Weekender with Wanda – Emboss Resist Technique with Tim Holtz Supplies!
Hi everyone! Happy Saturday! So nice to see you here for the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda on the Simon Says Stamp Blog! It’s a beautiful Autumn weekend here in California. Perfect sweater days and football days and all kind of fun things. I hope you have a wonderful weekend planned at your house. Did you check out the awesome blog hop yesterday? CLICK HERE to do the hop. There are prizes at each stop! The new Simon Says Stamp Holiday 2016 release is live too and it’s all beautiful. CLICK HERE to see the Believe in the Season release in its entirety.
Today is my monthly post in which I use Tim Holtz and Ranger supplies to bring you a new technique or idea to try. I’m using some beautiful new supplies from Stampers Anonymous by Tim Holtz along with some old favorites from Tim too. I made two cards using the same supplies and I had fun revisiting the Emboss Resist technique. I hope you will be inspired to give it a try! I love the Leaf Prints stamps and thought it would be nice to use those, since we are in Fall crafting mode.
This first card is made using the Mini Burlap Stencil from the Tim Holtz Mini Stencils 22 set. I layered the embossing with the Tim Holtz Leaf Prints stamps and then inked it all up with vivid Autumn Distress Ink colors of red, yellow and orange.
The second card was made using the Music Stencil from the Tim Holtz Mini Stencils 20 set. I layered just the pretty fern leaf from the stamp set and used Distress ink shades of greens and browns. For this card I distressed the paper a bit more, also, giving it a rustic feeling.
Here is a close up of the layers of inking, embossing, and then more inking!
I started with a sheet of Ranger Manila paper (this is the same paper that the tags are made of) and then I inked the mini stencils with Antique Photo Distress Ink and a sponge dauber. These stencils are not large enough to cover an A2 card front, so I taped them down and used just parts of the stencil!
This is the fun part! After the background stencil image was applied. I used the leaf print stamp with SSS Clear Ink and SSS Clear Embossing Ink and heat embossed the image right over the stenciled part. Once it’s inked over, you will see the stencil under the embossing. This also is a great technique to use with patterned paper underneath – like a text paper.
I used sponge daubers to ink Crushed Olive and Peeled Paint Inks around the images and over the entire panel. I like to ink darker closer to the image.
I did the same exact technique for the orange and yellow card.
After I inked them all up to the look I wanted, I used the Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer and splattered clean water over the panels. This gives a really cool effect and sort of mottles the ink a bit. Next I used Vintage Photo Ink and a sponge to ink all around the edges of my panels. This step really provides depth to all the other color.
This is the finished look of the embossing over the stenciling! You can see the water drops here too. I also used the Tim Holtz Distress Marker Spritzer tool and added some specks of Vintage Photo ink. The whole key to this is just play and have fun! Every single one will turn out totally different and that’s the magic of it!
Since there is a lot going on with all the ink and stamping, I wanted to keep the rest of the cards pretty clean and simple. I used the Tim Holtz for Sizzix Celebration Words dies and rich brown paper to die cut sentiments for the cards. For the green card, I wrapped the die cut portion around the top layer of the card before attaching it to my color layer. Tip – die cut your cardstock strips to one inch wide before die cutting these words. Perfect fit every time!
To used bits of Linen Ribbon on each card for accents. These cards have a ‘nature’ feeling to them and I thought the linen was a good soft texture to use. I added Ideaology Typed Tokens on each card to complete the message. Each card base is A2 size and made from Kraft Cardstock.
Have you tried Emboss Resist before? I hope you will try it now! Get out all your inks and get messy! Have fun and do some creative play. I believe it’s good for us! Thank you for spending part of your weekend here with me! Take care, until we meet again.
Love the techniques!
These are beautiful and I do love seeing the design come through, when using heat embossing,and then distress inks. Actually, this is one of my reasons for loving distress inks. If Tim had only invented distress inks and nothing else, he would still have been a hero! LOL!
A wonderful technique!! I need to add more of the distress inks to my crafty list. Beautiful cards!!
Beautiful autumn cards!
Isn’t this fun?! Always fun with Wanda! I wanna go to your house to play. :-)
Vibrant colors. Thanks for the great tutorial.
These are beautiful Wanda! Love the layers and distressing.
Beautiful cards! Love the technique!
These cards are gorgeous.
Both of these cards are beautiful. Thanks for sharing the technique with us.
These are gorgeous, Wanda! Such rich, beautiful autumn color, and I’m so inspired by your emboss resist technique! Looks amazing!
Pretty cards! Great colors!
Beautiful Autumn cards!! I will have to try the technique.
I don’t do a lot of stenciling (though I have quite a selection!) but I see I really could get some beautiful results.
It’s been a while since I did some emboss resisting on my card projects, I should look into this again for the holiday cards
WOW! The colors are awesome. So vivid. The embossing looks great with them. Thanks for the tutorial.
Wow!! These are really Beautiful cards!!!
I have done some resist with pretty good results. Love those sentiment tokens. We have a pretty day in Michigan but some of us saw frost last night. Thanks for sharing and have a great week.
These are really beautiful! I really like emboss resist- great technique!
Absolutely lovely! Love the style, love the colors, love the techniques!
Gorgeous cards and I love the beautiful fall colour palette you used and all the textures you created (or in some cases look of texture) with the different products you used.
Such lovely cards! The embossing looks wonderful on the colourful backgrounds!
Love your grungey Tim Holtz cards!! They are so great and you could the colors for different seasons. Love the cards!!!!
Simply beautiful Wanda. I love the fall colors and the stamps you used. Beautiful fall inspiration!
What an awesome technique!
Awesome cards! I love the distress inked stenciled cards!
These are gorgeous! I love this technique!
Beautiful cards, love the techniques of stenciling and then embossing and ink blending. Gorgeous results! I will try them layered like this, thanks so much for sharing.
Such a fabulous technique! Love the stenciling too! What beautiful fall colours and stamps used…great inspiration! Thanks for sharing :)
Thanx! Wonderful technique. I gotta try this.
Beautiful fall cards! Love all the layers and techniques
Your cards are very cool. I love the bright colors and the bold words with the word coins.
Love your cards and great tips/techniques.
Great cards! Thanks for the step-by-step instructions.
Like the stenciling.
Gorgeous cards, Wanda!! I love the colors – so perfect for fall and those die cut sentiments are just beautiful with the colors showing through. Thanks for sharing the techniques (stenciling and embossing) – I can’t wait to give them a try!
This is a great technique. I always get good results using it!
What a fun technique and great cards !!!
Love thid
This is a beautiful set and you’ve given me ideas! Thanks Wanda !!
Thank you for sharing this technique!Beautiful cards!
Neat technique & beautiful cards!
Wow!! These are beautiful!! Thank you for sharing!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Great technique with amazing results.
Such great colours, perfectly set off by the embossing.
Wow, these are beautiful! Love the colors!
Love the stamps! Great technique and beautiful fall colors!
Lovely fall cards Wanda! Thanks for the step by step!
These cards are beautiful and amazing – thanks so much for sharing and the clear instructions!!
Cool emboss resist technique! Thanks for sharing!