Whimsy Blog Hop

Hello Peeps, welcome to the Whimsy Stamps February new rubber release BLOG HOP and I'm in it, woooo hoooo, aren't I a lucky girl!

We have 16 gorgeous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new fantastic dies to show you today! These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Beate Johns, Deb Routledge, Chris Dark, Jacque Beddingfield, Tracy Payne , that's me, and Elaine Hughes!

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more fabulousness!

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today:

5 stamps / stamp sets from Crissy Armstrong
Fragrant Rose ~ Darling Daisies ~ Smell the Flowers ~Valerie's Spring Rain ~ Fancy Bench

3 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Balloon Mouse ~ Baby Bunny's Bottle ~ Spring Sitter Bunny

4 stamps from Kenny K
Uptown Angel ~ Star ~ Lady Raven ~ Vicki LeeVicious

4 stamps / stamp sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Postage Stamps ~ Birthday Postage Stamps ~ Balloon Sentiments ~ Birthday Wish List

2 dies
Postage Stamp Die ~ Balloon Set Dies

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Donna's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Chris's Blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday February 9th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday February 16th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop, and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. Also, we have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping! *wink*

For my blog hop creation I used Valeries Spring Rain by Chrissy Armstrong and the Rainbow Echo Designs Postage Stamp set.

Isn't this image just the cutest and just look postage stamp to the left and right of the flower arrangement.

I created a puddle around her wellies and used glossy accents so it looks like water, not shown up too well in the photo.

Here's an even closer picture of my puddle, a little better, don't know why I'm intend on showing you my puddle, lol, guess I'm proud of it.

A snapshot of the so you can see the inside.

I used the glossy accents to make rain drops which you can just about see on the umbrella and flowers.

You can see the rain drops better from this angle.

Full list of materials Used:-

Image "Valeries Spring Rain" by Crissy Armstrong availabe from Whimsy HERE

Rainbow Echo Designs Stamp Set available from Whimsy HERE

Bench from Magnolia

Magnolia Doohickey Flourish Die

Marianne Design Flourish Die

Medium - Copics/Prisma Pencils

Papers from Nitwits

Doily, flowers, lace, pearls from Bizzy Becs HERE

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Glossy Accents

Walnut Stain Distress Ink

So now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to  Beate John's Blog.

Finally, here is a complete blog hop list in hopping order:

Chris Olsen
Donna Smith
Tracy Payne
Beate Johns
Crissy Armstrong
Simonne Clay
Deb Routledge
Crystal Irwin
Debbie Eastman
Ann Vento
Denise Lynn
Annika Ryan
Iris Wiechmann
Erin Bailey
Jacque Beddingfield
Vicki Parson
Lori Pachkowsky
Marley van der Heijden
Elaine Hughes
Patricia Garcia
Chris Dark
Vanja Stevanovic
Stephanne Maraver

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy the new releases!

I have entered my card into the following challenges:-

Bizzy Bec's - Sketch
Scrap Creations - Animal Antics
Craft your passion - Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes - Two or more images
Cupcake Inspirations - Photo inspiration
Peartree Designs - Free for all

Don't forget to enter my candy HERE