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Tuesday 8 October 2013

A WOW card with WOW powders

Good morning lovelies! How are you? I hope you're well! The weather here has gone yuk - I went for a run yesterday in horrible wind and rain - not looking forward to that becoming the norm!  I did get a lovely piece of news yesterday though - I got a top 3 in the Craft Stamper make it take it acetate challenge - wonderful - I'm thrilled to bits as I love the magazine. And Lucy and Penny both got glowing results from school at parents evening too.

Onto today - well I was lucky enough to win the WOW powders challenge last month and got 6 wow powders through the post on Friday - I had to have a play and thought I would try something for the current challenge of stars and stripes. Here's what I did:



It was quite difficult to photograph this one - so sorry about that. I made the thick stripes by dragging versamark over my card front then adding white opaque WOW powders and heat setting. The finer stripes were made using a versamark pen that I just ran across the page then added sparkling white wow powder then heat set. The stars were cut using X cut dies and stamped with some LOTV stamps in versamark and added sparkling white and heat set again. The sentiment is also LOTV.  Its very different for me but \I did enjoy doing this! Its always good to play!!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
WOWembossing powders October challengewowembossingpowder: Stars and stripes
Funkie Junkie 12 tags of Christmas tag thefunkiejunkie 1: I've used the sentiment from this first tag as the inspiration for this card. This challenge is sponsored by the funkie junkie boutique
Glitternsparkleglitternsparklechallengeblog: Monochromatic
CHNCcraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge: Inspiration
CHNC extracraftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2-october.:AG
Totally Gorjuss:totallygorjuss AG with stars
LIMsimplylessismoore: WOW - not sure is this is CAS enough! Delete my entry if you do't think it is!

Back tomorrow - see you then! Thanks for dropping by today.

Hugs

Rachel xx

26 comments:

  1. It's a WOW of a card Rachel, love how you've made this, gorgeous design and wonderfully sparkly.
    congratulations on your win and well done to Lucy and Penny for doing so well at School, have a great day, hugs Kate X

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  2. This is stunning Rachel, a beautiful design and I love all the sparkle.
    Well done on your top 3 win - that's brilliant. Pleased to hear that your girls are doing well at school too.
    hugs Sue xx

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  3. Love it Rachel, WOW is always a favourite of mine it always looks gorgeous and this is no exception! Congratulations to you and your girls - well done! Susan x

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  4. This certainly has the Wow Factor. Stunning work Rachel. Glad to hear the girls are doing well at school. Have a Good Day. Hugs Rita xxx

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  5. Wow, that's fab, Rachel and a great take on stars & stripes & I love WOW! So glad the girls are doing well!
    hugs Jo x

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  6. It certainly is a wow card Rachel, brilliant card. Well done on your top 3 place, and of course well done to the girls

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  7. And it is a WOW from me too Rachel, for the gorgeous card and well done to the girls. As for the top 3 - a double wow, you so deserve it! Hugs, Anne x

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  8. Wow, this is wonderful Rachel, great use of your prize. Congrats on your top three place too.

    Sue x

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  9. This is brilliant Rachel, such a fabulous WOW card.
    Pauline
    x

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  10. Gorgeous card, love white on white and all the sparkle!

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  11. congrats on winning the wow pwds and making top three,and girls for a good report too.love the effect and texture you have created
    carol x

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  12. This is lovely Rachel, but sadly you have linked it to too many challenges for us at Less is More where we allow a maximum of 5 combined challenges.
    Do join us again.
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  13. fantastic Rachel, love the idea
    hugs
    céline

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  14. this looks lovely , great design x

    Still playing catch up and yet never getting caught up ....so this is just to say hello , have been looking at your lovely pieces and hope to get back to my normal comment levels soon, I know , I know I keep saying it :( but I do have the very best intentions! hugs Trace x

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  15. lovely
    Thanks for joining us this week
    Jen x
    "Less Is More"

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  16. Stunning make Rachel. Love the stars on the white. Congrats on your Top 3 spot too

    Crafty hugs Annie x

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  17. Congratulations on top 3 and the win x fab card Px

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  18. Gorgeous sparkly card hun, love it :o) Hugs, Lisa x

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  20. Absolutely gorgeous - love it - thanks for entering this into both CHNC challenges. Challenge 6 on Crafting Musketeers is 'Christmas in October - it would be good to see this there as well, Hazel, Design Team Crafting Musketeers x

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  21. A gorgeous card Rachel. Love it.
    mags
    x

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  22. A great stars and stripes card, thank you for joining us over at Glitter n Sparkle, good luck

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  23. Beautiful. Love the white on white with the textures added. Thank you for joining Glitter n Sparkle Monochrome challenge.
    Olga DT GlitternSparkle

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  24. Welcome to the 12 Tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie Style challenge. So great to have you playing along with us this year! Sensational icy feel to this piece and the "Let it Snow" sentiment goes with that feeling perfectly! Very cool effect with the WOW powders.

    Thanks again for playing!

    Hugs,
    Linda

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  25. WOW, WOW, WOW i love how you have created this card and the background effects with the versa mark. I am glad you are enjoying your new embossing powders, they have such fun colours, Thank you for playing along this month at WOW Embossing Powders xox

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Thankyou so much for leaving a comment - it really does mean a lot to me! Hugs Rachel xx