Product feature | AltaMATZ Clouds

Hi All! Lisa Warren here...and I'll be hosting the WOW blog this week, where I'll be showcasing a few of my favourite WOW products.  Today's product...the gorgeous Cloud AltaMATZ.

AltaMATZ are made from a heavy duty acrylic, that you can use to create designs on your layouts using your favourite medium...inks, chalks, paints, mists, pens and more!  For this layout, I have created a soft cloud background using my favourite ink colour...umber.  I have applied the ink through the AltaMATZ using a dabber...pushing more ink into the top portion of the clouds, feathering it out towards the bottom.

I have also included one of the acrylic clouds as a part of an embellishment cluster to replicate the inked versions.

To add more interest to the bottom of my layout, I have adhered the "Sandra" flourish directly onto my photo, together with some Heidi Swapp word stickers.  The flourish has been trimmed in half and left raw.  Leaving the chipboard raw allows the other colours in my layout to pop! The other half of the flourish has been saved for a future layout...doubling the value I've gotten out of my chipboard.

WOW products used

AltaMATZ 12x12 Clouds | ALTA026

Sandra Flourish | C1492

Ask your local or online scrapbook stores about WOW products today.

Cheers, Lis.

Playing with Micro Beads.....

Hello scrappy peeps!!

Kel back again to share another creation with you today :)

I have had a play with some micro beads, which look like this.....

You can get them in a variety of colours, so you will be able to get whatever colour you like, that would most suit your layout. I have altered the 'Elegant Gates' ( C1486.) which look like this...

The best way I found to use these was to empty the beads into a container, then grab a spoon.

Next grab a strong liquid adhesive and in small sections, add the glue to the chipboard. Next, hold your chipboard above the container and use a spoon to sprinkle the beads onto the chipboard. NOTE: DO NOT let the spoon touch the glue on your chipboard or the beads will stick together and you will end up with big clumps of beads :/

Your chipboard piece should now look like this...

The beads give a nice, rougher looking texture the chipboard, a great way to add more dimension to your pages.

The next chipboard piece I used on my page was the title..'and they lived happily ever after.' (C1208.)

I painted this, then added dimensional magic.

And now I best share the completed page....

I hope I have encouraged you to have fun and give this technique a try...... I'm sure I will be adding some more micro beads to my stash ;)

Thanks for visiting

Kel :)

Capture the Moment...

is the title piece I have used on this page. The link is HERE.

Good morning, it's Kel back again to share another page with you.

This photo is one of my FAVES from my wedding, of Harry and Sam with my husband Matt. I think it captures the relationship they share, so the title was very fitting :)

I mixed some paint to make a dull yellow colour to suit the papers, and also used a white gel pen.

Here is the layout....

 And a close-up...

While I am here, have you checked out the latest challenge at WOW?? You can find the details HERE- you might win yourself some chipboard!!

I will be back with more soon
Kel :)

A BIG WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST DESIGN TEAM MEMBER .....

Good morning everyone!!

I'm butting in on Kel's week to announce our newest Design Team member.

We were inundated with applications for the one position available and the choice was extremely difficult!!

It is with a great deal of excitement that we welcome KERRYN FRY to our Design Team for the rest of 2012!!!

Here are a couple of examples of Kerryn's work using WOW and you will be seeing  a lot more in the coming weeks!

 

So looking forward to seeing some more of Kerryn's work in the weeks to come!!

Suzanne
BOSS LADY

Kel's week at WOW...

Hey there followers..!!

It's Kel here to share some inspiration with you today :) I will be popping in during the next week to share with  you some creations to hopefully get your mojo flowing :)

Today I will share 2 ages with you. On this first page I have used the "Friends are angels without wings" (C1210) title piece. 

 I have used silver liquids pearls along with some blue kindy glitz to accent my chipboard.....

 I also used a 'Corner flourish swirly' (C1233) which I pained yellow....

My second page was taken at my boys 4th birthday party and this chipboard piece is so easy to alter to suit any age/gender.... The piece is called "It's my party" (RWL362)... I used paint along with a black sharpie..

And the full page...

SO, there you go! I hope you are feeling inspired to play with your WOW page, or to go shopping and add some to your stash... you won't be disappointed!

Back with more soon

Kel :)

JULY CHALLENGE POST

This week is CHALLENGE WEEK AT WOW.....and for July, we are making it CIRCLES.


Hi, it's San here...bringing you this month's challenge!

CIRCLES

• Every Month, the WOW team will be setting a challenge for you to play along with us. You can WIN some awesome chipboard by showing us YOUR take on the challenge. 
• Enter your projects either via the WOW face book page or send your entry to suzannewebster@exemail.com.au.
• There will be 2 winners. One voted on by our DT, and a random draw.
• Have a go.....remember to go to your lss and grab some WOW and have a go at this months challenge.
• Entries should be to us by August 17th 2012.

We look forward to seeing your CIRCLE layouts.


Here is my take on the July Challenge....'CIRCLES'...anyone who knows me, knows I love circles, they are a great element, particularly if you are a mother of a boy!  These chipboard circles are from the full circle pack that you get heaps of different sizes in. I have simply spritzed them with black dylusional mist and then added white dimensional paint in dots around them.

This is an event that occurs almost every Monday night at Mums....a 'cousin sandwich' as they call it. I love how they enjoy their time together, always have and hopefully always will be great mates as well as cousins.

Here are some example of the challenges done by the other DT girls...check out there interpretation of the Circle Challenge Criteria.

First up is Wendy...who has created this bright beauty!'

"MAKE A SPLASH"

created using the 'Splash title', 'Lower Case Alphabet' and 'Circles'

Angus just loves the water slide at the local Aquatic Centre. In this layout I tried to create a summery feel, the bright colours and wavey paper background paper, and the bubble wrap stamping in the background.

Next is Susan ...who has created this gorgeous feminine layout

"Egypt crazy"

created using the 'Circles'

“We surprised our 2 with a trip to the Tutankhamen exhibit at the Melbourne Museum last October as Ashton is Egypt mad. Adding the circle to the page has really drawn the eye to the photo of them trying on the head pieces in the Museum Shop.” 

Next up is Kellie, who used has used both the 6x6 and 12x12 circle chipboard sheets to document this picture of her son at swimming lessons.....

Little Fish...

"Footy Kid" by Lisa Warren

WOW products used: WOW nested circles and Footy Kid chipboard title C209

Here is Emmas example


"My little sister" using the 6x6 circles  I have coloured the circles in with inks and textas and outlined them with white pen, simple but effective.

Here is Monique's Layout:

"Think Happy Thoughts"

Monique has said:

"I took this photo of Connor at the Mackay Show - To me, circles really add to happy fun layouts - they remind me of the sun, balloons, balls..... all the happy things....

I used the WOW Chipboard Full Circle Pack and picked two circles to frame my photo and some of my title for added interest.

I have also used the new WOW 6x6 Altamatz Background 1 ALTA034.  This Altamatz is fantastic for adding depth and dimension to your background and is perfect for bright, summery layouts.




So NOW......................show us YOURS

Get that mojo flowing and show us your circle layouts...we look forward to seeing them.

New Release

Hi again.  Today Im going to share another new release piece of chippy.  The medium clock (wow1510) I have sprayed this piece with rose tea tattered angels glimmermist then distressed it while still wet by sanding or just using my fingers to push the edges up, I have then used ink & pens to add to the distressed look. I have also used Ebony Whirlicious 9 (RWL9531E) its already a black chippy piece so I just outlined it with my favourite white pen so it didnt get to lost on the black cardstock and the last piece of WOW chippy is the cute little bird (C999) sitting on the flower.

Thanks for joining me again today, this is my last post for my week, I appreciate all your lovely comments etc.  Thanks for visiting!

Em x