GUEST ARTIST FEATURE: Wanda Guess

Hi there! It’s Wanda Guess, and I am super happy to be here as a guest designer today! I have been a WPlus9 fan for such a long time! Their stamps bring me lots of joy in my craft studio and hours of creative fun. I am also a huge fan of Dawn and her entire creative team. I am always delighted when I get to stamp with them. For my card today I chose to work with the gorgeous Modern Peonies stamp set and the Hand Lettered Hello stamp set. I think they work so nicely together!

I started my card with a crisp white A2 card base folded at the top. I die cut a smaller white rectangle for the focal point and layered pretty lime green cardstock around it. This gave me my foundation of the card. All of the coloring for today was done with Zig Clean Color Brush Markers in pretty shades of pink and green for summer.

I stamped and die cut three big peonies, three small peonies and a bunch of leaves. The matching dies for this set cut like a dream. When I’m making an arrangement like this I always stamp and cut out lots of images to play with - so I can get it just the way I want it to look. I ended up coloring just some of the images, and left the rest black and white and graphic. I love this look!

I stamped the small ‘beautiful’ sentiment in the lower right corner of the white layer, and then glued on the ‘hello’ die with a glue pen, using my tweezers. I did this first so I would know where to place the flowers. SO crisp with that pop of black in the gorgeous font!

I used foam tape to place the top layers of flowers and leaves. The bottom flowers and leaves were attached with tape runner adhesive. I like the difference in dimension with the layers. I did a very loose watercolor wash with the Zig Markers, a tiny paintbrush and water. I used two shades of green and two shades of pink on the images. You could use any colors, though! I think this would be very pretty in red too!

I hope you all have a wonderful, beautiful and creative day! Thanks to the lovely ladies at WPlus9 for having me! It’s been my pleasure to share with you!

~ Wanda

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured Wplus9 supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase.

Wplus9 Modern Peonies Wplus9 Modern Peonies Die Wplus9 Hand Lettered Hello Stamp Set Wplus9 Hand Lettered Hello Die 4 Bar Stitched Rectangles Die

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