Tuesday's Terrific Technique: Faux Metal

I love embossing, so the next few Tuesdays, I thought I take you through a few of my favorite embossing techniques. First up: Faux Metal.

Today you'll need:
A piece of card stock. Any color will do.
Versamark Ink
Silver, Gold, or other metallic colored embossing powder
A Heat Gun
A Scissors or Paper Punch
A Stamp

Cover a section of your paper with Versamark, then sprinkle with embossing powder. The area covered by embossing powder should be larger than your stamp, but does not need to cover the entire paper.

Heat the embossing powder until set.

Cover the embossed area with Versamark Ink again, and sprinkle with silver embossing powder again.

Heat powder until set.

Immediately, while the embossed area is still hot, press a stamp into the embossed area.

You should now have an image set into the embossed area. If your image doesn't turn out the way you want, you can just reheat the embossed area until it liquefies, and try again.

Punch or cut out your image.

You should now have a faux metal tag that looks something like this.

Now all you have to do is add your faux metal tag to a project!

I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial. Next week we'll try out another embossing technique.