May Color Combo with Heather (Challenge)

Good morning! Heather here stopping by this morning to share a new Color Combo Challenge with you!

Here is my color inspiration for this month - coming from a beautiful photo I found on Pinterest! To me it looked like an ink blended background - so that is the direction I went on my sample card. Can't wait to see how you all interpret it!

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I masked off the bottom of a panel of white cardstock, then blended 3 colors of distress inks over the top portion: Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon, and Seedless Preserves!

I also added some white splatters, then peeled off the masking tape at the bottom. Since it looked like a night sky, I colored up the adorable kitties from Purrfect with Evelin T Designs in simple Warm Gray Copic shades, and die cut them with the coordinating dies. The sentiment is a combination of Wishing You with Evelin T Designs and In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals, with part of the sentiment heat embossed on a strip of black cardstock and popped up with foam adhesive. I also popped the kitties up with foam adhesive.

Finished off with a simple white frame cut with Essentials: Audrey Cutaways - one of my favorite scallop frame dies! I trimmed my inked panel small enough to layer over the top of it, then popped the entire thing on a dark gray cardbase.

Now - I have a few favorites from the last Color Challenge to feature! I loved seeing everyone's take on the neutral colors - such a fun and different style of cards!

First up - this STUNNING card by Rosali! Perfect use of neutrals - and could that little bird be any cuter?!?!?

Next up, an amazing use of super bright and soft neutrals - mostly white by Rahmat! It is hard to make a card with this much white, but she nailed it with all those lovely layers and textures - bravo!!!

Then we have this amazing card from Shona Chambers - THUD! Am I right? Elegant perfection right here folks! Beautiful work!

<<<RANDOM WINNER>>>

No. 13 | Helen F.

Helen's card is classy and sophisticated and makes great use of texture and layers to add dimension, interest and shimmer.

Helen, please email us at info {at} winniewalter {dot} com with the subject "April Color Combo Challenge Winner" to claim your prize.

>>>CHALLENGE<<<

New challenge will post on the second Monday of each Month, and will end on the Friday before the next challenge begins to allow time to pick a winner and some favorite entries to feature.

Now it's your turn to play along!

1. Create a new project using the May Color Combo. 
2. Use at least one (1) winnie & walter product.  This can include Cutaways (dies), Creative Screenings (stencils/masks), printable/digital items, cut files and/or stamp sets.  Remember we offer freebies in our shop.  Our freebies can be used to create your project(s) for this challenge.
3. Link up your project below using the InLinkz Link-up by 11:55 p.m. CST on Friday, June 7, 2019.  
4. Enter as many times as you want before the deadline.
5. This May Color Combo Challenge may be combined with other challenges found here on the w&w blog or elsewhere. 

One randomly selected entry will receive a $25 gift certificate to Winnie and Walter. YAY!!! I can't wait to see your entries! 

Thanks for stopping by - have a wonderful day!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

January Leading Lady Greta Hess | Take One

Happy New Year!  It's an exciting day as I get to introduce you to our January Leading Lady Greta Hess!  Greta has been catching my month after month with her fabulous and cleverly designed cards she's submitted to our challenges and I can't wait to see what she will do this month.

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

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

I'm so excited to be Winnie & Walter's Leading Lady for January 2019!  This is a huge honor I truly never expected.  Thank you so much, Shay! Each Saturday this month I get to take over the Winnie and Walter Blog.  Hope you'll check it out & leave a comment.  Hopefully you'll find some inspiration in my projects AND you have a chance to win a $30 gift certificate to the Winnie and Walter store!

I'll do a random drawing of all the comments left on my blog's Winnie & Walter Leading Lady posts. My love of Winnie & Walter products began a couple years ago when a friend sent me In a Word: Hello Cutaway.  I thought it only fitting to begin with a post focusing on this wonderfully versatile die. For my first card I randomly stamped a solid leaf image from A Tree for All Seasons in 2 green inks.  Then I stamped the matching lined image in brown ink purposely not lining it up exactly.

The panel was die cut with a rectangle from Essentials: Tilda Cutaways.  I love the fun edge plus the pierced border.  The word was die cut from the panel being careful to save the little bits which were glued in place after the panel was attached to a brown card front.

I stamped the little word from The Big, the Bold & the Happy in brown ink, trimmed it into a strip, matted it with brown cardstock & attached it with foam tape.  I didn't add any embellishments so this card could go to a guy or a gal. Next up is a birthday card that lets the hello die be the star of the show, thanks to the new Scenery: Pennsylvania Polka Creative Screenings.  I used 6 Distress Oxide inks, moving the stencil before going to each new color.  Doesn't it give a fun confetti look?

I stacked the die 3 high before attaching it to a white textured panel.  The little sentiment words from The Big, the Bold & the Happy were white embossed on black cardstock & trimmed into strips.  I love the look of adding them right on top of the large die cut word.  Black & white twine was tied into a bow before adding the panel to a black card front. I have one more card for you and this one is floral and feminine--a favorite for me & hopefully you like it, too.  I stamped a wreath using flowers from In Bloom: Eva's Favorite Flowers along with leaves and dots from In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez in pastel inks.

The hello die was cut from the center of the panel, stacked 3 high, brushed with shimmer & glued in place.  The larger, blocky font of this die is perfect for the hidden die cut technique as it doesn't totally disappear.

I darkened the photo so you can get an idea of the shimmer on the hello die cut.  Some little white dots are added for embellishment and the panel is attached to a dark gray card front. Now you can see why I love the In a Word: Hello Cutaway and hopefully you've gotten some inspiration for your own crafting.  I'll be back with another Winnie & Walter post next Saturday.

Rerun No. 36 | In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez with Crystal (Video)

Happy Monday loverlies!

There is still time to participate in our latest Rerun challenge featuring In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez!  

To help inspire you Crystal has two cards and videos for you today!

Card No. 1: Dry Embossing

Card No. 2 Stamped Christmas Wreath

What beautiful cards, right?

Remember you still have time to play along with the challenge and/or enter to win this stamp set.  All the details can be found HERE!

Have an incredible day!

Shay.

The 25 Days of Christmas Tags

Hello loverlies!  It is Shay here today with a very fun post.

Tracey McNeely has a wonderful event called The 25 Days of Christmas Tags in which for 25 days she features Christmas tags.  There are lots of guests and giveaways along the way!

One of the first things I learned to stamp was tags so this is near and dear to my heart.

As I mentioned in our Rerun post this month featuring for In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez, when I have several projects to work on at once I like to use the same materials and see where that leads me.   

I actually began by stamping on a manila tag using In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez with abandoned coral, fossilized amber and cracked pistachio Oxide Distress Inks and black jack along with flicking some gold spray.  I stamped "joy" onto a manila tag and cut it out using the coordinating cutaway and adhered it to the tag using foam dimensional adhesive. 



This tag inspired me to create the same background with the stamp set and I used abandoned coral, fossilized amber and cracked pistachio Oxide Distress Inks and black jack along with flicking some gold spray on a piece of white cardstock. 

 

On a couple of larger manila shipping tags in black jack I stamped the solid woodgrain from Scenery: Into the Woods and then adhered a strip of the stamped background to the bottom of the tag and then also added a scalloped border cut using Georgette Border Cutaways over the seem.  Lastly, I stamped the sentiment from Sentimental: Winter in cracked pistachio.  

 

Hope you get inspired to make some tags!

Kelly has an awesome tag for you HERE.

Don't forget to visit Tracey's blog HERE to get more details, inspiration and enter tons of giveaways including one from w&w!

Happy tag making,
Shay

Rerun No. 36 | In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez (Challenge + Giveaway + Sale + Video!) + Winners of Rerun No. 35

Hello lovelies!  Welcome to our monthly Rerun post!  First, we are going to announce winners from last month's Rerun No. 35 | Scenery: V for cheVron.

We had such lovely entries and Mr. Random chose this challenge entry to win a $25.00 credit to the w&w shop:

No. 6 | Izzy Scrap

Thank you for all your kind comments as well!  The winner of the Scenery: V for cheVron stamp set is:

No. 23 | Leanne

Congrats Izzy Scrap and Leanne!   Please email us at info {at} winniewalter {dot} com.  Leanne, I will additionally need your mailing address.

Now on to this month's Rerun!

Each Rerun will provide plenty of inspiration focusing upon a featured product, a month-long sale on the featured product and a challenge (with a prize!) and giveaway.  You will not want to miss out!

For our thirty-sixth Rerun we are concentrating on In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez. This set has beautiful and delicate blooms and fruit along with sentiments to create wreaths, decorate sentiments and other projects for the holidays and all year round!

Now on to the cards!

Shay 

Happy November!  Are you ready for some holiday cards?

I love this set because you can create a simple and dramatic card in a few minutes.  When I have a couple projects to do I find going with the same supplies and using them in different ways not only makes the projects easier (check back Sunday for the other project), but I enjoy it more.  This stamp set is really a lovely set to use in all sorts of ways especially as backgrounds.  I created a background with the stamp set and I used abandoned coral, fossilized amber and cracked pistachio Oxide Distress Inks and black jack along with flicking some gold spray.



I decided to cut some strips from the background I created to make 2 similar, but different cards.  This is a way to make lots of holiday cards and also change it up a little.

For the first card I cut a smaller strip of the background and attached it to a white A2 card base with dimensional foam adhesive that I stamped with the lined stripe from Scenery: Stripes in grey.  Last I stamped the sentiment from Sentimental: Winter in coral ink.



The second card I cut a wider strip and attached the scallop cut from In a Word: Holiday Titles Cutaways before attaching to the A2 white card base.  Last I added the sentiment from Sentimental: Winter in coral ink.

 

That's it from me...wait until you see what Crystal, Gayatri, Heather and Kelly did with In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez ...so amazing!

>>>THE TALENT<<<

VIDEOS:

We will be sharing the rest of the videos for Crystal's gorgeous card above later this month!

CLICK HERE to see more from Gayatri.

 CLICK HERE to see more from Heather.

 CLICK HERE to see more from Kelly.

>>>CHALLENGE<<<

Now it's your turn to play along with Rerun!

1. Create a new project using In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez (or In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez Cutaways).  An alternative to using In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez is to create a new project using one of the projects featured in this post (or any Rerun post throughout November by The Talent) as your inspiration.  Make sure you use at least one (1) w&w product (this can include a freebie found in the w&w shop) in your project.  If you choose the alternative to using In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez, please include in your post or project description which project inspired you and how.
2. Link up your project here by 11:55 p.m. CST on December 7, 2018.  
3. Enter as many times as you want before the deadline.
4. This Rerun Challenge may be combined with other challenges found here on the w&w blog or elsewhere.

One project will be randomly chosen to win $25.00 credit to the w&w shop!  The winner will be announced on the w&w blog in December. 

An InLinkz Link-up

>>>GIVEAWAY<<<

Please comment on this post (make sure to include your email address in your comment--if you have to add your email address to your comment please do so by replying to your original comment) by 11:59 p.m. CST on December 7, 2018 for a chance to win your very own In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez stamp set!