Having a Crafty Weekend – Heat Embossing

As per this post and this post, I am having a crafty long weekend.

After playing around with the Dahlia stencils, I just did a quick bit of heat embossing before dinner. There’s a reason for it but I’ll get back to that later.

Firstly I used the Pinstripe background stamp from Altenew and stamped it with Versamark and silver embossing powder on some Wild Wisteria cardstock by Gina K.  I use cornflour and a big makeup brush to dust the cardstock before stamping.  This helps prevent the embossing powder sticking to places that you don’t want it sticking.

Then since I had a bit of time, I die-cut some larger Altenew word dies from white cardstock, and then stamped them with Versamark and covered them with embossing powder.

This big Hello is the Mega Hello die that I bought last year and absolutely love.  The smaller words are from the Scripty Words 2 set.

I love embossing diecuts, especially alphabets, they just look so smart and cool.  I repeated the process twice more so that they had three layers of embossing powder on them making them thicker and more substantial, and very shiny.

I haven’t decided what I am going to use them for yet, perhaps I will put them together like this or perhaps not.

Then just before I stopped for dinner, I quickly did these pieces using the Sweetest Pea stamp set from Altenew – one in white and one in a pale lilac embossing powder.

This is a weekend of crafty playing with no real plan in mind, so I don’t have to make any decsions atm.