Whimsy Stamps November Release - Princess

Hello! It's time for the November release from Whimsy Stamps and I couldn't wait to share this little cutie with you. She's called Princess and drawn by the super talented Sylvia Zet for our Wee Stamps collection and she's totally adorable!

I made one of my shabby chic style cards with her and I used some older papers in my stash from Pion, called My Precious Daughter.

I coloured her with my distress ink markers using Vintage Photo, Antique Linen and Walnut Stain, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, Wilted Violet, Gathered Twigs, Pumice Stone, Shabby Shutters and Frayed Burlap

I used the following embellishments
Cheesecloth
Josephine Ivory Fine Lace
Innocence Rounded Corner Chipboard
Ivory White Magnolia Flower
Rose Leaves
20 mm Pale Pink Open Rose
White Sweetheart Blossom
Cosmos Daisy Medium Pink
9 mm Pale Pink/White Spot Organza Ribbon
Ivory Pearl Hearts
Princess and Rocking Horse Charms

If you're in the UK or Europe you can buy all your Whimsy Stamps from Dies to Die for

That's all from me for today, but don't forget to join in with all the fun, games and prizes going on over in our Facebook group where you can find lots of other makes with the new release from my talented team mates.

By for now!

Technique Tuesdays - Pink Poinsettias

Hello!

Are you intrigued by the title of this post? Well during my 'quiet' time following my Dad passing away, when I wasn't crafting or posting much, I got very interested at looking at various different techniques on Pinterest and YouTube.

I also have to give a bit of a heads up and thanks to Alanna, my fellow Design Team member from Whimsy Stamps, as she kind of kick started me into looking into these with her fab class at the Whimsy Stamps Craft Retreat.

So I thought I would invite you to join me on my crafty Journey and try out a new technique or a different way of using a technique/s each Tuesday. 

Now I don't promise that I'll never miss a Tuesday, because as we all know, life sometimes gets in the way of crafting and blogging, but I will certainly try my best.

Also in the main, these techniques are going to be new to me, so don't expect a perfect finish, but I thought you might enjoy seeing me try some new things.

So the first technique I'm going to be showcasing today is watercolouring with white embossed outlines. This gives a lovely effect as there are no harsh black lines and you can do this with your regular character stamps, but as I'm stepping firmly outside of my comfort zone with these I thought I would use a stamp set to make a background around a stamped and embossed sentiment.

So first I took a piece of watercolour paper and stamped the Peace & Joy sentiment from Whimsy's Joyous Holiday clear set with Versamark Ink and then used some gold embossing power and heated that with my heat gun.

Once I had my central focal point I took the poinsettia and holly leaf stamps from the same set and stamped those fairly randomly around my sentiment, again using Versamark ink, but this time using white embossing powder.

For best results just stamp a couple at a time and emboss before moving on to the next, or you may find you get in a bit of a mess.

Once everything was embossed I took some Picked Raspberry and Lucky Clover distress ink, and painted all the flowers and leaves, adding a little Festive Berries distress ink to the centre of the flowers and to the holly berries. I was very rough an dready with my colouring, I didn't get too fancy or fussy about it i just wanted to add some quick colour.

Once everything was dry I cut my panel down to    and mounted on some bright pink card stock cut a quarter of an inch bigger and then mounted the whole thing on a 4.25 x 5.5 inch card base.

To finish off I added some Wink of Stella to the petals and a few enamel dots.

Materials Used

Water colour paper
Distress Inks in Lucky Clover, Picked Raspberry and Festive Berries.
Plain white card stock.
Bright pink card stock.
Whimsy Stamps Clear Joyous Holiday Set
Versamark Ink
Gold Embossing Powder
White Embossing Powder
Whimsy Summer Breeze Enamel Dots
Wink of Stella Brush Pen in Clear

I entered this card in the In the Pink Challenge #107 Winter

There you have it! Do let me know what you think, I'm quite pleased with the way this turned out and will certainly try this technique again.

Happy crafting!

Whimsy Stamps Digi Release

The long-anticipated Day is here!! Welcome to Whimsy Stamps Digital Shop Grand Re-Opening!

Whimsy has a selection of images, sentiments and papers that are now available to purchase, download and use immediately!

This is my creation using

Jingle Bell Ride

I've coloured it with my usual Distress Ink markers and added glamour dust for sparkle, which is not showing the sparkle real well in this photo but I was out of time so I'll try and get a better photo later.

I used the following products from The Ribbon Girl
15 mm Mint Green Satin Ribbon
20 mm Sylvia Pale Aqua Lace
32 mm Pale Aqua Silk Ribbon
20 mm Pale Pink Open Rose

Digital images are great because you can flip images, use the computer to “mask” and combine images and backgrounds, and re-size everything to suit your personal projects before you print them off. Please read the Terms Of Use with each product purchased for all the details.

Digital images are so easy to use. And they can be printed again and again, as many times as you like for your own personal crafting needs! What a bonus, especially when it comes to patterned paper - no more need to hoard a paper stash - once you have purchased and downloaded Whimsy’s Digital paper packs, you can print off your favourite sheets as many times as you like! What’s more, you can customize the size of the sheet you are printing (there’s less wasted paper that way). How about that, crafters! Surely it doesn’t get much better than that!

Look at what’s being released at Whimsy today! 

Whimsy will be releasing new digital products on the first of every month, so mark your calendars and be sure to join the release party on FB where we will have games and award prizes to randomly drawn players. In fact, get on over to FaceBook where the party has already started. If you play the games, you could win something Whimsy-cal. The more you play, the greater your chances. (Exciting, right!?) But don’t leave just yet!

You have just got to see what the rest of the Whimsy Digi Designer Divas, and our Very Special Guest Zoe from Make It Crafty have created with the digi’s. We are showing off our gorgeous cards for you over two days, November 1st and 2nd. Go visit each blog to see what magic each Diva has cooked up. Your eyes will bug out of your head and your jaw will hit the floor. You’ve been fairly warned. Jus sayin! The rest of Day Two's designers are listed below with links to their blogs.

Iris Weichman
Maria Sabina
Jeanette Comerford
Tracy Wray

Thank you for stopping by! Don’t forget to join the Release Party on Facebook to get in on your chance to win Whimsy-cal prizes!! Bye for now!