Happy New Year! I know we are thirteen days into the new decade but as it's my first time on the blog this year I wanted to make sure I checked in!
Today I am focusing on a technique using nesting dies.  I'm using hearts and pink as Valentine's is coming up, but you could just as easily use the 'ingredients' of this card for any type of card.  You're only limited by the nesting dies in your stash.

I also have a video show you how I created this card, over on the WOW! Channel.  You can check it out here:


To create my card, I first took a panel of Distress Watercolor cardstock, "scribbled" on some clear water with a waterbrush,  and then loosely painted on some pinks and dark pinks with my Daniel Smith.  I let the paint and water do its thing for a minute or so (and added some splatters), then used my WOW!  heat tool on setting 1 to dry the panel.  I repeated the exercise and then die cut it with a deckle edge frame from Honeybee Stamps.   I attached i…

Hi Folks, Jenny here! What's your favorite WOW! embossing powder?  Mine changes all the time, but I have a few that I go back to time and again.  One of those is Metallic Brass.   It's a gorgeous warm goldy color, and I love to use it when I watercolor.


I created a video showing you how I made this card.  You can check it out over on the WOW! YouTube channel here:



I used the gorgeous WOW! Beautiful stampset  - this is super versatile - you can use the main focal image, or you can use the tiny stamps that come with it, or use both together like I've done here.  I heat embossed in between each stamping so I could see the scene I was building - I went for a loose scattered look to match the loose watercoloring.   
I also did a little bit of sprinklbossing by lightly sprinkling some of the embossing powder in the spaces on my card and heating from behind so that it didn't blow off.  I knew I was going to add some colored paint splatters at the end so thought this would go …