If you are like me and you love Catherine Pooler Designs products then this is the video for you. And if you’ve not heard of Catherine Pooler, then where have you been as she has the amazing inks along with beautiful stamps and dies. Today, this video is part of a blog hop between WOW! And Catherine Pooler where a selection of the designs teams have created a variety of projects to inspire you.
PRODUCED AS PART OF MY DESIGN-TEAM WORK FOR WOW!EMBOSSING POWDER - SEE END OF POST FOR MORE DETAILS
Cloud 9 Angel Wings
For the first card, we are using the Angel wings die set from Catherine Pooler Designs. To start, die cut the wings out regular 80lb white cardstock . In addition, these were also cut these out of thicker cardstock as I wanted to keep the inners of the wings in, so I intentionally used the thicker card so it wouldn’t cut all the way through. To make sure you don’t lose any loose pieces, I just add a little washi tape to the back.
Using some blending brushes, apply Skylight to the bottom of the wing and bring this colour upwards fading it out as you move up the wing. To intensify the bottom of the wing, just keep adding more colour.
Next, repeat the same process but with Aquatini, and apply this to the top of the wing and doing exactly the same by fading the colour out towards the middle.
After you’ve completed the blending, you can see how the colour pops through the full cut wings die cut when you overlay them. You could leave it with the white card adhere to the top, but I wanted to step the wings up a bit more.
To do this, take the full wings die-cut and smoosh this down into your Clear Ultra slow drying embossing ink from WOW! Next cover this in Cloud 9 embossing glitter.
To adhere the embossed wings down, just add dabs of Gina K connect glue on the back of the wings and lining up the die cuts before pressing down.
For the background of the card, you can add some tone on tone texture that won’t detract from the wings. Score a white card panel at every 3/4 inch down with a Teflon bone folder and a score board.
For the sentiment, heat embossing ‘Wish you a bright Christmas’ onto black card in WOW! Metallic Platinum powder from the Merry Christmas Angel stamp.
Next, adhere both of the wings on to the card panel with some fun foam added behind to add a little dimension to the card. The sentiment was trimmed down into thin strips and foam mounted on the card.
To finish this first card off, add a few sequins from the Ice crystal sequin mix from Lucy’s cards and adhere these down in with Liquid glue along with a Pick me up tool.
Faux shadow die cut mask
For the second card, I’m using the Angel word die from Catherine Pooler along with the Skylight Embossing Glitter Inspired by Catherine Pooler from WOW! I created a shadow mask for the die, so using some Inkadinkadoo masking paper, draw an offset around the angel die. You need to place the die with the word die facing down onto the masking paper with the white side facing up. Next, just using a pencil, freehand draw an offset line following the shape of the word die.
Once the outline is complete, use scissors to fussy cut around the lines. Now, peel the release paper off and position the mask onto your card panel.
For this card, usethe same colours Aquatini and Skylight to blend ink onto the panel, with Aquatini at the top and Skylight over the bottom, fading each colour out softly. The mask will keep that area nice an white to help highlight the sentiment when we add it later.
Now, don’t worry if you blending at this point isn’t completely smooth because we can add some texture to the background. Catherine Pooler inks are reactive when you add water to them, so using a paintbrush, splatter water over the panel. Allow this to sit for a few seconds before mopping git up with a dry cloth and you get these soft light colours of ink where the water has been, and it almost looks like snow. You can repeat this as much as you like depending on how busy you want the background to be.
Of course, the best bit is peeling the mask off to reveal the crisp white negative space left with the link blending that adds a perfect highlight to the sentiment.
For the die-cut sentiment, die cut the angel word 3 times from white card and using Gina K liquid glue, adhere the layers together for a dimensional die-cut. Next, heat emboss the sentiment in the Skylight embossing powder inspired by Catherine Pooler by WOW!
To do this, smoosh the layered die-cut in your ultra slow drying embossing pad and then cover with the embossing glitter. To heat-set use your WOW! heat gun and it so fun to watch this powder melt. Now, you can repeat this several times to get several layers of the powder to build up the colour on the die-cut.
In addition, heat emboss the smaller sentiments onto black card, again using the platinum embossing powder and cut down into thin strips to mount onto to the card panel. The angel word die cut was adhered down with liquid glue to make sure it stayed put.
Lastly, finished the card off with the same sequins as the previous card.
I love how fresh these two Christmas cards are, and it is a nice break from the traditional red, green and gold. Whatsmore that Skylight embossing glitter is a new fave of mine, it is beautiful in real life!
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bonus inspiration!
Here a couple of quick cards using just the Merry Christmas Angel and Believe in Angels stamp sets.
I also used ‘Peppermint Scrub’ and ‘Sandcastle’ embossing powders inspired by Catherine Pooler to create a fun distress embossed edge to the dark card giving more definition.
WOW! & Catherine Pooler Hop!
Supplies
Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you at these shops: Altenew (ALT), Scrapbook.com (SB), Craft Stash UK/US (CS UK/US), Create & Craft (C&C), and Picket Fence Studios (PF).
All other shops are not affiliated links: Bumbleberry Papercrafts (BP), WOW! UK/US (WOW UK/US), and Catherine Pooler Designs (CP)
 Believe in Angles – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |
 Merry Christmas Angel – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |
 Angel Wings – Cathering Pooler Desings Shop at: SB | CP |
 Angel Word – 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 |
 Royal Treatment Ink Pad – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |
 Royal Treatment 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 |
 Aquatini Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |
 Aquatini Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB | CP |
 Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |
 WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing pad Shop at: CS | WOW UK | WOW US |
 Opaque Bright White -WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS | WOW UK | WOW US |
 WOW! Metallic Gold Rich Pale Shop at: CS | WOW UK | WOW US |
 Metallic Platinum – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS | WOW UK | WOW US |
 Metallic Platinum (Large Jar) – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: WOW UK | WOW US |
 Cloud 9 Embossing Glitter – WOW! Shop at: SB | CS | WOW UK | WOW US |
 Bundled Up Inspired by Catherine Pooler – WOW! Shop at: CP |
 Sandcastle Inspired by Catherine Pooler – WOW! Shop at: CP |
 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 |
 Gina K Designs – Connect Glue Shop at: BP |
 Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam squares 1/4″ white Shop at: BP | SB |
 Inkadinkdoo Stamping Mask Paper Shop at: BP | SB |
 “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 | 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 | CS US |
 Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |
 QuickStik – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |
love TO SEE ANOTHER project like this?
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blog hop stops!
Catherine Pooler Blog
Jo Herbert
Daniel West
Jenny Colacicco
Ilina Crouse
Ashlee McGregor
Susan Powell
Karen J Reategui
Verity Biddlecombe (You are here)
Karen Baker (Next stop)
WOW! Embossing Powder Blog
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DISCLOSURE
This post was produced as part of my design team work for WOW! Embossing Powder 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.
58 thoughts on “WOW! & Catherine Pooler Blog Hop”
I love the colors that you chose for they pair so well with the silver sparkle.
Thank you Isabel ?
All stunning cards, and thanks for sharing on video too.
Thank you and glad you liked the video ?
I love your combination of the WOW EPs with CP inks….perfection!
Thanks Karen ❤
By the time Christmas gets close, I’m so tired of green/red.
Love the break from traditional colors. the cards are
beautiful. thanks for sharing txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
Thanks Mary. Yes a break from the traditional never does any harm!
LOVELY and angelic creations using the stamp set, dies and the embossing powders. GORGEOUS!
Aww thanks Barbara ?
Love all the cards and your color choice. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Dorothy ❤
Oh my goodness… These are a couple of stunning cards. My favorite is the “angel” one where you masked off a border for the gilttery die-cut word. What a simple and striking technique. I love that Skylight glitter as well. I don’t own it yet ;( but I do have the Black Magic WOW powder, which has a similar blend of colour and sparkle. Thanks for the inspiration, happy to “meet” your blog!
Thank you. Skylight is a beautiful powder for sure! And so is black magic, they’re such fun powders!
I love your cards! The colors and designs are amazing!!!
Aww thanks Donna ?
Love the colours used. The cards are stunning
Thank you!
Your cards are beautiful. I really love the angel wings on the first one. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Joanna ?
Lovely cards and thanks for the video showing all the masking and blending!
Thanks Linda, glad you like the video ?
Love the backgrond to the silver wings Delish
Thank Sandy. I love adding a background like that in to step a card up!
Lovely cards! I particularly like the Herald Angels one…. so unusual!!!
Aww thanks Joanne ?
I ADORE your color combos! The teal with the silver looks amazing! Great sparkle!
The Aquatini and Skylight looks beautiful with the silver.
Thanks. Teal and silver is a great colour combo isnt it?!
Enjoyed watching your video creating these cards and I will try the word shadow effect. I really love the Skylight embossing glitter as a new and refreshing color for Christmas.
Thanks Vicki, glad you enjoyed the video ?
Oooh! I think these are my new favorite Angel wings. And I love the extra inspiration. Thank you
Aww thanks Mary and glad you liked the extra inspiration ?
Thanks for sharing your ideas! Loving your cards!
Thanks Betsy ?
That real is amazing! I really enjoyed your cards
Thanks Kristina ?
Gorgeous cards! Beautiful designs and colors! Love the elegant angel wings and the way you created the shadow die cut for the ‘angel’ word die!
Thanks Denise, glad you loved the cards ?
LOVE the non-traditional color! And the blended wings behind the embossed wings looks so gorgeous!!!
Aww thank you Susan. ❤
I love these chunky embossing powders. Fantastic cards!
Beautiful cards!!! Thanks for sharing.
Your work is Very Inspiring!
So soft and beautiful cards. Love the soft color teal .
Beautiful use of color. The angel wings are so versatile and it is such a delight to see everyone’s creativity at work.
All of your cards are beautiful. I really like your use of color. Catherine Pooler inks are So rich. Great ink blending.The WOW embossing powders made each card pop! Great job!
Thank you for sharing your vibrant, lovely cards!
Beautiful cards! Your video was so informative and easy to follow. Can’t wait to try this!
Wowzer!! Those two blue toned cards are probably my favorites on the hop thus far. Just stunning!
Love your cards. Thank you for sharing
Gorgeous cards. Thank you for sharing
Making your own shadow mask is genius! Such a great idea.
Hi Verity ? Love it! Love it! Love it! Amazing color palette you chose to work with on today’s cards!!! I’ll be following more of your work! Thank you for inspiring me ?
Very elegant projects and I love the unexpected colors of the second set of cards!
All I an say is WOW! These cards are amazing and the techniques are great ideas. The glitter emboss is another great product and I can’t wait to play with some. Thanks for all the ideas!
I like the background design in addition to the paper choices you selected creating beautiful cards that are timeless!
So pretty with the silver and aqua. I like the bonus projects too.