Hi All!
For today’s card, I heat embossed two images (the sentiment and the feather), then used Peerless watercolors on top of them. You could do this with any sentiment underneath a stamped image that has some solid parts to it. Go through your stamp collection and see what would work!
Here is a close-up of the double emboss:
I used my craft-foam-trick for flattening out my watercolor cardstock. One thing I didn’t mention in the video is that this trick works well because I am using thin watercolor paper. As a result, the watercolor paper can take the shape of the foam.
One oops – in the video I said the circle sizes were 4 and 4 1/4″. They are actually 4 1/2 and 4 3/4″. Sorry about that!
Enjoy the video!
Card Measurements:
| Element | Imperial | Metric |
|---|---|---|
| Watercolor circle | 4 1/2 inches | 11.4 cm |
| Black circle | 4 3/4 inches | 12.1 cm |
| Card base | 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches | 10.8 x 14 cm |
Supplies:
Peerless watercolors used: Gamboge Yellow, Butterflywing Blue, Viridian Green
 Golden Feather EH|SSS |
 Thoughtful Messages |
 Peerless Watercolor Basic EH|SSS |
 Peerless Watercolor Bonus EH|SSS |
 Nesting Circle Dies |
 Size 12 Round Brush |
 Versafine Black Ink EH|SSS |
 Versamark Ink EH|SSS |
 Ultra Fine Clear Powder |
 Canson Mix Media Paper |
 Neenah Cardstock EH|SSS |
 Black Cardstock |
 Eclipse Masking Tape Rolls |
 Tombow Mono Multi Glue EH|SSS |
 ATG Tape Runner EH|SSS |
suzierubberstamp
Hi Darlene, I hope you and the family are having a lovely summer! I really like this card! Love the water color.
Cheryl
What a great technique! Will definitely try it with my feather stamps.
Andrea
I think, if it weren’t for your videos being timed like they are, I’d never remember when it’s Wednesday! LOL The past couple weeks, I’ve actually been surprised when the notification popped up in my inbox–truly sad that I can’t keep track of days. 😛 Anyway, I’m not sure I’ve ever done double embossing, but it does give a cool result! I will definitely have to try it sometime. I love how your watercolor came out, too. I was curious at first why you cut the black circle hanging off the edge to begin with, rather than just cut a full (black) circle, adhere the focal piece centered on that, and then trim everything once you added it to the card base. Then it dawned on me–that’s a lot of thickness to try and trim accurately if you did it “my” way! Duh! Glad your mind works differently–I’m sure I would have made a mess of things. LOL Anyway, a really neat card overall. Thanks so much for sharing this! 😺 ~ Andrea
Carol Mac
Cool effect!😎
Michellew
Gorgeous card Darlene, I love those colours! I’m going to try the double embossing on my next card!
Dayse
How cool is this I really enjoyed watching the double embossing technique. Easy to do and the original card colour preserved beautifully. Good tip for straightening the card stock I sometimes roll through the bugs it but that was awesome. Nice watercolours against the Black very clean yet striking.
KrisB
I loved this card! loved the techniques and I loved the colors!
Connie
The double embossing resist is a wonderful technique. Thanks as always for sharing it with us. Your overall card was really lovely that anyone would be happy to receive!
Glenismaree
Very effective Darlene. I must give this a try. Love the colours. Thanks.
jennyjo88
This is an incredible card and technique!
Jan
At first glance, I thought you used TH alcohol inks. 😄 Such a pretty card Darlene.
Sherry W.
Nice! I have not seen this technique before. I’ll have to go see what I have to try it. Thanks!