Whimsy Digital Stamps - Penguin Ice Cream

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I blessed to be on the Whimsy Digital Stamps team! So excited! Digital is so versatile and can honestly be used to make you project exactly what you want! For my card today I am using Crissy Armstrong's Penguin Ice Cream. And the new Digital paper collection Aqua Breeze.

Cute little thing right? Now.. first of all when printing my image I put it into my Photoshop program and then added it to one of the digital papers from the Aqua Breeze collection. This way when I print out the image, the background prints right along with it! I then colored the image with my copics (colors below). All while thinking ice cream sure sounds good... mmm.

For my corners I used the Whimsy Stamps Doodled Doily Die.  Now those that know Whimsy Dies may say.. uh but that is a round die... yep, I like to make my dies do more than one thing, so I cut my circle once punched out. Four pieces make four corners. Four Whimsy Enamel Dots on the corners. And for a sentiment I used the Whimsy Word Dies. There are so many great word dies!! I ADORE word dies!

Here are the copic colors used

Hope you enjoyed my little Penguin! Now lets go find some ice cream!
HUGS and

High Hopes Stamps - Christmas in July - Santa Bob

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High Hopes Stamp is having Christmas in July! Time to pick out those holiday stamps and get ahead on our Christmas Cards! Can you believe the year is half over!

Santa Bob is ready to slide down that chimney!

He is a cool Santa... I colored with my Copics. And then added puff paint for snow, and stickles lace glitter for Santa's trim. I found a scrap of red dotted paper for my base. The sentiment is also from High Hopes... love this one for Christmas cards! "Santa Claus is coming to town!" Then a few dots Enamel Dots for embellishments.

Copic colors used.

Hope you got a little Christmas cheer - I put on a Hallmark Christmas movie.. and stayed inside out of the 100 degree heat.. and HO HO HO... Santa Claus is coming to town!

Have a blessed day -
HUGS and 

Animal Crackers - We all Love the Rug

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So at an antique show a while back we found a large rag rug. Wasn't sure what we were going to do with it, but I had to have it, and it sat for a while until we could figure out what we wanted to do with it. But then one day we decided to put it down in our back entryway and try it out for a while. Seems most everyone really likes it...

Gato really seemed to be stretched out and enjoying herself. Of course she only can lay out like this when the doggies are outside. Then she can have a little claim to the new striped area.

Then the doggies come back in and "she" gets full control again....

 Yes we all know that Libbie is in control. I would say large and in charge... but small and in charge is more literal. She will allow Autie to nap on the corners...

Yes he is asleep.. and yes snoring loudly. LOL Love that little dude.

Now oddly I haven't found Chica sleeping on it yet. But then again the food bowl is very close to this rug, and Chica... well my little piggie, she will nap wrapped around the food bowl. Just in case she wakes up and needs a little snack I suppose. My girl...

Speaking of snacks.. 

 The Guys front pen is just about the last of the green grazing around here. There is a bit still in the girls back but the guys seems to have a better choice. It has one whole end that is lower and seems to have some green still there for munching. They were all enjoying a mid afternoon snack then Rico had to check and make sure I didn't have mints or carrots for them. :0)

Now if you follow you may remember that Hubby tends to have wild feathered pets as well as the many many many of our furry and feathered children. All those these three are not so cute... to most, These three young vultures are the newest members to the farm.

In one of the old buildings on the property we have had some babies.. second season for these birds to find our building to raise their young. Last year it was two babies... this year three. They have learned to fly and now are learning to be on there own. Hubby says they have a purpose in life and are "cute" in their own way... Ok Babe whatever you say...

Hope you have a wonderfully blessed weekend  -
HUGS and

Whimsy Stamps - Potted Birdhouse

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Today for Whimsy Stamps I wanted to make a card for encouragement for a friend. I decided to use DoveArt's new Potted Birdhouse. Love this! I think I need to see if Hubby could make me one of these.... oh wait the donkeys would probably knock it over and eat the flowers. sigh. I will just have to color up this one and enjoy it in my crafting.

I colored with my copics (colors below) and then used Ranger Distress Ink around the edges. I found a piece of Graphic 45 paper scrap that I loved as a background. I sewed all the blocks sort of like quilting. Hard to see in the photo, but it looks cool. For the sentiment I love the new Stain Glass Scriptures! This set is so inspiring. I added some corner dies and placed it all on a Kraft cardstock base.

Copic colors used -

To jump really fast to the Whimsy items I used just click the photos below! 

Love coloring with Whimsy Stamps! So much art and fun in my cards with Whimsy!
Hope you enjoyed -
HUGS and

High Hopes Stamps - Ron's Royce

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I have been having so much fun with the new High Hopes Stamps Modes of Transportation release! Vroom Vroom! This week I used one that really reminded me of Hubby and I's dating days...

This is Ron's Royce ... 

Now we didn't zip around in a Rolls Royce... But Hubby did have a 1957 convertible MGA that was sort of like this. All swoopy .. is that a word? Well it was swoopy. And it was a lot of fun. I colored this one in a creamy color... "ours" was more white, but I like the cream coloring... looks so rich and it matched my papers... LOL.  After I colored it I decided that any good classic car was very shiny. So I added lots of glaze to my car. Its really shiny!

An unnamed piece of paper in my stash felt just right. Along with a cream colored base and mat. Three Enamel glitter dots and the great new sentiment from High Hopes Stamps "Best Miles".

Copic colors used

Hope you like my shiny car..
Have a blessed day -
HUGS and

Animal Crackers - Rub a Dub Dub... 2 Boys in a Tub

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Well Domino has had his bowl taken away from him... he was overflowing from it pretty much. So now the twins have claimed it... and they are so small they both fit perfectly in it. Adorable... I know. 

 I have been "working" with these three boys. Ok... sitting out and loving on them isn't really work. But I really want them to be super friendly. I want these guys to be like my old man Frankie... not like Peso who still runs from me when I want to pet on him.

Well two out of three of these guys have become super sweet. Domino is my pushy funny man. My little dude i cal him. He totally cracks me up, he thinks he is the "man". Here he is showing me how he can eat up this big piece of hay. And he did...

Amazing how big his horns are already.. I have a few purple and blue polka dots to prove just how pointy they are! We are working on that now... no head butting!

Waylon I call my "little love"...

 He normally will answer me when I call out to him. And will run to the fence for some loving. He likes to climb up in my lap when I am sitting in the pen, and pretty much cuddle and get lots of scratches. He is my "little love"- Then Domino comes and shoves him out of my lap... he still doesn't like to share Momma.. LOL

Now his twin brother Willie... he hasn't been quite as friendly at all. He will come over to me or stand up on my back when sitting on the bench, but when I go to scratch on him he backs off... Once in a while he will let me love on him. But it takes some convincing.

He is still a totally sweetie.. just cautious. Like his mom... I will keep "working" with him.

Moxie wanted some loving when I passed. This is her pose on her back...

 Is that a face or what? She loves her belly rubbed! Of course sometimes I am not quite sure what she has been into and really don't want to rub her belly... but she gets rubbed anyway.. at least on the cleaner areas. LOL

 I didn't get any donkeys this week... worked too many hours and didn't get out where they were all out grazing and it was pretty hot, I hate the heat. We were predicted to have some desperately needed rain last weekend and early this week.. 3-6 inches is what they were saying and we were thrilled to get it! We need it SO BAD, we are so dry too early in the summer. Well... rain came and died each day before it got to us... we ended up 4 days of "rain" to get less than 1/2 inch. The positive thing is that the high 90's temps went way down into the 80's for a few days with the clouds. But yesterday the sun was out and man did it get HOT! That is Texas for ya!

Hope we are blessed with some rain with the next system to pass through.

And I hope that this week you got a grin from my fur babies. Have a very blessed weekend -

HUGS and

Whimsy Stamps - Mazarine Butterfly Fairy

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Today a little playing with a new Whimsy Stamp by Marina Fedotova called "Mazarine Butterfly Fairy" she is such a sweet little fairy!

 This little girl is too cute and fun to color with those dots. I colored with my copics after finding this piece of pattern paper from The Girls Paperie Jubilee collection. Like the simple feeling of the image with the paper. I added the sentiment from Whimsy Stamps "Bold Statements" collection. Then some doodling in the corners - she just seemed the doodling type of fairy to me.

Copic colors used -

 Here are the images to click to link straight to the Whimsy Store to the items used -

Hope enjoyed... make sure to visit the Whimsy Stamps store and see all the fun!
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