A Great Canadian Stamp Store!! Scrappin Great Deals!!

One of the BEST Canadian stores out there - I should know, I'm an avid customer - just sent me a TEN DOLLAR CERTIFICATE as a prize - JUST FOR BEING THEIR CUSTOMER!!!!

If you buy from them online, your name gets entered into their weekly draw.  And I WON this week, YAHOOOOOO!!

Who doesn't get excited about free stuff, and esp. for us card makers, when its MORE CARD MAKING SUPPLIES!!!

I love this store - they have weekly sales with deep discounts on tons of stuff too. They have very reasonable regular prices as well as great customer service. 

Love the gals at this store! 

Love Scrappin Great Deals!

Thank you SGD - you made my day!!

Jelly Bean

A birthday card I did for my daughter.  I used Jelly Bean and Party Time Accessories.  Coloured with Copics.  Thanks for visiting!!

New Release at Whimsy!

Welcome to the Whimsy Stamps March 2013 rubber stamp and die release!

Today, Whimsy Stamps is releasing 27 fantastic new Rubber Stamps & Stamp Sets, 6 wonderful new Whimsy Shapeology Dies, 2 fabulous new Shape EZ by TLC templates, 2 beautiful Whimsy Designer Paper 6x6 packs, and 2 *NEW* gorgeous sets of Whimsy Prints. These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We are thrilled to announce that Monika Martinson has joined our talented group of stamp illustrators! Monika draws the most beautiful floral images and we are releasing 4 gorgeous rubber stamp sets illustrated by Monika for Whimsy Stamps this month.  Welcome to the Whimsy Stamps family, Monika! From today until 26 March, the Whimsy DT and our March Special Guest Designer, Louise Hodge, will be showcasing these new products with a daily mini blog hop. At the end of release week, we will draw 3 winners from the comments left on our designers' daily mini blog hop posts and each of these 3 winners will win 2 new release stamps! You have 24hrs to enter each daily mini blog hop by leaving a comment on every blog listed for that day. The prize locations are secret, so be sure to hop and leave comments every day to win! At the end of release week (Wednesday 27 March) a release round-up will be posted on the Whimsy blog together with a list of winners. To take a peek at today's fabulous new release creations, please click on the links below...

Ellie
Janette
Melissa
Michele
Tammy Louise

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

Finally, here is a full reveal of the wonderful March release. Don't forget to visit today's DT and leave a comment on their blog posts!

[Please note that the following pictures are not to scale]

4 Crissy Armstrong rubber stamps
Am I a Keeper? ~ Crown of Daisies ~ Hip Hippo-ray ~ Summer Pony
 
3 Elisabeth Bell rubber stamps

Goldie Locks ~ L'il Bells Snack Time ~ Skippydee and Indiana
                        
4 Kenny K rubber stamps
Blonde Bombshell ~ Total Drama ~ What If? ~ Wise Guy
      
  2 Meljen's Designs rubber stamps
Hunny Bunny ~ Lazy Susan Buggies
             
  2 Sylvia Zet rubber stamps
Birthday Baby Boy ~ Love You Slow Much
             
  3 2CuteInk Rubber stamp sets
Bundles of Joy ~ It's Play Time ~ Let's Party
                          
  *NEW ARTIST* Monika Martinson
Cup of Sunshine ~ Spring Tulips ~ Summertime Blooms ~ Tiger Lily
 
  5 Raindrop Echo Designs rubber stamp sets
Everyday Button Sentiments ~ Fun Life Tickets 2 ~ Singing in the Rain Spring Silhouettes Notables 6

~ Vintage Fancy Corners
       
6 Shapeology dies
Button Die ~ Daisy Doily ~ Dandelion Border Lace Border

 ~ Mini Lace Doily Die ~ Umbrella Die
 
  6x6 Paper Stacks
Designer Grunge ~ Vintage Harmony 24 sheets per pack - 12 designs, 2 of each printed on heavy weight slightly textured papers. Acid and Lignin free.

  2 *NEW* sets of Whimsy Prints  ~  The "Whimsy Prints Collection" are beautiful sets of hand-colored images which have been digitally reproduced and die-cut into various shapes. The "Birthday Wishes" pack contains 3 sets of 4 images illustrated and hand-coloured by Crissy Armstrong. The "Make A Wish" pack contains 3 sets 4 images illustrated by Elisabeth Bell and hand-coloured by Simonne Clay. Whimsy Prints are printed on 100lb premium coated paper and professionally die-cut leaving smooth edges. Each pack contains 12 die-cut printed toppers.
Birthday Wishes (Crissy Armstrong)
 
Make a Wish (Elisabeth Bell)
         
  2 Shape EZ by TLC templates
Flip Basket ~ PIllow Box
                       
 Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you enjoy our new release!

Mission Trip

Hi peeps!  I wanted to share something my daughter is doing and garner some more support for this worthy cause.  She is going on a mission trip to India to shower some love and care on girls who have been rescued from the sex trade.  Go to her website to read all about it:
http://val4india.webstarts.com/

Winter's Magic

Some of my images are now available as fully coloured and pre-cut Whimsy Prints.  This is the original coloured version of Snowflake Fairy Princess from the Winter's Magic set.
Thanks for stopping by!

Jingle Cat

Find me on FB here! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Crissy-Armstrong/133764576783604

Jingle Cat

Jingle Cat (rubber stamp at Whimsy) coloured with the following Copics:
Kitty's Fur:  C2, 3, 4, 5 V91
Eyes:  YG23
Ear: E04, R20, 22
Muzzle: R00
Red on hat: R29, 59, 89, C7, 5
White trim of hat: V91, BV20, C3, 5
Gold bells: E39, 49, Y00, 15, 17, YR14, 23
Red Collar: R46, 59, C5

Blessings of Peace to you!

A Christmas Card

I'm on Facebook now!  Friend me! Just look up Crissy Armstrong and you'll see my page.  :-)

I want to show some Christmas cards I sent out this year.  This is made with the original hand painted Santa And Teddy Portrait rubber stamp which was then printed and made into a Whimsy Print from the Holiday Wishes set.  Its water coloured with artist quality paints.  Here is your close-up:

See you on FB! 

50% Digi Sale at Whimsy!!!

Who doesn't love a sale, and a 50% off sale at that!  All Whimsy Digi images are on sale now through Dec 18th, so get on over there to save BIG!!

Blog Hop Winner!

Announcing the winner of the Whimsy Prints blog hop!  Congratulations Chevonne Pannulo!! Please contact me with your mailing address and I'll ask Denise of Whimsy Stamps to mail you a package of Whimsy Prints! crissy.armstrong@sympatico.ca

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Blog Hop and Prize Stop!

INTRODUCING: WHIMSY PRINTS!!
Hi everyone and welcome to the Whimsy Prints BLOG HOP! You've landed on a prize stop, so if  you add your name to the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post, you will be entered into a draw to win a Whimsy Prints Holiday Wishes set!   In October, Whimsy Stamps announced the release of a BRAND NEW Whimsy Stamps product line - the Whimsy Prints Collection. The Whimsy Prints Collection are beautiful sets of hand-colored images which have been digitally reproduced and die-cut into various shapes. Whimsy Prints are printed on 100lb premium coated paper and professionally die-cut leaving smooth edges. Each pack contains 12 die-cut prints (3 sets of 4 images). The Crissy Armstrong prints are lovingly hand-colored by Yours Truly ;-)

The Elisabeth Bell prints have been hand-colored by our talented Senior Designer Simonne Clay:

Whimsy Prints Collection are very straight forward and easy to use. They can be attached directly to your project with glue or double sided tape. Use them as is or cut to fit the needs of your project. One of the benefits of using Whimsy Prints is to cut back on the amount of time needed to hand color images. To summarize, it is a great way to make quick projects when time is of the essence! These are also wonderful for beginner crafters and kid projects. If you joined us for our last 2 releases, you may have seen some of the beautiful projects our DT and Special Guests have created using these prints. Today we are showcasing these gorgeous Whimsy Prints with a special BLOG HOP! In addition to our regular Special Guests, we are delighted to welcome both Crissy Armstrong and Elisabeth Bell who are joining us for this hop! The hop starts today (Friday November 30th at 12.00PM EST) and ends on Monday December 3rd at 12.00PM EST. For this hop we have 4 different candy stops where you can enter to win a set of Whimsy Prints. The location of these candy stops is a secret, so if you haven't found them, please go back to the beginning and start hopping! If you would like to hop along with us today and haven’t arrived from the Iris Wiechmann's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Bev's blog.
Here is what I created using one of the Whimsy Prints from the Holiday Wishes collection.  I had originally hand painted the "Christmas Pony" image (which is also available from Whimsy as a rubber stamp image) using water colours.  The DP is from Kaiser Craft Dec 25th 6x6 pad.  Roses are Whimsy Buds.  Ribbon, red twine, rhinestone swirls and flat back pearls from Michael's.  The cinnamon sticks are from my stash from years ago, originally from the spice aisle of the grocery store! The sentiment was a freebie that came with an order at Whimsy Stamps!

I'm entering the following challenges:
 Crazy 4 Challenges: Put A Bow On It
Creative Moments Bloggers Network: Anything Goes/Buttons and Bows
Unique Crafters Challenge: Little Girls
Emergency Crafters: Anything Goes
Raise The Bar: Bundle Up
Pixie Dust Studio: Winter Holiday
Fussy and Fancy: Christmas
Aud Sentiments: BINGO (use the word "merry", 3D item, ribbon)
Fab 'n' Funky: Use 3 of something (roses)
Southern Girls Challenge: Colours pink and brown
Hanna And Friends: Animals
Delightful Challenges: Floral (add flowers)
Pause Dream Enjoy: Forgotten Stash (cinnamon sticks and red twine)
 You are done the hop now! But just in case you missed it,  here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Bev Rochester
Debbie Eastman
Denise Lynn
  Jacque Beddingfield
Ellie Stover
Simonne Clay
Ann Vento
Heidy Blom
Elisabeth Bell
Tammy Louise Cunliffe
Iris Wiechmann
Crissy Armstrong (you are here!)

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy our Whimsy Prints projects!

Don't forget to enter your name for the blog candy draw!  Winner to be announced Dec 5th.