Whimsy Stamps June Release Blog Hop!

 Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps 
June 2011 new rubber stamps & dies release BLOG HOP!  
 

If you've come here from Vicki's blog, then you're on the right track.  If not, please start at Chris' blog to make sure you haven't missed anyone!

We have 15 fabulous new Whimsy Stamps stamps plus 2 new dies releasing 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, Deb Mitchell and Elaine Hughes.

Today Whimsy Stamps is also releasing its FIRST issue of the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine!  It's packed with amazing samples from the design team and customers as well as three different tutorials that you can follow along with step-by-step.  We are excited to bring you samples that have never been seen before and we hope that they will inspire you to create using your favorite Whimsy products!  You can find the magazine here: http://issuu.com/whimsystamps/docs/issue1  Please feel free to leave your comments and click the Facebook "Like" button to let us know that you enjoyed it!

So, back to the hop!

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 inspiration!

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

3 stamps from Crissy Armstrong
Bart’s BBQ ~ Fairy Day Dreams ~ Journey Into The Sea

4 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Garden Bird House ~ Garden Fence ~ Mailed With Love ~ Sick Little Bear

4 stamps from Kenny K
Alice Chains ~ Bling Baby ~ Showgirl ~ Surfer Dude

4 stamps/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
The Good Life Tickets ~ Into The Farm BG ~ Summer Letter Seals ~ Thank You Tiles

2 dies/sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Cloud Die Set ~ Hot Air Balloon Die

The hop starts today (Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday June 22, 2011 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. We also have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp!

I'm one of those prize stops!  Denise kindly let me give away TWO stamps: Summer Letter Seals and Thank You Tiles, whoo hoo! I hope you're able to use these stamps to compliments your images, whatever they may be :)

To enter for a chance to win these stamps, just enter your information into InLinkz. You do NOT need a blog to enter - you can leave the URL blank and just fill in the Name and Email and click Submit. 

In my case, I've used the dies and sentiments themselves as focal points of my projects! I rarely get a chance to do this, but GEEZ it's so much faster to create a card without coloring, lol.  You can find a tutorial in Issue 1 of the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine on how I created the hot air balloons - really easy to layer them!  I rather like how they turned out!  Definitely something different from my overembellished, colored cards :)

Using The Good Life Tickets, Cloud Die Set, 
and Hot Air Balloon Die

Stamp:The Good Life Ticket Sentiments; Paper: Crate Paper Neighborhood, vellum; Embellishments: burlap; Tools: Whimsy Stamps Cloud Die Set, and Hot Air Balloon Die, Balloon Die Set, Sakura Quickie Glue pen

Using The Good Life Tickets, Summer Letter Seals, 
and Hot Air Balloon Die

Stamp: The Good Life Ticket Sentiments, Summer Letter Seals; Paper: Bo Bunny Gabrielle 6x6 paper pad; Embellishments: none; Tools: Whimsy Stamps Cloud Die Set, and Hot Air Balloon Die, Balloon Die Set, Sakura Quickie Glue pen, Making Memories distresser, sewing machine

Using Summer Letter Seals

Stamp: Summer Letter Seals; Ink: Ranger distress inks for edge distressing (Antique Linen and Vintage Photo); Paper: Cosmo Cricket Upcycle; Embellishments: Viva Decor Pearl Pen, cotton and jute ladder trim, doily (a real one I grabbed for 10 cents at a garage sale!), die cuts; Tools: Spellbinders Fancy Labels 3 die, Marianne D's dies, EK Success border punch

Now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Donna's beautiful blog!

Thank you so much for hopping with us today and I hope you enjoy the new release!  Don't forget to enter in the candy draw below!