 Hello everyone, welcome to my channel. It's Eva from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming with requested video and it will be all about embossing folders. Embossing folders are amazing tool for crafters. They can allow us to add beautiful textured images and patterns to our background. And today I'm gonna show you few tricks and tips where you can do and also put here some basics about embossing folders and machine you can use for that. I hope you will enjoy this video and I hope you will find some amazing tips how you can use it. Embossing folders comes in variety of sizes and also with so many different images, patterns, textures, they can be very small like this one, they can be tall like this. The most common size is probably A5 size and you can find there so many beautiful backgrounds or images in your embossing folder. They are also in the larger size and then these are basic file folders, embossing folders and you can also find 3D embossing folders which makes such a beautiful. Embossing effect depends of thickness like this one. It's kind of like base embossing folder, but it depends of thickness. You will need to use different plates in your embossing machine about embossing machine. I'm gonna talk a little bit later. I'm just gonna show you also another type of embossing folders. That's these. These can cut and emboss at the same time. They are wonderful. You will get in the end from your card strips like this, as you can see on the picture. Here from this one you will get, I just lost it, you will get wings like this, look at them. Really beautiful embossed effect and it's cutting exactly the image you can see here. So embossed and cut at the same time. And sometimes you can even find collections. I do have here one of the old collections from Sizzix. You will find in this collection 4 embossing folders in different sizes, but they do have something together. They do have same theme on that embossed effect. Or you can find collection of the embossing folder together with some dies, which can create beautiful art, putting all together. This is from Tim Holtz and it's about 4 of July. So these can go together. You can create beautiful card with that theme. Or you can find embossing folder like this where you have additional die, which can cut the embossed effect. So as I do have here, this is also from Sizzix. This amazing tool can help you to change ordinary card stock like here to some beautiful art and you can add there many colors and decorations. It can help you to also change acetate pieces in amazing art. You can use the same folder to create different results like here. Here I used same folder on once on acetate and I created this beautiful effect on acetate. Here I use it on a card and I do have beautiful frame after embossing the pattern. I just used my scissors and I fast cut out the pattern itself and it looks amazing. Some of the embossing folders, they can be used either way. It depends which side of the pattern which will be embossed. You like more, you can use it. It doesn't work with embossing folders which has some writing like this one. This embossing folder from that collection I showed you has letters here and if you will have it opposite way, you will have reversed those letters. So it doesn't work on all embossing folders but most embossing folders you can use either way. Even this one is beautiful and if I will spend the time and color it, it will be amazing. But I choose this side where the flowers are raised up here and I choose to create this as my main card. You can also use those embossing folders not just on paper, also for acetate or for fabric. Here you can see I use it also for leather and I use it also for leather here. You will see that in that video. So you can really go wild with your imagination. Just remember some of the materials have to be treated before embossing. I will talk about it in the video. You can also use ordinary things like a trash like this toilet paper roll in some beautiful art. Here I used empty kitchen roll and I created this amazing pocket. And here in this Christmas journal I did use toilet paper rolls and I do have video for that. And I did use my embossing folders and I have created these gorgeous embossed pieces, these gorgeous embossed frames using toilet paper roll and my embossing folders. And once you do have your card embossed and coated with some colors and embellished with some little embellishments you can use it as decoration on your notepads. Here I do have small file folder with embossed frame on the top and here I do have just ordinary notepad and I used on the top my embossed card and embossed acetate piece. It's just like little decoration. So in the video I will show you a few tips what you can do. For making embossing effect on the material you will choose you need some machine. This is Sizzix Big Shot Plus and it's in a larger size. I never used anything else than Sizzix Big Shot before I had a little bit smaller one but then they released this large one and I bought that and since I've got this machine I'm not using anything else I never tried anything else because this machine can do everything I need and I'm very happy with that. You can find many different sizes from many different companies go to have a look. Some of them are machines you have to handle with your hands and some of them are electrical. You will just push the button and it will do everything itself. It's a little round plate through the machine. This machine comes with two basic adapters one this pink one it's for embossing and the other one supposed to have greenery picture like this and it's for die cutting. Mine is a really loved machine so I use it really hardly but it still works and then it comes with these kind of like clear plates even mine are very used so they are not clear anymore and with the embossing folder of your choice you will also adapt the thickness of your layers and I'm gonna show you what that means. You have here these three embossing folders these two are based embossing folders 2D if you will this is 3D embossing folder even these are base embossing folders this one it's pretty thin and this because it's double-sided embossing folders so you can emboss either way here this pattern or here this pattern it's from a little bit thicker material and I will need to adjust the thickness of my plates and this one that 3D one it's the most thicker embossing folder so I will need to adjust those plates even more. I do have here normal paper very light paper three because I do have three embossing folders I do have here three tags which are made from 160 maybe 200 gsm paper and I do have here folded fluttered three toilet paper rolls which are really thick on this I'm gonna show you also how to adjust the embossing and in the end I will also show you some tips and tricks we're gonna start with this light paper and I'm gonna start with this base embossing folder just place your material you can use paper that's a tape piece you can use baking paper which does make a really beautiful effect and because this is really thin I can use embossing adapter I can use plate this clear plate as a base place my embossing folder and place another plate clear plate on the top and now I can run the embossing folder through and because I can feel the pressure I know it will be embossed and here we are look at that beauty it's really gorgeous it's immediately makes this paper very beautiful like piece of art if I will want to use this I'm gonna place my tag into my embossing folder and it's a little bit thicker material but I do believe I can still run it through here it will need a little bit more work from my side but I can still run it through and in the end we do have a really beautiful tag and if I will want to use the same file folder embossing folder on this thick toilet paper roll I forgot toilet paper roll I think here I will need to take off that pink I'm not sure but we will see and here you will feel really big pressure do not ruin your machine if you will feel big pressure it's better if you will take off that thinness adapter leave these two clear plates and try it again and it's much much better I can feel that it's pressing that embossing folder so there will be embossed effect and I didn't ruin my machine and we do have this beauty same it will be with this embossing folder I'm gonna put back that adapter for embossing and I do believe if I will place there this thin paper I think I am able to run it through oh no see here because it's from thicker material I forgot I didn't use it for a long time so because it's from thicker material the embossing folder I need to immediately take off that pink adapter and now I can run it through and I do have beautifully embossed this piece of paper with the tuck it will be hopefully same we will try yeah I can feel like bigger pressure I'm not gonna do that I'm gonna adapt my plates so I do have that pink one and it didn't get the pressure I needed so I'm always having these old envelopes on the side just in case I will need something to reinforce the pressure but what will give me a little bit of thickness but less than it's this second clear plate and now I can try we do have embossed tuck and I do believe with this thick toilet paper roll I will have to do exactly same I will need to place the adapter down maybe a few of these and I will try if the thickness will be enough or if it will be too much, too small and we do have nicely embossed toilet paper roll which can be used for making pockets envelopes, frames with the 3D embossing folders from Tim Holtz from Sizzix I'm always using just the base this thick base and one of these clear plates that showed me always that it's just exactly what the embossing folder needs and that I'm not gonna ruin my embossing machine and here how it looks like on thin paper tuck and toilet paper roll beautiful embossed effect you can always emboss just a part of paper here I'm gonna be using leftover from envelope I used in my journals and let's say I would like to emboss just the corner kinda like make distressed embossing I'm gonna be using some nice pattern for that like this Sizzix embossing folder it does have beautiful pattern so I'm gonna place my envelope in my embossing folder I'm gonna place here embossing adapter because envelope it's from thin material I know I can use that embossing adapter and I can use both of these clear plates I'm gonna put my embossing folder this way which means when it goes to my embossing machine it goes from here and depends where I stop or when I will stop to run through it will stop embossing effect so I'm gonna run a little bit but here I'm gonna stop and I'm gonna run back and I should have embossed this part you will see look at that so you can do just part of your image of your paper, of your fabric just do a piece and then let it be plain and I do believe if you will use some stamps and stencils and some embellishments you will create amazing art you can add colors into your embossing creation and there is few different ways how to do it first you can distress or color the paper, the fabric you have and then emboss it I do have here already that embossed effect but I'm gonna continue I'm gonna be using some distress ink and distress that rest I do have here this beautiful frosty jade distress ink from Spectrum Noir and I'm gonna use it on all this it's a very soft color and once you start to distress the parts where there is already embossing effect it will catch the most of that ink I had to swap my tool just because this color it's very fine very kind of like soft so it was kind of invisible with brush I do have distress with this one I do have here this beautiful embossing folder from Tetra Place from Tetra Place with Happy Holiday sign this is that debossed side of my embossing folder which I will see kind of like this what I will see on the top later I'm gonna be using some darker color here what color? it's green darker green I would say you have here this one green top maybe that could be the thing and I'm gonna add this darker green into this debossed side of my embossing folder place my embossing folder around the envelope nice and this way and I run it through to my embossing machine and we do have embossed I didn't apply the ink here too much but I do have beautifully embossed Happy Holidays with the darker green around with the lighter green inside because this was already distressed so that color it shows here a little bit it's not white like this one it's a little bit green and it does make beautiful effect there is also other way how you can apply the ink into your embossing folder you can open that embossing folder this is what I will see after embossing on the top so this side I wanna make colorful I'm gonna take same inks I'm gonna take brayer and with the brayer I'm gonna apply a little bit of that ink I will try to do nice coat of that ink probably this one will be not that much visible as it's really soft I will see and now that other one now place my envelope here and I'm gonna run it through to my machine and we do have that soft color on the top with that going to the darker color here on the bottom and as you can see it did embossed also the acetate piece which is in this CD cover so I do have a little bit of that embossing on that cover as well you can also use different types of colors to make your embossing effect in the end more bright and more colorful and interesting I'm gonna show you how easy it is to apply colors for base coloring I do have here 3D embossing folder and normal embossing folder 2D and I'm gonna use Distress Ink to show you how easy it is to make colorful embossing effect and this is actually embossing folder you can use both ways and I'm gonna show you that I'm gonna add the color to both sides and I'm gonna be using just white tag and show you how it looks like from both sides and we do have embossed stars or debossed stars here and here we do have embossed stars with the full color in the background here we do have color inside in those stars same technique you can use on that 3D embossing folder here I do have green color and as this is 3D there will be just part of that pattern color it with that ink some of the embossed pattern will be without ink at all but it will be embossed so here you can see we do have color just here and there on some places that was from the side where I can feel every single leaf on this and from the side where the pattern is pushed inside in that plastic it looks like this so these are embossing folders you can use either way just choose the side you will like the more you can add to this embossing also another color don't forget always clean your embossing folders as you can see here on my 3D embossing folder it also depends on what kind of color you would like to use I tried to use here waxes and the waxes got stuck in my embossing folder so my embossing folder is colored forever but this was distressed ink you just need to wipe it off as I said you can add even more colors into your already colorful embossing I'm gonna be distressing the edges with a seal brown color from same company from Spectrum Noir and I'm gonna just add the shades into edges but then I can also use pencils and maybe markers watercolors add there even more colors I can always add even more of this brown ink just by grab the full ink pad and just slide it over it and it will take those higher places which are embossed and it will color only those higher places same it will be here just very light hand just slide it over it and if you would like to have a little bit different colors just grab your pencils or maybe watercolors here I do have watercolor pencils so I can start to add there even more colors and I'm gonna start here I do have here this beautiful lilac color and to add that watercolor effect to your inside and I'm just gonna add a little bit of water into my drawing and let it sit for the stars I'm gonna be using this beautiful wax from Prima Marketing this is Vintage Silk I did receive this wax long long time ago from my amazing friend Evie thank you so much Evie these waxes are awesome they still smell so beautifully and they are amazing I have them for many years actually so don't be afraid to buy something like this because that can go really long long way and I'm using these waxes not every single time when I'm crafting but quite often I have to say and they still work like a magic so just very light hand go over the pattern and add a little bit of shine and I hope you will be able to see that beautiful shine those stars got from that wax and I have added a little bit of wax into this that opposite side of that embossing effect here where I used those watercolors and I did used again Prima Marketing wax this is called Lucky Emerald look at that, nice name and beautiful color and you will add beautiful shine into your embossing effect really beautiful embossing effect you can get if you will use cardstock which has two colors like maybe this one I'm gonna get up that black one straight away because that will be most visible it has black color from one side to the other side and if I will try to emboss this I will get beautiful card and now I can try to use sanding block on this one sanding paper or any sanding tool even nail file will help you to get rid of the black color from the embossed pieces you just need to be very careful do not sand too much that can destroy your card but if you will go very slightly you can finish with really beautiful embossed card which does have this kind of like vintage effect on it another really cool effect you can do with your embossing folders here I'm gonna take one which you can't use in reverse just because it does have writing and it always have to be the right way well you can do you can use it the opposite way but you will have the writing in reverse so here I'm gonna be using the black cardstock I'm gonna cut the piece I need now on the other side which I would like to see which is this one where the writing is the right way I'm gonna be using embossing ink and I'm gonna apply my embossing ink to this side I'm gonna add there my cardstock run it through to my machine right now it's not much visible the embossed effect is slightly lighter color and it's just because the debossed is covered with my ink and I'm gonna be using here a clear embossing powder I'm just gonna slide it in cover everything where the embossing ink is and now I'm gonna use my heating tool and now I do have embossed everything around in the background just with embossing powder and embossed with embossing folder the image itself you can always use different type of embossing powder and make it in different colors here I just wanted to show you how it looks like with clear embossing powder you can also stamp into your embossing folder before you will do embossing effect on your cardstock always choose for stamping the side which you will actually see in the end of your card which for me it's this one where the images are debossed inside they are pushed inside into this plastic and I can see all these holes this side has all these images raised up so I'm gonna be stamping here and my stamping will be between these embossed images for this technique it's better to use some non-writing which means no letters no numbers image I'm gonna be choosing this beautiful background from VivaDecor this brick because I think it will go nicely together with with the florals with all that floral stuff and for stamping I'm gonna be using black ink I guess and maybe you will don't see it straight away your stamping you just need to just into that process transfer the image into embossing folder and go stamp again next to that first one if you would like to cover full of your embossing folder I'm gonna take another tag place it here and we will see and I do have those bricks just between my flowers first what I will do I'm gonna grab a brush and seal brown because I am in that vintage style more than in the clear style and I'm gonna distress all that tag with the brown color just to rise up a little bit those flowers and add also a little bit of that brown to that background and of course I can use my watercolor pencils and add a little bit of color to those flowers if I will want so here is how it looks like now when I do have distress those embossed flowers and here if you will add just a little bit of color I use my watercolor pencils and my water brush to do so it's very easy and very enjoyable easy craft I do have bricks in the background maybe I should add a little bit more ink to my bricks but I'm very happy with this result I do have stamping between embossing so this is another way how you can use your embossing folders you can also emboss fabric or leather if you want embossed fabric or leather you need to prepare these materials for embossing effect to make sure that embossed effect will stay on on these materials they are pretty much soft I do have here same piece of fabric I do have here embossed already if I will try to run this one with my embossing folder through the embossing machine in the end I will have there a little bit I may will show you the difference I'm gonna add piece of fabric into my embossing folder run it through and we do have some embossing but in the time this embossing will fade it will don't hold the shape it will get flatter here I do have same fabric like this one I just treated that fabric with the glue place your fabric on some non sticky paper use PVA glue spread the glue into that fabric I think I added too much you don't need that much just nice amount not too thick it's not necessary you just need to add a little bit of that glue and wipe it on your fabric here I do have really too much I was very generous here so wipe the glue onto your fabric place it on the side and let it dry and once it's dried it will be much more thicker and stronger then place it to your embossing folder and run it through to your machine look at this and here is the one I made few minutes ago and it's already fading so this is the difference on embossing fabric which is pre-treated with the glue and this is normal fabric you do have there a little of embossing but this is much much better so that way you can emboss fabric and here I do have also a piece of leather and I did embossed leather many times depends on the thickness of the leather this is from old suitcase it was already treated with the glue once it was applied on that suitcase so it does have nice thickness I can feel it I can also saw here and there but it was also treated on the top with all kind of waxes so this leather will hold embossing nicely and also it's not too thick so I know I can run it through to my embossing machine without any issues if it will be thicker I will have to adjust those plates and it maybe will don't hold for long time my embossing I do have a result so that way you can also embossed your fabric and leather these were just few tips and tricks what you can do with your embossing folders from the base embossing just plain embossing effect which can make amazing art already now to colorful or more colorful little art pieces you can always add some labels and mini tags you can always add to your embossing some embellishments to make it your way to make it beautiful the way you want it's always about how you feel embossing folders are awesome tools which I really like because they help me to change those ordinary things into some art, this is from toilet paper roll actually I just love it I really love embossing folders, they are awesome tool I hope you found some inspiration maybe some trick tricks and tips what you can do here is piece of leather I think I did show it in the start which I changed into this embossed leather which I changed into a little mini note pad and here I actually embossed leather first then I embossed brown cardstock and I glued these two together after they were embossed so I do have embossing effect from both sides and it looks amazing, I just love it and on that leather I did use those waxes and I love that embossing effect so this is my sharing for today it's two days before New Year and I wish you all beautiful time I hope 2023 was kind to you and you were a good time and I really wish the year 2024 will be amazing will make you happy will make you maybe fall in love make you take adventures just enjoy every single minute because we never know how long time we will be on the earth try to get stressed as much less as it possible it's hard time sometimes and just enjoy your life be kind to yourself and I hope we will see each other in the 2024 if you like this video, if you find it helpful please give it thumbs up I need to bring more people to see what I'm doing here thank you so much for that have a wonderful time enjoy yourself and I will see you soon