Grad Background + Foam Sentiment with Crystal (Video)

Today we have another fabulous video tutorial with Crystal to create this awesome graduation card!

Hope you enjoy and have an incredible day!

Shay.

Note: Scenery: Bigger Bang Confetti is a limited edition stamp set which is only available as a giveaway.

June Leading Lady Caly Person | Take Four

Our June Leading Lady Caly Person is back for her fantastic fourth performance! If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or her sensationally lovely and expertly designed card from her second performance CLICK HERE or her triumphant third performance with that is too dog-gone cute CLICK HERE!  Today's card is an explosion of awesome!

We now present Caly...

I can't believe it's already week 4 of my Leading Lady feature for Winnie & Walter! Time Seems to be flying!

   

We've been talking about different coloring mediums on previous posts. Today though, I decided not to do any coloring because the stamp set I chose didn't have any outlined images...ha! The Dotty About You stamp set jumped out at me for a tone-on-tone card. Then I used the coordinating die set to add some contrast.

 

Stamp sets like this are great for creating backgrounds! So I started with a light craft paper and used a matching ink to create the tone-on-tone look. I put all the stamps I wanted to use on a long acrylic block and flipped to alternate the sizes and patterns until the panel was covered. Then I took some gold glitter stickles and added dots to the center of the bursts.
 

The coordinating dies were cut out in gold and black cardstock and helped give this card some added dimension and interest. To give it more contrast, I added a sentiment strip on black cardstock embossed with white. This card is quick and easy and I hope you'll try it!

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This month-long feature will be every Saturday in June. If you stick around until the end of the month, you could win a fabulous gift card from Winnie & Walter. I will be drawing a winner from comments on my blog (on the final post) at the end of the month!

 
Thanks for joining me this week! There are 5 weeks in June so I'll be back one final week to share my last card next Saturday. See you then!

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XOXO,

SUPPLIES: *NOTE: To view where these items can be purchased, click on the linked abbreviations below (SSS for Simon Says Stamp, EH for Ellen Hutson, AMZN for Amazon, etc.). Affiliate links may be used (at no additional cost to you) – thank you for your support!

WW Dotty About You	WW Dotty About You Cutaways	SU Heat Tool	HA White Embossing Powder HMSB | SSS | EH
Sahara Sand Ink	Sahara Sand Cardstock	ATG Gun EH | SSS | AMZN	Mini Multi Medium Matte Glue HMSB | EH | SSS
Ranger Stickles - Gold Glitter Glue EH | SSS

 

Blessings with Kelly

Hello! For every cousin who gets married in our family we make a family recipe scrapbook. Each family member submits their favorite recipe and a picture of themselves, and then I put them all together into an album for the bride-to-be. This tradition is coming to an end this year, as the last cousin is getting married in October. Although it's a lot of work, I'm kind of sad this will be the final scrapbook.

One of my favorite pages so far is this page with a bouquet of flowers from two different Winnie & Walter sets, In Bloom: Anna's Flora and In Bloom: Addie's Garden. 

To color the flowers I misted the cardstock with water to get it slightly damp. Then I smooshed ink onto my acrylic block, misted that with water, and smooshed the block onto the cardstock. If there were any areas that didn't get a lot of coverage I just repeated these steps. A few water droplets add some more spots to the paper. Then I stamped each flower onto a section of the cardstock and cut them out by hand.  

 

Arranging them is probably just like arranging real flowers ... the big, bold flowers in the lower center, working your way to the smaller, lighter flowers in the outer edges of the bouquet. I would probably have a hard time stamping the flowers directly to paper arranged in a bouquet like this. It's much easier for me to cut them out and physically move them around the paper until I'm happy with everything. 

Here's the entire page. I was really happy Aunt Kay's shirt and the wall she's standing in front of are yellow to blend in with my background! As a card-maker, I'm not used to taking into account the fixed design elements in the photo as well. I'm also kind of dying to make the Pay Day Bars recipe she shared!

 

Not wanting to waste any good, smooshed-ink cardstock, I cut a few butterflies from my favorite Essentials set, Essentials: Audrey Cutaways and added them to the bouquet to fill in the spaces. To add some details to the butterflies I tied a strand of gold thread around the middle, knotted it where the butterfly's head would be, and left some length on the ends for the antenna.

To finish it all off, I added the "blessings" sentiment from The Big, the Bold and Blessings Cutaways. I made it a curved sentiment by slightly bending the paper in between each letter. It's amazing how much better the arrangement looks by having the sentiment curved and mirroring the general shape of the bouquet. 

I have many more family recipe scrapbook pages to share with you over the next several months. Hope you enjoyed seeing this one!

-Kelly

Happy Father's Day with Jessica

 Hi everyone! Happy Father’s Day! It’s Jessica here and I have two Superman themed cards to share with you today. I love the geometric stamps and dies from Winnie & Walter, and I thought I could stretch my supplies and transform the diamond shapes into Superman’s logo. (Any superhero fans out there?!)

For my first card I used the Flawless Diamond Cutaway as the focal point. I die cut the detailed frame with Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored it with red Copic markers. I also die cut it from gold foil and gold glitter cardstock so I could paper-piece them for some extra texture.

I used the Typecast: Cary Letters Cutaways to build most of the sentiment, but the “S” is actually part of the In a Word: Hugs Cutaway. It’s larger than the alphabet dies so it stands out a bit more and is emphasized as part of the Superman logo. It’s just another way to stretch your word dies.

I also stamped “Happy Father’s Day” and “DAD” from the Parentville stamp set with VersaFine Onyx Black ink to complete my sentiment.

Finally, I spritzed on white and gold paint droplets and that completes the card.

For my second card, I went with a more CAS design. I die cut a small rectangular watercolor panel and blended Blueprint Sketch and Chipped Sapphire ink. I spritzed on water droplets to create the bleached effect and splattered on gold acrylic paint as well.

This time I stamped the diamond image from My Precious set with red ink and watercolored the entire image with yellow ZIG markers. I die cut the “S” letter from Typecast: Cary Letters Cutaways, added a coat of glossy accent and our smaller Superman logo is done!

I white heat embossed the sentiment from the Sentimental: Endearments set. 

I hope you enjoyed these two masculine cards and feel a little inspired to stretch your supplies and use them in other creative ways. Have a nice weekend and I’ll see you soon. :)

Blog Hop for The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge (Giveaway)

Don't miss our June Leading Lady, Caly Person's, third performance on the w&w blog today which includes some awesome coloring!!

Hello there lovelies! Shay here to welcome you to the w&w blog for Day 2 of a two day hop to celebrate the tenth 30 Day Coloring Challenge.

You should have made your way from the awesome Whimsy Stamps, but if not don't worry as there is a blog line up further on in this post to get you right on track. :-)

Have you heard of “The Daily Marker’s 30 Day Coloring Challenge” hosted by Kathy Racoosin? Right now it’s in the middle of the challenge and it’s a great time to take a leap, jump in and get your feet wet!  Don’t feel like you are jumping into the middle of the challenge I hope you will think of it as a new beginning.

The premise of “The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge” is to color something everyday even if it’s for five minutes. However feel free to  jump in or out as time permits.

Any coloring medium is welcomed. Click here for DAY 1. TO UPLOAD YOUR COLORING  or here on Instagramor here on Facebook (FB is a closed group). Please remember to use the hashtag #thedailymarker30day  and tag @kathyrac . For kids & young adults #thedailymarker30daykids

If you have any questions about “The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge” you can refer to this post.  

>>>BLOG LINE UP<<<

The Daily Marker

Pretty Pink Posh

Purple Onion Designs   

Reverse Confetti  

Right at Home

Studio Katia  

Sunny Studio

Technique Tuesday

Trinity Stamps

The Ton    

Whimsy Stamps

Winnie & Walter  <====== You are here!

Your Next Stamp

>>>COLORING PROJECT<<<

I know you have seen some incredible projects with mad coloring skills so far on the hop, but now we are going back to the kiddie pool of coloring. I went very stress-free and easy with my card today (it is the weekend after all and almost officially summer). This is something *anyone* can do and do well as there are no rules for coloring on this sort of project.

I began by die cutting Cover Model: The Leaf Effect Cutaway using 2 layers of paper--top layer was white cardstock and bottom layer was watercolor paper. I did this intentionally as I wanted the watercolor paper embossed and not cut out and the regular cardstock cut.

I watered down some mustard seed Distress Ink I smeared on my craft sheet and then smooshed the paper into the color as I wanted a bright and happy base.  Next, I took Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle water-soluble wax pastels and colored in the leaves which I then blended with a waterbrush.  For each leaf I used mostly a paler color and then next brought in a darker shade at the base.  After this all dried I went in with colored pencils in similar colors and added some more dimension.  Last, I added some white dots using a Uniball Signo pen.  Here was what the watercolor panel looked like after all of that:

As you can see it looks a bit of a mess, but also organic, loose and free.

I pasted the white die cut over the watercolor panel and then adhered the purple die cut In a Word: Celebrate Cutaway and adhered it all to a white card base to finish off this simple, but fun card.

I can see using this technique with all sorts of dies you probably already have in your stash.  You can also decide not to follow the overlaying panel's pattern (I chose to color using the leaf pattern as a guide, but that isn't necessary) and go for a totally different look (imagine if you color in stripes, dots or something random on the bottom layer!). 

Hope this inspires you to have some carefree, kiddie pool coloring in your future! :-)

Your next stop is the awesome YOUR NEXT STAMP and you won't want to miss it!!

>>>GIVEAWAY<<<

In honor of The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge we are giving away $30.00 (naturally!) credit to the w&w shop.  Simply tell us your favorite current color combo to create with along with your name and email address (this makes it easier to find the winner) in a comment on this blog post by Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 11:59 CST and we will pick one randomly chosen winner.

Happy hopping,

Shay.

June Leading Lady Caly Person | Take Three

Our June Leading Lady Caly Person back for her triumphant third performance!  If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or her sensationally lovely and expertly designed card from her second performance CLICK HERE.   I just ruff (sorry just had to!) today's adorable card and I am sure you will too!

Without further ado, Caly...

Welcome back to week 3 of my Leading Lady feature for Winnie & Walter!

   

 I'm trying to keep my themes on coloring mediums going so today - I did watercolor with Tombows! I recently started watercoloring with Tombows and I love it! The technique is similar to what you would do with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers (or distress markers...or whatever markers you use). Simply apply color in the darker areas you want with darker shading, them draw that color out using a damp brush - making it as intense as you'd like and with as many layers of color as you'd like. For this card, I used the Winnie & Walter Dog-gone Cute stamp set and coordinating dies.

 

I painted an entire panel with the dog house and puppy and thought I'd get lucky with a one layer card - but didn't like it enough, so I started die cutting it apart and created an accent watercolor background just around the dog house. This puppy is so happy and free - I adore him!

 

I contemplated on what to do with a sentiment for a while and in the end, I couldn't shorten the strip because I wasn't really happy with it anywhere - so across the top it went to give the entire card additional color, if you will - an all-encompassing statement. :)

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This month-long feature will be every Saturday in June. If you stick around until the end of the month, you could win a fabulous gift card from Winnie & Walter. I will be drawing a winner from comments on my blog (on the final post) at the end of the month!

 

 Thanks for joining me this week! I'll be back next week to share more WW love!

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I hope you enjoyed this card! See you back here next week for the next installment of my Leading Lady features!
 XOXO,

SUPPLIES: *NOTE: To view where these items can be purchased, click on the linked abbreviations below (SSS for Simon Says Stamp, EH for Ellen Hutson, AMZN for Amazon, etc.). Affiliate links may be used (at no additional cost to you) – thank you for your support!

WW Dog-gone Cute	WW Dog-gone Cute Cutaways	LF Large Stitched Circle Stackables HMSB | EH | SSS | LF	Versamark Ink HMSB | EH | SSS
HA White Embossing Powder HMSB | SSS | EH	Basic Black Cardstock	Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink HMSB | EH | SSS	Canson XL WaterColor Paper Pad EH | SSS | JOANN
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