Leading Lady Jennifer Ingle | Take Four

Even the best of things come to an end and we must bid a very fond adieu and give our heartfelt gratitude to our lovely Leading Lady of October, Jennifer Ingle.  She has thrilled us, made us laugh, made us gasp, delighted, charmed and thoroughly inspired us with her wit, talent and craft.  If you missed her previous performances you *must* go back and take a look CLICK HERE (Take One), CLICK HERE (Take Two) and CLICK HERE (Take Three).  Fortunately even though this is Jennifer's farewell Leading Lady post we have her guest starring with us next week for our October Release!  How lucky are we all?!?  Without any further ado we bring you the grand dame herself for her final tread upon the w&w blog stage as our October Leading Lady....

Wow! What an amazing month this has been! Thank you all so much for your support on my Winnie & Walter Leading Lady posts! I have absolutely LOVED reading your comments! Today is my final post and today we are going with a FULL dress rehearsal! Yup, complete costumes, MASKS and all! Tee-hee...I do so love these film analogies. Yes, today's cards all incorporate masking in some way.
Masking with heat embossing can allow you to create some gorgeous watercolor images. For this card, I cut a mask of the center rose and then stamped the two larger roses on each side. I then stamped the center one in place, covered the entire thing with embossing powder, and heat embossed. Normally it is easier to stamp first, cover your image with a mask, and then stamp the background images, but I have found when embossing it can be handy to wait so you don't add a mask over the ink you need to keep sticky. I then watercolored (On regular cardstock! GASP! It's true folks...it isn't quite the same, but you CAN watercolor on regular cardstock if you work carefully. I promise.) the flowers and stamped and embossed the sentiment in gold. Because... gold.
This card employs a similar technique, but it allows the embossed images to be the star of the show! I just love these leaves from A Tree for All Seasons! The line detail in them is just fabulously graphic without being overpowering. They make me happy. Combining them in clusters, well, now that just makes me EXTRA happy!
Finally, masking is an awesome way to create a scene on a one layer card. I stamped the bushes first, masked them, then stamped the surrounding scene. I then lifted my masks, colored the shrubs with Spectrum Noir pens, and stamped the sentiment for this simple scene that has lots of dimension and remains super duper easy to mail! LOVE that! For reals, though. It's handy to actually be able to MAIL a card. Right? Right. Glad we had this talk.

So, my friends, there you have it! Our Full Dress rehearsal, complete with MASKS! I hope you have enjoyed my posts this month as much as I have enjoyed creating for them and writing them! Don't forget to hop on over to Just Jingle this one last time to enter to win a $30 Gift Certificate to Winnie & Walter. Guys, for reals... you want to win that gift certificate so you can BUY ALL OF THE THINGS! And That's a Wrap!


w&w supplies:

A Tree For All Seasons

The Big, the Bold and Extras

The Big, the Bold and Seasons

This Awesome House

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