Season's Givings Blog Hop

Edited to add: WINNERS ANNOUNCED HERE!

Hello lovelies!  Happy 2018 to you.  Hopefully you came from the incredible Neat & Tangled's blog.  If not no worries, just check the blog hop list near the end of this post if you get lost.  I am so thankful for Latisha Yoast for organizing this really amazing blog hop for us to thank YOU.

2017 has been a difficult year for so many of us and I feel so much gratitude for each and every one of you for visiting the w&w blog, commenting on our posts, following us on social media, participating in our challenges, using w&w products to create and allowing w&w to be part of your year.  I feel so fortunate to be part of this kind and giving community.  Thank you for enriching my life!

I made a simple card for you using Ring in the Celebration, In a Word: Merry (the stamp set) and In a Word: Happy Coordinating Cutaways.

>>>GIVEAWAY<<<

As a small token of my gratitude I am giving away five (5) prize packages of w&w stamps, w&w cutaways and w&w creative screenings worth over $100 each.  All you have to do is comment by 11:59 p.m. CST on Sunday, January 7, 2018 on this post sharing a creative resolution of yours for 2018 (for instance: learn to use embossing paste), your name and your email address.

Make sure you comment on each stop as each participant is giving something away!

Up next up on the blog hop is the ever magnificent Hero Arts!

>>>BLOG HOP LIST<<<

Lawn Fawn

Technique Tuesday

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Reverse Confetti

MFT Stamps

Neat & Tangled

Winnie & Walter <===YOU ARE HERE

Hero Arts

CAS-ual Friday Stamps

My Sweet Petunia

Paper House Productions

Verve Stamps

Stamp Simply Ribbon Store

Catherine Pooler

Indigojade Art

A Jillian Vance Design

Kelly Creates

Latisha Yoast

Kimberly Crawford

Vera Yates

Nichol Spohr

Chari Moss

Audrey Tokach

Zsoka Marko 

Teri Anderson

Wanda Guess

Amy Tsuruta

Lydia Fiedler

Laurie Willison

Jenn Shurkus

Debi Adams

Cindy Lawrence

Lori Craig

Lisa Henke

Dina Kowal

Laura Bassen

Jessica Frost-Ballas 

Kelly Lunceford

Dana Joy

Tracey McNeely

Margie Higuchi

Laurel Beard

Janine Tinklenberg

Sean Fetterman

Christine Meyer

Heidi Blankenship

Debbie Seyer

Libby Hickson

Gracie Chavez

Julee Tilman

Karen Baker

Lee Murphy

Yvonne Van De Grijp

Leigh Penner

Marcie Sharp

Patti Gilliam

Barbara Anders

Bunny Vance

Kyra Sanders

Giovana Smith

Jillian Vance

Ceal Pritchett

Neva Cole  

My wish is that you all have a year full of excellent health, joy, laughter, love, friendship and creativity.

Happy creating,
Shay.

January Leading Lady Andrea Shell | Take One

Today is the debut performance of the first Leading Lady of 2018: our January Leading Lady, Andrea Shell!

Andrea's projects are full of bright bold color, gorgeous coloring, a clean aesthetic and some smart little touches that make them stand out!  She really caught my interest with her challenge entries last year like this clever dream catcher card HERE.   

I am really excited to see what Andrea will be creating this month as she takes us on an adventure of her own design on Saturdays in January on the w&w blog.

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

Hello! It's Andrea from Blissfully Scrappy taking over the Winnie & Walter blog today. I am beyond thrilled that Shay asked me to be the January Leading Lady (and, yes, more than a little surprised)! When I was contemplating a theme for my posts, a line from The Sound of Music kept playing in my head: "These are a few of my favorite things." Sharing some of my favorite (papercrafting) things seemed like the perfect theme!

For my first post, I just had to go with what's at the top of my list - adorable critter stamps! Winnie & Walter has some of the cutest critters on the market, and I completely fell in love with the animals from their Winter Wishes with Evelin T Designs set, released in November. Using them was a total no-brainer (especially with the Winter Olympics a month away)! I stamped all of my images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, colored them with Copics, and die-cut them with the coordinating dies.



To help fill out the scene for my first card, I also stamped and colored some trees from the Season's Tweetings with Evelin T Designs set. I ink-blended the background with Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass distress inks and flicked on some water droplets. With my scissors I cut a snowy hill and die-cut the pond from it, adding Tumbled Glass to the edges of the opening.

 

After adhering the sky to a white card, I added my snowy hill, inlaying the colored pond and tucking the trees behind the hill. I stamped a sentiment from Season's Tweetings with Evelin T Designs with Versafine Onyx Black ink before adhering the little birds, popping up the one in the foreground with foam tape. I added some highlights with a white gel pen and brushed some Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle overlay onto the pond.

 

The background on my second card was created with Shaded Lilac, Spun Sugar and Scattered Straw distress inks. I silver heat-embossed a sentiment from Winter Wishes with Evelin T Designs and adhered the panel to a white card. I die-cut two snowy hills and blended Tumbled Glass onto the back hill for shading. Once I had adhered the hills together, however, I decided I wanted darker shading and added more with my Copic markers.

 

The foreground hill was popped up with foam tape, as was the bottom puffin. I added some details with a white gel pen and some sparkle with Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle Overlay. A scattering of clear sequins adds the finishing touch.

Thanks for stopping by! If you'd like an opportunity to win a $30 W&W gift certificate which Shay has so generously provided, please leave a comment on the corresponding posts on my blog by midnight CST on January 31st.

See ya next week!

Andrea

Rerun No. 27 | The Party (Challenge + Giveaway + Sale!) + Winners of Rerun No. 26

UPDATED with new extended deadlines.

Hello lovelies!  Welcome to our monthly Rerun post!  First, we are going to announce winners from last month's Rerun No. 26 | Comfort + Joy.

We had such lovely entries and Mr. Random chose this challenge entry to win a $25.00 credit to the w&w shop:

No. 4 | Rosali @ilovestamping

Thank you for all your kind comments as well!  The winner of the Comfort + Joy stamp set is:

No. 2 | Janis

Congrats Rosali and Janis!   Please email us at info {at} winniewalter {dot} com.  Janis, I will additionally need your mailing address.

Now on to this month's Rerun!

Each Rerun will provide plenty of inspiration focusing upon a featured product, a month-long sale on the featured product and a challenge (with a prize!) and giveaway.  You will not want to miss out!

For our twenty-seventh Rerun we are concentrating on The Party. Whether it is celebrating a birthday, the New Year, a promotion or just to celebrate life, The Party is just the stamp set!  There are so many options for creativity here.

Also, a big warm w&w welcome to the newest member of The Talent, Crystal Thompson!  She will be joining us for this Rerun and we will be seeing some amazing things from more from Crystal in the future.

Now on to the cards!

Shay 


Happy New Year!  (By the way we have a big giveaway going on HERE until next Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. CST)  The Party is really a great set for creating joyful cards for happy occasions.  I thought it would be a great set to begin 2018 with.

I began with using my new to me Distress Oxide Inks in green/blues that I flicked with water.  Then I stamped the large and small round lantern shapes and larger tassel in navy all over the panel.  The colors were pretty blah so I got out fuchsia, yellow and green inks to watercolor in.  I added some gold ink to the fuchsia lamps.  With a metallic purple pen I added a line to attach the two lamps together.  I also inked the edges of the panel with navy.

For the sentiment I cut out the second to smallest balloon from Big Round Balloon Cutaways and stamped it in navy.  I colored in the balloon with yellow watered down ink then I wrapped some gold thread around the base of the balloon and allowed it to have an organic tail.  I attached the balloon to the panel with dimensional foam adhesive.

Last, I added some gold glitter enamel dots before I attached the panel to a white cardstock A2 card base.

That's it from me...wait until you see what Crystal, Heather and Kate did with The Party...so awesome!

>>>THE TALENT<<<

CLICK HERE to see more from Crystal.

CLICK HERE to see more from Heather H.

 

CLICK HERE to see more from Kate.

>>>CHALLENGE<<<

Now it's your turn to play along with Rerun!

1. Create a new project using The Party (and/or the digital elements).  An alternative to using The Party. (and/or the digital elements) is to create a new project using one of the projects featured in this post (or any Rerun post throughout January by The Talent) as your inspiration.  Make sure you use at least one (1) w&w product (this can include a freebie found in the w&w shop) in your project.  If you choose the alternative to using The Party. (and/or the digital elements), please include in your post or project description which project inspired you and how.
2. Link up your project here by 11:55 p.m. CST on February 28, 2018.  
3. Enter as many times as you want before the deadline.
4. This Rerun Challenge may be combined with other challenges found here on the w&w blog or elsewhere.

One project will be randomly chosen to win $25.00 credit to the w&w shop!  The winner will be announced on the w&w blog later in March. 

An InLinkz Link-up

>>>GIVEAWAY<<<

Please comment on this post (make sure to include your email address in your comment--if you have to add your email address to your comment please do so by replying to your original comment) by 11:59 p.m. CST on February 28, 2018 for a chance to win your very own The Party stamp set!

December Leading Lady Kimberly Rendino | Take Five

As December and 2017 comes to an end we sadly must bid au revoir to our delightful December Leading Lady, Kimberly Rendino.    The last five weeks with Kimberly have been full of incredible inspiration, awesome projects and amazing artistry.  Kimberly showed her keen skills, cleverness and creativity week after week.  I feel so very blessed Kimberly shared her talents with us this month and capped this wonderful year of leading ladies.

If you missed her smashing debut you must see it CLICK HERE or her sensational second performance where she makes magic without getting inky CLICK HERE or her triumphant third performance with a festive and fun concentration on sequins CLICK HERE or her fantastic fourth performance that's full of a dizzying array of terrific tags CLICK HERE.  

Lucky for us all we have her final command performance today.  

Hello again!   I'm back for my final performance as Leading Lady - I can't tell you how exciting this month has been!  I've loved every minute of creating with my awesome winnie & walter goodies.  Thanks so much, Shay, for inviting me to create with your wonderful products!

I broke out one of my older winnie & walter favorites, The Party to create a simple New Year's card.   I stamped the streamers and party horns with Delicata gold & silver inks.   They pop on the black cardstock!  These inks stay wet for a bit, so I let them dry for a few minutes, then lightly brushed over everything, which left a fine dusting of sparkles over the entire card.   The sentiment, from In a Word: Merry, was heat embossed in silver and popped up on the card with foam tape.

A few scattered sequins finished off the panel, which was then adhered to some shiny gold paper I found in my stash!

Thank you so much for hanging out with me this month on the winnie & walter blog!  I'd like to wish everyone a very healthy and happy New Year!   Take care, crafty friends!

Before you go, don't forget to leave a comment over on my blog, Kimplete Kreativity, for a chance to win a gift card from winnie & walter!  

December Leading Lady Kimberly Rendino | Take Four

Our December Leading Lady Kimberly Rendino is back for her fantastic fourth performance!  If you missed her smashing debut you must see it...CLICK HERE or her sensational second performance where she makes magic without getting inky...CLICK HERE or her triumphant third performance with a festive and fun concentration on sequins...CLICK HERE.   

Today Kimberly showcases a dizzying array of delightful tags that are perfect for this time of year when you are finishing up those last minute gift wrapping marathons (hey I have been there!) or if you are on track this year and done with your gift wrapping to help give you ideas for next year.

We now present Kimberly....

 Hello, hello everyone! I'm excited to be back on the winnie & walter blog today -  Happy Christmas Eve-Eve (ha ha!).   I hope all of your holiday preparations are complete and you are able to sit back and enjoy the holidays....but if you are like me, you are still busy, cleaning the house, baking cookies, and.....you guessed it - creating gift tags!   Today I've got a few tags to share with you - and the best part is they were all quick and easy to make!

First up, I created a plaid background using the new Scenery: Ticking Stripe Creative Screenings.  I sponged on Distress Ink in a dark shade and then rotated the stencil and inked again with a more vibrant shade.   I die cut the tags using Tagged: Holiday Cheer cutaways, and embellished with stamped and fussy cut holly and Dec. 25 images from Happy Christmas.

These next tags were stamped with the detailed tag image from Tagged: Holiday Cheer and die cut, again with the Tagged: Holiday Cheer cutaways.   I embellished these tags with Copic colored images from the super adorable Winter Wishes with Evelin T Designs, cut out with the coordinating cutaways.   They were adhered with foam tape and offset just a bit.  The sentiments are from the Tagged: Holiday Cheer stamp set.

Finally, I stamped several of the detailed circle tag images from Tagged: Holiday Cheer with Versamark ink and heat embossed with glitter embossing powder.   I die cut trees (from In a Word: Merry Coordinating Cutaways) from the center of each tag.   I used those trees on the next tag, popping them up with foam tape and adding a sentiment from Tagged: Holiday Cheer.

I hope these quick & easy tags have inspired you to create some last minute tags yourself!   And if not.....there's always next year, lol!!

Be sure to head over to my blog, Kimplete Kreativity, for a chance to win a gift card to w&w, generously provided by Shay! 

See you again next week for my final performance as December's Leading Lady! Happy Holidays! 

Merry Christmas with Kelly

 

Hello Folks! Kelly here from Notable Nest to share a colorful plaid Christmas card that I made with cutaways and a stamp.

 

The base of the plaid is made with two of the creative screenings from the latest November release, Scenery: Ticking Stripe Creative Screening and Scenery: Rugby Stripe Creative Screening. The ticking stripe is going horizontally across the card with lime and aqua ink, and the rugby stripe is going vertically across the card with a light pink ink. Finally, the 5 thin vertical lines come from a stamp in the Scenery: Stripes set. This is a Christmas card, but I think without the sentiments it could also be a great base for a baby card.

Speaking of sentiments, I was so excited to see In a Word: Merry come out with several different versions of the word "merry." Not only is there the stamp set, but there's also a set of In a Word: Merry Coordinating Cutaways! For this "merry," I embossed it in gold and then cut out two additional "merry's" from my husband's comic book backing boards. They are thin enough to cut well, but much heavier than 110lb paper so the layers build easily.

I wanted to have another element besides just the text, so I grabbed a poinsettia and a few sprigs of greens from In Bloom: Debra's Poinsettia's with Lydia Evans and the corresponding cutaways.

Finally, the sentiment is completed with "christmas" from In a Word: Merry (the Stamp Set) going vertically on the side of the card. Usually I would put "christmas" horizontally below "merry," but I like that this is a little bit different. Plus it repeats the line/plaid design.

Thanks so much for looking! For all those who celebrate, I would like to wish you a warm Christmas filled with love and happiness!

-Kelly

Advent Calendar Extravaganza with Taheerah Atchia

Hello there lovelies!  It's Shay here joining in on a very special event.

 

Advent Calendar Extravaganza is -the- festive event of the season! This ‘hop with a twist’ was dreamed up by Taheerah Atchia and features surprise destinations each day! Joining in the fun with Taheerah are ONE HUNDRED special guests - each serving up some fantastic Christmas inspiration! Just like an Advent Calendar, you’ll never know where you’re going to be visiting next until you ‘open the door’!

And that’s not all! With 25 *amazing* sponsors taking part as guests as well, your crafty wish list is bound to get a boost with a chance to win a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

Now on to my cards....

I was inspired by some pear ribbon being used for wrapping gifts to create this duet of cards.  I pulled out In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals with Angelica Suarez and inked it up with red ink before spritzing water and using a dry brush to move the water and color.  I stamped a strip of white cardstock measuring 4.25 x 11 inches.  I then stamped the pear with green inks using the same method.  I added the stem to each pear.  I stamped in the leaf in green and pine cones in brown.  Then I used a gold paint pen to outline and then add a few details to the pears.  I aggressively flicked and dropped gold color shine all over.  After the gold dried, I cut the sheet in half and then cut them out using the largest rectangle from Essentials: Katharine Cutaways.

On a piece of white cardstock I stamped "joy" twice from the same stamp set using Versamark and heat embossed gold embossing powder and then cut them each out from the coordinating cutaways.  I cut a strip of red cardstock and cut it in half and stamped the supporting sentiments from the same stamp set using Versamark and then heat embossed the sentiments in gold.  I attached the sentiments to the patterned cardstock and then to two kraft A2 card bases.

I have a bonus project for you today.



My mom decided she wanted to use cowbells to decorate the lights on either side of the front door and she thought had the bright idea of me using the In a Word Cutaways to cut the words out of magnets.  So I ran 6 different holiday words (In a Word: Believe Cutaway, In a Word: Bright Cutaway, In a Word: Joy Cutaway, In a Word: Love Cutaway, In a Word: Merry Cutaway and In a Word: Peace Cutaway) through my Cuttlebug using extra magnets I had which we provide with our cutaways.  A bonus is that they are white on one side.  They are fairly thick magnetic sheets so I had to run it through several times and at times I had to carefully pull the words away from the sheet of magnetic as they did not completely cut all the way through so be patient if that is the case for you.  The I just stuck a word on each bell.  All in all fun and easy (at least my part as I did not do the wrapping of the rope).

That's it from me, but there is so much more to see from Taheerah this month.

Join in the fun every day at taheerah-atchia.com to see what special surprises await behind the door!

It’s not a party without a prize - and with prizes every day there are several chances to win! Today’s prize is generously supplied by us (Winnie & Walter) so you’ll definitely want to win! Simply leave a comment on this post - then head back to taheerah-atchia.com and leave a comment there too! You must leave a comment on Taheerah’s blog as well as mine in order to be eligible to win! Don’t forget to grab the other surprise destinations from Taheerah’s blog and head over to them to leave comments there as well to improve your odds even more! You have until 23:59 EST on 31st December 2017 to enter.

Don’t forget Advent Calendar Extravaganza runs from 1st-25th December inclusive so make sure you visit taheerah-atchia.com every day for fabulous inspiration and amazing prizes every single time! Merry Christmas!

Happy, merry crafting,
Shay.

One Panel, Two Cards with Lydia {Video}

Hello there everyone and happy Monday! Today I have two cards to share using the same stamped and die cut panel, I have to say I love a technique that you can get two cards out of one panel!

To start I took a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" white cardstock panel and stamped a full floral background using Victoria's Very Merry Flowers Stamp Set. I used a soft, spring like colour palette to show that these floral images are not just for Christmas and can be used to whole year through.

 

Once my stamping was complete I then cut the panel using a few of the phrases from Birthday Tiles Cutaways- I just love this set and keep going back to it again and again! When die cutting the words from the panel I tried to keep as many of them in place as this helped out in the next step...

 

I then glued down the words onto a card base (the video below shows how I did it) and then glued the negative panel onto another card base and ta-da ! Two cards from one panel!

For a step by step on how I made these cards please check out the video below or over on YouTube:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs, Lydia