w&w 5th Birthday Bash | Layering Die Cuts Challenge with Jessica

Hi everyone! I’m so excited today because it’s Winnie & Walter’s fifth birthday! We are celebrating with tons of prizes and challenges, and I hope you’ll join us this year, too. 

My challenge is layering die-cuts. Whether it’s word dies, cover plate dies or stand alone dies, you can always find new ways to use them creatively. So I encourage you stretch the use of your dies and layer them!

I have two cards to share with you today; the first one features the number dies from Typecast: Cary Number Cutaways set, and the second one uses the In a Word: Love Coordinating Cutaways set. 

For this CAS rainbow card, I decided to die cut the numbers from Stampin’ Up’s cardstock. The colors I used are Merry Merlot, Tangerine Tango, Hello Honey, Cucumber Crush, and Blueberry Bushel. 

I die cut 5 of each number (because it’s W&W's 5th birthday!) and adhered them together with On-Point glue. This makes the numbers dimensional and almost look like chipboard pieces. 

Then I adhered a strip of silver vellum paper to my card base, added some enamel dots, and the card is complete!

The second card features one of my favorite product lines from Winnie & Walter: the In a Word series! I love these dies so much, and they are actually what captured my heart when I first saw Winnie & Walter. I was inspired by one of Lydia’s cards from a previous release and decided to layer these two love word dies to create this fun look. You can also use In a Word: Happy Coordinating Cutaways, In a Word: Thanks Coordinating Cutaways, and In a Word: Merry Coordinating Cutaways to create similar effects. 

I hope you enjoyed today’s easy tips on layering die cuts. If you would like to learn 3 more techniques about die cut layering, be sure to come back for my next post/video. Thanks so much for stopping by, and I’ll see you very soon.  

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July Leading Lady Caren Bartholomew | Take Three

Our July Leading Lady Caren Bartholomew is back for her triumphant third performance!  If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or how she shook it up during her sensational second performance CLICK HERE.   You will not be able to resist her cards today ;-)!

Without further ado, Caren...

Hi everyone! Welcome back to week 3 of my Leading Lady reign at Winnie and Walter. Thank you for all the wonderful comments on my first two posts.

 

For week three, I used the emboss resist technique to create cards using the great Winnie and Walter products. This technique is designed to leave the stamped image white while adding color to the background. The stamped image will “resist” the ink (thus the name).

 

For my first card, I stamped the cascading hearts from the stamp set Scenery: Seeing Hearts in embossing ink, covered it in white embossing powder, and heat set it. I think inked up that panel using 3 shades of pink Distress ink. As you can see the hearts "resisted" the ink. I did the same thing with the You So Much sentiment from In a Word: Love stamp set. I thought the panel need a little more pizzazz, so I used on of the dies from Georgette Borders to add some detail to the bottom of the panel. I used the Love die from In a Word: Love Coordinating Cutaways (have I mentioned I adore this die!) I die cut it three times and layered them together. The top layer is in silver glitter paper. I adhered them to the card base to finish the card.

 

For the second card, I embossed the sentiment on a scalloped circle, then layered three shades of distress ink on it. The back panel uses the same three shades of ink with a stencil. I water colored the bunny using distress inks and fussy cut it out and layered all the pieces onto a gray card base. The sentiment and bunny are from the Party On with Evelin T Designs stamp set. I added a few clear Nuvo drops to finish the card. Thanks again for the love last week, join me next week for the big finally and a chance to win a $30 gift card from Winnie and Walter on my blog.




 

July Leading Lady Caren Bartholomew | Take One

Today is a wonderful day as I get to introduce our July Leading Lady Caren Bartholomew.  Caren is such a warm, down to earth, funny and talented person (who really knows how to make yarn pom poms).  I think you are going to adore the sense of joy and whimsy that she brings to her work.

I am really excited to see what Caren will be creating this month as she takes us on an adventure of her own design on Saturdays in July on the w&w blog.

Please give Caren a big round of applause to welcome her as she steps onto the stage for her first performance as our July Leading Lady! 

 

 Hi everyone! I'm so excited to be the Leading Lady for the month of July (my birthday month!) for Winnie and Walter. I had the pleasure of meeting Shay earlier this year at Stamping Away in Kansas. She is sweet, fun, and generous and I can't wait until we get to play stamps again some day! For week one, I'm going to focus on making cards from water colored backgrounds. I pulled out my water colors (which I need to do more) and made a few backgrounds. These are quick and easy to make and look gorgeous.

 

My first background, I used green and yellow water colors to make this simple and soft background. I then heat embossed the cute dancing animals from Happy Dance with Evelin T Designs and a sentiment from Party On with Evelin T Designs. If your not a person that likes to color, this is a great way to show off these cute images.

 

For my next background, I used a wide brush to water color turquoise stripes on a piece of water color paper. I really love how this one turned out and wanted to show off the background, so I kept it simple and only used dies. I used one of the Love dies from In a Word: Love Coordinating Cutaways. I love this die set and am going to have to force myself not to use it on every card! The You dies are from Dotty About You with Lydia Evans Cutaways. I cut top layer out of the same water color paper I used from the background and the bottom layer is from the same card stock I used for the card base. I popped the you die cut up with some foam tape, and then added some turquoise and white twine at the top to finish off the card.

 

For card three, I water colored a background using pink and purple water colors, and then splattered some of the same colors on it. Instead of using it as a background, I stamped the sentiment beautiful and the flower images from In Bloom: Ashlee's Rosie Posies with Lydia Evans onto the background paper and used the coordinating cutaway dies to cut them out. I also water colored some green on water color paper, stamped the leaves, and die cut them. I used the same pink and purple water colors to splatter on a piece of white card stock. I arranged the flowers and leaves at the bottom of this piece, popping some of the flowers up with dimensional foam tape. I white heat embossed the Have a and Day onto some black card stock to complete the sentiment. I had so much fun making these cards and showcasing the wonderful products from Winnie and Walter .



At the end of the month, there will be a giveaway of a $30 gift card from Winnie and Walter on my blog - carenwithac.com.



I'll see you next week, thanks for joining me!

June Leading Lady Caly Person | Take One

Today is a wonderful day as I get to introduce our June Leading Lady Caly Person.  I am not sure what Caly can't do...seriously this lady impresses me mightily!  Not only is she a dedicated wife and mother, she is incredibly intelligent, kind, sweet, organized, meticulous, ambitious and did I mention she is extremely talented?!?  She also has a cool head in a hot situation. :-)  

I am really excited to see what Caly will be creating this month as she takes us on an adventure of her own design on Saturdays in June on the w&w blog.

Please give Caly a big round of applause to welcome her as she steps onto the stage for her first performance as our June Leading Lady! 


Hi Friends! Thanks for joining me for my month-long Leading Lady feature for Winnie & Walter! I've said this before from meeting Shay (the owner) at Stamping Away - but I can't say enough nice things about this wonderful woman! She's funny, she's talented, she's kind, and wonderfully generous! I'm so happy to be her Leading Lady for the month of June!

   

Ok...so my profile doesn't look like that - but let's pretend I'm '30s-classic for the month, shall we? I LOVE IT! For the month, I want to focus on different color mediums. Today, we have some simple stamped images that are lightly shaded with colored pencils for added depth. My first card is made using the WW In a Word: Love stamp set. Let me first say that I adore (trying to use a word other than love here) WW's In a Word cutaways. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you seriously need to go to the WW shop and check it out. They're word dies and what makes them special is the words are all staggered - so unique (see what I mean in the image below)! In this set - you get all different styles of the word love.

   

I decided to make a shaker using one of the dies. I wanted the word to stand out - so I kept the panel stark white. Then I used the flowers from the set The Big, The Bold and Extras and its coordinating dies to accent the card. I stamped the flowers using Catherine Pooler Inks (Polished, It's a Girl, Mandarin Spice, and Garden Party) and shaded the flowers and leaves with some colored pencils. For the shaker space, I decided to give it some ombre color and inked the background up with Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide ink.

 

I had some extra leaves and tucked them into the word and I really think that balanced out the card. I used Pretty Pink Posh Sequins (pink peonies, watermelon, pink blush) to fill the space and called it good. The sentiment is from the In a Word: Love stamp set - simple and elegant.

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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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XOXO,

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PPP Pink Blush 4mm EH | SSS | PPP	PPP Pink Blush 6mm EH | PPP	Neenah Solar White 80 lbHMSB | EH | SSS

 

Layered Sentiments with Crystal (Video)

Today we have another fabulous video tutorial with Crystal to create this beautiful card with layered sentiments!

Have an incredible day!

Happy creating,
Shay.