Guest Artist: Caly Person

Hi, Friends!

This is Caly and I’m so excited to share a few projects with you using the new Winter 2019 Release!  Lots of layered stamping and what I love about it is the color choices can completely change the look from one card to the next!

My first card features the Winter Greenery stamp and die set.  I stamped my foliage in two different shades of green between the two layers on the leaves.  For the pine springs, I stamped first with the lighter green color. Then I inked up my stamp again with the darker color and using a finger dauber, I removed the darker color from the ends of the pines to give the rest of the stamped image a darker shade.  I did this once more with a brown color for the stem and the area where the pine needles meet.  Having a finger dauber handy to remove ink this way ensures a smooth blend of color when stamping different layers. 

After stamping, I die-cut all of my images and fussy cut the larger leaf and smaller pine – I wanted to be able to layer it all at the bottom of my card panel.  I set my images aside and ink-blended my card panel with Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink starting from one edge and covering about three quarters of the cardstock on the diagonal.  I then added Seedless Preserves ink over that towards the top of the card panel to add a darker shade for more depth.  

I decided to emboss my sentiment in the upper right hand corner.  I made sure to prep the area with lots of anti-static powder after ensuring that the ink was dry and that no stray powder would stick to the cardstock. I stamped the sentiment in Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  I cut a piece of cardstock to cover the sentiment before splattering some fine white paint over the panel for additional interest.   

The last thing to do was to add my images and create and foliage spray.  I positioned my foliage where I wanted and stamped another pine sprig directly on my card panel to fill the space before adding my foliage permanently using liquid adhesive. Don’t you just love that tiny little cardinal?  To add some sparkle, I used clear adhesive (e.g., glossy accents) to draw some lines to add Clear Rock Candy Distress Glitter – I poured it over my images directly and shook off the excess.  The final touch was adding some clear confetti sequins to my card.

My second card features the new Most Wonderful stamp and die set.  How cute are those snowmen???  Again, the colors you choose will change the look of your snowmen.  I decided to go with pastels and used a light gray for his body for the shading.  I carefully layered the stamps and stamped out my snowmen, cardinal and 3 fir trees and die cut my images before working on the background.

My background uses the Snow Scenes stamp set.  I embossed a tree line in the top left portion of a white card panel, then stamped the snow ground cover using the same gray ink I used on the snowmen’s bodies. After embossing, I ink-blended the background using Worn Lipstick and Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide Inks for the sky, and Iced Spruce for the ground.  Once again, I lightly splattered the background panel with white ink for some added interest and to mimic snowfall.

Once the ink was dry, it was time to add my images to create my scene.  I added some directly to the card panel and some using foam adhesive to give the card some dimension.  I added Clear Rock Candy Distress Glitter to the green spruces and the snowmen and then embossed my sentiment on white cardstock using gold embossing powder to create a pennant.  

I hope you enjoyed these projects!  Thanks so much for joining me today!

Caly

You can find more of Caly’s work on her social media sites below:

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Featured Supplies

Here is a list of the featured Wplus9 supplies used in today’s project(s) along with links to purchase for convenience.

Most Wonderful Shop at: WP9	Winter Greenery Shop at: WP9	Winter Greener Die Shop at: WP9	Most Wonderful Die Shop at: WP9
Snow Scenes Shop at: WP9