GUEST ARTIST FEATURE: LauraJane

Hello Wplus9 fans! My name is LauraJane. I’m SUPER excited and honored to be sharing a card with you today!

I’ve been an admirer of Dawn’s products and painting/coloring skills since the release of Fresh Cut Florals; which was the very first stamp set with multiple layered images to make its way into my stash! Flowers are my usual go to, yet I could not resist the sweet images from The Crew: Garden Club for today’s card.

I used ZIG watercolor markers to color the girls. What a delight to see these two come to life with no-line coloring. EVERY girl needs a pair of yellow boots right? I fussy cut the images out and set them aside.

The Lattice Frame Die made a wonderful background for my Garden Club gals. Two layers of the die, cut from white cardstock and stacked together gives simple dimension. Then I glued that to a white card base.

A gradient ‘dirt colored’ sentiment was in order for these gardening friends. I added a sweet posy, from the same set, in each corner of the solid rectangle then traced around it with a yellow ZIG marker.

But what is friendship without matching necklace and bracelet? A few French Knots, which I’m just learning to make correctly, created a bit of texture on each girl. I popped the young friends onto the lattice background and called it done.

Hope you all enjoyed my card as much as I enjoyed creating it! Thank you, Dawn, for having me guest for you today. It was a dream come true!

Hugs, LauraJane

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.

The Crew: Garden Club Stamp Shop at: WP9

Lattice Frame Die Shop at: WP9

May 2017 Release Week: Large Butterfly Frame Die with Kara

Tomorrow is the day! All of the new products that we have been sharing with you over the last couple of days will be available for purchase at wplus9.com as well as at many of your favorite retailers. If you are just joining us, be sure to start at Day 1 to catch up.

Today, I get to introduce the new Wplus9 Exclusive Large Butterfly Frame Die. This die will be available exclusively at wplus9.com.

AVAILABLE May 5, 2017

Large Butterfly Frame Die
Steel Rule Die
$19 USD

There are so many great stamps and dies being released. I love them all, but my favorites are always the floral sets. They are beautifully designed and timeless. And the new Large Butterfly Frame Die compliments these gorgeous florals perfectly!

I couldn't resist sharing both Modern Peonies and Modern Anemones as well today. Both are colored with Copics in these vibrant greens and oranges (R08, YR07, YR04, YG17, YG67). I chose to go with simple, yet bold coloring and think the strong illustrations are perfect for this clean look.

My first project features the Modern Peonies positioned on the new Large Butterfly Frame Die. This die is beautiful! It's large enough to cover the entire front of an A2 sized card and has so many possibilities. You could even die cut it and use it as a stencil.

I adhered it to my card base with dimensional adhesive. To top it off, I added the single butterfly from the Small Butterfly Frame Die. The butterflies are identical on both dies, just in varied sizes. When Dawn first released the Small Butterfly Frame Die, the name made me hope that one day she would release a large version. It's finally here and worth the wait!

For my second card, I used the Modern Anemones set. This time I used the previously released Lattice Frame Die as the backdrop for my flowers. It adds beautiful texture and the perfect spot for a sentiment. The sentiments stamped on these cards are from the opposite sets. The 'Sending Birthday Wishes' is from the Modern Peonies set and the "It takes a long time to grow and old friend' sentiment is from the Modern Anemones set. I did that just in the interest of space and placement in the design.

Because all of the "Modern" florals series share the same font and sizing, and all of the flowers are scaled appropriately, everything can be combined, swapped and interchanged with each other to further expand the possibilities.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you are enjoying all of the new product previews. Dawn will be here tomorrow, so be sure to stop in again!

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