Winnie & Walter World Cardmaking Day Blog Hop

Hi everyone!  I'm so excited to be participating in Winnie & Walter's World Cardmaking Day Blog Hop again this year.  You should be arriving from Heather Hoffman's blog.

As with any good hop, there are prizes to be had!  5 random winners in total will be drawn from all the comments left on the different stops along the hop. Each winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to the Winnie & Walter shop. 

I created two cards to share today.  This first one features the Mini Scenery: Marbelize stamp.  I have been eyeing this one for a while.  To create that background, I stamped the image using my MISTI and four shades of blue ink.  Each time I stamped, I slid the paper up slightly.  This gives it more of a real marbles look where there are different colors or shades of color.  I also think in the blue this looks a lot like water.

I repeated this twice to get the two halves.  The center point of the marble image is not quite the center of the stamp, so I trimmed the pieces down slightly so that they would meet in the middle, but adhered them to my colored panel at the ends so there is a space in the middle.

Then I die cut the Peace sentiment from silver foil cardstock and popped it up over the center.

The secondary sentiment is from In Bloom: Frenchy's Festive Florals and was embossed in white and popped up as well.

My second card features the Happy Owlidays set which is just so so cute!  I kept this one pretty simple.  The owls were stamped in Versafine and then watercolored with Kuretake Gansai watercolors.

They looked a little lonely there, so I gave them a little pine bower using the pine sprig from the Winter Wonderland set.  I first stamped them using my watercolors.  Just brushing them onto the stamp.  The resulting image is pretty organic and not precise, giving more of a hint of the needles.  After those were dry, I went back in with regular ink and stamped again to get some more of the detail in there.  I stamped using a couple of shades of green to get some extra depth too.

That's all for me today, but there is lots more to see.  Your next stop in the hop is Agnieszka Malyszek, and I've included the whole list below in case you get turned around.

Winnie & Walter Blog
Kelly Griglione
Emily Leiphart
Lea Lawson
Nichol Spohr
Rebecca Luminarias
Laura Sterckx
Nina Marie Trapani
Joan Bardee
Vanessa Menhorn
Yana Smakula
Amy Kolling
Heather Hoffman
Miriam Prantner
Agnieszka Malyszek
Kate M Capper
Yoonsun Hur
Laura Bassen