Jun 22 2009
A Resist & a Hop
Happy Monday! It’s officially summer and I have a summer-themed project to share. There’s lots going on today as we have a Challenge Chicks blog hop. It’s been a while so we’re really excited to share some projects with you today.
Have you heard about the Summer Stamp Star Challenge at CHF this summer? It’s a fabulous challenge that you won’t want to miss. There are five weeks of challenges with great prizes and the grand finale will be a guest designer spot at CHF for the month of September. As part of the winning prize, the winner will receive a month’s worth of stamp releases from Cornish Heritage Farms. If you’ve noticed just how many releases we have a month, you’ll know that it is a boatload of rubber. Whether Thomas Kinkade or Kim Hughes, Scrapblocks or Rummage Bin, Friendly Kritters or Scene-it are your thing…we can’t wait to see your designs. Be sure to check out the details here.
With five weeks of fun, goes five different challenges. I thought it would be fun to try out some of the challenges and perhaps inspire with ideas for them. The CHF design team has a sample for each of the challenges and for a few of the challenges…more. Check out Lisa Strahl, Becky Olsen, Joanne Allison, Sherrie Siemens, Kristine Reynolds, Jennifer Roach, & Lisa Silver.
Ornamental Resist
Resist techniques seem to be hot in the scrapbooking industry right now but they’ve always been a great technique that stampers have come back to time and time again. My design is for challenge #3: resist. To create my resist I stamped the Ornamental Borders Scrapblock onto some Simply Smooth white cardstock and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I then freehand cut a butterfly mask out of a roll of repositional masking, discarding the actual butterfly and using the negative shape instead. After placing the masking onto my background, I sponged the butterflies first with Dried Marigold Distress ink and then with Worn Lipstick Distress ink. Any dye ink will work well. I love how the embossing resists the dye ink and highlights the stamped pattern on the project.
Supply List:
Stamps: Ornamental Borders Scrapblock by Cornish Heritage Farms
Ink: Distress Embossing Ink, Dried Marigold & Worn Lipstick Distress ink by Ranger
Paper: Simply Smooth White cardstock by CHF, kraft cardstock by Bazzill Basics
Other: buttons by Melissa Frances, ribbon, corsage pins, clear embossing powder by Ranger, heat gun
Happy creating!
Julia
Love your freehand butterflies…perfect to highlight! Love your resist technique Julia…so fresh and pretty…you do that so well!
Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous!
I love your colors and this awesome technique!
I’m hopping! Love it when you gals do this!
Gorgeous project Julia and a nice little twist on the classic resist technique to combine with the negative masking - love it!
Gorgeous Julia!
Love it so much, so clever and absolutely beautiful!!!
B-
This is a beautiful, fresh summer card. The combined techniques are so clever and the colours, hot but pretty.
Thank you, Julia, for sharing your art.
Lovely Julia!
Thanks for showing me how to do a resist - I will have a go at that.
Very pretty! I love the look! I better go check out the summer fun! OH! and I got a fabulous package in the mail today! I’m so excited that I’m seeing stars!!!
Oh so pretty. The resist technique worked beautifully with the butterflies.
How lovely! The butterflies just pop on the light background!
Your butterflies are awesome.
Beautiful - love the clean fresh look of your card! Thanks for sharing the details of how you made this!! I’ ll have to give this a try : )
WOW…This is soooo gorgeous!!!! I have to play with this technique!!
I love this type of resist! I haven’t done this technique in a long time. Thanks for the inspiration!