Inkabilities Oriental Style Card

An embossed Oriental vase with a robin egg blue floral design stands out in this beautiful handmade card from Posh Impressions. Watercolors create the background behind this unique floral vase stamp.

Materials:

• Vertical Inspirations JAPANESE set
• JOY LUCK set
• ProCraft gloves
• Luminous Metallic Inkabilities in Red, Blue, Teal and Silver
• Rainbow Inks in Christmas Tree Green and Black
• Compressed sponge
• Matte and glossy white cardstock
• White vellum
• Emerald green folded card
• Scrap of robin egg blue cardstock
• Black Brilliance ink pad
• VersaMark pad
• Black embossing powder
• Krylon gold leafing pen
• Pop dots
• Adhesive of choice

Steps:

1. Before you begin, put on the ProCraft gloves to protect your hands from the dye inks.
    
2. Using a compressed sponge, apply red, teal and blue metallic inks on the edge and swipe in a semi circle pattern on a 4 inch by 2-3/4 inch sheet of white matte cardstock beginning at the top left. Let dry.
    
3. Again using a compressed sponge, apply Christmas Tree green Rainbow ink applied to the edge and swipe the card prepared in Step l horizontally and vertically. (The interesting effect is the metallics seem to resist most of the Rainbow inks applied over the top.)
    
4. Sponge Black Rainbow Ink over the entire card randomly using the flat side of your compressed sponge. When dry edge with a gold Krylon leafing pen and heat set.
    
5. Using a glossy white card 5-1/4 by 4 inches, apply metallic silver ink randomly leaving some white space and edge with the gold Krylon leafing pen and heat set.
    
6. On a small piece of vellum, stamp the Far East News image with black Brilliance ink and heat set. Then tear as shown and edge with the Brilliance black.
    
7. Ink the vase image from the Japanese set with VersaMark and emboss with black embossing powder on a scrap of robin egg blue cardstock. Cut out vase and edge in gold.