Brutus Monroe + Winnie & Walter Collaboration Week | Day 2

Hello there lovelies!

It's Shay here today with a card I created using Brutus Monroe's Simple Blend - Circle and some w&w products.  I love simple tools that give you a lot of possibilities which these Simple Blend stencils do.  I actually used the circle mask that comes in the set.

 

I masked off the circle and then placed the Scenery: Classic Diagonal Creative Screenings over it and blended in some Distress Oxide inks in blues and greens. (salty ocean, broken china, peacock feathers, cracked pistachio and lucky clover).  Then I used the circle wreath in Comfort + Joy and stamped salty ocean and lucky clover around the edge of the circle mask.  I then die cut In a Word: Celebrate Cutaway 3 times in blue and green cardstock and adhered then over the circle.

 

Fun and easy, right?  I also love that you can give this to a guy or a gal of nearly any age.

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w&w 4th Birthday Bash | Four Challenge with Shay

Hello fellow party goers!  It's Shay here.  I am so excited to bring you my challenge.  To commemorate our 4th birthday I am following up on my One Challenge from our first year and Two Challenge from our second year and Three Challenge from last year.  This year it is the Four Challenge!

>>>CHALLENGE DETAILS<<<

Make a new project using the number 4 or four, four colors, four patterns, four layers, four embellishments, four photos, four words or four stamp sets (and so on)...really anyway to incorporate four into your project!  You can focus on a single option or combine the options (for instance a four layer card using four colors + four embellishments).

>>>MY PROJECT<<<

 

I began with a background I had created some time ago using mixed medium and distress ink along with Scenery: Classic Diagonal Creative Screenings.  When I have a little time to play I create backgrounds and I find having some background panels sitting awaiting me whenever I need them really a great jumping off point and time saver.

 

I pulled out 4 colors (first use of the number 4) from the background and cut In a Word: Happy Cutaway from each of the cardstock colors so I have 4 happy's (4 again).  I adhered the four happy's to the background panel.  I also cut out the handwritten "happy" from In a Word: Happy Coordinating Cutaways from the 4 same colors and adhered 2 of them to fill in some of the space on the background.  Next I cut out the birthday tile from In a Word: Birthday Tiles Cutaways 3 times out of white cardstock with the last not cutting the "birthday" all the way through.  I glued the fully cutout tiles on top of the one that did not cut out fully.  I adhered the birthday tile to the panel.  Then I filled in the open area of the "birthday" with Nuvo Crystal Drops for some shine and interest.

Last I added 3 greenish enamel dots to the top panel and 3 purple enamel dots to the bottom of the panel and added a white puffy star to the white panel so that there are 4 embellishments on top including the white star and 4 embellishments on the bottom of the card including the white star (4 again!)

Now it is your turn to link up your Four Challenge project!

>>>GIVEAWAY<<<

Link up your take on this challenge for a chance to win a $75.00 gift card (gift code) to the w&w shop.  One random winner will be chosen.

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