Snowflake Resist

I know I promised I would leave Christmas cards alone for a while, but the Thursday craft group wanted to revisit the resist technique, and this was as simple as it gets.

I began by stamping a variety of snowflakes in a rough 'band' across the upper part of my card, using a versamark ink pad, and heat embossing in a clear embossing powder (white powder is also ok to use) .

 
 
 I then added low tack tape to mask off the area I didn't want to ink....creating that 'band' of colour.












I used three different Distress inks randomly swirled across the embossed snowflakes (which are providing a resist to these inks).

Remove the tape.

Now to remove the resist.  You will need a hot, dry iron and a clean sheet of copier paper, which will soak up the melted embossing powder.  Put the clean copier paper over the stamped images, and press the hot iron over the top. 

When you lift your iron off, you will see the copier paper has soaked up the melted images.  Look at your card, and make sure that all the embossing powder has been removed, leaving the base white card where the snowflakes were stamped.  If you need to repeat the iron process, make sure you use clean paper otherwise what you have already melted could transfer to another part of your card, or the iron sole plate.

 

I then over stamped and embossed a larger snowflake in a silvery white powder (bottom left), and added a greeting.  I haven't yet trimmed, matted and mounted onto a base card, but you get the idea :)

Christine