Clean and Simple with a Citrus Twist

Welcome to WOW! Embossing Powder!

Hey friends…..it’s Michelle back with you sharing a project featuring the new Quad Citrus. These new powders are bright, they pack a wonderful punch and they just pop right off the paper. Follow along and I’ll give you all the details on creating clean and simple with a citrus twist.

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Clean and Simple with a Citrus Twist

1. Create the background by diecutting a piece of smooth white cardstock using a patterned cover die, as this will add interest to the background without deterring away from the focal point….the powders.
2. Take 4 pieces of cardstock cut approximately 3/4″ high (or as high as you need to fit your diecut) and as long as you’d need to fit your sentiment diecut…in my case they were cut to 4″ long. Go direct to the cardstock strips with your embossing inkpad or vice versa (press your paper strips to your inkpad) and ensure you get a full coverage of ink on the paper. Sprinkle each embossing powder on 1 piece of cardstock each (you will have 4 different colours in the end) and heat emboss from underneath.
3. Adhere each embossed strip to a piece of thin copy paper, using double sided adhesive, starting with Rusty, Tomato,, Kiwi Gold and finishing with Olive.
4. Diecut the shadow layer of the sentiment from these embossed strips and the more intricate top layer of the sentiment from the same smooth white cardstock as used for the background.
5. Heat emboss in Opaque Bright White embossing powder the smaller sentiment on a piece of green cardstock that coordinates with the Olive embossing powder and then diecut the small square speech bubble. Adhere the 2 sentiments on the background using liquid adhesive for the large piece and foam adhesive for the smaller one. Add to an A2 cardbase.
6. For the embellishments diecut a small heart from the leftover Olive heat embossed cardstock strip. Did you know that you can actually make matching embellishments too…as in pearls??? I took 3 white flat back pearls in various sizes and adhered them to a piece of masking tape. Take the tape with the pearls and go direct to the embossing ink pad and do some ink smooshing (exactly the same technique as you do for the cardstock) and ensure that the pearls are fully covered with the ink.
7. Leaving your pearls on the masking tape, sprinkle on the Rusty powder and make sure that they are completely covered. Again, leaving the pearls on the tape, heat set the powders using your heat embossing tool, heating from above but using the lower of the 2 speeds on the WOW! Heat Embossing Tool. Using the lower of the 2 speeds will help to cut back on any stray bits of powder that may fly away, since we are heating from above and this is a textured powder. Once heat set, remove the pearls and adhere to your background along with the small diecut heart.

And that’s it….this new Quad is partof the mixed media range of powders, but there are so many other ways they can be used too! Thanks again for stopping by today and I wish you all the most wonderful and colourful day! Until next time 🙂

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Supplies

• WOW! Embossing Quad Citrus
• WOW! Superior Smooth White Cardstock
• WOW! Dual Speed Heat Tool *Euro*
• WOW! Clear Ultra Slow Drying Embossing Ink Pad
• WOW! Opaque Bright White Embossing Powder
• Concord & 9th Say Thanks Turnabout Stamp and Die
• PinkFresh Studio Sparkiling Diamonds Coverplate Die
• maskng tape
• liquid and foam adhesive
• thin copy(printer) paper
• white flat back pearls
• green cardstock

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