GRAPHITE DOUBLE EMBOSSING

 Graphite paper is a great resource that can be used in a few ways with art or craft projects. For this class, I have used it with 3D embossing folders, Distress Inks for added colour, as well as embossing powders over the top to pick up the high points of the embossing folders. So it is a multi-step process, but the end result can be wonderful.
The last image is a card I made using Kraft paper instead of white and then gold embossing over the top, so no added colour with the Distress Inks.

"Wildflower"


"Last responder"

"Sparkle"

"I shoot people"

"Gears"

"Breathe"

A card made using the same Graphite Double Embossing
Technique, with no added colour. Simply graphite and
gold embossing powder for the image.

EMBOSSING POWDER SKINS

 I have previously done a class where we used embossing powder to create blobs on a craft sheet that could be peeled up and used as an accent when cooled. This is a further adaptation to this class. I'm sure that everyone who has used embossing powder has a huge collection of colours that will last them forever so this is an excellent way to use what you have.  I used Ranger Collage Medium to glue my embossing skins down but I know that the Tombow Mono Glue and the Ranger Matte Medium will both work fine as well. The trick is to be gentle with your embossing powder skin as it can break where it is thin. To stop all of the embossing powder from blowing everywhere as it is in little piles, I use a piece of baking paper over the top as the baking paper can take the heat of the heat gun and it keeps
the powder in place. It can make the powder matte though, so you need to heat it once again without
the baking paper in place to make it glossy again. But that causes holes, so it's a fine balancing act between the two.

"Walk in nature"


"If found dead"

"No longer available"
(I've wanted to use this quote for a 
ghost image for ages.)

"Fake smiling"

"Broqué"

"Feels"
(This one is a little different. It has the layers of
embossing powder on top of some chipboard
wings that have been attached before dumping
all of the colours of embossing powder down.
This gives a very thick layer of embossing powder
in various colours that also run off the edge onto
the background to give a very organic look.)

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.)