Hi Crafters! Just wanted to pop in a share a little bit about embossing powders.
Heat embossing is easy to do and requires only a few things to get started. While you can buy many different colors of embossing powder, try starting with white, black, and clear. If you have any watercolor paints or ink pads, you can color your own patterns after embossing with the clear powder. You will need a heat gun, embossing ink (some type of sticky ink- I happen to like Versamark watermark ink), embossing powder and a stamp to get started.
Heat embossing is easy to do and requires only a few things to get started. While you can buy many different colors of embossing powder, try starting with white, black, and clear. If you have any watercolor paints or ink pads, you can color your own patterns after embossing with the clear powder. You will need a heat gun, embossing ink (some type of sticky ink- I happen to like Versamark watermark ink), embossing powder and a stamp to get started.
I made a few (very rushed samples) last night, so the embossing isn't perfect. I just wanted to show a few different types of embossing powders and how they look in person on a few different types of paper.
Black embossing powder on white cardstock, black cardstock, and vellum.
Blue opaque embossing powder (Wave Zing! embossing powder by American Crafts) on the same three papers: white and black cardstock and vellum. I love the look of the Zing! powders on most papers, but especially on black cardstock as it is super bright and truly is oqaque.
This is a clear embossing powder on the same three papers: white and black cardstock and vellum. It looks almost the same as the black powder on the black paper. I like the clear powder especially for using Distress inks to color over an image. I will often emboss an image in clear powder and then go over the paper with Distress inks to create my own backgrounds. The embossed image will resist the ink, and the original paper color will show through the embossed area.
This is silver embossing powder (Stampendous). It looks very metallic once heated and dried. Melting it is a little tricky as it turns two colors while melting. It just takes slightly more time to melt and a little more attention to detail as you are heating it. It didn't look as nice on the vellum - the powder spread a little more than the other colors on the vellum and closed up many of the lines in the heart pattern.
Hope this inspires you to try heat embossing as it truly leaves beautiful results on your projects!
...and as always, happy creating!
...and as always, happy creating!
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