Phamtastic Design: Whimsy Stamps

Hello everyone! For those who celebrated, hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Have not been feeling great, so I’m a wee bit late posting today’s cards. Warning: this is a lengthy post. 🫣

This year Whimsy Stamps (WS) released some new stamps with Santa images and I wanted to ink them up before they start collecting dust. 😉 First up is a CAS (clean and simple) card.

This Santa image was created with the new Ho Ho Ho Deer stamp set. It was fussy cut out and saved from a card that didn’t work out. Santa was stamped onto an X-Press It A2 panel with Memento Tuxedo Black ink then onto NoFuss Mask Sheets to fussy cut out a mask. Masked Santa then

stamped the toy sack before colouring it with Copic Sketch markers.

Copic markers used:u

face - E00/01/13

mouth - E04

beard - W1/3

suit - R14/27/46/39

belt/buckle - C8, Y35

shoes - C3/6/8

trims/pom-pom- C00/1/3/4

sack - E43/44/47

gifts - G05, R27, 0

Stamped Christmas from Happy Sayings on a Bristol panel with VersaMark ink then heat embossed with Silver Pearl embossing power. Merry Large word was then die cut twice from Bristol paper and stacked to give a faux dry embossed look. Assembled the card into a white card base, then stamped HO, HO, HO from Simple Sentiment Strips Holidays (SSSH) with Versafine Onyx Black ink. Grounded the image by adding shading beneath with T0/1/3/5 Copic Sketch markers to finish.

My second card is another CAS card. The SSSH stamp set and Peace, Love, Joy die were stretched to create a custom greeting.

Masked off parts of Joy to the World and Believe from the SSSH set and stamped the sentiment in black on a Bristol panel. The letters were die cut from scraps of X-Press It paper and coloured with the same red Copic Sketch markers listed above.

The Santa face from Christmas Portraits was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on X-Press It paper, coloured with the same Copic Sketch markers listed above, then fussy cut out. Assembled the card onto a white card base and for some sparkle, added clear shimmer to all the reds to finish.

My final card is a postcard design. Started by stamping the Brushed Stripes Background in red onto a white A2 sized Bristol panel.

X-Press It paper was then trimmed to 4x5.25-inches. Stamped the Santa with puppy image from Jolly Puppy Kisses with Memory Tuxedo Black ink and coloured with the same Copic Sketch markers listed above plus E30/31/23/25 for the puppy.

Stamped and stenciled all the elements and markings in black using the following

🔹Mail Mates Celebrate stamp

🔹Postage Window Shadow stencil

🔹Santa at the Door stamp

🔹Furbabies stencil

Fir a vintage-y postage look, ink blended Memento Toffee Crunch ink around the panel edges and within the stamped postage stamp image. For the punny sentence, W-O-O-F was die cut from a red foil paper scrap using the Mix and Mingle Alphabet and Numbers dies. Layered the panel onto the striped background then mounted it into a white card base to finish.

For easy reference, WS prod used for my cards are linked below. Please note affiliate have been used throughout this post; therefore, if you click on any of them and make a purchase, I will receive a small compensation at no extra cost to you! Your support is greatly appreciated. Thank you for dropping by.