Enamelling

 This is a really easy technique and you can achieve some stunning results.

Begin by stamping a background texture stamp all over your piece of card, and immediately cover it with clear embossing powder and set with a heat tool.  I used Distress ink - Broken China.  These inks, whilst a dye base, do have a unique quality where they will remain wet for a little while, and capture the embossing powder.  You could use a pigment ink as an alternative (these tend to be a sponge based pads).

Then, blend in a contrasting colour onto the white areas and immediately cover everything in clear embossing powder and set with a heat tool.  I used Distress ink - Wild Honey.

It is done in this manner, because if you just stamped the 'blue' then blended the remainder with honey, then added embossing powder, the blue would certainly have dried, it wouldn't capture any embossing powder and you wouldn't achieve an all over shiny enamelled effect.  So by doing it in 2 stages (you could add more layers if you wish), the 
blue naturally creates a resist to the honey ink, once it has been embossed.

I then used Distress -Tea Dye - all over, to highlight areas and edge the card.

Simple matting onto coordinating card colours, a sentiment and a few embellishments finish off what has been a fairly quick card to make.

Christine