Rerun No. 35 | Scenery: V for cheVron -- Christmas Patterns with Crystal (Video)

Happy day lovelies!

 

To inspire you further to participate in this month's Rerun Crystal has these Christmas cards and video!!

Love Crystal's festive cards and I hope you do too!

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.

June Leading Lady Crystal Thompson | Take One

Today is the first Saturday of June which means the debut of our June Leading Lady, Crystal Thompson!  

This past January I had the privilege of hanging out with some of the amazing ladies from the Talent including meeting Heather's friend, Crystal.  Then, I recalled a lovely card Crystal had made for a challenge in particular because she had used Heather's photography set up (you know how you can identify some people's cards by the styling, right?) and connected the card with the crafter.  Crystal immediately made such a wonderful impression as being someone passionate about papercrafting and being a fabulous person.  Her work has a clean and simple vibe with thoughtful touches and just a perfect dash of the dramatic.  You may have seen her work recently as a guest for Pretty Pink Posh for their March Release or on Butterfly Reflections, Ink.'s blog.  Not only does she craft, but she has also designed stamp sets with Joy Clair too like this darling set HERE!

This month she will be taking us all on a creative journey of her own design sure to leave us inspired.  Crystal has some other inspiration planned throughout the month elsewhere so make sure you follow her on Instagram and Facebook too!

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

 

Hi there! First of all, thank you so much for spending your Saturday here with us. My name is Crystal and I am honored to be Winnie and Walter's June Leading Lady. I been working hard this past month creating a few cards with the wonderful Spring release.

Before I show you my first project, I'd like to tell you a bit about me. I am a stay at home mom and wife of 4 kids, 2 Labradors and 1 kitten. Our littlest bundle of joy was born in April, so between diaper changes and chasing toddlers I create cards and share them on my blog (www.crystal-thompson.com). I have been a longtime fan of Winnie and Walter and in January, I had the pleasure of meeting Shay at CHA in Phoenix. Our friendship was instantaneous and I absolutely love her zest for anything crafty plus she is super fun.

Shay, Shimelle Laine, Yours Truly, and Heather Hoffman 

Enough about our adventures, here is my first project.

I wanted to create something simple and elegant, perfect for the post Mother's Day gifting without using any dies. Just stamping and layering. First I used the grateful sentiment from The Big, the Bold and Blessings stamped over and over in black ink on the card base. Next, I trimmed the white card stock to fit 1/4 of the card base and stamped the leaves from In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet with Joni Andaya . Then, I stamped the sentiment from The Bid, the Bold and Blessings on the card front. 

The pink card stock was then adhered to the card front, then glued over the card base. On a separate sheet of card stock, I stamped more leaves and flowers from In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet and fuzzy cut those to be placed over the stamped leaves on the card front. 

This card can be replicated with different sentiments and color schemes. I love how simple it was to make, and the flowers really are the focal point.

Giveaway:

Now, as your June Leading Lady, I been given a $30 gift certificate to pass on to you. All you have to do is comment on my Winnie & Walter posts on my blog! At the end of the month, I will draw a name from the comments! I will be posting every Saturday, so if you comment on each post you have 4x the chances of winning.

That is all for now, hope you join me next Saturday for another card!  Have a fabulous week.

Crystal 

In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet with Joni Andaya

The Big, the Bold and Blessings

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STAMPtember

As you probably know September means STAMPtember for our friends at Simon Says Stamp.  Heather Hoffman is up on the Simon Says Stamp Blog today for their special feature on w&w with a quartet of gorgeous cards.



You will also find a special 15% coupon code for all w&w products at Simon Says Stamp.

Happy STAMPtember,
Shay.

February Leading Lady Kate Capper | Take One

Today we are chuffed to introduce our February Leading Lady, Kate Capper.   Kate has been a stalwart w&w fan whose projects have caught our attention and heart!  She has incredible coloring skills, an ability to be innovative and clever and a wondrous way with stamps and dies.  We just love this talented gal and can't wait for you to see her shine like the dazzling star she is!   

Over the next few Saturdays in February Kate will be leading us on a journey of her own design and imagining.  Make sure to visit her blog, Just Kate Crafting, to see more from her and for a chance to win a giveaway!    

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

Hello.

I am so excited to be Winnie and Walters leading lady for February.

Being a big fan of Winnie and Walter products I'm in heaven getting to make stuff  and share it with you.

I had lots of plans about what i wanted to do ...and you know what they say about plans lol.

I received the new January release stamps and just played, this is the result. 

I stamped the bear from Stampets: The Gift and coloured with copics before fussy cutting.

I wanted a soft clean and simple feel to the card so used a light  colour inks to stamp the border from Scenery:party hangover and the circle of sparkles from the Sparkle set.

The sentiment is stamped in black archival ink.

To finish the bear was adhered using foam tape and i added some sequins and some pink liquid pearls.

I also made a matching tag which will be perfect for when i wrap up the gifts.

I have another baby card but with a different look.

Originally i wanted this card one layer so i masked the bear so that everything was on one level.

The cupcake is from Sugar Rush and the gift box is from The Party, these are super fun sets and i cant wait to play more with them.

This time i have coloured with prisma color pencils, they give a different feel than copics, i think it looks a bit more vintage.

Once everything was coloured i masked all the images and used the same stamp from Scenery: The Party Hangover to create some pattern behind everything.

I layered the front panel onto a die cut that i coloured using the Scenery: Classic Diagonal Creative Screening before adhering to my card base.

Again i have made a matching tag but with less layers this time.

I love that you can mix and match any of the stamps from Winnie and Walter for so many occasions.

Julie and Shay have very kindly given me $30 gift card to the Winnie and Walter store to give away on my blog, 

I would love it if you stopped by ...and if you leave a comment you will be entered into the draw for the gift card.

I look forward to being here again for my second act .

Thanks so much for looking

w&w supplies:

Scenery: The Party Hangover

Stampets: The Gift

Sugar Rush

The Party

Scenery: Classic Diagonal Creative Screenings

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WCMD 2014 | Sketched with Julie

Hello w&w Family!  What an amazing day so far - the inspiration is out of this world :)  We hope you are having a great day today and having fun getting your craft on! I'm hosting one of my favorite types of challenges - SKETCH!  As a card maker / scrapbooker, I feel like I need a plan before I begin my projects, and a sketch is super helpful to me.  This sketch has a lot of elements, but can be deconstructed and include / exclude parts to fit your needs.  Let's take a look at the sketch for WCMD.

If you can't tell, I love circles and love to use them in my sketches.  I also added a curved line at the bottom left corner.  This is because I'm totally hooked on my new curved stitched border die from Pretty Pink Posh.  You can use any method of your choosing to create the curved corner of the card that you choose, but I really love the look the stitched border gives to both of these cards that I've created. 

Card No. 1

This card is really inspired by the recent season change - but I hope the temperatures catch up soon - still pretty warm here in San Antonio.  The card base leaf pattern was created from the A Tree for All Seasons Digital Elements using the leaf card cut on my Silhouette and used as a stencil.  I sponged metallic inks in gold, copper and bronze - super easy.  I love how they look with a soft metallic sheen, but the camera isn't picking that up entirely.  I chose a vibrant shade of blue to contrast the various shades of browns and golden tones which I think really sets everything off.

The tree and leaf cut outs are also from the A Tree for All Seasons Digital Elements and were inked up with more metallic ink and popped up with foam tape. I just drew a few leaf veins to give them a little interest. The circle is 3 spray inks with metallic powders on a manilla tag, and then die cut.   The gold glitter tape works great for the strip behind and gives it a little bit of fun sparkle.  I finished off the sketch using some brown pearls (shown in first picture) and the sentiment from This Awesome House stamp set, which I gave a gentle curve to follow the curved paper.

Card No. 2

On this card, I deconstructed the sketch a little, leaving off several of the extra circles around the focal image.  The card set up started very much the same way as the first - creating a patterned card base.  This one is simply various holiday / winter words from The Big, the Bold and Seasons and  The Big, the Bold and Blessings, stamped in white craft ink (Stampin' Up!) on a kraft card base.  The top panel is also craft, but I used the same white craft ink and sponged it all along the curved edge to look frosty, and to stand out above the bottom kraft panel.



I wanted to create a snowfall look, but instead of grabbing my Big Bang Confetti stamp, I grabbed my new confetti stencil (yep - one of our new stencils! - don't you love a sneak peek?) and used it with some light molding paste to create a snowfall backdrop.  Check out the dimension!  Love that!!!!

The circle focal section got the addition of a white layer to also set it off from the back ground and a couple of trees using a couple of the designs from Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant stamped and embossed in white on red cardstock, and trimmed very close.  This way, the trees look white as if with snow, and the red shows up as decorations on the trees. I used the same method to stamp the winter message and snowflake from The Big, the Bold and Seasons.  The red seam binding makes a perfect addition to the card to carry the red throughout the card.  Red or white/clear sequins or gems could also have been added, but I liked leaving out a few of the elements since the snow had some fun dimension.  Glitter could also be added to the snow for some added sparkle.

I hope you have a great time today crafting your little heart out jamming out to your favorite music (like I am right now  *wink*) or crafting with your friends and family.  If you can't join in on the fun today, you can still post your projects throughout the week until next Saturday, October 11, 2014 at 11:55 p.m. You may enter all of the challenges as many times as you like with new cards for each entry.  The sketch challenge prize - a gift card to Studio Calico!!  Totally great!  I can't wait to see your take on the sketch!

*hugs*

Julie

Prize: $25.00 Gift Card to Studio Calico.

Enter the Challenge:

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w&w supplies:

Scenery: Big Bang Confetti	Scenery: It's a Wonderful Pennant	This Awesome House	The Big, the Bold and Seasons
A Tree for All Seasons Digital Elements

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Scrapbooking + Cardmaking with Latrice Murphy | No. 2

We are so pleased that the gifted Latrice Murphy is featuring our products on her blog again today by using them for both cardmaking + scrapbooking.  We simply love when stamping is integrated into memory keeping.  Don't you?

CLICK HERE to see her first post using Scenery: V for cheVron in a lovely layout and graphic card.

We've got a sneak of today's project:

CLICK HERE to visit her blog to learn more, see a video (and bonus layout) and for a giveaway. :-)


w&w supplies:

The Big, the Bold and Blessings

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