Wow Whimsy Stamps Collaboration Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Today I am very excited to be part of a collaboration blog hop between Wow! Embossing Powder and Whimsy Stamps! This is a two day hop with lots of inspiration and giveaways, too!

I will tell you more at the end of this post, but for now let’s focus on today’s cards.

Background

For my cards today I tried a fun technique: I created the same DIY patterned paper on two card panels, the first one stamped with gray ink and the second heat embossed with white embossing powder by Wow!. I then used the Whimsy Stamps Connected Oval die to die cut the panels and swapped the centers around. This way each design is the negative of the other.

Let’s take a look at the process in more detail.

To create the DIY patterned paper, I used the smaller images in the Whimsy Stamps Beaver Birthday stamp set. I also wanted the pattern to be identical on both my stamped and embossed backgrounds, so I used my MISTI to do the stamping.

The steps are as follows:

• I positioned the first panel in my MISTI
• I arranged the three stamps in a random pattern
• I stamped them with Rocky Slope ink by Pinkfresh Studios
• I removed the first panel and placed the second in my MISTI in the same position
• I stamped the images with Wow! Embossing Ink and heat embossed them with Opaque Bright White Embossing Powder.

I re-arranged the stamps to cover different areas of my card fronts and repeated the steps above. I went on until both panels were completely covered

I left the stamped panel as is and I did some ink blending on the heat embossed one. I used LDRS creative inks in the colors Tropical Sea, Parisian Purple, Soft Kisses, Tangeringe Dream.

I then trimmed down the panels to 4×5.25″ and used the Connected Ovals die by Whimsy Stamp to cut out the centers. I also used it to cut some black cardstock.

I glued everything to two A2 sized card bases, swapping the centers and using the black die cut frames.

Images

The images I used today are part of the Whimsy Stamps Beaver Birthday stamp set – SO cute and fun! I stamped them on Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock and I colored them with Illustrator markers.
Here is the list of markers I used

Beaver Body: TN7, TN5, TN3
Beaver Tail: EB7, EB5, EB3
Beaver Ears and Paws: FS5, FS8, FS9
Balloons: DR7, DR5, DR2, BP7, BP5, BP3

Once I was done coloring, I fussy cut them out with my scissors.

sentiment

For the greetings on my cards I used stamps in the Beaver Birthday set and I heat embossed them with white embossing powder over some black cardstock. I rounded the corners of the sentiment banners with a corner chomper and I glued it to my card base.

blog hop and giveaway

And now it’s time to talk about giveaways!

The blog hop will run until the 5th of April. As we have so many talented designers wanting to play along we decided to celebrate by split the blog hop up over two days. You can find day 1 here.
The winners will be chosen at random in the week of the of 8th of April from the comments left on the posts.
There are two prizes which means two winners! WOW! Embossing Powders has – 6 powders of your choosing along with a WOW carry case to store your powders safely in. Whimsy Stamps is giving away a $25 gift certificate to their store.
To join this giveaway you must leave a comment on the designer’s blog post and each comment you leave is an entry for a chance at getting your hands on these prizes.
This hop is open internationally.

Here is the hop lineup. Happy Hopping!

Whimsy Stamps
Jo Herbert
Michelle Bala
Laura Volpes
Crystal Komara
Carisa Zglobicki
Tricia Barber
Amber Rain Davis
Alanna Moses
Karen Reategui
Bev Rochester
WOW! Embossing Powder

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