Bold Embossed Resist Congratulations Card - Hydrangea Haven & Many Messages ~ Rick Adkins

Hello and welcome to my blog; today I am going to share with you a card that I made recently using the Bold Emboss Resist Technique and paired the card front with the Hydrangea Haven Bundle and Many Messages Bundle. You may recall the other card that I made using this same technique last week here's a link to that post is you missed it. And here's a look at my card.

How to create a Bold Embossed Resist Card using the Hydrangea Haven and Many Messages Bundles by Stampin' Up! Click to learn more

Bold Emboss Resist:

This is a super fun and easy technique using your clear embossing powder from the Basics Embossing Powders onto a piece of colored cardstock. I used a piece of Gorgeous Grape Cardstock to emboss the small hydrangea blooms from the Hydrangea Haven Stamp Set. Once the heat embossing was cooled I it's time for a little ink blending fun.

I took my Gorgeous Grape Ink Pad and my Blending Brushes and loaded the Blending Blush up with ink and placed it on some of the embossed areas of the cardstock. I then came in with some White Craft Pigment Ink and another Blending Brush and did the same thing. I took a paper towel and buffed off the extra pigment ink. You can do this as many times as you want to get the colored result you are looking for. If the clear embossing starts to look a little unclear; all you have to do is just reheat it with your Heat Tool until the clear embossing powder becomes shinny again.

I then cut the cardstock in half so that I could use it on two different cards. I attached the cardstock to a Basic White card base cut to 4 1/4" x 11" scored at 5 1/2". I cut two strips of the Hydrangea Hill Designer Series Paper to 1/8" x 4" and a piece of the Hydrangea Hill Mercury Glass Designer Acetate to a 1/2" x 4". I attached the acetate first with a little Multipurpose Liquid Glue butted up against the edge of the embossed cardstock. Then to cover the seams I added the two small strips of designer series paper over it. To finish off the card I stamped the large hydrangea and stem from the stamp set and filled in the areas with the matching watercolor stamps using Gorgeous Grape and Granny Apply Green Inks. I used the matching die to cut out the hydrangea and added it to the card with Stampin' Dimensionals. I added a few Pastel Pearls and a sentiment that I made using the Many Messages Bundle, that was heat embossed onto some Basic Black Cardstock.

Thanks for dropping by today I hope that you have a wonderful week and that you will give the Bold Emboss Resist Technique a try. If you are not on my email list make sure you sign up today to get the latest updates on my classes and events. If you need any of the supplies that you have seen today you can pick them up in my online store by clicking on the item in the Stampin' Up! Shopping List below. When you are shopping make sure that you see my name and in the topper upper left hand side of your screen in the store. If not go to your account and make sure to pick me as the demonstrator you are shopping with.

Happy Stampin'

Rick Adkins

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