First class back from my month long holiday in New Zealand and we'll be working with embossing powders. I love the fact that there are so many ways to use embossing powders and this is an easy way to add a substantial embellishment piece to your work without detracting from your focal image. The samples below all have a free-form blog of embossing powder that is made by tipping powder onto a craft sheet and then heating. I use my Ranger heat gun as it is particularly good at not blowing the powder everywhere but what also helps is if you place a small piece (about 10cm square) of baking paper over the embossing powder before you heat it.
Another example of how embossing powders can be used is seen in the first example below, "Nature's Graffiti". The dragonfly is a silver metal embellishment that has been heated and then embossing powder tipped on to it before heating again. No need to use an embossing ink, the heat from the heat gun is sufficient to get the powder to start to melt and stick to the metal. I've used black and have added a little gold and a little copper too!
"Nature's Graffiti"...
"Iridescence"...
"Proton"...
"Malevolent"...
1 comment:
Great idea. Glad you are back.
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