Happy Birthday to Quixotic Paperie!

Today is an exciting day!  Why?  It marks the 2nd Anniversary for Quixotic Paperie! 

2 years ago on 1st June 2009, Elaine (Quixotic Cards) took the leap and opened an online craft store selling a small selection of crafty stash.  Now, the store features stamps from favourite companies around the world, lots of pretty papers and embellishments and other papercrafting favourites. 

To celebrate this year, we have a month filled with fun!  Stick with us as we show off projects featuring products from around the store, bring you tutorials and tips, and throw the spotlight on some of the awesome stamp companies in stock at Quixotic Paperie!  There will be prizes along the way (and a big one at the end of the month), so you won't want to miss a thing!

To get the ball rolling, this week there is a birthday special offer at Quixotic Paperie:

1st June to 8th June 2011

10% Off Throughout The Store!

(This does not stack with existing sale offers or discount coupons, and does not include Gift Certificates.)

Plus, the Design Team are all showing off their favourite creations from their time so far with Quixotic Paperie! 

Pay a visit to the rest of the team to see a round up of their favourite makes.

* ANNIKA * ELAINE * JUDY *

 * KIM C * KIM D * MARY * ROWENA *

But first, here are a few of my personal favourites!

Isn't that a CUTE image!! She is called Blowing Kisses and she's from Elisabeth Bell line of SCACD stamps

This is one of my favorite cards from this year - I love Cordelia The Mermaid and all the laser cut chipboard from Make It Crafty.

Looking at this card I really wish I would get my act together and make more interesting folds! Plus the Biker Girl is an absolutely gorgeous stamp!

.All the sentiments and postcard stamp on this card are from Whimsy sentiments and I absolutely love the result - one of my favorite cards EVER! I used digital version of Lacie With Ice Cream but she's also available as a rubber stamp from Quixotic!

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting!!
Hugs

Fabulous Florals

Time for a new challenge at Kenny K's Krafty Girlz. Theme is Fabulous Florals - use anything flowery on your project.

Kenny is offering the winner 5 digi's of the winner's choice.

My card is featuring a very perky cheerleader from Kenny K Downloads. She is coloured with Copics, no other mediums involved - except that I used Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils for the little bits of grass.

The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps - it's a new set of film strip sentiments and you can also get a cool matching die to cut them out!
The swirls are cut out with Marianne's die and embossed with black sparkly embossing powder. The papers are from Basic Grey Olivia pad and I made the flowers myself from twill ribbon.
Pink lace is by Fancy Pants.

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting to you all!
Hugs

Say Something

The challenge at Stamp Something  is Say Something this week - we would like you to use a sentiment on your card. Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp.
I am using an image from LOTV on my card and the sentiment stamp is from Whimsy Stamps.

 The image is coloured with Copic Markers and glitzed up with Stardust pens and Stickles.

 The flowers are all bits and bobs I dug up from my stash.

 Here's a close-up of the sentiment stamp - it's from Love Letter Seals set. I used a frame stamp from Joanna Sheen underneath.

Thank you for visiting and happy crafting!
Hugs

OMG, I'm so behind - finally my candy winner

Hi all and sorry for my long absence - am now finally back and trying to get into the flow again. :)

I am VERY late announcing the candy winner Stamp Something hop but better late than never ... right?? lol

So, the winner of two rubber stamps of her choice from Make It Crafty and 10 sheets of my favorite colouring paper Make It Colour is:

#31 HEIDY

Congratulations and I will contact you shortly!

Hugs to everybody - I have started to colour so will have something to show on Friday! :)

 

Whimsy Stamps May Rubber Release Blog Hop

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

We have 18 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, Deb Mitchell 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 inspiration!

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

5 stamps from Crissy Armstrong
Baby of Mine ~ Mystic ~ Thunder Lizzy ~ Wee Snippet ~ Wee Snippet & Mystic

4 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Birthday Cake Mouse ~ Birthday Cup Mouse ~ Gruffy Little Gnome ~ Happy Little Gnome

4 stamps from Kenny K
Devastatia ~ Hockey Girl ~ Queens Cutie ~ Super Mom

5 stamps/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Celebration Pennants ~ Film Strip Sentiments ~ Magical Mini Letter Seals ~ Street Art BG ~ Welcome Baby Sentiments

2 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Film Strip Die ~ Welcome Baby Die Set

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

The hop starts today (Wednesday May 18th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday May 25th 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 Wee Snippet by Crissy Armstrong.

The image is coloured with Prismacolor pencils on kraft card.

The papers are from Crate Paper Portrait pad. The filigree  corners and swirls are all laser cut chipboard painted with off-white acrylic paint

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

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

Lori Pachkowsky
Patricia Garcia
Donna Smith
Simonne Clay
Vicki Parson
Iris Wiechmann
Deb Routledge
Crystal Irwin
Minna Paajanen
Stephanne Maraver
Chris Olsen
Ann Vento
Deb Mitchell
Denise Lynn
Beate Johns
Marley van der Heijden
Debbie Eastman
Elaine Hughes
Annika Ryan
Erin Bailey

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

Challenges:
Anita Be Stampin' - SIO - #21 Pearls & Lace
A Spoonful Of Sugar - 1E - #152 Anything Goes
Claudia & Co - 2W, 1E - #82 Girls Birthday Card
Clear It Out! - 2W - Projects using Colouring Mediums
Creative Craft Challenges - 2W, 3E - 2nd W - Distressed/Vintage
Paper Take Weekly - Something Floral or Use Molly Bloom image
Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps Challenges - SIO - #43 May Flowers
Stamping Vacation - M - Start With Any Yellow Flower
Crafts and Me - #35 Anything goes, Optional Kraft
Paper Pretties - SIO -PPC154 Flowers
Stampavie and More - JFF - #142 Summer
Truly Scrumptious - 2W - #57 Anything Goes 

Hugs,

A little sneak from Whimsy Stamps... :)

This is a pre-scheduled post - I am away for most of May due to family issues.

Whimsy Stamps May rubber release is ALMOST here and I have a tiny little sneak to share with you!

This grumpy gnome is by Meljens and will be available tomorrow in rubber at Whimsy Stamps.

The papers are from MME and I desperately tried to keep embellishing to minimum, lol. The sentiment id from Pebbles The Cat digi set.

Thanks for looking and happy crafting!!
Hugs

Whimsy Stamps May Rubber Release sneakie....

This is a pre-scheduled post - I am away with my family for the best part of May.

Here is my first little preview of Whimsy Stamps May rubber release.

The card is using an image from Kenny K called Queens Cutie.

 The papers are from Old-Fashioned Nursery pack (my new find!), all heavily embossed with 3 different embossing powders, lol

 The filigree border, corner and swirls are all laser cut chipboard painted with off-white acrylic paint and the heavy scattering of pearls is made with Viva Pearl Pen in Salmon.

And just to remind you - today is a day for a new challenge at Kenny K's Krafty Girlz - well worth checking out!

Thank you so much for looking and happy crafting!
Hugs