Mama with Vanessa

Hello everybody, Vanessa here to share a Mother's Day card with you today! I have to admit, I didn't have much time for cardmaking lately due to a lot of various festivities with my family. With Mother's Day right around the corner, I needed a card quickly. Now it became handy that I had some pretty watercolor backgrounds I had prepared a while ago lying around!

Preparing backgrounds is a great way of saving time when you need to make a quick card. I like to use watercolors with the ink smooshing technique, to create colorful backgrounds with an ink blending tool or to use the wonderful Winnie & Walter creative screenings.

For today's card, I chose an ink smooshed watercolor panel:

Here I had masked off the edges of the watercolor paper panel with tape and applied Distress Inks mixed with water. I like to dry every color before applying the next one. After the colors were all dried, I stamped the leaves from Framed with Evelyn T Designs and the flowers from In Bloom: Anna's Flora with matching inks and adhered the panel to the card.

Now I stamped the banner from Framed with Evelyn T Designs onto white cardstock and die-cut it with the matching die. I stamped the "Mama" from Parentville Extras (you could win this stamp set by commenting HERE), colored the edge with Copics and adhered it to the card with foam tape. Finally, I added matching sequins.

I hope you like it and that my mother will, too :) Thank you for stopping by today! 

In Bloom: Anna's Flora

Framed with Evelin T Designs

Parentville Extras

Framed with Evelin T Designs Cutaways

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Congratulations with Heather

Good morning! Heather here stopping by to share a card that I put together using some inspiration from a morning devotional I have been doing. I also have had some requests for graduation cards, and while this one isn't super specific to that use, it would work perfectly for it I think! I used In Bloom: Elsa's Florals to build the floral swag on the top combined with a bit of masking, and added a sentiment from Parentville Extras:

Here was my inspiration - I was using it as a lockscreen on my cell phone, so the right side was cut off, and every time I turned my phone on I was looking at this and feeling inspired - so I finally sat down to play, and I'm so glad I did!

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Once I masked and stamped my picture, I used watercolors to color the images in, added a few splatters, and stamped my sentiment. Trimmed the size down slightly, then mounted with foam over a diagonal stripe background pattern paper to help make it pop.

Thanks for stopping by - have a wonderful day!

In Bloom: Elsa's Flora

Parentville Extras

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Bold + Bright | Congratulations with Gayatri

Hi everyone,

This is Gayatri here hijacking Winnie & Walter Blog today. I have another bold and bright card to share. This card uses the Cover Model: Multifacted Cutaway. But first, here is my card.

For my previous card this month, I sponged a white cardstock panel in rainbow colours and die cut using Cover Model: Multifaceted Cutaway. I used the negative triangle die cuts from the die on my card. And I was left with the positive die cut. So for today’s card, I am using that positive die cut. I trimmed off the edges of the Multifacted die cut and adhered on a black card base by applying glue to only the centre of the die cut. I wanted the edges to be raised to give dimension. Love love the contrast of the rainbow colours against the black background. 

For the focal point, I simply stamped the Dahlia flowers and leaves from In Bloom: Addie’s Garden stamp set on white cardstock in black ink and fuzzy cut them out. I clustered and adhered the flowers and leaves on the card front. Black and White flower cluster lets the rainbow colour pop yet adding subtle attention to it. Sentiment is from Parentville Extras stamp set which I simple white heat embossed on black cardstock and adhered. Finally embellished with some gold sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. 

So get more out of your dies by using both the positive and negative die cuts to make two totally different cards.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day!

In Bloom: Addie's Garden

Parentville Extras

Cover Model: Multifaceted Cutaway

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Dapper + Dashing | Father's Day

Good morning! Heather from Houses Built of Cards dropping by this morning to share a simple card for Dad - just in time for Father's Day this Sunday!

I used Winnie and Walter's Parentville Extras, Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant, Bubble Talk, and Scenery: V is for cheVron to make this one layer card. I added some flicks of Heidi Swapp Color Shine in black for a finishing touch.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day! 

Bubble Talk

Parentville Extras

Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant

Scenery: V for cheVron

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Rerun No. 1 | Parentville Extras

Welcome lovelies to our first monthly Rerun!

Each Rerun will provide plenty of inspiration focusing upon a featured product, a month-long sale on the featured product and a challenge.

For our first Rerun we are concentrating on Parentville Extras.  With father's day just around the corner this set should come in handy.  You aren't limited to father's day and mother's day as this set includes sentiments and images that are pretty basic and can work in many different ways.  If you miss the word "mom" and "dad" you may want to add Parentville to your stamp collection.

We (Julie + Shay) and some of the Talent including our Talent in Residence, Heather Hoffman, have taken on the challenge of working with Parentville Extras again.

Julie

Parentville Extras is such a versatile set with its variety of parent names, but also for all of its small sentiments and hearts and stars.  So I pulled from the sentiments and hearts to create this card for a friend of mine that lives so far away.  

The back panels and tags are cut from white cardstock and vellum using Essentials: Audrey Cutaways.  I stamped the white tag with the rose and leaf stamps from In Bloom: Lola’s Bouquet with Joni Andaya  and covered it with the vellum tag to create a softer look. I then stamped and embossed the “missing you” sentiment from Parentville Extras on the vellum tag and adhered the friend die-cut piece from The Big, the Bold and Friends Cutaways.  Once placement of the tag was decided, I stamped the small heart from Parentville Extras in a lighter pink.  I saw my box of stickles and they were begging to be used, so I added Diamond stickles to the friend, hearts and some dots to give this card some sparkle.  

Shay

For Parentville Extras I wanted to show how to use the same design and main stamp set along with some additional items to create two different cards.  One is a father's day card and the other for a friend.

Card No. 1

I wanted to do a father's day card as the day is coming up...of course I could also save this one for a birthday so that is an even better thing.

I did something fun for this card.  I die cut the chain from Goldie Trim Cutaways from a scrap of cork.  I then used some adhesive and attached the cork to an acrylic block and inked it up and stamped with it in Tim Holtz Distress Ink in weathered wood for a nice textured appearance onto the smaller rectangle layer from Essentials: Katharine Cutaways.  Over every other stamped chain I adhered the chain die cut from grey cardstock.

On a strip of grey cardstock I stamped "you're a five star" from Parentville Extras.  On a bold blue piece of cardstock I stamped "pop" from Parentville Extras with Versamark and heat embossed it in silver cutting the right end into a banner.  The pop strip is also the only pop of color.  I adhered the strips onto the cardstock layer.  I also cut out another strip of grey cardstock and adhered it below the pop strip.  On the bottom grey strip I added stars cut from silver, white and grey cardstock using Big Bang Confetti Cutaways. I also added some of the sci-fi star shapes to the background.  I then added the layer to a white card base using foam dimensional adhesive.

Card No. 2

For this card I started with a piece of patterned paper from the Up in the Clouds Collection by Pinkfresh Studio die cut using the smaller rectangle layer from Essentials: Katharine Cutaways.  I die cut the In a Word: Friend Cutaway from yellow-orange cardstock and adhered it to the patterned paper.  I cut out two stripes of white cardstock,  On one I stamped the sentiment from Parentville Extras in Distress Ink in broken china and used die cut stars and sci-fi stars from Big Bang Confetti Cutaways. I adhered the white strips above and below friend.  I added some more sci-fi stars to the background.  Then I adhered the patterned paper panel to a white card base using dimensional foam adhesive.

I hope you found a bit of inspiration and you feel like inking up your stamps.  Speaking of inspiration, wait until you see what Gayatri, Heather P. and Heather Hoffman have made!

The Talent

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1. Create a new project using Parentville Extras (and/or the coordinating cut files).  An alternative to using Parentville Extras (and/or the coordinating cut files) is to create a new project using one of the projects featured in this post as your inspiration.  Make sure you use at least 1 w&w product (this can include a freebie) in your project.  If you choose the alternative, please include in your post or project description which project inspired you and how.
2. Link up your project here by 11:59 p.m. CST on June 30, 2015.  
3. Enter as many times as you want before the deadline.

One project will be randomly chosen to win $20.00 credit to the w&w shop!  Winner will be announced on the Giveaway Winners page.

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Shades of Spring | Whimsical Watercolouring!

Hello folks, Gayatri here today sharing a card using watercolouring technique which anybody can do. I call this whimsical watercolouring because it does not follow any of the watercolour rules nor colour within the lines. But it is easy to do, adds colour to your card to make an impact. Here is my card.

I started with watercolour paper. I stamped the sentiment first. The sentiments are from two different stamp set which I stamped to create on big sentiment. The stamp set these sentiment come from are Parentville and Parentville Extras.

To frame the sentiment I have used the flowers from The Big, the Bold and Extras and The Party stamp sets. I simply stamped them using Archival Jet Black ink because this ink is waterproof. Perfect for watercolouring. Then I chose some bright colours from ZIG Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour and directly coloured on the flowers and leaves randomly. As you can see, I did not colour within the lines. I also spattered the colours on the paper to bring it all together. Watercolours generally dry a bit lighter. So I added one or two layers to get vibrant colours. Once dry, I simply adhered this panel to the card front and embellished with Winnie & Walter sequin mix from Pretty Pink Posh.

Love the simplicity and pop of spring colours on the card. This card is perfect to give my mother on Mother’s Day. Hope you are inspired by this whimsical watercolour technique and give it a try. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Gayatri

w&w supplies used:

Parentville

Parentville Extras

The Big, the Bold and Extras

The Party

1st Birthday Bash Sequins Mix

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Winter Wonderland | Family Fun with Kelly

Hi folks! Kelly Griglione here, and I'd like to share some fun projects from our family Christmas party this weekend. The first one is a present for my Aunt whom I'm very thankful for, as she does a great job keeping our extended family so close. It's an 8x10 canvas photo of all the cousins together this summer (Winkflash is having a $5 sale on these through Jan 31, although you do pay an additional $10 for shipping).

  

I thought of the canvas more like a scrapbook page and added details to it, like the scattered clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

In the corner I die cut "family" from The Big, the Bold and Blessings Cutaways and used the sentiment from A Tree For All Seasons, except I did not ink the "I" in the beginning of "I will always be there for you." I use the wood grain hearts from Parentville Extras so often to add a little something "extra". 

  

To dress up the sides of the canvas I adhered 1/2 inch strips of patterned paper. Here's where you can tie the canvas in with your decor if the colors in your photo don't seem to match the space you'll be displaying it in.

 Before wrapping it up, I added a personal message with a white gel pen to the back of the canvas. I also went back and added the date with staz-on ink to the front. Aunt Cindy really seemed to enjoy it! I mean, how could she not ... it was a photo of all her grandkids, after all!

The next project is one of the Minute-To-Win-It games we played. This game is throwing the most peppermint marshmallows into a Christmas tin.

I got the plain green tins from Dollar Tree and dressed them up with some left-over red velvet ribbon. The "Merry Christmas Family" is die cut with The Big, the Bold and Blessings Cutaways in silver glitter paper. The peppermint candies are stamped withMini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone and punched with a 2" circle punch. Clear cellophane is wrapped around each one.

I was excited how the peppermint candies on the tins tie in with the mini peppermint marshmallows that are thrown into the tins!

We had four teams. Each team picked a contestant for each game. Here are the four peppermint marshmallow throwers.

And here they are throwing into the tins on the table. You can see my oldest son lying on the floor in front of the table with his mouth open. I think he was trying to catch any stray peppermint marshmallows (they're pretty tasty!) Boy was it LOUD. The contestants had a lot of cheerleaders rooting for them!

One team tried helping by being a human backboard, hoping the marshmallows would bounce into the tin. It was awesome seeing everyone get into the games! 

   

We'll definitely be doing these again next year! I've got photos of the other Family Christmas Party Games we played on my blog. Aside from having a blast and laughing so hard that my face hurt, I was happy to get more uses out of my paper crafting supplies : )

w&w supplies:

A Tree For All Seasons	Mini Scenery: The Peppermint Zone	Parentville Extras	The Big, the Bold and Blessings Cutaways
The Big, the Bold and the Merry Cutaways

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