Good morning! I am so excited to join Shay, the amazing Winnie & Walter design team, and other guests for a fun blog hop celebrating the 4th Birthday of Winnie & Walter! I created two cards for the hop following some of the challenges they’ve been posting as part of their big birthday month! I’m a little weird so I like to try to see how many challenges I can combine in a card and one of my cards fits four challenges and the other card fits three challenges! 😉
Both of my cards fit Taheerah’s Comeback challenge because they’re both loosely inspired by this pretty card from Shay! And they both fit Shay’s Four challenge!
My first card also fits Crystal’s Repetitive Stamping challenge and loosely fits Gayatri’s Inspiration challenge (I had a hard time finding a darker red pigment ink to match her darkest color). But I loved the colors in her challenge and wanted to use them to create my card. I used pigment inks to get a nice bold crisp look and stamped the word ‘happy’ from the In a Word: Happy set using Lollipop, Blush, and Pink Lemonade ink on white cardstock. I used my MISTI so I could get precise alignment of my sentiment and so I could restamp if it wasn’t perfect! 😉
Next I stamped the word onto white cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed it with gold sparkle embossing powder before die-cutting it with the coordinating die from In a Word: Happy Cutaways. I stamped the rest of the sentiment from the set onto white cardstock with lollipop pigment ink and heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder before trimming it down to a label. I adhered them to the card with foam mounting tape and then added a few gold sequins to finish the card! Four colors, four sentiment words, four sequins! 😉
My second card fits Shay’s Four challenge again but this one also fits Kelly’s Use Your Scraps challenge, and Lydia’s Die challenge! The dies were die-cut from a leftover scrap of an alcohol inked background from this video.
I used four alcohol ink colors to create the background (not including the gold foil) and of course I die-cut the word ‘happy’ four times from the In a Word: Happy Cutaways set! I adhered those to a white card base and then die-cut the ‘birthday’ from In a Word: Birthday Tiles Cutaways with gold glitter cardstock and then adhered them to my card with foam mounting tape! Again I finished the card with a sprinkling of gold sequins because you can never go wrong with sequins! 😉
To celebrate the fourth birthday of Winnie and Walter, four lucky commenters randomly selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop will each win a $40 gift certificate! Make sure you leave a comment at each hop stop for the most chances to win! Please leave your comments by 11:59 PM CST on February 28th! Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
- w&w blog
- Rubeena Ianigro
- Kelly Griglione
- Jessica Frost-Ballas
- Lea Lawson
- Laura Bassen
- Heather Hoffman
- Cheiron Brandon
- Vanessa Menhorn
- Amy Tsuruta
- Laura Sterckx
- Isha Gupta
- Taheerah Atchia
- Miriam Prantner
- Keren Baker
- Emily Leiphart
- Gayatri Murali
- Amy Kolling
- Kate Capper
- Laurie Willison
- Crystal Thompson
- Evelin Tee (instagram)
Your next stop on the hop is the fabulous Lea Lawson! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic Friday!!
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Awesome cards to celebrate W&W’s 4th birthday!
Beautiful cards… Love both of them…my fav is pink one..;)
I love blog hops because they inspire me to create!!!
Great cards to meet all the challenges. I especially like using the scraps!
Love how nice the repetition looks! This stamp is so versatile. I like the freshness in your card!
Such a wonderful use of these dies 😊
I love the soft pink colors in your first card!
Happy Birthday Winnie & Walter!!!
Fabulous cards! And created to meet criteria for different challenges… amazing!
Beautiful card!
Jessica, these happy cards are awesome! I love the bright colors and the happy, happy mood! Amazing!
Take care!
Michele
beautiful cards, love the combination of colors on the second one
Simple and stunning.
Your cards are so happy and cheerful..
Such fun and pretty cards.
Love your cards Jess! I always LOVE when I see something like your beautiful cards that I can do because I have the supplies!!! Whooohooo!
Beautiful cards.
Happy Birthday, W&W, your cards are a perfect way to celebrate!
love the colorful repetitive stamping, Jessica!
These are awesome! Love the color combos and the addition of the gold! Happy 4th birthday to W&W!
Oh my!!! Awesome cards!!! I’m totally in love for the gorgeous colours!!!
These make me HAPPY! What can I say?
Love the alcohol inks with the gold together. What a great colour combination! As always stunning Jessica!
Your cards look amazing, I love the alcohol ink die cuts. Thank you for sharing.
Love these Birthday cards! Great color and style. Love the big bold statement! Happy Birthday!