hand after finishing the rest of the image, it's almost impossible to decide which flower goes where if you do it the other way around.

Well that's it for my peek today, to take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations by the other DT members, please click on the links below:

Ann

Ellie

Mariska (You are here)

Patricia

Jacque

Michele

Sylvia

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

If you would like to join us as our Guest Designer for our April 2013 release please go to our Guest Designer Contest page to read all about how to enter. Entries close at 12.00pm (EST) on Wednesday 27 February 2013.

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Whimsy Stamps September review with Merry Christmas Bella

Hi everybody!!

Back with my review card for the September release by Whimsy Stamps! I decided to ink up this gorgeous Little cottage cuties (by Elisabeth Bell) stamp called Merry Christmas Bella.

If the picture looks a bit blurry be sure to click on it because the larger version doesn't. There are probably just to many details. The products I used from the Whimsy Stamps September release are of course Merry Christmas Bella but also the Vintage Christmas 6x6 paper pad by Michele Roos and, as a sentiment, the Holiday Notables 2 that I cut with the matching die.

The ribbon my friend Diana bought for me on the market (mwah!) the swirls are from Unique Hobbyproducts. I have added some pearls from stash. The poinsettia flowers are from a die set by Magnolia, the Holly and berries are from a die from Sizzix. The brads are from stash, and the pearl strings are cut from a string I bought last year at a Dutch store named Kruidvat. The doilly corners are from large square doillies I bought from an English seller on Ebay. Stichting has been done by hand and the stickles platinum to the paper and Christmas Red stickles to the red parts of the image... wish I hand't used those though because I don't like how that turned out.

Here is a close up of the adorable stamp by Elisabeth Bell.

And the little pieces. There are 43 little pieces without the base on this one :).

I hope you enjoyed my preview of the September Whimsy collection. It was a joy to work with these gorgeous products!!! Be back soon!!

Hugs,

Cute little Tulip Monkey

Hi Everybody!!

Yes, back again :). Today I have a card to show you that I think is really cute. This cutie was released by All That Scraps last year and his name is Tulip Monkey (also available as as a digi). I adore this little fellow.

Now this picture doesn't look that sharp small but when you click on it you'll get the larger view and I think that looks much better. I think this was my first time coloring tulips so I googled pictures of tulips and decided to color them pink with white tips. The absolutely stunning papers are digi ones by Michele R Designs for Whimsy Stamps and this line is called Grunge Cottage Charms. One at a time I inserted the papers that come as .jpg files into Word, in the settings I put the paper size on 6 x 6 inch, I put the margins as low as possible (I just set them to zero and then agree to the fix that Word comes up with because it won't take zero) and print them in a normal quality to white bazzill cardstock that I have cut into 6x6 inch squares. The flowers are all Wild Orchid Crafts. The leaves are a McGill punch. The oval shapes are all nestabilitie dies. The heart border is by Whiff of Joy and the corner is by Whimsy Stamps. I have handstitched the papers using a light pink shiny thread, distressing has been done with Frayed Burlap distress ink and I have used some Diamond Stickles as well.

A close up of the cute little Tulip Monkey. As always colored with Copic Markers and 3D paper pieced. Behind him you'll see a little piece of a grass that I did with a border punch by Fiskars. The white accents are always done with my white gelpen from the Dutch Hema store and I used a few white liquid pearl dots as accents as well.

And finally the little pieces :).

Be back soon!!
Hugs,