Winners of Share the Love Week Featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger

We've got a few winners to announce today from Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger.

Before we announce the winners we want to thank everyone for commenting and sharing in the love! We had so much fun coming up with challenges, making projects, reading your comments and having you join in the fun!  This won't be the last time we incorporate challenges in our Share the Love Weeks!

And a huge round of applause to Ranger for so generously donating prizes!  Woohoo!  We can't recommend Tim Holtz Distress Ink products enough.

>>>Day 1 | Watercolor/Watercolour<<<
Winner of a mini Distress Ink prize pack courtesy of Ranger.

A step forward by Carol Doggett

>>>Day 2 | Ombre<<<
Winner of a Winnie & Walter $30.00 "gift card".

maria f. (comment no. 56)

>>>Day 3 | Resist<<<
Winner of a mini Distress Ink prize pack courtesy of Ranger.

Just Kate Crafting

>>>Day 4 | Stencils/Masks<<<
Winner of a $30.00 Winnie & Walter "gift card".

Jenny Martin

>>>Day 5 Tag it!<<<
Winner of Distress Marker Spritzer and six (6) Distress Markers courtesy of Ranger.

Tanja-Little Art Cottage 

Winners please email us at info {at} winniewalter {dot} com with the Winner of Share the Love Week Day _______ (please enter the day and theme) with your mailing address (for Ranger prizes) by Wednesday, July 23, 2014 noon CST.

Again, thank you to everyone who commented and especially those who took the time to take on the challenges and link up your inky masterpieces!  We adored all of your inspiring projects.

Share the Love Week Featuring Distress Inks | Day 5

Don't miss out on Day 1 of Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger focusing upon watercolor/watercolour.

Don't miss out on Day 2 of Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger focusing upon ombre

Don't miss out on Day 3 of Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger focusing upon resist

Don't miss out on Day 4 of Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger focusing upon stencils/masks

First, happy belated Canada Day to our family to the north!  And Happy 4th of July to our family here in the States.  Have a safe and glorious weekend.

We've reached our last day of the Share the Love Week featuring Distress Inks by Ranger, but don't be sad because the celebration hasn't come to an end yet (and all the challenges are open until 11:55 p.m. CST Sunday, July 13, 2014)!  Share the Love Week is a week-long love fest when we focus on a company or product we adore and show how smitten we are by using our featured love with w&w products!

Distress Inks are a fabulous product line brought to you by Ranger and the magnificent Tim Holtz.  I don't think we can say enough honestly spectacular things about Ranger as a company of incredible, high quality products and Tim Holtz as an amazing creator, artist and educator.  If you have a chance to take a class with Tim Holtz, do so because he is so successful for good reason.  He truly is as awesome as he seems.  Tim Holtz is the real deal.

It has been a delight to work with Tim Holtz Distress Products and we also want to thank Ranger for being so excellent as to donate 3 of the prizes for the challenges this week (all of which can be won by commenting and/or entering the Watercolor/Watercolour, Resist and Tag It! challenges until July 13, 2014 at 11:55 p.m. CST).

Thank you, thank you, Ranger for being all a creatively engaged and thoughtful company should be.  We love you!  

And make sure to show them some love too!  Get inky!!  This time around we want you...yes, you...to participate with us for a chance to win some awesome prizes.

Our last challenge is sure to be obvious to any Tim Holtz lover: Tag It!  Incorporate a tag, Distress Ink and w&w products into your project.

Before we get to how you can participate to win, let's see what Shay and Gayatri, Kelly and Vanessa of The Talent have made.

Shay

This tag evolved after adding layers of colors and I am not sure you can see that at all. :-)  In fact I used all but ombre on this single busy tag.  I will try to be brief (have you figured out that I write too much?) for me in describing what I did.

1. I swooshed a manila tag in pools of Tim Holtz Distress Stain in first weathered wood, then broken china and last peeled pain sprayed with a little water on my craft sheet by Ranger.
2.  Using butterfly Huey's Masks by Studio Calico I painted around them with broken china Distress Stain.  Then I used a white crayon and colored inside the butterfly.  After that I used more distress stain to fill in the background.  I used the butterfly masks and traced with a black pen around the butterflies.
3. Next using the Tim Holtz Collection crocodile layering stencil I sprayed water.  Then dried the tag a little and then put the stencil back and inked up sections of the background with pine needles and salty ocean Distress Ink with an ink blending tool.
4.  I went around each butterfly with a grey Copic marker (C7) and a white Signo Uni-ball pen.
5.  I decided I wanted some yellow and pink on the tag so I colored in the wax covered butterflies with Copics (Y18 + RV14) which gave them an interesting texture.
7. I flicked some drops of seafoam Heidi Swapp Color Shine and Glimmer Mist in patina.
8. I stamped the open rectangle from Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled 4 times on a scrap piece of white cardstock. Inside each rectangle I stamped a word all of which are from The Big, the Bold and Extras.  With a water brush I picked up Distress Ink I had smeared on my craft sheet.  Yellows were squeezed lemonade and mustard seed and the pinks were spun sugar and worn lipstick.  I cut each out and edged them with black pen.  I adhered the yellow rectangles directly on the tag and adhered the pink with dimensional foam adhesive.
9.  A sprinkling of sequins is a must for me.  I can't stop myself!

It's time for some truly lovely creations featuring tags by Gayatri, Kelly and Vanessa!

The Talent

CLICK HERE to see more of Gayatri's project.

CLICK HERE to see more of Kelly's project.

CLICK HERE to see more of Vanessa's project.

>>>THE CHALLENGE<<<

Want to win a care package by Ranger?  Ranger has generously donated a prize of a Tim Holtz Distress Marker Spritzer and six (6) Tim Holtz Distress Markers!!  Wow, that is superb.

You have two (2) ways you can win:

1. You can comment once on this post.
2. You can create a new Tag It! project using Distress Inks + at least one (1) w&w product (this can include stamps, cut files, digital products and/or one of our freebies found on our website or for our Facebook fans) and add it to the Link-up tool found below.  You may enter as many times as you wish while the challenge remains open.

We will randomly pick a winner from the comments and challenge entries that entered by Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 11:55 p.m. CST.

An InLinkz Link-up

w&w supplies:

Bubble Talk	Parentville	Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled	The Big, the Bold and Extras
The Big, the Bold, and the Happy	The Big, the Bold and You

InLinkz.com

Share the Love Week Featuring Distress Inks | Day 4

Don't miss out on Day 1 of Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger focusing upon watercolor/watercolour.

Don't miss out on Day 2 of Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger focusing upon ombre

Don't miss out on Day 3 of Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger focusing upon resist

Today marks our fourth day of Share the Love Week featuring Distress Inks by Ranger and we are going strong!  This is a week-long love fest when we focus on a company or product we adore and show how smitten we are by using our featured love with w&w products!

Distress Inks are a fabulous product line brought to you by Ranger and the incomparable Tim Holtz.

This time around we want you...yes, you...to participate with us for a chance to win some awesome prizes.

Today our challenge revolves around something that is so much fun, versatile and works amazingly well with Distress Ink: Stencils/Masks!

Before we get to how you can participate to win, let's see what Julie, Shay, Gayatri, Heather, Kelly, Lea, Mayuri and Vanessa of The Talent have made.

Julie

Hello there!  I hope everyone is enjoying getting inky!  Just wanted to say thanks so much to all of you who are commenting and participating in our Share the Love week!  You all are making it even more exciting for us.  I know Walter enjoys looking over your creations too!

Today I have two cards – both using stencils and both are VERY different.  The first is a stencil I had in my stash and I wanted to try using my new Distress Ink minis and new round blending tool to color in the stencil.  I really love the results and how the ink blends on the surface.  *sigh* 

I chose 5 different colors and added them randomly and then I went back with colors that were in the same color family but darker, and added images that I stamped within the stencil openings. The stamps used here are the floral stamps are from The Write Stuff: Leave it to Mom, tiny heart from You’ve Got Love Mail, and hi from The Big, the Bold, and Extras.  Sometimes the image was small and fit neatly inside, and other places, I purposely added the image to overlap, such as the pink flowers on the top row. I cut down the design to a square, mounted it on purple cardstock and then onto my 4.25 inch square card base. Super Fun and Super Easy!!!

My next card totally evolved as I was creating it.  I started off with a manila tag a la Tim Holtz and created the lattice stencil background in varying shades of pinks and purples.  I stamped the ornate oval frame from The Write Stuff: Leave it to Mom stamp set on the tag and cut out the inner oval and inked the edges a bit more with the darker shades of dusty concord and seedless grapes. I stamped the ornate oval frame again, this time with the dusty concord and embossed with clear ep, and then added the lattice oval.  This added inking really makes the lattice drop to the background, and almost give the appearance that this is a window into another space.  Lots of depth, but this part is flat. {insert happy face again}. 

The rest of the items are ALL cut files, all cut from white card stock!  The congrats is from The Big, the Bold and You cut files set and yes, it is as delicate as it looks.  It was a test cut from my original trials after creating the cut files, and it is super thin.  Using the round ink applicators, I was very careful to tap the ink on repeatedly instead of using a blending motion and I still got amazing coverage.  Now, my sentiment matches the colors of my other elements perfectly!

All of the other cut outs are from The WriteStuff: Leave it to Mom cut files set and I just colored my little heart out with these new smaller ink blending tools. My final accents were a very subtle addition of Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist, which I applied with a paint brush for subtle shimmer, Stardust Stickles on the flower buds and iridescent sequins for the center of the flower.  I am totally in my purple happy place!  

Shay

I went for it!  I used the stencil within an inch of its life.  Well not really as stencils are pretty hardy things, yet I still used it as a stamp, stencil, mask, a tracing tool and layering a stencil upon a stencil.  These little thin pieces of plastic are amazing and then you add your Distress Inks to it and you have the endless possibilities we all wax poetic about.

So on to what I did...I apologize in advance for how long this is!  I inked up The Crafters Workshop Mini Swiss Dot 6x6 stencil with tumbled glass, broken china and faded jeans Distress Inks.  Simply take your ink pads and swoosh or pounce it over the plastic. Then I spritzed the stencil with water before I placed a piece of Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock over the wet ink.  To keep from getting myself entirely covered in ink and to firmly press the paper into the inky stencil I placed a paper towel over the paper covered inky stencil.

After removing the stencil from the paper I colored in some of the holes with a white crayon.  Over the panel I placed the doily layering stencil from the Tim Holtz Collection and with the mini ink blending tool and picked raspberry Distress Ink I colored in the upper left and lower right edges.  Then using the Mini Swiss Dot stencil I traced some of the circles with a black pen.  After that I put the stencil back (slightly off) and used squeezed lemonade Distress Ink to color in some of the dots on the upper right and lower left edges.  I then stamped happy from The Big, the Bold, and the Happy in Versamark and embossed it in white.  I edged the panel with black soot Distress Ink and an ink blending tool.  I added black photo corners to the watercolor panel and adhered it all to a white card base.

On a little square of white cardstock I stamped the camera from The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect.  On the camera I used the doily stencil and picked raspberry Distress Ink.  I cut out the camera and edges it with black soot Distress Ink and an ink blending tool.  I stamped the bottom part of the camera again on a scrap of white cardstock in which I stamped the sentiment from Bubble Talk and used the doily stencil with squeezed lemonade on it.  I cut it out and glued it onto the pink camera.  I adhered the camera to the watercolor panel with foam dimensional adhesive.  Last, I added...you guessed it..sequins.  What?  It needed some sparkle! :-)

If you made this far you are deserve a treat and I can think of nothing better than the projects by Gayatri, Heather, Kelly, Lea, Mayuri and Vanessa!  These ladies are sensational!!

The Talent

CLICK HERE to see more of Gayatri's project.

CLICK HERE to see more of Heather's project.

CLICK HERE to see more of Kelly's project.

CLICK HERE to see more of Lea's project.

CLICK HERE to see more of Mayuri's project.

CLICK HERE to see more of Vanessa's project.

>>>THE CHALLENGE<<<

Want to win a $30.00 "gift card" from us (shipping & handling will be the responsibility of the winner)?

You have two (2) ways you can win:

1. You can comment once on this post.
2. You can create a new stencil/mask project using Distress Inks + at least one (1) w&w product (this can include stamps, cut files, digital products and/or one of our freebies found on our website or for our Facebook fans) and add it to the Link-up tool found below.  You may enter as many times as you wish while the challenge remains open.

We will randomly pick a winner from the comments and challenge entries that entered by Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 11:55 p.m. CST.

An InLinkz Link-up

w&w supplies:

Bubble Talk cut files	Bubble Talk	Parentville Extras	Scenery: Big Bang Bling
The Big, the Bold and Extras	The Big, the Bold, and the Happy	The Big, the Bold and You cut files	The Write Stuff: Leave it to Dad cut files
The Write Stuff: Leave it to Mom cut files	The Write Stuff: Leave it to Mom	You've Got Love Mail

InLinkz.com

Share the Love Week Featuring Distress Inks | Day 3

Don't miss out on Day 1 of Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger focusing upon watercolor/watercolour.

Don't miss out on Day 2 of Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger focusing upon ombre

You are here at our third day of our Share the Love Week featuring Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger!  This is a week-long love fest when we focus on a company or product we adore and show how smitten we are by using our featured love with w&w products!

Distress Inks are a fabulous product line brought to you by Ranger and the incomparable Tim Holtz. We recommend, if you haven't already, stalking following Tim Holtz's site and Ranger's site for more information and inspiration.

This time around we want you...yes, you...to participate with us for a chance to win some awesome prizes.

Our Third day is about a very fun technique: Resist!  Grab some embossing powder or paint and your Distress Inks and lets have some fun seeing what you create to resist that ink!

Before we get to how you can participate to win, let's see what Julie, Shay and Gayatri, Heather and Vanessa of The Talent have made.

Julie

This project was totally exploratory and I had no idea what I was going to make, but I knew I wanted a tag, and I wanted to work with a resist technique.  I found a 12 inch circle stencil in my stash that has dotted circles  in various sizes and widths.  I actually couldn't find my Distress Paint for this, but I did find some liquid acrylic paint and some trusty makeup sponges and created a gradient effect that changes from aqua (bottom left), to green to pale yellow (upper right).  This was drying really fast mainly because I didn't need much paint to get this effect – gotta like that.  I did dry it with the heat tool just to be sure it was dry before I added my distress inks.

Using the ink blending tool I added inks in bright colors and also sprinkled the tag with water droplets (spritz and flick) and then dried the tag.  The water reacts and leaves droplet marks that lighten the color of the ink. I added two more stencils - one of triangles (triangles on left side) with picked raspberry ink and smaller vertical dots with seedless grapes.  The paint had no problem resisting the ink . 

Using Archival ink in Jet black, I added the camera from TheWrite Stuff: Picture Perfect  in 3 different places and the word smile from Bubble Talk ink picked raspberry in 3 places, and a stack of “celebrate” in more of the seedless grapes.  Since this card is pretty colorful and busy, I added the SMILE it’s your birthday stamped with Versamark and embossed white for a little more prominence on the card.  Stickles?  Yes please!!!  More stardust stickles on the tiny purple dots at the two corners and on the row of stenciled triangles. I scattered a few sequins and added a fluffy bow to finish it off.  Color, visual texture, resist and sparkle – tag-alicious!

Shay

I took an unorthodox approach.  For my resist card I went back to kindergarten by pulling out my crayons.  Yes, crayons can be used as a resist!  The wax repels the ink.  I love how easy they are to use, the large array of colors and the smell takes me way back.

I stamped the ledger heart from The Write Stuff: Love Story in onyx black Versafine and created a pattern.  I colored in the hearts with white and a pale pink crayons.  Around the hearts I colored in with the white crayon.  I then used my handy ink blending tool by Ranger and squeezed lemonade Distress Ink and added the color over the entire panel.  Lastly I buffed the panel with a paper towel to remove any ink adhering to the crayon wax.  What I love is all the imperfections in coloring are shown when the ink seeps into the paper not covered with crayons.  The less you color with the crayon the more prominent the Distress Ink.

I added sequins and confetti from Studio Calico.  I stamped the speech bubble and sentiment from Bubble Talk in black ink and cut out.  I edged the speech bubble with a little of the squeezed lemonade with my ink blending tool.  I adhered it with dimensional foam adhesive.  I added a small strip of black cardstock under the edge and adhered it to an A2 white card base.

You are going to love what Gayatri, Heather and Vanessa have made...their projects are irresistible. haha

The Talent

CLICK HERE to see more of Gayatri's project.

CLICK HERE to see more of Heather's project.

CLICK HERE to see more of Vanessa's project.

>>>THE CHALLENGE<<<

Want to win a care package by Ranger?  Ranger has generously donated a prize of a mini ink blending tool, replacement foam and two (2) sets of Distress Ink minis.  Wow, that is awesome.

You have two (2) ways you can win:

1. You can comment once on this post.
2. You can create a new resist project using Distress Inks + at least one (1) w&w product (this can include stamps, cut files, digital products and/or one of our freebies found on our website or for our Facebook fans) and add it to the Link-up tool found below.  You may enter as many times as you wish while the challenge remains open.

We will randomly pick a winner from the comments and challenge entries that entered by Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 11:55 p.m. CST.

An InLinkz Link-up

w&w supplies:

Bubble Talk	The Big, the Bold and Extras	The Big, the Bold and Fun	The Big, the Bold, and the Happy
The Big, the Bold and You	The Write Stuff: Love Story	The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect

InLinkz.com