Do you love the look of dry embossing, but never have the time to dry emboss?? Help is here!! You can now dry emboss you brass stencils by using a Wizard or a Cuttlebug. I found that I did get a deeper dry emboss from my Wizard, as it exerts 3000 lbs of pressure. This is the second card I taught at Silver Fox Stamps and More. The stained glass Poinsettia Stamp is from Silver Fox also. I love the stained glass effect you can get with Copic Sketch Markers. After Coloring in the stamped image with the following Copic Colors : Y13,YR07,B28,G07,R29,R59. I used Y26 to color the bell. Next I cut the image out and inked the entire image with a Versamark Watermark pad and used clear embossing powder to heat emboss the entire image. This makes the Copic colors richer and deeper in coloring and gave me a beautiful stained glass effect.Next I cut a Black Kromekote mat for the stained glass image.
To create the background mat, I used a Dreamweaver stencil LJ882 Diamond Grid and dry embossed it in my Wizard. This technique is called faux tile. Thanks Theresa for teaching me this great technique!! You will see more cards using this technique next week.
Here is the Wizard Sandwich Recipe for Dry Embossing a Stencil:
White cutting mat, stencil, paper, Polymer tan mat, 2 thin pieces of chipboard and White Embossing mat. To get an even deeper dry emboss, spritz you paper with paper glide just before you run it through the Wizard.
Here is the Cuttlebug Sandwich Recipe for Dry Embossing a Stencil:
A plate, b Plate, stencil, paper, Polymer tan mat (from Spellbinders) 2 thin pieces of chipboard and your second B plate. Note: the Polymer Tan Mat is what makes the image dry emboss. To get an even deeper dry emboss, spritz you paper with paper glide just before you run it through your Cuttlebug.
Next I airbrushed the stencil with Y13 and Shaded the outside edges by airbrushing with Y17. Leave the stencil in place and ink with a Versamark Watermark pad. Remove the stencil and apply clear embossing powder and heat emboss. Next I used my Tonic Holly Corner Punch to Punch all four Corners of the mat and placed micro mini red brads in the holes made with the punch for berries. I added two balck Kromekote mats as shown in the photo. The ribbon from American Crafts was pure white and I airbrushed it with Y13 to tone down the ribbon so it wouldn't draw your eye to it first. I added Kaiser Crafts Rhinestone stickers to the ribbon and place the image on Kellie Green polished Stone Paper from Murdock Country Creations.
