It's Friday and it's another Stamp Something Challenge!

Hi All!  Happy Friday!  I'm so glad it is!  Today at Stamp Something, the challenge is Glitzy!  We want to see glitter, gems, sparkle, etc!  I went with lots of glitter and sparkle! Our sponsor this week is Paper Maniac!  I decided to use an image they sell, so I used the Whimsy Mice.  I cut out the letters and free hand drew in the word "Merry."  I colored the 2 brown mice with water color pencils. The center mouse was colored with a silver glitter gel pen and water color pencil. The paper is BG.  I used a "rustic" stocking charm and a Prima with a jeweled brad to embellish...and a MS Snowflake punch to make the snowflake which I covered with chunky white glitter.  If you like this, please visit the DT to see what else they came up with!  Also, if you like the Whimsy Mice, stop over at Whimsy and check out the Advent Event!  You could win some Whimsy Stamps!

This card fits the following challenges:

The Pink Elephant:  Favorite coloring medium (watercolor pencils)
Stamp With Fun:  Christmas
Creative Card Crew:  Christmas
Paperplay:  Christmas (no red or green)

Whimsy Stamps December Advent Event!

Happy December, All!  Today is the kickoff for the Whimsy Stamps December Advent Event!

Each day, from now until Christmas, some of our Whimsy Stamps design team members, guest designers, and even one of our artists will bring you some Whimsy inspiration! We hope to inspire you with our creativity and give you some fun ideas and ways to use your Whimsy Stamps products!
And each day one of us will also bring you a chance to win some Whimsy blog candy! You will need to check back at Whimsy each morning to find out where to go in search of the day’s candy prize! To enter for your chance to win, you will need to visit the day’s special blog where the candy prize is being hosted and leave a comment. The next day the hostess will draw a random winner and announce on her blog who that lucky commenter is!
You will have 24 days of inspiration and 24 chances to win a prize! Our Advent Event will run from today, December 1st until the final door is opened on December 24th! We hope you will join us each and every day and help to make this a very special December here at Whimsy Stamps!

So what are you waiting for, head on over there now!

Whimsy Challenge and more!

Happy Monday!  What a day today is going to be after a nice long weekend!  Ahhh.  Well it also means that we have a new challenge for you over at Whimsy Stamps!  We are having a Monochromatic challenge this week!  I went with a blue color pallet (the picture is not true colors...I couldn't get it to look the same!) and the Whimsy Hippo!  The layout is from Lili of the Valley. Everybody Art Challenge, Charisma Cardz, and Stamp, Scrap & Doodle wanted a Christmas card.  Ildi Co wanted a Christmas song inspired card.  Though it's hard to see, mine says in silver "I want a hippopotamus..."  and inside says "For Christmas!"  ABC was I for Indigo blue...I didn't have indigo, so I went with shades of blue. Fun with Shapes and more was monochrome blue.  That's it for now! Please, jump on over and visit the rest of the DT's pages and shop Whimsy!  Come back tomorrow to learn more about the Whimsy December Advent Event! 

I won a Top 3 at La La Land!

Normally, I'd post on the side bar with the others, but they had a different set up at La La Land!  I'm happy just the same :)  It was for this card:

Thanks so much for visiting me!

News and a favor!!!

Hi Everyone!  Hope you are having a Happy Sunday!  I am just popping on for now to say that I have some fun news!  A couple of weeks ago, I was accepted as part of the new DT starting in January for MyGrafico!  I'm so excited for this opportunity!  I can't wait to get started because they have some super cute images and I am thrilled to work with these lovely ladies!

And I just won a guest DT spot for a week at The Crafty Pad!  I'll let you know when it is as soon as I find out!

I'm going to be so busy!!!

And in other news, I'd LOVE if you all pop over to Whimsy Stamps and take a look at the newest images up for sale.  They are absolutely adorable and so versatile...great for paper piecing, different coloring methods and more!  Please, please, please!!!! Check them out!  Tell them Janna sent you!

That's all for now! I'm hoping to be back on in a bit with some projects to post.

Thanks for stopping by!

Janna :)

Gift card holder and...

Hello again!  Today I had some down time and decided to try my hand at a few challenges. First I did a gift card holder.  I wanted it to look like a gift bag since I knew there was a gift bag challenge going on (except I didn't use the right image!)  :)  I cut a strip of cardstock at 3.5" and scored it 1" on one end and cut 1" on the other end, then scored again at 4.25" at from each end.  I folded along the score lines.  I cut with decorative edge scissors on the outer flap.  I punched through the 3 layers with the Crop-a-Dile and then affixed silver eyelets on each hole.  For the front, I decorated with BG paper. The image is from SU.  The flower was made using a SU flower punch and a jeweled brad.  On the inside, I used the slit punch to make the gift card holder.  Finally, I closed it with a piece of hemp twine.

The next card is a Christmas card.  I decided to dig through some old stamps and found this tree and the sentiment.  I used the sketch from BG.  The paper is Eskimo Kisses.  Isn't it adorable?  I, of course, had to add glitter and sparkle :)  And I just love these brads!


Gift card holder fits the following challenges:  Cupcake Craft-Gift card holder, Pollycraft-Christmas, Everybody Art Challenge-Christmas,  Charisma Cardz-Anything Christmas, Colour Create-Red, green, and white, C.R.A.F.T.-Christmas gift, Papercutz-Anything goes, Crazy 4 Challenges-Punch happy and Stamp, Scrap & Doodle-Christmas.

Card fits the following challenges:  Pollycraft-Christmas, Everybody Art Challenge-Christmas, Charisma-Anything Christmas, Colour Create-Red, green and white, Basic Grey-Sketch (and BG papers), Secret Crafter- Christmas trees, Stamp Scrap & Doodle-Christmas, Bizzy Bec's-Christmas and lots of sparkle.  

So that's it for now!  I'm enjoying my long weekend...although I'm not happy it's almost over :(  Anyway, I hope to have more tomorrow!  Have a great night!

Weekend Stamping!

Hello there!  I hope all of you in the states had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I have a great time with my parents, my brother and one of my second cousins.  It was a great day!  Today I am posting a couple of cards I've made over the last week or so that I haven't had a chance to post.  The first is a non-traditional Christmas card.  I was looking for an excuse to use my Surfer Ian GF stamp, so I thought a little taste of Hawaii would be a good choice.  I followed the sketch for Aly's Sunday Sketch.  I used my favorite brand of stamp to fit the "favorite things" challenge at Creative Card Crew. Creative Belli wanted to see chipboard.  Charisma Cardz, Stamp, Scrap and Doodle, Pollycraft, Everybody Art and Bizzy Bec's all wanted to see Christmas (Bizzy Bec's also wanted lots of sparkle which is in his hair...all glittered with a gel pen!)  Ildi Co wanted a Christmas song inspired card (Mele Kalikimaka). PaperCutz said "anything goes!" Allsorts wanted buttons.  And I believe that's it for that one!

The next card is a birthday card for my nephew, Kam.  His hero is my nephew, Blake, who is in the military.  So he loves anything military.  I went with Soldier Ian.  I tried to do browns and greens to make it as boyish as possible.  The sentiment is printed on the computer.  I used an old sketch I found as the inspiration.  It fits the buttons challenge at Allsorts, Creative Card Crew's favorite things (I love GF stamps!), La La Land wanted to see 3 papers, 2 cardstocks and 1 embellishment, Cute Card was something for boys, PaperCutz was anything we want, Saturday Spotlight was hats (helmet count??) and Anyone for Anya was "fake it" (faux stitching).

Thanks for stopping by today!  See you again soon!