{Embossing Debossing}

So, I have been want­ing to buy the new Zing Emboss­ing pow­ders for­ever, and I finally caved in and bought a whole set of them! I have been hav­ing lots of fun play­ing with them

I made this really really quick card last morn­ing. We have had a few rough nights here with both the girls run­ning fevers. So when I real­ized I was the only one up in the morn­ing at 8am, I decided I needed some color therapy.

This is a mini card– about 3.5 by 3 inches in size.

I am not a huge stam­per, so I am look­ing for ways to use my emboss­ing pow­ders with­out stamps per se. I first added my title with some old alpha­bet stick­ers directly onto the card.

I then pressed the whole card onto the ink pad, and pressed it really good. I found out it is eas­ier to press the card into the ink pad, rather than press the ink pad into the card. Oth­er­wise you end up ink­ing the waste paper beneath the card a lot, and that is a waste of  good ink…

I used three sheets of paper to cover my work sur­face and to catch the extra emboss­ing pow­ders. I then started at one cor­ner and added a lit­tle bit of the Grape­fruit color. Shook the excess pow­der and moved to the next color– Rose. The ink dries slowly, so you have enough time to do a bunch of col­ors here…

This is how the card looked after all the col­ors have been added– I used Grape­fruit, Rose and But­ter on a kraft card­stock here…

Next I care­fully removed the alpha­bet stick­ers, and used a heat gun to melt the emboss­ing pow­ders… That instant when the dry emboss­ing pow­ders go molten– that is the best part of this card

It also was the moment that the lit­tle one chose to wake up. Good tim­ing or what?

Throw­ing my hat in here for the Make Your Own Back­ground Paper Chal­lenge in the Moxie Fab World. I think it looks like a new back­ground don’t you?

What have you guys been using your emboss­ing pow­ders for? Let me know in the com­ments sec­tion and I will reply there!