Whimsy Stamps February Release BLOG HOP!!

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Hello and welcome to the Whimsy Stamps February new rubber release BLOG HOP!

We have 16 gorgeous new Whimsy Stamps plus 2 new fantastic dies to show you today! These new goodies are available to buy right now from the Whimsy Stamps store along with all your Whimsy favourites. We also have our wonderful special guests joining us for this hop - Beate Johns, Deb Routledge, Chris Dark, Jacque Beddingfield, Tracy Payne, and Elaine Hughes!

The Whimsy Stamps DT have been sneak peeking these fabulous stamps for the past 5 days, so if you missed them be sure to hop on over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog for some more fabulousness!

Here is a full list of the wonderful new rubber stamps and dies being released today:

5 stamps / stamp sets from Crissy Armstrong
Fragrant Rose ~ Darling Daisies ~ Smell the Flowers ~Valerie's Spring Rain ~ Fancy Bench

3 stamps from Meljen's Designs
Balloon Mouse ~ Baby Bunny's Bottle ~ Spring Sitter Bunny

4 stamps from Kenny K
Uptown Angel ~ Star ~ Lady Raven ~ Vicki LeeVicious

4 stamps / stamp sets from Raindrop Echo Designs
Postage Stamps ~ Birthday Postage Stamps ~ Balloon Sentiments ~ Birthday Wish List

2 dies
Postage Stamp Die ~ Balloon Set Dies

If you would like to participate in the hop and you didn't arrive here from Jacque's blog, please CLICK HERE to return to the beginning of the hop at Chris's blog.

The hop starts today (Wednesday February 9th at noon EST) and ends on Wednesday February 16th at noon EST.

For this hop we have 6 different prize draws! We have not one but TWO grand prize draws, so two lucky hoppers will win a large selection of new release stamps. Grand Prize 1 will be for those who help us advertise the hop, and Grand Prize 2 will be for those who hop along with us. Also, we have 4 mini candy stops throughout the hop where you can enter to win a new release stamp! I'm not going to tell you where they are, so if you haven't found them you'll just have go back to the beginning and start hopping! *wink*

Here are the creations I've made for the blog hop ...... 

 Since I didn't get to take part in the Sneak Peek day that we were showing Crissy Armstrong's images, I thought that I would make my creations with these gorgeous stamps!!  This one is the stunning *Fragrant Rose* stamp set!!  It comes with several pretty rose designs as well as some pretty sentiments too!  For my card, I've used some scrummy papers I just got from K & Co.   I stamped one of the roses on the background on the paper.  It was very intricate work trying to cut out the rose bouquet, but so worth the effort I thought.  This will be a prize along the blog hop somewhere..so be sure to check it out!

Here are a few challenges that I've used for this card:

Totally Gorjuss - sketch

Tuesday Throwdown - add buttons (on tag)

Top Tip Tuesday - Frame It

And this is another card that I wanted to create using Crissy Armstrong's new *Smell the Flowers* image!  Does this not remind you of Bambi and Thumper?!!  I love it! :)  The sentiment is from the stamp set that I used in the sample above from Crissy's *Fragrant Rose* set.  I just love the bunny's sweet eyes!!   So I've used this card for a couple of challenges as well:

Friday Sketchers - sketch

Totally Papercrafts - friendship

Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Spring Flowers

Well I hope you've enjoyed my creations for you today and that you're getting lots and lots of inspiration from all of the talented ladies that I know you are visiting today!! :)

So now it's time for you to continue the hop by hopping on over to Lori's blog.

Thank you SO MUCH for hopping along with us today!!  Hope you have fun!!