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Another Heat Embossing Idea

August 3, 2019 Leave a Comment

Yesterday I showed you a card made using the Inspiring Iris Stamp Set my daughter bought me for my birthday. Today I have a project using another birthday gift, the Fanciful Fragrance Stamp Set. I love the vintage feel of the images in this set and was particularly attracted to the flowers. I thought they would make a nice focal point for a bookmark. After I’d finished stamping I decided it needed a little gold heat embossing too, and that was when I had an novel idea.

Sepia flower bookmark with gold heat embossed edge created using the Fanciful Fragrance and All Wired Up Stamp Sets from Stampin' Up! #papercraftwithme

FIRST THE STAMPING

I began with a 2″ x 5-1/2″ strip of Thick Very Vanilla Card that I’d punched at the top using the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch.

At the bottom of the bookmark I used Soft Suede ink to stamp the floral image from the Fanciful Fragrance Stamp Set. Then I used a Blender Pen to add a little Sahara Sand ink from the inside of my stamp pad to colour it a little.

Next I stamped the floral image onto a Full-Adhesive Post-It® Note. I stacked it onto a second one before sticking them onto some scrap card. Using Paper Snips I then cut out the floral image (ignoring the stems) so I had one set of masks to use now, and one for another time.

Mask of a stamped image then stamp the background so it appears to be behind the first image.

I placed one set of of the masks onto my bookmark to cover the coloured image. Then I used Crumb Cake ink to stamp the All Wired Up background stamp onto the bookmark. When I removed the masks the flowers now appeared to be in front of the chicken wire image.

A HEAT EMBOSSING EXPERIMENT

It was at this point I decided to add some gold accents, initially just with the ribbon I had chosen. But then I had a thought. I wonder what would happen if I dragged my VersaMark ink pad over the edges of the card and then added heat embossing?

First though I wiped the whole bookmark with an Embossing Buddy to remove any oils and static. Then I held the bookmark and dragged the VersaMark ink pad around all the card edges as if I was sponging them. Next I sprinkled the sticky ink with Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder and tapped off the excess. Finally I melted the remaining powder using my Heat Tool set on 2 (high).

Close up of sepia flower bookmark with gold heat embossed edge created using the Fanciful Fragrance and All Wired Up Stamp Sets from Stampin' Up! #papercraftwithme

I really liked the effect. It was fairly subtle, but had a randomness about it which seemed to fit with the whole ‘vintage’ vibe.

With that done all I had to do was thread the Gold 3/8″ Metallic-Edge ribbon through the slot at the top and secure it in place with Mini Glue Dots.

If you don’t have Mini Glue Dots to hand, here’s a short video I created showing a number of different ways to attach ribbon and twine to bookmarks and gift tags.

All-in-all I’m very pleased with how my first project using the Fanciful Fragrance Stamp Set turned out. I also think I might just add heat embossing to the edges of more card layers. I’ve no idea why I hadn’t thought of it before.

Do you do anything a little ‘different’ with your heat embossing? I’d love to know.

You’ll find another one of my heat embossing experiments, this time using Saran Wrap (cling film) on a gift tag in my blog post Super Saran Wrap Technique.

PRODUCT LIST

Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock
Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock
Gold 3/8" (1 Cm) Metallic-Edge Ribbon
Gold 3/8" (1 Cm) Metallic-Edge Ribbon
Fanciful Fragrance Cling Stamp Set
Fanciful Fragrance Cling Stamp Set
All Wired Up Cling Stamp
All Wired Up Cling Stamp
Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad
Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad
Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad
Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad
Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad
Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad
Embossing Buddy
Embossing Buddy
Versamark Pad
Versamark Pad
Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder
Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder
Heat Tool (Us And Canada)
Heat Tool (Us And Canada)
Scalloped Tag Topper Punch
Scalloped Tag Topper Punch
Paper Snips
Paper Snips
Blender Pens
Blender Pens
Mini Glue Dots
Mini Glue Dots

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