Embossing Resist and Mixed Media Card Making

 

Hey friends!  I'm back today to share a fun set of cards using an embossing resist technique I learned from Tami Bastiaan years and years ago.  I started by making an inky background with Distress Inks in Worn Lipstick and Vintage Photo and dried that panel thoroughly before clear embossing the entire Typewriter Keys Caps Alpha stamp set onto the panel. 

Then I went in with lots more Vintage Photo over that and it resisted the lighter clear embossing, showing the pink through!  So fun!  I did not iron off the EP like Tami has done, but I did cut it into a mini file folder with my paper cutter.  I layered it over a background made with the same inks over my brand new Faith Definitions 2 stamp set I designed for Creative Worship Stamps!  If you've enjoyed Faith Definitions set 1, you will love this set and how well it works with various holidays/events, let alone your journaling.  Take notw how I first stamped my definitions in Wendy Vecchi's Tree Bark Archival Ink onto my Bristol panel, then dipped it in the inks.  The oil in the Archival inks acts as a bit of a resist too and I love how the ink pooled around the definitions!

To finish out the card I layered a die cut Polaroid Frame, stamped with the Vintage Snippets stamps.  

I made a second panel with a different background stamping the Flower Burst Background Clear Stamp in WV Fern Green Archival Ink with the same ink dipping.  I used the numbers strip from the Typewriter Keys Caps Alpha stamp set and the Polaroid Frame die, this time stamping it with the Faith Definitions 2 and staining the center cut out with Peeled Paint DI.  Both cards feature watercolored images from the Hope Blooms Stamp and Die Bundle and the birthday sentiment from the Wordfetti Mash-up sentiments.  

My next card uses the same embossing resist background technique with the Typewriter Keys Caps Alpha stamp set.  I added more inks over the piece using Distress Inks in Seedless Preserves and Wild Honey.  I overstamped with my Faith Definitions 2 stamp set.  I layered onto a wadded up panel stamped with the Vintage Ledger Page stamp.

I layered with an inky panel using the same colors and white embossed a sentiment from Timeless Hymns.  I layered over a little ticket from the new Spring Collage Tag set.  Finally I added a butterfly from Vintage Butterflies Blooms.  I hope you're inspired to try this resist technique and enjoy it!  xx, Autumn