Hello everyone, Amber here sharing a crackle embossing technique using water. Surprise your special someone. Tell them you love them without an occasion such as Valentine's Day.
YouTube Tutorial | Crackle Embossing Technique This video shares all the details to recreate a crackle embossing technique. Watch here or in HD on the WOW! Embossing Powder YouTube channel.

WOW! Embossing Powders This crackle embossing effect was created with Love Is a Drug translucent powder from The Ferry Man Trio. In order to ensure it wasn't a fluke, I created a second set of cards with Copacabana (retired) translucent powder. It worked beautifully.


Heat Embossing with Water This is such a quick and simple technique and if you've never seen it before you're going to love it, First, I wet a squirrel hair mop brush with water and swiped it over smooth hot press watercolor paper to create a block of brush strokes.



The pattern looks best when some white space is left between the strokes. Next,…

Have you been having fun playing along with our Emboss Resist November Challenge?  One of my favorite forms of emboss resist is watercolor, so today I'm showing you four cards that all feature watercolor emboss resist.  The twist is that they all use slightly different watercolor mediums.  Most of these cards are quick to make.   In all of my cards I use WOW! Opaque Bright White Embossing Powder for the resist technique, but you can use any WOW! powder for this.

There's a video of the process over on the WOW! You Tube channel which you can find here:




For my first card, I stamped the Hero Arts Holiday Foliage Bold Print background in WOW! Embossing ink onto watercolor cardstock and heat embossed with WOW! Opaque Bright White. I used the Superfine grade of powder as this is a very intricate pattern.    
For my watercolor medium, I wanted to pick out some of the images with different colors, while still leaving it quite sketchy, so I decided to opt for watercolor brush markers (I…

Hello, it's Verity with another video and blog post as a Creative team member for WOW!  Have you tried adding double embossing to your papercrafts? You can easily combine dry and heat embossing to create fun and stylish embossed cards with that extra step that takes your cards up a notch. Heat embossing allows you to add colour and highlight dry embossing and there are many ways you can do that. Today I'm showing you how you can create 4 cards with 3 different techniques. As always, there are so many colour combinations you can go with due to a whole range of colour powders at your disposal.  Double embossing: dry & heat video:

(You can view this directly on WOW! Embossing Powder YouTube Channel HERE)
Double embossing: dry & heat photos:Technique 1: Embossing folders The first technique combines heat embossing with embossing folders as the dry embossing aspect. Embossing folders have two sides, one that has small raised areas of the design pattern and the other side wit…