Shine!

Hey everyone!  Today I am stopping in to share I card I made with the latest stamps & dies from Lil' Inker Designs!

I started by die cutting the fabulous Girl's Best Friend Diamond Die with holographic paper (saved off the back of a package!).  I stamped the "shine", from the Alphabet Gems stamp set in VersaMark and then embossed it with white embossing powder.  I took out my pearlescent watercolors and lightly colored the letters.  I also added one lone sequin to the diamond die to mimic that shine and sparkle that you often see when diamonds catch the light.  Super quick & simple card!

Thanks for stopping in today!  I'm off to do some last minute Christmas shopping.  I'm SO close to being done! :)

Friendship Hop for Simonne :)

Welcome to a very special blog hop!  Today the Whimsy design team members are hosting a  friendship hop in honor of a special member of the Whimsy Stamps family, Simonne Clay. Simonne has been a fixture here at Whimsy for many years and we all just wanted to show our appreciation for all that she does for each of us and for sharing her amazing talent as an illustrator.

I've only recently become acquainted with Simonne and she is just the sweetest person!  I have enjoyed getting to know her a little better over the months.  She is so just as talented as she is sweet too.  She does so much for our team so I am so happy to be able to help honor her and thank her for all of her contributions!

I chose the sentiment "a million wishes" because that is what I wish for Simonne...that her hopes & wishes will come true!  

To create the card I used stamp sets all created by Simonne.  I started by stamping the chevron background from Basic Backgrounds & Borders in Fresh Ink Slate ink.  I used two stamp sets to create the sentiment.  "A million" is from the Thanks a Million stamp set & "wishes" is from the Happy Everything stamp set.  The circle bursts are also from Happy Everything (that set has so many components that I have a hard time NOT using it on every card, it is just that versatile).  The little gold dots are from the Scandi Christmas set.

Be sure to visit everyone on the hop!

Whimsy Blog 

Alanna Moses

Debbie Eastman

Ellie Stover

Amy Kolling

Iris Wiechmann

Danni Bindel

Heather Pulvirenti

Jen Carter -- You are here!

Louise Roache -- Your next stop!

Shannah Bartle

Shelby Thomas

Becky Carafa

Bev Rochester

Deb Routledge

Jacque Beddingfield

Crissy Armstrong

Denise Lynn 

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Clearly Whimsy Happy Everything, Basic Backgrounds & Borders 1, Thanks a Million, Scandi Christmas

Dies: Lil' Inker Designs Anytime Tags 2

Ink: Fresh Ink Slate, Sugar; Avery Elle Mint to Be; Delicata Golden Glitz; PTI True Black

Twine: Garn & Mehr Mint & Copper

Be Beautiful!

Frantic Stamper has a new die release out that many of you will find very interesting!  A vast majority of the release is WORD DIES!!  

Today I have a card to share featuring two of the new dies and a beautiful snowflake panel.

I used Frantic Stamper's Reverse Snowflake Panel which is very unique!  It cuts the design out of the card front while leaving the panel attached to the card base.  I love that!  The snowflakes in this die are so pretty too!  I placed a piece of aqua glitter paper behind the panel.

I love so many of the word dies in this release!  The "be" is part of a die set called Accessory Words that allows you to build phrases with your dies!  How cool is that?  The beautiful die is also new.  You will be seeing me use these new dies a ton!  

Accessory Words

Beautiful Word Die 

Reverse Snowflake Panel

Want to see a few more of my favorite Frantic Stamper word dies? :)

And there are SO many more to choose from! :)

Happy shopping!

A Whole Lotta Happy!

It's time for another challenge from the ShowCASe Your Style Challenge blog!  This week the challenge is based on a sketch. 

I used this adorable penguin from the Penguin Fun stamp set & coordinating Penguin Fun die set for my focal image.  I colored his feet & beak with copics.  I really like how this set includes several options for things to put on his head: earmuffs, hat & antlers! 

The sentiment is from the Happy Everything stamp set which is so very versatile!  Here I embossed it in white.  My snowflake background was created with embossing paste and a Heidi Swapp stencil.  My patterned paper is from the Basic Grey paper pack Evergreen.

I hope you join us this week for the ShowCASe Your Style Challenge!