Pressed Flower Technique: Emerging Color

Good morning! Today's card uses one of the techniques I suggested in my tip sheet for "Pressed Flowers", it' called Emerging Color. The small leaves and large flowers in this set are perfect for creating a pattern on a pattern, you need image large enough to show the shape of the images below. For this technique, you'll also need glossy card stock, clear embossing powder, Versamark, heat gun, and a sponge.
First stamp some of the different leaf images randomly on the glossy CS in olive ink. Next stamp the big daisy three times over the area covering up the leaves in Versamark. I already did it in this step but you won't be able to see my stamped flowers until I emboss and sponge it in the next step.

Sprinkle on the clear EP, and heat. TIP: A superfine detail embossing powder would be best for this to really pick up all the detail in those petals, mine ran together a bit here. Now sponge on more olive ink and the white daisies will emerge, leaving the green leaves stamped below them to peep through!

I stamped the "A Year of Flowers" outline in Stazon Black to pop the detail out a bit more and added black buttons for the centers. Mats are Black Onyx and Soft Sand, this palette is so fresh and natural ( a little like the new very popular Basic Grey Origins that I haven't had a chance to use yet!) Refer to top for finished card and below for a closeup of the the new pattern I created.

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