ShowCASe Your Style Flying High

It's time for another ShowCASe Your Style Challenge!  This week the theme is based on an inspiration photo that I have shared at the end of the post.

I took inspiration from the photo by using the hot air balloons & clouds and also through the colors in the photo.  I stamped the balloons from the new Clearly Whimsy Up, Up, & Away stamp set and cut them out (there is a coordinating die set available here too).  I stamped the fun little banner onto the largest balloon that is included in the stamp set.  The sentiment is from Up, Up and Away Sentiments.  I also die cut those wonderful clouds using the new Stitched Clouds die set.  I love those swirly clouds!  

I hope you'll play along with us!  We would love to see your creations using stamps from the Clearly Whimsy line, but all products are welcome to be used and no one is disqualified from winning!  The challenge is open for 2 weeks.  You can link up your cards and see the other DT samples by clicking here.  There are prizes up for grabs too, so be sure to check that out too!

Have a great day!  

Other products used:

Patterned Paper: Avery Elle The Everyday Collection, Heidi Swapp September Skies

Cardstock: PTI White, Soft Stone, Melon Berry

Ink:  Amuse Ocean & Papaya; Fresh Ink Coral; Avery Elle Raspberry & Truffle

A Little Robot Love

Hey everyone!  Did you check out the Lil' Inker Designs release last week?  I have another cute robot card that I want to share with you today using the new Robot Builders stamp set!

This card is made using the adorable stamps from Lil' Inker Designs called Robot Builder.  These stamps are so much fun and have so many possibilities.  I first started by die cutting my mat from the Stitched Mats: Side Stitched Rectangles dies and stamped my robots on that piece.   I thought it would be fun if the girl & boy robot were holding hands so I spaced everything so that they could do that!    I attached the panel to my card with a little adhesive and the red clothespin.  Lastly, I stamped my sentiment, also from Robot Builder.

If you haven't checked out the latest release from Lil' Inker Designs, you should take a peek!  Lots of cute new stamps & dies available!

Thank you for visiting!  I hope you enjoyed today's card!

With Sympathy

Sympathy cards are never fun to make.  Finding something appropriate can be very difficult.  And because they aren't fun to make, I don't usually have any on hand when I need them.  With that in mind, I made two different versions of the same card using the Frantic Stamper Small With Sympathy word die.

I created the background with the Triangle Card Panel die.  I really like how versatile this die is! 

 I chose to leave most of the triangles in place (I taped them on the back side of the cardstock so that they would all stay in), and only popped out two rows.   You can see here that when I was finished with the card front, I popped the triangle panel up with dimensionals.

I die cut the small With Sympathy with gold cardstock.  Then, I added a small butterfly from the Petite Butterflies die set and added a gold glittered enamel dot to the center.  I tied a piece of twine around the bottom of the card front to finish it off.

This card is almost identical to the first, I just changed up the colors for a more feminine look.

I still incorporated the trendy gold into my card, but this time as an accent bow. 

Dies I used on these projects:

Small With Sympathy

Triangle Card Panel

Petite Butterflies

And, if you would like a more elegant "With Sympathy" die, this is also available

With Sympathy Large

Thanks for stopping by today!

Clearly Whimsy Stamps Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the ...

Clearly Whimsy Stamps January release BLOG HOP!

The CWS design team have been sharing some amazing creations made with these new stamps and dies over the last couple of days, and today we are celebrating their release with a GRAND BLOG HOP!

The hop starts today and ends on Wednesday, January 21st at midnight EDT.

If you would like to hop along with us today, please CLICK HERE to start the hop at Amy's blog.

Probably my favorite image from the Get Well Soon stamp set is the heartbeat image.  I love that it has a heart in the middle of it!  So cute!  I embossed that image in pink on my light gray cardstock.

The sentiment is from Get Well Soon Additions.   I really like how this set was made well for mix & matching sentiments! And it coordinates so well with the Get Well Soon set!

Be sure to take a look at all of the Design Team blogs today!  Here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Whimsy blog

Amy Kolling

Sylvia Blum

Heather Pulvirenti

Jen Carter  -- You are here!

Kristie Goulet

Becky Carafa

Alanna Moses

Debbie Eastman

Denise Lynn

PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop!  We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left here and on today’s design team posts, so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment to be entered into the draw.

Please visit the Whimsy blog for a full reveal of this month's new release. The entire new release is available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store RIGHT NOW, and if you love our new clear line as much as we do, why not ask your LSS to stock it!

Clearly Whimsy is running a special promotion until Sunday 18th January, and have discounted everything in this release by 10%!! Whimsy Stamps also offers FREE SHIPPING for US orders over $75.

     

Finally, we would like to let you know that our friends over at StampNation are celebrating their 4th birthday this week and Whimsy Stamps is one of their sponsors! As well as giving away some great prizes, we also have a special offer for StampNation members - you can find details about this on the StampNation site.

We hope you've enjoyed this release!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!