Rerun No. 35 | Scenery: V for cheVron -- Christmas Patterns with Crystal (Video)

Happy day lovelies!

 

To inspire you further to participate in this month's Rerun Crystal has these Christmas cards and video!!

Love Crystal's festive cards and I hope you do too!

Remember you still have time to play along with the challenge and/or enter to win this stamp set.  All the details can be found HERE!

Have an incredible day!

Shay.

October Leading Lady Trina Pham | Take Four

As October comes to an end we sadly must bid adieu to our outstanding October Leading Lady Trina Pham.  The last few weeks with Trina has showcased incredible innovation, terrific techniques and acute skill.  Trina has exhibited her tremendous talent and startling creativity week after week.  I feel so blessed Trina shared her talents with us this month and made this month something special.

If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or her sensational second performance which colored me impressed CLICK HERE or her triumphant third performance with adorably brilliant cards and techniques CLICK HERE!  Today's projects are full of beautify and skill!

Lucky for us all we have her final command performance today.  

Happy Saturday everyone!  Time sure does fly when you're having fun, doesn't it?  Today is my final post as the October Leading Lady for Winnie & Walter (W&W)!  I want to thank Shay again for entrusting me to take over their blog every Saturday this month.   It has been an honour and I've enjoyed every minute of it!

So last week I ended with an interactive spinner card.  Interactive cards are very popular right now, even though they've been around for a very long time.  Die versions may be available and make it easier, but essentially all of them can be created without one.  I have two samples to share.

BIRTHDAY SURPRISE

You knew one of my cards had to be a birthday.  A scallop rectangle panel was die cut from Whisper White cardstock with Essentials: Audrey Cutaways.  Happy from In a Word: Happy stamp set was stamped in black.  In a Word: Birthday cutaway was die cut from X-press It cardstock and ombre coloured with a mini blending tool and Black Soot distress ink.  A couple of streamers from The Party Confetti cutaways were die cut form silver foil paper and added as embellishment.

I wanted to keep the front super CAS and monochromatic because the par-tay starts on the inside!

Yup, my first card is an inside pop up box card.  After watching the videos, I figured out the scoring and cutting.  For this particular box, I wanted a 1-1/4" box that is 3/4" high.  So I multiplied 1-1/4" by 4 because a box has 4 sides.  Then I added a 1/4" for the tab to attach the box ends together.  Added 3/4" to 1-1/4" for the height and my starting cardstock piece is 5-1//4" x 2".  Scored the short side at 3/4" and every 1-1/4" on the long side.  Used scissors to cut out some sections to get this.

Fold along the scored lines and assemble the box.  Add strong adhesive to the triangles and adhere the box on a diagonal with the crease of the card base.

A couple of 1/2" x 1-3/4" strips scored at 1/4" on both ends were added inside the box.  These were where acetate strips adhered to, which in turn how the balloons and hats were added to pop out of the box.  The balloons from Big Round Balloons cutaways were die cut from white cardstock and coloured with distress inks and a mini blending tool.  The hats from Happy Dance with Evelin T Designs were stamped with black Copic friendly ink on scrap of X-press It cardstock, coloured with Copics then die cut out with the coordinating dies.  Silver foil streamers and confetti was added to finish.

CHRISTMAS WHEEL

I may be dating myself, but the popular reveal wheel is what I knew as a viewfinder card.

Started by stamping the images from Season's Tweetings by Evelin T Designs with black Copic friendly ink, coloured with Copics and die cut out with the matching dies.  From a stitched white panel, partial die cut a circle opening.  Instead of trimming a straight edge across, I used my scissors and cut a slope.  Adhered the images around the window to create the scene.

For the wheel, I wanted a white border so a reverse circle mask was die cut from masking paper and adhered onto Bristol paper.   Added various distress inks with a mini blending tool then die cut out with a scallop circle die.  Die cut another scallop circle but this time from copy paper.  Fold the copy paper in half then into quarters to find the centre.  Align both scallop circles and pierce the centre with a piercing tool.

On the back of the scene panel, position the scallop circle then pierce through the scallop circle and the panel.  Use the hole as a guide to cut a semi circle on the side edge.  Secure the wheel to the panel with a brad.  Pop the panel onto a white cards base by adding mounting tape around the edge of the wheel.  White heat embossed the sentiment from Sweet Holiday with Evelin T Designs on black cardstock and popped it up with mounting tape over the brad to hide it.  Added snow over all images with a white gel pen to finish.   Here are more views of the different sky colours with turns of the wheel.

GIVEAWAY

Thanks to Shay's generosity, I have a $30 W&W gift card to give away to one lucky commenter over on my blog Phamtastic Design.  For your chance to win, leave a comment on any of my Leading Lady posts by October 31 and I will randomly pick a winner from all comments left across my posts.

That concludes my time here at W&W.  I want to thank all of you who stuck with me and left such kind comments.  I was not feeling very well this week, and reading your comments brightened my day!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Rerun No. 35 | Scenery: V for cheVron--Making Shapes with Crystal (Video)

Happy Friday lovelies!

 

To inspire you further to participate in this month's Rerun Crystal has this sweet card and video!!

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Love Crystal's card and I hope you do too!

Remember you still have time to play along with the challenge and/or enter to win this stamp set.  All the details can be found HERE!

Have an incredible day!

Shay.

Season's Greetings with Gayatri

Hello friends. Welcome back. This is Gayatri here with you today with a holiday card.

I started this card with the idea of making an one layer card. But the masking tape did some ink bleeding into the masked area that I had to modify the card. This card is the result. Lesson learnt. Do not stamp many layers using Distress Oxide inks over masking paper. Dye inks are the best. I still love this card. Just not want I planned to make.

So I masked a white card front with masking tape on all four sides and sponged Victorian Velvet and Seedless Preserve distress inks. Then I stamped the images from Winnie & Walter's Winter Wonderland stamp set using Bundled Sage, Forest Moss and Vintage Photo distress oxide inks. Over lapping the images on the masks and stamping few layers made the inks bleed into the masked area. While the masks were still on, I spattered some white paint as snow. Then removed the masks and left the panel to dry. I then rose gold heat embossed the sentiment on a strip of green cardstock, trimmed to fish tail end on one side.

I tried sanding the inks from the masked area using the sand eraser. But that didn't work. I also tried with scalpel but to no avail. So I decided to add the pink glitter tape as a border to cover the inks. Then I trimmed the card front and adhered the panel to the green card base. Before that I sponged the green card front with vintage photo distress ink to give depth. Then the sentiment strip is adhered on the bottom left of the panel using foam adhesives.

Finally I added some rose gold sequins to bring the card together. Hope you are inspired by the colours on this card. All the w&w supplies used to make this card are listed below. 

Winners of WCMD 2018!

Hello there lovelies!

It's Shay here to announce all of the WCMD 2018 Winners.

Thank you one and all for making this World Card Making Day such a pleasure with your comments, cards, participation and enthusiasm!  We were blown away by the crafties and projects.

I am so glad it was chance (random.org was my bestie) picking the winners or this could have taken me forever!

Now on to the randomly chosen winners.  There are tons of them so keep on scrolling down. :-)

WCMD 2018 | Craftie Challenge Winner

No. 27 Shylaa

WCMD 2018 | Dress Up Your Dies Challenge with Gayatri

No. 36 Mary-Anne V.

WCMD 2018 | Number Cruncher Challenge with Keren

 

No. 12 Karen Ladd

WCMD 2018 | Black and White Backgrounds Challenge with Crystal

No. 23 Janis in ID

WCMD 2018 | CAS Challenge with Heather H

 No. 28 Milla

WCMD 2018 | Ink Blending Challenge with Lea

No. 34 Deepti Aggarwal

WCMD 2018 | Stamp Image Mash Up Challenge with Jessica

No. 9 shartl

WCMD 2018 | Coordinating Dies Coloring Challenge with Kelly

 No. 14 Dr. Sonia S V

WCMD 2018 | Lucky 7 Limit Challenge with Shay

No. 12 Paperpassions

WCMD 2018 | Grand Prize Giveaway Winner

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Congrats to all the randomly chosen winners!

Please email us at info {at} winniewalter {dot} com to claim your prize!  Please include the challenge you won in the subject of your email.