Snow Day Card Making!

Hello again friends!

I am super excited to share the card I've made today, my little sister, Addison, asked me to make her a card and "surprise her" with the theme. Normally, I don't get to work with many stamps that aren't for team projects, that doesn't mean that I don't collect other's that I want to eventually work with! Today was a snow day from work, we have a bit of a winter storm going on here in Washington right now. Card making felt like the perfect thing to break up the movies and cleaning that have been running my life the last 4 days!

Addison is obsessed with unicorns, and I have accumulated a ton in my collection. Today, I broke out the "Be a Unicorn" set from The Greeting Farm. I absolutely LOVE the personality on these unicorns. I decided to do a watercolor technique that I learned at Creativation from Catherine Pooler using her ink pads.  On the unicorn on the left, I used All That Jazz and Be Mine, the unicorn on the right is Grape Crush and It's a Girl. I used the opposite color of the body on the girl's horns, then added a touch of Wink of Stella.

For the background, I used Altenew's Kind Confetti that I purchased from Kraftgali.  I stamped the confetti 3 times. I started with Catherine Pooler's Lime Rickey, then Something Borrowed, and finished with Royal Treatment. I love the fun pattern it created.  I went ahead and added the sentiment using silver Encore ink, "Do what makes you sparkle" completely fits my little sister's personality. 

I built off a white card base, then added some pink Mirror Card Stock from The Stamp Doctor. I added a strip of silver sparkly ribbon, then added my stamped base and adorable unicorns!

I hope that you enjoy the card as much as I enjoyed making it! Hopefully, Addison will like it too!

~R. Winn

Ode to England

What a fun day to share not one, but two stamp sets! 

I'm excited to share a project for the Beth Duff Designs and Witt and Sass collaboration blog hop. Both companies have new England themed stamp set coming out, and we thought why not tag team for a joint blog hop. The Beth Duff Designs set is Adventure Abroad - England. For Witt & Sass, we have a wonderful British sentiment set, Fabulously Gobsmacked.

First, I colored my London Bridge from the Adventure Abroad Set, using multiple shades of Copic Gray, and finished it off with some light blues for the lighted sections. I wanted to build a scene where it appeared my bus was about to head over the bridge (once it comes back down of course!) 

To do so, I chose a light gray cardstock to build my scene on to, depicting a grey skied London. With my Layered Clouds Stencil from Witt and Sass, I used some Altenew grey mini cube inks, and added bases of white. 

To create my river, I used different alcohol inks from Kraftgali and cut my Yupo paper down to fit. For my buildings, I used two colors of tan cardstock and the Sweet Stamp Shop City Border die cut, which I cut bits from to create a unique city that was layered. 

Next, it was time to pick my sentiments from Fabulously Godsmacked! This set has SO many good words and phrases that it was hard to pick. I landed on two, "I'm gutted" because my sweet Scottish friend, Connie, says it to me often, and "I miss you" because it is true, I miss her! (She's totally getting this card... eventually!)

I placed them on some mini banners from an old Stampin' Up kit (hoarder here!) and stamped them with VersaFine Clair black ink! I placed them on dimensionals to really make them pop, and staggered them in the sky. 

I used some DCWV burgundy card stock to layer the card face on and then grabbed one of the tan sheets I used for the buildings for the base.

We are happy to have you hopping along with us! Our team and guest designers have created some amazing projects to share with you. Hop along to get some great inspiration from both Beth Duff Designs and Witt & Sass.

Mindy

Marcia

Annabel

Amy

Emma

Fawn

Annie

Rachel (You found me!)

Niccole

BDD

I hope you've enjoyed my card featuring these awesome sets, and hope we've inspired you to go snag sets for yourself! 

~R. Winn

Little Red - Guest Design for Heartcraft Paper

Hello again friends!

I am super excited to introduce to my friends, HeartcraftPaper, a new digi company. I was lucky enough to be chosen as a Guest Designer for HeartcraftPaper and get to share, Little Red with you today.

I created two card using this cutie. My first, I went with a very traditional version of Little Red. I used Copic markers to color her. My background papers are from LDRS Creative, I hand cut the hill, so it's a bit rough, but crafting from work means using what I've got. The background is a mossy green from Stampin' Up. 

To finish the card up, I used Kindred Stamps' Ladybugs Shaker Pack and picked a few of each color, and the ladybugs out, then spread them over the front of the card at random. Last, I took the "Be Brave" sentiment from the Neat And Tangled Layered Landscapes stamp set, purchased from Kraftgali, with a dark green Altenew ink on a white die cut strip of cardstock and layered it on a black piece of card stock.

My next card, I took a left turn somewhere and never turned back around... I decided Little Red would make an adorable Elvish girl, I made her larger (my favorite part about digis is picking my own size to print them in!) Then I colored her with Copics in the BG tone family. I decided to give her a dark blue cloak this time, and colored her skirt a more peachy color. 

I was kinda stuck on a background for her, my friend Marcia, suggested I go with large flowers and man, she was SO right (thank you for always having my back miss!). I started with a pink ombre paper that a friend had sent me, then picked out two (retired) Stampin' Up floral sets. I stamped some straight on the paper and others on white card stock then die cut them and used some Zots to pop them up off the paper a little. I used Dimensionals to pop my little Elf up off the background.  

I finished the card by using a "hello" sentiment die cut (it was before I started keeping track of what came from where!) and a sticker paper pad so that I could put directly on the card!

I'm super excited about HeartcraftPaper and their adorable designs. I hope you'll check them out!

Until next time,

R. Winn

Roll With Me!

Ok, so Beth Duff Designs released some absolutely fantastic sets last month, including this cute sushi set, Roll With Me. I absolutely love it.  The images (who doesn't thing a shrimp roll is adorable when it's smiling at you?), the fun sentiments, the cute fonts... it's all fantastic!

After the hustle and bustle of the release, I wanted to make some simple, cute cards with the No-Line Technique (yeah, I'm obsessed). These images are perfect for a beginner in this technique since they are nice and big and clean.

I broke out the Copic and Chameleon markers again for the no-line coloring with my InkOn3 Fade-Out ink. I was worried about being able to color the seaweed wrap and the eggs for the sushi but overall I am pretty pleased with it! I think my biggest suggestion for starting this technique is go slowly. The chopsticks were colored in skin tone colors.

For the background, I broke out some origami paper that I bought at Dasio a few months ago, because it was too pretty to leave behind. HA!

My next card was the same concept, cute images, origami paper, fun sentiment. I decided to make the soy sauce bottle have room in the bottle. In order to make them have the faces, I used my MISTI, lined up the stamp with my colored in image and used a black marker to get the faces stamped. 

I really wanted the shrimp to have the lines so I layered the colors on and then used my blender marker to blend them all together and have the clear/white portion of the shrimp exist.  I really wanted the sentiment to POP, so I chose a yellow from my Altenew quad to stamp onto a precut strip. 

I hope you all enjoyed my quick, simple cards and I can't wait to see what YOU make with these adorable stamps!

~R. Winn

Quick Fun Makes With Manatee Love!

So, one of the adorable sets that Beth Duff Designs released this Spring, is our Get Kids Crafty Exclusive, Manatee Love.  I NEEDED it, the second I saw it!


As you know, I've been obsessed with No-Line Coloring lately. I used my InkOn3 Fade-Out Ink and stamped out the manatees to color. I used a combination of Copic Markers and Brutus Monroe StyleFile Markers to color the cuties. I wasn't sure what I was going to with them, but they begged to be colored.

For this little heart hugging guy, I decided on a bookmark. My sister sent me a link to some bookmarks on Amazon, and I decided to give them a go!  This project probably took me 10-15 minutes total, INCLUDING the No Line Coloring.

I used my new Altenew Ink Cubes that I got from Crafty Doodle Chick (that link will get you 5% off your first purchase, and I will get points too!). I used various green and pink shades and stamped out the seaweed and clam shells. For the "Hi there", I stuck with my favorite sentiment ink, Versafine in black.

Next, I put my fussycut manatee on a piece of navy cardstock, and added some Nuvo drops around the outside to make it glossy, like water!

To finish it off, I took this fun rainbow ribbon from Fun Stamper's Journey (that's my friend Alex's link, she's pretty amazing and SO SO helpful. I bought it to use with all of my unicorn stamps, but I love the burst of color from the top of the bookmark. My family is full of readers, so I'm sure one of them will get to enjoy this cutie!


Next, I had to used this hilarious sentiment. I just love it. Well, it doesn't really fit on a bookmark does it?  I have a TON of pre-made card bases, so I snagged this aqua striped base from my stack.  I love the idea of this happy little guy brightening someone's rough day.

I used Kat Scrappiness's (my referral link!) Double Stitched Rectangle Die with Stampin' Up Brown Sugar Cardstock for the sentiment, which was stamped in Versafine.  Underneath, I layered a piece of gold cardstock that was pre-embossed with scales.

The left side of the card felt really empty to me, so I took my Kindred Stamps (you get 10% off your first purchase, and I get points!) Mermaid Princess Shaker Pack and some Tombow glue and built a shiny little something in the top left corner. I added a blue shell to the bottom right of the sentiment too. To finish the card off, I used my Kat Scrappiness Clear Droplet Sampler Pack for some air bubbles!

This card probably took me about 20 minutes, that may have been in part because I had too much fun building my shiny something. HEHE!

I hope you enjoyed my projects, and that they have inspired you too look around and find those quick projects that you can sneak between the duties of life! And that you aren't TOO annoyed by all my links, after all, a referral is the biggest complement you can give, and I only shop from the best. Good customer service, a friendly attitude, and a willingness to go the extra mile in the craft industry is SO important. I LOVE shopping from these small business and getting to know the people behind my craft addiction!

Until next time,

~R. Winn