January Leading Lady Stephanie Klauck | Take Two {Video}

Our January Leading Lady, Stephanie Klauck, is back for her sensational second performance!  If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE.   Today she brings you another adorable card and video that will have you thinking about love.

Ladies and gentlemen, Stephanie....

Hello everyone! It's Stephanie here and I'm excited to be back with another card to share using awesome products from Winnie & Walter!

For today's card, I used the So Tweet stamp set to create a clean and simple stamped design with some watercolouring, perfect for Valentine's Day! ;)

To create the card, I first stamped the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black ink onto a watercolor panel cut to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". I then stamped the two birds, one at a time, under the sentiment so they were positioned on either side of the heart. I love that once it's stamped, it all looks like one image.

I used my Kuretake Gansai watercolours to add colour first to the heart and the birds. I did red on the heart and yellow and blue on the birds. To get the desired affect, I laid down a first layer of colour, let it dry and then added a bit more colour on top.

When I had the heart and the bird images all coloured, I used a minty aqua green colour and loosely painted a heart around the birds. I started it small and then made it bigger until I had it how I wanted it. Once I had the shape figured out, I concentrated more of the colour on the outside of the heart and let it fade into the middle.

I finished the card by trimming down the panel 1/4" in diameter and then I added it to a grey card base and added some clear sequins for a bit of dimension.

You can see how I created my card in the video below:


Thanks so much for joining me on the blog today. I'll be back next Saturday with another card to share. ;)

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Love You with Kelly

Hi Folks! I've got a cute Valentine's Day heart that I made to showcase in my newly-found love of making mesh wreaths (pictured at the end). This project uses the following Winnie & Walter products:

In a Word: Love Cutaway

Scenery: The Party Hangover

The Big, the Bold and You

  

The heart is free-hand cut from pink paper. Then I added the "love" die from In a Word: Love Cutaway in the middle. To get the border around the pink heart, I used one of the border stamps from  Scenery: The Party Hangover and curved the stamp directly on the paper.

When I got the stamp to follow the curve of the heart, I placed my acrylic block down on the stamp to secure the shape. Then I can ink the stamp and stamp the image. 

After repeating this process around the heart, I simply colored the area outside the line with alcohol markers. I used a white gel pen to color inside the outlined shapes, and put a Pretty Pink Posh sequin in the large circle outlines. Finally, the "you" from The Big, the Bold and You is stamped in red, slightly overlapping the "love" cutaway. I pressed down on the stamp harder than usual to make sure the ink filled in the gap between the heart and the cutaway. Thankfully, it did! Otherwise I would have gone back with a red colored pencil to make it look less obvious.

The heart would make a cute card, but I intended this to hang in the middle of my deco mesh Valentine's Day wreath, so there it stays. What a fun thing to see coming into my mud room! Winnie & Walter supplies are so easy to use while decorating around the house!

Scenery: The Party Hangover

In a Word: Love Cutaway

The Big, the Bold and You Cutaways

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February Leading Lady Kate Capper | Take Two

Our February Leading Lady, Kate Capper is back for her second performance!  If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE.  Kate has infused love into each of her gorgeous projects today.  Be prepared to fall in love.... 

                                                                    

Hello.

Firstly i just want to say thanks to everyone that stopped by last week for such a great welcome :)

I'm thrilled to be here for Valentines day and as you may guess today's theme is a total love fest.

If your not a fan of pink or hearts or valentines i apologise now as there is lots of all three but i do have something different for next week.

My first card was really fun to make.

Inspired by the cupcake from Sugar Rush I stamped, coloured and fussy cut.

I marked on my card base where i wanted the cupcake to go and the randomly stamped some of the hearts in picked raspberry distress ink around it.

I then needed the right words for the sentiment, luckily the big bold series have every thing covered.

Once the sentiment was stamped i adhered the cupcake and finished with some glossy accents on the hearts.

Card number two and more picked raspberry (yay!) and a  heart.

Not as clean and simple as my first card but CAS with a grungy edge (is that a thing? lol).

Have you seen the new Lulu Fringe Cutaway? 

Its a fab fun die and saves so much time for the design i used today.

I die cut white card three times using the lulu fringe die then added some picked raspberry ink with a blender tool making sure that each side of the die cuts were different shades of pink to create the ombre look.

I cut each one in half and layered them together then die cut a heart from the finished piece.

For the sentiment i used the big the bold happy cutaways.

 I die cut it four times and layered them then added crackle accents so you still get some shine but also texture.

Some random ink splatters , thread and sequins and i think i stopped just at the right time to get the look i wanted.

I had plenty of the fringe left to make a matching tag using the Essentials: Katherine Cutaways.

  

Now a card and sweet treat set.

The card uses the new In a Word: Love Cutaway, Essentials: Katherine Cutaways, Sugar Rush stamp set and lots of pink ink :)

I kept it very simple and used the generation stamping technique with hearts from Sugar Rush.

I simply coloured the die cut sentiment and added over the stamped background.

The same hearts get  a lot of use as i used them on white card to create patterned paper that i made the pouch from.

I used the zig zag edge die from Essentials: Katherine Cutaways on the top and bottom of the card to add some extra detail and the small tag made the window to show the sweeties inside. 

My daughter has her eye on these already.

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

All you need to do for a chance to win is leave me a comment on my blog.

If you left a comment last week you can still comment and get an extra entry :)

Thanks so much for looking.

w&w supplies:

Sugar Rush	The Big, the Bold and Party	The Big, the Bold, and the Happy	The Big, the Bold and You	Essentials: Katharine Cutaways	In a Word: Love Cutaway
Lulu Fringe Cutaway

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