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Busy Bees with Heather

Hello everyone... Heather here again with some more inspiration for you using the wonderful WOW! products.
For today's make, I've used a gorgeous Jo Firth Young stamp set from PaperArtsy which is so happy and the images are just so lovely to stamp with.
I started by stamping the images using the fabulous slow drying embossing pad from WOW! onto watercolour card.  For the bees, bee hive and hexagons I've used Metallic Copper Regular and for the tiny hexagons I've used Earthtone Honey.  Having heat embossed all the images, I've then coloured them using watercolours and added a touch of Tonic Nuvo's Aqua Shimmer for some subtle shimmer.
Before adding the images to the background card, I die-cut the corners from both tag and card using a Tim Holtz's Thinlets set and backed with vellum.  This just adds a different focal point to the card.
The gorgeous yellow background was made using Distress Oxide Ink Pads and I've even dripped some of the goo from the Mixed Me…

VIDEO: Face The Sun(flower) Cards Two Ways with Erica

Hello, hello!

It's Erica back on the WOW! Blog with a couple of cards with a gorgeous sunflower stamp. This month's Facebook challenge theme is Nature and the first thing that comes to mind for me, is flowers. I love flowers!


I decided to try something very different, whilst still sticking to flowers, and oh boy... at first it did not go well. I had several set backs and do-overs, but in the end I got two cards out of it. My first idea was to add colours to yupo paper with alcohol inks, greens where the stem of the flower image would go. Yellows and a few drops of orange where the petals would be. I used the Face The Sun stamp set from Picket Fence Studios. This part worked pretty well. It's possible I got cocky because of this.


The idea was to have bright colours on the panel underneath and then heat emboss the flower on vellum and lay this over. I used Oiled Slate and it looked gorgeous heat embossed but it didn't work very well, because the vellum was too thick. Ay.…