Inlaid die cutting - Poinsettia

I have another card for Winnie&Walter's belated 2nd birthday bash.

I stamped the poinsettia image from W&W's In bloom: Elsa's florals repeatedly onto a white panel and my red card base (SSS) using red ink (Grapevine, Altenew) and my MISTI, and then trimmed down my white panel on all sides. After marking where I wanted to place my Merry sentiment (W&W), I first cut away the strip where I wanted the red cs to show and then temporarily put the pieces back together using some post-it tape at the back of my panel. This made it easier to die cut the sentiment from my panel with the correct spacing. I then die cut the sentiment again from a piece of thin gold paper that I had mounted onto a scrap of cardstock. Using the (hardly visible) stamping on my red cardstock, I adhered the top part of my stamped panel, followed by the die cut sentiment and the lower part of my stamped panel.

Challenges:

W&W - Mayuri's inlaid die cutting challenge

Stamping Sensations - Anything goes (with a stamp)

Penny Black and More - Anything goes with a stamp and a die cut

Stamplorations CAS challenge - Anything CAS goes (optional: red)
February Rudolph Days - Anything Christmas goes
SSS Wednesday challenge - Anything goes

Custom packaging

When I saw Kate's Anything but a card challenge for the Winnie&Walter birthday bash, I was determined to try my hand at some handmade packaging. And I thought it would be fun to use many of the small stamps of the Ring in the Celebration stamp set that was included in the SOA Young at heart (birthday) collection, which arrived earlier this month.

I started with a sheet of A4 cardstock and stamped the images in a random pattern using 5 colours of Studio Calico inks that most closely matched the colours of the W&W logo. After I had finished stamping, I created a small box using my score board and wrapped a piece of matching baker's twine around my box. The sentiment is made up of words from the The big, the bold and the merry stamp set and was stamped in black onto a scrap of cardstock. After cutting it to size, I swiped the edges over my blue ink pad and tucked the sentiment strip under the bow.

Challenges:

W&W - Kate's Anything but a card challenge

SSS Wednesday challenge - Anything goes

Seize the Birthday - Anything birthday goes

Gelatos rainbow

When I saw Laurel Beard showing us this fun and easy technique using Gelatos earlier this month, I just knew I had to have a go at it, and Winnie&Walter's rainbow challenge was the perfect incentive to give it a try.

After applying a layer of gesso and masking off the sides of my panel, I applied gelatos in rainbow order, smoothed them out and then removed the colour through a stencil that I had cut using the W&W Leaf effect cutaway.

I used my MISTI to stamp the HI sentiment from the Scenery: Bigger Bang Confetti set several times using Archival Jet black ink. Because of the watercolour cardstock and the gesso, I could not get perfect coverage, even after several rounds of stamping, so I used a black Micron pen to fill in the blank spots. To finish off, I heat embossed the sentiment in clear embossing powder, mounted the panel to my card base and added a few sequins.

In hindsight, I should have mounted the panel onto a heavier weight cardstock to prevent warping and it would be better to apply a fixative to avoid smearing of the gelatos, but I suppose I can still fix this before sending out my card.

In case you hadn't noticed, Winnie & Walter are hosting a Belated 2nd Birthday Bash event all month. If you love Winnie&Walter products as much as I do, check out their blog posts here and here for a chance to win the special Birthday Bash release or all of their 2016 stamp sets.

Although I created this card for 

W&W - Vanessa's rainbow challenge,

it also fits the theme of the

W&W - Gayatri's background challenge

I'm also playing at:
AAA Cards - 58 Sequins
Stamplorations - Anything CAS goes (optional: red)'
Kathy's 4th 30 day colouring challenge