My First Publication!!!

Well I am so happy to announce that I finally have a card that has been published in a paper crafting Magazine!  I can't say that I submit as much as I should, but I am going to be making that more of a focus for this coming year.

If you haven't gotten this issue of Card Creations 8 yet by PaperCrafts Magazine, I totally recommend it.  It is filled front to back with lots of very inspiring cards!!

Here is the card of mine that they chose to use.  It uses the adorable PEAS on Earth image from Whimsie Doodles.  You can find it on page 99 of the magazine!  It was so exciting to see my name in print!!  I can't tell you how thrilled I was when I heard too!!  

I paper pieced the word EARTH and then colored the Peas in with my Copic markers!  The DP is some DCWV that I had on hand that could easily be replaced with similar dotted or striped papers!  The ribbon is from American Crafts!

While I am sharing a WD creation with you, I guess it is a good time to mention that I have resigned a little early from the Whimsie Doodles DT. Melyssa was gracious enough to let me end my term a month or so early so I could deal with everything going on right now.  I really appreciate her understanding and can't thank her enough for being one of the first Stamp Companies to trust me and allow me to represent them!  I just love WD images and will still be using them a lot.  So just because I am not on the DT anymore, you can still be sure that you will see more WD creations on my blog and in the galleries!!

I hope the rest of your weekend is relaxing and enjoyable! I have a little more scrap room organizing to go and then I plan to mess it all up again by making some more card creations today!!  Have a wonderful day and may your bucket overflow with health and happiness!!

Whimsie Doodles Winner!!

Thanks to all you fabulous readers who left some love on my blog post for the 

Whimsie Doodles New Release!

I randomly selected one winner to receive the $5 off coupon towards a purchase at 

Whimsie Doodles!!

The random commenter was #8 and that was

Marlene

http://scrappincookie.blogspot.com/

Congratulations! 

 Email me so I can send you your coupon code!!

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Thanks again for visiting my blog!

Whimsie Doodles Birthday and New Release Party!

It's time for Whimsie Doodles 1st BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP!!

And we're celebrating by giving YOU the presents!

In addition to the blog hop, we're having a card contest and we know you won't be able to resist once you see the awesome prize our fearless leader has decided to put up for grabs! Check out the deets below on our big birthday par-tay activities...

First, hop hop hop:

Visit all of our Doodlelicious Diva blogs to see some of their awesome creations using the new releases!  Leave a comment on each blog for a chance to win a

 $5.00 coupon from each Diva!

Alicia

Denise

Donna

Joni

Kelli

Kelly (that's me!)

Melyssa

Nicole

Nikki

Paula

Sheri

Thanh

Next, create a card using a  WD image (freebies are welcome)!!

You will have until the 12th of May to complete and submit your card.

Here is the card that I created...

My card uses the new WD release Sock It Party Monkey that is available today on the Whimsie Doodles Website! The DP is from Basic Grey's Sugar Rush collection.  I used Copic markers to color the sock monkey. The flowers are Prima and Petaloo. I added the cute red pom pom trim from Joann's and placed it over the white border punch lace trim from Martha Stewart.  


I used SC72 from SCS's  Master Card Sketch list for my card today. ..

In addition to creating a card and leaving comments on each Doodlelicious Diva blog, 

you must also do the following things for a chance to win the 

BiG gIaNt SuPeR pRiZe!!

•Blog about or mention in a SCS or PCP gallery entry about entering the contest

•Become a follower of the Whimsie Doodles blog

•Leave a comment and  link here on the Whimsie Doodles blog to your card

The winner of our card challenge/blog hop will receive 

ALL the new releases from today
plus 12 Copic markers (your choice)

OR 

$25.00 gift certificate for the Whimsie Doodles store 
plus 12 Copics (your choice)!!!!

Is that a prize or what???  I told you we knew how to party!

Want a chance to win a discount on your next WD purchase?

Leave a comment on my blog post today and have a chance at winning a

 $5 off coupon

I will draw a winner tomorrow!!

Good Luck!!

Now go forth and hop and then create something Doodleliciously fabulous!

Next stop on your hop is the ever-talented, stamp designer extraordinaire and owner of Whimsie Doodles,

Melyssa

CLICK on her name to be taken to her blog!

Have a great day and may your bucket overflow with many things to celebrate that are as wonderful as new rubber stamps!!

Reminder!

This is just a reminder that the 

Sneak Peeks

of the new Whimsie Doodles images

for release tomorrow are still being shown.

Head on over to the Whimsie Doodles blog to take a peek!!

Leave a comment and you could have a chance at winning the image that is being sneaked!!

Tomorrow is the big release day so we sure hope 

to see you back for a visit!!

Now I am heading back to my craft table!! 

So many wonderful Whimsical images to play with...

...so little time!!

Sneak Peek for some new Digis from Whimsie Doodles

Good Sunday Morning!

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend and a nice start to your Sunday!

Today I have the pleasure of sharing with you one of the new digi images that will be released on by

Whimsie Doodles on May 5th

for their One Year Anniversary Party and New Release Celebration!

The whole DT has been busy making cards to share with you to let you know what is in store for you come Wednesday the 5th!  (aka Cinco de Mayo!)  LOL!

When I saw the image of this Geisha Girl I knew I wanted to work with her.  Having spent some time in Japan while my first husband was in the Navy, I became fond of oriental and Japanese things!!

So here is a preview of just one of the digis being released this week!

Isn't she adorable?  I love her coy expression which lends her to be used for a multitude of occasions on your cards and projects!  I colored the Geisha Girl in with Copic Markers and used the DP from on of Debbie Mum's lines from Creative Imaginations.  That cherry blossom and twig embellishment is from K & Co. and I added an oriental coin to the orange ribbon I used.  That border punch is one of Martha Stewart's.

So are you ready to see what OTHER digis will be released on 

Wednesday May 5th from Whimise Doodles?

Then just head on over to the Whimsie Doodles blog

where you will get to see some snippets of some more!

CLICK HERE!

Click on the DT members names and you will be taken to their blogs to see the whole sample!

Enjoy your day and I will be sure to keep you posted on the upcoming Celebration and New Releases!

A TREE-mendous Challenge!!

It's time for another Whimsie Wednesday Challenge over at the Whimsie Doodles forum at Paper Craft Planet.  And yours truly is the hostess for this week's challenge.

In honor of Arbor Day which is coming up on Friday, I decided to make the challenge all about TREES!!  Isn't that a TREE-mendous idea??  So all you have to do to play along is create a card or project using Whimsie Doodles stamps and be sure to include a TREE on it.  The stamped image can be a WD stamp, or you can incorporate embellishments or paper that have trees on it.  Just make sure you have a Whimsie Doodles stamped image on it!

For a list of Whimsie Doodles stamps with trees in them, 

check out my blog post for today on the Whimsie Doodles Blog.

So here is the card that I created for the WWC29 challenge...

The WD stamped image that I used is the Digital stamp set called Sunny Day.  You can find the stamp for sale on the WD store site HERE.  The DP is from Bo Bunny's Roughin' It collection.  I colored the trees that I masked and stamped three times with Copic markers.  I added the rafia and a silk leaf for embellishments.  The sentiment is one I created myself using Power Point and the font called O Whoa DNA.  

I finally got around to working with another one of the older sketches on SCS because I am still SLOWLY working my way to using ALL of them!!  The sketch for this card uses SC36...

As you can see I altered it for my project by sliding down panel number three to the bottom half of the card!!  

I hope you have a great day and will try to get around to playing with me on this week's challenge.  May your bucket overflow with all things that are TREE-mendous to you!! :-)

Another Earth Day Challenge!!

Welcome to another Whimsie Wednesday!

Thanh is the host over at Whimsie Doodle's Paper Craft Planet for this week's challenge.   April 22 is Earth Day and she has challenged us to create a project to promote saving the Earth.

What does Earth Day mean to you? 

How are you reducing your ecological foot print?

Things you could do are:

• use a recycled item on your project from around your house
• have a reduce, reuse, recycle message
• incorporate a save Earth message (using the WD stamp - see below)
• paint or stamp with household objects
• make a project with only scraps and as many scraps as you can using earthy stuff
• use earthy colors
• incorporate all of the above into one!

At Whimsie Doodles, we believe in reducing our ecological footprint hence why most of our images are digi! To help spread the message, we're going to be giving away our Save Earth digi for a limited time.

Please click HERE for your download.

For my challenge card today I used the above stamp and sentiment to create a card.  I enlarged the cupcake so it was roughly 4" x 5" and printed it so the the left side would overlap the fold and become the hinge for the card!

I used Copics to color my image and also paper pieced the cupcake wrapper using October Afternoon DP.  The heart and bow are layered and also colored with Copics.  The button is from Clear and Simple Stamps.

Here is the inside of the card!!  I thought I might offer this one to my son to bring to his girlfriend at school for Earth Day tomorrow along with a handful of chocolate kisses!!  If you decide to get this free image while it lasts, we sure would love to see what you do with it!  Head on over to the PCP Whimsie Doodles forum and play along with our challenge!  If you upload your creation to any online galleries, be sure to use the keywords whimsiedoodles and WWC28.

Have a wonderful, whimsical Wednesday and may your bucket overflow with ideas to help save our earth and minimize the footprint we leave on it!

Birthday Belly Laugh Challenge!

It's Wednesday!!  

And even better than the fact that the week has reached it's half way point is the fact that it is time for a new

Whimsie Wednesday Challenge

on the Whimsie Forum at Paper Craft Planet!

Alicia is our hostess this week and in honor of one of our new Whimsie Doodles releases called Hot Mama, she has asked us to create a humorous birthday card!! She calls it a Birthday Belly Laugh challenge!!  LOL!!  It makes me want to chuckle just thinking of the name!!  So pull out your favorite Whiimsie Doodles stamps and join us in bringing a laugh to the recipient of your card!!  Feel free to use any sentiment you want to, but should you be interested in purchasing Hot Mama shown below (with the sentiment) you can visit the Whimsie Doodles store HERE!

This is one Hot Mama isn't she??  Why do I fear that this will be me in another decade?  LOL!!  I sure hope not, but I know you have seen this woman out there before!!  I colored the Hot Mama image using Copic markers.  The DP is from October Afternoon!

The front of the card says... "Don't think of yourself as old....

Then on the inside, it finishes with...you are, but don't think about it!!"  LOL!!  Too funny isn't it?

I found an old Basic Grey circle tag that matched the purple accents I chose to include on this card and I used it to mat the cake.  I was trying to draw more attention to the cake since it is for a birthday.  I also added some orange rhinestones around the outside edge of the mat.

If you are thinking that this isn't my typical style then you are correct.  I was purposely going for a rather bold and outspoken color combo to match the whimsy of Hot Mama!!  I can see an old Grandma wearing this outfit...can you?  LOL!

I also did something I don't typically do by using black cardstock as my card base.  Totally out of the comfort zone of my usual white or cream card bases.

It was fun to create this and be rather obnoxious!!  I hope it still found the right balance and blend of colors to please the eyes!!

Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to stop by Whimsie Doodles to get a stamp to play with and create your own Birthday Belly Laugh card!!  You can upload them to PCP and use the keywords whimsiedoodles and WWC27.

Have a great Wednesday and I hope that you bucket overflows with lots belly laughs and smiles today!

Let's Hear it for the Boys!!

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday to you!!

I hope you all had a chance to check out (and even purchase) some of the new Whimsie Doodle stamps that were released yesterday!!  And today I have another sample to share with you that uses one of them.

The card I made today is for this week's Whimsie Wednesday Challenge #26 called Let's Hear it for the Boys.  Nicole is our hostess this week and since two of her boys have birthdays this week she thought that it would be wise to challenge us to make a card for a guy!!

Thankfully Melyssa released the perfect image yesterday to work with so this is what I came up with!

This was a really fun card to make!!  Swing Koale takes center stage on his rope swing which is attached to the tree from the Sunny Day set at Whimsie Doodles that was released last year.  I enlarged it quite a bit and originally was going to cut it off at the cord borders even with the card on top, but decided to leave it extending over the edge instead.  The finished card is 5 x 6.5 when closed!

I started with the SCS Sketch SC17 for the bones of the card and then I went a little crazy with adding things that you probably don't see on the sketch!  But heck... we do get some creative license while designing right??

See the resemblance??  The number 2 panel is the grass that I made by piecing some MME paper, trimming the edge to make it appear to have blades of grass and then shading it and adding grass sprigs with various green colored Copics.

Koale was colored in using my Copics. I chose orange for his shirt because I thought it was a complementary color for the greens and blues that were in the MME papers.  The tree top is from the Quite Contrary collection.  The sentiment is from one of the Changito sets by Stampendous.  The inside says "Hi!"

My friend Vianna shared a link to Sherrie Siemen's blog who is a Regional Copics Certified Instructor.  She has a video HERE that you can watch to learn how to shade around images to give better depth to your designs.  I knew about shading before but not to this extent.  So I gave it a try and will definitely be practicing this more.  When you look at it from a slight distance you can appreciate the effect better!  But this is a great technique to have in my Copic's repertoire of tricks!!  Thanks Vianna!!  

That's all I have for you today!!  Be sure to visit Whimsie Doodles 

and get your New Releases if you haven't already!!  

Then come back tomorrow for another Hip Hop with Unity and Ippity DT members!

Have a wonderful day and may your bucket overflow with the happiness you get when a friend swings by to say hi to you!!  :-)

Spring has Sprung!!

Spring really has Sprung in more ways than one!!  

For starters, I have tons of pollen building up on my car and causing allergy attacks that you can't believe and everything is turning green and finally getting warm again!!  But secondly, I also have a card to show you that literally has some SPRING to it!!

Today is Wednesday which means that the Whimsie Doodles Paper Craft Planet Group has issued a new weekly challenge!!  This week Joni has challenged us to make a Spring Card!!  They are really cool and not too hard to make.  All the directions on how to make them (along with a video) can be found HERE in the SCS Resource center!  I hope you will give one  a try and share it with us on the PCP Forum HERE.

Here is a shot of the card when it is almost flat.  The way it would be inside the envelope!

And this is what it looks like when it is sprung into action!!

I used the Easter Basket stamp from Whimsie Doodles for the image and then added the adorable Basket Case sentiment from the Easter Sentiments set.  Both of these stamps are available only in rubber form.  I colored the basket in using Copic markers to coordinate with the Bo Bunny paper from the Kitchen Spice line.

I added two rows of grass from a MS punch, one under and one over the basket to add dimension.  Then I also added an accent ribbon using MS's dotted blue  ribbon.  I popped the basket up a bit using pop dots!

Here is a better view of how the card pops up when it is fully opened.  Isn't it so cute?  I had never seen this fold technique before and really love how it looks!! I will definitely be doing this again!!

If you want to play along with us, please check out the SCS Resources page I linked above and then load your creation to the PCP and/or SCS Galleries using the keywords, whimsiedoodles and WWC25 (Whimsie Wednesday Challenge 25.)

Some exciting news for Whimsie Doodles is that the 

new releases for April 

will be revealed NEXT WEEK!! 

So be sure to come by starting on Monday for some Sneak Peeks of what is to come!!

Also, be sure to stop by tomorrow when we will be 

celebrating Hip Hop coming back to Unity!!  

Both Unity and Ippity DT members will be involved!! 

There will be lots of prizes, chatting and fun so be sure to check it out!!  Woot woot!!

Have a wonderful rest of the day and may your bucket be overflowing with the beauty and promise of Spring!

Playing Catch Up!

Some of you may have noticed that I didn't do a blog post over the weekend!!  And if you didn't, that's OK too!!  But I had a wonderful time on Saturday getting together with some of my stamping friends that I met online through Stamp TV's Florida group.  What a wonderful bunch of ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing!!

We went to a LSS (Local Scrapbook Store) in Ocala and spent the day creating, coloring,

chatting and eating!!  It was so fun!!  

In the back row from L-R is Asela Hopkins, Paige (my BFF's niece), Tiffani (my BFF), 

Cathy Clark (our hostess) and me!  In the front from L-R is Deb Felts (my DD pal), 

Naomi, Barbara and Vianna (my partner in crime!)

Here is one of Asela and Deb! They are two of the sweetest people you could ever meet.  I have had the pleasure of meeting Deb many times before, but this was my first time meeting Asela.  What a sweet and talented lady she is!! I can't wait until we can do this again!!  It was so much fun!

I did a lot of shopping while I was there and bought some Bo Bunny, Graphic 45, Basic Grey, Creative Imaginations and SEI papers that you will surely be seeing in the future.  While there, I  spent the majority of my day working on an album cover for my puppy's first year.  It was a submission for the Dirty Dozen Gallery this month.  Our theme was critters!!  It was super fun to create for this month's gallery and my Sunday was spent finalizing my projects and uploading them for the new DD Gallery reveal Sunday night as well as preparing for Monday's Hippity Hop!!

Here is a snippet of the album cover I made for our puppy Tasha.   I made the title using the word Puppy from the DCWV Pet Tales line of paper and the word LOVE that I stamped using {ippity's} Alphabetically Adorable set.  You can see the whole picture by going HERE, but you will have to be a Fan Club Member to view it.  (Want to become a Fan Club Member?... Click HERE to learn more about it!)

I hope you will go and check out this month's  

Fan Club Gallery 

full of wonderful Critter Creations  that were submitted by the Dirty Dozen.  Unfortunately it was my last month as a Dirty Girl. :-(   I can't believe how fast that six months went!  We welcomed in two new Dirty Girls this month too that you will definitely want to meet!

Mona Pendleton 

Ann Schach

And finally I had time to catch up and play along with last week's Whimsie Doodles Challenge (WWC22) on Paper Craft's Planet.  We were challenged by Nikki to use Glitter on our card!  So I made a cute Easter card using one of the images from Whimsie Doodles Easter Sentiments collection which is available in red rubber to make this card...

While I am not a fan of eating those little Marshmallow Treats at Easter time, I did find it absolutely adorable to work with!   Doesn't it look sweet enough to eat??

 I added my glitter in the form of crystal glitter called Diamond Dust.  I think it made the peep look just like they come with the candy crystal sugar coating on top!

In closing....

Tonight at midnight my {ippity} blog candy drawing closes and I will be picking one lucky winner to win an {ippity} set of their choice!

What do you have to do?

Become a Follower of my {ippity} Sales blog

and

Leave a comment on my {ippity} sales blog!

CLICK HERE to go There's Ippity In My Bucket!

I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday and may your bucket overflow with sweetness in the form of friends, creative projects and candy!!!  LOL!!

New Whimsie Doodles For You!!

Wohoo!! It is that time of the month again!

(OK, well maybe that doesn't sound right!)  It is however time for another 

New Release of  Whimsie Doodle Stamps!

Yesterday you got to see some sneak peeks of what was to come so are you ready to see the whole thing today?  All right well get ready to be excited because Melyssa has done it again!

My first card uses the new digistamp called Standing Baby Bear...

The DP is from the new DCWV paper pack called the Crafty Stack.  The musical score background stamp is from the {ippity} stamp set called Music of My Heart. 

I used the Baby Bear from the set called Baby Bear Standing, but you can also get the sitting version!.

Standing and Sitting Baby Bears

And some adorable sentiments like the one I used are also being released!

Baby Sentiments Digital Stamp Set

The next card I have to share with you is one I call Berry Sweet that comes from the new set called So Sweet!

I am not sure who makes the DP I used, but to create the layered border, I used my new Martha Stewart Pinking Scallop border on three coordinating colors and them layered them while staggering the scallops. 

I colored the cherries using my Copic Markers and the button I used is from the black package I bought while at CHA from Clear and Simple Stamps.  I paper pieced the towel that hangs from the jar.  The adorable label is interchangeable with the other sentiments you see below. 

And guess what??  This set is available in RED RUBBER!!

How Sweet Rubber Stamp Set

And finally how about a set just in time for St. Patty's Day?  In fact that is the name of this set!  

The DP is from the MME Home paper pack.  I colored in the pot of gold and rainbow with Copic markers.  I printed the image twice once to print the image with the cloud empty and then the second time so that the sentiment would fit inside the cloud.  I used the color combo from this week's color challenge CC260 at SCS which was to use Basic Gray, Crushes Curry and Always Artichoke and conveniently were the exact colors from the MME collection that I used.

St. Patty's Day Digistamp set

Like what you see?  Well then head right on over to the  

Whimsie Doodles Store 

to get yourself some!

Be sure to come back by 8am EST to see my Friends with Flair post for Unity!