The Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge #98 requires using any kind of embossing on your project.

I employed an emboss resist technique, with ink blending using Distress Oxide Inks. My aim was to create a bright, but soft look.

How I made this project:

• Prep a piece of A2 Distress Watercolor Cardstock with anti-static powder (e.g. Embossing Buddy bag).
• Stamp the floral images onto the watercolor card stock using Versamark ink.
• Cover the stamped images with white embossing powder, tapping the paper to remove any excess, and heat emboss with a heat tool.
• Blend Distress Oxide inks over the embossed images, making sure that there is a slight blending between the colors.
• Use a sponge dauber to color and blend the center of the floral images with a slightly darker ink in the same color family as the colored flower.
• Blend light ink in the middle of the cardstock where the sentiment will be stamped.
• After blending the colors, sprinkle water drops onto the card front and blot excess water with a paper towel.
• Dry the entire card front with a heat tool.
• Trim the card front to 4” x 5.25”.
• Stamp the sentiment onto the card front.
• Adhere crystal heart drops to the card front.
• Adhere a piece of fun foam to the back of the card front.
• Mount card front onto an A2 portrait-oriented, top-folding, black card base.

Supplies used to make this project:

• Stamps: Simon Says Stamp: Look for the Miracles stamp set (flowers; Simon Says Stamp: Kind Flowers stamp set (sentiment).
• Distress Oxide Inks: Worn Lipstick, Abandoned Coral, Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Broken China, and Mermaid Lagoon.
• Other Inks: Versamark (for embossing); Versafine Pigment Ink in Onyx Black (sentiment).
• Other Supplies: Studio Katia: Clear Hearts; Hero Arts White embossing powder.
• Cardstock: Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock (card front); Papertrey Ink: True Black cardstock (card base).

For this project, I cut up a sentiment from the Kind Flowers stamp set so that the words ‘begins with love’ could be stamped alone.

Hope you like this project. Have a great day!