Winnie & Walter July Leading Lady: Background Building

Hello there! My name is Jessica and I am so honored to be Winnie & Walter's July Leading Lady. I've been in love with Winnie & Walter's designs since I discovered them last year. So I can't wait to share with you what I created with these amazing products. I made two cards for today's post, and they both focus on background building. Here's my first card:

EDIT: Winner at Happy Little Stampers
     

 

I decided to use Kindness with Evelin T. Designs to create a forest background for my first project. I started off by cutting three masks for the trees (left photo), then I stamped one of the smaller trees with VersaFine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Next I masked the smaller tree and stamped the two larger tree images (right photo). I then covered these images with the other two masks and continued stamping until I have covered the entire card front. 

After watercoloring all of the tree images with ZIG clean color real brush pens, I stamped the bunny image from the new Party On with Evelin T. Designs, die cut it with the coordinating dies and watercolored it as well. 

I decided to keep the sentiment pretty simple. I stamped and heat embossed "thinking of you" from Sketchy Thoughts on a piece of vellum and that completes the card! 

For my second card I decided to stretch my dies and use them creatively to create a small town scene. I used the two smaller dies from Essentials: Lana Cutaways (shown below, right photo) to make the houses. This die set is my favorite product from the January/February 2017 release, and I love the postage stamp design. But I wasn't sure how I'm going to use the smaller ticket dies until I have thought about making this project. I think dies are really so versatile and I really enjoy challenging myself to use them in different ways. 

  

I wanted to create an organic watercolor look for my houses, so I used the ink smooshing technique. The Distress inks I used are listed below:  

(left: lightest shade. right: darkest shade)

Blues: Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, Faded Jeans

Greens: Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Pine Needle 

Yellows: Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Wild Honey

Oranges: Spiced Marmalade, Carved Pumpkin

Reds: Abandoned Coral, Candid Apple, Fired Brick

Then I die cut them out and drew some doors and windows with 0.35 Copic Multiliner. I also stamped and heat embossed the adorable bears from the Big Hugs from Evelin T. Design set. After watercoloring the image with ZIG clean color real brush pens, I die cut it with the coordinating Big Hugs with Evelin T. Design Cutaways. 

I mounted some of the houses with foam tape to create some dimension to the scene. It really does make a big difference!

For the sentiment, I chose the "welcome little one" stamp from Sketchy Thoughts and heat embossed the image with silver embossing powder. I also added some pierced dots details to the sentiment banner by using the small border die from Essentials: Lana Cutaways. I then embellished the card with some rhinestones and turquoise sequins and that finishes off the card. 

Giveaway: 

Shay has generously provided me with a $30 gift certificate that I can giveaway. If you enjoyed these cards, please comment on both W&W and my blog for a chance to win! I will be posting for the remaining Saturdays of this month, so if you comment on each post you will have 4 chances to win this wonderful prize. That is all from me today. I hope you will join me next Saturday but until then, have a wonderful week!

Challenges Entered: 

   

Seven Hills Crafts: Sketch (I did a loose interpretation of the sketch for my second bear baby card. The houses are the background, the vellum banner and sequin string are the two strips, and the bear image is the circular object.) / 7Kids: ATG (I used Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock and Distress Ink Kit 1 / Kit 2) / Word Art Wednesday: ATG


Winnie & Walter: Rerun No. 21 / Happy Little Stampers: Watercolor

  
Happy Little Stampers: ATG with Dies /  Joy Clair: ATG