For unto us a child is born...

Hello everyone

I'm whizzing buy today with something inky! (:

I absolutely adore this gorgeous 

Whimsy Stamps

 stamp set

Glory To God Clear Stamp Set by Deb Davis

It has so many possibilities crafty possibilities for Christmas creations!

I masked of the centre of the card in a rectangular shape and painted a blue watercolour wash in the aperture.

Then I stamped the images and sentiment from the gorgeous 

Glory To God 

stamp set in black ink 

and mounted the design on a piece of black glitter card.  I'm sorry the glitter card does nt show up too well - you'll have to take my word for it that it's looks gorgeous! 

Finally I added some stars with a white gel pen.

I am definitely going to do this style of card again with some of the other beautiful images from the stamp set.

Ingredients from

Whimsy Stamps 

Glory To God Clear Stamp Set by Deb Davis

Card Builder Windows Die Set

Hand Stitched Nested Rectangle Dies (for the masked aperture)

Other Ingredients

Watercolour card

Blue Watercolour Ink

White Gel pen

Be sure to pop to 

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to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 

Whimsy Stamps 

to engage in some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by,

Happy creating! 

love from Sue...xxx

Giraffe advice!...

Happy Thursday lovely friends

Here's some advice from a Giraffe...

Stand tall

Eat fresh greens

Don't be afraid to stick your neck out

Preserve wild places

Be head and shoulders above the rest

Reach for new heights 

Keep your chin up

Fab isn't it!

Ingredients from Whimsy Stamps

Giraffe Rubber Cling Stamp by Jennifer Dove

Hand Stitched Nested Rectangle Dies

Other Ingredients

Neenah Desert Storm Kraft Card

Faber Castell Polychromos

Burnt Sienna 283, Burnt Ochre 187, Yellow Ochre 183

Black 199, Nougat 178

Earth Green Yellowish 186, Olive Green Yellowish

Vellum,

Fall Sentiments by Stamping Bella

Emboss Pad and Back Embossing Powder

MFT Wild Print 6 x 6 Paper Pad

Paper Doily

Wooden Button and Twine

Be sure to pop to 

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to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 

Whimsy Stamps 

to engage in some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by,

Happy creating! 

love from Sue...xxx

31 Nights of Halloween with Whimsy Stamps (Boo)!...

Oh my word - there are some super spooky things going on at wonderful 

Whimsy Stamps

I am here tonight with a fa-boo-lous stamp set from Deb Davis

Halloweeners

In all honesty you could make dozens of cards with this amazing set and just never get bored!

I had fun!  I also used  Woodgrain background stamp to make the coffin lids!  

Ingredients from Whimsy Stamps
UK Peeps you can buy all these goodies from Dies To Die For

Stamps - Halloweeners

Woodgrain Background

Dies - Card Builders Windows Die Set

Dracula's Coffin Die Set

Be sure to pop to 

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to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 

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to engage in some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by,

Happy creating! 

love from

Sue...xxx

Graduated Colour Background - Too cute!...

Hello friends,

I'm here today to show you a really easy background technique with Copic Markers, Colourless Blender and some 
Whimsy Stamps 
new release gorgeousness!

Here are the things I've used...

Whimsy Stamps Polar Bear's Christmas Tree Rubber Stamp on Make it Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes,

Copic Markers - B66, B63, B60, BG11, BG10, C2, B52, Colourless Blender refill and a natural sponge.

I started by colouring across the bottom of the design with B52

 ...then with C2...

 ...then B60... Don't worry about it looking messy, this will soon be fixed!

Then I started colouring across the top of the page with B66...

...then B63...

...then B60...

 ...then BG11...

 ...then BG10...

and B60, again, do not worry about it not looking neat and well blended.

I then repeated all of the above steps, colouring the background once more in exactly the same way.

                                                                

                           

                                                                                                                                                  

                          

I'm sure you are all thinking Sue has lost her mind to be showing us such streaky Copic colouring but I promise you this will work out fine! :)

The next step is to dab the background all over with a sponge dipped in Colourless Blender.

I did several layers of this, letting the blender dry between each application.

You will end up with something that looks like this, with lots of texture in the background

I finished the colouring the image with Copics.

                                                      

                                                    

                           

I finished my card by sprinkling some Perfect Pearls on the background to add some shimmer, mounting the design on glitter card and adding a silver bow!

Ingredients from Whimsy Stamps 

UK friends you can buy from Dies To Die For

Whimsy Stamps - Polar Bear's Christmas Tree

Whimsy Stamps - Hand Stitched Nested Rectangle Dies

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial!

It would be great to see your graduated colour backgrounds! Please share your cards with us at Copic Marker Europe by following the link 

HERE

Be sure to pop to 

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to see the gorgeous DT creations there and then to 

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to engage in some essential retail therapy!

Thank you for popping by,

Happy creating! 

love from Sue...xxx

Tooooo sweet...

Happy Saturday everyone,

It's World Cardmaking day and oh my this is exciting! 

Hello and Welcome to World Card Making Day with Whimsy Stamps!  We are so excited for you to join the fun today with an amazing blog hop from the talented Whimsy artists.  Each blog will have some inspiration with a card perfect for World Card Making Day. 

Today, I would like to share my project using the fabulous 
Kitten Halloween by Lee Holland

Ingredients from Whimsy Stamps
Kitten Halloween by Lee Holland
Happy Headlines Clear Stamps by Deb Davis
Wonky Stitched Rectangles Die Set 
Copic Markers
Background - Sky - B24, B21, B000, B0000 and Colourless Blender

Ground - G85, G24, G21, G40

Pumpkin - E19, YR18, YR15, Y18, E49, E47, E35

Kitten - W0, W2, W4, W6, W8, E11, E04

Grey Ink Pad

The card making community is so wonderful and Denise the owner of Whimsy Stamps wanted to share her appreciation with a fun day filled with inspiration, prizes and freebies.   Make sure to comment on each blog post to be eligible for the prizes.  In order to get the beautiful freebies that will be available make sure to join our 
Whimsy Stamps and Inspiration Facebook group.

If you stumbled across my blog without knowing there is a blog hop today, make sure to start at the beginning so you don't miss any of the wonderful inspiration and prize opportunities!!!

So here's the important bit - make sure you call at each blog and leave a comment to be in with the chance of winning a prize!

Blog Hop List:

Whimsy Stamps and Inspiration Facebook Group

Melissa

Dorinda

Celine

Jeanette

Niki

Iris

Sue (You are here)

Andrea

Faye 
Deb 
Alanna 
Kerys 
Rhea

Whimsy Blog

Thank you for hopping by!
enjoy yourselves on the the journey!
love from
Sue...xxx

 

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