Wonderfully Watermelon Thank You Card

Hi Folks! I'm excited to share a project inspired by the most recent edition of The Gossip Column by Taheerah Atchia on the Winnie & Walter blog today! Each month Taheerah puts so much effort into her fascinating articles. If you are inspired like me, don't forget there are still two weeks left in the contest where you could win generous Winnie & Walter gift certificates just by linking up your project!
  
 

 

Thanks for looking!

-Kelly

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and CardMaker Magazine Blog Hop

    Hello Folks! Today the fabulous teams at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and CardMaker Magazine are joining forces to showcase all things floral. Fun! You may have come from CardMaker Magazine, but if not, feel free to head there to hop from the beginning.

This card uses several old and new CAS-ual Fridays Stamps, featuring a twirling ballerina from the popular Tutu (which is now back in stock), a sentiment from Puffy Heart Love, a subtle border of flowers on top from Full on Floral, and a textured ground from Starlequin. Lots of different sets, but they all go together so well!

  For the tutu, I loosely watercolored the different flowers, and then decided it would be fun to make an additional tutu and layer on the first to let it really shine.

After masking off all but the bottom of the card and sponging ink to ground the sentiment, it still looked a little unfinished, so I stamped the harlequin pattern in the same color ink. The "Mwah" sentiment is inked with the lighter color orange first, and then some darker orange colors on the ends.

  If you're in the mood for these, or other florals, there is an entire Florals section at CAS-ual Fridays. Don't forget, you can use the KELLY2017 code to get 15% off any of your stamp or die purchases there.

 

Your next stop on the hop is Jen Shults, who I'm sure has something gorgeous to share with you!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
-Kelly

W&W Rerun - Sugar Rush

Hi Folks! It's time to bring out another oldie but goodie at Winnie & Walter for the Rerun Challenge! This month we're featuring the birthday staple Sugar Rush. I've always loved that cupcake piled high with frosting, and the cute cake stand.

  

This week I had the pleasure of attending a mixed media class in Milwaukee taught by none other than Dyan Realveley, the self professed "weird one" at Ranger. Every time I see her at CHA my head spins as I turn through her art journals. Total fan girl. I don't have any experience with mixed media, but my admiration of Dyan's work is so high that it prompted me to enroll in her class so I could pick up a few things. She actually taught us how to create a basic page! It came down to this formula:

1) Pick three warm or cool colors.

2) Put a base coat of a light color on your surface

3) Blend in another color in a triangle around the card

4) Use a dark color to blend on the edges

5) lightly stencil in a triangle around the card with the lightest two colors

6) stamp a border

After making a few pages following these guidelines I decided to see what would happen if I made a card in this same manner. For the stencils I used Creative Screenings Scenery: Big Bang Circle, and Scenery: The Leaf Effect, and the border is from Scenery: The Party Hangover. It was a very fun experiment in letting go and not planning anything before putting ink to paper.

 

Head on over to the Winnie & Walter blog to find out details on how to participate in the rerun challenge, which is open throughout the month. Don't forget there is also a giveaway, AND the featured set is on sale.

Thanks for looking!
-Kelly

Winner, Winner!

Hello Folks! 

Great news, we have a winner of the FIFTY DOLLAR GIFT CERTIFICATE to Ellen Hutson!!!

Mr. Random picked Ms. Anita From France!

Anita in FranceJune 11, 2017 at 7:02 AM

Wow, Kelly, your enthusiasm and energy come shining through your EH post and through each awesome card ... as ever, such clever, creative and innovative ideas! They're all brilliant ... I'm especially taken with the balloon cards and the colouring of one number, they're so bright, vibrant and celebratory ... and with that adorable little fawn peeking out from behind the Hi, such a sweetie! Hugs, Anita :)

Anita, you have some serious shopping to do! Also thanks very much to Teresa Doyle for the note on this!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Kelly 

CFS Release - Puffy Heart Love

Hi Folks! It's official, I puffy heart love the new set from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps called ... Puffy Heart Love! What's not to love about this beautifully scripted font that incorporates a heart? It's the kind of stamp that can absolutely carry a card all on its own, without any other embellishments. For this card I stamped the sentiment directly to the black card base, and then again on the pink patterned paper. I cut inside the lines of the pink heart and adhered it on top of the black base.

The sentiment on this card is similarly embossed in white, and then I blended a rainbow of inks on the card base. After I was done I wasn't thrilled with how the heart blended in with the rest of the sentiment, so I made a mask by stamping the sentiment on a scrap piece of paper, cutting out the inside of the heart, and using it as a stencil to blend blue ink inside the heart. 

After I was done, I just couldn't throw the stencil scrap away, so it got turned into a card! It's the bottom left card. Since I only intended to use it for a stencil, the black ink does not have a solid impression, but I thought it had a nice shabby chic look to it. The ink from the stenciling makes a nice spotlight on the heart. And since the inside of the heart was missing, I was able to easily see what patterned paper looked good by holding the stencil over a bunch of different patterns.

There are several other cute sentiments in this set, but I couldn't stop using the puffy heart one.

 Check out the rest of the Ink Squad to see more awesome projects with these stamps. All the stamps you see this week will be released TODAY! And don't forget, the code KELLY2017 works on everything, including retiring items, sale items, and even these new release items.

Thanks for looking!

-Kelly

CFS Release - Mermaids

Hi Folks! Yesterday we got to meet all the pretty ballerinas in the current CAS-ual Fridays Stamps release, now today we get to see the adorable mermaids! This cutie is floating along in the ocean admiring the glittery pink shell she collected from the shore.

For the ocean, I dropped some water on the blended ink, and also stamped some bubbles that come with the set. To continue with the under water theme, the sentiments are actually made up of tiny bubbles!

There are several other stamps included with this set that I didn't use on the front of the card, so I thought they would work well on the INSIDE of the card, like the coral and starfish! The sentiment is another bubbly creation, and to finish the thought, I hand wrote "and" above it. Not everything needs to be stamped, right? This occurred to me after I spent 15 minutes looking for a set that has the right sized word "and" in it. So silly of me!

 Check out the rest of the Ink Squad to see more awesome projects with these stamps. All the stamps you see this week will be released on Friday, August 4th. And don't forget, the code KELLY2017 works on everything, including retiring items, sale items, and even these new release items.

Thanks for looking!

-Kelly

CFS Release - Tutu

 Hi Folks! If you have any little girls in your life, you are going to love this new stamp set from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps! It's a set of ballerinas ... with flower tutus!! Ack. Adorbs!


This is one of the quickest cards to make, as you're only stamping this ballerina a couple times in different colors, and then the twirly sentiment below it. I added a few sequins to the tutu to pretty it up a little more. And that's it!

I love them all lined up like this and overlapping.

 I used that same idea to create a whole troop of ballerinas in blues and greens (lighter images with second generation stamping) and then added the star of the show ... Ms. Pink Ballerina in the middle of her big ballet pose!

The sentiment is from an existing set called Whole Shebang and fits quite nicely with these pretty ballerinas.
   

 Check out the rest of the Ink Squad to see more awesome projects with these stamps. All the stamps you see this week will be released on Friday, August 4th. And don't forget, the code KELLY2017 works on everything, including retiring items, sale items, and even these new release items.

Thanks for looking!

-Kelly