Using a Heat Tool for Embossing

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Hi! My name is Elizabeth, and on behalf of Expert Village, we’re continuing on in our series of embossing in your card making. So here we have this piece that we have already cut. We have already inked our stamp in the embossing ink and put the embossing powder on. Something I didn’t do earlier is you want to be sure that you wash that embossing ink off of your stamp right away. Otherwise, it’s very difficult to come off, and you don’t want that sticking to your stamp. At this point we’re ready for the heat embossing. Here’s where you will take your heat tool. You want to turn it on, and you’re just going to hold it a few inches above the piece to be embossed, and keep going back and forth until you see that all embossing powder has melted. Sometimes helps to lift it up, move it around. You want to be sure not to hold the heat in one place too long, or else it will discolor or burn the paper. Making sure to get all around your image, checking for any areas that haven’t melted, and going back over them. Okay, turn your heat tool off. Here you just want to take a quick look making sure you’ve covered every area, that every area has melted. You want to be sure not to touch the embossing at this point. It is still hot; it is still wet, and if you touch it, it will stick to your finger and burn. At this point, this is what your heat embossed image looks like.

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