WOW! New to you Products Challenge, Birthday Greeting Card
Happy Monday, friends! It’s the first Monday of the month so therefore, today I’m sharing with you this Birthday card that I’ve made for the new; ⇾New to you Products Challenge over at the WOW! Embossing Powders Facebook Page. The new to me products have to be the coolest WOW! Opaque Bright White Ultra High, and WOW! Metallic Gold Ultra High so, I’d like to start this month by using them as possibilities are endless. With that being said, I also would like to take this opportunity to invite you to come and play along with us for a chance to win a $15.00 or ₤15.00 gift card to the WOW! US or WOW! UK online stores. Here’s the information needed in case, you’re interested in participating and share your projects/cards or any project of your choice.
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 March 31st at 9PM PST. (Please do not enter more than 3 entries per person) Without further ado, let’s jump into the blog ↓
To begin with, I started by placing a very large piece of white cardstock inside of my stamping tool. Next, I placed in one corner the solid balloon stamp from the Birthday Balloons Stamp Set. Once, I had the stamp in place I stamped the solid image 4X with the following colors; Blush Pink, Bubble Gum, Tropic Teal and Citrine. Right after when I was done stamping the 4 solid images, I removed the solid stamp images from the stamping tool and I added lots of Embossing Powder Tool over the stamped images because, I was going to place over one balloon the outline stamp image from the set to stamp it 4 times as well but, this time with WOW! Embossing Ink.
Once, all 4 outlines were stamped, I removed the cardstock from the stamping tool, and I added WOW! Metallic Gold Rich. So, after adding the powder, I tapped the excess and I heat set it with my WOW! Heat Embossing Gun Tool until the gold heat embossing was completely melted. Taking the advantage from heat, from the heat embossing gun tool, I quickly sprinkled WOW! Opaque White Ultra High to 2-Balloons and WOW! Metallic Gold Ultra High to the other 2 adding that way to them a confetti textured effect.
To keep it simple, right after when I was done with the balloons, I set them aside and I started to work on the card base. As for the card base, I used one of Slim card base from my Strathmore 3.875" x 9", 10 Cards & Envelopes set because, I wanted a heavy weight card base to resist the acrylic paint. So, to create the pattern on the card base, I carefully closed the card base, and I used a One Stroke 3/4in Brush to paint the brush strokes with Martha Stewart Multi-Surface Satin Acrylic/ Sting Ray Gray and Martha Stewart Multi-Surface Satin Acrylic/ Snowball.
Once, I had fully covered the card front with the brush strokes, I sprinkled here and there more WOW! Opaque White Ultra High while the paint was still wet so the powder could stick to it.
Meanwhile, as I was waiting for the acrylic paint to dry, I came back to the balloons so therefore, I ran through my Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing Machine each of the stamped balloons along with its coordinated die to die-cut them out of the cardstock. Although the stamp set has the strings, I decided to use DMC Metallic Thread instead as embellishment.
Lastly, after I was done die-cutting the balloons, I gold heat embossed a sentiment from the same stamp set, and I trimmed the edges off from it with the paper trimmer. Soon after that, I went back to the card base to heat set the powder from the card base, and I proceed to assemble the card. To assemble the card first; I added the piece of metallic thread as I mentioned earlier to each balloon. Second, to add dimension I adhered down the balloons as shown in the image above with foam mounting tape to the card base. Third; I foam mounted the sentiment which I had previously gold heat embossed on white cardstock on the left bottom corner of the card, and last but certainly not least, I adhered a bow to the last balloon using a piece of the same metallic thread.
Finally, to finish the card off, I adhered here and there some of the Crystal Confetti to add a touch of shine! With that being said, I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the step by step on how I’ve created today’s Birthday card. Also, I hope this card inspires you to give it a try! 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. If, you get inspired by today’s project tag me on Instagram➝@cardsandcraftsbyyaz , I’d love to see what you create either to participate on this month’s challenge or to recreate today’s project using what you have already in your stash.
Thank you and happy crafting, your time is valuable.
Don't forget to keep spreading kindness, Today and Always.
Love,
Yasmin
Supply List
WOW! Opaque White Ultra High
WOW! Metallic Gold Ultra High
WOW! Metallic Gold Rich
WOW! Embossing Ink Pad
WOW! Embossing Ink Pad Refill
WOW! Heat Embossing Gun Tool
TSM Ink Pads
Birthday Balloons Stamp
Birthday Balloons Die Set
Crystal Confetti
DMC Metallic Thread
Martha Stewart Multi-Surface Satin Acrylic/ Sting Ray Gray
Martha Stewart Multi-Surface Satin Acrylic/ Snowball
One Stroke 3/4in Brush
Strathmore 3.875" x 9", 10 Cards & Envelopes
Inkadinkado Embossing Powder Tool
Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing Machine
Make Art Stay-Tion-All-in-One Magnetic Surface
Cougar 110# Heavy Weight Card Stock
PLEASE NOTE
As part of the WOW! Designer Team, WOW! has provided me a code for all my lovely Subscribers to use. So, don’t forget to take the advantage of a crafty 10% off all purchase for both WOW!
US and UK by simply by using my code: WOWDTYD
Here are the links for both websites weather you’re a US or UK user.
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Your imagination is Your limit.
All photography provided by Yasmin Diaz
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–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 WOW! Embossing Powder products. Please, keep in mind that, all referral links are added for you to know from where; I purchased or received the items from as, all products shared and mentioned in each of my blog posts are simply because I use, and truly love them.