Hey there!! Back with my final projects for the Clearly Whimsy Stamps June release! All the stamps and dies are now available in the Whimsy Stamps store. We are again joined by guest designers Jen Carter and Becky Carafa! You should have gotten here from Amy's blog. If not, please make sure you head over to the Whimsy Stamps blog for the complete hop list and to start from the beginning. Today one lucky hopper will win the following stamps and dies: Time for Tea, Time for Tea Additions stamps and Time for Tea additions die set!! 
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Both of my cards use stamps and dies from the Time for Tea Collection and papers from the American Crafts Cut & Paste 6x6 pad. I die cut the tea pot and cup and then stamped them and the flowers using yellow and teal inks. Aren't the little teapot and cup just adorable?? Added the strips of paper and then the sentiment.
This week the cue word is "wood" and boy oh boy do I have a lot of little wooden pieces, lol!! I have way too many packages of these fun little shapes and recently found another package that I had completely forgotten about. Yikes. The little pieces I used today are from the Crate Paper Stitched together line and a Studio Calico heart that I colored red. The sentiment is from the Hero Arts clear set All the Time. I added a little bit of woodgrain texture to my card base using my current favorite technique of partial embossing. .png)
Hello friends!! Clearly Whimsy Stamps in releasing some fun new stamps and dies on Saturday, June 28th and today the design team is showcasing several of the new sets: Happy Everything and matching dies and Distressed Backgrounds and Ink Splats. We are joined by guest designers Jen Carter and Becky Carafa. You should have gotten here from Heather's blog, but if you didn't then please head over to the Whimsy Stamps blog for the complete hop list. There is a prize up for grabs, $15.00 gift certificate, so you will want to make sure that you stop at each blog on the hop.
My card is uses the new Happy Everything stamp set and the matching "happy" word die. My layout is based on the current AAA Card challenge (CASEing dt member Vicki). I went with the overall layout of her card and some of the colors, but changed things up just a bit by applying three rows of washi tape (being careful to line everything up) to my cardstock piece instead of inking like Vicki. The "happy" was die cut and adhered to the washi tape. The balloons were stamped, trimmed out and adhered. I hand drew in the string and then stamped the "birthday sentiment underneath. Here is the stamp and die that I used today:
I recently got the PTI set Oopsie Daisy and the matching dies. When I looked at the the largest flower in the set I immediately thought it would work perfectly for the sketch with the circular element. I die cut the flower and then stamped the outline image of the flower using teal ink. Two of the petals were cut away and the remaining petals were then stamped using golden yellow, bright pink and deep pink inks. To make sure the large sentiment was stamped in the correct spot I placed the flower where I wanted it and then stamped the word (from Wet Paint III) using teal ink. The remainder of the sentiment was stamped in black ink. After stamping the sentiment I put the cardstock piece in a dots embossing folder and did some partial embossing using my trusty craft mallet. Once that was done I adhered the flower and then added a Spring Rain button/twine embellishment. The piece was mounted on a light grey card base.
I used stamps from the Precious Remembrance Shop set New Day. I stamped the brushstroke image in the yellow green and turquoise inks using the generational stamping method to get that gradient look. The sentiment was stamped using the dark brown in. Some clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh finished things off. 
One of my favorite Reverse Confetti sets is Paper Crane and I am absolutely in love with the RC Tag Me dies (the large tag is pretty much my "go to" die for making tags right now!) so I used both for my card. I partially embossed the yellow cardstock panel using my trusty crafting mallet and a woodgrain embossing folder. Stamped the crane on some red SU! designer paper and trimmed it out. Layered everything up and then finished with some black/white baker's twine and some enamel dots.
This was an interesting sketch for me to work with. The little strip across the top kinda threw me off, but I think my decision to use some baker's twine instead of a strip of paper was a good one. The stamps and dies are from Clearly Whimsy Stamps (Travel 2). I just love that cute little camera... so happy it has a matching die! To keep things from bulking up too much I embossed the rectangle (Spellbinders long plain rectangle die) on my kraft cardstock instead of using a cardstock piece. The blue baker's twine isn't a super close match for the blue in the ColourQ combo, but it works! 
With this card I'm also playing along with the current AEI{heart}U challenge to make your own designer paper. I pulled out my AE Love Notes set and stamped the globe in all the Colour Me...! colors. To fill in the gaps I added the little hearts. The sentiment (also from Love Notes) was stamped in black and trimmed out. I adhered the little heart tag, the sentiment and rounded two corners to finish things off.
When I saw Ashley's MIM technique "baby wipe stamping" I really wanted to give it a try. Combining it with Color Throwdown gave me that chance. I used one of my favorite PTI sets Turning a New Leaf (thanks, Greta, for the idea to use it!), as well as Bigger Blooms. I split up the colors and created one pad using Coastal Cabana and Kiwi Kiss reinkers; the other pad using Regal Rose and Pink Pirouette reinkers and then stamped away. I really like the soft effect you get from using a baby wipe and the reinkers... makes me thankful that I made the decision to get reinkers when I buy my SU! ink pads!! I'm not super happy with all the white space I left on the card... it makes things a bit unbalanced, but overall I do really like the card.
I used the arrow die from Reverse Confetti to cut my arrows in the AAA Cards color combo and then adhered then to the card front as you see... per the sketch. The sentiment is from the Precious Remembrance Shop set "Thanks". To bring a bit more attention to the sentiment I stamped it directly under the last arrow using black ink. This is a bit of a stretch for an anniversary card, but I think it does get right to the point, ha!
Last week I got some yummy new Clearly Whimsy Stamps in the mail and I'm using one of these sets today (Travel 1). The layout is based on the sketch for last week's Freshly Made Sketchs. The road image was stamped in the two inks and then die cut using an MFT Fishtail Flag Stax die. After stamping the road again using black ink I die cut the cardstock using the large tag from the Reverse Confetti Tag Me die set. Stamped the car, trimmed it out and added it to the tag. Once that was done I added sentiment. Everything was adhered and then the final portion of the sentiment stamped. As this fits the current Addicted to CAS challenge: transport, I will be adding it to that challenge, as well.
I recently purchased some Amy Tangerine products (from the Cut & Paste line) from Peachy Cheap (I love Peachy Cheap! Check them out here for their daily deals on papercrafting products.) and one of the items was a set of wood veneer pieces. I decided to use one, along with a piece of patterned paper from the 6x6 pad. The stamps are from the Clearly Whimsy Stamps set Happy Hello. The patterned paper was cut and matted with some rustic white cardstock and then adhered to a kraft card base. The speech bubble tag was adhered and the sentiment "hey there" stamped inside. I stamped the sun, trimmed it out, adhered yellow sequins in the center and then adhered it to the tag. Super simple.
Hey there!! Have a card to share that I made for a couple of challenges. Honestly, this card (and another one I made and will share at a later date) almost didn't get made. I don't know about you, but I have many, many days when I have lots of ideas, but when I try to execute them nothing works out. I had one of those days yesterday. I had several ideas for cards, but they all ended up in the "round file", lol! After those failures it was close to time for me to pick my little guy up from school. Once we returned (after a short trip to the playground so he could play with this best bud) I decided to try again and YAY... I got two cards made! This one is for ColourQ and CAS(E) this Sketch.
I hadn't made anything with my favorite Precious Remembrance Shop set DIY in AGES and so I got that out and used a lot of the different sentiment segments to create my card. Once all the sentiment stamping was done I added the little splats in the various ColourQ colors... but something was missing. Dry embossing??? Maybe, but I didn't want to emboss the whole thing, only portions. So I did a test run of an idea I had with a piece of scrap cardstock and I liked what I saw. The idea involved an embossing folder and a small mallet. So I did it on my stamped piece... absolutely love the look!! After that was done I mounted the piece on a pale blue cardstock base.
