New The Big Giveaway Winner {Third Release} + Playdate No. 2 | Shay's Take

Hello it's Shay here a bit later than I would have hoped...technology is sometimes so fickle! lol

Anyway, I am here with a public service announcement--the good kind and to share a very simple card of mine.

>>>THE ANNOUNCEMENT<<<

The original winner of the Third Release The Big Giveaway never claimed their prize so we are drawing another winner.

The winner of the The Big Giveaway is:

Jenny!



Jenny, please contact us at info{at}winniewalter{dot}com with the subject "Third Release The Big Giveaway Winner" along with your name and mailing address as soon as possible and we will get your prize out to you!

>>>THE CARD<<<

Now, on to my simple card using the Playdate No. 2 as my inspiration.

Here's the Playdate No. 2 image:

Heather Pulvirenti, one of the The Talent of w&w, is the gifted photographer and chose the color inspiration for our Playdate No. 2. 

I had some fun with my Distress Inks and a water brush.  Can you tell?  I am on a Distress Ink kick. ;-)  

 

I inked up the flowers and leaves from The Write Stuff: Leave it to Mom in fired brick, worn lipstick and peeled paint (leaves).  Then I blended the colors with a water brush on the watercolor paper.  I additionally added flickers of watered down ink and brushed on a little pink to the background.  I edged the panel with mustard seed Distress Ink with my ink blending tool.  The patterned paper is by Basic Grey from their Knee Highs collection which I stamped with "celebrate" from The Big, the Bold and Extras.  I scored the patterned paper to help to stamp in a straight line, but I also folded the paper at the score so when I adhered it under the watercolor panel it lifts off the card for dimension and interest.  

Also from The Big, the Bold and Extras is the solid banner which I stamped in mustard seed and painted in a bit.  I let it dry and then overstamped with the outline of the banner in black.  I cut it out and stamped in the sentiment "you're brilliant" from Bubble Talk (which should be in the shop very soon!).  I adhered the banner with some foam dimensional adhesive in the middle of the banner and flat on the ends so it has some shape.  I added all of the layers onto an A2 white card base.  

Last I added some black sequins as I chose to pull in black from the sentiments as my neutral.  I know it is high contrast but I really love having both bright white and black with pops of color on a card.  

I am so glad Heather came up with such a lovely color scheme!

There is still time to enter as the challenge ends June 15, 2014 at 11:55 pm (U.S. central standard time).  We are so delighted with all the projects submitted and hope you will play along too!  The winner chosen by us will receive our entire next release and will be our guest star to work alongside The Talent during our release week.  Our first giveaway winner, Shirley, did an outstanding job and we are so proud to have had her as our guest star!  To learn more please visit HERE.

And don't miss out on Julie's take on the Playdate No. 2 challenge HERE.

Have a wonderful Monday and look out for Wednesday's post by Vanessa for her take on the Playdate No. 2 challenge. :-)

w&w supplies:

Bubble Talk

The Big, the Bold and Extras

The Write Stuff: Leave it to Mom

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Third Release Giveaway Winners Revealed

Hello everyone!  We are so excited to share the names of the Giveaway Winners with you!

Winner of Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled + 1 stamp set of your choice from May Release

Pam




Winner of Parentville Extras + The Big, the Bold and Extras

Annette Allen





Winner of Bubble Talk + The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect

JanLee
 



Winner of Scenery: Big Bang Bling + The Big, the Bold and Fun

cm





Winner of The Big Giveaway

Sabrina





Congratulations to all of the winners!  We are looking forward to seeing your creations!!!

A big thank you to all of you who commented.  We really enjoy reading your comments and compliments! You are so kind and we are happy to have you in the w&w family. We appreciate your support more than we can say.

We {heart} you!

Winnie, Walter, Shay and Julie

All winners please email info{at} winniewalter {dot} com within 72 hours to claim your prizes.

Third Release Day!

The stamps and cut files are now being sold in our shop.  And it is time for thanks and also for a little peek into what is coming up.

>>>THE TALENT<<<

We would be a sky without stars if not for our incredible creative team, The Talent.  They have humbled us once again with their wonderfulness and we feel so very fortunate to have an amazing group creating dynamite projects with our designs.  We will be featuring each of The Talent and their projects on their own in the coming weeks.  THANK YOU!

If you haven't had a chance check out each of The Talent.  Their blogs are amazing and you will want need to follow them!

CLICK HERE for Heather Pulvirenti's blog
CLICK HERE for Joni Adaya's blog
CLICK HERE for Kelly Griglione's blog
CLICK HERE for Suzanne Dahlberg's blog
CLICK HERE for Vanessa Menhorn's blog

>>>GUEST STAR<<<

A big round of applause to our Guest Stars, Shirley Bampton and Chaitali Narla!  We loved working with these outstandingly talented and gracious ladies!  They both were such a pleasure to work with and we were delighted by their creativity and generosity of sharing their talent with us!

CLICK HERE for Shirley Bampton's blog.
CLICK HERE for Chaitali Narla's blog/website.

Thank you so much for making our Third Release such a smashing success!  Check back later today to see who won our giveaways.

>>>COMING SOON<<<

• Playdate No. 2 is announced!  Play to win a spot as our guest star during our next release.
• We have an announcement about The Talent coming very soon!
• Join us in late June for our third Share the Love Week in which we feature a company or product we love and use their products with winnie & walter goodies.
• We have really exciting Special Guest Stars coming soon!  You really won't want to miss them.
• More posts full of inspiration!
• Our Fourth Release will begin July 20, 2015.  Be there or be square.

The Show is About to Begin...

There still is a little time!

To enter our Third Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.

To enter to win Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled CLICK HERE

To enter to win Parentville Extras + The Big, the Bold and Extras CLICK HERE 

To enter to win Bubble Talk +  The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect CLICK HERE 

To enter to win Scenery: Big Bang Bling + The Big, the Bold and Fun CLICK HERE 

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Reveal Day is just around the corner and we thought we would let you see what is in store for you. Winnie & Walter is a tiny pup of a company with a big heart.  We are still growing into our paws.  Your continued support is so appreciated.  Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

>>>THE SHOW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN<<<

The stamps will be available for purchase over in our online store shortly (check there around midnight central standard time).  Through June 8 the coordinating cutting files are free with purchase (please be assured that we will extend the free with purchase coordinating cut files offer for Bubble Talk once it is in stock)!

If you are buying stamp sets from May 25 - June 8 please do ***NOT*** add the coordinating cut files to your cart as they will automatically be emailed to you without you needing to take any action.

Please note that due to some issues we've had during production Bubble Talk will not be available until June.  If you are interested in purchasing the stamp simply use the email notification form on our website from May 25th on and you will be the first to know when we have it available for purchase.  Thank you so much for your patience and understanding!

Bubble Talk

Bubble Talk Cut Files

Parentville Extras

Parentville Extras Cut Files

Scenery: Big Bang Bling

Scenery: Big Bang Bling Cut Files

Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled

Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled Cut Files

The Big, the Bold and Extras

The Big, the Bold and Extras Cut Files

The Big, the Bold and Fun

The Big, the Bold and Fun Cut Files

The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect

The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect Cut Files

Premiere of Scenery: Big Bang Bling + The Big, the Bold and Fun + giveaway

To enter our Third Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.

To enter to win Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled CLICK HERE

To enter to win Parentville Extras + The Big, the Bold and Extras CLICK HERE (live May 22, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)

To enter to win Bubble Talk +  The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect CLICK HERE (live May 23, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)

To enter to win Scenery: Big Bang Bling + The Big, the Bold and Fun continue reading!

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Scenery: Big Bang Bling
For our follow up to the popular Scenery: Big Bang Confetti we went with some bling.  You will find an assortment of shapes, sizes, and options to create fabulous stamped accents, borders and backgrounds.  We think this set will make your projects brighter and more dazzling!

The Big, the Bold and Fun
Our latest installment of The Big, the Bold series has a sunny, summery feel that will bring the warmth of the season to your stamping any day rain or shine!  Use The Big, the Bold and Fun with or without other The Big, the Bold stamp sets.

>>>THE DETAILS<<<

Scenery: Big Bang Bling
Available for purchase on May 25, 2014.
Retails for $15.00
Includes twenty-nine (29) stamps including five (5) blocks and two (2) rows of sequins

The Big, the Bold and Fun
Available for purchase on May 25, 2014.
Retails for $15.00
Includes four (4) big words (adventure, fun, play and shine) + thirty-five (35) smaller words which can be used to build sentiments with the other other words or on their own

>>>THE GOOD STUFF<<<

Let's get to the fun part and see what Julie, Shay, our guest stars, Shirley Bampton aka Shirley-bee (our winner of the Playdate No. 1 challenge) and Chaitali Narla of Cuts, Crops and Creativity, and The Talent (our supernova creative team) made with it. And make sure you visit Shirley's, Chaitali's and each of The Talent's blogs for more knock-it-out-of-the-park projects and details.  Don't forget to share some love with them too!

Julie

I hope you are ready for some FUN!  hee hee!

I had an idea, not remembering if I saw this somewhere else, but wanted to try it.  I wanted to do some repeated stamping of the sentiment behind the banner to give this card some interest.  I used some of my new Bristol paper and stamped the "fun" stamp from The Big, the Bold and Fun set into two shades of raspberry ink [Distress Picked Raspberry and Hero Arts Raspberry Jam] and then randomly stamped the word over and over again and before it had a chance to dry, I sprayed and sprayed and sprayed water all over the image, softening the look and giving it an adequate blur.  Anywhere it was too faded, I went back with a paintbrush and some watered down ink to areas that needed just a little more color.  After drying this with my heat tool, I sprayed it again with my Pearl Glimmer Mist to give it a nice shimmer, but it isn't easy to see here.  I didn't want the paper to look too matte against the navy Night Sky banner strip and Silver shimmer paper from Papertrey Ink used to cut out FUN from The Big, the Bold and Fun digital cut files.

I was able to make the word bigger than the stamp and give it some real presence on the card.  I like how it extends above and below the popped up navy banner.  Using my silver embossing powder, I added the word "have" and the faceted sequin strip and single faceted sequins from Big Bang Bling strategically placed on the card and added a few hot pink gemstones for good measure.  Really loving how this one turned out!

Keeping with the bling theme, I used the "shine" sentiment and small word "bright" (also from The Big, the Bold and Fun) for my next card, stamped and embossed in silver on the same navy Night Sky paper.  I also added more Big Bang Bling using the pinwheel style, scattering them in a diagonal across the card.  And for a little more shine, light green gems to match the card base.  Love this color combo!  

I don't do this offset panel often, but I really do like it.  I thought it would be cool to accent this card just a little more and this green "Bling on a Roll" glitter tape.  I used a pencil to trace the shape of the panel, and put the tape along the traced lines, overlapping at the corner.  It actually isn't very noticeable where the tape meets, and I really like how this brightens up the card and really pops the blue even more. {happy place}  

You will be in your {happy place} too once you see all of the fabulous projects from Shay, Shirley, Chaitali, and the ever-so-TALENTed design team!  Enjoy!!!! 

Shay

Like Shirley, I thought the triangle borders from Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled would make an excellent banner.  The border very easily bends to allow for very easy banner making.  I filled in the triangles with the sketchy triangles in butter bar, pale tomato and soft cantaloupe by Hero Arts Shadow Ink.  I then stamped "smile" and "celebrate" from The Big, the Bold and Extras and "play" from The Big, the Bold and Fun.  Placed on a black card base and with some black sequins the card is done.

For my next card I paired our two featured stamp sets along with Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled.  The Pier collection by Crate Paper release last summer had this patterned paper of beach umbrellas which could easily be created with the triangles from Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled.  So I stamped 12 of each of my 3 chosen designs, colored them in with Copics and cut them out.  On a panel I stamped the little words from The Big, the Bold and Fun in a design I created on an acrylic block.  I then distressed the edges with squeezed lemonade and mustard seed Distress Inks.  I stamped "fun" in Versamark and embossed in black.  For some more summer goodness I stamped the sunburst sequins in mustard seed.  I finished the card by adding a layer of black card stock and then on a white card base.

My last card is a shaker card.  For easy shaker card making I relied on one of my favorite crafters, Betsy Veldman, and her newly released MakeIt Market Kit Co. Shakers and Sprinkles kit by Papertrey Ink (may not be on sale any longer).  For the backing of the shaker portion of the card I stamped the outline flat sequin block several times in black and then filled in some of the spaces with the individual flat outline sequins.  Next I over-stamped the sequins with the flat solid sequins in pool, bubble gum and butter bar Hero Arts Shadow Ink.  I also strategically stamped the "you" "sparkle" and "and" all from The Big, the Bold and Fun.  I added some real sequins and finished up inside of the shaker.  On the outside I added a gold embossed fussy cut "shine".  Last I attached the shaker to patterned paper from the Knee Highs collection (ring around the rosies) from Basic Grey and I attached it all to a white card base.

That concludes my portion of today's post, but you are in for a treat when you see all the superb projects by Shirley, Chaitali and the Talent!

We are so pleased to feature our guest star and first Playdate challenge winner, Shirley Bampton's amazing projects.

CLICK HERE to see more from Shirley.

It is our honor to present our oh so talented guest star, Chaitali Narla's fantastic project.

CLICK HERE to see more from Chaitali.

The Talent

CLICK HERE to see more from Heather.

CLICK HERE to see more from Joni.

CLICK HERE to see more from Kelly.

CLICK HERE to see more from Suzanne.

CLICK HERE to see more from Vanessa.

>>>THE GIVEAWAY<<<

Comment here on this post for a chance to win Scenery: Big Bang Bling + The Big, the Bold and Fun stamp sets of your own by 12:01 a.m. (central standard time) May 25, 2014.  One comment will be chosen at random.

All winners during our Third Release will be announced on May 25, 2014.

To enter our Third Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.

Premiere of Bubble Talk + The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect + giveaway

To enter our Third Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.

To enter to win Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled CLICK HERE

To enter to win Parentville Extras + The Big, the Bold and Extras CLICK HERE (live May 22, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)

To enter to win Bubble Talk +  The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect continue reading!

To enter to win Scenery: Big Bang Bling + The Big, the Bold and Fun CLICK HERE (live May 24, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. CST)

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Bubble Talk

Please note that due to some issues we've had during production Bubble Talk will not be available until June.  If you are interested in purchasing the stamp simply use the email notification form on our website from May 25th on and you will be the first to know when we have it available for purchase.  Thank you so much for your patience and understanding!

Bubble Talk has great sentiment building opportunities for numerous occasions and uses!  In fact there are a few that just tickle us.  Winnie and Walter have no idea what we find so funny, but they sure like us laughing.  In addition to bold words and smaller longer sentiments there are two outline and two solid speech bubbles to add your custom sentiment in.  And the words work in concert with The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect...it is like the camera and its flash!  Plus, you can use the smaller words from The Big, the Bold and other stamp sets with the speech bubbles!

The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect

We don't like to play favorites, but this camera is the boss!  It is cute, graphic, retro and so easy to personalize from coloring or paper piecing to decorating with stamps and/or embellishments AND you can add sentiments or journaling on it!  Talk about awesome and then there is a simple frame with a 2 inch x 2 inch opening perfect for Instagram pictures or scenes with tons of little captions to stamp on your picture or frame AND (lots of ands) there is two tiny adorable speech bubbles and little icons to add to your projects.  Whew!  Talk about a packed stamp set!

>>>THE DETAILS<<<

Bubble Talk
Available for purchase in June of 2014.  Unfortunately, we had to make a change in this stamp set which slowed down production.
Retails for $15.00
Includes twenty-four (24) words + sentiments and four (4) speech bubbles including outline and solid versions

The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect
Available for purchase May 25, 2014.
Retails for $15.00
Includes eighteen (18) sentiments and eighteen (18) images including a camera, frame, an outline and solid speech bubble + icons

>>>THE GOOD STUFF<<<

Let's get to the fun part and see what Julie, Shay, our guest stars, Shirley Bampton aka Shirley-bee (our winner of the Playdate No. 1 challenge) and Chaitali Narla of Cuts, Crops and Creativity, and The Talent (our supernova creative team) made with it. And make sure you visit Shirley's, Chaitali's and each of The Talent's blogs for more knock-it-out-of-the-park projects and details.  Don't forget to share some love with them too!

Julie

Picture Perfect

This camera is going to get a lot of mileage in my studio, I can assure you of that!  It's so cute and easy to transform to any look you are going for.  Just wait till you see the samples today!  So Cool!!!

This card came together FAST!  I stamped and used distress markers, water and a brush to color this time, and cut it out (very easy). [Distress Markers: faded jeans, tumbled glass, broken china, peeled paint, shabby shutters, mustard seed and spiced marmalade]

I love this trio of flashes.  I remember coming up with them one night while writing in my journal.  I knew I was going to use them with one of my favorite embossing powders - Judikens Aegean Silver - the glitter is iridescent and gives this card some fun shimmer.  I also brought out my Ideology Film Strip Ribbon from Tim Holtz.  The "aged" highlights in the ribbon are similar to the colors in the camera and it all adds to the retro feel.  The sentiment is completely from The Big, the Bold and Extras set.  Lots of good words there!

I couldn't leave out our fun little icons from this set, so I created another quick card (minus drying time).  I had this idea of making a string of the little icons together, and this is what I came up with - a sweet little hello card.  The "hi" is from The Big, the Bold and Extras and how perfect is that?  The awesome green chevron is some washi tape that has been BEGGING to be used, and this was the perfect time.  

I wanted to keep this card very white and very simple.  This washi tape adds the perfect amount of interest and color - just added to the edge of the panel and wrapped around to the back. The panel is popped up with foam tape for a little dimension.  The final touch was the addition of glossy accents on each of the icons and the speech bubble.  Insert grin here!

Bubble Talk 

This card really makes me happy! I see other people make cards like this, but it is rare for me and I'm not usually confident that I can pull it off.  I think I did a pretty good job this time.  This one did take a while, but it was still very easy.    I knew I wanted the whole design to be off center, so I stamped our heart ledger from The Write Stuff: Love Story and embossed in white on kraft card stock closer to the right side of the card. The "be you" and "you know it's true" sentiments are from Bubble Talk, as well as the rectangle speech bubble and the GIRL sentiment.  Yes - Girl, you know it's true!  Shay and I love these sentiments!  I also added smile from.......yes, you guessed it.... The Big, the Bold, and Extras.  You're Welcome! *wink*

The "be you" is colored with a worn lipstick marker and "you know it's true" is colored with Distress Ink dried marigold and spiced marmalade and the punch shape is an oldie from Stampin' Up!  I stamped the bubble and sentiments on rich razzleberry paper (also from Stampin' Up!) and trimmed.  The LOVE YOU circle is also from The Write Stuff: Love Story and punched and both the bubble and the circle are on foam tape.  While I had this fab set on my desk, I grabbed the large heart and stamped and clear embossed it at the bottom, and also grabbed the tiny heart from You've Got Love Mail and used the same treatment in a different color at the top. Last but not least, I picked coordinating gems to sprinkle around.

Enjoy the fabulous projects ahead!  You are in for a real treat!

Shay

I made a couple of cards using the two stamp sets together as I think they work so well together.

For my first card I had to without a doubt make a card saying "girl you know it's true".  I know I am silly, but it makes me laugh every single time I see it. :-)  I used ephemera from the Lemon Lush collection by Studio Calico along with stamped images.  I stamped the outline oval speech bubble from Bubble Talk on a piece of patterned paper from Studio Calico's Lemon Lush 6x6 paper pad and added "girl".  I also stamped the solid rectangle speech bubble with passion flower Hero Arts Shadow Ink and then stamped the sentiment "you know it's true" in black from Bubble Talk.  I also stamped the tiny outline speech bubble from The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect onto a heart patterned paper from the same 6x6 paper pad.  Onto a piece of card stock I added a white doily and then arranged all of the elements down the left hand side of the card.  I adhered them onto the card adding a daisy brad from the May 2014 OhDeerMe Kit by Freckled Fawn. I also stamped the littlest flat outline sequin from Scenery: Big Bang Bling (check for more on that tomorrow!) all around for interest and then scattered some real gold sequins.  I decided later to pop up the girl speech bubble and tiny heart bubbles with dimensional foam adhesive.

My next card focuses upon The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect.  I had an idea come into my head for this and I hope it translated alright into real life.  You know how it is when you imagine something and then it is a bit different in reality.  So with the Printshop collection 6x6 paper pad by Studio Calico I paper pieced the camera...it is this a cool camera or what?  I truly love how it turned out.  Okay, back on task...I stamped in Versamark "smile" from Bubble Talk into the open section of the camera.  Yep, the space fits the sentiments from Bubble Talk.   I look forward to also using it for a little journaling for future projects.  I also stamped "you're a rock star" and colored in the card stock with squeezed lemonade Distress Ink so it would stand out and cut around it placing it under "smile".  I stamped the frame in black and cut out the center and added a little washi from the April 2014 OhDeerMe Kit by Freckled Fawn for some interest.  On a separate piece of card stock I stamped the flash images in butter bar Hero Arts Shadow Ink and added the silhouette from The Write Stuff: Leave it to Mom stamped in tide pool Hero Arts Shadow Ink.  For more drama I stamped the solid tiny speech bubble and added the exclamation point.  I had some extra rectangles from my stamping of Scenery: Rectangled & Triangled that I tore on the edges to give them a washi look.  So fun!  Last thing were the ubiquitous sequins. lol

That's it from me for today, but you have so much more to see from our marvelous guest stars and the always stunning Talent!

We are so pleased to feature our guest star and first Playdate challenge winner, Shirley Bampton's amazing projects.

CLICK HERE to see more from Shirley.

It is our honor to present our ultra-talented guest star, Chaitali Narla's fantastic project.

CLICK HERE to see more from Chaitali.

The Talent

CLICK HERE to see more from Heather.

CLICK HERE to see more from Joni.

CLICK HERE to see more from Kelly.

CLICK HERE to see more from Suzanne.

CLICK HERE to see more from Vanessa.

>>>THE GIVEAWAY<<<

Comment here on this post for a chance to win Bubble Talk (will be sent separately when available) + The Write Stuff: Picture Perfect stamp sets of your own by 12:01 a.m. (central standard time) May 25, 2014.  One comment will be chosen at random.

All winners during our Third Release will be announced on May 25, 2014.

To enter our Third Release's The Big Giveaway CLICK HERE.