Wee Sarah

Here’s another card using one of the November Whimsy Stamps release, this is Wee Sarah. I don’t know which is more cute, the little mouse or Sarah

I have coloured with Copic Markers and a touch of pencil
Hair: E53, 51, 50
Skin: E13, 11, 00, 000, R20
Mouse/Boots: E43, 41, 40 French Grey 50% pencil
Green: G24, 21, 20
Blue: BG53, 000, 0000, muted turquoise pencil
Fur: W3, 1, 0, 00

And I’ve finished the card off with delish Wild Orchid Crafts goodies – Seam binding, MKX-405 lace, Trellis Rose, wild roses, rosebuds 8mm, open rose 20mm, and finished off with a couple of the new Cut-Outs die cut embellishments Forever Corner Ornaments and Lanterns Standing (one of my favourite die cuts ever!!)

I’ll be back in a couple of days with a card for the New Whimsy release featuring another of the super adorable Wee stamps.

I {heart} Christmas

I had a play with something different for a very special friend who I think is the biggest fan of Christmas on this planet.  Seriously!  She has thousands of ornaments from all over the world so I wanted to make her something that I know she won’t already have.

 

Lots of delicious Wild Orchid Crafts products were used: Trellis Rose, Cottage Rose, Open Roses 15mm and 20mm, white cabochon angel, gold bells, white stamens.  I dabbed white paint on to the flowers using a small piece of sponge (much more controlled than using a paintbrush) then once dry slathered on Mercury Glass Stickles.

 

The edges were painted with gold paint before I adhered the paper on then once dry the edges were inked and glittered.

 

 

My lovely hubby bent some brass tubing into ‘S’ shapes so I could join the hearts together

 

 

I bought the hearts from my local craft shop but I would think you could cut them quite easily from chipboard or mount board.  I covered the front and back of each heart with Bo Bunny paper.

 

I had such fun making this and it only took a couple of hours to do.

A little bit of Tim

I finally got round to having a play with the new Tim Holtz Layered Snowflake Die and embossing folder.  It is sublime!

I cut and embossed it in kraft and also white card then slathered on the glitter, glitter flakes and stickles.  I finished it off with a SB snowflake and a bead-type button which started off life clear but I coloured it (and the clear rhinestone flatbacks with E44 copic marker)

The paper is from a Hobbycraft own make Christmas pad that I picked up a couple of weeks ago, love it.

I have an ornament on the Wild Orchid Crafts Blog that won’t be going on my blog for a few weeks, so have a gander if you’re interested.  Here’s a sneaky peek at it

Bauble ornament tutorial

The lovely Denise at Whimsy Stamps asked me if I would do a tutorial on how I make the ornaments I have been churning out lately.  She sent me some of the divine clear Christmas Greetings stamp set to play with, and this is what I came up with.  Just to say ….. I flipping love this stamp set! 

And the back with place to write a greeting

The tutorial is featured on Craft Ideas complete with step by step photos.

Another quick Christmas card

Here’a another quick Christmas card I whipped up yesterday afternoon using those delectable Christmas Chalkboards 1 stamps.  This time I kept away from the black chalkboard look and instead embossed the text onto matching paper from the pad that I used.

Unfortunately I covered up most of the delish vintage patterned paper but a girl has to have her Wild Orchid Crafts flowers lol.  I used 25mm wild rose, open roses (15mm), cosmos daisies and stamens. I finished off with some pearls, pins  and vintage seam binding that I distressed with ink.

Back later on in the week with another bauble and a link to a tutorial that I did for Whimsy Stamps.

Wee Lullaby

Have you seen the new Whimsy Stamps release?  OMW this little cutie Lullaby by Sylvia Zet is just the sweetest little girl.  Yup, I’m in love!

I’ve used papers from that delish Gilded Winter pad again, LOVE LOVE LOVE this pad, so much so I need to go and buy a few spares

I use copic markers to colour this one up

Skin: E13, 11, 00, 000, R20
Hair/Bird: E59, 57, 55, 51, 50
Dress: E43, 42, 41, 40
Wings: W3, 1, 0, 00
Scarf/Leaves: BG96, 93, 90

Ranger Distress Glitter Rock Candy was added to the wings and snow.  Snowtex was added to the lamp-post and Americana White Writer was added to the flowers.

The snowflakes are die cut from Crafters Companion and Memory Box dies, edges inked and dotted with glitter glue

A peek at the inside

Products used:

Lullaby by Whimsy Stamps
First Edition Gilded Winter paper
Crafters Companion, Memory Box and Magnolia dies
Embellishments all from Wild Orchid Crafts: Lanterns Standing, seam binding, Cottage Rose 20mm, open roses 15mm & 10mm, rose buds 4mm, small orchids, flatback pearls in a diamond circle

Whimsy Stamps November Release–Snow Bunny

Welcome to Day 2 of the Whimsy Stamps ... November 2014 Release

This week Whimsy is releasing 19 *BRAND NEW* red rubber stamps/ stamp sets and 4 *BRAND NEW* coordinating die/die sets, and they will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store and selected Whimsy Stamps retailers TOMORROW. We are thrilled to welcome Olivia Marmara, Lizzy Smith, Mi Ran and Crissy Armstrong as Guest Designers for this release.

Today we are excited to show you the brand new Crissy Armstrong and Elisabeth Bell stamps being released this month. For a full reveal of these stamps, hop on over to the Whimsy blog!

 

For today's project, I inked up Snow Bunny by Elisabeth Bell, isn’t she just so pretty?  I have also used one of the new Pine Cone Sentiments and matching die.

I coloured her up with copic markers
Skin: E13, 11, 00, 000, R20
Hair: E27, 25, 53 50
Coat & Hat E43, 42, 41, 40
Fur: BV20, W0, W00
Trousers: YG97, 95, 93, 91
Bunny: C3, 1, 0, 00
Parcel, Bells: YR27, 24, Y11

I have used some delish new (and not so new) products from Wild Orchid Crafts.  Magnolia, cherry blossom, lilies, forget me nots, cones from the red Christmas berry spray, fullness of summer cut-out set (the chipboard dandelion type thing lol), pearl flourish, seam binding and a cabochon angel.

The paper is from the First Edition Gilded Winter pad, LOVE this pad so much!

And now for the good stuff!

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment at every stop to be entered into the draw.

Debbie Eastman
Olivia Marmara (GDT)
Shannah Bartle
Jacque Beddingfield
Lizzy Smith (GDT)
Shelby Thomas
Crissy Armstrong (GDT)
Bev Rochester (That’s me!)

Be sure to visit the Whimsy blog</ a> again tomorrow for the release day grand hop! Thanks so much for visiting today.

Happy hopping!