New Craft: How to heat emboss like a boss
Trying out new card making techniques? Check out embossing! You can emboss in two ways, pressing into paper with a stencil and an embossing tool and heat embossing, which is what I am doing today. Let's check out the supplies!
Figure 1: The finished card
An embossing pad (looks like ink pad, has sticky ink inside)
Embossing powder (which comes in all different colors. I'm using gold.)
Card stock paper
A heat gun
Decoration for your background (I am using watercolors)
Coffee filter
Stamps
Figure 2: The supplies
Step one: Select your stamps and stamp them onto the paper like normal, with the embossing pad instead of ink. Repeat with all of your desired stamps. If you don't know how, you can look at the pictures below or you can go to my "Stamping: Tips and Tricks" post.
Figure 3: Inking the stamp with sticky ink
Figure 4: Stamping the stamp
Figure 5: Scrubbing the stamp
Step two: Shake the embossing powder out of the container and onto the paper. It will stick to the ink, and you can shake off the powder into a coffee filter or scrap paper. Fold the coffee filter into a taco and pour it into the container. It saves the powder so you don't have to throw it away.
Figures 6, 7, 8, and 9: The "powder process"
Step three: Take your heat gun (which I call the blowy thing) and heat up the powder on the paper. It should melt and make a foil-like look on the paper.
Figures 10 and 11: The blowy thing: Before and after
Step four: Now, to decorate the background I am making a watercolor rainbow on the paper. The embossed stamps will not get covered or ruined by watercolor. You could, however, use markers for the rainbow if you don't have watercolors. I taped off the edge with painters' tape to create a clean edge. Don't use regular tape; it tears the paper.
Figures 12 and 13: The watercolor process
Step five: Peel up the tape and then you are done!
Figure 14: The finished card (again)
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