Welcome Back!  Today I’m going to run through several ways to do Resist.  This is a valuable technique for many reasons.  First of all you get a negative image from your stamps which extends their uses and you can create colorful backgrounds with your inks.

Here’s how it works:  A medium will act as a barrier so additional ink cannot saturate the paper. Think of oil and water and how they resist each other, the medium is the oil and it resists the ink which is the water.

Let’s take a peek at my video.

This is an example of clear embossing on a tag with inks and water mixed over top.

And some left over samplings from my video

Supplies:

• DesignBlock Wavy Leaf Pattern
• VersaMark ink
• Clear embossing powder
• Other: Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Fired Brick, Vintage Photo, Tea Dye, Ranger Craft Sheet, Inkssentials applicators, tags (office supply), flower (Making Memories), lace, ribbon, and button

And one of my double doses of goodness, resist over pattern paper, YUM!

Supplies:

• DesignBlock Flower Outline Leaf Pattern
• VersaMark ink
• Clear embossing powder
• Other: Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Faded Jeans, Broken China, Tim Holtz Crackle Paint; Broken China, Ranger Craft Sheet, Inkssentials applicators, Butterfly chipboard (Scenic Route), ribbon, button

There are many mediums available to use for this technique such as: Tsukineko VersaMark watermark pad, Tim Holtz Distress Clear Embossing ink, Ranger Perfect Medium, Ranger Clear Resist ink,  Clearsnap Top Boss Watermark pad and Stewart Superior Palette Embossing and Watermark pad. These inks can be used on glossy paper by themselves, or on matte paper with heated clear embossing powder. I prefer to use clear embossing powder with my medium which allows me to use a wider variety of papers.

Are you ready to dig out your inks and give it a try? I’d love to hear about what you think.  I’ll be flying to Hero Arts today, but I’ll check in tonight when I get settled.

Have a great day and Create!

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