Multi-Color Embossing Powder

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Hi! My name is Elizabeth, and on behalf of Expert Village, we’re continuing in our series of using embossing techniques in your card making. In this segment, I’m going to show you how we use a multi-colored embossing powder and the effects that it gives. Up until this point, we’ve used all solid colors that have just been white, pink, or black. In this one we’re going to use what we call a multi-color. It’s got some silver and some dark blue in there. What we’re going to do is ink up our stamp. It looks like our ink pad is running out, so at this point I’ll tell you. With your embossing pad, just like any inkpad, you can get a re-inker for it. What I’m going to do is just squeeze some of this embossing ink on the pad and just rub it in there to the pad as I squeeze it out. This saves you from having to buy a whole new pad, which can get costly if you do a lot of embossing. At this point, I’ll just ink up the stamp. That’s much better. Making sure that we’ve got all the edges inked, and then straight onto this black piece of cardstock, pressing firmly down, holding the cardstock, and raising it right up. I’m going to sprinkle this. This is going to be so pretty. Just sprinkling that on there. You can maybe see the silver powder and the dark purpley blue powder. I’m going to tap that off. I’m going to move this so it doesn’t blow. I’m going to heat our heat tool. I want you to watch as it melts to see how the colors appear. You can see with this one especially that the silver became the predominate color, but as I move it in the light, that indigo or dark blue or dark purple color just kind of shimmers out from beneath the silver. The fun thing about colored embossing powder is you can get them in a wide variety of colors. You can get bronzes mixed with silvers and it really adds a nice touch and unexpected bit of elegance to your project. So I highly recommend experimenting with multi-colored embossing powders. They’re very inexpensive; they can be found at your scrapbook or craft supply store. They’re a fun way to add a little extra touch, a little extra elegance to your cards and scrapbook creation.

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