Valentine for hubby

Here's the Valentine I made for my hubby Mike.  I made the roses - each one took about forty minutes to complete.  I used the Spellbinders create a rose die on red paper.  Once cut, I then swiped my Whisper White Craft Ink on the edges of each petal, randomly.  Then dipped each petal into white embossing powder and heat set.  Then I could assemble them.  Tweezers were necessary in the process.  Its finicky work but I love the result, and this way I don't have to buy my roses, and can do them in any colour from my stash of paper!
I made the banner by hand after I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment.  Inside is pretty nice too, I think!  Of course I wrote a whole bunch of mushy stuff afterwards, but that's between me and hubby!  Stamps are from a Graphics 45 Hampton Art, a set of ten Valentine images and sentiments.  Its the perfect set for this particular day, I think!
I used some Spellbinder flourishes and also some from Whimsy Stamps - Vines and Large Leafy Flourish, which I trimmed to fit where I wanted.  Also a Memory Box heart too. Its hard to tell from the photo, but the top layer has some dimension, and the sparkly heart is actually inset on the bottom layer. Looks better in real life, they always do!

Happy Valentine's day, and thanks for visiting!! Be blessed in God's amazing love for you today!

Spread Love/ Angel Wings

Hi Peeps!  Here's a Valentine I did for someone special.  I used my rubber stamp drawing, "Spread Love".  I water coloured the image, and this coloured version became the template for a set of Whimsy Prints found HERE.   Also used the Whimsy Shapeology dies, "Vines" and "Large Leafy Flourish".

Did you know that if you use my Whimsy images (rubber or digi, doesn't matter) and you post photos of them on my Facebook page, you could get a chance to win a free digi? For every five photos posted of five different cards/projects you made with one of my images, you will get to pick one free digi of your choice from my Whimsy line.  Here's a LINK that will take you right to my FB page so you can get posting!

Now, have you seen the new Ashlan Valor Tangles yet?  They are just amazing works of art.  My friend draws these amazing designs, and now we get to colour them and put them on our cards!  Here is one of her drawings called Angel Wings that Andrea Tully coloured. Andrea put up step by step photos on her blog for you to view her colouring process, so that's a bonus too!  Is it not perfectly stunning?  I can see this on a Christmas card, a bereavement card, a birthday card or an anytime card.  But its such a work of art, I think if it was mine I would just frame it.  Go see the amazing array of tangles for you to purchase and instantly download right HERE.

Thank you for stopping by today.  God bless you!

Santa

 Hi Peeps!  This is a Christmas card (no duh!) and I used my very own "Whimsy Print".  The Santa portrait was drawn by Yours Truly, then water coloured by hand.  Whimsy has taken my original water colour and made prints to sell in the shop.  There are a set of four images in each package in multiples of three for a total of twelve pre-cut Whimsy Prints.  Each of the four images has their own pre-cut shape; square, rectangle, circle and oval. They really help the busy stamper who has to make a quick card, and might not have time to colour up a fresh image.  Or, they are great for people who love the images out there, but really are not into the colouring process.  Either way, its great to have these on hand to use on a card.  This Santa image is from my "Holiday Wishes" set. 

Thanks for popping by today Peeps!

God bless!

Another Christmas Card

This was hubby's Christmas card, and he loved it.  Thanks for lookin!

Penguins Are Present

 Hi Peeps!  Here's another Christmas card which I gave to my son, daughter-in-law and grand daughter.  I used my own digital image, "Penguins Are Present"found HERE.  I also used Elegant Flourishes Die Set and paper from Whimsy's Vintage Christmas pack. Sentiment is from Holiday Greetings by Amy R for CC Designs.  

Image is coloured with Copics - sorry, no list this time. 

Thank you for stopping by today!

God bless you in the New Year!

Christmas Cards

 Hi Peeps!  Its been a busy season for all of us, but now that things are settling down, I have time to show you the cards that I made and gave out over the holidays.  I wanted to see what it was like to make a wreath out of snowflakes.  It was not easy, but fun!  There's only one Whimsy product on this card, that's the snowflake on the bottom left and top right, which is actually the only die that I have ever designed for them.  It is found HERE.  The wreath consisted of snowflakes from 2 different Martha Stewart punches.  I dipped the punched out snowflakes in DecoArt Snow-Tex, then sprinkled them with sparkles. 

 I had never made a white-on-white card before and wanted to give it a try.  I had always thought they looked so stunning.  I found that the key was to vary the white papers, so that some were stark white, and others, slightly off-white-cream, and also I varied the texture of those papers too.  It also helped to add sparkle and shine,which this card has a lot of, but the photo doesn't portray. Sentiment was heat embossed in silver.  It can be found in this set HERE.  Also used the Vines Die Set found HERE.

 Now the following tree cards were almost a complete CASE of Margret Mifsud's card found on her blog HERE. She has some stunning creations that inspired me so much this year. 

This is another CASE of one of Margret's cards found on her blog HERE.  I made six of these, all with slightly different papers but all in the red and green colour palette.  

Thanks for stopping by today, and, Happy New Year, everyone!!

Penguins Party!

This is Penguins Party,  a digital image and my last one for this year.  I can't believe these impish ones were hiding in my pen!  Card was inspired by the Challenge theme over at Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Challenge Blog, which is up and running through December.
Sorry, no more details at this time.  If you have any questions, shoot me an email (my addy is in the watermark on the card).
Thanks Peeps!

New DT Members Wanted!

Hi peeps!  Just letting you know, this was posted by Denise of Whimsy Stamps on the Whimsy Stamps and Inspiration Facebook page:

Denise Lynn

We'd like to add a few new Digital DT members to the digi team for our new term in January, and if anyone is interested to please email our DT Coordinator Debbie (eastmandeborah@rocketmail.com) or private message her here on FB.

Digital Team members receive free digi stamps each month, a Whimsy store discount, get to be part of a wonderful group of DT members, and have fun working together!

Original message found HERE

New Digi Release/Hop!

Welcome to the November digital release blog hop!!!!

We have lots of new images to share with you today created by

Marika Collins Collection

Stamp Art Design

Lia Stampz

Crissy’s Digis (yours truly!)

 Miss Rach Digi's

Ashlan Valor Tangles

I chose to do 2 cards this time. For the first one, I used this super cute StampArt Design by Kathryne called Santa Mouse.  I just love this little dude's face and big expressive eyes! I could not resist using him as soon as I saw her image!! Here is a close-up:

I coloured Santa Mouse with the following Copics: 

Santa Suit: R32, 35, 37, 39, 89 and C6 for additional shading

White fur trim: BV20, 23

Holly Berries: R14, 17, 29, N4, Blender pen for a highlight

Greens: G05, 07, 14, 17, 19, 28, YG21, 23 (note: G28 caused some ink pooling which I tried to remove with the blender pen.  It did help, but there was still a blotchy appearance so I had to solve the problem further .  I used some coloured pencils to blend out the greens and cover up the blotchy areas, and as you can see, it worked!  It is always a challenge when colouring with the higher numbers - copics that end in 8 or 9 - because they are so high in pigment, and they don't soak into the paper but tend to sit on the surface.  Its good to know the problem of ink pooling can be solved and all the work you went to can still be salvaged!)

Mouse body: E50, 53. 55, N4, 5

Inside ears and blush: R12, 11, 21, N3, 4

Other Whimsy Products: 

Whimsy Shapeology Dies: Elegant Flourishes and Notables 5

Sentiment Stamp: Tis the Season Notables 5 by Raindrop Echo Designs

Whimsy Stamps Designer Papers: Vintage Christmas by Michele Roos

My second card is with my own image, Dragon Party.  I had to refrain from flowers, ribbons or bows with this one, because its for my hubby!  He loves my dragons so I thought I'd make one just for him (and share it with all of you too!) I feel this is "dude-ish" enough for a guy.   Interesting how my colour scheme is almost the same on both cards!  

Here is your close-up:

I coloured Dragon Party with the following Copics: 

Reds: R32, 35, 37, 39

Dragon Greens: YG21, 25, G07, 14, 17, 29 and I used the Blender for the scales, but I also went back in with some of the darker greens and made little "u's" or "v's" around where the blender had left a lighter mark.  I really like the effect I got. 

Balloon Greens: G00, 02, 03, 05, with B20, 23 and C1 for shading, Blender

Bone plates: E50, 53, 55, 04, 07

Pink belly: R20, 21, BV20, 23

Smoke puffs: N1, 3

Sky B0000 with a blue coloured pencil overtop

Also used a coloured pencil for the blush on his cheek and the end of his nose. 

The sentiment is a Whimsy Stamp from Party Mini Letter Seals and I used their Corner Die Set in the two left hand corners. 

Now, back to the hop info:

All Whimsy Stamps digital images are 300dpi for high print quality. You can re-size, flip, or rotate to fit your own project

  To find all of today's new releases please visit the Whimsy Stamps Store

Don't forget to leave comments along the way as there will be 2 mystery DT Members who will each be choosing a winner from the comments left on their hop posts!

These winners will each win a Whimsy digital image of their choice.
The Grand Prize winner of the hop will be chosen from the very last stop, which is Sheri's Blog.

 This winner will receive 5 digital stamps of their choice from the

 Whimsy Stamps Store

The hop will run for 1 week and end on Sunday 8th September at 12 Noon EST, when the lucky winners will be announced on the Whimsy Inspirations Blog.

Below is a complete list of the hop in case you get lost along the way

Michelle Oatman

Lisa West

Kelly Mannix

Judith Hall

Jackie Smith

Charlene Brown

Jackie Randolph

Crissy Armstrong(yours truly!)
Marjolein Dekker Dejager

Sheri Danielson 

Thanks for visiting! Come back again soon!

Glorious Pagentry

I am blessed to have some artistic friends in my life.  One of them just started with a line of digital stamps at Whimsy!  I'm so proud to introduce her line of images, "Ashlan Valor Tangles", by Lori St. Clair.  I used her beautiful "Glorious Pagentry" for my card.  The intricate detail is just stunning on all of her drawings.  I really hope you take a minute to go see her first release over at the Whimsy Store.  Her images are unique to her, and are all hand drawn (no computerized curves or lines here, just the delicate, easy flow of her hand).  As soon as I saw the images, I could not wait to get my hands on some so I could explore the possibilities, and make some cards.  This is my second card (if you want to see the first project I did, you'll have to wait til the next Whimsy Inspirations Magazine comes out, because it will be displayed in there!)

I coloured with the following Copics: 

B05, 06, 13, 32, 63, 66

FYG1, FBG2, R20, R22

I'm participating in the following challenges: 

Pile It On: Embellishment Crazy

Sweet Stampin: Wood, Trees or Leaves

There She Goes: Leaves

Stamping Sensations: All Creatures Great and Small

Everybody Art: Feather

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge: Recipe

PR Design: Patterned Paper

Thank you for visiting today!  I hope you go see what Lori has to offer!

Flash Sale on Rubber!!

Two days only, today and tomorrow (Oc 7 & 8 2013)!  Head on over to Whimsy to get some new Rubbah!!

Good Pony

My sister has a horse ranch and so I thought this card was rather fitting for her on her birthday!  This is "Good Pony", a rubber image I created for Whimsy Stamps.   I made the dark pink paper myself using a black liner marker and a white gel pen on a pink sheet of Basic Grey paper.  The image was coloured with Copics (sorry, no list today).   Those are actual hinges on the left which I created and adhered the two separate pieces of cardstock using brads.  

And, PS - I have another freebie posted on my Facebook page, so if you want to grab it while you can (its being taken down soon!) you'll have to "like" my FB page to get it!! Here's the link to my page: 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crissy-Armstrong/133764576783604

Thanks for looking today!