Embossing

Get tips, tricks, and project ideas for heat or dry embossing. Also find reviews and guides of embossing tools.

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Dress up candles, votives, and hurricane glasses with these ideas that will have your home glowing.

"… level of seasonal decor with embossed snowflakes. Stamp a snowflake … white tissue paper using embossing ink . Sprinkle the ink with embossing powder. Trim the tissue … form this natural candle. Embossing raises an ordinary candle …"

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Embossed Stars Hanukkah Card

… stars cut from dark blue vellum) Embossing ink and powder Cream card stock Silver … card stock and cover with ink from an embossing ink pad. Sprinkle silver embossing powder over the stars and heat- emboss . Cut a strip of cream card stock …

Embossed Gift Bags

… stamps in desired patterns Clear embossing ink and embossing pad Silver, gold, and blue … 4. Heat. Use the electric embossing tool to heat the powder until it melts, forming an embossed design. You can also hold the …

Make an Embossed Snowflake Ornament

… crafts knife. Mix 1 part embossing powder with 2 parts crafts … it bubbles. Sprinkle more embossing powder over the surface while … cooled, tap off the excess embossing powder on a paper plate … with the heat tool. When the embossed surface is cool, repeat for …

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Emboss stamped images

Create beautiful raised images with a little heat- embossing know-how. Contributing Editor Polly Maly demonstrates this surprisingly simple technique using an embossing pen and embossing ink.

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to my scrap room. Today, I'm gonna show you how to heat embossed images. It's a technique that I've used for years to bring texture, dimension, and pizzazz to my stamp images. To emboss something really means to raise it. Embossed images are raised and slightly glossy. Think of the feel that you get by running your fingers over elegant stationary. Let's talk about some of the tools that I'm gonna use today. The first tool, and probably the most important, is an embossing gun. An embossing gun is really more like a mini blow dryer. It's inexpensive and you can find it easily at scrapbook or craft shops. The next thing that you'll need, and it's probably equally important, is an ink, an embossing ink, and there are 2 ways that you can find that. You can find the embossing ink in pens or in pads, much like stamp pads. You'll also need embossing powders that come in a rainbow of beautiful colors or you can get it in clear as well. Another thing that I find is really important is what is called a tidy tray. This is a tray that I use for catching excess embossing powders, and I'll show you how to use that in a moment. First, let's work on the embossing pen. I'm gonna use black today. An embossing pen looks like a special or it looks like a regular marker, but it's got special ink that the embossing powder sticks to. I'm gonna use this for my name today. You can also use an embossing pen for doodling or drawing. Let's use this beautiful green color. Just hold your image over your tray and dump the powder.

right back into the canister using that spout. Okay, here's where the embossing gun comes in. Just turn it on, and hold your gun about 2 inches above your image. Now the powder is just

It's that simple. Now I'm gonna show you how to get a heat- embossed image using stamps. Okay, I'm gonna use clear stamps today even though you can use whatever stamps you have; wood mounted or foam stamps. But what I like about the clear stamps is that you can see right through the stamp itself as well as the acrylic block and use this flower image. Okay, now for stamps, you'll wanna use an embossing pad. Just press your stamp in, make sure that the stamp is fully covered with the ink, and then press onto your paper. Rock it slightly to release all the ink. I'm gonna show you a different way to catch your embossing powder just with a piece of paper. And for this beautiful flower, I'm gonna use pink, and again, don't worry about how

This powder lasts for years. Alright. Now I'm gonna turn on my embossing gun again. Again, start about 2 inches, but you know, it's really, it's up to you. You can move it in a

a flower stamp under the background, and this is using the same embossing ink on that pad, but this was with a clear, almost sparkly embossing powder. And then you have this beautiful green flower that was stamped onto card stock, trimmed, backed with pattern paper, and topped with a button. I hope you enjoyed learning about heat embossing . It's a great technique that's easy to master. It brings texture, dimension, and shine to your projects. I'm Polly, thanks for watching.

Sizzix Texture Boutique Embossing Machine

Adding dimension and texture to cards and scrapbooking projects is easy with the Sizzix Texture Boutique Embossing Machine!

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-Fun is in the cards for you with the really cool new embossing tool. Hi, I'm back and scrapbookers know how important good tools are and I think this is one you're gonna get a lot if you thought of. It's the Sizzix texture boutique embossing machine. Now embossing creates a raised or three-dimensional design on your paper. So you can see here, we're got a really cute little flower and swirl pattern in this really nice deep design; it really adds a lot of texture to your projects. And this handy little embossing only machine makes it really easy to do. Let me show you, so we've got our little sandwich here that we're creating. We've got our embossing pad on the bottom and now the great thing about this is it's got the diagram for use right on it so

it out and we can pull our card stack out of our embossing [unk]. Now, like I said, this is color core card stack so what I'm gonna do is take my sanding block and

popping texture on your projects. Now Sizzix makes a wide variety of embossing folders. They're really, really fun designs. You can make all sorts of cards you've got thank you and you can make invitations,

price is right too, you can get the basic machine with the embossing pads and shim or you can step it up a little and get a starter kit that they've bundled altogether that's got the machine, it's got embossing folders, paper and rub on. So if you're looking for a tool that's versatile, easy to use and easy to store, pick up the Sizzix texture boutique embossing machine and make a big impression.

Traditional Die-Cutting Tools

Nab hand-cut looks in a fraction of the time with die cutters that offer a variety of cutting, shaping, embossing , and sizing options.

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and the spacer and the paper to reveal your cut design. To emboss , simply remove the spacer mat underneath your paper and replace it with an embossing mat over the top. Create another sandwich with your master mat, and then push it through the machine again. This machine can also set eyelets. It can flatten bottle caps, and it embosses stencils and uses embossing plates that uses lightweight chipboard. You can cut through felt and through foam to make really fun, cool accents for your layout

$49 and the dies start at $3. It accepts chemically-etched designs and embossing templates as well. Let me show you how to use it. Secure the Tag-A-Long by placing it on the table, then flipping

with a small thin rubber foam on the top. They also include embossing stencils that you can buy as well. We're going to use the Squeeze inside the cradle. Simply place the die inside the

to do that too. Simply place a piece of paper inside the embossing folder, then create your sandwich as we did before, roll it through the machine, and you're left with a really cool embossed design. The things I really love about this machine is that (1) it accepts all dies from other machines as well also

chemically-etched dies as well as the steel rule dies and it accepts embossing templates as well. It's compatible with all of the other Sizzix dies from the family. To use the BIGkick, we're also going