Welcome to Whimsy Street

 

 Hello, 

Thank you for popping in to my little crafting place!

Welcome to Whimsy Street, with its pretty pastel-coloured houses and very whimsical topiary trees, the sun always shines, and any clouds in the sky are definitely going to be pink!

I've found this new Whimsical Village collection designed by Vicky Papaioannou and available from Spellbinders utterly charming and full of inspiration

For this street scene I've used more of the Whimsical Houses I cut in the first batch (and I've still got some left!), this time I went with some pale pink houses trimmed in shades of aqua. All the card I've used is from the ColorWheel Cardstock Pack, including the card base and the pale est aqua colour used for the background.  Which of course is embossed with the Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder

The sun and clouds are made using the Village Companions die set as is the ginger cat, and I made the topiary trees from dies in the Whimsical Blooms set - they are meant to be flowers but its good to see things in a different way, isn't it!

I thought this would make a cute 'new home' card so I chose a sweet sentiment from Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set and aded it to a decorative strip made from colours I'd already used

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Whimsical Village collection by Vicky Papaioannou 

 

Whimsical Houses Etched Dies S5-746    

 

Whimsical Blooms Etched Dies S5-742   

Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder E3D-166 

 

Village Companions Etched Dies S2-456    

 

Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set STP-270     
 

Or, if like me you love it all maybe this is a better buy:

Whimsical Village I Want It All! Bundle BD-1061    

 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 

Just a Note

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  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Bouquet Full of Whimsy

 

  Hello, 

welcome to my little crafting place

This time I've a whimsical bouquet to share with you!  Created using a fabulous new Spellbinders collection designed by Vicky Papaioannou and called Whimsical Village. I really love everything in it and I hope you'll like what I've been making.

I'd already chosen which of the lovely sentiments from the Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set STP-270 and stamped it in blue ink, to echo the 'blue skies' message.

 So next I inked a card front and a second piece of card in a couple of shades of blue ink which came together to make a beautiful colour to build my bouquet on to. I then embossed the second piece of card with the gorgeous swirly Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder and added it to the card front with some thick scrap card between the layers

Next I die cut lots of the flowers and stems from Whimsical Blooms, I chose somenice bright colours from the ColorWheel Cardstock Pack  and assembling them - I made a lot, so I have leftovers for another project.

The flowers were arranged  and glued down, then I added a raffia bow and some deep purple twine before finishing off with the lovely sentiment matted onto some deep blue card. I love the way it came together and how the colours work, surely this would brighten the day of someone in need of a bit of tlc? 

Finally I added the super-cute dog and cat from the Village Companions  die set, which also includes some clouds, a moon and a layered sun

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Whimsical Village collection by Vicky Papaioannou 

  

Whimsical Blooms Etched Dies S5-742   

Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder E3D-166 

 

Whimsical Wishes Clear Stamp Set STP-270     

 

If like me you love it all maybe this is a better buy:

Whimsical Village I Want It All! Bundle BD-1061    

 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

Smooth white card blank and extra for embossing

Raffia

Purple waxed twine 

 

 

Just a Note

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

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Thank you so much for coming by, pleas do leave a message if you can!

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Whimsical Village shadow box collage

 

 Hello, 

welcome to my little crafting place

I've had the best time working with a fabulous new Spellbinders collection desighed by Vicky Papaioannou called Whimsical Village. I really love everything in it and I hope you'll like what I've been making.

My first share is this shadow box collage picture 

I started by die cutting all the hous pieces in several shades of aqua and pink, all from the Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack  then assembling a whole bunch of the houses before choosing which to use and finding an arrangement I liked. This gave me an idea of the size box I needed to make and cut and folded all the edges, but left it flat. 

 I used the gorgeous swirly embossing folder to make the background, trimmed it down to size and glued it in place, then folded up the edges of the shadow box. 

Next I thought about how to build on the basics to give more detail to the picture.  As well as the houses, I'd already cut lots of pieces using the Whimsical Blooms set and had the idea of making funky topiary shapes using the flower elements -they've turned out so cute!  One of the flower pieces leant itself to a kind of garden shrub shape, so I added that too.  The tiny blossoms come from a recent Treat purchase;  Just Add Cake Birthday Cardmaking Kit - it's quite expensive, but I looked at the contents and I think I'll use everything in the box... plus there was something in there I really, really wanted 😉

Finally I added the super-cute dog and cat from the Village Companions  die set, which also includes some clouds, a moon and a layered sun

 I used

from Spellbinders

 

Whimsical Village collection by Vicky Papaioannou 

 

Whimsical Houses Etched Dies S5-746    

 

Whimsical Blooms Etched Dies S5-742   

Whimsical Skies 3D Embossing Folder E3D-166 

 

Village Companions Etched Dies S2-456       
 

Or, if like me you love it maybe this is a better buy:

Whimsical Village I Want It All! Bundle BD-1061    

 

 Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

 Other

White Linen card for shadow box

WRMK shadow box punch  

 

Just a Note

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

May Card Chain Challenge

 Hello,

Its time for the Card Chain Challenge May cards reveal and the cards that went around the world in May 2026 can all be seen HERE.

To join in the chain add your link to the list - you will send a card to the person who signed up before you. then wait to receive one from the person who signed up after you.  Don't worry, instructions are sent out to everyone who joins the chain 

 It's a worldwide chain and 25 people made up the chain this time.  It turned out that I was the link between two lovely German cardmakers this time; I sent my card to Gundi in Michendorf and received this beautiful flower card from Imke

 

  All the cards exchanged in May used at least one of the following options:

 

Colour Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

Sketch Option

(Orient as desired.)

Theme Options: Floral / Postal / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Twine or Thread / Spinner Card

 

 

My card for Gundi

I chose the Floral theme and Friendship from the options, as a new link in the chain, I'm sending and receiving from new friends every time!

I'd made a similar card  a week or two earlier, I liked how it worked out so thought I'd make another in the same vein.  I chose a different flower from the same set and went with sunny yellows rather than pinks

 I used a couple of favourite die sets. 

The slatted square set from Craft Addiction uk  

I cut the 2nd largest die directly into the card front  

One of the lovely flowers from a Spellbinders set of a year or so ago - you can still find it, I've given the name and die number below 

I used Susan Tierney's special flower-making cardstock for the flowers and leaves, inked with various shades of green and yellow 

Inside was partially inked in a few shades of blue ink so that the colour would show through the slats and I added an extra leaf inside for interest. 

To finish I made a set of white on green sentiments using my graphics program and used one of them - the rest will come in handy later. I use Paint Shop Pro and we've just bought the latest version and I don't find it nearly as easy to use as our ancient version!

 Materials

from Spellbinders;

 

Susan's Garden Speciality Cardstock SCS-122 

 

 Simon Hurley Floral Stems Etched Dies S6-215

 Other

Slatted Squares die set: Craft Addiction uk 

Inks 

pc generated sentiment

 

 

If you buy paper craft goodies, such as dies, stencils, stamps etc you may like to use my Spellbinders link 

 

Just a Note

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx