Guest Design Team Post: Riikka Kovasin (GIVEAWAY CLOSED!)

Hi there! 

It’s Riikka from Paperiliitin blog guesting! I’m so honored and thrilled to have an opportunity to show something I’ve made here in WOW blog!

For this post I created two crafts – a set of cards and a layout. I used the same background steps in both of them and prepared a step by step tutorial for the background and finishing the cards. So let’s get started with that!

What you need is the “Big Words” stamp set from Wow, naturally some embossing powders, the new Wow embossing ink and also “Hearts” silicone mold and Melt-It! powder. You also need some patterned paper and white cardstock and also a stencil and watercolors.

Step 1) Stamp the words to your background using the embossing ink. Try to avoid stamping the words on top of each other, but vary the orientation – stamp some vertically, some horizontally.

Step 2) Sprinkle the pattern with white embossing powder and heat to melt the powder.

Step 3) Add some watercolor touches on top. The embossed areas will resist the color. Just add paint freely and don’t forget to include some splashes, too.

Step 4) After drying the paint, add embossing ink through a stencil to your piece. Concentrate to one focal point. Emboss the design using a colored powder of your choice.

Step 5) Make the greeting to the card. Stamp a word or a phrase to a piece of white cardstock and emboss with the same color you used in previous step.

Step 6) Time to put everything together – adhere your background piece to a slightly larger piece of white cardstock and then include the greeting piece using foam dots for extra detail.

Step 7) Finish the card with a heart made using the silicone mold, Melt-It powder and same color you have used in steps 4 and 5.

I used similar steps also in the making of this layout. There’s the words stamped and embossed with white, there’s the watercolor touches and then another embossed layer using a stencil and colored powder.

The embellishments in the layout are also made using the same silicone mold but I also made little drops or pearls with the powder. I used the last drops of Melt-It! – embossing powder mix for them and let the heated mixture drop from the Melt-It! Case to the edges of the mold and then let the drops cool. Waste non!

 

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you find inspiration in these! And please come and visit me at my own blog, too! Ta ta for now!

Materials from Wow:

Big Words Stamp 

Clear Ultra Slow Drying Embossing Pad

Opaque Bright White

Primary Bluetiful

Primary Parma Violet

Hearts Silicone Mould
Melt It

Edit from Tania: What a gorgeous project by Riikka and I absolutely love how she used the same ingredients to create two different kinds of projects <3 Thank you for joining us on the blog!

*GIVEAWAY ALERT* Leave us a comment showing Rikka some love and what you loved about the project and we will select a winner to receive a set of all WOW products used in this post! The winner will be announced on the 1st of July :D

Good luck and happy embossing!!!

Tania xx