Rainbow Resist

Today’s card is being featured at my Coloring Class. I love all the different ways you can color a card. For this one, I used one of my favorite technique, emboss resist, combined with watercolor. The Lots of Love Stamp Set is perfect for a smattering of images to emboss. From there I added some great colors to create a rainbow effect. After coloring, I added a few embellishments to finish off the card.

Stamps: Lots of Love
Inks: Sweet Sugarplum, Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, Pool Party, Versamark
Cardstock: Flirty Flamingo, Whisper White, Watercolor Paper
Accessories: Black Shimmer Ribbon, Rhinestones
Tools: White Emboss Powder

Falling Leaves

Today's post features the last of our September stamp club projects. I wanted to make a autumn inspired card, but hadn't bought any of the fall themed stamp sets from the Holiday Catalog and had run out of Painted Autumn DSP. So what to do? Pull out a favorite retired stamp set and create my own background! I added some Crushed Curry and Tangerine Tango to a piece of Whisper White using a brayer. I love how the brayer gives the pieces a textured look without the physical texture. From there I stamped on some leaves using Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I love this look so much! From there, I added some great accessories and a great sentiment.

Stamps: For All Things (retired)
Inks: Cajun Craze; Crushed Curry; Tangerine Tango
Cardstock: Cajun Craze; Very Vanilla
Accessories: Crushed Curry Ribbon; Natural Elements; Copper Thread
Tools: White Embossing Powder

SSINKMC29: Color Wash Thank You

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using items from the mystery challenge...

I decided to go with four different elements: color, technique, tool, and special element. And I love how this card turned out! I started with a piece of watercolor paper and played with the watercolor emboss resist technique to create the sentiment. From there, I repeated the ink colors in the three layers of cardstock. I incorporated two different embossing folder to give the card more texture. Finally I added a thin stripe of Wink of Stella along the raised portion of the stripes (see pic below for glitter detail).

Detail of the glitter:

Stamps: Another Thank You
Inks: Watermelon Wonder; Bermuda Bay; Wild Wasabi; Versamark
Cardstock: Watermelon Wonder; Bermuda Bay; Wild Wasabi; Watercolor paper
Accessories: Wink fo Stella; White Embossing Powder
Tools: Decorative Dots Emboss Folder; Stripes Emboss Folder; Heat Gun; Aqua Painter

A Watercolor Birthday

Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a birthday card. I decided to make a masculine birthday card featuring my new favorite technique (watercolor emboss resist) and my new stamp set (Botanicals For You SAB). Watercolor emboss resist is a great new to me technique to create some great backgrounds. Simply stamp your image in Versamark and emboss with white embossing powder. Add a wash of water over the entire watercolor piece. Then drip ink onto the paper. The already wet paper will allow the ink to spread on its own. After it dried a bit, I added some more ink here and there to fill out most of the paper. To finish, take a paper towel and wipe off the excess ink. The ink should just wipe right off of the embossed section. Love this effect!

Stamps: Botanicals for You
Inks: Bermuda Bay; Pear Pizzaz; Versamark
Cardstock: 2015-2017 In Color DSP (Cucumber Crush); Bermuda Bay; Whisper White; Watercolor Paper
Accessories: White Embossing Powder
Tools: Washi Label Punch; Aqua Painter; Heat Gun