Whimsy Stamps ~ New Release Week ~ Happy Mail

A very warm hello to all my lovely crafty pals today. Thanks for stopping into my blog. I'm excited to share my 'New Release' creation for Whimsy Stamps with you today! We have a brand new release and it's gorgeous!! I just LOVE this sweet image I got to play with for the New Release. Whimsy artist Crissy Armstrong has a truly enchanting way with her characters. I especially love her 'children' and this image totally stole my heart from the new digital release. She is called 'Pretty Girl Happy Mail'.


I coloured this cutie with Copic Markers. I then added some tiny 'sparkles' to look like falling snowflakes with an ink that toned really well with the colouring. It's subtle but adds a lovely finish in reality. 


I wanted to use a delicious paper that the artist of this image Crissy Armstrong created. It's such a lovely Christmas design, with candy canes and holly from a set called 'I Dream In Christmas'. I wanted to show off as much of this beautiful paper as possible, so I created a gatefold card with a wrap. The pic above, shows the image before I added the lil' snowflake sparkles and also before I added the writing panel inside. 


The card without the wrap looks like this when the wrap is taken off. You can see a peek of the writing panel inside here. Isn't the paper gorgeous?! I just love that you see so much of the paper with this card design.


Opening the gatefold card reveals the red card base sides on the inside and the beautiful paper with the image panel with this lovely Christmas sentiment. I used the same softly toning ink for this sentiment as I used for the sparkles on the image panel. I've edged all the pretty paper panels with Candied Apple Distress Ink.


I used an older Whimsy Stamps clear stamp set for this sentiment. It's so lovely and perfect for Christmas creations. Such a shame how fast things go out of stock! As this is a lovely set!


I love the colour combo of the aqua and red from Crissy's pretty paper. So I used those Copic colours when colouring up my image. The jacket was coloured with BG13, BG11 and BG10. The reds I used were R59, R27, R24 and R22. I decided to colour her Christmas post up in lots of colours, as when I send Christmas mail, it's always a colourful array of envelopes. I've used the 'dotty' technique to colour up the colour of her coat to make it look fluffy and did the same with cool greys on the pom pom of her hat.


This October Release at Whimsy Stamps has some utterly gorgeous images for Christmas and the October Digital Release has some super cute images and digital papers too. I'll be back next Wednesday with my second creation for the New Digital Release and I can't wait to share it with you! Until then, check out the gorgeous October Digital Release at Whimsy via the banner link above. Hugs and happy crafting xoxo






This is a retired Whimsy Stamps die, 
but there are loads of gorgeous new dies available

Challenge Entries:
Winter Wonderland: Anything Christmas Goes
Sparkles Monthly Challenge: #108 ~ Dies & Punches
Christmas With The Cuties: #20 ~ Theme - For A Child
Sparkles Christmas Challenge: #93 ~ Christmas is for Kids
ABC Christmas Challenge: U is for 'Upon' ~ Wrap 'upon' a gatefold base
Merry Little Christmas Challenge: #3 ~ October ~ Anything Christmas Goes
The Merry Christmas Challenge: Sep/Oct Challenge ~ Anything Christmas Goes

Comments

Chris said…
Stunning card Wends, love that little girl image, her hair's amazing, could have been copied from my middle granddaughter! Fabulous design, love the papers and I agree- the red and aqua look beautiful together.
hugs
Chris
x
Sarah said…
Ooh Wends!! What a yummy scrummy card!! You have coloured that pretty image beautifully and I love the colour combo xx
Fikreta said…
Wonderful card!
hugs
Wends this is gorgeous - love how you have coloured her hair, and the sparkle must really com,e to life IRL. Like you I think the paper is beautiful.
Blessings
Maxine
Janis Lewis said…
Beautiful card. Thanks for joining us at Sparkles Monthly Challenges.
Pat said…
Such a beautiful card Wends, with a gorgeous image and lovely papers, thanks for playing along with us at Christmas with the Cuties this month.

Pat xx
Darlene said…
Just precious and I love the design Wendy! Thanks so much for playing in our Merry Little Christmas Challenge! Good Luck and I look forward to seeing you again next month!

Darlene
Merry Little Christmas DT
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Kath said…
A lovely card and great design. Thank you for sharing at Winter Wonderland.
Kath x
Basslady said…
what a delightful card!

thank you so much for playing along with us at sparkles monthly!

hugs and kisses from germany,
Silvi xoxo
Lynne said…
A gorgeous card, I love the aqua and beautifully coloured too. Thank you for joining in at Sparkles Christmas. Lynne DT x
Debbie said…
Adorable card. I Love this image, coloured beautifully. Any child would love to receive this. Thanks for joining in with us over at Sparkles Christmas. Hugs Debs DT. Xxx
Helen said…
Gorgeous card!
Thanks for playing at the ABC Christmas Challenge!
Helen x

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