Feminine & Masculine Birthdays!
Hi readers!! Happy Sunday to you!! We’re happy to be celebrating Winnie & Walter today on our blog; another great stamp company that joined in our STAMPtember® festivities!
Enjoy!
Hello, Shay of Winnie & Walter here! Julie Mogford and I are so thrilled to be able to share in the STAMPtember® festivities! Simon Says Stamp holds a very special place in our hearts as so this is a very joyous month for us as well.
Today I wanted to share a couple of projects I made using our A Tree for All Seasons stamp set.
These cards began with the same central element (watercolored leaf panel) and design, but then by altering a few items I was able to make a more masculine and then a more feminine version.
How I Made the Cards:
For both cards: Stamp cat’s eye shaped leaf from stamp set in Versamark randomly and repeatedly on a piece of 4.25 x 5.5 white cardstock. Heat emboss with gold embossing powder. Paint over leaf panel with distress ink diluted with water making sure to blend colors. Cut panel in half lengthwise so then you have two (2) 2.125 x 5.5 inch leaf panels.
Masculine version: Adhere a layer of navy cardstock behind the left hand side. Stamp sentiment with Versamark onto piece of orange cardstock and heat emboss with gold embossing powder. Adhere on leaf panel. With dimensional foam adhesive add leaf panel to the right hand side of white A2 card.
Feminine version: Stamp sentiment with Versamark on a piece of vellum using powder tool applicator or embossing magic powder bag to dust powder over vellum before embossing (works wonders and especially needed for vellum). Sew sentiment to leaf panel. Go over thread with gold Wink of Stella pen. Cut out 2 vellum scallop edges from die and adhere on both sides behind the leaf panel. Place leaf panel on a white A2 card with dimensional foam adhesive. In Versamark stamp larger flower from stamp set 5 times on vellum and gold emboss. Fussy cut out flowers. Add to leaf panel. Top each flower with a pearl center.
Easy right? We hope you are inspired to try making masculine and feminine version of cards too and we would love to see them if you did.
Happiest of STAMPtember® to you!
Julie and Shay of Winnie & Walter
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Shay & Julie for the fabulous inspiration!
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Love the colors!
DELIGHTFUL pair of cards Shay!!!
I LOVE this W&W stamp set and I LOVE how you have used the leaves to create your GORGEOUS embossed watercolor panels!!! WOW – LOVE BOTH versions – I’m always on the lookout for masculine cards, think I will be trying your idea and using some panels for some feminine cards too :)
THANK YOU for sharing your CREATIVE INSPIRATION!!!
Great cards! I love the colors in them!!
I have such a hard time with guy cards. I have to stop myself from putting glitter on them. I already follow by email.
Very pretty Shay. Goes without me saying …but LOVE W&W! :D
Great pair of cards from the one beautiful panel. Lovely embossing and beautiful birthday cards!
Super cards! I always use clear or white embossing then sponge color over it but using the gold is beautiful. hope you don’t mind but think I’m going to re-design this card a bit for a thanksgiving card for an upcoming class of mine. thanks so much for sharing
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Beautiful set of cards!!! Masculine cards are not very easy to make, this gives us many ideas!! Thanks for the inspiration.
I have made masculine/feminine cards before, but not by design. It has always been a happy accident! Masculine does not come easily to me. The panel created has just enough “bling” to be perfect. Great cards! Thank you!
Such a gorgeous set of cards. Thanks for the inspiration. Love the masculine and feminine designs!!!
Just love the color combos…the gold embossing is awesome. I love the versatility of your desgin
Love that leaf background!
Great cards, Shay!
So beautiful! Love the color combo and how elegant your layout is:)
LOVE the gold embossing and the sponged backgrounds! so beautiful together!!
Really stunning cards!! I love the leaf gold embossed!! :)
Love the gold and such a great technique!
Great cards & colors! TFS ;-)
I love the combo of the gold embossing with the soft distress markers background.
Beautiful colours!
So pretty-love how by just changing a few touches, the cards look so different. Love the gold embossing too!
Lovely cards – so neat to see how much some simple changes can change the feel of the card. Wonderful choices on the alterations. Thanks for the inspiration!
Great cards. Love the gold embossing and of course the background colors.
Amazing how a little bling can change a card.
The gold embossing is looking graceful with distress background, Love both the cards!!!
Gorgeous!
Love the background colors and the versions! I masculine cards to be a challenge for me and this gave me some great ideas. Thank you for the tutorial. Lovely cards!!
Great idea! I love how one element can transform it completely.
Both cards are outstanding! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love these colors and always love leaf shapes so these cards are winners indeed!
Awesome cards, Shay! I love the look of the gold embossing with the distress inks… and you know I love me some Winnie & Walter! :)
Cool look with the gold embossing!
Great way to show how a few changes can really change the tone and feel of a card.
Love the background! Only one stamp–but so awesome!
Clever making the card two ways!
Love the card pair, the leaves are so pretty!
It’s so wonderful that you created two cards with pretty much the same supplies but one is great for anyone (including guys) one is wonderful for women! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
I like the colours and embossing; they seem to fit perfect with this Autumn! Allways super to see 2 different cards with the same suplies!
Love this set from Winnie & Walter…lots of versatility. Both cards are perfect…the colored panel is gorgeous.
Love the idea of cutting the panel in half, adding a few additions and having two gorgeous cards.
It was fun to see both masculine and female versions of the card. We all struggle with the masculine cards, so this was nice to see it done using the same stamp set and design.
these are beautiful! thanks for sharing
love the stamps and the color combinations.
Great inspiration!
Love both cards!
Two cards from the inspiration for one. You can’t beat that and both are lovely. Love the Fall colors and theme, too!
These are gorgeous cards!
Gorgeous cards!
Oh my! I love this–great technique and so gorgeous!
These came out fabulous. Love the leaf print.