You're Pretty Amazing - featuring NEW products from Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Hi everyone and happy weekend :)

Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko has launched some super cool new products at CHA!

And it's my pleasure to show you some projects on which I used all of these awesome new goodies over the next days and weeks!

One of these projects is featured on the Imagine Crafts blog today and the detailed instructions (including step-by-step pictures) can be found on their website as a project sheet --> here

For the background I have used three of the super duper cool new Creative Medium Iridescent gels! This stuff is just amazing! It is so versatile... the possibilities are just endless!

The flower petals are filled with the gorgeous new StazOn Studio Glaze! 
Even though I love all of the new products, I think the StazOn Studio Glaze is my favorite new product from this years new product release so far! It comes in so many colors (StazOn colors) and it is just amazing and so easy and wonderful to use! 
I am pretty sure everyone will LOVE it, as soon as you have tried it!

Please refer to the project sheet on the Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko homepage for detailed instructions and the list of supplies :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you here on my blog again, soon :)

Sylvia xx

Clearly Whimsy Stamps January Release Blog Hop

Hi everyone and happy Saturday :)

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 (Saturday January 17th at 8.00AM ET) 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. Here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Whimsy blog  Amy Kolling  Sylvia Blum  Heather Pulvirenti  Jen Carter  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! 

We are 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.

  

And here is my card for today :)

The stamp sets I used in my very bright and fun Birthday card are "Birthday Balloon" and "Basic Borders 2".

And here is how I did the card: 
First I cut a square panel from white cardstock approx 1/2" smaller than the cardfront.
Then I stamped the checkerboard border in pink Neon inks around the panel to create a frame.
I stamped the dog balloon and "awesome" sentiment with Memento red inks onto a piece of scrap cardstock and cut the banner word as well as the balloon out, trimming closely.
I stamped the "awesome" sentiment again, this time directly onto the card front with Versafine black ink and mounted the balloon and "awesome" banner word with dimensional foam tape onto the card front.

Et voila... there you have a bright and fun Birthday card ;-) 

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!

Sylvia xx

Supplies stamps - Clearly Whimsy Stamps - Birthday Balloon, Basic Borders 2 inks - IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko: Radiant Neon Electric Pink; Memento Love Letter; Versafine Onyx Black; Memento Marker London Fog others - white cardstock, heart rhinestones, dimensional foam tape

Clearly Whimsy Stamps January Release Sneak Peek Day #2

Hi everyone happy Thursday :)

Welcome to the first sneak peek day of the Clearly Whimsy Stamps January 2015 release

We are releasing 6 new clear stamp sets and 8 coordinating die/die sets this week, and they are available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store RIGHT NOW and selected Whimsy Stamps retailers tomorrow! 

Today we are revealing the Get Well Soon 4x6" stamp set and its companion Get Well Soon Additions 3x4" stamp set, together with 2 coordinating die sets, a Basic Backgrounds & Borders 2 4x6" stamp set, plus a new Basic Borders Trio die set and a standalone Love Large Word die.  Hop on over to the Whimsy blog for more details. 

And here is my sample card for today :)

It is a very simple one layer card.

The stamp set used in my sample are the "Get Well Soon" set together with "Get Well Soon Additions".

We are 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.

    

PRIZE ALERT 

We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment to be entered into the draw:

Becky Carafa  Heather Pulvirenti  Alanna Moses  Sylvia Blum  Jen Carter  Kirstie Goulet  Debbie Eastman

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. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you here on my blog tomorrow for a BLOG HOP because of Clearly Whimsy Stamps January release :)

Sylvia xx

Supplies stamps - Clearly Whimsy Stamps - Get Well Soon, Get Well Soon Additions inks - IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko: Versafine Onyx Black; Memento Love Letter  tools - corner rounder others - white cardstock, clear rhinestones

Clearly Whimsy Stamps January Release Sneak Peek Day #1

Hi everyone happy Thursday :)

Welcome to the first sneak peek day of the Clearly Whimsy Stamps January 2015 release

Over the next 3 days we will reveal our *BRAND NEW* Clearly Whimsy Stamps release! 

We are releasing 6 new clear stamp sets and 8 coordinating die/die sets this week, and they will be available to buy from the Whimsy Stamps store TODAY and selected Whimsy Stamps retailers on Saturday! 

Today we are revealing the Birthday Balloon 3x4” stamp set together with its coordinating Birthday Balloon die, a standalone Birthday word die, Up Up and Away 4x6” stamp set and its companion Up Up and Away Sentiments 3x4" stamp set, together with a coordinating Up Up and Away die set and a Stitched Clouds die set. 

Hop on over to the Whimsy blog for more details.

And here is my sample card for today :)

The stamp set used in my sample is the adorable "Birthday Balloon" stamp set and I also used the "Birthday Large Word" die. Oh how I love those large word dies from Clearly Whimsy Stamps.

And here is how I did my simple card: I repeatedly stamped the "happy" word with pink and orange Radiant Neon inks on a white panel.
Then I die cut the "Birthday" word several times from white cardstock. I colored one of the cut out words with blue Radiant Neon inks and then made a stack from the die cut words with the blue one on top. 

I have seen the amazing Jennifer McGuire teaching this technique of using die cuts and wanted to try it since I saw it the first time, but never did. Now that I finally managed to try it here on this card with the beautiful "Birthday Large Word" die, I really like the result a lot! :)


We are 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.

     

PRIZE ALERT 
We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $15 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today’s hop! We will draw the lucky winner from the comments left on today’s design team posts (listed below), so be sure to visit everyone and leave a comment to be entered into the draw:
Jen Carter  Amy Kolling  Kirstie Goulet  Becky Carafa  Heather Pulvirenti  Sylvia Blum  Alanna Moses  Debbie Eastman  Denise Lynn

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. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you here on my blog tomorrow for the second day of sneak peeks for the Clearly Whimsy Stamps January release :)

Sylvia xx

Supplies stamps - Clearly Whimsy Stamps - Birthday Balloon stamp set dies - Clearly Whimsy Stamps - Birthday Large Word die inks - IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko: Radiant Neon - Electric Pink, Electric Orange, Electric Blue;  tools -die cutting machine, corner rounder others - white cardstock, clear rhinestones, dimensional foam adhesive

showCASe your style #6

Hi everyone and happy Saturday :)

After some chaotic weeks, I think (hope) I am back to normal, finally :-)

Today I want to show you my card for the brand new showCASe your style challenge :)

This time our challenge is to follow a color scheme. I love this color combo, because it's fresh, beautiful and reminds me of Spring!

For this card I used my beloved -and often used- "Happy Everything" stamp set from Clearly Whimsy Stamps together with my favorite inks from Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko.


I would be delighted if you decide to visit our showCASe your style challenge blog and take part!  You have two weeks to play along!

Can't wait to see what *you* will come up with! :) 

Please refer to the grey boxes below this post for a complete list of supplies :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you here on my blog again, soon :)

Sylvia xx

Supplies stamps - Clearly Whimsy Stamps - Happy Everything stamp set inks - IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko: Radiant Neon - Electric Blue; Versafine - Onyx Black; Memento - Pear Tart tools -paper piercing tool, ruler others - white cardstock, green twine, clear rhinestones, dimensional foam adhesive

Challenges showCASe your Style #6 (color combo)

showCASe your style #5

Hi everyone and  HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my lovely blog readers!

I have not blogged for some time now (sorry!) but I am trying hard to keep up with everything.

Unfortunately I did not manage to post my card for the last showCASe your style challenge, which was to use at least one die cut on your clean and simple project, earlier but *ta dah*... here it is.

I have used the "Stitched Border Die Trio" set once again (I just *love* this die set!) and paired it with the "Happy Everything" stamp set to create a fun and bright Birthday card.

BTW: Our next challenge starts on Saturday. Hope to see then! :)

Please refer to the grey boxes below this post for a complete list of supplies :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you here on my blog again, soon :)

Sylvia xx

Supplies stamps - Clearly Whimsy Stamps - Happy Everything stamp set dies - Clearly Whimsy Stamps - Stitched Border Die Trio  inks - IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko: Radiant Neon - Electric Pink, Electric Orange; Versafine - Onyx Black; Memento - London Fog patterned paper - Studio Calico tools -WRMK Corner Chomper;  others - white cardstock, clear rhinestones, dimensional foam adhesive

Challenges showCASe your Style #5 (use at least one die on your clean and simple project)   CASology #128 (date)

showCASe your style #4

Hi everyone and happy Saturday :)

It's time for our next challenge at showCASe your style :-)
This time we have a cool sketch for you and we hope you all are inspired and motivated to play along with us!!!

For my card I replaced the circle in the sketch with two die cut gingerbread people.

All stamps and dies on this card are from last months Clearly Whimsy Stamps release!

First I die cut a gingerbread man and woman from white cardstock with the "Gingerbread People Die Set" and stamped the coordinating people with Delicata Golden Glitz ink onto them (stamp set: "Gingerbread People")

The gold looks a little bit splotchy here in the picture, but I promise it does NOT look like this IRL but soooo lovely, smooth and super shiny :)

The sentiment from the "Christmas Greetings" set was stamped with Brilliance ink in Rocket Red and the large word "Christmas" (also from "Christmas Greetings") was stamped with Delicata Golden Glitz ink again.

I would love to see how you feel inspired by Simonnes wonderful sketch and hope you play along with us and link up your project :-)

Please refer to the grey boxes below this post for a complete list of supplies :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you here on my blog again, soon :)

Sylvia xx

Supplies stamps - Whimsy Stamps: Clearly Whimsy Stamps "Gingerbread People", "Christmas Greetings" dies - Whimsy Stamps: "Gingerbread People Die Set" inks - IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko Delicata Golden Glitz, Brilliance Rocket Red  designer paper - Carta Bella "Christmas Time" 6x6 paper pad tools - WRMK Corner Chomper;  Spellbinders die cutting machine others -  white cardstock;  dimensional foam adhesive

Challenges showCASe your style #4 (sketch)

Merry & Bright - AIR project

Hi everyone and happy Monday :)

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! 

Today I am sharing a card with you, that is a little bit unusual for me, because I have colored (*gasp*) two super cute stamped bunnies ;-)

You will find the complete card, together with detailed step-by-step instructions (with pictures) and the supply list on the Imagine Crafts Blog! 

I hope you will stop by their blog and maybe leave me a comment over there. 
That would be super awesome :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you here on my blog again, soon :)

Sylvia xx

Merry Christmas - showCASe your style #2

Hi everyone and happy Saturday :)

It's time for our next challenge at showCASe your style :-)
This time we have a color challenge for you and we hope you all are inspired and motivated to play along with us!!!

For my (very ;-) ) clean and simple Christmas card I have used the new "Christmas Greetings" stamp set from Whimsy Stamps' Clearly Whimsy Stamps collection.

I first stamped the branches from the Christmas Greetings set with Delicata Silvery Shimmer alongside the left side of the focal panel.

After the ink was dry, I filled in the berries with irRESISTible Pico Embellisher in gold to add a little texture and dimension for some extra pizazz.

The words (also from the Christmas Greetings set) were stamped with Delicata Golden Glitz and Versafine Onyx Black (can you see, how the Delicata Silvery Shimmer still shines through the Onyx Black? Love this effect!)

I would love to see how you feel inspired by our lovely inspirational picture (see above) and hope you play along with us and link up your project :-)

Please refer to the grey boxes below this post for a complete list of supplies :)

*** Thank you ***

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you here on my blog again, soon :)

Sylvia xx

Supplies stamps - Whimsy Stamps: Clearly Whimsy Stamps "Christmas Greetings" color medium - IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko: irRESISTibles Pico Embellisher "Gold" inks - IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko Delicata Golden Glitz, Delicata Silvery Shimmer; Versafine Onyx Black tools - IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko: Craft Mat; WRMK Corner Chomper;  others -  white cardstock;  dimensional foam adhesive

Challenges showCASe your style #2 (color / inspiration picture)              CASology #121 (festive)