Blue Faded Flower – Tutorial |

I was just itching to do some emboss resist this morning and this piece definitely is embossed. Follow along if you want to see how it was created.

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Best Blossoms, Baroque Motifs, Wanted, Linen

Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White & Chocolate Chip

Ink: Stampin’ Up Basic Black, Soft Sky & Bordering Blue, Adirondack Espresso

Accessories: Versamark Pad, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Brayer, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Sponge

Stamped leaves on Whisper White card stock by first loading stamp with Versamark and then loading it with Espresso ink. I then heat embossed it with clear Embossing powder and a heat gun.

Note: I’m asked a lot why I just don’t use Versamark alone with colored embossing powders? Well I would rather not have to buy a bunch of different colors of embossing powder and this method allows me to emboss in any color of ink I have. 🙂

I also keep my clear embossing powder stored in a sandwich size plastic container instead of trying to use an embossing tray and then put it back in the tiny canister it came in. My aim is not very good, lol.

Stamped Wanted motif by first loading the stamp with Versamark and then Basic Black ink. Heat embossing image with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Stamped Baroque Motif by loading stamp first with Versamark and then Soft Sky ink. Stamped image over embossed leaves and heat embossed with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Note: when doing multiply layers of embossed images, work from the foreground to the background.

Heavily Brayer Bordering Blue ink over entire piece of card stock.

Sponge, using a circular motion, Espresso ink around edges of card stock and over leaf image area to create a shadow.

On a larger piece of Whisper White card stock, using my Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement, I stamped the background corner images by first loading my stamp with Versamark and then Espresso ink. Heat embossed images with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Heavily brayered Bordering Blue ink over entire background piece.

Stamped small flower around edge of card stock with Bordering Blue ink.

Sponged Espresso ink around edge of card stock.

Stamped linen stamp on my main image panel by loading my Linen background stamp with Bordering blue ink. To do this I put my stamp rubber side up on the table. Rub my ink pad on the rubber, place my card stock face down on the rubber and put a piece of scrap paper over it and rub it with my hand to get the image.