Winnie & Walter: The Party and a Hangover

Hi all! Here’s my favorite set from the new Winnie & Walter release … named quite simply, “The Party”. A basic title, for a really good, solid, basic party set.

One of the neat things in this set is the party lantern pieces. There’s a large and a small lantern, so you can create your own look. I’ve used one large, two small, and the smaller sized tassel on this card. So much fun to color in those lanterns! You can alternate colors like I have here with colored pencils, keep it to shades of one color, or make them into a rainbow. So many possibilities. I cut the fringe of the golden tassel so it attracts more attention.

The golden scalloped line is from The Hangover set, also being released now. It’s designed so you can HANG all sorts of party elements from it. Quite a clever name, right? The background on the top of this card is the result of another Laura Bassen smooshing technique with three different distress inks. When using a smaller sentiment stamp for the main message I like to stamp it a couple different times to give it more visual weight. In this case it also goes along with the party theme, like if someone’s had a few too many drinks and is having trouble seeing straight : ) 

Finally, “it’s your birthday” is from one of my favorite previously released sets called Bubble Talk. I stamped it on white paper first so I could hold it over the card and better visualize what it will look like (didn’t want to mess up the good smooshing). I decided that it looked fine as it was on the strip, and just adhered that strip to the bottom of the card. 

 

   

Oh how I love these large round balloons! Another Pinterest trend that I’d like to try in real life (I always like when Dear Lizzy uses them in her photo shoots). I wanted these balloons to be the star of the show so I clustered several of them together. Metallic thread is taped to the backs of each balloon and loosely gathered together at the ends. The sentiment is one stamp with two different inks. 

Here’s how I got the watercolored balloons. More smooshing onto a scratch piece of cardstock, and then choosing which areas to stamp the balloons. You can take advantage of the water spots and position those to be in the same area to make the glare on the balloons.
   

 

While the balloons are all solid colors here, you could certainly make multi-colored balloons, depending on where you stamped the balloon on your watercolored paper.  Lots of fun ways to play with these!

 

Well, you’ve made it to the end of this release! Thanks ever so much for stopping in to check out what's new during this week. The stamps, cutaways (dies), free stamp set, and even a custom sequin mix from Pretty Pink Posh go on sale at Winnie & Walter this evening!

 Can't wait to see what you pick out!

-Kelly

Fusion: 5th Birthday Shaker Card

I'm usually not one to pick the sketch over the photo in the Fusion Challenge, but after I make a few heart cards, the desire to make more of them starts to die. So I picked the sketch this time!

Here's my plan: use the large circle as the home for my shaker, the horizontal line for my sentiment, and then put a bunch of vertical things on the bottom.

And that's pretty much exactly how it turned out! I like putting names on cards for kids because it's more personal, and I think they always like seeing their own name. When you're under 10 years old, it's definitely all about YOU!

I also always put names on new baby cards ... more than a few times the mom will get emotional and say that's the first time she's seen her baby's name on anything. It tends to make a bigger impact.

No foam tape here, I just used the same dies that I did for the paper and cut the circle and "5" out of chipboard. Everything is even that way. No lumps over time when it gets squished in a pile. Although I've made a few shaker cards, this will be the first one I send to a child. I can't wait to see how she likes it!

Thanks so much for looking!
-Kelly

Winnie & Walter: Sugar Rush

Hi all! Who is dying to have one of those ombre birthday cakes you see on Pinterest all the time?! Right? They are so trendy!

  

 

  

In keeping with this trend, I made my own ombre birthday cake from Winnie& Walter’s new Sugar Rush set by cutting out the cake image and blending it with picked raspberrydistress ink (good thing I looked up the ink color before posting this ... I always said it in my head as "pickled raspberry"! Eww, I don't even want to know what pickled raspberries would taste like.) Then I stamped the sentiment INSIDE the cake. OK, seriously, it is so awesome that the words in this set are sized to fit in the cake.

This set also comes with a cake (or cupcake, or donut pile) stand. The bottom of the card uses papers from Dear Lizzy's Neapolatin collection. The silver stamped design on the pink paper is from a set called The Hangover which you’ll see more of tomorrow. The centers are empty, so I colored them in with a white gel pen. 

   Here’s the adorable cupcake stamp with the yummy frosting! I used my new Copics to color the wrappers in single tones. I made a few more of these cupcakes, since I wasn’t sure what combination I was going to settle on, so those will be good to dress up the inside of another birthday card later. For the sentiment, I borrowed an “e” and a “s” to add to the end of “WISH”. Again, another birthday card that doesn’t completely say “Happy Birthday”. Plus it fills the space nicely!

Since it’s Winnie & Walter’s first birthday month, they’ve created an exclusive stamp set that they’ll be GIVING AWAY FREE with a qualifying purchase! It’s super cute, with a sparkler theme. Here’s a card I made earlier this week using some of the sentiments from that set. I really can’t wait to play with it some more.

I sure hope you’ve enjoyed seeing the new Winnie & Walter sets over these last three days. Come back for the final day tomorrow for my absolute favorite set of them all!

Thanks for looking!

-Kelly