GUEST ARTIST FEATURE: Lydia Evans

Hi there everyone! I hope you are having an amazing day. It's Lydia here with you from Lydia Evans Design, and I'm so excited to be guesting here again on the WP9 blog.

Today I'll be sharing some cards that stretch some of your holiday stamp sets. If you know me you know I'm a floral gal so I'll be using a floral holiday set and by just changing up the colours you can make it work all the year through.

I started by die cutting the Be Merry Florals Coordinating Die Set twice, I haven't snipped these apart as I find it quicker just to cut a full set out, (discard the ones I don't want to use) and then stamp with Be Merry Florals stamp set onto the cut-outs.

I used a mix of springy colours, the purples, pinks, yellows and greens give such a fresh feel and the images don't look 'holiday-ish' at all now. I used the rock-and-roll technique to ink up the images, to do this ink the image in a light shade and then roll the outside edge in a darker shade before stamping. I love the variation of colour this gives and it's so quick and simple too!

The sentiment is a mix of a die cut and stamped words. I used one of the word dies from Happy Trio and cut this twice, once from black card and then from some black foam before attaching them together with the card one on top. Using foam in this way gives dimension to the die cut with out having to cut it out multiple times.

To get the placement right for the rest of the sentiment and floral clusters I used re-positional adhesive on the back of the happy die-cut and put this in place before adding all of the other elements. I could then lift it up when I wanted to place things behind. When finished, I removed it and then adhered it down with strong adhesive.

A little bit of black splatter and a couple of clear sequins finished the card.

For a full step-by-step on how I created this card please watch the video below.

Watch above or watch in HD at YouTube

I also made another card using the same supplies but mixed up the ink colours, changing the colours you can give more of a summer feel.

I did add a bit more black splatter to this, left out the sequins but for some shine I added some Glossy Accents to the top of the happy die-cut.

I have to say I love how these cards turned out and I hope I gave you some ideas on how to stretch some of your supplies.

Thank you so much for stopping by today as it's been such an honour to be here with you.

Hugs, Lydia x

Featured Supplies

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Be Merry Florals 4x4" stamp set Be Merry Florals Companion Die Wplus9 Happy Trio Die Wplus9 Whole Lotta' Happy 6x8 Clear Stamps Wplus9 Black Premium Cardstock Wplus9 White Premium Cardstock Altenew LAVENDER FIELDS Crisp Dye Ink Pad AN194 Altenew DEEP IRIS Crisp Dye Ink Pad AN198 Altenew MIDNIGHT VIOLET Crisp Dye Ink Pad AN192 Altenew COTTON CANDY Crisp Dye Ink Pad AN197 Altenew PUFFY HEART Crisp Dye Ink Pad Altenew CORAL BERRY Crisp Dye Ink Pad AN173 Altenew MANGO SMOOTHIE Crisp Dye Ink Pad AN193 Altenew WARM SUNSHINE Crisp Dye Ink Pad AN164 Pretty Pink Posh SPARKLING CLEAR MIX Cupped Sequins Pretty Pink Posh 3MM SPARKLING CLEAR Sequins *Pretty Pink Posh 4MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins *Pretty Pink Posh 6MM SPARKLING CLEAR Cupped Sequins Ranger Inkssentials MINI GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Adhesive .5oz GAC27898

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Whimsy Alpha Two Ways with Yana

Hello everyone! This is Yana Smakula. I am a big fan of stamp sets that I can use all year round and newest WPlus9 Whimsy Alpha set fits just that bill - I love the fact that I won't have to put it away in a few weeks after the Holiday season is over and wait until next September or so to use it again.

These playful whimsical letters work great for many different occasions and companion dies make it very easy to create fun die cut focal point sentiments for a variety of projects. I also love how big the letters are - they aren’t too large to take too much space on a card, yet they aren’t too small to make it difficult to arrange them and adhere. Plus they would work great for scrapbook pages and art journals, too.

I created 2 cards for two different occasions and I followed the same sketch/idea on both (and planning to make more over the weekend). My first project is a Happy New Year Card featuring Whimsy Alpha and Be Merry Florals. I used several colors of PURE COLOR dye ink to stamp my letters and used the same colors for the flowers and leaves. I used: Gala Red, Cranberry Crush, Fairy Dust, Silver Lining, Last Leaf, Appletini.

My second project is a Valentine's Day card. Even though there aren’t any hearts on this card, the sentiment says it all. Once again I used Whimsy Alpha and paired it with Fresh Cut Florals.

To spell out “Love You Lots” and stamp the flowers I used PURE COLOR dye ink in Hayride, Wild Mango, Little Piggy, Flamingo, Miami Spice and Last Leaf.

I shared just 2 examples here, but imagine all different phrases/sentiments you’ll be able to make using this set. I can see myself stamping Mother’s Day cards saying “My Dear Mom”, Easter projects with “Happy Easter” sentiments; even Fall cards saying “Happy Fall”!

Have you had the chance to use this set yet?

Have fun stamping!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the supplies (or equivalents) used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list does contain some affiliate links.

WPlus9 Whimsy Alpha Stamps WP9	WPlus9 Whimsy Alpha Dies WP9	Wplus9 Be Merry Florals Clear Stamps WP9	Wplus9 Be Merry Florals Designer Dies WP9	Wplus9 Fresh Cut Flowers Stamps WP9	Wplus9 Fresh Cut Flowers Dies WP9
WPlus9 Dove Grey Cardstock WP9	WPlus9 Wild Mango Dye Ink Pad WP9	WPlus9 Hayride Dye Ink WP9	WPlus9 Last Leaf Dye Ink WP9	WPlus9 Appletini Dye Ink WP9	WPlus9 Little Piggy Dye Ink WP9
WPlus9 Miami Spice Dye Ink WP9	WPlus9 Gala Red Dye Ink WP9	WPlus9 Cranberry Crush Dye Ink WP9	WPlus9 Fairy Dust Dye Ink WP9	WPlus9 Silver Lining Dye Ink WP9	Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine SC | AZ
Neenah 80 Solar White Paper Pack 250 Sheets SSS | AZ	Uni-ball Pen Signo Gel White Two Pack SSS	Best Creation Big Squares 3D Foam Tape Adhesive SSS | AZ