Embossing tutorial #1--versamark and EP

I hope everyone had a great weekend. My weekend started on Friday with a fantastic workshop for a fun group of gals! While I was there many of them expressed confusion over which great SU products they should use to make their projects sparkle. So I thought I'd post some tutorials here for them and anyone else who needs a quick reference of what glitter, ep or adhesive to use for those WOW results.

I thought I'd start at the beginning with basic embossing then build up to the glitter!

This first image is a stamp, in the case from the set embrace life, inked in versamark and stamped onto groovy guava cardtock.

I then covered the image with gold embossing powder. I did so in my powder pal so I did not get the EP everywhere. This can also be done with white, black, silver, clear or iridescent ice EP all listed on p. 187 of the spring~summer collection.

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After covering the image, I tapped off the excess powder and used the brush provided with the powder pals to brush it back into my container. After doing so, my flower looked like this ----------->

I then used my heat gun to heat the powder. You are able to see the powder turn from a powder form into being more glossy while heating. When this occurs, move heat gun to another section of the image until complete.

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The next picture will show the completed card as soon as nap time comes around!!

Thanks for stoppin' by!