Home | Sparkle & Shine Challenge with Vanessa

Hi everyone! Vanessa here with a card for the monthly theme of November: home. I love the new release so much and couldn't stop creating with it, so I used my new stamps and dies to create a card for the current Sparkle & Shine Challenge sponsored by Winnie & Walter! The challenge started yesterday and the winner will receive a 25$ gift card from Winnie & Walter. This is the inspiration photo for this challenge:

Perfect, isn't it? So many possibilities! I chose to be inspired by the chevron pattern and the leaves:

I started with a panel of chevron patterned paper that I trimmed to be slightly smaller than my card base. I applied gold ink splatters to it and adhered it to the card. Then I die-cut the In a Word: Home Cutaway from gold foiled cardstock and adhered it. Now I stamped and heat-embossed the leaves from In Bloom: Renee's Leaves onto watercolor paper. Using Distress Inks and water, I colored the leaves. Then I cut them out and adhered them to the card with foam tape. To finish the card off, I added gold sequins. 

I hope you like today's project! Find the Sparkle & Shine Challenge here, I would love to see your take on the inspiration photo!

Thank you for stopping by today!

Vanessa

In Bloom: Renee's Leaves

In a Word: Home Cutaway

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Wanting to Win w&w Goodies?

Perhaps your w&w wishlist is a bit long or just your crafting wishlist in general is too long (ours surely are!).

We have several opportunities to win some credit to the w&w shop:

1. Rerun No. 1 (open until June 30, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. CST)
2. The Gossip Column with Taheerah Atchia No. 3 | Interview with an A-Lister (open until next Monday, June 29, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. CST)
3. Sparkle and Shine Challenge (open for only a few more hours)
4. Comment on a post by June Leading Lady, Charlene Cundy on her Leading Lady blog posts this month on her blog!

Don't miss a chance to join in on these fun and inspiring challenges right now for a chance to win some w&w shop credit!!

Don't forget if you like to learn something and join in with what you learned, please try In Focus with Gayatri!

March Leading Lady Amy Tsuruta | Take Three

Our March Leading Lady, Amy Tsuruta, is back for her thrilling third performance!  If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or her second kraftacular performance CLICK HERE.  

Today Amy, like any great performer, succeeds in dazzling us with her versatility and command of her craft :-)....

...and I'm back!  It's Amy and I'm back with Take Three!

Let's get started, shall we?!

Here's a peek at all three of my projects today:

Today's theme:  One Sketch ● Three different Ways

I was thrilled to see Winnie & Walter sponsoring AND playing along with the

Sparkle & Shine Challenge

I'm a sketch junkie so I thought it would be fun to work on three different projects inspired by the same sketch....for a twist, I used the same 6x6 paper pad, Pink Paislee's Bella Rouge.

Each project has it's own different look, lets start with the Happy Birthday shaker!

I made a tag shaker that is filled with heart shaped wood veneer along with some of the 1st Birthday Bash Sequins Mix!

The happy has been stamped on vellum and the birthday on a tab of black cardstock.  They are both from The Big, the Bold and the Happy.

The polka dot panel base has been separated by one of the images from Scenery:  Stripes.  I'm loving the boldness of the black heat embossing.

Next up is an altered hinged tin:

Can you see the fun Goldie Trim Cutaways?  I used white craft foam...love that stuff!  The tag is from Essentials:  Katharine Cutaways.  I shortened up the tag by using zig zag border cutaway.  The sentiment, from The Big, the Bold and the Happy, has been heat embossed with silver embossing powder.  I added pops of color by using the pink sequins in the 1st Birthday Bash Sequins Mix.

Inside the tin is a glassine bag filled with mint M&M's, makes for a great little giftie!

My last card for today uses Sugar Rush!

I heat embossed the cupcake and the banner in gold embossing powder and colored everything in various shades of pink and fuchia.  The tag from Essentials:  Katharine Cutaways, has been cut in a newsprint patterned paper.  You can see the text through the copics which adds to the fun!  I'm loving how the 'cupcake greetings' seems to pop!  It has been heat embossed in black.  The cupcake has been sprinkled with sequins from the 1st Birthday Bash Sequin Mix.

That's it for me today but before you go, Julie & Shay have kindly given me a $30 Winnie & Walter Gift card to give-a-way!  I'm going to do a random draw on the comments that are left on the Saturday Leading Lady posts here, on the Winnie & Walter blog!  

Make sure you swing by my blog because I'm going to be giving away another $30 Winnie & Walter Gift card {I'm matching Julie & Shay's!}.  It'll work the same way, leave comments on the Winnie & Walter Saturday posts on my personal blog for the month of March and I'll do a random draw for one lucky winner!

w&w supplies used:

Scenery: Stripes	Sugar Rush	The Big, the Bold and Party	The Big, the Bold, and the Happy	Essentials: Katharine Cutaways	Goldie Trim Cutaways
1st Birthday Bash Sequins Mix

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Sparkle and Shine Challenge's 1st Sketch Challenge

We are so excited to be participating in the very first sketch challenge over at Sparkle and Shine Challenge headed by the lovely Angel Johns and Laurel Beard.  They also have an amazing design team!  This is also the first of many monthly challenges we will be sponsoring with Sparkle and Shine Challenge.

Angel and Laurel invited us to play along with this sketch:

I (Shay) joined in the fun and I made this card based upon the sketch.  

I went with a loose interpretation of the sketch.  By stamping the stripes from Scenery: Stripes in falling star (yellow) and fairy dust (grey) from WPlus9 (my first purchase of their ink and certainly not my last!) on the smaller rectangle panel from Essentials: Katharine Cutaways I took on the diagonal shown in the sketch.

Next I stamped the solid open center rose from The Big, the Bold and Extras 3 times in the same yellow and then stamped over the outline and center with mustard seed Tim Holtz Distress Ink by Ranger before cutting them out (I had to play with The Big, the Bold and Extras after seeing all the gorgeous projects everyone has been making with them lately).  I stamped the solid two leaves in the same grey as the stripes and stamped the outline in charcoal Mid-Tone Shadow Ink by Hero Arts 3 times before cutting them out.  I placed them on the stripe panel and adhered them down to mimic the circle in the sketch.

I die cut thanks from The Big, the Bold and You Cutaways out of grey cardstock and adhered it down (I shortened the tail a bit).  I adhered the stripe panel with dimensional foam adhesive onto a grey card base.  Last, I adhered sparkling clear sequins by Pretty Pink Posh (of course!).

We hope you will take on the sketch and link it up on the Sparkle and Shine Challenge!


w&w supplies used:

Scenery: Stripes

The Big, the Bold and Extras

Essentials: Katharine Cutaways

The Big, the Bold and You Cutaways

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Spotlight On...Angel Johns!

We are proud to bring you our next Spotlight On...Angel Johns!  She's been so enthusiastic about w&w and has shared her delightful projects with us from the moment she started inking them up! :-)  We will also be a monthly sponsor of her awesome new challenge, Sparkle and Shine Challenge, beginning in March 2015 that she and our talented friend, Laurel Beard, founded which focuses on using one of our most beloved embellishments: sequins!  

We are so grateful for Angel's support and all of the love for w&w she expresses through her sensational crafting, social media and asking us to sponsor her challenge alongside one of our very favorite companies, Pretty Pink Posh!  

Get ready to see Angel shine....

>>>ABOUT ANGEL<<<

Hello! I am so excited to be here and featured by Winnie & Walter. 

Before I get to the projects that I have made thought I would tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Angel. I am a wife to Chris and a mom to Caleb (14) and Noah (4). All of my boys keep me on my toes every single day. We live in Cumming, Ga which is very north of Atlanta. We moved from Jacksonville, Fl about 6 years ago and enjoy the change in seasons! 

I started scrapbooking back in high school and continued to do it very consistently until my oldest was about 6. I had so much to do since I was a new mom and it there was always something to scrapbook. I was introduced to card making while working at a scrapbook store in Jacksonville and haven't looked back yet. I really want to get back to scrapbooking as my boys and I love to go back and look at the older books. Documenting memories of your life are priceless. 

I am so happy that I found Winnie and Walter products just a few short months ago. They have made my card making so much more fun and I am so excited to be a part of their family today! 

>>>ANGEL'S PROJECTS<<<

For my projects I went with one of my favorite dies from the new release and even though it s a small one there is so much that can be done with it. For these two cards, I am showcasing the In a Word: Happy Cutaway in two totally different ways. 

The first card is using water colors which is one of my favorite techniques right now. 

Both of the panels were cut with the new Essentials: Katharine Cutaways that have fabulous die cuts! The top panel is water colored using my Gansai watercolors that have the most fabulous colors ever! 

After I finished the water coloring, I dried it using my heat tool. I wanted to have a fun design on either side of the panel to draw your eye to the middle.

I went with the string of dots from the new Scenery: Stripes stamp set that is just awesome! I heat embossed it using white embossing powder for an extra pop. I die cut the word happy 5 times and glued them together to give extra dimension. The "so with you" stamps were pieced together by a few of the Big & Bold sets also from Winnie & Walter and also heat embossed in white. 

I popped up the water color piece on foam tape for extra added dimension. It's a different type of card for me but after staring at it for a few minutes I decided that I really like it. 

My next card is completely different but I love it all the same. 

This is a very bright and cheery card using the Scenery: Stripes, Essentials: Katharine Cutaways and In a Word: Happy Cutaway. I love the pop of white against all of the colors going on around the card. 

The sequins that I used to sprinkle around the card were specially made for Winnie & Walter from Pretty Pink Posh. The colors are scrumptious! 

I hope that you have enjoyed these projects today and maybe have given you some inspiration. These products are so much fun to use and help you achieve some amazing cards. Thanks so much for stopping by. 

I am so honored that Julie & Shay allowed me to be a part of their blog and shine the spotlight on me. You can visit my blog at www.mywholestampinworld.com to see more projects. 

Thank you!

w&w supplies used:

Scenery: Stripes

The Big, the Bold, and the Happy

The Big, the Bold and You

The Party

Essentials: Katharine Cutaways

In a Word: Happy Cutaway

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