It's Hump Day and always a good reason to start looking forward to the weekend, right?! Although I no longer work full time, I still enjoy that mid week success of making it this far and knowing there's only a couple days left haha!
If you are like me, one of the first techniques or tools that caught your eye in the papercrafting world is the embossing folder. Stampin'Up! has been selling these for years and it's no wonder, they are awesome. They are the quickest and easiest way to add some "POP" to a project and are practically fail-proof... practically!
We have several new embossing folders in the 2018-2019 Annual catalog and today I want to share some fun ways to stretch an embossing folder and take it out of the box, so to speak. It's the "Lovely Floral Dynamic Textures" embossing folder (#148048). It's a thicker one that gives different levels of embossing across the paper, an amazing feat! The most obvious way to use a folder is to put some paper in the "folder" and run it through the Big Shot. For my first example, I did that only I used Watercolor paper and then colored the embossed design with ink and my Aqua Painter.
The watercolor paper embossed really nicely and was fun to color. Here's a card with just straight up embossing, on our standard card stock.
It really doesn't matter what color card stock you use, the design always shows through and is a subtle background texture to any project.
For my next try, I thought I would ink up the raised side of the embossing folder, then insert the paper and run it through the Big Shot. As I was doing it, I had a feeling it wasn't working like I thought it would and I was right! What a mess! Ink everywhere. I almost threw it away, then decided to crop it and use it as a layer in a card!
I looks like some crazy modern art design, but really is just my embossing folder with way to much ink everywhere! I kind of liked it. In case you are curious, that is "Poppy Red" - a color we haven't seen for nearly 6 years! I had some old Poppy Red Designer Series paper stashed in my room and dug it out for this card!
For my last try, I inked up a background stamp, "Watercolor Wash", then stamped on the smooth side of the embossing folder with the background stamp. I then put my paper in and ran the folder through the Big Shot. I really like how this one turned out!
How about that! A simple embossing folder and four ways to use it, creating four very different looks! I'm always excited when I figure out expanded ways to use some of my products, getting more bang for my buck, so to speak.
There are lots of embossing folders in our catalog and I hope you'll check them out and see what ones you need to have. Of course, you also need a Big Shot so if you don't have one, make that your' next purchase goal!
Thanks for stopping by! It's always fun to share what I've been up to!
Happy Stampin'!
Sarah
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