thinking of you – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends! I hope that you had a lovely weekend! Here we are with the last week of May already and Summer is showing itself in many ways right now. I do love seeing the flowers everyone has been sharing posts of with their yards full of blooms coming up everywhere!

Today I have this card using a cute Whimsy Stamps Digital stamp:

This cutie was released this month by CC Designs called “Fleur“. (Be sure to check out May’s Digital Release by CLICKING HERE if you haven’t yet!) Be sure to stop back by on Saturday to check out June’s release too!

I just love the ring of flowers in her hair! I’ve actually printed her out twice so that I could cut a few extra flowers to add to the accents of my design!

For my card, I’ve taken a panel from the Rustic Woods and Brick digital papers and used that for the background of my design. I took a marker and added some dash marks for a stitch look. I added this piece to a 5″ square top folding suede card base which I sponged around the edges with some white ink. I did the same for the die cut fence panels and the circle layer behind the image.

I’ve taken a piece of decorative paper from my stash and sponged some ink around it and also wrapped some ogandy ribbon around it before attaching to the card front base. I then die cut some grass to go over my fence border. My image was cut with a stitched circle die and sponged around the edges with the same ink as the decorative paper. This was layered over top of the suede circle panel and these were popped up with some craft foam. I’ve added the bow and the cut out flowers from the extra printed out image and then I’ve added a flower gem in the center of the bow. Each flower including the ones on the image were filled with some Nuvo Honey Gold Glitter Drops. I stamped a sentiment from the Whimsy Stamps Everyday Mini Sentiments clear stamp set with the same suede color ink.

Here’s a closer look at the coloring on this image. I’ve used the following Copic colors to color her in with: (Click on the underlined numbers to view/purchase from Whimsy Stamps)

Hair – Y00 (used for base), Y11, YR21, YR24, YR27
Skin – E21, E11, E00, E000, R20
Outfit/Shoes – E89, E87, E84, E81
Flowers – BG000, BG10
White gel pen used for cheeks and around hair flowers
Ground/shadow – C1, E0000

You can also see the details from the Nuvo Glitter Drops that I’ve used in the center of the flowers including the one in the center of the bow.

If you haven’t yet, be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Stamps and Inspirations Facebook Group and share your Whimsy Stamps creations with us! You never know if you could be picked for a Sunday Spotlight winner! Those shown in the “spotlight” also have a chance to maybe be apart of a guest design spot as well! So be sure to share your makes with us!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I enjoy reading your thoughts! 🙂 See you soon!

Whimsy Stamps Products used today:

(See above for each Copic color number)

Challenges:

Little Red Wagon – Flower Frenzy #498
The House That Stamps Built – M2219 Anything Goes
Pammies Inky Pinkies – PIP1921 Anything Goes
Crafting From the Heart – Anything Goes

Hello friends! I’m here! In case you were seeing nothing on my blog or something weird going on within the last day, I appologize! I was messing with something and pretty much should have left things alone! I think we are all back now and everything is good! Whew! (Don’t worry, I won’t be doing that again!) I guess I thought I was savvy with tech things, but it turns out, I’m not! Ha!

So now that I’ve got things back to normal, I can share my card with you this evening!

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This is one of the adorable March digital releases from Whimsy Stamps called Tulip by CC Designs. She was so fun to color and I was thinking about tulips the entire time I was coloring her up! Tulips are my favorite flower and I have a brick foundation with little buds of daffodils and tulips coming up! Of course this makes me excited about Spring and the warm weather we are starting to get!! (Hopefully I will be able to share photos of how they come up soon!)

Whimsy Stamps has also released some really cool digital papers that I’ve used for the background of my card here called Rustic Wood and Brick Collection. (Reminds me of my brick foundation where the flowers are coming up!) I have also used a retired Whimsy Stamps die set called “Garden Flowers” that happened to have a tulip in it, so I cut several in white cardstock to go along the bottom of the card. I also took one and inked it up in the colored I’ve used on my image and tied an additional thread bow at the top of it.

The sentiment on the bottom of the image panel comes from the Whimsy Stamps Everyday Mini Sentiments clear stamp set. I white heat embossed it and then cut out with the Whimsy Stamps Quick Strips die set. I used a MFT stitched scallop die to cut out the image from and layered her with some red cardstock. Before I added the blue ribbon, I attached the piece of black cardstock where my layered image panel would go and wrapped it around the brick background. I then added a white button with a linen thread bow in the center of that. (This is what I used on the colored tulip.) All of these layers were then mounted onto an A2 sized top folding white card base.

Here’s a closer look at her all colored up with Copic markers! You can purchase them at Whimsy Stamps. CLICK HERE These are the colors I’ve used on my image today:

bow, jacket, skirt, tulips – B97, B95, B93, R39, R37, R35, YG25
shirt, socks, shoes – BG000, E87, E84, E81
hair, skin – E27, E25, E23, E21, E11, E00, E000, R20
butterflies – C5, C3, YR04, YR02, Y13
C1 around image and white gel pen for flowers and jacket along with red and black gel pens for dots on butterflies
covered the red portion of die cut tulip with Wink of Stella clear glitter brush pen

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I hope you’ve enjoyed my card this evening! Are you as ready for those Spring flowers as much as I am? What are your favorite flowers?

Thanks so much for stopping in today!! See you again soon!

Here are the Whimsy Stamps products used on my card below:

Challenges I’d like to enter my card for:

Words 2 Craft By (W2CB63) – “Happiness held is the seed, Happiness shared is the flower.”
As You Like It – Dies or Stencils & why? (I love using dies because I feel there are so many fun things you can do with them/versatile, even it you don’t stamp!)
A Bit More Time to Craft – #88 Anything Goes
Challenge Up Your Life – Bye-Bye Winter