Emboss Resist Cards
This blog post is all about how I made these three greeting cards using emboss resist technique. The first card I made was the Whoa. Happy Birthday Wishes card which was inspired by a AAA Birthday card challenge which for the month was focused on making a birthday card using flowers. Hence the use of the flowers frame clear stamp on these cards. I give some basic details on how I made that red card here but head over to the dedicated blog post: Happy Birthday Wishes Flowers Card for more information.
If you prefer to watch a card process video on the emboss resist technique used to make these cards, click on the link below:
https://youtu.be/hQroXSX5eNk
Another surprising process in making this card was that I made my own custom coloured card stock for the card fronts. To do this I took a nice and juicy Touchfive alcohol marker, a standard white card stock or front notecard and block coloured the notecard using the alcohol marker. I made sure to colour in all directions to ensure that the streaks were well blended into each other and the result is a solid block coloured card front with a bit of texture which I quite liked.
Next step is I used my We R Memory Keepers precision press to stamp the flowers frame clear stamp on the custom card stock front notecard. I made sure to use a anti static powder tool prior to inking and stamping the image using clear embossing ink. I stamp the image a few times to ensure i get a good impression.
Then I placed some non-stick baking paper down onto my work surface before sprinkling embossing powder over the stamped image. The non-stick baking paper just makes it easy to recover the excess or unused embossing powder for use on another card project.
Once well covered in embossing powder. I melted the embossing powder using a heat tool, in my case my trusty heat gun!
Next step is to use dye ink to blend a shadow frame around the outside edge of the flower frame stamp. For this you want to use an ink that is somewhat darker than the colour of the card stock used for the front note card so you get a nice shadowing effect that highlights the centre which is void of stamped images.
Using the coordinating die (which matches the clear stamp), I die cut out the centre. Both the stamp and coordinating die I bought off Aliexpress. Also, I die cut the same shape out of black card stock twice as I wanted to stack the centre die cuts on top on another to give the main sentiment a bit dimension in addition to the highlighting effect given by the outer shadow blending. Any excess card stock on the edges that did not get stamped onto were trimmed using a guillotine.
Time to stamp the main sentiment onto the void die cut. Again, anti-static Powder tool is used as heat embossing the sentiment. Used a stamping platform to do this so that I could easily repeat stamp and make a good stamped impression. Like before sprinkled embossing powder of the stamped sentiment and heat set it using a heat tool.
To stack the diecuts I used double-sided tape and my glue pen to ensure I was adhering as much of the complex die cut shape as possible. In the end I used two black die cut shapes and front notecard image for the complete stacked die cut in the centre of the card. I then used the same adhesion technique to stick card front to a silver card base and the stacked die cut to the card. Any excess card was trimmed to ensure the front notecard covered the entire front of the card base.
On some of the cards I decided to grab the dye ink and blending brush used for the shadowing to add more ink to the blended frame to give the colour more depth.
The specific supplies used to make the three cards I made were:
Happy Birthday Wishes Card:
- Touchfive #10 Deep Red alcohol marker
- Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler Ink
- Stamp Effect gold embossing powder
- White card stock (for stacked centre die cut)
- Birthday Wishes Stamp sets from Aliexpress
Thanks Card:
- Touchfive #61 Peacock Green alcohol marker
- Altenew Desert Night Crisp Dye Ink
- Stamp Effect gold embossing powder
- Black card stock (for stacked centre die cut)
- Hampton Arts Stamp set
Thinking of You Card
- Touchfive #62 Marine Blue alcohol marker
- Altenew Desert Night Crisp Dye Ink
- Stamp Effect silver embossing powder
- Black card stock (for stacked centre die cut)
- Hampton Arts stamp set
Enjoy!
Mel Crafting.
Great video, very informative, thank you.
Thanks Maxine – hoping to post more blog posts and videos very soon 🙂