Dramatic Emboss Resist Background with Kelly Latevola

Hello Crafters! 

Congratulations, you have made it to the weekend! 

I hope you all have had an amazing week :)

In the past few months I've seen these beautiful dark ink blended backgrounds that have been trending in our crafty corner of the world and honestly, I'm a big fan. 

I wanted to create that look but with just a little more interest. How am I going to add that interest you ask? 

Emboss Resist. 

It's a staple technique in card making that's been a round five-ever. 

I started with some robin's egg colored cardstock from our new Over The Rainbow Cardstock Pack and the Grateful Heart stamp set. 

I adore this color cardstock and wanted the color to still shine through in the finished design. I stamped the largest image for the Grateful Heart stamp set in Versamark ink and heat set it using clear embossing powder. The clear embossing powder "resists" the added ink we put on top of it trapping the original color underneath. 

For that really dramatic color in the background I used Distress Inks. You can absolutely use whatever inks you love for ink blending to accomplish this. I just love the richer color that distress inks provide. I started with my lightest color, completely covering the cardstock. I then added progressively darker ink colors coming in from the edges. Which each consecutive color you can see more and more of the emboss resist since the lighter "trapped" color contrasts the darker ink we're applying. 

For my focal point I stamped two of the smaller flowers and one bud. I colored all the images with my copic markers. For the base of the two larger flowers I colored them a yellow gold. Because Copic markers are transparent I could then go in with my oranges and add some color variation. In nature flowers are seldom just one color so this technique adds a bit more interest to the flowers themselves. 

I stamped and heat embossed my sentiments and send everything through my die cutting machine. I adhered the sentiment and flowers with a mix of glue and foam adhesive for added dimension then finished it off with some sequins from our Like Magic mix.  

You can check out the entire card from start to finish in the video below! 

Thank you so much for stopping by! 

Have an amazing weekend! 

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