The latest technique Carol introduced was the Frosted Embossing. Check her blog as she was more successful with this technique than I was.
I did mine on dark green cardstock and one on black cardstock, both were matte.
As directed I embossed the image with clear embossing ink and clear embossing powder and brushed on Perfect Pearls while still hot. On the dragonfly I used forever purple and gold. On the medallion one I used Kiwi. I think these were a bit of a failure, but feel we should share the good and the bad in our art.
I also tried this on white cardstock but it did not work.
To me this does not look much different than if I had stamped the image then embossed it with Pearl Embossing powders such as the ones sold by Stampendous
My thoughts on this:
Now, this is only my opinion; you might try it and have more success than I did and love it. To each his own!
I did mine on dark green cardstock and one on black cardstock, both were matte.
As directed I embossed the image with clear embossing ink and clear embossing powder and brushed on Perfect Pearls while still hot. On the dragonfly I used forever purple and gold. On the medallion one I used Kiwi. I think these were a bit of a failure, but feel we should share the good and the bad in our art.
I also tried this on white cardstock but it did not work.
To me this does not look much different than if I had stamped the image then embossed it with Pearl Embossing powders such as the ones sold by Stampendous
My thoughts on this:
- I don't think it would be a technique I would use a lot.
- You should use a bold stamp with some detail
- It would be a hard technique to use with a large stamp, as the embossing powder does not stay hot long enough, and if you heat it too much then it embeds the ep into the paper.
- If using dark card stock I would recommend a very bright/light colour of Perfect Pearls or perhaps an iridescent one.
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing... even when we try something and we feel it doesn't work it is helpful.
Chrissy Bornfleth
Love that you discuss the process in so much detail, wonderful. I do like the medallion. I think this is a very subtle technique. I think the eps out now are more fine than in the past. I think this technique would show up on chunkier eps. I'm tempted to give this a try with a single layer or UTEE.
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