I am quietly seeping back into the land of blogging :)

Well, lets say I've had a rough month, been lazy and lethargic and utterly devoid of any interest and energy. Trying to get my act together now though. Thank you so much for words of support, for understanding, for the beautiful cards you sent me - I truly am blessed with marvelous friends!

It shows my level of procrastination that my last post was Whimsy February release and now I am coming back with sneak previews for Whimsy March release. :D

Today we are showing you Meljens stamps for March release and the one I've used is called Little Puddle Duck. It's going toe available at Whimsy Stamps on Wednesday this week.

As always after a long break I have kinda lost my grip on Copics, hopefully a little practice will mend that.:)

Thank you so much for dropping in and I'll be back tomorrow with another sneaky-peaky :)

Hugs

Whimsy Release Party Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps February new rubber release BLOG HOP!

We have 16 gorgeous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new fantastic 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, Chris Dark, Jacque Beddingfield, Tracy Payne, and Elaine Hughes!

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 fabulousness!

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

5 stamps / stamp sets from Crissy Armstrong
Fragrant Rose ~ Darling Daisies ~ Smell the Flowers ~Valerie's Spring Rain ~ Fancy Bench

3 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Balloon Mouse ~ Baby Bunny's Bottle ~ Spring Sitter Bunny

4 stamps from Kenny K
Uptown Angel ~ Star ~ Lady Raven ~ Vicki LeeVicious

4 stamps / stamp sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Postage Stamps ~ Birthday Postage Stamps ~ Balloon Sentiments ~ Birthday Wish List

2 dies
Postage Stamp Die ~ Balloon Set Dies

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Denise's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Chris's blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday February 9th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday February 16th 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. Also, we 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 Smell The Flowers by Crissy Armstrong. For sentiment I used a stamp from Postage Stamps set which I cut out with a matching die.

The colouring is done with distress inks.

The flowers and leaves are a combination of Marianne's dies and Papermania punches and turned to my beloved OA papers again.

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

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

Chris Olsen
Donna Smith
Tracy Payne
Beate Johns
Crissy Armstrong
Simonne Clay
Deb Routledge
Crystal Irwin
Debbie Eastman
Ann Vento
Denise Lynn
Annika Ryan
Iris Wiechmann
Erin Bailey
Jacque Beddingfield
Vicki Parson
Lori Pachkowsky
Marley van der Heijden
Elaine Hughes
Patricia Garcia
Chris Dark
Vanja Stevanovic
Stephanne Maraver

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

Hugs

Baby bunny

Hi,
This is a scheduled post to show you a little quick card for Whimsy February release preview that I managed to make before I left to Estonia for two weeks.

The stamp is by Meljens, it's called Baby Bunnys Bottle and will be available at Whimsy Stamps this Wednesday, Feb. 9th.

The sentiments are stamped with a new Balloon Styles set and cut out with matching dies, both also available at Whimsy Stamps this Wednesday.

Thank you so much for visiting  and big-big hugs!

Whimsy giveaway winner!!

 A bit late announcing the winner again - had a queen of a migraines today. Luckily not a king - I know this cause I had that on Tuesday, lol

And the winner is (drumroll) Archie's Mum from Life in General!!!! Congratulations - you have won a A Movie Star from WHIMSY STAMPS!

 I will contact you shortly about the mailing details!

It's going to be very quiet here for next couple of weeks - I am flying back home on Saturday to be with my Dad for a while. Hopefully I'll be able to do Whimsy new release hop next week.

Fingers crossed I'll get back into more crafting one day.

Hugs

Whimsy Stamps 24-hour giveaway - sign up quick!

Whimsy's Weekly Wednesday Giveaways!

Each week one of our Whimsy Designers will offer up a 24 hour chance to win a free Whimsy Stamps rubber stamp!

And the good news is I will be giving away a stamp from Kenny K collection every first Wednesday of the month!

The stamp itself will be a surprise abut will be announced with the winning entry! The only rule to enter is that you please leave your name in the linky feature below before the draw closes - it will be open for 24 hours! I will announce the winner tomorrow!

THE DRAW WILL CLOSE TOMORROW 12.01 PM GMT!

I don't have enough words...

Thank you all so much for the words of condolences and comfort. Reading all your comments and emails has been wonderful. Nothing will take away the pain of losing my mother but it's amazing to feel that out there, in our beloved land of blogging and crafting, are so many friends who care and are there for me.

I apologize that I haven't been responding to all of the emails and comments - most of the days I'm just not up to much chatting.

I decided to express my feelings the best way I know. Here's the result.

The challenge at Make it Colourful was to colour on anything except white card kraft, vellum, fabric, tissue paper (candles), wood etc. I spent a long time colouring that image with Prismacolor and Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. It is a work of love. Although I know there are many mistakes there - I will learn from these in the future.

The fairy is from Crafts and Me and the swing is a contribution from Make It Crafty store towards Help For Katie campaign.

Katie was diagnosed with stage 4 Stomach Cancer before Christmas and is currently undergoing her only option which is Chemotherapy. The campaign is collecting money to help with her treatment and give some treat to her two lovely boys. A lot of wonderful artists have donated images toward it.

Jak Heath is also running a competition on her blog for the cards using the images from Help For Katie set, there are some lovely prizes so do check it out.
I am not going to be rambling about how I made this card. If you have any questions about the materials/techniques, just ask me in comments section and email me. I'll do my best to answer.

Again, thank you so much - your support and understanding has made my heart a lot lighter!

Hugs

Very sad news

My dear friends, I just wanted to let you know that my beautiful, mad, vibrant, headstrong, WONDERFUL Mom passed away last Saturday.  She had been in poor health for years but her death was sudden and has left us all reeling in shock.  I am still trying to accept the fact that she is not around any more.

Crafting is my therapy so I'd probably still be making some cards but posting will be very erratic on my blog for at least a month and there might be some totally quiet periods.

I hope you understand.

Big hugs to you all