Hi Friends! I’m here today with my first solo post! Before we get to the good stuff allow me to introduce myself. I’m Kristina from South East Michigan, where I’ve been my whole life. A few years ago I gave up my full time career in real estate marketing to care for my father following stroke. I now work part time from home (but my home office is in a closet in my craft room so I’ll let you imagine how much “work” gets done). When I’m not crafting I’m at my vanity being a want-to-be make up artist, or my newest hobby, backyard birding. You can find me over on livelovelaughscrap.com or under @KristinaBeagle on your favorite social network.  A big thank you to Linda for having me, I’m grateful to be amongst such great company. Now without further ado;

There’s still time left to enter the current challenge, a personal favorite of mine!

For todays card I incorporated a little emboss resist into my background. If you’re not familiar with emboss resist – It’s the process of inking over heat embossing. The embossing resists the ink, leaving you with a crisp embossed image surrounded by inky fun.

I started off with an a2 sized card front of smooth card stock for ink blending, and used a piece of post it tape to mark off where my ground would be. Before any inking, I stamped some floral images from the Hero Arts Wishing Well stamp set along the horizon line using a sticky embossing ink. After sprinkling on white embossing powder, I heat set everything until it was melted and smooth. I gave that a minute too cool and did some simple single color ink blending over top. When I have my blue sky the way I wanted it, I used a paper towel to wipe off the excess ink from the embossed images to reveal the crisp, white images.

I moved my post it tape up so that I could now ink my grassy area. Once I was satisfied, I trimmed my card panel down to 4×5.25 and went to work on my wishing well.

I stamped the wishing well image in fade out ink to do some no line water coloring. I used zig real brush pens, but any watercolor medium would work for this.

To finish I stamped my sentiment, again in sticky embossing ink, and heat set some Hero Arts Black embossing powder over top. Making sure thoroughly prep the surface with an anti-static powder tool, since I was embossing over potentially wet ink. Had I thought about it ahead of time I could’ve done an emboss resist here also, but wasn’t sure of my sentiment placement at that time.

Lastly, I added some little nuvo drop accents to a few of the flower, and there you have it!
I can’t wait to see all the gorgeous creations for this months challenge and look forward to some fun emboss resist projects too!

Supplies

Hero Arts Wishing Well Stamp Set Where to buy: HA	Hero Arts Wishing Well Dies Where to buy: HA	Bristol Strathmore Smooth Paper Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Distress Oxide Broken China Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
Distress Oxide Twisted Citron Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Versamark Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Hero Arts White Embossing Powder Where to buy: HA
Hero Arts Black Embossing Powder Where to buy: HA	Wagner Heat Gun Where to buy: HA	Cutterpillar Pro Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Ranger Ink Blending Tool Where to buy: SSS | AMZ
Scor Pal Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	MISTI Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Teflon Bone Folder Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Water Flow Brush Where to buy: HA
Post It Roll Where to buy: SSS | AMZ	Spellbinders Platinum Where to buy: SSS | AMZ | SB