Tutorial Tuesday - Emboss Resist

I had intended to do Crayon Resist today, but some how I had Emboss Resist on my mind, so that is what I did!

Emboss resist is a great technique, that can lead to some beautiful backgrounds.

I started with a plain white piece of cardstock and stamped my image using Versamark.

I coated the image using clear embossing powder, and heat set it. (At this stage you could brayer or sponge a light colour over your entire piece of cardstock, using a tissue or paper towel to wipe off excess ink on the embossed image, this will show up the colour of the cardstock underneath.  Then repeat the process of stamping an image with Versamark and heat setting clear embossing powder.  Then brayer or sponge another colour over the top.  This makes for a spectacular back ground.)

With this image I have next stamped the stems first inking my image with Versamark and then the colour ink and then stamping, coated with clear embossing powder and heat set.  I did this so that the stems wouldn't be 'lost' once I brayered colour on.  I also place a post-it-note so that the image was only stamped where I needed it to be.

This is the image with my brayered colour on.  I then finished the scene by drawing on some grass at the base of the flowers.  Punched some small round centres and flowers for the grass.  The Ric-Rac is new stock I have in from FTI, and I simply knotted it in a couple of places to add some interest.

Stamp sets used today were Mini Cabana from Inque Boutique, and Shapes by Design from Papertrey Ink.

Have a great day,

Comments

[Elizabeth Sova]

Wow, what a cute card! I love the emboss resist look. I wish I remembered to play with it more often. The colors are great too. I'm always a fan of blue. I actually came to your blog from a link on JustRite. Thanks so much for the beautiful inspiration :)