Your Kindness Card with White Embossing

Hi, Friends......

I am here to share with you another heat embossed card.  This one has very simple messy watercoloring for almost an impressionistic look. It's an autumn scene and you might think I am jumping the gun with it, but let me tell you it is STILL chilly here in Idaho. (If everything weren't so leafed out and green, I would think it was already autumn. The air truly has thaaaaaaat kind of nip to it. I don't know if it ever hit 70 yesterday, although it was bright sunny all day, and it was in the 40s last night!! Brrrr.)
 
This card was inspired by several challenges: 

1. The June Winnie & Walter Rerun Challenge. I don't own the rerun set (Scenery: Into the Woods) but I was inspired by Shay's lovely card HERE with the white embossed wood grain. I rarely use my white embossing powder for anything besides sentiments or snowflakes so I wanted to give something new a try. I even stayed with a woodsy/tree theme! :)

2. The current Double Trouble Challenge which is a Double Dare Color Challenge along with Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge.  Even though these are more summery colors, the Sorbet color reminded me of red autumn leaves and the rosy tint of the autumn sky, so I gave this out-of-season theme a go.  I did not do the optional Thing 2 Twist of String Things this time. (I'm still not sure what they thought of my frayed burlap for the String Twist from one of my other entries, but I thought it was clever! lol....)

Double Trouble Challenge #3

 

3. As You Like It Challenge - Fave Type of Embossing and Why. As I mentioned before, I honestly can't decide which I like better....but one of my favorite things to do when watercoloring is to heat emboss my image for raised outlines. They help to keep me in the lines, so that's what I did here. (Not that I stayed in the lines on this card, but I DID do the heat embossing! Ha.)

 

I wasn't sure if my white embossing would work very well with the challenge colors. The Glacier color is rather pale and I feared it might not give enough contrast with the white embossed sentiment. So while I had my stamps set up on my MISTI, I stamped a second panel to be embossed with dark brown powder. 

Which do you like better???? I am leaning toward the white one. It's a different look for me and I think it is pretty, although the dark one looks more autumny.

Products used include:
Winnie & Walter - Kindness with Evelin T Designs stamp set
Versamark ink
WOW! Embossing Powder - Opaque Bright White Regular
Stampendous - Clear Embossing Powder in Clear Bark
Distress Inks in Ground Espresso, Tumbled Glass, and Abandoned Coral
Canson - Mixed Media Paper Spiral Bound Notebook
Core'dinations Cardstock for card base

I hope you enjoyed seeing me try out white embossing on a watercolored image. It was fun and I think I will have to remember to do this again soon! Thank you so much for stopping in today!!

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter Rerun #31 - Scenery: Into the Woods
2. Color my Heart Color Dare #297 - Nutmeg, Glacier, and Sorbet
3. Double Trouble Challenge #3 - I am participating in Thing 1 (color challenge) and Thing 2 (Color My Heart)
4. As You Like It Challenge - Fave Type of Embossing and Why
5. Word Art Wednesday Weeks #340-341 - Anything Goes
6. DL.ART June Linky Party
7. DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #230 - Wedding or Thank You
8. Power Poppy June Challenge - Let's Go Round and Round (I used a tree with a round crown.)
9. TCP Tuesday Challenge #347 - Outdoors
10.TIME OUT Challenge #112 - WARM (I love warm autumn days with crispy leaves...but right now I would be content with a warm enough summer for my zucchini seeds to sprout!!!)
11. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
12. The House That Stamps Built - J2718 Anything Goes
13. ARTastic June Challenge - Country (I was inspired by the rounded crowns on the trees and the blue sky.)