Blackout Technique Card with Heat Embossed Dress Design

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A striking card featuring a heat-embossed dress silhouette that is coloured with ink sprays and finished with a blackout technique. The embossing acts as a resist, allowing you to layer colour and create a dramatic, multi-dimensional effect with splatter details.

You will need

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Step by step

1. Prepare a piece of mount board or thick card stock as your base. ▶ watch 13:45
2. Use a clear sticky ink pad to stamp the dress image onto your board, pressing firmly to capture all the detail. ▶ watch 14:00
3. Apply clear embossing powder over the stamped image, ensuring full coverage. ▶ watch 14:30
4. Heat set the embossing powder with a heat tool until it is fully melted and glossy. ▶ watch 15:00
5. Place the card in a box and spray the entire surface with black ink spray, allowing the embossed areas to act as a resist. ▶ watch 18:45
6. Remove the card from the box and use a tissue to wipe away excess black spray, revealing the coloured dress underneath. ▶ watch 46:00
7. Add white confetti ink splats across the card by tapping your brush at varying heights to create different sized splatter effects. ▶ watch 47:00
8. Optional: add gold or additional coloured splats to enhance the design. ▶ watch 48:30
9. Wipe away any ink that has settled on the embossed lines using a damp tissue to keep them clean and defined. ▶ watch 49:00
10. Optional: add watercolour or paint details to specific areas such as flowers by first creating a white base with confetti ink, then painting over it once dry. ▶ watch 54:00

Tips from the show

• If you have a bad wrist or cannot do blending brush motions, use black ink spray instead of blending with a brush around the edges.
• The embossing powder acts as a resist, so any ink sprayed over it will not stick to the embossed areas.
• Tap your brush close to the card for small splats, or hold it higher for larger splatter effects.

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