Dry Embossing Tutorial
Stamped Dry Embossing
By Vicki Parson
For FireCracker Designs by Pamela
These are the tools that you will need to start the first portion of this technique:
- an open image stamp (Scattered Joy used here)
- Vellum (preferably card stock vellum. It’s thicker)
- VersaMark, embossing powder (any color/black used here), heat gun
You will start by heat embossing your open image onto the vellum card stock.
These are the tools you will need for the section portion:
1. heat embossed vellum with image
2. mouse pad (or something similar)
3. embosser tool & dryer sheet for smooth rolling action
TURN OVER your heat embossed image and rub the dryer sheet over it.
With the back side of the image ON the mouse pad, begin to dry emboss the open areas.
(optional)- you can turn the dry embossed image over and add some color with chalks
Here is what my finished sample looks like with the big flower embossed and a couple of small flowers with the same technique. You would attach the vellum to your card stock layers with glue dots. You can add the glue dots underneath the images and you will not be able to see them through the vellum. This technique really makes your stamps come to life with dimension and elegance!
Here is a close-up view of the dimension.
I hope you learned a lot from Vicki’s wonderful tutorial, and will try this technique out!
TFTI
Pamela
Cool idea, I’ll have to try that with the dryer sheet bit.
Great tut, Vicki! Love that big flower! It’s perfect for dry embossing! :o)
Very cool! Gotta try it - and isn’t that stamp set AWESOME?!!
this looks amazing!! Will have to try it out, thanks for sharing
ok I have tried several different vellums for this but all of them just break when I do the dry embossing. What am I missing? It looks very good but I get a lot of cracks.
lol,embossing stamping is a difficult work.