Hello, today I have several ways to use silhouette heat embossing on your cards with two very easy techniques and one slightly more advanced, you’ll find one that suits your style. Silhouette heat embossing allows your heat embossing to take centre stage in your paper crafting and can compliment any occasion.
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Silhouette heat embossing with stencils
To start off the first technique uses stencils to create the silhouette heat embossing. For this card, we’re using the Altenew Exotic tulip mask stencil. Mask stencils are perfect for this technique as they’ve got large negative spaces to create the silhouette.
Tape the stencil down on top of some watercolour cardstock and cover over the other areas of the stencil as you only need the large tulip flower head. Next, using WOW! Clear ultra slow dry embossing ink pad, push the pad down over the negative area to transfer ink onto the card.
After removing the stencil, cover this in Oasis embossing powder, which is a gorgeous strong bright teal colour. Then using the dual-speed heat gun on setting two, heat set the powder. This masked stencil also allows you to add onto the stem to the flower. As the stem is much thinner, use a sponge dauber by pressing the dauber into the pad and the sponger ink over the stem. This was covered with Metallic Platinum powder and heat set.
To create the background, smoosh ink onto a non-porous surface and sprtiz with water. The ink used here were Juniper Mist and All that Jazz from Catherine Pooler Designs. Next, take the card and smoosh it into the ink
Silhouette heat embossing with simple stamping
For the second technique, we are using simple stamping to create the silhouette. When using stamps for silhouettes, you need to look for solid images and the Altenew Leaf Cluster stamp set is great for this.
Position of the leaves over a white card panel and close the door of the Misti to pick up the stamps. Stamp the images ink a dark in – using Juniper Mist again. And once you have good coverage, you need to leave the stamps and card panel in the same position.
Cover this with clear gloss embossing powder, and heat set it with your dual speed heat gun. This will give you a love glossy finish but the colour of the ink will shine through as it is a clear powder.
Silhouette heat embossing with double stamping
For the last technique, we’re using double stamping for the silhouette heat embossing. When you wish to do this technique you need to look for stamps where the outline of the photopolymer mimics that of the stamped imaged. Some stamps will not have the same shape as the actual stamped image.
Using the flower from the Mama Elephant Pretty Lovely stamp set, position this with the normal stamp side of the stamp facing upwards, so positioning it the wrong side down on the cardstock. Next, close the Misti door to pick up the stamp then cover the back of the stamp which is now accessible with clear ultra slow drying embossing ink.
When you close the Misti to stamp, the ink from the back of the stamp transfers to the paper. This was then covered with Oceanic embossing powder, a gorgeous dark blue teal and heat set. As you can see, we now have a silhouette of the flower heat embossed, and not the lines of the flower stamp.
However, it looks a little plain here and may not be obvious what it is meant to be. So there is a way to add the stamping over the top – as we stamp the back of the stamp we need to stamp the mirror image of the flower. Position the card back into the Misti and position the stamp back over the heat embossing so the back of the stamp is lying onto the heat embossing.
For the next step you need a solid block stamp – My Favourite Things have a mirror image stamp block that is great for this. Position the mirror image stamp over the silhouette and close the door so this Misti picks this stamp up. Now apply ink to the flower but to prevent getting extra ink on the card panel, do this off to one side. You need to apply the ink to the lined side of the stamp, the right side of the stamp.
With the ink applied, put the stamp back over the silhouette as you did previously with the back of the stamp facing downwards and close the door. The ink from the flower stamp will now transfer onto the mirror image stamp. Open up the Misti again to remove the flower stamp and close the door again to transfer the ink from the mirror image stamp to on top of the heat embossing.
This was covered in Metallic Platinum and then heat set and as you can see the line image of the flower now sits perfectly in the silhouette and shines beautifully.
Finishin the cards
For the stencil card, I mentioned I die cut a circle from the background and wanted to add a circle frame over the top. To step the frame up, I smooshed ink onto the circle and covered this with metallic platinum sparkle which has glitter in it.
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Silhouette heat embossing
Supplies
Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you at these shops: Altenew (ALT), Scrapbook.com (SB), Craft Stash UK/US (CS UK/US), Create & Craft (C&C), and Picket Fence Studios (PF).
All other shops are not affiliated links: Bumbleberry Papercrafts (BP) and WOW! UK/US (WOW UK/US)
 Sentiment Strips – Altenew Shop at: ALT | BP | SB |  Leaf clusters – Altenew Shop at: ALT | BP | SB |  Exotic Tulip Mask Stencil – Altenew Shop at: ALT | BP | SB |
 All That Jazz – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB |  All That Jazz Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB |  Juniper Mist Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB |
 Juniper Mist Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB |  Black Jack Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: SB |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing pad Shop at: CS | WOW UK | WOW US |
 Opaque Bright White -WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS | WOW UK | WOW US |  Oceanic – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: WOW UK | WOW US |  Clear Gloss – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS | WOW UK | WOW US |
 Clear Gloss (large Jar) – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: WOW UK | WOW US |  Oasis – WOW! Shop at: WOW UK | WOW US |  Nuvo Caribbean Ocean Crystal Drops Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |
 Duck Egg Nuvo Crystal Drops – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |  Midnight Blue Nuvo Crystal Drops – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |  Blue Babe Nuvo Crystal Drops – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |
 Double Denim Nuvo Cyrstal Drops – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Cardstock Shop at: BP | SB | Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb Cardstock Shop at: BP |
 Original MISTI – My Sweet Petunia Shop at: ALT | BP | SB |  Gina K Designs – Connect Glue Shop at: BP |  Scrapbook Adhesives 3D foam squares 1/4″ white Shop at: BP | SB |
 WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version) Shop at: CS | WOW UK | WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version) Shop at: WOW US |  Mini Ink Blending Tool – Ranger Tim Holtz Shop at: BP | SB | CS | CS US |
 Mini Ink Blending foam replacements – Ranger Tim Holtz Shop at: BP | SB | CS | CS US |  Teflon Bone Folder – Lawn Fawn Shop at: BP |  Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |
 Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |  QuickStik – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS | CS US |
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This post was produced as part of my design team work for WOW! Embossing Powder have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from WOW! Embossing Powder 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.
