December Leading Lady Laurel Beard | Take Four

We hare the distinct honor of bringing you the last performance of our December Leading Lady, Laurel Beard! She has delighted us with her creativity, imagination, jubilant spirit and dedication. We are so thankful to work with someone of her talent and caliber!  If you missed her third triumphant performance CLICK HERE, her second scintillating performance CLICK HERE or her stunning debut CLICK HERE.  Now for Laurel's dazzling finale (sniff)....

Hi there! Laurel Beard here with my LAST week as the December Leading Lady! My heart is sad as I type this post but happy that I had the opportunity to share some of my love of Winnie and Walter with you all! They truly are an amazing company run by some awesome peeps! Today I thought I would share three cards that are clean and simple! Just some stamping and maybe a little bit of technique. This card uses the Happy Christmas stamp set and Scenery: Big Bang Flurries. These two stamps are gorgeous on their own and when you combine them, you've got gold!

I sprayed a sparkle spray over the top and this card just glistens. See???? Oh, that poinsettia heat embossed onto the vellum? Delicious.

My next card uses a fun color scheme, one of my favorites and pairs an embossing paste technique with this fantastic stencil, the Classic Diagonal Creative Screening. I applied some tinted crackle embossing paste (to tint I added a squish of teal acrylic paint and mixed the two together) to the stencil and allowed to dry. It was so fun to watch it dry and form all those little cracks and this stencil is perfect because it gives you such wide stripes, so perfect for this technique.  And seeing as how I didn't get enough of the Big Bang Flurries stamp set, I used it again here to create a snowflaked background for my little gingerbread! This little guy is from the Eat, Drink Gingerbread stamp set as is the little peppermint candy! Yum, now I want some... Anywho, I stamped him out and watercolored him in using my Inktense watercolored pencils... And the sentiment is from the Winter Woodland stamp set.

I had to share a closer look at that crackled background! Isn't it gorgeous? I encourage you to check out their entire creative screenings line! Their stencils are fab!

And lastly, a simple one layered card (except I cheated and added some alpha stickers, tsk tsk) using some masking... I couldn't resist using the deer from the Happy Christmas stamp set again. I know, I know! I masked off the edges and inked up the background using distress paints. Then using the Big Bang Circle Creative Screening, I created some snowflakes by using some embossing paste with the stencil.. I love one layer cards with lots of dimension and pairing the stamps with the stencils is a great way to achieve that!

Sniff, Sniff! This post concludes my wonderful month as Leading Lady!  I've shared lots of Winnie and Walter projects for you these last 4 weeks and I hope you all have enjoyed joining me.  Don't forget,  I’ve got a giveaway!!! Simply head on over to my blog and leave comments on all of my Leading Lady posts, and you could win a $30 gift card to Winnie and Walter!!! I will choose a winner at the end of the month from ALL of the Leading Lady posts, so you’ve got lots of opportunities to get your name in the hat! 4 to be exact!

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December Leading Lady Laurel Beard | Take Three

Our December Leading Lady, Laurel Beard is here for her third riveting performance on the great w&w stage!  If you missed her second triumphant performance CLICK HERE or her stunning debut CLICK HERE.  See for yourself as Laurel glides upon the stage....

Hi there!!! Laurel Beard here back today with Take 3 of my December Leading Lady stint! I have been so enjoying these weekly posts and playing with the release!!! I just can't get enough of it! Today I thought we would focus on the new Creative Screenings line!!! We've got backgrounds, outlines, masks, words..... Oh the fun!!!!! Let's start with the Persuasion Script Screening. Such a gorgeous font. I let the screening speak for itself... I simply layered the screening down over my card panel and applied distress ink over the top. I paired the Persuasion Script Screening with a few images from the Winter Woodland stamp set. I LOVE that stag! And of course, they needed to be nestled on a snow bank, which I created using some embossing paste... The embossing paste pairs perfectly with the stenciled background and gorgeous stag and pinecones, don't you think?

Next up, I thought we would get all festive with the Eat Drink Gingerbread Man stamp set and the Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone set. To create this card, I used the Scenery: Big Bang Sci-fi Star Creative Screening. I applied white ink over the stencil to create the background for my card base... The rest of the card came together quite quickly! I just love the Peppermint Zone! I do believe I had a few actual peppermints while I was creating this card! Nothing completes a card without a glass of milk (with a heavy coating of Glossy Accents of course)... And of course, I had to emphasize the sentiment by heat setting it with my favorite embossing powder onto some vellum. Liquid Platinum baby! The font is just delicious!

Moving on to the next card which uses lots of Creative Screenings.... And some masking. Let's take a look at the Big, The bold and the Extras Creative Screening. It is full of such goodness. You have the stencils as well as the outlined images... So what I did here was over lay the stencil and the outline image together and apply ink to the stencil with two different shades of pigment ink... Then I cut it out along with the leaves (from the same creative screening) and used lots of words from the Big, the Bold and the Merry stamp set to create the text overlay. I adhered that to a panel I inked up using the Scenery: Grand Diagonal Creative Screening. See? Told you! Lots of creative screenings on this one!!!!

And lastly, a somewhat magical card I think. I used lots of heat embossing with the products here to create this card. To start with, I took some plain black card stock and lined up the Scenery: Flash Creative Screening over the black card panel and inked it all up with Versamark ink and heat set it in clear. I think those amazing shiny flashes in the background are so cool! Then I stamped the gorgeous tree from the Winter Wonderland stamp set in Versamark ink and heat set it in green embossing powder. I also heat embossed the bird image from the same set with Liquid Platinum embossing powder and perched him up on the sentiment panel, which I white heat embossed. LOL! LOTS of heat embossing here.. I am surprised my heat gun didn't blow up! LOL! As a finishing touch, I took some white pigment ink with the best tool ever, my finger... And spread it around somewhat unevenly in the background to create this gorgeous white glow! So pretty! Then I just adhered it down to a white top folding card... The stripes? That's some washi tape!

So there you have it!! Lots of Winnie and Walter projects for you today showcasing some of the creative screenings line! I had such a blast creating these cards. I’ll be back next week for my last week as the Winnie and Walter December Leading Lady, sniff sniff! Until then, I’ve got a giveaway!!! Simply head on over to my blog and leave comments on all of my Leading Lady posts, and you could win a $30 gift card to Winnie and Walter!!! I will choose a winner at the end of the month from all of the Leading Lady posts, so you’ve got lots of opportunities to get your name in the hat!

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October Release | Premiere of Eat Drink Gingerbread Man + Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone + Creative Screenings

To enter our October Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.

To enter to win Eat Drink Gingerbread Man + Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone + Creative Screenings continue reading!

To enter to win Mini Scenery: Into the Woods + Scenery: Big Bang Flurries + Winter Woodland CLICK HERE (live on October 29 at 7:00 a.m. CST)

To enter to win Happy Christmas + The Big, the Bold and the Merry + Cutaways CLICK HERE (live October 30, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)

To enter to win Stampets: Penguin + Stampets: The Gift + Stampets: Turkey CLICK HERE (live October 31, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)

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Today is very exciting for us because we are introducing a new stamp "pocket" size for us 3x4 with Mini Scenery and little cute stamp sets that will add that element of festive fun!  Today we will be featuring Eat Drink Gingerbread Man and Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone.  We hope you love these wee gems.

Another product that we have been working on for a while is now a reality: Creative Screenings our name for stencils and masks!  We've been teasing you all with some peeks of the Creative Screenings for the past month because we have 19 designs premiering this release.  We have backgrounds, The Big, the Bold word masks (each word comes in 2 sizes) and duos which include positive and negatives of a design.  You will see these featured today and throughout this release week and we invited 2 of our friends that both happen to be from across the pond, Kate Capper and Shirley Bampton, to go all out with the Creative Screenings for even more inspiration.

>>>THE DETAILS<<<

Eat Drink Gingerbread Man
Available for purchase the evening of October 31, 2014.
3x4 stamp set
Retails for $8.00
Includes five (5) stamps--four (4) images and one (1) sentiment

Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone
Available for purchase the evening of October 31, 2014
3x4 stamp set
Retails for $6.00
Includes one (1) stamp

Creative Screenings
Stencils/Masks
Available for purchase the evening of October 31, 2014
Introductory Price of $4.99, $5.99 or $6.49
Available exclusively at the w&w shop in 2014
Nineteen (19) designs!!

>>>THE GOOD STUFF<<<

Let's get to the fun part and see what Julie, Shay, our guest stars, Cresta Woodruff (our fabulous winner of the Playdate No. 3 challenge), Jennifer Ingle (our October Leading Lady), Kate Capper + Shirley Bampton aka shirley-bee and The Talent (our supernova creative team) made with it. And make sure you visit Cresta's, Jennifer's, Kate's and Shirley's each of The Talent's blogs for more knock-it-out-of-the-park projects and details.  Don't forget to share some love with them too!

Julie

I’m so very excited that we finally get to share this release with all of you!  It feels like it has been a long wait, and we hope you think it was well worth it!  Today I have a couple of cards to share.  The first is a fun card with our little friend….Mr. Gingerbread Man!

Card No. 1

I stamped our little guy from Eat Drink Gingerbread Man three times and water colored him with distress inks. The boys on the sides are glued flat, and the one in the middle is popped up.  I also used the Scenery: Classic Diagonal Creative Screenings to create this peppermint stripe in brown, and added the lines of red and green for accent, and then embossed them with some Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powders (Candy Cane Red Gold and Fiddlehead Fern Green). I created a larger strip, and then cut it down into thin strips to make the top and bottom border.  You are going to LOVE the new Creative Screenings!!! I can't wait for you to see them all!

I love the sentiment in this set, and thought I would use only the BE MERRY since it has that very sweet font.  I used some washi to cover over the other words in the stamp and then inked it up with Versamark.  After peeling the tape off, I stamped it and then embossed with the same red ep.  For a final touch, I stamped the gumdrops in Stampin’ Up! Iridescent Ice ep so that it would have a subtle white shimmer similar to sugar, and then used a marker to color over the gum drops.  The reds are flat and the greens are popped.  Too Fun!

Card No. 2

My second card has a lot of shimmer and elegance.  The card base is one of my faves – Night Sky shimmer cardstock by Papertrey Ink. I love the weight of this paper and the navy shimmer is divine!  It makes a wonderful backdrop to the silver elements.  First, the merry was die cut using the brand new The Big, the Bold and the Merry Cutaways dies. You will get to hear more about these little beauties later this week.  I inked a piece of cardstock with Versamark and then embossed it with Aegean Silver ep from Judi-Kins, and then ran the die through my cuttlebug.  LOVE IT!

The “and bright” are stamped with words from The Big, the Bold and the Merry stamp set and embossed with the same ep.  Finally, the vellum ornament was so fun to design.  I stamped and embossed Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone on vellum and die cut with a circle, and added some silver glitter tape cut for the top of the ornament.  The silver thread – UGH – it looks good now, but it is not my favorite thread.  It gave me a workout the other night.  But, it was all worth it.  Blue and silver, with a touch of Sparkling Clear sequins (4 and 6mm) from Pretty Pink Posh.  What’s not to love?  And, there is so much more to see below from Shay, the Talent, and our special guests!  Enjoy!!!

Shay


I have to say I really love Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone.  In fact my sister who is notoriously particular (she doesn't like stars for instance...yeah stars) actually loves that stamp set.  Both of my cards today feature Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone.

Card No. 1

I wanted to emboss in white Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone so I did just that on a piece of watercolor paper by Tim Holtz from Ranger.  Then I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger in fired brick spritzed with water to paint in the panel.  Then I used the Scenery: Big Bang Classic Star Creative Screenings with calico shine Mister Huey's Color Mists by Studio Calico to add some shimmery stars over the whole panel.

I embossed the sentiment from Eat Drink Gingerbread Man in silver on a strip of vellum and also stamped it in pale tomato Hero Arts Mid-Tone Shadow Ink on a piece of white cardstock and I punched out the "and" with a 3/4" inch circle punch.  I wrapped the vellum around the peppermint panel and also wrapped some grey and white baker's twine too.  I adhered the panel to a white card base with foam dimensional adhesive.  Last are some 4mm marshmallow sequins (perfect name!) from Pretty Pink Posh.

Card No. 2

When I saw Julie's second card I had to laugh as we seemed to be of one mind...just wait until you see my card. Any resemblance was completely unplanned. :-)

I think the gingerbread man in Eat Drink Gingerbread Man is pretty spiffy, charming and cute so I *had* to use him and more than once.  I embossed him 3 times in white on a piece of watercolor paper and got down to watercoloring him in with antique linen, brushed corduroy and walnut stain Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger with a little calico shine Mister Huey's Color Mists by Studio Calico mixed in.  I added some enamel dot by My Mind's Eye to the little gingerbread men.

For the background of my card I stamped Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone two times in pale tomato Hero Arts Mid-Tone Shadow Ink.  I distressed the edges of the peppermint panel.

On a strip of white cardstock I stamped and embossed in gold "be merry" from the sentiment from Eat Drink Gingerbread Man.


I attached the gingerbread men with foam dimensional adhesive, added the gold confetti from Pretty Pink Posh and adhered it to a layer of blue cardstock before added it to a white card base.

This card reminds me of Candy Land which makes me pretty happy as I always enjoyed that game when I was a little.  I hope these stamps and Creative Screenings will inspire you to play.

Now, you will not want to miss the unbelievable projects by our guest stars and The Talent!

Guest Star, Cresta Woodruff

CLICK HERE to see more from Cresta.

Leading Lady, Jennifer Ingle

CLICK HERE to see more from Jennifer.

Guest Star, Kate Capper

CLICK HERE to see more from Kate.

Guest Star, Shirley Bampton

CLICK HERE to see more from Shirley.

The Talent

CLICK HERE to see more from Gayatri

CLICK HERE to see more from Heather

CLICK HERE to see more from Joni

CLICK HERE to see more from Kelly

CLICK HERE to see more from Laura

CLICK HERE to see more from Lea

CLICK HERE to see more from Mayuri

CLICK HERE to see more from Vanessa

>>>THE GIVEAWAY<<<

Comment here on this post for a chance to win Eat Drink Gingerbread Man stamp set + Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone stamp set + a set of Creative Screenings of your own by 11:59 p.m. (central standard time) October 31, 2014.  One comment will be chosen at random.

All winners during our October Release will be announced on November 1, 2014.

To enter our October Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.

Remember to come back tomorrow!