In this issue... A showcase of our new September Rubber Stamps and Die Set Creations by the Whimsy Stamps design team using the new Crissy Armstrong, KennyK, Meljen’s Designs, and Raindrop Echo Designs Including: never-before- seen creations by our Magazine Staff Designers! and...A recap of digital stamps released on Septem- ber 1st! Card by Lori Pachkowsky, Card by Lori Pachkowsky, see details on page 4 see details on page 4 September Showcase!
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Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine - Issue 3 - Mini
This is a mini version of our online publication of the Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Magazine! In this mini, we showcase design team creations from the September new release rubber stamps and die as well as some new digis.
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Whimsy Stamps is proud to present our first mini magazine for the Fall 2011 Season. Our emphasis with this edition is a showcase our Fall release stamps and dies while inspiring you to create your own Autumn themed pro-jects. Our designers have created with vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows and images and sentiments to mark the start of this beautiful time of year. We hope you enjoy this mini magazine edition! Next month will be another busy month for us! Don’t forget to join us on Octo-ber 5th as we release the new Wee Stamps rubber collection at Whimsy Stamps. Then again on October 12th when we release our holiday collection of rubber stamps and dies and on October 19th when we debut Issue 4, the next full edition of the Whimsy Stamps Magazine!
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Pum Kinnie Fairy and Thank You Tiles Sentiments; Paper: Close to My Heart; Colouring medium: Copic markers; Embellishments: Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and local Dollar Store. Pearl Brads and lace
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Pum Kinnie Fairy and Autumn Letter Seals; Paper: DP from My Minds Eye Collection 'Oh La La', CS is from Bazzill; Ink & Stamping CS: Memento Tuxedo Black on Make it Col-or CS; Coloring Medium: Copic Markers; Embellishments: Cherry Blossoms from Whimsy Buds, fern leaf ribbon from Whimsy, flowers & leaves from my stash, Flower Soft, rhinestone swirls, mesh jute ribbon, button, scrappers floss and dark green ribbon from my stash; Tools: Cheery Lynn Designs, Spellbinders and ProvoCraft CuttleBug
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Foot-ball Bart, Lavish Flourishes and The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments; Coloring Medium: Tombow Dual Brush pens, Mondeluz wa-tercolor pencils, Distress inks; Papers: Jady Day Studio - Sum-mertime Fun On Travel; Other: cardstock, Nestabilities label die, ribbon, white gel pen, paper piecing tool
Card created by Senior Designer
Annika Ryan
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Ock Toe Bur Fairy, Lavish Flourishes and The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments; Papers: Basic Grey Pyrus, kraft backing for Prima flowers for colouring the image, kraft card base by Papermania; Inks: Me-mento London Fog, Stazon Black, An-tique Lines and Old Olive Distress Inks; Coloring Medium: various col-oured pencils (Derwent Drawing Pen-cils, Derwent Coloursoft, Faber-Castell Polychromos, Caran D'ache Supracol-our); Embellishments: Make It Crafty laser cut chipboard, gold flat back pearls from Quixotic, strips of twill fabric; Tools: Purple Cow guillo-tine, Butter Bee Scissors, Xcut ribbon scissors, Woodware craft knife; Other: acetate sheet
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Pum Kinnie Fairy and The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments; Ink/Coloring Meduim: Copic Markers, Make it Colour blending card; Paper: Echo Park – For the Record, BasicGrey – Max & Whisk-ers; Embellishments: Make it Crafty flow-er leaf swirls, flat backed pearls, ribbon
Card created by Staff Designer
Minna Paajanen
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Football Bart and The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments; Inks: Ar-chival Inks: Jet Black and Coffee; Coloring medium: Copics; Papers: Prima Melody and Madeline; Embellishments: twine, colored cheese cloth, ribbon, fabric flower , star made by Fiskars punch and metal centre; Tools: Fiskars punch, sewing machine, Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die, fastener; Other: cotton fibre additive and white acrylic paint; Quick how-to: All the edges are sewn with machine. I have used doublesided tape to fas-ten patterned paper and cardstock together. Around the image I have added cotton fibre additive and when it`s dry, white acrylic paint and Distress Ink Pumice Stone. Cheesecloth is colored with Distress Inks Walnut Stain.
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Card created by Designer
Tammy Louise Cunliffe
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Wasn’t Me, Celebration Pen-nants, Film Marker Sentiments, The Fun Life Ticket Snetiments, Film Strip Sentiments, Pattie's Creation Digital Stamps; Paper: Bazzill cardstock, BasicGrey Out of Print, Screen prints Hambly - Brick wall, DCWV Light Blue Vintage; Ink/Coloring Medium: Memento, Ranger Distress Ink, Copic markers, Gelly Roll ~ Clear Star; Tools: Whimsy Stamps Banner Pennants Die Set, Film Marker Die, Film Strip Die, and Ticket Die; Martha Stewart 5 leaf punch, Martha Stewart Optic Dot punch; Embellishments: Ribbon by Recollections, Martha Stewart Grosse Grain Bow stickers, Ribbon by the Paper Studios, Ribbon from Lady Bug Crafts, Prism Craft Thread, Handmade by TLC flowers, The Robin's Nest ~ Dew Drops
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Card created by Senior Designer
Annika Ryan
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Teen Idol, The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments and Music Notes; Papers: Basic Grey Oliver and Wan-der; Inks: Memento London Fog and Tuxe-do black; Coloring Medium: Whispers water soluble markers; Embellishments: flat back pearls, spacers, twill ribbon; Tools: EK Success border punch,piercing tool, foam mat, mini pin; Other: Purple Cow guillotine, Cutter Bee scissors
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Card created by Designer
Debbie Eastman
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Wasn’t Me and The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments; Papers: Basic Grey – Marjolaine; Coloring Medium: Copic Ciaos, Spectrum Noirs; Embellishments: We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy Floss Grasshopper, button and small flatbacked pearls; Tools: XCut corner rounder
Card created by Staff Designer
Iris Wiechmann
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Teen Idol and The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments; Paper: DP Basic Grey Eerie, CS is from Colorbok, Bazzil and ColorCore 'The Chocolate Box'; Ink & Stamping CS: Memento Tuxedo Black on Neenah So-lar White; Coloring Medium: Copic Markers and colored pencils; Embel-lishments: metal corner, metal arrow, clip and hemp cord; Tools: Whimsy 'Ticket Die', EK Success Border Punch
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Card created by Senior Designer
Debbie Eastman
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Teen Idol, The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments; Papers: My Mind’s Eye Lime Twist Out of the Blue; Coloring Medium: Copic Ciaos and Spectrum Noirs; Embellishments: Flat Backed Pearls
Hey Hey Hey Stranger...Stranger...Stranger...
One ofOne ofOne of a Kinda Kinda Kind
Card created by Staff Designer
Marley van der Heijden
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Scarlett West and The Fun Life Ticket Senti-ments; Papers: Pink Paisley; Inks: Memento Tuxedo black; Coloring Medium: Copic Sketch Markers; Embellishments: Flowers, Brads, corners, Charm, liquid pearls and Stickles; Tools: Whimsy Ticket Die, Cuttlebug
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Card created by Designer
Stephanne Maraver
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Wasn’t Me and Lavish Flourishes; Ink/Coloring medium: Black archival ink colored with Distress Inks, Lavish Flourishes stamped in Vintage Photo, outlined in Prismacolor Cloud Blue with White Jellyroll highlighter in hair with buttermilk Spica pen over the top; Papers: K & Co.; Embellish-ments: lace, organza, seam binding, stickpin, flowers, doily, staples; Tools: Whimsy Stamps Elegant Flourishes Die Set
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Card created by Guest Designer
Alberto Gava
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Teen Idol; Inks/Coloring medium: Distress Ink in Vintage Photo, Copics; Papers: K&Company; Embellishments: jar from Tim Holtz, blackboard from local shop and chipboard embellishment from Make it Crafty, number 4 from Graphic45 alphabets and BasicGrey al-phabets; Other: brown pencil
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Card created by Designer
Sylvia Blum
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Wasn’t Me, The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments; Coloring Medium: Tombows Dual Brush pens, Mondeluz watercolor pencils; Papers: Basic Grey Kioshi; Other: cardstock, lace, seam binding, pearl pin
Card created by Designer
Sylvia Blum
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Teen Idoland The Fun Life Ticket Sentiments; Color-ing Medium: Tombow Dual Brush pens, Mondeluz watercolor pencils, Dis-tress inks; Papers: Jady Day Stdio - Sum-mer Time Fun Travel; Other: rhine-stones, sewing machine, cardstock
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Card created by Guest Designer
Mariska Van Der Veer
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Cat O’ Lantern, Friendship Ticket Sentiments and Hol-iday Ticket Sentiments (for the two different blank tickets); Coloring Medium/Ink: Copic Markers; Papers: Cream and kraft cardstock and scraps of design paper from different companies; Embellishments/tools/other: buttons, roses by Wild Orchid Crafts, McGill Leaves punch, Martha Stewart Hydrangea punch, Diamond stickles, DecoArt glamour dust gold, Quickie Glue pen, white gelpen and black fineliner, Frayed Burlap Distress Ink and Tim Holtz ink blender tool
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Card created by Designer
Stephanne Maraver
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Little Bunny Witch, Autumn Letter Seals, Lavish Flour-ishes; Ink: Image stamped in Archival Ink, Lavish Flourishes in Vintage Photo then Gold Lame, Coloring medium: Distress Inks; Smooch and Stardust Stickles on top; Papers: Graphic 45 and Echo Park; Em-bellishments: lace, gingham, buttons and pearls, bakers twine; Tools: Martha Stewart Fence punch and Nestabilities Ovals
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Card created by Guest Designer
Alberto Gava
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Acorn Mouse, Whiff of Joy sentiment; Inks/Coloring medium: Dis-tress Ink, Copics, white gel pen from Particulars; Papers: Magno-lia and other; Embellishments: ribbon, flowers, strass; Tools: but-terfly punch
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Little Bunny Witch and Hal-loween Ticket Sentiments (digital); Papers: DP Basic Grey Eerie and an older MME collection, CS is from Color-bok, black glitter CS from Colorbok, plain brown paper gift bag; Ink & Stamping CS: Memento Tuxedo Black on Make It Color CS; Color-ing Medium: Copic Markers; Embellishments: Whimsy Embellishments coal ribbon and bakers twine; rhine-stones, buttons, flowers, gauze satin ribbon, mesh ribbon, glass glitter and a little spider sticker; Tools: Whimsy Shapeology Elegant Flourish-es Die Set and Ticket Die, Ma-rianne Design leave die and EK Success Border Punch
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Card created by Staff Designer
Minna Paajanen
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Steampunk Travels Sentiments; Inks: Versafine watermark; Papers: Prima Made-line, acetate; Embellishments: colored cheese cloth, Prima and Magnolia flowers, cocos fibre, burlap;
Tools: sewing machine, embossing tool; Other: embossing powder seawhoam white, white acrylic paint; Quick how-to: The picture and the texts are embossed to the acetate seawhoam white powder. All the edg-es are sewn with machine and added some white paint. Cheesecloth is colored with Distress Inks Walnut Stain
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Card created by Senior Designer
Ann Vento
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Little Bunny Witch and Autumn Letter Seals; Ink/Coloring Medium: Memento Tuxedo Black stamped on X-Press It Blending Card, colored with Copic markers; Pa-pers: My Mind’s Eye Six by Six All Spice collection; Embellishments: May Arts net ribbon, gingham ribbon; Tools: Whimsy Stamps Vines Die Set, Spell-binders Nestabilities
Raindrop Echo Designs Sentiments & Die
Card created by Guest Designer
Mariska Van Der Veer
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Autumn Letter Seals; Papers: Basic Grey and different colors of cardstock; Inks: Distress Inks Frayed Burlap and Walnut Stain and Elzybells Cinnamon Spice pigment ink (no longer for sale); Coloring Medium: Copic markers; Embellishments: Rhinestones and two sorts of ribbon from stash; Tools: Big Shot, Nestabilities Cir-cles and Foliage, embossing mat and pen; Other: Different sorts of Stickles
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Card created by Staff Designer
Minna Paajanen
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Lavish Flourishes and Autumn Letter Seals; Inks: Archival Ink Coffee and Versafine watermark; Papers: Prima Melody , acetate; Embellishments: colored cheese cloth, Prima flowers, lace, doily; Tools: sewing machine, embossing tool; Other: embossing powders clear and snowflake, white acrylic paint; Quick how-to: The flourishes are embossed to the acetate with clear and snowflake powder. All the edges are sewn with machine and added some white paint. Cheesecloth is colored with Distress Inks Walnut Stain.
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Card created by Senior Designer
Ann Vento
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Steampunk Travels Sentiments; Papers: BasicGrey Oxford; Embellishments: May Arts twill ribbon, net ribbon, and loose braid ribbon, American Crafts brads; Tools: sewing ma-chine, Spellbinders Nestabilities
Raindrop Echo Designs Sentiments & Die
Card created by Senior Designer
Ann Vento
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Fall Wreath and Autumn Letter Seals; Papers: BasicGrey Pyrus; Embellishments: raffia; Tools: Cheery Lynn doily die, Spellbinders Circle dies and Leaf dies, Inkssentials Ink Blending tool for leaves
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Crissy’s Digis Turk in Boots, SU! sentiment; Coloring Medium: Derwent Colour-soft pencils (blended with baby oil); Ink: HP inkjet, Memento Ttuxedo Black; Papers: SU! and Neenah Card stock, The Paper Studio Designer Pa-pers; Embellishments and Tools: Hemp twine, eyelet, crop-o-dile, Clouds were hand drawn and cut out
Card created by Digital Designer
Marilyn Scheller
Stamps: Whimsy Stamps Crissy’s Digis Frog Friend, Circle Postmark Sentiments; Ink/Coloring medium: Copic Markers, clouds sponged in using Tim Holtz’s Tum-bled Glass Distress Ink; Paper: My Mind’s Eye; Embellishments: Jute rubbed with a brown ink pad over to give it colour, Make it Crafty Dragonflies laser cut chipboard
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Whimsy Stamps Designers (for their creations featured in this magazine)
Alberto Gava Ann Vento Annika Ryan Debbie Eastman Ellie Stover Erin Bailey Iris Wiechmann Lori Pachkowsky Mariska van der Veer Marilyn Scheller Marley van der Heijden Minna Paajanen Simonne Clay Stephanne Maraver Sylvia Blum Tammy Louise Cunliffe Zoe McGrath Whimsy Stamps Retailers (for submitting ads and supporting this publication)
One Crazy Stamper Quixotic Paperie
Whimsy Stamps Artists (for letting us use their art in the creations in this publication as well as to use for graphics throughout the magazine)
Crissy Armstrong KennyK Meljen’s Designs Raindrop Echo Designs Slyvia Zet Lia Visirin Moon Cookie Gallery StampArt Design by Kathryne
Whimsy Stamps Editors Denise Lynn (for doing the following: organizing DT samples, gathering information about the samples in this magazine, editing the content, generating ideas for the magazine content, and various other duties that made this magazine possible)
Ann Vento (for doing the following: creating the magazine page layouts, generating ideas for the magazine content, creating the graphics for the magazine, maintaining the magazine on the magazine hosting site, and various other duties that made this magazine possible)