Hi y’all! Annie here with a set of two emboss-resist cards I made using the soon-to-be-released stamp set “Inspire”. This set has lots of beautiful butterfly images, but I chose the simplest ones to contrast with these bold and dreamy backgrounds I created.
I started by stamping the images and sentiment in Versamark ink on plain white cardstock and then added white embossing powder. After heat-setting, I sponged Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Inks right over top to cover the entire piece of cardstock in a rainbow-like gradient.
Next, I diluted some Black Soot Distress Ink with water and “flicked” it onto my background using a paintbrush. I think I may have gotten carried away with the black splatters, but the pattern reminded me of a butterfly and I couldn’t stop myself! After buffing any extra ink off of the embossed areas with a paper towel, I mounted the panel on some black cardstock, added a knot of baker’s twine, and popped the whole piece up on top of a white cardbase.
For my second card, I followed the same initial steps as before except that I used different Distress Inks for my background – Seedless Preserves and the newly-released inks Mermaid Lagoon and Cracked Pistachio. These colors reminded me less of a rainbow and more of a dreamy outer space scene, so I splattered plain water droplets on the panel when I was finished to react with and move the inks around a bit.
This time I finished my card off with a twist of silver metallic baker’s twine and a black cardstock mat. I don’t normally make too many multiples of cards, but in this case I couldn’t decide which color scheme to use (butterflies just demand that you use all of the colors of the rainbow, don’t they?). So, I think I’d like to make two more of these in a similar style and give them to a friend as a pretty gift set. What do you think?