February Leading Lady Rosali | Take One

Happy February!  I am so excited for this special month as it's our birthday month so we have lots of challenges.  Speaking of challenges and special we have an incredible February Leading Lady to introduce you to today: Rosali!  

I have been awed by Rosali's projects ever since she began entering our challenges.  I love how thoughtfully and beautifully designed each of her cards are and I can't wait to see what she has in store for us this month and in honor of our birthday month we're doing something a bit different this year and including a challenge to you on each of Rosali's posts this month.  See the end of this post for more details and to link up!

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

Hello everyone!

It's Rosali and I am super excited to be joining Winnie & Walter as their Leading Lady this month!! Eep!! Shay is one of the most generous and kind shop owners in the industry with lots of amazing products and I am honored that she asked me to guest design!!

For those of you who don’t know me yet - I’m a 30-something crafter, I live in Northern Germany with my hubby and you might know me under my social media nickname ilovestamping. Because I just loooove stamping, hah! 😃 My little addiction with cardmaking started about 4 years ago and shortly after I joined Instagram and met so, so many wonderful crafters there. I also started my own blog last year! I love to connect with people from all over the world through this amazing hobby.

I am gonna have a blog post for you guys each Saturday during February and I thought I would focus on a technique that I use super often on my cards: masking! It’s a very versatile technique that helps you get the most out of your supplies! I am gonna concentrate on a specific way to use it every week. I am also gonna share Copic guides and a few tips on coloring alongside the masking techniques. Today's post makes a start in which I will show you two examples on how to:

USE MASKING WITH STENCILS

So let’s ‘dive’ right in, shall we? This is my first card:

Here is how I used masking to create the background on this first card with the help of two graphic stencils - Polka Creative Screenings and Triangled Creative Screenings:

1. I took a strip of Post-It Tape and put it across my cardstock panel at an angle to mask off the area for my sentiment. You can also use a strip of masking paper or a piece of painter's tape!
2. First, I used light colored ink pads and a blending tool to add a minty base color above the tape and a light blue base color below the tape. This helped to define the borders of the masked area.
3. After that I placed the Triangled stencil above my mask and inkblended three shades of green ink over it. I also added black watercolor splatters because I always love the artsy feel that it gives. 😊
4. For the bottom part I took the Polka stencil and inkblended light grey ink over it.

Removing the tape after you're finished is always an exciting moment! I was happy with the outcome and went on to design the rest of my card. I die cut the Wonder Cutaway once from white cardstock and once from black fun foam and glued both together for dimension. I adhered them onto the background.

In addition, I stamped "winter" and "land" from one of the sentiment stamps from Yetitide Greetings to create my "winter wonderland" sentiment. To mask off the parts of the sentiment stamp that I didn't need I used a piece of washi tape when inking up the stamp! Just remember to remove the washi before stamping on your project (ask me how I know lol) ...

The skiing yeti from Yetitide Greetings was the perfect critter for my card. I colored him with Copics (see coloring guide below) and adhered him using foam tape. If you use your imagination it kind of looks as if the white masked strip could be a snowy hill and the green triangle pattern could be trees!

For my second card, I followed a similar idea:

I wanted to use the Triangled stencil to represent mountains on my background. To get that look, I used Post-It Tape once more - this time putting it onto the stencil instead of the cardstock. I masked off a bigger triangle on the Triangled stencil to use as a mountain and took light blue and teal Distress Oxides for inkblending over the stencil.  Using this method, I added three mountains onto my grey background panel.

Then I took Copic Opaque White paint to

1. give my mountains snowy tips,
2. add small splatters as snowflakes and
3. paint on a snowy ground (with a damp / rather thirsty flat brush - to get the painted look that I wanted)

The snowboarding yeti and a small "warm yeti hugs" sentiment from Yetitide Greetings made my winter scene complete. Instead of plain grey I added a tint of lilac to my yeti this time. I really like the teal and lilac together in front of the grey card front!

CARD CLOSE-UP:

COPIC GUIDE & COLORING TIPS:

Card 1

Yeti’s face: E51, E21, R20
Yeti’s fur: 0, W1, W3, W4, W5
Skis & ski poles: G000, G00, BG13 & YG03, YG13

Card 2

Yeti’s face: YR30, E81, R20
Yeti’s fur: W1, BV02, V20, V22
Snowboard: V22, V25, V28

TIP 1: For an easy fur look, add small flicks over your Copic coloring with a white gel pen!

TIP 2: Add patterns to the skis and snowboard with a Memento Marker for some extra interest.

I hope I have given you some inspiration today! Thanks for reading all the way down. :-) And don't forget to hop over to my blog and leave a comment over there as well. Winnie & Walter has generously sponsored a 30 $ gift certificate for one of you to win!

See you next week! ♥

Rosali

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USED SUPPLIES:

Winnie & Walter stamps, dies and stencils:

Yetitide Greetings with Evelin T Designs Stamp Set
Yetitide Greetings with Evelin T Designs Cutaways
In a Word: Wonder Cutaway
Scenery: Pennsylvania Polka Creative Screenings
Scenery: Triangled Creative Screenings

CHALLENGE:

Now that you've seen Rosali do it, "Use Masking with Stencils" to create your own project and link up here by Friday, March 15, 2019, 11:55 p.m. CST to be entered to win $50.00 credit to the w&w shop!  One (1) lucky randomly chosen winner will be picked from each of Rosali's Leading Lady posts this month.

An InLinkz Link-up

November 2018 Release | Premiere Day No. 1

To enter our November 2018 Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.

To enter to win Premiere Day No. 1 featured products...continue reading! 

To enter to win Premiere Day No. 2 Featured Products  CLICK HERE (goes live at 7:00 a.m. CST on November 28, 2018) 

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Today is all about the In a Word series which has a consistent length to all it's big words. We are introducing a new stamp set to the series: In a Word: Thanks stamp set which has the stamp form of In a Word: Thanks Cutaway, an outline of the same word, a new elegant "thanks" and then a handwritten "thanks" along with a few little images and smaller yet still bold supporting words.  We hope you find this set an invaluable part of your crafting arsenal!  Want coordinating cutaways to the stamp set? We've got that too with the In a Word: Thanks Coordinating Cutaways.

We are also coming out with another of our traditional In a Word cutaways: In a Word: Holidays Cutaway, In a Word: Jolly Cutaway and In a Word: Wonder Cutaway.  These dies are so fun and versatile that they will go with any style of crafting and since they are a bit chunkier than our The Big, the Bold series they would be ideal for some shaker projects too. :-)

We also have a new creative screenings aka stencil we are adding to our collection this release.

>>>THE DETAILS<<<

In a Word: Thanks (the stamp set) (was our Black Friday - Cyber Monday Sale free with purchase from 2017)

Available for purchase the evening of November 30, 2018

4x6 stamp set

Retails for $15.00

Includes thirteen (13) stamps--five (5) images + eight (8) words/sentiments

In a Word: Thanks Coordinating Cutaways

Wafer Thin Steel Dies

Available for purchase the evening of November 30, 2018

Each retail for $25.00

Includes eight (8) dies

In a Word: Holidays Cutaway, In a Word: Jolly Cutaway & In a Word: Wonder Cutaway

Wafer Thin Steel Die

Available for purchase the evening of November 30, 2018

In a Word: Holidays Cutaway & In a Word: Wonder Cutaway Retails for $5.00  In a Word: Jolly Cutaway Retails for $10.00

One (1) die each

Scenery: Pennsylvania Polka Creative Screenings

6x6 stencil

Available for purchase the evening of November 30, 2018

Each retail for $4.99

Includes one (1) stencil

>>>THE GOOD STUFF<<<

Let's get to the fun part and see these products in action.

Shay

Happy November everyone!  Finally I got my act together to get another squeeze in another release this year.  I can't thank you enough for your patience.

I am really excited to share what we've created for you this week. :-)

Let's see what I came up for you today:

I have to admit to being on a yellow kick lately and why not use yellow for holiday cards and thank you cards?

Both of these cards use the same ink Distress Oxide in fossilized amber and the new Scenery: Pennsylvania Polka Creative Screenings.  I really love this basic polka dot pattern.

For the first card I used the stencil, ink and ink blending tool on a A2 white cardstock panel (I used the inked stencil for my second card, but I will explain that later).  On another panel I stamped the "thanks" from In a Word: Thanks (the stamp set) Distress Oxide in peacock feather.  I cut the panel down down and added strips of yellow cardstock (to get it to perfectly match I found a pale yellow I then used the same yellow ink and ink blending tool to customize).  I added the thanks panel to the patterned panel with foam dimensional adhesive all attached to a white A2 card base.

Like I mentioned above for my second card, I used the already inked stencil and spritzed it with water before placing the stencil over an A2 panel and running my fingers over the back.  By "stamping" with the stencil each impression is a surprise.

I cut out the In a Word: Wonder Cutaway using a teal cardstock  I then cut out the tag from Tagged: Holiday Cheer Cutaways from pale pink cardstock and cut out the tag hole with the star from the same set.  I stamped the accompanying sentiments in abandoned coral from Tagged: Holiday Cheer on the tag.  I added the yellow embossing floss to the tag.  On the stenciled background I stamped the outline and solid stars from Tagged: Holiday Cheer in abandoned coral and peacock feather.  I flung some gold spray around too because I can't seem to create without it.  I added the tag to the panel with dimensional foam adhesive.

Last I adhered it all to a white card base.  

What do you think so far?

Gayatri, Heather, Kate, Kelly and Lea are joining me today with their amazing cards:

Gayatri Murali of the Talent

CLICK HERE to see more from Gayatri.

Heather Hoffman of The Talent

CLICK HERE to see more from Heather.

Kate Capper of The Talent

CLICK HERE to see more from Kate.

Kelly Griglione of The Talent

CLICK HERE to see more from Kelly.

Lea Lawson of The Talent

CLICK HERE to see more from Lea (will be live later in the day).

>>>THE GIVEAWAY<<<

Comment here on this post for a chance to win In a Word: Thanks stamp set + In a Word: Holidays Cutaway + In a Word: Jolly Cutaway + In a Word: Thanks Coordinating Cutaways + In a Word: Wonder Cutaway + Scenery: Pennsylvania Polka Creative Screenings of your own by 11:59 p.m. (central standard time) November 30, 2018.  One comment will be chosen at random. 

All winners during our November 2018 Release will be announced by December 17, 2018.

To enter our November 2018 Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.