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Rich & Luxurious embossing

I love to ink blend, but I love it more when it’s over heat embossing. Emboss resist is such a fun technique to use with your stamping and if you combine it with metallic embossing powders and dark colours you can get rich & luxurious embossing in no time! What’s more, you can easily adapt this to any stamp set you wish, or occasion. And for added variation, why not create an ombre effect with your ink blending. 

PRODUCED AS PART OF MY DESIGN-TEAM WORK FOR BUMBLEBERRY PAPERCRAFTS - SEE END OF POST FOR MORE DETAILS

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rich & luxurious embossing

creating the rich & luxurious embossing

To start off, trim a piece of Gina K Tranquil Teal cardstock down to 5.5″ x 4.25″. The trick for ink blending for rich colour is to use coloured cardstock. This will ensure vibrant colours without having to use all your ink up! Next, treat the card with an anti-static pouch ready for heat embossing.

Place the card panel inside your MISTI and place the cherry blossom branch from the Altenew Dotted Blooms stamp set onto the panel. Now, ink the stamp up and stamp onto your card panel. If you are using a slow drying ink to stamp, you can move the stamp and restamp in another position before covering with  WOW! Metallic Gold Rich embossing powder.

Next, heat set the embossing powder with a heat gun – to reduce warping to the card, try to stamp a large amount of the background before heat setting it to reduce the number of times you bring the heat gun to the card.  Keep repeating this until the background is full. Now, you can also stamp the two smaller inners of the flowers in some of the spaces on the background to fill any larger spaces up.

Adding the colour

Next, using a blending tool and foam pad, start blending Catherine Pooler Designs DayDream Ink onto the card around all four sides. Bring this colour in towards the centre, but don’t completely fill the panel – leave the centre the colour of the cardstock.

Next, repeat this process but use Catherine Pooler Designs Juniper Mist ink, only blending this colour on the edges of the cardstock. Now, using a clean dry cloth wipe over the heat embossing to remove any excess ink. Once complete, adhere this onto a white card base made out of Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb cardstock.

Stamp a sentiment from the Dotted Bloom stamp set onto a piece of Gina K Sea Glass cardstock and cover with matching gold embossing powder. Next, ink blends the dark teal ink onto the bottom of the card and soften out. Following this, trim the sentiment down into a strip and foam mount onto the front of the card.

Lastly, adhere selection of gold sequins to the card to finish the car off. 

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Dotted Blooms Stamp - Altenew
Dotted Blooms Stamp – Altenew
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Daydream Ink - Catherine Pooler Designs
Daydream Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs
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Daydream Reinker - Catherine Pooler Designs
Daydream Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs
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Juniper Mist Ink - Catherine Pooler Designs
Juniper Mist Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs
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Juniper Mist Reinker - Catherine Pooler Designs
Juniper Mist Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs
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WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad
WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad
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WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink refill
WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink refill
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WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad & refill
WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad & refill
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Metallic Gold Rich - WOW! Embossing Powder
Metallic Gold Rich – WOW! Embossing Powder
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Gina K Designs - Sea Glass Cardstock
Gina K Designs – Sea Glass Cardstock
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Tranquil Teal - Gina K designs
Tranquil Teal – Gina K designs
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Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Cardstock
Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Cardstock
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Original MISTI - My Sweet Petunia
Original MISTI – My Sweet Petunia
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Gina K Designs - Connect Glue
Gina K Designs – Connect Glue
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Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam squares 1/4
Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam squares 1/4″ white
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WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version)
WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version)
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WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version)
WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version)
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Mini Ink Blending Tool - Ranger Tim Holtz
Mini Ink Blending Tool – Ranger Tim Holtz
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Mini Ink Blending foam replacements - Ranger Tim Holtz
Mini Ink Blending foam replacements – Ranger Tim Holtz
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Teflon Bone Folder - Lawn Fawn
Teflon Bone Folder – Lawn Fawn
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Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer - Tonic Studios
Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer – Tonic Studios
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Trim and Score Board - We R Memory Keepers
Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers
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QuickStik - We R Memory Keepers
QuickStik – We R Memory Keepers
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This post was produced as part of my design team work for Bumbleberry Papercrafts have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from Bumbleberry Papercrafts to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of and with products that I love.   The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert. 

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Hi, I am Verity and I live in the UK.  I love to create beautiful projects whenever I can. My main passion lies with Papercrafting, however, I will always turn my hand to a new project or craft any chance I get.

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