June Leading Lady Caly Person | Take Five

As June ebbs away we sadly must bid au revoir to our joyful June Leading Lady Caly Person.   The last five weeks with Caly have been full of beauty, incredible inspiration, amazing projects and a depth of style, grace and skill.  Caly has showcased her keen talent and adeptness with different coloring materials and creativity week after week.  I feel so very blessed Caly 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 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 or her fantastic fourth performance which was an explosion of awesome CLICK HERE!  Today's cards are simply breathtaking!  

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

Hi Everyone! This is the final week of my Leading Lady series for Winnie & Walter! It has been so fun coloring with different color mediums using WW products!

   

Today's cards are extra special because I played with Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils for all the images - for the FIRST time! I've used colored pencils to add color/depth to already stamped images, but have never used them for full images - so have mercy on me! This was a lot of trial and error for me.

 

These flowers from the set The Big, the Bold and Extras are my favorite! Did you know that there was a special set called "In Bloom: Julie's Roses" that are the same flowers, but bigger? It's the bigger ones you see above. Don't worry, I believe Winnie & Walter will be releasing that set in the near future! I did some tone-on-tone stamping in hopes of doing no-line coloring with these images. I stamped a bunch on the same craft cardstock that you see and colored the images one at a time. I started with the leaves - applying the darkest color in the shaded areas first, blended out with the medium green, then the lightest green. When I was done, I went over the tips and the leaf veins to add some highlights with a white colored pencil.

 

As mentioned above, this was a trial for me. I had mentioned using the darkest color first for the leaves also. You'll notice that the two pink roses are different. The lighter one is colored with a base of white down first. I don't think there's a wrong way to color - just personal preference in how you want your images to look. The colors are definitely more vibrant with a base of white, but I think there is more depth to the image when colored without a base of white first.

 

I colored enough images to make two cards. It's easy to arrange floral arrangements anywhere on your card - but these are my go-go. I love bold sentiment strips embossed in white also. Polychromos colors used: 101, 129, 125, 133, 119, 139, 137, 159, 163, 166.

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If you've been following along the past 5 weeks, you'll know that a $30 gift card is up for grabs! Comment on THIS post (on my personal blog) and let me know which of the cards I've is your favorite for you chance to win! I'll choose a winner next Saturday, July 7th and the gift card will be issued by Winnie & Walter.

 

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It's been my pleasure to be a Winnie & Walter Leading Lady! Thanks so much for being here with me! I've had fun using Winnie & Walter products for these projects! Today marks the end of June so a new fabulous Leading Lady will sharing new projects starting next week :).

 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 The Big, the Bold and Extras	WW The Big, the Bold and Extras Cutaways	WW In Bloom: Julie's Roses	WW Sentimental: Birthday
WW Sentimental: Gift	Crumb Cake Ink	Crumb Cake Cardstock	Versamark Ink HMSB | EH | SSS
SU Heat Tool	Basic Black Cardstock	LF Large Stitched Rectangle Stackables HMSB | EH | SSS | LF	Recollections 110 lb
Recollections 110 lb	3D Foam Squares - Mixed HMSB | EH | SSS | AMZN	ATG Gun EH | SSS | AMZN	Mini Multi Medium Matte Glue HMSB | EH | SSS

 

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

 

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
Recollections 110 lb