Whimsy April Rubber Stamp Release Blog Hop - and a fab prize for grabs

Hello and welcome to the start of Whimsy Stamps April new rubber release BLOG HOP!

We have 13 fabulous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new wonderful dies to show you today! These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Beate Johns, Deb Routledge, Jacque Beddingfield, Mindy Baxter and Minna Paajanen.

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more inspiration!

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today:

3 stamps from Crissy Armstrong
Big Comfy Cake ~ Come Fly With Me ~ Cupcake Bliss

3 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Curious Little Fairy ~ Fairy Toadstools ~ Little Fairy Friend

4 stamps from Kenny K
Biker Babe ~ Cheers Dude ~ Madison Attitude ~ Soho

3 stamps/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Everyday Mini Postage Stamps ~ Party Mini Letter Seals ~ Postcard Background

2 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Mini Postage Die ~ Double Scallop Tag Die

I have an absolutely gorgeous prize to give away to all those that post our release badge on their blogs to help advertise the new release. LOOKIE:

To qualify for the prize just pop the badge from the beginning of my post on your side bar with a link back here and enter your name to Mr. Linky at the end of the post!

The hop starts today (Wednesday April 13th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday April 20th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop, and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. We also have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping! *wink*

For my blog hop creation I used Biker Babe from the new release and the ticket sentiments from the previous release.

I used a new cute fold I found a tutorial for on StampArtic. It's good for soul to try something a bit different once in a while.

The image is coloured with Copic markers (the whole E40-ies series) and dark brown and white Prismacolour pencils. As usual, I worked on Make It Colour blending card which is my absolute favorite for Copics.

The fancy chipboard swirls are from Make It Crafty, the flowers I made myself from cheesecloth. Flower center was made using felt, microbeads, bling and beads, all welded together with me trusty glue gun.

So now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Deb's blog.

Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Annika Ryan (me)
Deb Routledge
Crystal Irwin
Vicki Parson
Stephanne Maraver
Erin Bailey
Jacque Beddingfield
Marley van der Heijden
Ann Vento
Iris Wiechmann
Mindy Baxter
Denise Lynn
Crissy Armstrong
Chris Olsen
Debbie Eastman
Beate Johns
Donna Smith
Lori Pachkowsky
Minna Paajanen
Patricia Garcia
Simonne Clay

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy the new release!

Hugs,
Annika

ENTER YOUR NAME HERE FOR THE "HELP US ADVERTISE" PRIZE


Challenges:
Anita Be Stampin' - SIO - Anything Goes
Claudia & Co - 2W, 1E - 2nd W - Monochromatic
Flourishes -  Flowers, flowers everywhere
Karen's Doodles Netherlands - 1E, SIO - Anything Goes
Paper Take Weekly -  Dimension somewhere On Your Card
Sweet Stamps - 1E, SIO - For The Ladies
Tuesday Throwdown - Sparkle & Bling
Creative Stamp Friends - 2W - #22 Swirls
Karens Doodles - 1E, SIO - Fancy & Feminine
Make it Monday - Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp and Show... - distressing
Woodware USA - 2E - #22 Anything goes
Stamptacular Sunday - Must use a stamp - Girls and swirls