Kindness with Brusho Background - Winnie & Walter

Hi, Friends.......

I am back again with another cactus card I made for the Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July. Take a look at the fabulous inspiration photo and color palette that Heather H. chose for this month....YUM!!

I have been having the best time playing with my Winnie & Walter - Kindness with Evelin T Designs stamp set for the current W&W Rerun Challenge. As I mentioned in a previous post, I made a huge crafty mess with Brushos and Dylusions sprays for backgrounds and die cuts. Here's one I did using my favorite stamps in the set: the cactuses. <3 <3 <3 I matted it in black to accentuate the bold colors in the background.

Supplies used include:
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Winnie & Walter - Kindness wth Evelin T Designs stamp set
Versafine Ink - Black Onyx
Dylusions Ink Spray
Brusho
Distress Ink - Walnut Stain for shadows
Pretty Pink Posh - Sparkling Clear Mix sequins

Hope you have enjoyed my cards for the W&W Rerun Challenge. It has been so much fun using my new stamp set. I know I am going to be reaching for it again and again!!

Thank you for all your kind comments. Your words of encouragement have been especially welcome lately!!!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July
2. Winnie & Walter Rerun #21: Kindness with Evelin T Designs
3. CARDZ-TV Mailbox Smiles Anything Goes Challenge #7
4. DL.Art July Linky Party
5. DL.Art Thankful Thursday #209 Happy Birthday or Thank You (I made a thank you card.)

Kindness with Patterned Paper and Cactuses - Winnie & Walter

Hi, Friends.......

I am back again with another card I made for the Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July. Take a look at the fabulous inspiration photo and color palette that Heather H. chose for this month....YUM!!

Can you tell I have been having a good time with the Winnie & Walter - Kindness with Evelin T Designs stamp set......which is this month's rerun set for the W&W Rerun Challenge??? I absolutely fell in love with this set when I saw it featured for the Rerun Challenge. Then when I noticed that it included cactuses, I was hopelessly smitten. I rarely see a set that I HAVE to get right then...(no waiting around...right NOW!).....but this one of them. (It helped that I had a W&W GC....YAY!! Thank you, W&W!!!)

Sorry again for the poor photo quality.  I am still having to take pics with my phone and it's not going well!!  EEK!!

For this card, I selected some cactuses I had stamped onto my Brusho/Dylusions papers and fussy cut out. I paired them with some patterned papers in the aquas of the color palette. I'm not sure if the print of the background reminds me of suns or Nazca lines! lol.... Anyway, it seemed desert-y. :) Adding the extra background layer as a mat was an easy way to ground my cactuses without drawing in a shadow.

Supplies used include:
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Winnie & Walter - Kindness wth Evelin T Designs stamp set
Versafine Ink - Black Onyx
Dylusions Ink Spray
Brusho
DCWV and K&Co. scraps from my stash

Thank you for all your kind comments!! You are champs for wading through all of these!!

<3
Janis
Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July
2. Winnie & Walter Rerun #21: Kindness with Evelin T Designs
3. CARDZ-TV Mailbox Smiles Anything Goes Challenge #7
4. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
5. Crafty Hazelnut's July Patterned Paper Challenge
6. DL.Art July Linky Party
7. DL.Art Thankful Thursday #209 Happy Birthday or Thank You (I made a thank you card.)
8. Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - You've Got the Edge (I used a die with a scalloped edge.)

Kindness with Sparkly Tree - Winnie & Walter

Hi, Friends.......

I am back again with a sparkly card I made for the Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July. Take a look at the fabulous inspiration photo and color palette that Heather H. chose for this month....YUM!!

I used my new Winnie & Walter - Kindness with Evelin T Designs stamp set which is the featured set for the current W&W Rerun Challenge, too! I just love these sentiments for making Thank You cards!!!

This time I stamped and cut out a tree from a scrap of patterned paper. My plan was to accent a few places here and there with my Wink of Stella pen, but I inadvertently squeezed a big glob of glittery goodness out onto my card in the wrong place. EEEEK!!! So I made a sparkly "shadow" and covered the entire tree with WOS. Now it has non-stop shine!! You can hardly tell in the photo that the tree was cut from patterned paper, but I kind of like it this way!! :)

Supplies used include:
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set 
Winnie & Walter - Kindness with Evelin T Designs stamp set
Versafine Ink - Black Onyx
Wink of Stella pen
DCWV scraps from my stash 

Hope you liked my sparkly card! Thank you for stopping by. I still have a few more cards to share, so I will see you soon!!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July
2. Winnie & Walter Rerun #21: Kindness with Evelin T Designs
3. CARDZ-TV Mailbox Smiles Anything Goes Challenge #7
4. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
5. Crafty Hazelnut's July Patterned Paper Challenge
6. DL.Art July Linky Party
7. DL.Art Thankful Thursday #209 Happy Birthday or Thank You (I made a thank you card.)
8. Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - You've Got the Edge (I used a die with a scalloped edge.)

Happy Tree Card - Winnie & Walter

Hi, Friends.......

I am back again with another card I made for the Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July. Take a look at the fabulous inspiration photo and color palette that Heather H. chose for this month....YUM!! 

I used my new Winnie & Walter - Kindness with Evelin T Designs stamp set which is the featured set for the current W&W Rerun Challenge, too! The tree is stamped and cut out from a piece of my Brusho/Dylusions papers. :) I even sneaked a few Nuvo drops onto my creation!

My camera is broken and so I am trying to learn how to take decent pics with my phone.....what a joke!  Eeek.  Thank you for bearing with me!!

Supplies used include:
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set
Winnie & Walter - In a Word: Happy Cutaway die
Winnie & Walter - Kindness with Evelin T Designs stamp set
Tonic Studios - Nuvo Crystal Drops
Dylusions Ink Spray
Brusho
Versafine Ink - Black Onyx
Canson Mixed Media Paper Pad
DCWV and K&Co. scraps from my stash

Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate your kind and thoughtful comments!!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July
2. Winnie & Walter Rerun #21: Kindness with Evelin T Designs
3. Word Art Wednesday Weeks 292-293 - AG Family Friendly
4. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
5. Crafty Hazelnut's July Patterned Paper Challenge
6. DL.Art July Linky Party
7. Card Mania Challenge #94 - Summer Fun
8. Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - You've Got the Edge (I used a die with a scalloped edge.)

Brusho and Dylusions Background - Winnie & Walter

Hi, Friends.......

I am back again with a super-fun card I made for the Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July. Take a look at the fabulous inspiration photo and color palette that Heather H. chose for this month....YUM!!  

Oh, my.....did I ever have fun this week playing with my Brushos and Dylusions sprays!!! Yah!!! I got out a couple of sheets each of mixed media paper and watercolor paper and started sprinkling, spraying and misting. What a mess......but a fun mess!! :)

I used my colorfully dyed papers for backgrounds and for trees stamped with my new Winnie & Walter - Kindness with Evelin T Designs stamp set......which I totally LOVE so much!!! This happens to be the Rerun set this month for the W&W Rerun Challenge...and I had to get it! :) It has trees and cactuses and lots of heartfelt sentiments that you can build around the large Kindness stamp. So perfect for expressing gratitude for the kindnesses of others.

On this card, I stamped the sentiment with Versafine ink in Onyx Black using my mini-MISTI to make sure I had good coverage. I stamped and cut out the round tree from another sheet of dyed paper and attached it to my background. (I was surprised to see that an ink blotch on the upper part of the tree matched almost perfectly with a corresponding blotch on my background. I couldn't have managed to line those up better if I had designed it that way! Ha.) I flicked some Black Soot Distress Ink around for an arty look. :)

Supplies used include:
Winnie & Walter - Kindness with Evelin T Designs stamp set
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Canson 140 lb XL Watercolor Pad Canson Mixed Media Paper Pad
Dylusions Ink Spray
Brusho
Versafine Ink - Black Onyx

Hope you enjoyed my card. I have to admit that I felt like this was a little bit of a "cheater" card because I didn't use up even a single scrap while making it! :) I do love playing with the paints and sprays, though.....so much fun!!

Thank you for stopping by and leaving your sweet comments!!! I have more cards for these challenges so I hope to see you often in the next few days!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July
2. Winnie & Walter Rerun #21: Kindness with Evelin T Designs
3. Word Art Wednesday Weeks 292-293 - AG Family Friendly
4. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
5. CARDZ-TV Card Crazy Crafters Anything Goes Challenge #6
6. HeARTful Stamping Challenge - Anything Goes
7. DL.Art Thankful Thursday #208 - Anything Goes

Here for You - Winnie & Walter Color Combo

Hi, Friends.....

Whew!!! In the midst of this wild and crazy, sometimes nerve-wracking, adventure that is life in the Woolbright home, I finally am back with another card I made for the Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July. Take a look at the fabulous inspiration photo and color palette that Heather H. chose for this month....YUM!!!:

This is a bonus card. Unbeknownst to me, all the time I took to die-cut foliage from a shimmery green scrap for THIS CARD, I actually was making a lovely panel that could be used on an entirely different card. Yay!! I replaced a few of the negative scraps inside the holes and absolutely love the serene look for a sympathy/thinking of you card for a dear widow who had a delayed memorial service for her husband, who had passed away this winter. (Nobody wants out-of-towners to have to travel to the mountains of N.Central Idaho in the snow!)

I am having MAJOR problems with my camera....so I apologize for the graininess of my photo.  Please bear with me.

Supplies used include:
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set
Winnie & Walter - In Bloom: Maggie's Roses Cutaways die set (leaves)
Winnie & Walter - Big Hugs with Evelin T Designs stamp set
Versafine Ink - Onyx Black
Clear Embossing Powder
Darice - Interlocking Circles
Distress Ink - Peacock Feathers
Scraps from my stash

Hope you enjoyed seeing my bonus card! I have several more Winnie & Walter cards to post, so I will see you soon!!!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter Color Combo Challenge for July
2. DL.Art July Linky Party
3. CARDZ-TV Mailbox Smiles Anything Goes Challenge #6
4. Word Art Wednesday Weeks 292-293 - AG Family Friendly
5. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
6. CARDZ-TV Card Crazy Crafters Anything Goes Challenge #6
7. HeARTful Stamping Challenge - Anything Goes
8. Pixie's Snippets Playground Week 291-292 - Use Snippets
9. CropStop July Linky Party #30 - Use brand(s) that CS carries  (I used Darice embossing folder and Distress Ink)

Maritime Card - Graphic 45

READ some fascinating tales/tails of able sea cats HERE.

Ahoy there, Shipmate Friends (sounds the bosun's whistle)......

I am playing catch up again! Here's a card that I made for my Dad last month for Father's Day. I got it mailed off with his gift in plenty of time, but I never got it blogged because of all my other June activities. I really love how it turned out, though, so wanted to share it with you.

I have a lone 8" pad of this discontinued and VERY hard to find "By the Sea" Graphic 45 collection. Needless to say, I hoard it like crazy!! But since my Dad is an old retired Navy man, I pulled out some of the wonderful anchor paper and chose a panel from one of the cut-apart pages. Instant card. Love, love, love!!! It didn't matter that I don't have any of the extras from this collection like the awesome card stock stickers, die-cuts, pockets & tags, or chippies. Some red twine was all the embellishment it needed. Yay!!!

Hope you enjoyed my card. Hey, it's Graphic 45....how can you NOT love it, right? :) Thank you for your wonderful comments.

Oh, and I want all my Cat Lovers Hop friends to know that I am already planning this year's hop!! Yay!! I hope to have one of my son's black cats as the 2017 badge kitty....perfect for October, right? :) I just need him to get a good shot of her. Black cats are so hard to photograph well. 
So..............mark your calendars for the 2017 Cat Lovers Hop......Oct. 23-28, 2017......right here at Her Peaceful Garden. Purr...purr...purr...

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Ribbon Girls July Any Image Challenge
2. CARDZ-TV Mailbox Smiles Anything Goes Challenge #6
3. Crafty Hazelnut's July Patterned Paper Challenge
4. Word Art Wednesday Weeks 292-293 - AG Family Friendly
5. DL.Art July Linky Party
6. Unstampabelles Challenge #70 - Every Day is Special w/ Twist of Lots of Color
7. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - We're Seeing Stars
8. CARDZ-TV Card Crazy Crafters Anything Goes Challenge #6
9. Card Mania Challenge #94 - Summer Fun
10. Fairy Tale Challenge #172 - At the Coast
11. House that Stamps Built - Inspiration Palette