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Waddle I do it's release day!

2009-11-15T07:00:00.002-03:30

Wooot wooot it's NEW RELEASE day at Whimsie Doodles!!!
I'm so excited about the new winter images it was killing me all week not to share them! I'm going to show you my favortie for the moment! Yep just the moment cause I'm working on new images and they are now my new favorite!! But I still like this one! The Muffin Tops are really popular right now and this little guy is the third in the series. So that means you can interchange the muffin tops and bottoms with the each other. That is if you have the other set. LOL

Penguin Muffin Top-Whimsie Doodles
DP-SEI and Imaginisce
Scallop circle-Spellbinders
Copics

Incase your wondering I pre-schedualed this post!

Gifts on a sled

2009-11-14T07:00:00.001-03:30

Hi all! Well I'm off to New York today! And I wanted to leave one more card for you from Whiff of Joy's winter collection. It's called "sled packed with gifts" and if you saw my post Thursday you would have seen poor Willow freezing on it. Today it stands alone because who wouldn't want a sled packed with presents???

Materials
Sled packed with gifts-Whiff of Joy
DP-SEI flurry kisses
SUINK ribbon
Swiss dot embossing folder

Have a wonderful weekend!

Winter Willo

2009-11-13T07:00:00.000-03:30

Yeah it's Friday!! Tommorrow I leave for New York!! Today's card has a big snowflake on it and it's something I don't want to see while I'm away!
Whiff of Joy has a gorgeous collection of Winter images and I'm a very lucky girl to be part of the team to bring these images to you. This image (Festive Winter Willow) in particular took me 3 tries to get the colours right. Yes I built the card and then stamped the image. Willow herself is such a beautiful image that it made me nervous to colour her. Good thing I have lots of white cardstock!

Festive Winter Willow-Whiff of Joy
Designer Paper-Imaginisce
Lace border Punch-Martha Stewart
Ribbon-SUINK
Snowflake-Sizzix
Copics

Warm Winter Wishes

2009-11-12T07:00:00.001-03:30

Good Morning! Another day another card! This time it's from Whiff of Joy. Same paper as yesterday (SEI flurry kisses) and ribbon. Both Willow and the sled are from Whiff of Joys christmas collection. Isn't she cute??? Is she waiting for someone or waiting to give someone all those presents? I can't decide either way they are fun to colour.

Materials
Willow Freezing and sled-Whiff of Joy
DP (double sided) SEI flurry kisses
Copics
Sentiment digital stamp-Whimsie Doodles
Ribbon-SUINK

There's Snow Friend like you.

2009-11-11T22:53:00.000-03:30

Well hello there. I have some many cards to share I'm not really sure where to start. But before I forget I probably won't blog next week as I will be in New York! Eeeeek! I CAN'T WAIT!!!
Ok.....breath. Here's a card I just finished last night. I uses the newest digi from Whimise Doodles called Snow Friend. It was a freebie to the first 100 members of their PCP group. Isn't that cool! Hahaha no pune intended as this image is of snowmen.

Materials

Snow Friend-Whismie Doodles

SEI-flurry kisses

Spellbinders Labels

Fiskars-Treading water boarder Punch

SUINK-Ribbon

White gel pen (scarf details)

Much ado about nothing

2009-11-05T09:57:00.000-03:30

Well it's one more day till the end of the week! Whooo hoooo. Oh did I tell you my Copics are in?? Ok so now all I have to do is figure out how to use them. I've been playing and discovered something really important...I have to wear my GLASSES!! Apparently the "bleeding" of the markers has nothing to do with the markers or paper. It's me not staying in the lines!! Ha! Then yesterday day my husband called to see what I was up to for the day and here is our conversation
Kirk-hi honey, so what are your plans for today?
Me-not much mostly just colouring.
Kirk-you know it's a good thing I know what you mean or I would have said "don't you think your a little to old for to be colouring"?

Hahahahaha anyone else would have pictured me sitting at home with my crayons and colouring books instead of my Copics and cards!

Ok now for the fun stuff...cards!!! Here are some cards using the new digi's from Whimsie Doodles. First here's Olive and Toasty. Aren't they cute??

And well I know Thanksgiving is over for us Canadian girls but not for anyone else so here's a card using the new digi Get Stuffed. That poor turkey looks like I did, all bloated and stuffed to me ears with Thanksgiving dinner. Ha! But I'd do it again and again!

Olive and Toasy-Whimsie Doodles
Get Stuffed-Whimsie Doodles
Prisma Markers

Did you Gnome I have another card for you?

2009-11-04T07:00:00.000-03:30

hahahahaha! Sorry about that but I couldn't resist! Kelly you are so right, my idea of minimal is well not so limited. But I am trying!!! The Gnomes from Whiff of Joy are just so adorable I`m trying to keep the focus on the image and not the card. Ok so for this card I tried to not use pattern paper, strickly cardstock! Sooooo I made my own background using the new Swirls stamps from Whiff of Joy. Ok so I kinda cheated! Hehe! But hey I did stick to my plans!
So without further ado here is Wee and christmas tree.

Materials

Wee and christmas tree and Christmas Swirls stamps-Whiff of Joy

Baby blue and chocolate cardstock-CTMH

Snowflake punch-Martha Stewart

Kraft cardstock and ribbon

Gnomes they are adorable!

2009-11-03T07:10:00.001-03:30

Good morning readers! Today's card is my attempt at minamizing my card techniques. (I'm attempting to make a card with minimal stuff). I don't know about you but I find that my cards look really different on "film" then in person. So when I made this card I had to step away and snap a photo to see if I was ok with the result. Today's card was made using a new series of stamps from Whiff of Joy. They are Gnomes!! And here I was calling them elves!! Well they are adorable and I love colouring them. Come to think of it Whiff of Joy now has images that are touching and sweet to whimsical and cute. I'm so glad my "job" is playing with these stamps!

Wee and Drum stamp -Whiff of Joy

Snowflakes-Spellbinders

Charm-Whiff of Joy

Snowflake mania

2009-11-02T08:31:00.000-03:30

Goodmorning everyone! Today is going to be a great day! Why? Well when it starts off with your husband asking where your 50% coupon for Micaels well I don't think it gets any better than this!! Well maybe if I had 2 coupons! So I'll just patiently await my new large snowflake punch and keeping my fingers crossed that he finds someone who will help find what I want.....Sigh!
So if all goes well I will have another snowflake to my collection! Here are some cards I made using digi stamps from Whimsie Doodles and yep they all have snowflakes on them!!

Whiff of Joy baby card challenge winner

2009-10-31T10:08:00.000-02:30

Good morning everyone. I'd like to thank all of you who particapted in the WOJ baby cards for Alison challenge. I've heard she has a lot of gorgeous cards for her little baby boy!
It's the 31st and I'm a day late announcing the winner. Sorry about that!

The random number generator choose the #20
so that means Jane (http://janeslovelycards.blogspot.com/) has won!!

Congrats Jane!
send me an email with your address and your two stamp choices.
melyssa@eastlink.ca

Happy Happy halloweeny!

2009-10-30T19:24:00.000-02:30

Eeeek it's that time of the year....Halloween my favorite "holiday"!!!!
I was shopping with my BFF the other day and found the best vintage halloween paper ever!!! And with the new arrival of Bombshells new Sugar Skulls stamps well I just couldn't resist making yet another pile of halloween cards. I don't know what I'm going to do with ALL these cards!!

Aren't the skeletons hilarous!!! I just love'em. And they come with party hats and martinis!

And I couldn't resist using some of my new vintage buttons from SUINK.

The next card was made using Halloween bits & bites digital stamps from Whimsie Doodles.

Materials
Paper Pad-Memory Makers Spook Alley
Stamps-Bombshell Stamps Festive Calaveras
Buttons-Papertrey Ink Summer sun rise
Pumpkins-Whimsie Doodles Bits & Bites

WOJ Sneak Peek

2009-10-30T07:00:00.000-02:30

Oh the cutest new designs for Whiff of Joy are coming Oct 31st. If you love little elves and their whimsical charm your gonna love the new rubber stamps.
I thought I'd dig out my Prisma colouring and Gamsol for this card. I stamped the image on Kraft cardstock and attached it to a Kraft card. See I was trying to make a card using as little "supplies" as I could.

The sentiment is from Lizzie Anne Designs it says "There's no place like home for the holidays".

Little Elf-Whiff of Joy

Kraft cardstock

Red satin ribbon-fabric store

Colouring Pencils-Prisma

Gamsol-mineral oil

a charming card for Whiff of Joy!

2009-10-28T08:00:00.000-02:30

Well I have another card to show you for Whiff of Joy. Your gonna love the new winter stamps, they are sweeeeeet!! There's a new illustrator and her name is Norma Fickel. Her line of stamps are so cute and whimsical I couldn't wait to get these images inked!

Ok now for an EXTREME closeup....here is a pick of the charms from Whiff of Joy. Isn't it cute??? They have other designs so go check them out!

You have to see the other super fabulous card samples the WOJ DT members made, you'll be glad you did.

Whiff of Joy sneak peeks

2009-10-27T09:25:00.000-02:30

Good morning readers! Now that I'm guest designer for Whiff of Joy I've been crazy busy! The new stamps coming out Oct 31st are just fabulous. The images are sweet and whimsical and just my type of stamp! I've been hoarding my cards and it's killing me but now I get to show them to you. So here's my first sneak for today.

I have more Whiff of Joy cards to show you all week!

Did I mention I ordered my first set of Copics? Eeek I can't wait to get my hands on them. I've been making cards and not colouring the images until my markers come!

It's ShortCuts Thursday

2009-10-22T18:05:00.000-02:30

that's right it's time to share more of my favorite ShortCuts cards! Today's card is from waaaay back. I used ShortCuts frosted card blank to make this card look soft to go with the soft colours of the bird. You can still see what in inside the card but it's slightly muted by the frosted card. The bird is paperpieced with a little inking and glitter added.

Hope Fights

2009-10-21T07:00:00.000-02:30

Happy hump day everyone!!! Today I'm sharing my card for a new project that's started over at Whimsie Doodles. As you know October is Breast Cancer month and Whimsie Doodles are giving away a free digi in honour of this. Her name is Hope Fights and here is my card using her.

If you like Hope go and get her here, you only have until Friday to get her for free, after that it will cost you but all proceeds will be donated to Breast Cancer research. Whimsie Doodles is also hosting a challenge using Hope so if you make something with her share it here!

Snow Anya Part Two

2009-10-20T07:00:00.001-02:30

Here are my last two cards using the same Anya image from The Greeting Farm. I love this image! I couldn't stop making cards of her. As you can see I use the same DP and snowflakes for these cards as I did for yesterday's cards. I started making these snowflakes and couldn't stop!! Did you see the new Build a snowflake series from Spellbinders!! Eeeek they are CUUUUUTE!!

Materials
Snow Anya-The Greeting Farm
Snowflakes and Pendant-Spellbinders
Red Pearls-Doodle Bug

Snow Anya

2009-10-19T08:50:00.000-02:30

Good morning fellow stampers and crafty peps! I've had some cards I had to keep secret until they were posted at TGF and since the newsletter has been released I can now show you the cards I made for it. It was killing me to have to hoard them away!

I didn't have a big snowflake punch or die so I used a Spellbinders Pendant die for the largest part of the snowflake. I thought it would make a different looking flake all swirly and girly.

Can you tell I have a new border punch?

Materials

It's Martha Stewart's Icicle border punch.

The Greeting Farm's Anya

Spellbinders Snowflakes and Pendant

I made my own brad today!

2009-10-17T16:30:00.000-02:30

I am a lucky girl. I have the new iTop brad maker and I couldn't wait to make brads! And with the new adorable Whiff of Joy santa's I knew exactly what kind of brad to make.

The background paper in this card has little bears and dolls throughout it.

So I made a couple of cards and with the scraps I made some brads.

Isn't Santa CUTE!! Whiff of Joy have 5 new Santa images, this one is called "Santa reading list" and there's "Santa baking", "Santa with snack", "Santa with gifts" and "Quiet Santa".

Here's a close up of the brad I made.

If you want to know exatly how I made a brad with the iTop here's a tutorial,click on the image and save it or print it out.

Stop by Whiff of Joy to see the new winter releases and their gallery full of gorgeous cards.

2009-10-16T08:31:00.000-02:30

Goooood Morning readers. I have a free digi to give away this moring to one of the Whimsie Doodles readers. I'm so thrilled you all like my card. This morning there was frost on my car windows, hummm I guess I better dig out my skates!

OK so here is the winner of "Skates for Christmas".
Enter a number:

I want a number between 1 and…44
Result:
15
Jeanne said...

Oh such a gorgeous card!! TFS
please email whimsiedoodles@eastlink.ca to get your prize.

Thank you everyone who took the time to hop along with us!

2 "sweet' cards

2009-10-16T07:00:00.001-02:30

Here's my attempt at making a card without an image. Sentiment only, well with embellishments! Ha! The sentiment is from Whimsie Doodles, it's a digital stamp I just print out and cut however I want to. The good thing about digital stamps is I never make a mistake, or get ink on my hands!

This card is one of my favorites. I used the fabulous clear card from ShortCuts. I love using clear cards because it lets me focus on particular elements basically with noting! I mean the rest of the background is clear so it maximizes the card front with minum visual clutter.

Kissmas Ginger digital stamp-Whimsie Doodles

Sweet Sentiments-Whimsie Doodles

Clear card-ShortCuts

Whimsie Doodles Blog Hop

2009-10-15T07:00:00.001-02:30

Are you ready to BLOG HOP?????
(Insert crowd roaring and loud music here)
This is our first blog hop at Whimsie Doodles, and we are so excited! This is going to be a fiesta of fun and prizes… in fact, it’s going to be so good, we’re sure you’ll be asking us when we can do it again!

Here is a new card I made using my favorite digi from Whimsie Doodles. It's a brand new stamp that's available today called Skates for Christmas.

Incase your wondering why this image is my favorite because it reminds me of the days as a teenager when I would spend my saturdays skating at the local rink with all my friends. I remember putting on these skates and wishing my toes wouldn't freeze! Off we would go my friends and I skating and laughing as Elvis Presley's Calendar Girl played in the background, it was always the same music year after year. Skating was never complete until we had our yummy cup of hotchocolate. Everytime I hear calendar girl now I suddenly crave hot chocolate! Ha!

Ok back to the hop.

Your first stop on the hop is Donn a’s blog! If your here from Kelly's blog then it's time to hop on over to Nicole's Blog.
In case you get lost along the way, here is the order (and yes, it is alphabetical!):
Donna
Joni
Kelli
Kelly
Melyssa-you are here
Nicole
Nikki
Thanh
Whimsie Doodles

Be sure to come back here to the Whimsie Doodles blog and let us know that you’ve made the rounds! Once you leave us a comment and let us know that you have visited everyone, you will be entered in the BIG KAHUNA of all blog hop give-aways….read it slowly…breathe deeply….take it all in…. Melyssa is giving one lucky blog hopper one of every single stamp in the Whimsie Doodles store!

Don't forget to leave a comment, someone will win the Skate's for Christmas digi stamp. You'll know in the morning who won.

ShortCuts Thursday

2009-10-15T06:51:00.000-02:30

Well it's that time of the week to show you some of my favorite ShortCuts cards. These cards are from July. This first card is my favorite becuse it was the first time I tried to make what I call "clusters" on a card ( a little grouping of elements as the focus).

I find making masculin cards a little difficult. So when I finished this card I was so proud that I managed to keep it boyish.

I'm pretty sure this card was my first attempt at creating a samp background on a clear card. I stamped various stars and added clear jems all flowing towards the bottom of the card drawing your attention to the sentiment.

So you love clear cards yet?? I know they are my favorite to make.

Start having some fun with clear cards today... stop by ShortCuts, they are having a sale!!

Sweetest holiday

2009-10-13T07:00:00.002-02:30

I may end up with another one sheet wonder with my new favorite christmas colours and the adorable new christmas Santa's from Whiff of Joy. Isn't this santa cute with his cookies and milk? LOVE him!!! Santa's face is so sweet and he's just munching away on his cookie.

Materials

Whiff of Joy Santa with Snack

Cosmo Cricket and Kaiser DP

Spellbinders Snowflake

Whimsie Doodles Sentiment

CTMH pearls

Sweet Thoughts

2009-10-12T07:00:00.002-02:30

This is my first post as a Guest Design Team member for Whiff of Joy. Cosmo Cricket's new pallet of pink and teal is gorgeous for christmas this year. I know it's the middle of Oct and I'm talking christmas cards. I hope you like today's sample. Have I told you I'm a lucky girl! You see my husband believe's I have a Santa Fetish and well maybe I kinda sorta do since most of my christmas decorations contain a Santa in one form or another. Well as the GDT of Whiff of Joy I was sent 5 Santa images!! Every image is gorgeous and full of details.

Materials

Whiff of Joy Baking Santa

Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly

Kaiser (pink DP)

Whimsie Doodles sentiment

Watercolour Pencils