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Designer Spotlight - Raluca

WOW! Embossing Powder would like you to get to know our talented designers that little more so we have asked a series of questions that they have answer to share before they blog posts. First up is the very talented Raluca.  Q: What is your favourite thing about crafting?
A: It helps me so much with my anxiety and it makes me feel special
Q:If you could choose to do anything to do for the day, what would it be? A:Crafting, definitely crafting! Sometimes, I feel that I’m addicted to cardmaking!
Q: Is there any you wish that would come back to into fashion? A: Nope, not really! I don’t follow the trends in fashion and I’ve always been the kind of gal that wears what’s comfortable and not what’s trendy.
Q: What song would you say would best sums you up? A: Mariage D'amour by Paul de Senneville 
Q:What is your favourite book to read? A: I have two favorites: "Gone with the Wind", by Margaret Mitchell & "Wuthering Heights", by Emily Brontë
Q: Aside from neces…

Hello sweet bee - a card by Riikka Kovasin

Hello! It's Riikka here again with another post! Totally different style card this time, but there is one common factor in them - the foils! Where as I made some really grungy cards in my previous post, in the beginning of the month, this time I made something as sweet as honey!

This card had it's inspiration in the spring and sun. I wanted to create a cheerful card with sunshine. For the sun part I created a big golden disc using golden Fab Foil. As the foil sticks to anything, well, sticky, I used double sided adhesive sheet this time. I added the sheet on top of some cardstock and then used a circular die to cut a "sun" out of it and then foiled it with gold.
To further have that sweet feeling, I used honey tones in the background. I embossed a honey comb styled pattern to the background using "Honey" powder and then added some watercolors in honey shades on top. I also chose to mount the card on top of orange cardstock and have that line the greeting a…

Create a brave story - a set of cards by Riikka Kovasin

Moikka! It's Riikka here today from Paperiliitin blog! I'm really excited to be back here for a couple of posts this month and to tell you the truth - there's more coming along the year! 
These cards were inspired by a wonderful creative event that took place in Frankfurt this January. I'm talking about Creativeworld and more over the amount of street art in there. There was several stands with street art influences and even an exhibition area of it. It was wonderful to see the artists working!

What I was also inspired by was the new WOW! products! It was awesome to see those in use at WOW! booth and even get some to play with at home. The new embossing powders were splendid, the sets beautiful but what really drew my eye was the embossing ink refiller! I really loved the way you're able to apply the ink with it, it's full of possibilities! 
I combined the two inspiration sources in these cards - the freehand possibility of the refiller and also the street art…