This appears to be one of my favourite techniques, or at least one I do frequently. But I suppose that’s no surprise since it uses the heat gun. At the crop weekend I attended last month, I learned an embossed resist technique using a brayer, elastic bands, embossing powder and sponging. I decided to do it again but with two colours.

I wrapped a couple of elastic bands around my brayer ensuring that they crossed and twisted. I then took a piece of very vanilla cardstock and after rubbing it with the embossing buddy to remove static, inked up my brayer (or actually the elastic bands) with versamark and rolled it across the card in a couple of directions. Then I sprinkled on clear embossing powder and heated it. I next took tangelo twist and hello honey and sponged the ink onto the card, wiping off the excess with a paper towel. This piece then sat in my Leave For Later pile because I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it. I was more interested in playing with the technique!

On going through the pile recently, I decided that I wanted to leave as much of my “DSP” visible and so out came the Hello You thinlits dies. I cut out the thanks in tangelo twist and carefully added drops of the tombow glue – giving it a little time to set a bit so that it wouldn’t ooze – and then attached it to the background. I then mounted this on a base of hello honey. The envelope is lined in hello honey from the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz