{Spotlight Project} Maria Enjoys Embossing and Acrylic Paint

Hello friends. You may remember this spotlight about emboss resist with watercolors. And this spotlight from Cornelia about emboss resist with ink.

Today I'm pairing heat embossing with acrylic paints. So why do embossing and paint work well together? Well you can wipe the paint off the embossed areas pretty easily, but still have the texture and opaqueness of paint on your project.

Here's my card.

STEP 1

I gathered my supplies - the stamp with tiny grungy dots from Mixed Media Grunge, Versamark, and clear embossing powder. I stamped the dots where I was going to stamp my "K" to emboss so that they would show through the "K".

STEP 2

I stamped the "K" on top of the dots and heat embossed it clear.

STEP 3

Then I painted over the "K" with acrylic paint.

STEP 4

And using a damp cotton swab I removed the paint from the clear embossed area.

STEP 5

I stamped the dots as well as some blooms from Frames and Flowers on my cardbase. Used sweet pastel colors since this was to be a card to welcome baby.

STEP 6

Then I die cut my focal panel with a Stitched Rectangle die, wrapped a bit of baker's' twine around it and adhered it to the card base. A couple heart beads completed the embellishments. Love that shiny, somewhat leathery look you get from the paint.

And hoping that my card has made its way to the recipient by now, here it is once again, nice and large for you.

Hope you enjoyed today's card. How about giving "emboss resist" a try one of these days?

Tschüss,

Maria

Products Maria used in today's project:

    

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