Jubilee Tag

Jubilee Tag by Neil Burley

If you haven't enough to do or watch this Bank Holiday Weekend, how about getting crafty and making a commemorative card, scrapbook page or canvas featuring this suitably patriotic tag? All the elements are easily adapted to whatever sized page you're working on and use this month's theme colours. Read on for Neil's tips and techniques.

A wooden frame for Jubilee time

Hello Everyone!  As it´s Jubilee time everywere and we also do have a Jubilee theme for our challenge I also have a project fitting for this wonderfull occation. As you can see it´s a wooden board for photos.

 I have used:

WOW! Embossing Powders in:

Metalline dark blue

Metallic Silver WC05

Metalline Red WG01

Metallic Brass WC03

WOW!Fab Folis in:

Dark Blue

Red

+ Bonding Powder

WOW! Clear Stamp Sets:

Call Me

Funky Borders and Strips

I have created the telephone box by using fab foils in red on bonding powder. I just rub gentley over the foil and did not use my iron for getting this little shabby effect. 

On the edges of my wooden photoboard I was experimenting a little bit with using embossing powder and foil tougether. The effect is amazing as the powders and foils are melting tougether. It looks like a wave in the sea on a sunny day. :o)

 You must try it too but don´t forget to use a sheet of backing paper between the powders/foils and your iron!!!

Have a crafty day! xx Bianca

June Challenge - The Best of British

Hi again everyone!

Thank you for all for participating in our monthly challenge! This will be a regular feature so keep checking for opportunities on more ways to win WOW! Embossing Powders! 


Our winner for the month of April is *drumroll please* Danielle Daws!!! Email us your choice of 12 embossing powders to: tania@wowembossingpowder.co.uk. Looking forward to seeing what you choose! Congratulations!!!

This post is also to announce our June challenge! We are feeling very patriotic here in England: we are celebrating the Queen's Jubilee and excited about the Olympics starting in a few weeks! This month our Design Team is playing with a selection of colours that would perfectly compliment any British themed project!

Play along with our Design Team and get a chance to win a set of 12 embossing powders of your choice!!!

Remember, all projects must have either heat embossing or use our products to qualify!

Add your projects below or share them on our Facebook page! 

A Manly Pair!

Hi everyone!

Tania here to share two cards that I made to give to a deserving guy! The monthly challenge on our Wow! blog was to use the delicious Earthtones and making manly projects. I showed Mr T, and he approved :)

Don't forget there's still a day to take part in the monthly challenge!

Thanks for stopping by :)

I MAY HAVE BEEN BORING.....

BUT..... I followed all the rules this month...Swoon !!!

I've only gone and done a card (it's what time permitted) but I kept to the masculine theme and the Earthtone colours, it wasn't hard as I was using one of my all time favourite colours - Earthtone Olive... I LOVE this colour, I also thought it went rather nice with the Earthtone Blueberry and Earthtone paprika...all food associated - I'll put that down to coincidence LOL !!

I started off by cutting out a couple of stars, inked up an embossing folder with Versamark, laid the stars inside it and run it through the Cuttlebug, the Versamark transferred to the debossed part of the stars, apply Blueberry and heat set, I did get a little extra on there, but as this is for a man, the "distressed" look works

On the fold of the card I inked up one of the Funky Border Stamps and embossed it with Olive, added a scrap piece of card stock in a complimentary colour, then punched a scalloped card stock strip.

Little tip here....as the strip is smaller than the ink pad, have the pad on the table and take the strip to it, rather than the other way, saves you getting ink all over the place...look at the state of my ink pad....that's disgusting !!!

I embossed this with the Paprika, another little tip, make the strip longer than needed, that way you can line it up to have even scallops, stick it down, then trim off excess.

Add a sentiment and a little bit of embossedness, attach the stars and there you have a quick and simple card.

I will leave you with my third and final tip... when attaching your bits... i.e. the sentiment, please make sure you don't have Paprika embossing powder on your finger, as it leaves a rather yucky smudgy look.... this takes the "distressed" look a little to far in my book.

Hugs

Marion xxx

Father's Day Card with stencil embossing

Hiya all, it's Sarah here and I've created a Father's Day card using the Wow Earthtone powders that I wanted to share with you all.

 

Here are brief instructions on how to make (I used a blank pre-folded Square Card with a linen effect but and blank white card would work well with these colours):

STEP ONE
Using clear ink, stamp the squares pattern from the Funky Border Stamp Set and sprinkle over Wow Blueberry Embossing Powder and set using a heat gun.

Luck and a German lesson

Hi Doris from Cheap Psychology here. During my vocational training  many moons ago, I had a boss who was very fond of repetition and quotes............... and his own voice......

This one was a favourite and with a bit of experience in life now, I happen to agree:

Preparation
+ Opportunity
--------------
= Luck

Him being German, he obviously said it in German. So here is your German lesson for today:

I used the earth tone powders with two techniques that give a different finish:

1. On the right of the canvas above, I used a stencil and molding paste (Golden Medium). If you can spread butter on toast, you can spread molding paste through a stencil. Take the stencil off and sprinkle your embossing powder on, it will stick to the wet molding paste as it would to ink.
I tend to start using my heat gun pretty much straight away to melt the powder. For one, I do not have the patience to wait for the molding paste to dry and two I quite like what happens to the molding paste when it gets heated at different speeds.
On the canvas above I actually got interrupted and the molding paste had dried for about an hour. I heated the embossing powder fairly slowly so the molding paste would not bubble up. As a comparison, on the canvas below I embossed immediately after spreading the molding past and went full speed. The molding paste bubbles up filling with air and the embossing powder melts over it, keeping the bubbles in place and that gives fantastic texture.

2. For the second technique I used my oven and achieved a very smooth finish with the earth tone embossing powders. The letters were quite small  and I knew I would burn my fingers trying to emboss them. So I inked them up, sprinkled them with embossing powder and collected them on a metal tray. The tray went into a 190 degree oven, just after I had taken out the Sunday Roast :)
It  took about 50 seconds and I had a smoooooooth finish. Quick and easy! It is really worth trying the earth tones as they come in such gorgeous strong colours.
Have fun!!