Wednesday, February 24, 2016

w&w February Release: Day 2

Hi folks! Welcome to day 2 of the new Winnie & Walter release!


The Scenery: Into the Woods set has all your wood graining and birch tree-ing needs covered, with large negative and positive versions to stretch the entire length of your card. As large as this over-sized set is, though, I somehow focused in on the small knot in the woodgrain for both of my cards today. Sometimes that's what happens when I stare and squint at sets thinking of how I'm going to use them. I totally saw "candle flame" in that small knot.

 
I stamped that section of the woodgrain in four different colors of orange cardstock, cut them out, and layered them together.  For the wick I used a silver thread, which now I see on the enlarged photo that I should have done a better job gluing to the base of the flame! The full version of the woodgrain runs down the right side of the card.


For this card, I still focused on that knot in the wood, but only cut one layer for each element. The various sections are watercolored randomly with a tiny brush, and then arranged in a V pattern. I like the contrast of the bright colors in small doses with the sparkly gold sequins, and the gray distressed paper. The "happy birthday" sentiment on both cards is from an older set called Winter Woodland. Here I bent the sentiments slightly to follow the curve of the paper.
 
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As usual, there are many other projects on the Winnie & Walter blog that you should check out if you haven't already. The Big Giveaway is going on with a chance to win the entire release! If that's not big enough for you, The GIGANTIC Giveaway is for all the products released in 2016! Of course, there's a ton more inspiration on the personal blogs of our Talent:

   
We'll be back tomorrow with some more goodies! 
  
Thanks for looking!
-Kelly

18 comments:

  1. What a surprise - using something in a completely unexpected and utterly genius way! Woodgrain and not a tree in sight - way to show us the versatility of this set!

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  2. Just stunning! I love how you though totally out of the box Kelly :)

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  3. Love this In the Woods set. Your cards are beautiful as well. Love the colours.

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  4. Love this In the Woods set. Your cards are beautiful as well. Love the colours.

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  5. You are always so creative with your projects!

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  6. Love your Cards Kelly!
    Your creativity knows no bound!
    xx

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  7. Kelly these are both really cool cards, exactly what Ardyth said you always do something unexpected!

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  8. Girl you are brilliant! Love your "wood" flame! and the second card - I guessit brings out the hippie in you ;)

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  9. Your creativity is awesome, Kelly ... LOVE how you've used that wood knot on both cards ... the second one is particularly delicious! Hugs, Anita :)

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  10. Beautiful cards, so clever and creative use of the wood knot!

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  11. SO creative, Kelly, both of these are awesome!!

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  12. WOW candle flame(wood knot)....so clever. Love your cards.

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  13. Fabulous card...love that candle flame.

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  14. FANTASTIC! Classic Kelly! LOVE the inside of the tree as a flame and the second card, so cool. You always make me look at things differently, I love that!

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  15. Before even reading your post, Kelly, the first thing I thought when I saw the flame was that it looked like a tree knot. Way to show us how to look at our stamps differently.

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