Let’s kick off our Monday morning with some Sparkly inspiration…it’s all about WOW Embossing Glitter today! (okay – a few embossing powders too…) Thanks for stopping by – you’ve probably hopped on over from the incredibly talented Ilina Crouse’s blog. We have quite a hop for you today, so let’s get to it!
SO what exactly is WOW Embossing Glitter? The geniuses behind the incredible powders decided to mix their regular embossing powders with some sparkly glitter and voila! And let me tell you – no one does embossing powder or embossing glitters like WOW. If you haven’t tried them yet – don’t wait, don’t pass go – RUN…you’ll thank me for sure.
If you’ve followed me for a bit, you know that glitter and I are not exactly on the best of terms. Oh, don’t get me wrong – I LOVE the look, I just seem to always get more on me (and ultimately my hubby) than my project?!! Enter Embossing Glitter. The sheer fact that the glitter melts into that gorgeous embossing powder and stays put had me at hello!
Now, I’ll admit, I do still get glitter on me, don’t ask me how – it just happens. I’m quite sparkly as I write this, but the cool thing is, I have six super sparkly cards all ready to hit the mailbox. I had so much fun making these cards, and I know each one will definitely brighten up each person’s day – what’s better than that!
So let me show you too can create!
WOW Embossing Glitter Tutorials
No. 1 – Well Hello There
My original project ended up being #1 and #2 on the same piece. It didn’t quite turn out as I expected – so I could do one of two things – toss and start over, or split and create two cards! Obviously the only one that made sense was to create two, right? Have you ever had that happen to you? Come on, I know you have!
This one is simple, straightforward and quite honestly – striking! The beauty of using Catherine Pooler Ink…it stays wet for a few seconds. The key to this is to be completely ready. Have everything you need out. If not, once you’ve stamped in your desired colors, you’ll just need to stamp over it with versamark and then add your WOW Embossing Glitter. Here, I used Wanderlust. Wanderlust is a special blend inspired by Catherine Pooler. It’s drop dead gorgeous. Just like a little jar of diamonds!
Mask of a border, stamp your Say it in Diamonds pattern alternating in Mandarin Spice and Skylight. The key is to stamp and image or two, and add the powder. Don’t get too ahead of yourself – you want to get excellent coverage. Emboss and repeat, it’s that simple!
Smoosh your versamark ink pad onto a scrap piece of Midnight cardstock, add Black Twinkle and voila – you have your own glitter paper!! Stamp and emboss your sentiment from Say it in Diamonds in Black Twinkle, adhere your strip and that’s it! Super quick, VERY sparkly, and perfect for any occasion.
No. 2 – Make a Wish
The other half of my original project was a sunburst. I wanted to sponge some colors, glitter them up and then create my border. What I didn’t account for, was adding the wrong Embossing Glitter…lol! Whoops! I was supposed to add Sunset Boulevard, but added Turkish Nights. It was a happy accident for me, as I ended up with two projects instead of one!
Mask off a few inches, and sponge Limoncello rays through your Twisted Sunburst stencil – this stencil ROCKS! Shift and sponge Mandarin Spice in the open space. It’s okay if a tiny bit overlaps. You will get a bonus while highlight to the rays.
Place your stencil over your Limoncello rays. Smoosh a Versamark pad through your stencil. Lift and add Aladdin Embossing Glitter to half your rays from the sun outward. Tap the excess off and add Turkish Nights (or better yet, Sunset Boulevard). Emboss. The different between Turkish Nights and Sunset Boulevard is Purple vs. Orange hues.
Shift your stencil to cover your embossed areas, and smoosh a versamark pad through your stencil onto the Limoncello Rays. Smoosh a little versamark from the corner of your pad onto the white sun. Add Wanderlust Embossing Glitter and heat set.
Create your own glitter strip using Midnight cardstock and Black Twinkle. Adhere over seam on card and emboss a sentiment in your remaining white space. I used a few from the new Starlights stamp set with some Primary Ebony Embossing Powder. It’s that simple. You can create this with just glitters, or sponge and glitter like I did. The result is pretty darn eye-catching!
No. 3 – Love Makes the World Go Round
I had a little fun with this one. And I have to say – it ended up being quite relaxing! The fun part, seeing all the WOW Embossing Glitter sparkle to life.
Start out by smooshing versamark over several word dies. I used the Love Word Die with (Left to right) Fools Gold, Aladdin, Vintage Peacock, and Turkish Nights. Once you have your word dies – pick some ink colors that will compliment the sparkle! Here are the combinations that spoke to me:
Fools Gold – World embossed in WOW Earthtone Pepper, Rose Petals and Icing on the Cake inks and Chocolate cardstock. Fools Gold has an earthy gold quality to it with a dark reddish undertone to it. So Rose Petals seemed like a fun pairing. I love the look of pink and brown, so this ended up being one of my favorites!
Aladdin – Emboss the world in Ebony, and give a nod to our British hosts from WOW today. I thought it would be fun to honor not only the UK, but it’s the 4th next week, so red, white & blue it is! Aladdin was the perfect compliment. It wasn’t gold – but has a little gold in it. This one uses Peppermint Scrub, Juniper Mist and white to its advantage. The Postage Stamp Die edges are embossed in Black Twinkle and the card base is surrounded with Wanderlust – it’s a beauty!
Vintage Peacock – This one was my all time favorite of the day. I’m a sucker for the complimentary colors – Blue and Orange together. The Vintage Peacock has some gorgeous teal in it mixed with deep black and silvery sparkle. For an added twist, the world and postage die border is embossed in my favorite brown by WOW – Primary Bark. Done on Chocolate cardstock or with Black ink underneath, it’s super deep. The edge of the card base is embossed in more Vintage Peacock – this card is a STUNNER!
Turkish Nights – This one is a bit different than the bunch. Turkish Nights has this deep Lavender hue mixed with Gold, so naturally – Sugared Lavender and Shea Butter were my ink choices, right? The world is stamped in black and embossed in Clear Regular powder. The postage die edge is embossed in Black Twinkle and the card base has a perimeter of the Twisted Sunburst stencil embossed in Wanderlust. It isn’t too visible, so I switched to just smooshing the edge of the base in later cards.
Each one has it’s own personality and character. It was fun to mix and match powders with embossing glitters. Ultimately I kept the palette more to the Spa side, which seemed to work well with the glitters. I love the variation in the die cut rectangles from the Postage Dies – the alternating Stamp/Stitched look. And The World Awaits is the perfect stamp set. It’s fun, has endless sentiment options and is totally unique on the market.
Prizes and Hop List
So I hope you enjoyed these couple of projects! Be sure to comment on everyone’s blogs. We have prizes!!! WOW is giving away 6 powders of your choice along with a carry case, and Catherine Pooler is giving away the Life of the Party collection of inks!
Winners will be announced the week of July 2nd on the WOW Blog.
Enjoy all the inspiration. Jaine Drake is up next from here. And then hop on through the list!! If you ever get lost along the way – be sure to start back up at the WOW blog!
Now it’s your turn to add a little sparkle to your day!
Supplies
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About Ingrid Blackburn
A lovely selection of cards using therembossing powders.
Glitter and sparkle, can’t go wrong!
These geometric designs are gorgeous and really allow the wow products to shine. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks so much for the details and how tos! These are all beautiful!
Love how you used the twisted spiral stencil for your “love makes the world go ‘round” cards. So clever! All the colour combinations are beautiful
Really love the Wanderlust Embossing and the new Twisted Sunburst stencil. Your cards are so fun.
These are just gorgeous!!!
Your sunburst cards are amazing! That is one awesome stencil!
These cards are so coloful & fun!! I definitely want that stencil & some glittery embossing powder…I think I just have regular embossing powder without glitter!!
The swirl stencil is gorgeous. It’s at
the top of my list of purchases.
All of the cards are gorgeous.
thanks for sharing
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Great cards! Those WOW embossing glitters are so beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration!
WOW WOW WOW Ingrid, those glittery cards are super awesome and fantastic. I love seeing those glitter embossed backgrounds and sentiments.
Oh My Gosh Ingrid!! I love the color combo of that first card and how you laid the images on their side.
Great cards! Thank you.
Really great cards!
Beautiful!!! I can see that this stencil and embossing powder will be a big favorite. TFS
Wow! What beautiful cards. Thanks for sharing.
Your cards are beautiful – a lot of work went into them. I especially love the 3rd one and how you included many elements and great dimension.
Hi Ingrid. Thanks for the inspiration! Love the colors on the last card. I am more of a spa girl myself.
WOW, I just love what you did on these cards. A match made in heaven.
Lovely designs! I really liked the “well hello there” card.
Lots of gorgeous cards here! Thanks for Awesome stenciling and sparkly inspiration
Wow these cards are gorgeous – LOVE those WOW embossing powder!!!
Fabulous cards! Great job mixing the ink colors with the embossing glitters. That was quite a lot of combinations to figure out! I have to say my favorite is the pink and brown with the Fool’s Gold embossing powder. It’s so pretty!
Fantastic cards! I think the last ones are my favorites as they really do look like postage stamps. Thanks for the inspiration!
Absolutely love the twisted sunburst stencil and the Say It In Diamonds stamp set. Great cards!
Wow your cards are over the top. Beautiful Thank you for sharing.
Such bright and cheery cards. Love the colours you used ingrid. All are just over the top fabulous. 💖😍💕
Fabulous cards. Love the color combinations!
I love embossing powders and your cards are spectacular!!
Love the sunburst stencil. A fantastic array of cards, you have worked very hard. Love the first card with the lovely bright colours, you have really show-cased the CP stamps and pads and the Wow EPs. Love them.
Glittertastic, Ingrid! Being a CAS girl at heart, the first two are my favourites, though.
Marianne x
Beautiful cards, Ingrid. I wasn’t a big fan of embossing glitters but your cards are gorgeous. Love the Vintage Peacock! Will definitely be trying these ….
These are all such beautiful cards! 🙂
This is the sparkliest blog hop I’ve ever been on! I LOVE your cards – they are so fun and vibrant!
Awe, thanks Emmaline! They turned out so great!!! I wish it translated in photos. 🙂
Cute and unique designs and I like all the sparkle.
on my own blog, i once commented that embossing powder is the crafter’s own version of glitter: it gets everywhere and never goes away. coffee filters be damned. lol.
and ps. your cards are great
Your cards are amazing! I love the color combinations you choose. The Say it in Diamonds card is my favorite.
Beautiful the way you used the stencil and the world stamp(which hadn’t excited me.). Thanks for the inspiration.
Wow, lots of pretty sparkle! I love them all.
wow you were busy…love your creations. Especially the Love makes the world go Round set!
Your cards are so cool! I just love all the sparkle 🙂
Ingrid, your cards are Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing and being apart of this wonderful Blog Hop. The prizes are awesome thanks for a chance to win. Loving all these products from Wow and Catherine they are fantastic.
Great cards. Thanks for sharing.
I love these beautiful cards! This is such a great pairing of stamps and EP . Happy accidents happen all the time, that’s where creativity flourishes! Thanks Ingrid.
‘I wish to win’ made a wish of that pretty make a wish card of yours.
Enjoy your cards, your comments, and your chatter with Catherine on CrowdCasts.
LOL….we’re a bit goofy sometimes…lol. Glad it’s entertaining!! 🙂
The Make a Wish is my favorite card!
Oh my, you’ve been busy & all of your cards are colourful & vibrant with the inks & E.P.
“Couple of projects”? Ingrid, you are a card making Maven! These are ALL gorgeous! (BTW, I wear my glitter with pride and my husband doesn’t seem to mind that he wears it too! Of course I try not to bring it to his attention…LOL) Very well done!
I hear that! SO glad you liked them Teresa! 🙂
Thanks so much for the inspiration. Your cards are fabulous
wonderful sparkling cards, tfs!
Your cards are beautiful. The Turkish Nights is very popular. Thanks for sharing.
Your cards are beautiful Ingrid!! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
That was a lot of lovely sparkleNess! They are all beautiful.
I don’t know where to start. All of your cards are jaw-dropping-stunning! I love the clean look of your first card and the last groups’ backgrounds. Amazing.
I really like your first card! The colors and stamp you selected are perfect! Thank you.
such fun projects! Love all of them!
The Well Hello card is my favorite! The colors you used are fabulous. Thank you.
The World cards are my favorites. So far that is my most liked way to use that stamp. Thx for ideas.
Oh wow – thanks for that Polly!! 🙂
The bling is wonderful I can’t decide which one I like the best. Great use of the wow embossing powder.
These cards are awesome. Each is better than the next. Love the use of powders to get the effects! Thanks!
I’m already loving the stencil but this puts it right over the top! Thanks for sharing!
your cards are so sparkle!
Your stencil card almost looks like it is moving. Great card. Your designs are wonderful.
Thanks for sharing.
Linda T
WOW what great cards. Each one a little different but each beautiful. I would love to get any of your cards!
Stunning cards. Thank you for sharing.
So fun! I love all of your glittery goodness and your cards are just beautiful and so creative. Thanks for sharing with us!!
Ingrid – I really like all your cards but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Love makes the world go round ones. I need some of that vintage peacokc embossing glitter – wow!!
Ingrid, you created incredible cards. The name WOW is appropriate!
Ingrid your cards pop I love love them all.
You make beautiful cards! Thank you for the inspiration!
Your cards are beautiful – Thank you!
Ingrid,
I was excited to see you participating on this Hop as you always show unique ideas.
Thank you for sharing some descriptions on the colors. This makes it helpful for adding some of these to my wish list.
Absolutely Amy – you’ll LOVE them all. They are addictive. 🙂
Oh my goodness !! You’ve made such an incredible set of cards !!
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Such gorgeous cards. Love the embossing.
Thanks for sharing…
make your own glitter paper, perfect!
Gorgeous cards! Amazing texture, sparkle and shine!
Your cards are so beautiful and you provided so many examples for us – Thank you!
Enjoyed looking at all of your cards and how you used all the different products!
Great color choices.
You just kicked it up a notch with this wow embossing. Lovely cards.
These are awesome Ingrid! I especially like the last set of 4 cards using the world stamp over the stencil…brilliant! And sparkly!
Great showcase of products on your lovely cards!
Lovely cards and so much sparkles.
These are all amazing. Can’t wait for my new goodies from CP to arrive.
The map cards are my faves! All are great!
So much sparkle!! It’s so fun! I am loving all of those colors.
Fabulous cards! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful cards! Thank you for sharing!
Love your combinations of ink and embossing powders. The cards are gorgeous. I am absolutely in love with the vintage peacock. Can you guess what my favorite color is? Lol
I know, right? It’s SO pretty in real life. On black too! Fools Gold and Aladdin are some of my favs too. And in the neutral area – Bark and Pepper are very cool. Thanks for stopping by Brandy! 🙂
Beautiful card’s made with amazing products!
Great cards Ingrid
All of these are so gorgeous, Ingrid!!!
Awe, Thanks Kristie!!! Channeled you in my first one for sure…lol! 🙂
Wow! Wow! Wow! Awesome cards and colors!!!
great cards with happy colours, fabulous colour combo’s, tfs
Absolutely Beautiful! The embossing glitter is gorgeous.
I’m awestruck at your incredible cards Ingrid. So much sparkle thereby so much shine. Love all these embossing glitters.💕😍
Your cards are so beautiful. I love the use of the Twisted Sunburst stencil. Great technique.
Great cards!!! Love the embossing powder colors that you used!!
what a great collection of cards, tfs💖💕💞
Ingrid, your cards are stunning. Whoever gets these will be in awe.
beautiful cards, your happy accident turned into two wonderful cards
thanks for sharing
Love the cards. I’m enamored with the Turkish nights and Aladdin embossing powders!
They are gorgeous!!
Wow love love your cards
Love the cards, particularly the first one. TFS!
Ingrid, you have really show cased the WOW Embossing Powders just fabulously! So much sparkly goodness and pairs really nicely with Catherine Pooler products. Cheers Jo