Happy Monday, Friends! It’s week 2 for AUG-2020 “Masculine” challenge theme over at the WOW! Embossing Powders Facebook Page. So therefore, this week I’ve created this “Thank You” monochromatic masculine card made using WOW! Stroke of Midnight Sparkles and WOW! Metallic Gold Rich powders. With that being said, I’d like to invite you to come and play along with us for a chance to win a $15.00 or ₤15.00 gift card to WOW! US or WOW! UK online stores. So, without further ado, let’s jump right into the step by step on how I made it ↓
To begin with, I started by placing a Strathmore Watercolor Panel over my Make Art Mini Stay-Tion All-in-One Magnetic Surface so, once I got it onto place with the magnets I started to do a quick light wash of water-coloring using a blue hue from my White Nights Watercolor set.
Therefore, after the first watercolor layer was dry, I kept adding and adding layers until I’ve achieved the look that I was looking for so, after I had the water-coloring done I’d set it aside to dry, and in the meanwhile I went ahead to die-cut the thank you word.
For the Thank you die-cutting word, I lined up over a piece of white cardstock the Simply Thank You Die, and once both were line up I ran them through the Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing Machine. Thus, after I had the first thank you die-cutting word I went ahead to repeat the same step until I had 4 white and 1 gold thank you die-cutting words.
Therefore, once I had the die-cutting pieces done, I stacked together the whites words and once I had a dimensional die-cut word I created a sticky surface for the WOW! Stroke of Midnight Sparkles could adhere. That said, I added Mod Podge over the word using a paint brush, and then I covered it with the sparkles. Once, I had that done I waited a few minutes to let it dry and once it was, I went ahead to heat set it using my WOW! Heat Embossing Gun Tool. So, after I had the heat embossing part done, I glued down the word a bit offset to the right over the gold die-cutting word creating that way a slightly gold shadow (as shown in the image above)
Lastly, after I had the heat embossing and water-coloring done, I started the assembling for the card so, to do that I trimmed the edges off from the watercolor panel and I added gold splatter, then after the splattering was dry out I adhered the backing of it to an A2 side folding white card base. Right afterwards, I glued down with liquid glue the dimensional and sparkly thank you die-cutting word, and last but not least, I placed inside my MISTI Stamping Tool the card so, I could stamp a small sentiment underneath it. Thus, for the sentiment I stamped it with WOW! Embossing Pad and gold heat embossed with WOW! Metallic Gold Rich. As a finishing touch, I glued down here and there a few Crystal Confetti, and with that being said friends, I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the step by step on how I’ve created this “Thank You” monochromatic masculine card. As always, I appreciate the time that takes you to read my blog posts. Below, you’ll find the supply list for the products used on today’s blog post and the information needed in case you want to play with this month’s challenge. And, if you get inspired by today’s project and you give it a try, be sure to tag me on Instagram➝@cardsandcraftsbyyaz I’d love to see what you’re creating.
Thank you and happy crafting.
Stay Awesome & Beautiful
— Today & Always —
Love,
Yasmin
Challenge Information
In order to participate all you need to do is ➝ follow the WOW! Embossing Powder Monthly Challenge theme as an inspiration to create one of the followings for your submissions:
— Card
— Scrapbook Layout
— Tag
Or any type of paper crafting project/mixed media of your preference that features any WOW! Embossing Powder product of your choice. Submissions must be entering by August 31st at 9PM PST. (Please do not enter more than 3 entries per person)
Supply List
WOW! Stroke of Midnight Sparkles
WOW! Metallic Gold Rich
WOW! Embossing Pad
WOW! Heat Embossing Gun Tool
Embossing Powder Tool
Sincere Greeting Stamp Set
Simply Thank You Die
Crystal Confetti
Tool ‘n One
White Nights Watercolor
W&N Neutral Tint
Mod Podge
MISTI Stamping Tool
Strathmore Watercolor Paper
Cougar 110# Heavy Weight Card Stock
Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
Make Art Mini Stay-Tion All-in-One Magnetic Surface
Your imagination is Your limit.
All photography provided by Yasmin Diaz
Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
–Albert Einstein
Disclosure
I am creating this blog post with the purpose of sharing how I design my cards, the information provided here is base in my own opinion and creativity. I am not an expert by any means, and I only share the way that I design my cards. Most of the products used for my blog posts are personally purchased by me. However, I did receive the products by WOW! Embossing Powder. Please, keep in mind that, all referral links are added for you to know from where either, I purchase or receive the items from as, all products shared and mentioned in each of my blog posts are simply because I use, and truly love them.