Today I want to share with you some tips on how to heat emboss cards. Heat embossing is a really fun and surprisingly easy way to add a lot of WOW to your cards. Let’s take a look at a card where I used six different Stampin’ Emboss powders embossing to put some pop onto a water colour and coloured cardstock;
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Back to how to heat emboss on cards!
Believe it or not, this truly is an easy technique. There are only five steps to this technique and four supplies! Once you get started you will not want to stop!
Simply put, all you do is:
- wipe your card with an embossing buddy (Anti-static pillow) – This will ensure that no rogue grains of embossing powder will sneak off to create distractions on your project.
- stamp whatever you want to heat emboss with a Versamark ink pad,
- sprinkle the embossing powder over the sticky ink and
- Shake or tap off the excess; and
- heat with the Heat tool until the embossing powder melts into a glorious, crisp image on your card stock.
I’m sure you’re able to “wipe, stamp, sprinkle, shake and heat.”
Still don’t believe it’s easy? Watch this video
TOP TIP:
When you are heating your embossing powder on your project, move your heat tool back and forth in sweeping motions over your project. This will keep the overall heat even and keep any areas from getting scorched. – Air coming out of the heat tool is extremely HOT so NEVER point it at your fingers! You will be able to watch the embossing powder melt into individual grains and then when you see it all come together as one smooth “liquid” looking effect, it’s done. It’s very cool to watch! Be careful as overheating will dull the shine and can cause the embossed parts to crack off the card – stop when you get that liquid look.
Here’s a closer peek at how beautiful the heat embossed image is on this card:
The advantage of the heat embossing over just using white or metallic inks is that it IS much crisper and it offers a glossy sheen making it really POP. Stampin’ Up!s range of heat embossing powders are Black, Clear, Copper, Gold, Silver and White – I have them all and I love them all!
Here are the Stampin’ Up! products I used to make this card
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Here’s a last peek at this project and remember, all of these images will be on my Pinterest boards so head on over, follow me and save them for your own reference later!
This is the “stepped up” version included at the end of the video where I’ve added metallic and linen thread.
Now that you’ve learned a little about how to heat emboss on cards try it out – you will love the effect and you WILL be doing it all the time!
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