Whimsy Stamps Holiday 2010 Release! And a chance to win!

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I can't believe today is finally here!

Thank you for joining the Whimsy Stamps Holiday 2010 Release Blog Hop!  If you've come here from Deb Routledge's wonderful blog, then you're on the right track.  If not, please return to Bev Rochester's beautiful blog to make sure you don't miss one amazing creation!

I can't believe that this day has finally come.  Some of you may have been watching and waiting for the stamps to be available since the sneak peeks started on Thursday, but I've been waiting MONTHS for these stamps to be released.  I am so very proud to be on the Whimsy team and to have the opportunity to design for such a fantastic company.  I truly think that this release is one of our best so far.  Crissy has done an outstanding job, like always, and I still have to pinch myself sometimes when I think about how lucky I am that I get to work with her.  Not to mention, we have some of the most talented ladies using our stamps in their fantastic creations!

Anyway, I'll quit being sentimental now, but hey, what do you expect? lol

Today, Whimsy Stamps is releasing NINE new designs for your creative pleasure.  We have something for everyone in this release!  Really, we do!  We have three new cute images (Starry Night, Santa's Midnight Snack, and Jingle Bell Ride), two new background stamps (Classified Ads and Life Defined), we have a beautiful Vintage Christmas set, a fun Holiday Wish List, a multi-purpose/envelope Vintage Happy Holidays stamp, and of course, we have some more of those infamous Holiday Ticket Sentiments.  Whew, what a long list!  There's definitely a good selection in this new release :)

I've decided to create a few cards using the Vintage Happy Holidays stamp, the Classified Ads stamp, the Life Defined stamp, and the poinsettia from the Vintage Christmas set.  I went the clean and simple route for these cards.  The first card just has a line of pearls with the sentiment stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa.  The second card uses a sentiment from the Whimsy Stamps Oval Snippets set and embellishment with Wild Orchid Crafts flowers.  The third card has a handmade flower made with a Nestabilities die and stamped on the edges with one of Crissy's accessory flourishes.  I then layered it, crumpled it up, and held it together with a BasicGrey brad.  For the fourth card, I paper pieced the poinsettia three times on two different colored papers from the BasicGrey Jovial paper pad.

I hope you like them!

Want a chance to win the 

Classified Ads background stamp? 

 Denise has kindly allowed me to give a choice of a stamp I designed to one winner and I chose the Classified Ads background stamp.  For a chance to win, please leave your link in the InLinkz below by October 7, 2010 12:00 PM noon.

But wait, make sure you hop along to ALL the blogs because there are lots of other prizes to be won!  We have several opportunities throughout the hop for you to win some goodies so keep hopping. 

Your next stop in the hop is the super talented Melanie Holt'z blog.  If you've never seen Melanie's wonderful creations, you're in for a treat!

These cards are for a few challenges:

1. CPS - Sketch (2nd card)
2. Waltzing Mouse - Sketch (3rd card)
3. Sketch Saturday - Sketch (4th card)
4. Card Patterns - Sketch (3rd card)
5. Meljen's Designs - Monochromatic (first three cards)
6. A Spoon Full of Sugar - Spots and Stripes (4th card)
7. Creative Card Crew - Bloomin' Marvelous (3rd card and 4th card)
8. For Fun Challenges - Vintage (all 4 cards)
9. Little Red Wagon - Make your own embellishment (3rd card)
10. Your Next Stamp - Grow Your Own (3rd card)
11. C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Fancy Floral (2nd, 3rd, and 4th card)
12. Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - Anything Goes
13. Lots To Do - Vintage (all 4 cards)
14. Stamptacular - Layer it on  (4th card)

Thank you for stopping by today!