WOW! Embossing Powder Week Day 5

Welcome to Day 5 – our last day- of WOW! Embossing Powder week on the Paper Crafter’s Library blog!  We’re had a wonderful week partnering with WOW! to showcase their extensive line of  fabulous Embossing Powders.  Since discovering Wow! Embossing Powders at Winter CHA 2012 in Anaheim, they’ve rapidly become our favourite line of embossing powders, and we just can’t get enough. We’ve been finding ourselves reaching for them over and over again – our projects really come to life with the addition of our WOW! Embossing Powders.  

Every day this week we’ve been sharing fantastic projects featuring WOW! Embossing Powders created by both the WOW! Design Team as well as the Paper Crafter’s Library Designers/Educators – and today is our last day. Today at 4 pm we’ll be announcing the two lucky winners that will be receiving  a Wow! Embossing Powder Prize Pack consisting of a variety of Wow! Embossing Powders. The winners will be drawn from all the comments left on the Paper Crafter’s Library Blog or the Paper Crafter’s Library Facebook page as well as the WOW! blog or the WOW! Facebook page.  

As part of our collaboration with Wow! Embossing Powder, each day this week, that day’s Wow! Designer has also been giving away a 3 month membership to Paper Crafter’s Library. Today’s WOW! Designer  is Jennifer Matott – be sure to stop by Jennifer’s blog and leave a comment in THIS POST for your chance to win a 3 month membership to Paper Crafter’s Library.  Winner will be announced on Friday.  While you’re there, be sure to browse all her fantastic creations.

WOW Designer Project

Today’s WOW! Designer is Jennifer Matott.  You can see her project below, but before that, here is a little more about Jennifer:

My name is Jennifer Matott and I live outside of Syracuse, NY with my 2 boys and husband of 11 years. I have been a visual art teacher for grades K-9 for over 15 years and have a passion for all things ART!  I am a mixed media artist and have been papercrafting for at least 12 years.  I love to “play” with materials and create unique techniques. Mixed media allows me to get creative with imagery and create 3D effects using a variety of tools.  My pages lean towards the dramatic and I love experimenting with all materials. Currently I’m a design team member of WOW! Embossing Powders, Basically Bare, Faber-Castell DMC, and Scrapbooking From the Inside Out kits.  I’ve been published in several paper and online craft magazines, including Scrap N’ Art, Scrapbooking and Beyond, Scrapbook Trends, Somerset Memories, and others. I hope you will visit me on my blog:   http://arttalk-sigmagirl.blogspot.com/

Nicho Shadow Box

Jennifer Matott here to share a project that I made using WOW! Embossing powders and a fun technique that guarantees texture and WOW factor!  I created this Nicho (Mexican Folk Art inspired) shadow box using cardboard, Basically Bare shapes/ frames and some cardstock.  First I stamped the cardstock with some embossing ink and Pink Paislee’s Bleu Indigo stamps. I sprinkled Gold Ultra High powder on it and heat embossed it.  Then I stamped the embossing ink over the chipboard frame and covered it with the Gold Ultra High powders.  I did this twice so as to create a thick coating.  I heated up the first time, dipped it in more powder and then heated it again.  While it was still warm, I stamped with a paislee stamp into the melted powder.  No ink necessary!

I repeated this for the other parts of the Nicho box using Basically Bare’s Fleur de Lis and I also cut an oval the size of the frame to fit as the back.  It was stamped and embossed too!

 

Next I assembled the pieces.  The cardstock was cut into strips and hot glued onto the back of the frame with the oval as the back.  The entire inside was sprayed with Tattered Angels Turquoise.  The embossing powders act as a resist!

I also embossed the felt wings along the edge and used the Gold and Bubble Gum color for the cardboard heart from Basically Bare.  The little mosaic tiles were an inspiration!  I had these scrap pieces from another chipboard shape and decided they could create more of that Mexican art feel as mosaic squares.  I used Black Glint, Bubble Gum, and Cotton Candy powders on them and alternated the pattern inside the Nicho.

 

The little nest and spool was an added embellishment for my little box.  I love how it looks so rich, textured, and creates that metal look that I was striving for.  The WOW powders are awesome and melt like a dream!  They stand up to multiple stamping and can even be mixed! I hope you enjoyed my project.

Paper Crafter’s Library Designer Projects

Today we’re showing another technique featuring Wow! Embossing powders, this time showing you how easy it is to emboss on ceramic.  I picked up this little ceramic dish at the dollar store for $1 and turned it into a customized pet food dish. I created a stencil using my Silhouette, placed it against the ceramic and patted my VersaMark pad through it.  I then removed the stencil and sprinkled on my embossing powder. Stencils and templates – whether purchased or homemade are a great way to be able to emboss on a slick surface like glass or ceramic – because you can hold them in place.  Stamps can be a bit tricky since they have a tendency to slip.

You can view a video on how I heat embossed on ceramic below.

One of the things I’ve been so impressed about as I’ve really been diving into the world of heat embossing this week and in the weeks leading up to Wow! Week is how many different things that you can emboss on, and how easy it is to incorporate it into different projects to add just that perfect amount of dimension.  One of the things I’ve been experimenting with is using heat embossing in my art journaling.  The trio of canvases I showed you last week incorporates heat embossing on the chipboard letters:

In the art journal page you see below that I created a few weeks ago, I used Wow!’s Black Twinkle Embossing Glitter for all my stamped images:

And then in the SOAR art journaling page you see below, I edged my pages with Wow!’s Verdigris Embossing Powder.

The final project I want to show you today is a Paper Crafter’s Library exclusive created by Sophia.  Sophia colors the beautiful vintage fish image from La Blanche stamps using Distress Inks and the Ranger nibs, and then embosses the image with Wow!’s Clear Matte Embossing Powder.  The Dull embossing powder is the perfect way to add dimension and textural interest to your projects without taking away from the vintage feel as a glossy finish might.   

There is a video tutorial and handout for this project available to our Paper Crafter’s Library members.

So there you have it! Day 3 of our celebration of Wow! Embossing Powders I hope you have enjoyed all the projects that our design team and the Wow! design team have created for you.

A Bit About Paper Crafter’s Library

The world of paper crafting is HUGE! Whether you are a beginner, or you’ve been creating for years, the sheer number of different products, tools, techniques and project ideas can be overwhelming. After spending 6 years helping thousands of paper crafters around the world become more successful in the creative space through her series of kits, digital tutorials and online classes, Andrea Walford began looking for a new approach to education. In 2011 she launched Paper Crafter’s Library – the first, and still to this day, only website that provides an all-in-one learning solution for paper crafters. With almost 800 videos currently in their library and 4-5 new videos added each week, Paper Crafter’s Library offers comprehensive training on products, tools, techniques, and project ideas. From beginner through to advanced, whether your interest is in stamping, card making, scrapbooking, creating 3D items or altered art – you’ll find all the resources you need to navigate the world of paper crafting in ONE place, organized and indexed so that it’s quick and easy to find.

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Wow! Embossing Powder Give-Away

To enter to a Wow! Embossing Powder prize pack consisting a variety of different embossing powders please leave your comment below. Be sure to come back at 4 pm today as winner’s will be announced!

Paper Crafter’s Library 3 Month Membership Give-Away