Emboss resist is a fun technique and has become a favorite of mine. Here, I stamped the large flowers from Stampin' Up's True Friend on the shimmer light green background cardstock (as opposed to the usual glossy white cardstock for this technique) in Versamark ink and then clear embossed them. Then a few more large flowers were stamped in Versamark and just left to dry. These will leave a slight ghost image to your background, not as prominent as the embossed flowers. Then I brayered celery ink over the background and buffed the excess ink off the embossed flowers. Next I stamped the smaller group of flowers in celery ink and sponged olive ink in the middle of the embossed flowers, to darken that area a bit more. Hopefully you can see a few more details in this close-up (click on the photo, for a larger view): The 4.25" square card base is olive cardstock and so is the scalloped mat behind the large focal flower -- it was just sponged with olive ink to darken it. The large focal flower was inked with a celery marker on the leaves & stem and artichoke marker for the flower head, and... Read more →
