BAKED TEXTURE EMBOSSING POWDERS

The Baked Texture Embossing Powders by Seth Apter (made by Emerald Creek) are one of those products we've all been hanging out for, ever since we saw they were being released.  There are 7 colours in Seth's range but I also had to have 3 extra's by Emerald Creek (Fractured Ice, Hammered Metal and Charred Gold) as I knew they would fit right in with Seth's range.  The Baked Texture embossing powders have unique properties in that they are chunky, various colours, little fluffy bits too so they create a varied look compared to a normal smooth embossing powder.  You can apply them in all the normal ways you would use embossing powder but I also like to use them on die-cut shapes that have been coated with clear embossing ink, also emboss with them straight onto a die-cut shape that has been cut out of JAC paper (double-sided adhesive paper).  Stamping of course, pressing an embossing ink pad over a stencil, swiping an embossing pad around the edges or on parts of your background... all these ways create unique backgrounds and really change how a simple background can look.  I have 6 samples today as I wanted to show various ways to use them.

"Organic"...

(Die-cut shapes, coloured with Distress oxides then 

the embossing powders used over the top.  Also swiped

some onto the background.)

"Demons"...

(Swiped the rusty embossing powder around the edges,

coated the little die-cut JAC paper clouds with

Fractured Ice, stamped the waves down the bottom

and embossed with Deep Sea embossing powder.)

"Find your wings"...

(Barbed Wire & Bird are both JAC paper die-cuts stuck

down to the background then embossed with various colours

of the powders.  Also coated the strip of German Scrap down

the right-hand side with the rust embossing powder too!  I painted

on a little vegetable glycerine and embossed them to create the

splotchy looks on the background.)

"People"...

(Ok, this one has a bubble wrap stamp with Charred Gold, then

I painted the whole background with a thin layer of vegetable 

glycerine, then embossed the whole thing with clear UTEE - Ultra Thick

Embossing Powder.  Then when that was set, I re-heated sections

of the UTEE and using a small spoon, I dropped small bits of a

few colours onto the hot UTEE and heated again so the new colours

would blend in with the clear UTEE.  Then did a coating of Rocky Road

embossing powder around the edge to darken.... whew!)

"Salty but sweet"...

(Stamped the droplets onto the background, then embossed

the piece of fishing net die with a combo of Deep Sea embossing

powder and Patina Oxide embossing powder.  

Deep Sea is also around the edge.)

"Still here"...

(Stamped and embossed the face using ordinary black

embossing powder then swiped Picked Raspberry Distress

Oxide over a few places on the background and coated 

with Rocky Road embossing powder.)