Emboss Resist
Emboss Resist is one of those techniques that is a little bit of work, and sometimes messy, but in the end it's so worth it! It's similar to the Joseph's Coat technique but doesn't have the dark color of the black ink. And it makes for a very pretty effect no matter what kind of card you use it on.
Supplies Needed for Emboss Resist:
Water-based ink (dries quicker than the pigment ink)
Clear pigment ink
Clear embossing powder
Stamp image
Heat gun
Brayer with the rubber attachment
White cardstock
tissue, to wipe off excess ink
Scrap paper to catch the embossing powder
Grab your stamp, clear pigment inkpad and white cardstock.
Ink up the stamp and press it down onto the paper. Clear ink is always hard to see, so a bright light will help you see what you are working with.
Set your stamped cardstock down on your scrap paper and dump the embossing powder on top of the inked image. Don't skimp on powder.
Now turn the cardstock over and pour the powder back in the container.
It's okay if it gets messy - that's what the paper is for.
Once all the powder is out, give the cardstock a little 'flick' to get rid of any extra powder that might be hanging on.
Now lift up the scrap paper and pour the rest of the powder back in the container. How easy was that?
Grab the heat gun and point it an angle to your cardstock.
Move the heat gun in a circular fashion, not staying in one spot too long or you'll burn the paper.
Once it's all melted the image will look nice and shiny like this.
Next grab the brayer, water-based inkpad and a tissue. Oh, and don't forget that piece of scrap paper - we're going to us it again.
Ink up the brayer with the colored ink.
Then, with the cardstock on top of the scrap paper, run the brayer over your stamped image.
Roll the brayer in different directions so you get nice solid coverage from the ink.
Let the cardstock dry for a few minutes and then use the tissue to rub any excess ink off the stamped image.
And that's the end of the Emboss Resist tutorial!
What's that? Oh, you want to actually make a card with it? Well, okay... since you asked so nicely...
I'm going to do a couple of things here. So I need a big background stamp, the same brayer and ink pad, my simple card base and some layering cardstock, plus a sentiment stamp, punch and some brads.
Let's start by making a background. We've done this before, in the Background Stamping tutorial, but here's another way you can make the background - by using the brayer.
Once again, roll the brayer over your inkpad to ink it up.
Flip the background stamp over so the image is facing up, and roll the brayer over the stamp until it's evenly-coated.
Flip your simple card base over and gently set it on top of the inked image.
Grab that scrap paper again (see how handy it's become?) lay it on top of the cardstock and stamp. Now run your hand over the image to make sure all parts of the cardstock get inked up.
Remove the scrap paper and carefully peel the cardstock off the stamp and ta-da! It's okay if you miss a little bit because you can always cover that up with your layers.
While the inkpad is still out, grab your sentiment stamp and a piece of cardstock.
Stamp your image and either cut or punch it out.
I wanted to layer my sentiment, so I punched a little piece of cardstock out of the center of one of my layering pieces. You'll never know because it will be covered up. I call that being resourceful!
Grab your adhesive and start putting it all together.
I punched a few holes and added some brads to the cardstock to give it a more masculine feel. The colors actually go together very well in person - I'm not sure why the photographs make the cardstock look more green than the emboss resist piece.
All in all I think this is a great technique and the card turned out very well!
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