Forest themes and Scandinavian design has been on trend for a while now and I love both of these themes. A few weeks ago I participated in a blog hop between WOW! and Newtons Nook Designs using this gorgeous Cottage Garden stamp set. I love how easy it is to build up a pattern using the individual elements and think up new designs.


For the blog hop I went totally Scandi and monochromatic for my design and I think it worked well. 

 However, this time around I thought I'd try something totally different and give it an ombré sort of feel using what other colour than - pink! I wanted to create something bright and bold and had great fun deciding which pinks to go with and after several test pieces I came up with a range I think work best. I absolutely love the way it turned out and how the colours blend into one another. 


Using the Super Smooth card, I started at the top with the lightest shade (I stamped all of my images in one go). The trick I think is to let each shade slightly …

Hello, hello everyone... Heather here again with another Guest DT make for WOW!
Today's card is a real texture feast and the gorgeous WOW! Embossing powder I've used really adds to the whole look.  
I began by heat embossing an AALL & Create Border Stamp on watercolour card using the WOW! Clear Ultra Slow Drying Embossing Pad and Black Twinkle powder.  I repeated this on another piece of watercolour card and set aside.  After sitting there for a few minutes gazing at the gorgeous sparkly twinkle you get from the powder, I used watercolour to paint the circles.


After painting the background using blue watercolours, I masked off the embossed area and added crackle paint through the AALL & Create 'Broken Circle' stencil.


With everything on the background near completion, I coloured and trimmed the small circles and stars from the additional card I'd already heat embossed and adhered these to the background using foam dots.  For extra texture I added glossy a…