Hello everyone! I'm on the Pinkfresh blog today, sharing two techniques, first we will heat emboss using the press plate and then use this panel for resist water-coloring using ink pads. Heat embossing using press plate gives a beautiful texture as the embossed part is not raised, instead it feels flat. This is a wonderful way to stretch your supplies.

I used the Dotted Petals Press Plate, Thinking of You stamp, die and stencils, Print Shop: Modern Botanicals stamp, dies and stencils, Nested Elongated Oval Blanket Stitch, Joyful Day stamp and dies

To start use the Dotted Petals Press Plate onto the letter press system, apply clear embossing ink. Prepare the watercolor card stock with anti-static powder tool, run this through the die cutting machine. Sprinkle white embossing powder onto the panel and heat set.

Dab Waterfall ink to a clear sheet, spritz with water and apply over the panel. Continue with Paradise and Summer Shower inks. Add some flicks of Bubble Gum ink and let this dry.

Die cut the frame using the Nested Elongated Oval Blanket Stitch dies from white card stock, die cut a piece of vellum using the second largest die. Adhere behind the frame using 3D foam.

Stamp the images twice and sentiment from the Thinking of You stamp using Detail Black ink.

Add color to the images using inks through the stencils (Grassy Knoll, Paradise, Candy Violet, Lavender, Atlantis, Apricot) 

Die-cut all the images and the sentiment using the coordinating dies.

Adhere one of the images behind the vellum, and adhere the vellum frame to the panel. Adhere the panel to a white cardbase.

Adhere the images using 3D foam. Using the sentiment die, die-cut one more piece from the Essential Glitter cardstock: Candy Violet. Adhere this behind the sentiment slightly offset. And add this to the card.

For the next card, use the same process as above for the technique panel. Next, instead of vellum I used white card stock oval die-cut and sponged Waterfall ink lightly.

I use the images from the Print Shop Modern Botanicals. Next, I added inks through the stencils (Waterfall, Seaside, Atlantis, Grassy Knoll, Olive, Raspberry Bliss, Apricot, Sweet Mustard, Clementine) Die cut using the coordinating dies.

I then, heat embossed the leaves from the Joyful Day stamp set onto vellum using white embossing powder. Die cut using the coordinating dies and adhere behind the floral cluster for some texture.

I matted the sentiment using black cardstock in a slight offset. Next adhere the Oval panel onto the card.

Hope you enjoyed this technique I hope you will give it a try, if you do, please share it on our social media and tag us.

Thank you for dropping by and have a nice day!