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Embossing With Ink - Tips and Tricks (And a Sale Too)

Embossing, you can "emboss" two different ways - a dry emboss is with stencils and a stylus to have the image be more raised on the paper, and a wet emboss is with a special ink pad and powder to heat your stamped images to be a raised look.   Embossing this way 'simply put', helps your image to "pop" off the page and be more detailed.  The first step to embossing - you will need a few supplies on hand.  Keep in mind, I have had the same heat gun for at least 20 years now...so this purchase is very economical - and can be used for many different things (such as taking stickers off vehicles) LOL!!!!  You will go through more ink pads than you will heat guns - that is for sure!   Items you will need to add to your basic toolbox kit -  Heat tool - allows you to heat and emboss the stamped image Ink pad - needs to be a special type of pad, or Pigment ink at least Embossing powder - powder that when heated, is raised and hard on your page/proj...