Ink Blending, Dry Embossing and NOT STARTING OVER

This is my fourth post for my GIU week. If you are visiting the week of 10/21/2019- 10/25/2019 make sure to leave a comment on this post for a chance to win some goodies from Unity.

For a while I could only afford maybe one or two small stamps a month, sometimes even every two or three months. I found I needed to have retail therapy for my crafty soul as much as I needed to make time to craft. Having something new is always a Mojo builder for me. At that time I really had a tight budget and I found Unity's Itty Bitty line, which by the way are never that tiny. I love the diversity of this line in particular. I could order two stamp sets (most of the time an image and coordinating sentiment in each) and they could be two totally different things. Like one Itty Bitty could be a snarky sentiment like I used today and the other could be an adorable baby set or sympathy set. The Itty Bitty line really helped me build my stamp collection into what it is today. 

For this project:

I used Whiskey than Tea

designed by Angie Blom

You can find it here: Whiskey than Tea

I created a beautiful blended background to highlight this snarky sentiment. Using Distress Inks I blended the colors onto some Bristol Smooth Cardstock. Any white cardstock would work it might take a little more ink and a little more effort. Use what you have.

I wanted to use a technique from "back in the day" what I would call selective dry embossing. I know there is probably a real name for it but that is what it actually does so we will call it that. 

It didn't work but here is why. The last time I tried this technique was before the newer deeper etched embossing folders. Or that is the excuse I'm using anyway. 

So how was it supposed to work? Well, I cut an oval from a piece of chipboard and it was the same size as my card panel. After securing this blended card panel into my embossing folder I taped the chipboard template over top making sure the sentiment was in the cut out oval. Theoretically it would leave that area sans embossing... or without the dry embossing. 

Well, not so much. This embossing folder, which is stunning btw, is one of those deeper etched embossing folders so it is thicker that the old ones. And there was enough pressure through my machine to emboss everything. I almost tossed it but it didn't change how the card really looked so I kept going and I'm glad I did because I think this card is stunning.

I think because the color is lighter at the center of this panel it worked out okay. If I had maybe ink blended a gradient from top to bottom without that center highlight maybe it would have worked out as nicely. I'm just guessing here. ;) 

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To watch me make these cards, you can watch them be made on my YouTube channel by clicking here: Delaney Jane Cards

All items were purchased with my own funds. 

Confused about why I named it all Delaney Jane Cards if my name is Renee’?

This entire thing, shop, YouTube channel, blog, etc, it is all named after our angel daughter who passed away in 2013. I made her some promises when she passed away. I would spread joy, I would make her proud and I would speak her name daily. This is one way we choose to honor her memory, and help me keep my promises.

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