Winnie and Walter November Release – Day 1

Hey everyone!

Thanks for joining me at the start of November release week for Winnie & Walter! Today is the premiere of In a Word: Merry stamp set and co-ordinating Cutaways; In a Word: Holiday Tiles Cutaways and In a Word: Believe Cutaway Here’s my first card:

I began by stamping the largest sentiment from the In a Word: Merry stamp set with a range of dye inks using my MISTI onto a panel of white cardstock, and then going over the stamped area with a smaller sentiment from the same set with black ink.

I trimmed the panel down at an angle and set aside to work on the kraft card base. I stamped some of the small star images from In a Word: Merry stamp set with Versamark ink and brush over some gold Perfect Pearls before foam mounting the trimmed focal panel.

To finish, I stamped a smaller sentiment onto a strip of black cardstock with Versamark and again brushed over the gold Perfect Pearls. I foam mounted to the card front and adhered some wood veneer stars.

Here’s my second card:

I stamped the larger sentiments from In a Word: Merry stamp set with white pigment ink onto a panel of kraft cardstock and then stamped over the white ink with coloured dye inks, slightly offset.

I also repeated the process with some of the smaller images from the set in the gaps to create a more finished panel.

I trimmed the kraft panel down and foam mounted it to a white card base. I heat embossed the smaller sentiment in white onto strips of navy cardstock and then foam mounting them to the card front.

To finish, I adhered some wood veneer and cork stars.

Pop by the Winnie & Walter Blog for giveaways and links to lots of gorgeous projects from the rest of the Design Team members!

Thanks for stopping by 😉

Winnie and Walter January / February Release, Day 3

Hello, hello! It’s the third day of the Winnie & Walter January / February release, and you’re in for another treat!

Day 3 is for the premiere of Big Hugs with Evelin T Designs stamps and cutaways, and Sketchy Thoughts stamps and cutaways – here’s my card:

I stamped the various speech bubbles from the Sketchy Thoughts set with Distress Inks and then stamped some co-ordinating sentiments from the same set, but with Versafine Onyx Black Ink.

The stamped panel was then trimmed down to slightly smaller than my card base and foam mounted to the front.

For a bit of interest, I added some cork and wood embellishments along with a sprinkling of sequins.

Don’t forget to check out the projects from Julie on the Winnie & Walter blog, along with the rest of the Winnie & Walter talent. The new release will be available at 22.00 CST on Friday, 3rd of February!

Thanks for stopping by 😉

Runway Inspired Challenge #82

Hello there and welcome to this week’s Runway Inspired Challenge! We have another awesome inspiration photo and the chance to win a prize from Ellen Hutson.

Here’s my card:

I began by creating an inky panel using Distress Inks to emulate the background behind the model. I took Tumbled Glass, Chipped Sapphire and Salty Ocean Inks and smooshed them onto a craft mat, spritzed with water and laid down a piece of white cardstock into the puddles.

I lifted the panel out, heat set and repeated the process until I’d reached the desired effect. Once dry, I die-cut a rectangle out using the smaller frame from Avery Elle’s Finished Frames. I added a few ink splats onto a white card base using a mixture of Tarnish Brass Distress Stain and Delicata Golden Glitz ink.

I foam mounted the blue inky panel to the card base once the ink splats had dried and then die-cut the Memory Box Bella Bouquet floral cluster from some black cardstock. This delicate piece was adhered to the inky panel with a few small dots of Glossy Accents.

On a scrap piece of vellum, I stamped a sentiment from Waffle Flower’s Bowtiful set with Delicata Golden Glitz ink, and then pounced some Gold Perfect Pearls onto the area while the ink was still wet. I brushed away the excess powder and set with a fine misting of water. This enhanced the look of the gold ink.

I attached the vellum to the panel with a few dots of Glossy Accents. I then adhered some wood veneer stars to cover the spots where the glue was starting to show through. The wood veneer was first dipped into the Delicata Golden Glitz ink pad and then into the Gold Perfect pearls. Again, this was set with water.

Be sure to stop by the Runway Inspired Challenge blog for more inspiration from the rest of the DT members!

Jennifer | Taheerah | Kristen | Aga | Tasnim | Gayatri | Lindsay | Karolyn

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Neat and Tangled collaborates with The Cut Shoppe

Hey there,

Just popping by to share a couple of cards for the Neat & Tangled collaboration with The Cut Shoppe and their awesome range of cut files. I made two cards, each using a different cut file and combining it with some Neat and Tangled stamps – here’s the first:

I began by layering a piece of pattern paper with a piece of vellum – I’d stamped the Time Warp image onto the vellum with Delicata Golden Glitz ink. To make the gold stand out a little more, I brushed over it with Gold Perfect Pearls and misted lightly with water to set.

The star cut file was die-cut on my Silhouette Cameo out of cardstock, spritzed with some bright Dylusions ink sprays and adhered to one side of the paper layers. I added a wood veneer embellishment for a bit of interest too.

The sentiment comes from Gifts for You and was stamped onto a scrap piece of pattern paper and heat embossed in gold. This was also adhered to the vellum along with a few sequins before foam mounting to the card base. Here’s the second card:

I began by die-cutting the leaves on my Cameo out of some lightweight pearlescent paper and again spritzing with some Dylusions sprays. I heat set and then trimmed a section of this down to fit the front of a card, and adhered with dots of Glossy Accents.

The sentiment comes from the Dala Horse stamp set and was heat embossed in white on black cardstock. I trimmed it down roughly and foam mounted to the card front.

I finished up with a scattering of sequins! Be sure to stop by the Neat & Tangled and Cut Shoppe blogs for more inspiration!

Thanks for looking 😉

Winnie & Walter – A Week to Die For – Day 1

Hello!

Thanks for joining me for Winnie & Walter’s A Week to Die For, where the DT are showcasing the dies that came out from the January Release!

Day 1 is for The Big, the Bold and Party and The Big, the Bold and You cutaways – I chose to play experiment with a partial die-cutting technique. Here’s my card:

You may recognise the brightly coloured rings in the background from this card. I tellya, I had so many die-cut circles left over from that card! I chose to use some of them up by adhering them straight down on to a card base, and trimming off the excess.

On a separate panel of white cardstock, I partially die-cut the ‘celebrate’ sentiment and foam mounted it to the card front. Here’s a close-up:

I did have to practice a little to ensure I wasn’t die-cutting the sentiment out completely, but the end result is definitely worth it!

I also think you could create a card set from this concept just by changing up the background – doesn’t necessarily have to be inlaid die-cut circles, could just be pattern paper, or Distress Ink blending…so many ideas!

To finish, I added a couple of sequins and some wood veneer stars.

Be sure check out projects from Julie and Shay on the Winnie & Walter blog, along with the rest of the Winnie & Walter talent.

Thanks for stopping by!

Runway Inspired Challenge #78

Hello there and welcome to this week’s Runway Inspired Challenge! We have another awesome inspiration photo and the chance to win a prize from Ellen Hutson.

Here’s my card:

It took me a while to crack this one…I liked the diagonal stripes on the model’s outfit, but was really struggling with the colour – is it red? Is it orange? I went for both, just to be on the safe side 😉

I pulled out one of my favourite dies – the Heart Board Fri-Dies from CAS-ual Fridays – and used it to die-cut several (more like hundreds!) of hearts out of five shades of paper, ranging from a red foil cardstock through to an orange, and finally white. I separated all the die-cut pieces and put them into piles on my desk, before inlaying them back together again in a multicoloured order. Here’s a closeup:

I did this four times, adhering the inlaid hearts onto scraps of paper so that they would be easier to work with when mounting them to a piece of white cardstock. I arranged each fully composed heart in a sort of cross and then ran the whole thing through my die-cutting machine with a frame die from Avery Elle’s Finished Frames set.

I foam mounted the panel to a card base on moved onto the sentiment…another stumbling block! I tried stacked sentiments, long sentiments, word dies…everything, before I ended up going with a really cute one from Mama Elephant’s Confetti set.

I stamped the sentiment with black ink on to a matching piece of cardstock, trimmed it out with a circle die, and foam mounted it to the card front with a paisley wood veneer embellishment.

Be sure to stop by the Runway Inspired Challenge blog for more inspiration from the rest of the DT members!

Jennifer | Taheerah | Kristen | Aga | Tasnim | Gayatri | Lindsay | Karolyn

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Runway Inspired Challenge #77

Hello there and welcome to this week’s Runway Inspired Challenge! We have another awesome inspiration photo and the chance to win a prize from Online Card Classes!

Here’s my card:

I began by creating a panel using Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Black Soot, Pumice Stone and Mustard Seed Distress Inks – they were smooshed onto a craft mat and spritzed with water before I lay a piece of white cardstock into the inky puddles.

I then inked up the Neat & Tangled Sunburst image with Black Soot and Pumice Stone, and stamped on top of the inky panel after it had dried. I thought the sunburst stripes echoed the ones on the model’s dress 😉

I trimmed the inky panel and a co-ordinating piece of pattern paper down using the smaller frame die from Avery Elle’s Finished Frames ELLE-ments set. These were adhered together at a jaunty angle and foam mounted to a white card base.

Behind the Studio Calico wood veneer sentiment is a vellum die-cut created with WPlus9’s Quilt Cuts 1 set and some balled up, black thread, all adhered with glue dots.

To finish, I added some Doodlebug sprinkles 😉

Be sure to stop by the Runway Inspired Challenge blog for more inspiration from the rest of the DT members!

Jennifer | Taheerah | Kristen | Aga | Tasnim | Gayatri | Lindsay | Karolyn

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Neat & Tangled January Release, Day 2: Out of the Box

Hello again!

Time to showcase some more goodies from the Neat & Tangled January Release!

Day 2 is for the coordinating Out of the Box stamp set and die, along with the Origami Map die – these Nice and Neat Dies are totally awesome!

  

Here’s my first card:

The Out of the Box die is so clever because you end up with a 3D style box that lays flat! I made one up out of pattern paper – its worth spending a bit of time choosing one that will work really well for this sort of thing – I went with a double sided one that was plain on one side and patterned on the reverse.

I foam mounted the box to a card base and stamped a sentiment from the Out of the Box set below it with black ink. Then I used the two heart dies from My Plate is Full to die-cut lots of different coloured hearts and filled the box with them!

To finish, I added some sequins from the Full of Love mix.

Here’s my second card, this time using the Origami Map die:

A really quick and simple card – I simply die-cut the map out of different coloured cardstock and adhered them together slightly offset from each other. The top layer is from white cardstock for a bit of contrast.

I adhered the layered piece onto a pearlescent grey card base. The sentiment comes from the Origami Map set and was stamped onto black card with Versamark ink and heat set with white embossing powder. This was cut down to a strip and foam mounted to the card front.

I wanted the map to be the focal element of this card so kept embellishments to a minimum by only adhering a few wood veneer stars. This card could be so easily replicated and mass produced – all you have to to is change up the sentiment!

Be sure to check out the Neat & Tangled Blog to see what the rest of the DT has created – there’s one large giveaway of all the stamp sets and sequins (not including dies) to be chosen from comments all through the week. All the sets that we are showcasing this week will be released on Friday, 16 January at 8am EST in the shop!

Thanks for stopping by 😉

Runway Inspired Challenge #74

Hello there and welcome to this week’s Runway Inspired Challenge! We have another awesome inspiration photo and the chance to win a prize from Ellen Hutson.

I had so many ideas for this one (watercolour, distress inks, colour blocking) but decided to go with some heat embossing / resist. Here’s my card:

I began by stamping the various doily images from WPlus9’s Damask Doilies set onto a piece of white cardstock with Versamark Ink. I sprinkled with white embossing powder and heat set.

I then made a few puddles of ink on my craft mat with Spiced Marmalade and Wild Honey Distress Inks, spritzed with water and laid the embossed cardstock into it. I repeated this process until the non-heat embossed areas were saturated with colour.

Once the panel was dry, I sponged some Delicata Golden Glitz ink over the doilies for a bit of added sparkle (looks great in real life, but I couldn’t pick it up in my photos!). To clean up, I wiped off the excess ink from the embossed areas. I trimmed the panel at an angle and die-cut the word ‘Grateful’ using Penny Black’s Words of Gratitude.

I used the same die to cut the word out of some brown shimmer cardstock a few times and adhered them together to create a thicker die-cut. The embossed / coloured panel was adhered straight down onto a white card base and then slotted the die-cut word into place.

To finish up, I added a wood veneer butterfly, which was first coloured with co-ordinating Copic markers. I then went over it with some clear Wink of Stella before adding a generous amount of Glossy Accents. This gives you a really cute, epoxy resin like embellishment!

Be sure to stop by the Runway Inspired Challenge blog for more inspiration from the rest of the DT members!

Jennifer | Taheerah | Kristen | Aga | Tasnim | Gayatri | Lindsay | Karolyn

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Runway Inspired Challenge #73

Hello there and welcome to this week’s Runway Inspired Challenge! We have another awesome inspiration photo and the chance to win a prize from Butterfly Reflections.

Here’s my card:

I was totally inspired by the graphic style of the dress and knew I wanted to reflect that somehow on my card – of course, there are a dozen different ways that you can interpret this, but I went back to my trusty Distress Inks to create a striped background on a white card base.

This was achieved by masking off areas on the card with postit notes and then sponging various colours of Distress Inks onto the exposed areas. I wanted to be quite precise about how I did this so measured equally across the top and bottom roughly 3/8 of an inch apart for each stripe.

Once I’d laid down all the colours, I lightly spritzed with a Perfect Pearl mist and set aside to dry. I made a mark in the middle of one of the stripes and used it as a guide to line some black cardstock up to the edges of the card. This gave me two bold, angled pieces of card which I foam mounted to the card base.

I took a sentiment from Mama Elephant’s Many Thanks set and stamped it onto some red cardstock with black ink. I used a circle die to cut it out and foam mounted it above the area where the two corners of the black card meet.

To finish, I scattered a couple of wood veneer stars to break up all those straight lines.

Be sure to stop by the Runway Inspired Challenge blog for more inspiration from the rest of the DT members!

Jennifer | Taheerah | Kristen | Aga | Tasnim | Gayatri | Lindsay | Karolyn