STAMPtember® Feature: Winnie & Walter
Hi crafty friends! Welcome to our 2nd to last STAMPtember 2016 brand feature. Today we’re so happy to be spotlighting the sweet and talented Shay and team behind Winnie & Walter on the blog today! In keeping in line with our features, we’re also offering a special limited time discount on all in stock Winne & Walter branded products with the code mentioned above. Be sure to shop early for the best selection as always! I was so blown away by the blended beauties Heather Hoffman created below! Read on for more details and supplies, and enjoy!
I recently stumbled upon a technique that I have loved and had so much fun recreating – using dual layers of embossing and distress inking to create a fun, dimensional, and fairly flat card that is easy to mail!
I put this set together with a couple gorgeous Winnie and Walter sets – In Bloom: Renee’s Leaves (perfect for fall) and The Big, the Bold, and The Blessing (with Winnie and Walter’s signature font that made me and so many others fall in love with them from the start)!
I used my Mini MISTI to easily create the four by doing them all at once. The secret is to stamp all the foliage in Clear Embossing Ink, then stamp the words in Black Versafine ink, THEN all at once, sprinkle clear embossing powder over all of it. This way you have one layer of embossing, but the sentiment can stand out from the leaves behind it.
Here is a closer look at what you have – the leaves are almost invisible at first!
And then like magic, when you add the distress ink blended over the top – the leaves pop out white! I played with distress inks until I found a few combos I liked, then used my foam blenders to apply the ink. My favorite paper for this technique is SSS White 120 lb Cardstock – it is so super smooth that the distress inks blend over it beautifully, and it is thick enough to stand up to all the heat from the embossing without warping too bad.
Once that was done, splashed some water over each of them, as well as some white paint splatters by thinning down some white acrylic paint with water in a Mini Mister and flicking that on. I die cut them with the largest SSS Stitched Rectangle Die, and added a very thin black mat before mounting on white cardbases and adding a few Sparkling Clear Pretty Pink Posh sequins.
Here is a closer look at each of them – this first one uses Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin, and Candied Apple:
This one uses Shabby Shutters, Stormy Sky, and Rusty Hinge:
Next up Spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron, and Peacock Feathers:
And finally, Fossilized Amber, Fired Brick, and Seedless Preserves:
Supplies:
Thanks for reading today and thanks again to Heather for providing this gorgeous inspiration! Stay tuned for tomorrow… we are revealing our exclusive with Newton’s Nook, and it is TOO cute!
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Amazing backgrounds! Love this!
What fun cards. Looks like an easy way to create lots of cards at one time. Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow gorgeous cards! Love this technique and can’t wait to give it a try.
Wow, what beautiful background colors. Definitely want to try that all at once embossing technique. Wonderful job!
These cards are beautiful!!! The ink blending is amazing!!
Gorgeous cards, I love all of the different colourful backgrounds!
Love Winnie & Walter!! One of my favorite stamp companies :) They make such happy and cute stamps!!!
beautiful colors on these cards. . . . nice embosssing technique
These cards are so pretty! I love how the leaves pop off the card :)
Stunning cards!! I love all the different color blends you have used!! They are all so pretty and colorful!!! Winnie & Walter have some great sets to make creating fun!! TFS!
Oh my. So many fabulous Stamptember creations and stamps!
What gorgeous cards! Beautiful stamps!
Hello Heather! Your color combinations are spot on, absolutely beautiful. Love your cards. Thanks for sharing them with us! Denise
Awesome color combo’s! Love when a card stands out with color.
These are just stunning, Heather! I can’t wait to try this myself. SSS, thanks for fixing whatever was wrong when viewing your posts on my iPad.
Wow!! Beautiful cards!! Lovely color combos!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Lovely fall cards!
I love the gorgeous background!! Beautiful cards!!
The Mini Misti is on my wish list..
Oh wow–gotta say, this is one of my top 3 favorites of Stamptember! Absolutely love Heather’s cards using this fabulous set!
Oops–now I see Heather used current sets. I already have the leaves in my cart!
Aren’t these just beautiful? One of the things I love about distress inks is that they all blend together so well…no matter the colors. Lovely designs from Winnie & Walter as well.
beautiful fall cards – leaves are a favorite image of mine
Love all the different background colors.
I really like the variety of leaves in this stamp set. Really nice Distress backgrounds, too.
Beautiful embossing
and gorgeous designs
for these cards.
Carla from Utah
These are just gorgeous!
I love them! I have to try this…so very beautiful! Hugs, Robin
Wow! Gorgeous colors, stunning CAS design! Love them :)
These blended backgrounds are so beautiful!
This is a beautiful fall stamp set and lovely cards!
Need to mass produce some cards…thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful cards and backgrounds.
Great cards! I always like bright ink behind white stamping.
This is soooooo clever! I’m sure glad that there are creative folks like you out there in blogland that come up with these GREAT ideas and share them with us! Never in a kazillion years would I have thought to do this! Fabulous results, gorgeous colors, tons of inspiration…thanks!
Beautiful cards. I love the way the sentiment seems to jump forward off the card.
Absolutely, positively gorgeous! I love how these stamp sets are paired so well. They are both on my wishlist!!! Thanks for sharing all the fabulous inspiration!!
The stamped leaves are beautiful against the beautiful backgrounds!!
Love your cards!!
The colours are beautiful and your method is great!
Great cards! I love the vibrant colors!
Beautiful cards! Love the leaf stamps and the sentiments!
Awesome cards! I love the ink colors and the wonderful sentiment. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful set of colorful cards and great technique.
I think the Winnie and Walter “big and the bold” collection of stamps are so handy to have because they make creating sentiments so easy! I’m glad to have another idea of how to use them!
Wow!! These are Amazing!!! Love the colorful backgrounds!!!
I really love this gorgeous collection of cards Heather, it’s a great way to create a stunning card and I love the gorgeous Winnie and Walter stamp set that you’ve used.
Thanks for a great new technique and a beautiful set of fall cards!
I love the In Bloom series by W & W… It’s my favorite by the brand! 8-)
Beautiful cards!! I love inking over embossing also…I could just do that all day long!!
Beautiful cards! I really like W&W’s sentiments.
Very pretty
Really love how the colors make those white leaves pop. Each color combination is as lovely as the next. I am definitely going to try this technique. TFS