Dear Dreamy Dragon ~

You just never know when Whimsy Stamps Dreamy Dragon by designer Sylvia Zet might show up in your mailbox. 

She's been know to arrive for a milestone birthday, a special get well wish, a card of encouragement or just about any occasion that comes up. What a fun stamp to color in lots of wild color combinations and one that is sure to bring a big smile to whomever opens that envelope.

  

There are tons of great sentiment stamps that fit well with this image.  The one that is is generic enough to cover several types of occasions is by D. R. S. Designs. 

Pretty cute, huh?  

Thanks for stopping by today and for following my blog.  I appreciate your comments and treasure them. 

Serving a Risen Savior, 

Pam 

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I Will Be With You

For today's featured card I used Whimsy Stamps' DoveArt, Water Mill 

by designer Jennifer Dove.  

This beautiful mountain scene is very detailed like a lot of the DoveArt images which allows you to create depth and nice reflections in your cards.

 

After Copic coloring, I used a Spellbinder  Labels Two die set and mounted the image and mat on wood grain paper.  

I love the scripture from Isaiah 43:2 to match up with this image.

When you go through deep waters, I will be with you

Thank you for stopping by today. I pray your day will also be blessed.

Serving a Risen Savior,

Pam 

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Choose Joy

Today's featured card is a combination of two stamps from Unity Stamps's Kit of the Month, April ~ 2016, Without Fear, Without Limits.  The bird stamp works well either stamped high as shown today or low as if he's on the ground with the branch above.  On today's card I added a generic branch of green leaves to extend the tree. 

Then add a sentiment of your choice from Happy Birthday to Words of sympathy to Words of Encouragement or Thanks.. it's sure to be a pleasant surprise to be received.

Thanks for stopping by today - I hope your day is filled with JOY also!

Serving a Risen Savior,

Pam

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The Cutest Little Pumpkin In The Patch

It's September already ~ and here in the south we are all so glad to start feeling a bit of relief from the high summer heat waves and look forwarding to the fall which is our favorite time of the year!

Today card brings my first fall card using  one of Whimsy's new Fall Digital Releases ~ Crissy Armstrong's  A Girl and Her Pumpkin ~ 

For this card I printed the digital image on card stock and then selected just her "JEANS" and printed those on the Digital Autumn Beauty 5 Digital Paper. 

After Copic coloring the rest of the image I paper pieced her jeans in place and added a bit of shadows.   

The cornstalks were done with the My Favorite Things Die-namics Die (815765016988) also out of various strips of the Autumn Beauty digital papers.

I love adding burlap to any country themed card.  The image and brown mat around her are cut using the My Favorite Things Elegant Rectangle STAX die set.  The entire design is mounted on a 5 x 7 Kraft card base, lined with white.

This image is perfect for any fall event from birthdays, get well, parties to just a thinking of you.  I hope you will check out the Whimsy Stamps site and especially the Digital images which allow you another step of creativity.   Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Serving a Risen Savior, 

Pam 

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Life Is What You Bake It...

 Today's card image is from Art Impressions and is called Whisk It  (#5001).  When I saw it I knew several good cooks that this would make the perfect card for especially with the wide variety of different stamps and sentiments in the package.

Here's the completed card I made last week and the directions follow for those that would like to create their own. 

For this card I chose an off set gate-fold card base and used an older  Spellbinder Edge die to make the stitched scalloped purple on the back flaps and the My Favorite Things Elegant Rectangle STAX dies for the image and the matting behind it.   The image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Ink and Copic colored, then die cut, (die is 2 sizes larger).  A swag shaped stitched banner is also die cut for the "Celebrate you" sentiment that goes on the outside.  After coloring and gluing the image and sentiment to the matting, they are glued to the left side only of the card base.  This allows the card to open.  Tiny iridescent mini hearts are randomly glue around the card front for the finishing touch.

Inside the birthday greeting I stamped. . . . "Life is what you bake it"... along with a row of mini cup cakes. And on the back I used the pair of mittens from the set to match the theme of the card as my maker logo instead of my normal logo.  

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you liked my card of the day! Your comments are always welcomed.  

Serving a Risen Savior

Pam

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A LONG Flight from South Carolina

One of the special things about the Whimsy Stamp Retreats is they are very limited in how many they allow to attend.  While some may feel they are hurting their business or growth, others understand how this is truly adding to their strength and commitment within the Whimsy family and friends.  It is the most awesome feeling to go back after the second time and re-connect,  and to continue the friendships through social media and other travels.  Seeing two attendees meet at a event in yet another state last week made the rest of us want to be there too!  It's just like we are all one big family!  Our love of the products, the owner and the team designers and their dedication is just overwhelming. 

One of the very sweet and very quiet lady's I met last year and who returned this year was Kay from Iowa. Whimsy's CINDY by Sylvia Zet, came out to fly all the way from South Carolina to Iowa to wish Kay a wonderful birthday.  I think she might have had to dodge a few cows to make her landing - but I hear she made it okay!

Cindy was stamped on Card stock and Copic colored, then die cut using a Spellbinder die and placed on a Origami multicolored paper.  Two pink tags were cut using the Creative Memories Tag Maker and added using just the top if the tag with a button at the top, with a special paper string fake tie.  Gina Marie Stitched Sky  Dies were used for the blue clouds and the sentiment is from Unity Stamps. 

Happy Birthday my sweet friend Kay!  Hope your day was wonderful and that we see you next year at the next annual Whimsy Stamp Retreat!

Serving a Risen Savior, 

Pam 

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Today is Going to be Amazing! PLUS a Whimsy SALE!!!

We're starting off the week knowing today is going to be Amazing, as I share one of the August new Digital release images AND celebrate my daughter's 34th Birthday! 

Of course, it was easy to select the Whimsy Stamps Western Pony for her special card since she has loved horses most of her life. Being able to use the digital image gave me the addition freedom to size the image to be slightly larger to make a nice size top fold card for her to display.  

Here's the finished card and a few details afterwards.

After printing the digital image and Copic coloring, I offset cut the image with a circle die and mounted it on a 5 1/4" square hunter green matting paper.  I used a stitched deep scalloped die to make the top border and two sizes of the Gina Marie's Fish Tail Banner Dies to make the sentiment banner.  The sentiment stamp is by Unity Stamp Company.  For the finishing touches I used a bit of brown twine and a metal feather charm wrapped around the sentiment banner and a few dots of gold bling.  All of the elements were then glued down to the 5 1/2" Kraft card base, ready for today's delivery.

P.S.~~~ Glue Dots & Whimsy Blog Hop (starts at noon, ET) this week.   ALSO Whimsy Stamps Retiring Section is offering a 20% Discount coupon for TODAY and TOMORROW (8/27 & 8/28 only).   Use MUSTGO20  at checkout - limited quantities so order early!

I hope you'll check out the Digital section on the Whimsy Stamp website and consider purchasing Western Pony to add to your collection while you are looking at all the great red rubber stamps and other digital products.  Your comments are always welcome. 

Serving a Risen Lord, 

Pam 

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Take a Sip of Sunshine!

Oh have I got a super cute card to show you today! 

This is one of the cards from the Whimsy Stamps 3rd Annual Retreat that I attended in June.  With the abundance of wonderful projects, there was just not any way to complete them all!  Design Team member Melissa Andrew led the demonstration for this Chibitronics card.... yes, that was a new word for me!

Here is my finished card and a few details about the project following the photo.

There are several youtube videos on this card technique, which is quite detailed.  We were extremely fortunate to have Melissa not only walking us through each step, but giving us extra tips from her experiences ~ like doubling the vellum for the sunshine, and using three layers of foam to build the housing around the battery and make the card even from top to bottom.

In addition to using Whimsy Stamps' Elisabeth Bell's Seashell Girl image, we also used Whimsy's Copper Tape, and their Chibitronics White LED Mega Pack (30 Stickers).

Thanks so much for stopping by today ~ hope you will have a great weekend!

Serving a Risen Savior,
Pam

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HOORAY! Let's Celebrate!

Today's featured card is a bright and cheerful HOORAY card that could be used to celebrate any special occasion.

Whimsy Stamps', KING LION,  is one of the new digital release for August and is designed by Crissy Armstrong.  

I sized the digital image to about 3 1/2" wide x 4" tall and printed on #110 card stock.  After Copic coloring, I set the image aside and made my folded card base 5 1/2" wide by 5" tall using a white heavy card stock. Then I covered the front with a solid purple paper that matched the jewels in  his crown.  I added two multi colored paper strips with glittery stars down the sides and a glittery box for King Lion to sit on.  The "Hooray!" die is cut out of bright pink glitter paper.  After gluing everything on, including King Lion, I added the sheer peach organza ribbon as the finishing touch.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you will visit the Whimsy Stamps site to consider adding King Lion to your collection.

Your comments are always welcomed.

Serving a Risen Savior, 

Pam 

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Pennant Sketch Challenge

One of the card sites that I enjoy ~ 

Christian Card Makers

has a weekly sketch challenge for it's members for fun each week.

This has always been quite a challenge for me, just not one of my favorite things to do.  But like many things in life, an opportunity to grow.  So several months ago I challenged myself to participate each week in the Sketch Challenge. 

This week's challenge involved lots of triangles or pennants that about made my eyes cross!  I seem to always wait till someone posts a card too - that seems to be easier for me to visualize what I need to do to master the sketch.  The sketch is posted on Monday and all day yesterday.... nothing was posted in the album.  The more I checked the more I got tickled... I was guessing I wasn't the only one with this strategy.  

Finally a couple of postings came and with adorable bright pennant cards and that was what I needed to get me started  ~ off to the craft table and pulling coordinating papers.  Here's what I came up with and the original sketch following. 

Sketch 

Not bad for someone who doesn't like doing sketch cards.  But honestly I'm starting to get the hang of it!    Thanks for stopping by today.  

Serving a Risen Savior, 

Pam 

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