April 23, 2007
Sunday Night Stamping: Watercolour Wonder with Emboss Resist
We attended a wedding this past weekend, and the card I made for the couple just blew me away in how beautiful it turned out, but how simple it was to create.
Start with an Elegant Eggplant card base. I heat embossed using versamark and Stampin’ Up!’s gold embossing powder onto a piece of vanilla cardstock, but it doesn’t matter what colour you use as the cardstock is covered completely.
The set was retired a year or two ago, and is called Botanical Garden, although any negative image stamp set will work. Once it’s embossed, trim it out completely and mount on a piece of basic black cardstock.
Next, using an aquapainter (the finer tip), lift colour directly off the crayon and apply it into the negative space. The embossing will resist the application of colour, so if you get the crayon onto the embossed area you can wipe it off at the end using a damp paper towel. Continue to apply colour, a little at a time, until you achieve the desired depth of colour. If too much water comes out, just soak it up with a paper towel and continue again once the paper is mostly dry.
I also embossed a non-SU stamp that said “Double Happiness” in gold directly on the card.
Mount your flower on the card, then tie black grosgrain ribbon with a small piece of gold cord at the top of your card.
I hope this helps to boost your creative thinking! Happy stamping!
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