Yeah!!! I'm so looking forward to this week!! We're highlighting Melyssa Connoly (croppixie @ SCS). Melyssa is the brains behind Whimsie Doodles (a fantastic site for the cutest digis around) and many of us girls at There She Goes are lucky enough to work with her illustrations with her line of stamps there as well.
Because we’re featuring Melyssa I HAD to use one of my Whimsie Doodle images from the people section of the website.. (If you love gnomes she has lots of cute ones!!)

Here’s my card:


Isn’t he adorable??!! I am not a gnome person around the home, but I sure love to colour them! I paired him with some My Mind’s Eye papers and a couple die cuts (large circle is a Spellbinders and the smaller one is Memory Box) and the button in the center is Basic Grey. I also made this work with today's Free For All Challenge: use two or more patterned papers.. Check it out here.

Here’s the sketch:



Here is how to play:

• Create a paper crafting project (card, scrap book page or 3D item), based on the sketch provided.Post your creation on your blog or an online gallery (using a code ISSC12), and link it here with the inlinkz widget.
• Please provide a direct link to your post - not the generic link to your blog.
• A new challenge will be posted every Friday at 12:01 AM EST, and you have until noon on Wednesday EST to submit your entry.
• You may enter as many times as you like, but please provide a newly designed project with a new link for each additional project.
• We will choose the top 2 creations to be featured in our "Top 2 Thursday" post where we will announce who we have picked :) The winners will receive their very own iSpy Sketches blog badge!
• Don't forget that you may combine our challenges with others and use supplies from any company that you wish :)
• Have fun and we look forward to "spying" your creations!

For our September release, we have a bunch of adorable images for you that are perfect for your Back-to-School and Halloween projects...and a little Steam Punk, too!  These images are so much fun to color-- and we know you'll love them as much as we do!

Here’s my card:

I made this card while camping last week and I totally forgot to bring Hallowe'en patterned papers along to work with this image.... WOOPS! It forced me to get creative so I created the background with a couple of different glimmer mists and stencil and sprayed the grungeboard skulls with black glimmer mist. I think it all worked out pretty well..

Check out WHAT’S NEW at the Whimsie Doodles site.

In other news, this is my last release with Whimsie Doodles. They have a brand-new DT that rocks and I will be enjoying their creations as a fan instead of a Diva. I was so happy to join in the fun and I LOVE my Whimsie Doodles stamps. I can’t wait to see what Melyssa has in store for the future!

Thanks for stopping by!

Today is a fun day for me because I’m hosting this week’s Whimsie Wednesday challenge as well as giving tips on trends over at the There She Goes blog.. Whew!

Check out my post here at the TSG Blog to see how my need to organize and use scraps resulted in this card:

And check my post here to see this week’s Whimsie Wednesday challenge: 3 Patterned Papers featuring this card:

ps… Do your cats do this?? I think it’s the cutest thing ever…

I love these little gnome images from Whimsie Doodles… I am giving this to my BFF for his birthday. I think he’ll get a kick out of the sentiment. I played along with today’s Featured Stamper Challenge and I chose to case this card by pawallen142. I really liked the interesting layout, everything grouped vertically in the middle. It’s great for longer images and it lets you see any interesting detail on the card-base. (I embossed the card with a cuttlebug branch folder..)

So.. speaking of Whimsie Doodles, here is a great opportunity if you love their stamps and love to colour:

Digital Stamp DESIGN TEAM CALL....
Whimsie Doodles is looking for some new creative team members to start designing with us beginning September 1st to February 28, 2012.
You don't have to have any experience with working with printable (digital) stamps....but you do need to have a printer.

Follow this link if you want to learn more: Design Team call

Call closes Aug 25,2011. Good Luck.. I have LOVED working with Melyssa and I encourage you to apply. You will have a great time!

It's new release day and to celebrate our August release, we are having a little party with Lily Pad Cards!
Visit each of our Doodlelicious Diva blogs (click their links in the sidebar!!) today to see their card featuring our new August images and the Lily Pad color combo below...

 
Here’s what I did with the colour combo:

It looked like a more traditional combo to me, so I went with a quasi-vintage feel. As I was looking for coordinating papers I searched high and low through my paper stash and I kid you not, this is my only piece of navy blue patterned paper. It seems I don’t like this colour very much.. lol

I made a second card with a trendier feel:

I am in love with this colour combo (Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet and Black – all PTI colours) and I thought the image looked great uncoloured. I added a couple shadows with my Cool Grey markers and that was it!

A few black pearls were added to the banner for some va-va-voom and that’s it!
Check out the challenge post at Lily Pad Cards to see what their Design Team has done with the August images and find out how you can win a $15 Gift Certificate to the Whimsie Doodles Online Store, $15 will go a long way!! And while you’re at it, check out the Whimsie Doodles blog to see all of the August images.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day.

Have you jumped on the Smash Book bandwagon yet? It is absolutely NUTS at my LSS.. There are waiting lists 3 pages long for these things, and the other day when we got them in there were ladies standing outside the door waiting for them. It’s the craziest fad I’ve ever seen over a papercrafting item.
I am using this Smash Book to keep track of and log info about cardmaking. I am not a journaller, but I LOVED the look of the books and a colleague of mine used one of her Smash’s as a papercrafting resource and I thought it was a wonderful idea.

I bought a pack of calendar folders and I’ve written in all of my design team requirements as well as the card classes I have coming up in it.

Here I have glued in left-over alterables and favourite pieces of paper (the patterned paper is from our wedding invites) to remind myself of good ideas I've had... (they're few and far between, so I must document them. lol)

I’ve been playing around with a new technique and I’ve glued in a few different samples to show my classes at the LSS when it comes time to teach the technique.
Do YOU Smash? Do you love it? I wonder and hope that all of the people who rushed to buy these suckers are putting them to good use. They sure are fun.
PS.. Tomorrow is reveal day at Whimsie Doodles and here are a couple of sneak peeks for you:
Every release I am reminded of how lucky I am to be on the team. The images are so crisp and clean and are a cinch to colour.. I love them so much.. See you tomorrow for the reveal!

I’m a sucker for challenges, so I played along with some DTGD challenges at Splitcoast Stampers that will be happening all week – yay! Pardon the brief post, it’s nearly 3am!!

- a gorgeous card with lots of paint and glimmer mists… I have a tutorial in the works for this! I used a fancy new sticker from SRM in the corner.

- a Christmas card with a whole heck of a lot of glitter on it! I will be teaching this card in an upcoming class at Clipper Street. Minimal colouring with maximum effect!

- a challenge to use kraft. I punched the fish image up with some glitter and "deewdrops" (thank you Fran for the email!) that add a lot of dimension and texture.
Thanks for checking in! I hope to complete a bunch more challenges tomorrow/today.. They are all so good!

 

I played along with the new Free For All challenge at SCS, and the challenge was to use two of something. I only decided at the very end to use two different colours of twine. I chose red twine because I coloured the boy’s flip-flops red but there were not other red elements on the card (but the red was in the colour scheme of the paper collection, it just didn’t appear on the papers I chose). Ribbon/twine has a tendency to tie colours together on a card or layout, that’s one thing I love about using it. The waves were cut out with my Silhouette – it’s a cut that comes with 4-5 different wave shapes that are meant to be layered as I did, neat eh? The sun is an Echo Park sticker with an SRM sticker sentiment in the centre.

Koale was coloured with Copics and cut out with the long classic rectangle nestabilites die and the mat with the long scalloped rectangle die. That’s all for now.. See you soon!

Copics: Hair: E33, 35, 37, 39; Skin: E31, 50, 51; Shell: Y13, 15, 17; Shorts: BG32, 34, 18, YR02, 04, 07, B16; Flip-flops: R12, 14, 17; Background: Home-made marker BG100 (50/50 BG10 and blender solution), BG10

It's our favourite time of the month...  New Release Day!  Woo Hoo!
This month's release will NOT disappoint, that's for sure!  We've got all the bases covered for summer, shaped cards and even some images you can purchase already coloured-- cool, right?  To see our new coloured images as well as the rest of the new releases, please visit the Whimsie Doodles website {here}.
I really enjoyed putting this card together. It started with the image where I did a little of the pop-out technique with the extremities of the fish and a Spellbinders die. All of the papers are from Echo Park’s Summer Days collection. The colours are so summery and fun, aren’t they? I love using different colours and elements from one collection because even though they are totally different colours (orange, blue, green…) you KNOW they “go” because someone’s done all of the designing for you.. YAY! 

I glued little pebbles onto the bubbles in the image to give that watery effect. I hadn’t used them in a long time so there was a bit of a wild goose chase goin’ on, but I found them (yay) and I think it adds so much.

So head over to Whimsie Doodles to see What’s New! Remember to use this code when you’re shopping:

Copics: Goldfish: YR21, 23, 24; Background: BG70, 72

Hi! I missed last week’s leftover Sunday because of the drama surrounding my parent’s departure, and I worked all day yesterday, so I was finally able to sit down to my pile o’ scraps and get a couple of cards done… Here’s my stash:

It was/is pretty substantial and I still have lots of scraps left, but here are two cards that I made with some fun papers:

I played around with a technique that Teri shared on the Technique Tuesday Blog the other day. I used a white gel pen to highlight the grooves in the Technique Tile. Anyway, that sat in the pile until I made this card today! I cut the stars with my Slice and added an SRM sticker and a MME brad.

This one was obviously very simple to put together. I cut down the patterned paper scraps and scraped the edges. Another SRM sticker and a Prima flourish completed this card.

Wanna see a peek of what’s coming tomorrow from Whimsie Doodles?

Does the colour scheme look familiar? lol.. A lot of cute stamps are being released tomorrow and I can’t wait to show you my card. In the meantime, if you’re doing some shopping at the WD store don’t forget to use this coupon code:

Supplies: Echo Park papers; SRM Stickers; Prima Flourish; Technique Tile; Slice “falala” cartridge, MME brad.

Hi there. It’s my turn to host a challenge at the Whimsie Doodles blog and I would love it if you played along! One of the first challenges I ever played along with when I started making cards was a recipe challenge. I didn't have a lot of supplies at the time, but I could always make something work when it came to a recipe challenge. 

Here's the recipe:

Red

Twine (can be baker's twine or plain ol' twine)

and at least one flower

You are not limited to the prescribed ingredients, but your card must include all of them somewhere on your project. 

Sound fun?

Here's my card to serve as a little inspiration: 

All of the stamps are in our Baby Joy rubber stamp set:

To play along, and be entered to win a FREE Whimsie Doodles digital image, just enter your direct link at the Whimsie Doodles blog. You have until Midnight on Tuesday, July 5th to enter. We can't wait to see your fabulous creations!

Don’t forget to use this code when purchasing stamps!

Hi there! The weekend is here at last. This felt like one of the longest weeks since September. There is SO MUCH TO DO at school and right now I can't see the surface of my desk.... That's okay for now because I have nothing to do this weekend except relax, hang out with friends tomorrow, and make cards!

Tonight I made a card for the Inspiration Challenge at SCS. I chose to copy the layout of this image:

Stamps: whimsie doodles - digi stamp

Paper: MME, papertrey ink

Accessories: copic markers, nestabilities, silhouette digital cutter, srm sticker sentiment