The Creative Team are having a fun month showcasing our favorite WOW! Stamps.  Today I'm using the Tropical background stamp.  It's a fun floral design, great for backgrounds and techniques.



Today I'll be showing you how to make a fun background using emboss resist and then die-cutting it to create two cards for the price of one.




To create my card, I first embossed the Tropical stamp onto some hot press watercolor cardstock.  I like to use hotpress as it's smooth and great for gettting a good impression.  I embossed using one of my favorite embossing powders - Metallic Platinum Sparkle.  I used my MISTI and left the stamp in place.  I then re-stamped and heat embossed in Super Fine Clear Gloss embossing powder. 



On a craft mat, I smushed a few Distress Inks and spritzed with water - I used Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, and Peacock Feathers.   I then dunked my embossed piece into the Distress inks and dried with my heat tool on setting one.  I re-dunked and dried aga…

Hi Everyone! Today I am very pleased to introduce our Guest Designer for the month: Isha Gupta! 
Hi I am Isha Gupta. I am a wife and mom to two awesome girls.  I've been living in Switzerland for 18 years.  I've always been creative but got hooked onto stamping about four and half years ago. I am primarily a cardmaker but occasionally love to create other paper projects, scrapbook pages, mixed media canvas etc.
I've been lucky to have published in various magazines in the US and UK I don't have a particular style as I like to explore new techniques. I tend to find myself drawn towards fun, cute, clean and simple with a touch of out-of-the-box thinking. I love COLORS and coloring using various mediums.
You can see my work on my blog at NewIdeas.
Today, I am so excited and honored to be a guest over at WOW! Embossing Powder. I love the various embossing powders they have and my recent craze of foiling started by using the Fab foil. Recently I used the stamps from WOW! and I …

This months theme is spring and I just love spring. It's my favourite season of all. Where I used to live spring ment the perfect time to go visit our little cottage far up in the mountains, going skiing, ice fishing and ridning snowmobiles. And yes, digging holes in the snow, putting down raindeer hides and catching a tan. Now it's warm days, spring flowers, warm asphalt and long walks with the dogs. I love it! And best of all, no bugs.
 I made this card inspired by the soft spring colors and spring flowers. I embossed the flowers in copper embossing powder and colored them using AquaMarkers. 

I love the foil trend that is so popular right now and wanted to try the Fab Foil, since I don't have a laser printer I used the bonding powder and I think it looks great for my first try. It's very shiny and pretty! 
I hope you liked my spring inspiration. See you next month, I'm looking forward to seeing what you make for the challenge!
Supplies: Metallic Copper Embossing …

I just loved this months theme, to be inspired by one of my amazing team mates. I had a hard time deciding on what to do but that is ok since I got to visit all of their blogs and also browse back here in the WOW! blog and finally I found this card by Sian that I think is so clever and pretty!


I loved the windows that shows the pretty stamp and that it's really a clean design. It's just a great card!
I sort of copied it, but I just made two windows and used one of the new stamps that I love! I spent a good amount of time coloring the whole background even though a lot is covered up. It was just so much fun to color all of those flowers.

I made it into a birthday card, since it is my birthday today :) It's really a shame that it's so hard to capture glitter on picture. I stamped the sentiment with black ink and embossed it with some clear hologram glitter to make it sparkle in the light. It's really pretty! I wish I had thought of it earlier, then I would have embos…