Little Outbursts of Creativity: Winnie & Walter

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Sunday, 26 March 2017

A blog named Hero 5 year bloghop

Today I'm super happy to have been invited to take part of the five year anniversary of A Blog Named Hero. Not only there's a lot of inspiration to be had but a FANTASTIC giveaway with great prizes.

I was a part of the ABNH DT something like three years ago and I really enjoyed the time on the team. When I started crafting, something like 9-10 years ago, Hero Arts was one of the first stamp companies I discovered. They just keep making fantastic stamps and products all the time and I don't think I will ever get over my first stamp love. Being a part of the team was super exiting for me. As a bonus I met so many incredible talented crafters that still keeps inspiring me. I also made a lot of great crafty friends, all of them very supportive and caring. It was a great team to be on.

I am thrilled getting to not only take part of this second day of the two day long blog hop, but also to hop through it myself and see all the wonderful projects. So let's stop blabbering and get to the good stuff.

I made this card using the Flower Garden stamp set. It's not a new set but I love it because of the many things you can do with it. I made a background using distress ink and stamped a floral pattern in gold on top. I used a diecut inlay technique with foil and glitter cardstock for the hear,t and then heat embossed the sentiment in the set on vellum.

GIVEAWAY INFO:

A Blog Named Hero is so thankful for our wonderful sponsors and collaborating companies! Several companies decided to help us celebrate our fifth anniversary with giveaways and they were so generous that we decided to spread the love over both hop days with different prizes to be won each day! Giveaway prizes total more than $500! To win, leave a comment on each hop stop. We will select winners randomly from different blogs so the more blogs you visit each day, the greater your chances of winning! And be sure to visit the Saturday post from A Blog Named Hero for the list of Saturday hoppers and prizes! Comments must be left before 11:59 PM EDT on Tuesday, March 28th and winners will be announced on March 30th.

Today's prizes include the following:

$50 gift card to Simon Says Stamp
$50 gift card to Gina K Designs
$25 gift card to Winnie & Walter
$25 gift card to Lawn Fawn
$20 gift card to Avery Elle
prize pack from Mama Elephant
gift card from Studio Katia
one Online Card Class of your choice
one set of distress oxide inks from Jennifer McGuire Ink

Next stop on your way is the amazing Niki Garcia

A Blog Named Hero (if you get lost on your way or want to start from the beginning)

Good luck and happy hopping!!

Mar 26, 2017 3:00:00 PM | A Blog Named Hero, Cards, Hero Arts, Winnie & Walter

Saturday, 29 October 2016

Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 5 + Giveaway

It's time for my last Leading Lady post for Winnie & Walter, I have really enjoyed making my posts, coming up with all the themes and most of all I have loved getting all the sweet comments from all of you. I want to thank the very sweet Shay for inviting me to be Leading Lady, I've looked forward to October for months.

So for my last post I saved my favourite theme, shaker cards. I really love making shaker cards, they always makes the card a bit special and fun and you get the moving element that is always a treat. And the sound, I love shaking them around. I'm such a child!

I knew right away I wanted to use the big jewel cutaway for a shaker. I would have used all of the cutaways for shakers but I think you would have been bored after a while. Anyways, back to the wonderful big diamond. I backed it with glitter paper to make it sparkle a lot. The detailing is also cut from glitter paper. I got a big pack by Crafters Companion containing glitter, shiny foil and matte foil in gold and I really want to use it on everything now. It's so pretty. I'm getting all the colors when they are back in stock. I really hope glitter won't get out of fashion because I will probably have enough for a lifetime soon, because I hoard... um... collect... it.

The background is made using distress inks and I wanted it to match the sequin mix named after adorable Walter (for those of you who don't know this, Winnie and Walter are cute little dogs). I mixes in some mica powder in water and splattered all over to make it shine even more.

For more shakers go to the Winnie & Walter blog and see my Leading Lady post for today. But first remember to leave a comment on this or any of my other Leading Lady post on my blog for a chance to win the gift card I have been given to give to one of you. It's a $30 certificate to the Winnie & Walter shop (not including shipping and handling) so you can get some of your favourite stamps or cutaways. Yay, right? I will select a winner next Saturday, Nov 5. I will be away on a crafting event all weekend so I will pop in and select the winner when I have a chance and announce it here in the blog.

I hope you have enjoyed my posts and will come back again for my regular posts. I haven't been blogging as I normally do this month due to working a lot but I will get back to my normal 2-3 posts per week again soon. Promise! And we are getting faster internet so I might start to make a few videos for my YouTube channel again, it takes so many hours to upload it now so I haven't really bothered to make them for a while now. I have some tutorials at the Spectrum Noir channel and blog though if you are interested.

In November I'll also join the 30 days coloring challenge, hosted by Kathy Racoosin (I hope I spelled that right) of The Daily Marker. So if you follow me on instagram (@miffot) you can see what I do there. I love the challenge, you should really take part if you haven't before.

Have a lovely weekend now and see you soon again I hope!

Oct 29, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, Guest DT, Winnie & Walter

Saturday, 22 October 2016

Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 4 + Giveaway

It's finally Saturday again, I hope you all have had a good week. For my post today my theme was patterned papers. I can't be the only one having a big stash of paper that I never remembers to use? On the Winnie & Walter blog you can find 3 more cards that I made for todays post using patterned papers together with Winnie & Walter stamps and cutaways.

I made this card using no stamps at all. And no coloring or inks whatsoever. If you wanted you could mass produce this card in a lot of different patterns to give to someone and it would be super quick, and still it doesn't look plain because of the dimension. I used a cutaway background plate to emboss the pattern in the background, it always looks good. I have used this technique with all kinds of dies, it works perfectly with rectangles for frames but this die is my favourite.

Now hop on over to Winnie & Walter and see my other projects.

So that's it for today. I will be back next week for my last performance as Leading Lady. I hope you will be back then. In the meantime you can take a look at my other Leading Lady posts here in the blog, I will be giving away a gift card to the Winnie & Walter shop to one of the people commenting on any of them during the month. The last post is next Saturday and I will pick a winner the week after on Nov 5. Thank you for all the lovely comments so far, I'm very happy for each and every one.

Oct 22, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, Guest DT, Winnie & Walter

Saturday, 15 October 2016

Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 3 + Giveaway

I'm back for another post over at Winnie & Walter, I can't believe it's already my third week as leading lady. I'm so happy October has five Saturdays, so I still have two weeks left to show you all the fun things I came up with using the fab stamps and cutaways.

Today's theme is stripes! I fell in love with the set Scenery: Stripes and the stamps was the inspiration that made me want to do a whole post with stripes.

I started with this card, I found a good color theme on Pinterest and tried it out on a scrap piece of paper before making a card. I don't have all the pretty ink colors in other inks than distress inks, they are better for other techniques than stamping bold images, they tend to get a bit uneven. I solved this by using my Misti stamping tool and stamped three times on top of each other and got a pretty good impression in the end. I turned it into a shaker card with vellum behind the pretty diecut heart so you can sort of see the sequins but they won't distract from the pattern on the card. I was super happy with how it turned out. Stripes are so fun and easy to customise in different colors for different looks.

In the Winnie & Walter blog I have two more striped cards to show you so hop on over there if you want to see them.

I have been given a gift card to giveaway for one of my commenters (a coupon code which does not include shipping & handling). So if you leave a comment on any of my Leading Lady posts here during the month you will have a chance to win it. You can use it in the Winnie & Walter shop and get something you love.

See you again next Saturday, I have some great cards ready to show you so I hope you will come back for that! The theme for next week is patterned papers.

Oct 15, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, Guest DT, Winnie & Walter

Saturday, 08 October 2016

Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 2 + Giveaway

I'm back for another week of Winnie & Walter creations. Today I have used book paper for my cards. I have an old book that got damaged in a move so pages was missing and I keep it close to use for mixed media projects and other crafty things. I love the texture the printed text gives to everything. For my projects today I used Gesso to cover the pages first to make sure the water from my watercoloring would not damage the pages, and I also like it when just some of the structure of the text is visible under the color.

For this card I used In Bloom: Renee's Leaves and stamped the images in black and heat embossed the images before coloring them with watercolors. I used the Essentials: Audrey Cutaways to cut out a white piece of cardstock and stamped the text from Wishing You with Evelin T Designs and gold embossed it. I adhered all my colored elements around the text for a clean and simple autumn themed card for a friend.

Please hop on over to the Winnie & Walter blog to see my other two projects for todays post, I had really fun with this technique. You should give it a try, you might like it as much as I did. Book paper should be a staple in every scrapbookers stash. But please don't go around and kill innocent books, use one that is already damaged. The whole books are better to read or give to a friend or donate. (I love books if you can't tell, I have too many even though I mostly listen to audio books or read on my Kindle nowadays. Books are still nice to have around)

Thank you for all the sweet comments and to Shay for inviting me to the Winnie & Walter blog. I have read all of your lovely comments and I will get around to answer every single one but it's been a busy week. They really made me happy so thank you. And keep commenting on any (or all) of my Leading Lady posts here this month, you will be in the drawing of a gift card (a coupon code which does not include shipping & handling) for the Winnie & Walter shop that I will give away after my last post for the month is up. My last post is on October 29 and I will draw a winner one week after that on Nov 5th. I will select a comment from one of the five Leading Lady posts here in the blog and the winner will be announced here in my blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by and make sure to visit Winnie & Walter to see the rest of my cards made for this week. And I'll be back next Saturday for more Winnie & Walter inspiration!

Oct 8, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, Guest DT, Winnie & Walter

Saturday, 01 October 2016

Leading Lady at Winnie & Walter week 1 + Giveaway

I am super excited to have been invited to be Leading Lady for October at the Winnie & Walter blog. I discovered Winnie & Walter right around when they started and has been following the blog and loving the stamps ever since. I was ridiculously happy when Shay asked me to be Leading Lady and waited (not very) patiently for October. The former Leading Ladies have been such an inspiration to me, as well as the Talent. I hope you will visit the blog to see the rest of my creations and also look at all the other posts there. AND as if that isn't enough, it's World Card Making Day and they always have the best inspiration over there.

So let's get on to the fun stuff. The projects. I instantly thought of the idea to do negative coloring. I wanted to try to mask the stamped images and color only the background. I used a few different kinds of coloring and it turned out really fun! I really love to make backgrounds and this technique is perfect for playing with colors.

For my first card I did a fall theme. I love the leaves in In Bloom: Renee's Leaves and they look perfect in all colors. The sentiment is from Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs. The Essentials: Audrey Cutaways is a perfect set of dies, I reach for it all the time, I used it to cut out the tags for the sentiment.

If I were you I would hop on over to the Winnie & Walter blog for two more projecs, more information on how I made them and last but not least all the fun inspirational WCMD events.

W&w_30giftcard

Winnie & Walter has been super generous and given me a $30 gift certificate for their shop to give away to one of you (a coupon code which does not include shipping & handling), so in the end of the month after all my five posts are up I will give it to someone who has commented on one of my Winnie & Walter posts during the month. My last post is on October 29 and I will draw a winner one week after that on Nov 5th. I will select a comment from one of the five Leading Lady posts here in the blog.

So that's it from me for this first week. I can't wait to show you what I made for next week. See you then!

Oct 1, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Blogcandy, Cards, Guest DT, Winnie & Walter

Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Stencils and AquaBlend pencils

For my tutorial at Spectrum Noir this month I did a video on how to use AquaBlend Pencils with stencils for a hand colored look. I had a lot of fun with this technique and made three cards.

You can find the whole tutorial over at the Spectrum Noir blog. Here's the cards I made.

Pencils used:Petunia, Papaya, Rose and Pineapple.
Stamps by Mama Elephant

Pencils used: Spinach, Parakeet, Aegean Blue, Opal Blue.
Die by Winnie & Walter

Pencils used: Bright Green, Verdant Green, Aegean Blue, Opal Blue.
Stamp by Lawn Fawn and die by Winnie & Walter

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and will be back again soon :)

Jun 29, 2016 8:19:00 AM | Cards, DT, Spectrum Noir, Winnie & Walter

Sunday, 08 May 2016

Chalkboard and pastels

I was playing with my AquaTints and made a background from one of the papers by die cutting it with a Winnie & Walter die and sticking it down on top of some plain white cardstock. I think the Pastel AquaTints are so soft and pretty and the background turned out really good. I stamped a speech bubble on vellum and since it was a large image and I didn't ink it up very well it ended up looking a bit chalk board-looking. I Did use my misti for this but chose not to double stamp it because it looked cool when you could see through spots of it. I flipped it over and stamped a greeting on it and attached it to the card. I like the contrast with the black on top of the pastels.

I hope you liked my card! See you soon again.

Supplies:
Aqua Tints 05, 25, 35
Stamps by Sinom Says Stamp, die by Winnie & Walter

May 8, 2016 10:00:00 AM | Cards, DT, Spectrum Noir, Winnie & Walter

Monday, 25 January 2016

Hello

I wanted to try blending my Aqua Tints using those mini ink blending foam to see how it worked. I would say it probably depends a bit on the paper you use (just like when you blend distress ink) but you can get pretty good results and it uses less ink than when you paint it on. I just used the droppers to drop straight onto the foam and blended in circular motions. After I was done I just rinsed out the foam so I can re-use it. I used colors from the Pretty Pastel set to get a soft background.

I discut the hello using a Winnie & Walter die and some tiny hearts for decoration. The top is cut with a Mama Elephant die. I also doodled some dots for detail and finished of by painting little dots of the clear Sparkle pen by Spectrum Noir randomly over the background to give it some shimmer.

Aqua Tints 55, 35, 39.
Spectrum Sparkle: clear.
Dies by Winnie and Walter and Mama Elephant.

Jan 25, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, DT, Spectrum Noir, Winnie & Walter

Friday, 22 January 2016

January challenge at Spectrum Noir

Well, I'm a bit late to post this card for the January challenge at Spectrum Noir but there is still time to join. The theme is Anything Goes so you can really make anything as long as you use Spectrum Noir products. So go have fun!

I gave no line coloring another go. Sort of. I stamped with the same colors I colored with and it helped a lot not thinking of it as no line coloring. I know it's weird but for some reason as soon as I think I should do no line coloring I just get stuck and think it's so hard. This was not very hard at all, I just colored as I would normally with the difference being the lines were the same colors. I'm complicated I guess ;)

I do adore this stamp set by Winnie & Walter, I love coloring flowers and Addie's Garden is a very pretty floral set. And I only used two markers, so you really don't need all the things (but you didn't hear it from me and please don't tell my husband...).

Spectrum Aquas used: Scarlet and Moss.
Stamps by Winnie & Walter: In Bloom: Addie's Garden.

Jan 22, 2016 2:00:00 PM | Cards, DT, Spectrum Noir, Winnie & Walter

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