Saturday Show & Hels... The Watermark Resist Technique

...I thought it was high time I did another "Show & Hels"... well, the Summer is over (more's the pity) and most peeps will be back from their holidays now... so... time for me to share some more of the knowledge and know how I learnt earlier this year at Ranger U. Today I am showing you the Watermark Resist Technique which gives a totally fantastic faux batik effect... without having to dust the iron off. I have done step by step photo's, so this post is a bit picture heavy, but hopefully you will enjoy it and be whizzing off to try it yourself. Oh... you haven't got a Watermark Resist pad? No problemo... I have a spare one that I will be giving away to one randomly chosen comment... the winner of which will be announced next Saturday, 10th September :O)) Oh and... I will also be giving this card I made away with the Watermark Resist pad too... so you can see what the technique looks like close up...




The ingredients you will need are:

Ranger Watermark Resist Pad
Heat Tool Brayer
Adirondack DYE inkpads **these are the felt ones**
Ranger Glossy Card
Stamp/s
Paper Towels



Before we start...
A bit of info and the science bit... Adirondack Ink Pads come in two varieties... firstly is the Dye based inkpad, which we are using today... this is a FELT pad. The other is a Pigment ink based pad and this one is FOAM... and... just so you don't get muddled up, those clever chaps at Ranger have designed the packaging so the Dye based ink pads are a creamy colour... and the Pigment inkpads are black! Cool huh? Anyways... on with the tutorial!

STEP 1

Cut your Glossy card to your required size. Ink the stamp with the Watermark Resist pad... make sure you have a good even coverage. Stamp onto the Glossy card and dry with a heat tool for a few seconds only. **heat for too long... the image starts to disappear**


STEP 2

Using your Brayer, pick up ink from one of your pads and layer onto the cardstock... repeat with a different colour and so on, until you have all the colours you want to use on your cardstock (don't do what I did and forget to wipe your Brayer clean before going onto your next pad... Butterscotch doesn't like having a dirty great big Terracotta strip down its middle lol)
I used Butterscotch, Stonewashed and Terracotta for this step...



STEP 3

Repeat the layering, really working the colours into the cardstock. You will see the Watermarked image really starting to pop. Now is a good time to bring in a slightly darker colour for the edges. For this step, I brought in one of my fave Adirondack colours... Pesto...




STEP 4

Once you have all your colours as you want them, use paper towel to gently wipe away the excess ink from the cardstock. This will also make the stamped image pop even more. I have found that using a nice soft cloth after you have used paper towel also buffs the card nicely too.



So, there you have it. A really simple, yet very effective, technique. I love using the Faux Batik technique but have soon been won over by this one... and it means that using glossy cardstock also makes a nice change to the normal stuff. **and there is no guilt regarding the whole iron scenario too lol** I carried on to finish the card - I used Black Archival to stamp my image - remember to heat set this otherwise it will just sit on the glossy card and... smudgey mishaps can happen (mmmm, there speaks the voice of experience)



To add a bit of depth to the card, I also made another Watermark Resist on some extra glossy card and used the butterflies that I had already stamped in black, so I could cut them out and pop them onto the main design. The extra cardstock from around the butterflies then meant I had a little mat to fit inside the Ornate Plate for the sentiment, also stamped in Jet Black Archival ink :O)) I do hope that you found this tutorial helpful, please do let me know what you think... and if you have a play yourself, please let me see your results :O))




Don't forget... if you leave me a comment here on this post and I will enter you into the drawer to win a brand new Watermark Resist pad plus the card I finished for this tutorial :O))




I had planned to post this earlier... but... I got waylaid watching the season finale of Dexter... ooooh, I do so lurve that bad-boy! Ooooooh, and... I just remembered... tomorrows Sunday Stamper is going to be a special one with a giveaway etc because tomorrow I start the countdown to a very important and imminent date... check in tomorrow to see what I am waffling on about this time :O)) Anyways... tis waaaaay past my bedtime now so I am going to say... thanks for looking ... and... TTFN, have a lovely Saturday!

Hels x

PS... I just thought that I would mention that the packaging for the Dye based inks changed not so long ago... some of the pads I have are older and they have a flip down lid that pops off for when you are using it... the new ones have a lift off lid... they are still exactly the same ink inside... just an updated packaging :O)) HTH!