Embossed greeting cards are attractive. There are two forms of embossing. Dry embossing is done with stencils and a stylus. Heat embossing is done with an embossing pen or rubber-stamped images and powder. A heat gun melts the powder, which nearly magically creates the effigy. Embossing is a commendable touch on Marriage, birthday, congratulations and sympathy cards. You can still colour the embossed dead ringer for added compel.
Instructions
Turn on the heat gun. Gently blow heat on the powdered counterpart. Accomplish not overheat the embossed form. Determine not appropriateness a hair dryer when heat embossing; the powder Testament blow off of the project.
Identical lightly stop where the stencil should be, using a pencil.
2. Haul a quota of tape and stick it to a collection of cloth then remove it. Repeat two or three times to remove most of the tackiness.
3. Manipulate the tape to stick the stencil to the paper. Fix the stencil and paper on a lambent box, with the paper on top.
4. Rub the ball of stylus over the paper, pushing down into the stencil openings. Cause definite you rub down into the smallest parts of the mould. Whether the stylus seems to stick on the paper, rub it on a parcel of increase paper for smoother movement.
5. Carefully lift the stencil and paper from the ablaze box. Remove the stencil and the tape. You keep an embossed lot of paper.
Heat Embossing
6. Assign a plenty of card or mat for a card on a group of scrap paper on your profession surface. Press the rubber Coat of arms into the embossing ink, and then onto the paper. Whether using an embossing pen, compose or compose on the paper freehand.
7. Sprinkle embossing powder on the wet ink.
8. Pick up the card and tap the excess powder onto the scrap paper. Tap the powder from the scrap paper back into the embossing powder canister.
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Dry Embossing
1. Put the brass or other stencil onto the paper that you fancy to emboss.10. Action from one collection of the powdered equal to another, until all the powder has melted. You Testament promptly sign a raised equivalent.
Making Embossed Greetings Cards
11. Use a piece of card that is the height of the card you want, and twice as long. Emboss on one side of the card.
12. Chalk or lightly color the embossed image with colored pencil, if desired.
13. Use a bone folder or craft stick to score and fold the card in half.
14. Add a rubber-stamped or hand-printed greeting inside the card.
15. Make a mat for a card. Emboss a piece of plain paper in a size that is at least 1/2 inch smaller in height and width than the card. Glue the paper to the center of the greeting card cover.
