In today’s video, I’ve got two cards for you using stamps and dies that were originally released around Christmas. However, today these cards show how stretching your Christmas stamps and dies are so easy and you can create cards that could be sent any time of the year. This video is part of a blog hop between WOW! Embossing powder and Catherine Pooler, where the Design Teams have joined forces to bring you some stamping & heat embossing fun. Some of the design team are using some fabulous new products from both Catherine Pooler Designs and WOW! Embossing Powders stores.
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Stretching you Christmas Stamps/dies card 1
For this first card, we’re going to use the Angel wings die and the Angel word die from Catherine pooler, which is still available to buy in her shop. First of all, die-cut the wings from 80lb Neenah Classic Crest Solar White card about 6 times. Next, add liquid glue to the back of the die-cuts and ahere these down on a white card panel. Keep adding more wings in a variety of orientations over the panel to create a tone of tone background with a lot of texture. This will add interest to the background but will not detract too much from the sentiment later on.
Once most of the panel is covered, use your guillotine to trim off the excess overhang, but don’t get rid of these pieces. We can use the off-cuts to fill in any gaps around the edge and this will make the panel look more finished. Again, trim off any overhang and reuse once more for any other gaps.
Adding sparkle to the sentiment
For the sentiment, smoosh clear ultra-slow dry embossing pad down on to a piece of white card, coating it quite liberally with ink. Next, cover with Sage embossing glitter mix from Catherine Pooler’s Bundled Up Trio with WOW! Embossing powder. To heat set this, it is best to heat set from underneath to ensure the glitter does not fly off before the powder melts and traps it. For a nice smooth application, repeat adding ink and powder.
Using your embossed card, run the Angel word die through your die-cutting machine and cut another 3 out of white card stock. Layer these angel word die-cuts up using liquid glue and adhere the embossed die-cut on the top.
To go with the sentiment, Catherine pooler Believe An Angels stamp set, which is still available, is great for creating custom sentiments as this has lots of individual words. For this card, heat emboss ‘you are my real life’ in WOW! Opaque Bright embossing powder to go with angel word die.
The background panel was trimmed down to give a ¼ inch border and foam mounted this onto a card panel. The sentiments were then adhered to the front and the embossed strips were popped up on foam pads for dimension Lastly, a selection of Lucy’s cards Crystal Circles sprinkle sequins were added to the front.
Stretching you Christmas Stamps/dies card 2
For card number two, we are going to create a pair of rainbow wings but we’re going for more of a pastel rainbow. The Catherine Pooler inks in the Spa collection is perfect for this as it has lovely more muted colours. To add the colour, use blending brushes rather than a blending tool and sponge to add a light application of ink. So the first colour to use is Peppermint scrub, followed by Mandarin Spice, Shea Butter, Seafoam, Skylight, Juniper mist and lastly finishing with Sangria – which is now my favourite pinky purple colour. Don’t worry about getting the best blend as when you die cut the wings out, as they are so delicate you won’t really see any patchy blending.
For this card, we are going to create a gatefold card for the wings to sit on when you open up the card. Take a piece of 5.5” by 8.5” white card and score this at 2 1/8th inches before rotating the panel and scoring at 2 1/8th inches again. For a little more interest, add score lines horizontally across each gatefold panel at ¼”.
adding sparkle to the wings
To give more dimension, add the ink blended wings to layered wing die-cuts cut out of Soft Stone card stock. Now before adhering them to the card, we can add a little sparkle, by smooshing your ink pad down onto the die cuts. Next, cover this WOW! Clear Hologram Sparkle which has fine iridescent glitter in it.
For a sentiment, and as a reveal, we can add a vellum belly band. Take a piece of vellum is about 2” wide and 9.5 inches long. and score at 2 and quarter inches and 7 inches to create a wrap around the card. Before sealing the band, we can add the sentiment. For this card, use the fancy Angel stamp from the Believe in Angels stamp set. Stamp in embossing ink and cover with Primary Ebony embossing powder before heat setting.
To seal the wrap, put double-sided adhesive on each end of the band, and holding the band in place on the front of the card whilst wrapping the ends around and adhering down on to one another. Lastly, add a ‘you are my’ white heat embossed on black card sentiment from the stamp set onto the vellum to finish the sentiment off.
Supplies
stretching your Christmas stamps/dies
Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you at these shops: Altenew (ALT), Scrapbook.com (SB), Hero Arts (HA), Picket Fence Studios (PF), My Favourite Things (MFT), and Craft Stash UK/US (CS UK/US).
All other shops are not affiliated links: Bumbleberry Papercrafts (BP) and WOW! UK/US (WOW UK/US).
 Believe in Angles – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Angel Wings – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Angel Word – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |
 Juniper Mist Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Juniper Mist Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Skylight Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |
 Skylight Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Seafoam Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Seafoam Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |
 Shea Butter Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Shea Butter Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Mandarin Spice ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |
 Mandarin Spice Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Peppermint Scrub – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Peppermint Scrub Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |
 Sangria Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Sangria Reinker – Catherine pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |  Black Jack Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB |
 Black Jack reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink refill Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
 WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad & refill Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) |  Opaque Bright White -WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Bundled Up Inspired by Catherine Pooler – WOW! Shop at: WOW (UK) | WOW (US) | CP |
 Clear Hologram Sparkle – WOW! Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Soft Stone Heavy Weight Cardstock – Gina K Designs Shop at: BP |  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Cardstock Shop at: BP | SB |
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb Cardstock Shop at: BP |  Original MISTI – My Sweet Petunia Shop at: ALT | BP | SB | HA |  Gina K Designs – Connect Glue Shop at: BP |
 “Life Changing” Blender Brushes 2 pack Shop at: BP | SB | PF |  “Life Changing” Blender Brushes 10 Pack Shop at: BP | SB | PF |  WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version) Shop at: CS (UK) | WOW (UK) |
WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version) Shop at: WOW (US) |  Teflon Bone Folder – Lawn Fawn Shop at: BP |  Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
 Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |  QuickStik – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
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DISCLOSURE
This post was produced as part of my design team work for WOW! Embossing Powders have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from WOW! Embossing Powder to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of and with products that I love. The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert.
64 thoughts on “Stretching your Christmas stamps/dies (WOW! Embossing and Catherine Pooler Blog hop!)”
So delicate and lovely!
The embossing powder you used over the wings is so pretty!
TR
So delicate and lovely!
These are my favorite in the hop so far ?.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing! ?
Verity these are just beautiful. The rainbow coloured angel wings is just spectacular! x
Beautiful cards!! I love them!
So pretty!! Those wings and that angel sentiment are totally made for glitters and embossing!!
Those rainbow angel wings are gorgeous! Thanks for the tips about embossing
Loved the rainbow wings. Beautifully created.
Love the white on white with the embossed word angel.
What pretty cards and I love the sentiment!
Wow your cards look so elegant! They are amazing! Thank you for sharing!
Wow! Those wings make a beautiful dimensional background and the embossed “Angel” sentiment is so pretty. Your ink-blending on the second card is lovely. Thank you.
Ah Christmas, the most wonderful and sparkly time of the year! These cards are so lovely and serene, the wings, the angel, perfection! Love love love
Wow! Love these cards! The colorful sparkly angel wings card is my fav! <3
I love your rainbow wings – they’re so beautiful!
Beautiful wings!
Those cards are absolutely gorgeous.
Great tips for using “out of season” stamps! I like the embossing powders that you used. Thanks.
So creative, but love your multi colored angel wings!
The rainbow wings are stunning. I absolutely love this card
I love finding new ways to use my stamps. Thank you for the inspiration.
Those embossing colors are gorgeous.
Lovely, elegant cards.
Stunning cards. The rainbow wings look amazing xx
Such beautiful cards, love the rainbow wings!
The embossed wings are gorgeous and thank you for sharing your beautiful cards!
Beautiful cards. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! These are gorgeous cards ??
I love the white on white background created with the wings! Awesome tip for using seasonal dies.
I LOVE the sentiment and sparkle! Gorgeous wings!
Beautiful. Very elegant.
Using the angel wing die to creat the background is so clever. Makes me want to search my stash for something that will work like that!
Love your ideas. Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards.
I like the angel wings. Very pretty!
Beautiful cards! It’s good to know that I can die cut an embossed paper without cracking it. (That was my fear) Thank you for sharing.
Wow what a wonderful idea ,just love your cards thank you for sharing them.
Oh what beautiful and elegant cards! Wonderfully creative use of Christmas stamps. Love them!
Love the hologram sparkle. Extra wonderful that it doesn’t darken the ink. Beautiful ombre effect. Thanks for the inspiration and please stay healthy!
Beautiful cards! You did a great job on those sparkly wings.
Absolutely Gorgeous cards!! Im loving those Angel wings.
Thank you for the video which I really enjoyed.
Verity, I REALLY adore your wings with the rainbow and then the shimmer powder atop it! Oh my goodness it gives them such an ethereal look! Heavenly for sure! All I can say is WOW!~~!!!! This is a great post (just like all the others on the hop) but I really like how you showed us how to stretch our supplies. I think that is brilliant and especially now, with folks needing uplifting messages, these wings will totally uplift someone! Cheers on your lovely cards!
Fabulous cards!! I love the colors!!
Your glistening wings in rainbow are gorgeous and the layering really is beautifully designed!
The glittery wings are gorgeous.
Love the mixing of colors.
The green sentiment on the first
card really pops off the white.
Great cards. thanks for sharing
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I love all the glittery images against the white backgrounds- so pretty! Lovely cards!
Nice way to use things that usually stay put away and used 1 time of year
Love the finish the embossing powder leaves.
I love the colors on the wings. And they are sparkly!
Beautiful angel cards–I like the sparkle.
Beautiful cards! I love the wings and the embossing powders!
Great idea for an alternative use of the stamp. Great use of the powder.
Love your ideas on using stamps from Christmas such beautiful cards tyfs
Such lovely cards!!
Fun and unique cards, I always love the tone on tone, in this case, white on white lace background. Thank you for sharing how you stretch Christmas supplies! Great topic! Truly inspired!
Oh my gosh I don’t even know where to start! Amazing cards! Those sparkling angel wings have my heart though! Fabulous!
Beautiful cards!
I love how you used the wings to make a background. Love the holographic embossing powder!!
Enjoyed your video process and love the cards you created. An awesome collaboration.
Gorgeous cards! I really love the elegant look. And the angel wings are just stunning!
These are lovely
and love the sparkle!
Carla from Utah
so pretty. LOVE the sparkly die cut words!
Fabulous cards and I love the embossing powders you used. So cute and sweet!!
Valerija xx