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

We have 15 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, 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:

3 stamps from Crissy Armstrong
Bart’s BBQ ~ Fairy Day Dreams ~ Journey Into The Sea

4 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Garden Bird House ~ Garden Fence ~ Mailed With Love ~ Sick Little Bear

4 stamps from Kenny K
Alice Chains ~ Bling Baby ~ Showgirl ~ Surfer Dude

4 stamps/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
The Good Life Tickets ~ Into The Farm BG ~ Summer Letter Seals ~ Thank You Tiles

2 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Cloud Die Set ~ Hot Air Balloon Die

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

The hop starts today (Wednesday June 15th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday June 22nd 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 Alice In Chains by Kenny K and Good Life ticket sentiment set.

All the colouring is done with Copic markers, pearls on her neck are accentuated with a yellow Sakura Glaze pen.

The flowers I made made myself from bits of lace from my odds-and-ends box. Flower centers are a combination of different bling bits and spacers/charms.

The chains were fixed to the card with the brads and I also stuck a bit of grey tulle underneath the image. Just because I could, lol.

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

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

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

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

Challenges:
Crafts and Me - #39 Bling
Crafty Creations - #123 "dress up"
Going Grey With Scrap-Creations - 2E - Anything Goes
The Burtonesque Dolls - 2W, JFF - Put Any Image Into A Burton Movie
Top Tip Tuesday - 3E - #38 Open Challenge
Simon Says Stamp and Show... - Distressed/Torn Edges
Crafty Pad - SIO - 'Just Because' - no birthday or congratulations etc.
A Gem of a Challenge - 2W - Flowers & Charms
4 Crafty Chicks - Handmade flowers
Rainbow Lady's - 2E - Ticket to ride

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Whimsy Sneak Peek - day 4

Today is the last day of Whimsy previews and all the new rubber stamps will be available tomorrow. And of course there will be a blog hop with loads of cool prizes!

I am showing a card with image from Meljens called Mailed With Love.

I am REALLY unhappy with this card - just didn't come together the way I wanted to at all. Which is a real pity since I actually am pretty happy with the colouring on the image. It looks better irl - the photos ain't great either...

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting!
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Testing, testing...

I wanted to try if I could colour with my kids pencils without the help of OMS or the blending stump, just blending one pencil with another. The answer is yes, but the leads are too pigment poor and hard to give a good blending. And I had to use Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils for face because my kids pencil box just didn't have good skin colours.

The image I used is called 1st Signs of Spring and she is by Carmen Medlin for SCACD. I think she looks lovely for any season though and has a bit more grown-up feel. As much as I like colouring cute kiddo images not everybody is keen on them and it's great to have a variety of cards.

 The papers I used are from Pink Paislee Sweetness pad and all the fancy medallion and butterfly shapes are laser cut chipboard from Make It Crafty.

For sentiments I used one of favorite staple sets - Whimsy Treasured Moments Ticket Sentiments Set. I also stamped the edges of the image panel and some papers with Stempelglede Grunge Collection stamps.

There's also a liberal sprinkling of flat back pearls involved - just can't keep my hands off them! :D

Oh, and don't forget that it's a birthday month at Quixotic Paperie - keep checking the inspirations blog and shop website for fun projects and special offers! :)
Thank you for popping in and hope you'll have a great week!
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Favorite Colours

The challenge at Kenny K's Krafty Girlz is to use your fave colours. Easy - as long as it's deep and vibrant, I'm game, lol

Kenny K is offering 5 digi's of the winner's choice as a prize for a winner and Fantastic Ribbons is offering a pack of buttons.

Guest designer is Suzanne.

I coloured the image with Copics. The papers are from Cosmo Cricket Upcycle pad. The banner stamps are Whimsy Celebration Pennants Sentiments.

Thank you for popping by and have fun crafting!
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And a little peak...

It's time for Whimsy Stamps June rubber release previews!

I am using a new stamps called Fairy Daydreams - it's going to be available from Whimsy on next Wednesday, June 15th.

I coloured her with watercolours - thought it would work real well with the big lush blossom and I think it does.

The fancy corners are a laser cut chipboard coloured with sparkle paint. I also painted the doily. The sentiment is from Whimsy Magical Mini Letter Seals set.

Challenges:
Clearly Inspired - 2W, 1E, SIO - 2nd week - Distressing
Fairy Fun Fridays - 2W, SIO – 2nd week - Summer fun
Totally Papercrafts - Summer
Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W - Summertime
Crafts and Me - #38 Stamp something
Simply Scrapping Creative Card Challenge - 1E, M - painting
A Spoonful Of Sugar - 1E - #155 Summer - Colours, images etc
Crazy Amigo Challenge - Summery Card
Creative Card Crew - Wings
KB Cute Monday - Bright colours
Scrappy Frogs - 3W - 3rd W - Birthdays

Thank you so much for visiting and happy crafting to all!
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Stamp Something - Punch Something

Hi there - I'm finally here with a new card! :) It's for Stamp Something this weeks challenge - Punch Something. You need to either use punches or your dies for participating.

I needed to make a baby card so I used a stamp from LOTV and combined it with a baby sentiment stamp set from Whimsy.

The image is coloured with distress inks - I tried to keep it very soft and subtle, not easy if you're usually very heavy-handed.

I rummaged my button box for different cute buttons and made couple of rolled ribbon roses for variety.

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