Making this emboss resist construction zone boy card for my grandsons birthday had me playing with Stampin’ Up! inks, watercolour paper and heat embossing.

Welcome to the Art With Heart Pale Papaya Colour Creation Blog Hop. We are thrilled to have you join us today. Our hop features some of your favorite Art With Heart Team Members sharing projects made with Stampin’ Up! products. In fact, you may have just come from fellow creative Tina Gillespie’s blog.

I am joining in with the Art With Heart Team’s Colour Creations Blog Hop with this Azure Afternoon emboss resist construction zone boy card.

The Azure Afternoon colour is a new addition to Stampin’ Ups!® Bright colour family and is our focus for today’s hop.

I have gone with a waterfall cardmaking technique using emboss resist to create my own patterned paper.

The waterfall cardmaking technique is where the bottom edge (or right edge, in my card) is pulled and carefully placed layers of cardstock flip over, like a magical book with self-turning pages!

The emboss resist technique is when you white heat emboss an image and then you will apply colour over the top of the embossed image. The effect is delightful!

How gorgeous is all the hard hat man holding the balloons?

What you need

• Stamps/Bundles: Construction Zone, Biggest Wish
• Inks: Azure Afternoon, Daffodil Delight, Versamark
• Paper: Water colour paper, Azure Afternoon
• Other: Embossing tool kit, White embossing powder, heat gun, Water painters, Multi-purpose liquid glue

Emboss Resist Construction Zone Boy Card Card Recipe

1. Begin with a Azure Afternoon card base (29.5 cm x 10.5 cm).
2. Score at 9.5 cm, 10.5 cm, 11.5 cm, 12.5 cm, 13.5 cm and 14.5 cm.
3. Cut five (5) 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm Azure Afternoon squares and five (5) 10 cm x 10 cm watercolour paper squares.
4. Cut an 8 cm x 10.5 cm Azure Afternoon and 7.5 cm x 10 cm watercolour paper.
5. Cut a 15 cm x 10.5 cm watercolour paper.
6. Embossing images: On three (3) 10 cm x 10 cm watercolour paper, the 7.5 cm x 10 cm watercolour paper and the 15 cm x 10.5 cm watercolour paper, remove static, ink up sentiments with Versamark and stamp onto the centre. Apply white embossing powder to the sentiment and use heat tool to set.
7. Ink up images from Construction Zone stamp set with Versamark and stamp all over the 10 cm x 10 cm watercolour paper. Have fun with this!
8. Apply white embossing powder over images and heat set.
9. Watercolouring: Lie your pieces of watercolour paper on the table and thoroughly wet the watercolour paper. I used the thick brush in the water painters and a glass of water to apply the water.
10. Add a few drops of Azure Afternoon reinker onto a stamp block and using the second thickest brush apply from the centre of the watercolour paper, brushing out towards the edges.
11. You can brush the Azure Afternoon over the top of the images or you can brush to the embossed edges and avoid going over the top of an image. I did it both ways, so I could get a green colour on certain images or a nice clean yellow on other images.
12. Add a few drops of Daffodil Delight to a stamp block and use the smallest water painter to add yellow to areas you would like to highlight or to mix to green.
13. Use this brush to add Azure Afternoon to images you would like to be blue.
14. Use the heat tool to dry your paper.
15. Card construction: When watercolour paper is thoroughly dry adhere 10 cm x 10 cm squares to the 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm squares. Adhere the 7.5 cm x 10 cm watercolour piece to the right-hand side of the inside of the card.
16. Apply a line of glue between the 9.5 cm and 10.5 cm score line. Adhere your front 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm card piece.
17. Repeat a line of glue between each score line and adhering each decorated square, until all have been adhered.
18. Cut a 13.5 cm x1.5 cm Azure Afternoon. Measure 9 cm in from the right-hand side of the card base and apply a dab of glue to the back of the card. Adhere about a 1 cm tab of the Azure Afternoon strip. Fold it over from the top to the bottom, running inside the card, fold over at the bottom and adhere the tab with a dab of glue. No glue should be applied inside the card! This is the guiding mechanism for the waterfall card effect.
19. Take the bottom card front layer and feed it under the strip you just made.
20. Optional to stamp the little pull tab and glue to the back of the card base.
21. Complete the card by adhering the 10.5 cm x 15 cm watercolour paper layer onto the back of the card, which covers the tabs and the pull tab.

Biggest Wish Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) $30.00	Construction Zone Cling Stamp Set (English) $41.00	Good Feelings Cling Stamp Set (English) $42.00	Azure Afternoon Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill $8.75
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill $8.75	Versamark Pad $16.75	Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper $15.75	Azure Afternoon A4 Cardstock $17.50
Embossing Additions Tool Kit $47.00	White Stampin’ Emboss Powder $10.50	Heat Tool $54.00	Water Painters $23.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue $9.75

If you love this emboss resist technique, you might love the Big Wave Card I shared in January.

Thank you for stopping by today. I am excited to explore ways you can save time and organise your card making supplies so that busy card makers like you can make more cards, more often. That’s what it means to be ‘eager to stamp’!

Now onto more creative inspiration from fellow Art With Heart Team Member Sharon Davern! Click on the link below.

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