Lots of Love with Glitter Greeting Cards

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Lots of Love with Glitter Greeting Cards

Happy Monday, Crafters! Phew! I cannot even believe that, we’ve made to end of the January “Love/Valentine’s Day challenge over at the WOW! Embossing Powders Facebook Page. Stay tune because… I know you’re going to love next month’s challenge as, it’ll be a bit of sparkly but, while that happens… let me share with you the last Lots of Love cards that, I’ve created featuring; Metallic Gold Sparkle, Pink Sherbert, Tangerine Dream from the Sweet Treats Embossing Glitter Trio and Tanzenite from the new; Gemstone Embossing Glitter Trio which, will be available to purchase on WOW! UK Feb, 3rd and, on WOW! US Feb 10th. So, with that being said, I’d like to invite you to come and play along with Me and the Team 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 January 31st at 9PM PST. (Please do not enter more than 3 entries per person) Without further ado, let’s jump into the blog below ↓

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For the first example, I started by water-coloring a Strathmore Watercolor Card Panel with the a soft Pinky/Peach-Orange/Yellowish hues that, I mixed using my Mungyo 48 Watercolor Set. Once the water-coloring was the way that I wanted it, I added a few gold splatter using my Multi-Surface Craft Yellow Metallic Gold Paint. Soon after the splattering, I set the card panel aside to let it dry out. In the meanwhile, I ran through the die-cutting machine the largest die from the Stitched Shaker Window Dies to die-cut the frame out of white cardstock for the shaker card. Right after that, I placed on the stamping tool a piece of acetate larger enough for the shaker window and I treated with lots of Embossing Powder Tool because, I was going to heat embossing the Love You sentiment from the Stacked Love You Stamp Set with Metallic Brass Embossing Powder.

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As, you can see in the picture above the embossing wasn’t perfect and, I could had re-heat embossed it but, I decided to leave it as is because, I kind of liked the distress look once was over the water-colored background. So, after heat embossing over the acetate, I created 4 sticky surfaces to do that, I pushed down over a large piece of white cardstock the Embossing Ink Pad. Once, I had all 4 sticky surfaces, I added the embossing glitters to it and, I heat set them using the WOW! Heat Embossing Gun Tool until each of the glittery surfaces were completely melted. Lastly, after the heat embossing, I ran through the die-cutting machine each of the glittery surfaces along with one of the dies from the Confetti Hearts Makers Die to die-cut the hearts that I placed inside the shaker window. Finally, I adhered with strong double-sided tape the acetate to the back of the stitched frame then, I mixed the glittery hearts along with Crystal Confetti and I placed the mix over the water-colored card panel. To finish the card off, I foam mounted the frame and I trimmed the edges off from the card panel before, I adhered it double-sided tape to an A2 top folding white card base.

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For the second example, I used the leftover die-cutting pieces from the glitter embossing. So, to die-cut the squares from the leftover pieces, I used one of the square dies from the Memory Box Square Basic Set. As, for the frames along with the first square die, I also used a second die smaller than the first one from the same set to die-cut the frames out of white cardstock.

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Once, I had the die-cutting pieces done, I adhered the backing of each frame with liquid glue to each of the glittery squares. Right after that, I adhered each of the framed little squares as shown above to an A2 white card panel which, right afterwards I trimmed slightly smaller than the card base. Lastly, I ran through the die-cut machine the Fit to Be Tied Die and the Just Vines Die to die-cut them out of white cardstock. To finish the card panel off, I gold heat embossed in the right lower side of the card a sentiment from the Signed and Sealed with a Kiss Stamp Set and, I adhered the vine along with the bow die-cutting pieces as, you can see in the picture above.

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To balance the shine, I decided to adhered a heart to the center of the bow as well as a few Crystal Confetti here and there for a touch of sparkle last but not least, I foam mounted the card panel to an A2 top folding white card base. With that being said, that’s all for today friends, I hope these Lots of Love glittery cards inspire you to give them and the “Love/Valentine’s Day” challenge a try! As always, I appreciate the time that take you to read my blog posts. Below; you’ll find the supply list for the products used on today’s blog post but for now…

Thank you and happy crafting, your time is valuable.
Don't forget to keep spreading kindness, Today and Always.

Love,
Yasmin

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.
WOW! Embossing Powder US
WOW! Embossing Powder UK

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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 to create this blog post. Please, keep in mind that, all referral links were added for you to know from where I purchased or received the items from as, all of products shared and mentioned in each of my blog posts are simply because I use, and truly love them.