 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. So I wanted to do a video that was that just had a focus on heating bossing. So as part of this series that I'm doing which is focusing on me using my stamps and different ways to use them as along with you know my embossing folders and stenciling and other bits and pieces I thought I want to just do a video that is just about heat embossing. Now heat embossing is what got me started on this journey as people call it within paper crafting it was something my mum showed me and I love it and I always say I wish I do it more but there's so many other wonderful things I enjoy as well. But it really makes me sad when I read on craft forums or people email me and say that they just can't do it they get really frustrated they've ruined their project and you really shouldn't feel like that it does come down to practice but honestly just by doing a couple of really really simple things you shouldn't have any problems at all. So for me I guess it's just getting those tools right and doing a few little tests beforehand I would say that's quite a good thing as well. So this is what I want you to be able to achieve beautiful cards very simple but really really stunning. So there's two kind of techniques and this is using the embossing powder to create this kind of metal look okay so that's by adding quite a few layers and then just getting a lovely kind of clean crisp image there's no little kind of bits anywhere else this paper actually has gold flakes kind of in it so that's what that is. I'm going to show you all the different kind of surfaces that I've embossed on and just how you get those results and I'll talk you through the product and how I find it's best to use. So these are some samples here and I will show actually the cards towards the end of this video. So first of all is using the acetate so this is embossed I'm using the same stamp by the way it's from this one here it's this sunflower stamp I thought just for you to get a real fair kind of idea of how it works on different surfaces I thought let's just stick with the same stamp. So here it is on that acetate so this is heat heat resist acetate so you don't get any warping it's nice and flat there and this is perfect for making window you know decorating your window sheets your aperture kind of parts to your shaker cards and things like that it looks brilliant so this is using a beautiful orange like a tangerine embossing powder again I will link everything I use below but that's on acetate wonderful results. Then one of my favorites is vellum something about embossing on vellum also die cutting it's beautiful for flower effects and having lots of layers and texture to your cards but it's also great for wrapping this around you know you can make lovely little kind of light lanterns you can have a little battery operated candle inside and then you get that kind of effect coming through so really lovely way to use the acetate but also looks great as a shaker card still and just on your cards you know as it is then black this is one that I see a lot of people get frustrated with because they say you know all little black bits and little bits of the white or whatever color you're using embossing powder kind of stick to other parts so again I'm going to show you tips on to how to get a really lovely crisp white image on black card stock then that's the same that's just using a creamy this is the seafoam one here that I've used but we'll talk through those in a moment this is on craft card gives a real kind of wedding shabby chic kind of look and then we've got some real fun ones here so this one is stamped onto holographic paper and it's a glitter embossing powder so there's loads of sparkle in the flower and then there's that real kind of cool psychedelic shine with the holographic card in the background so this is a you know a real shiny non-porous surface but you can still get fantastic results and you'll be able to see that along the way and then using mirrored card stock again here love that gold on gold just think it looks awesome and I've done it there in the rose gold I also caught it while it was still warm with my finger now okay I didn't burn myself luckily because it's plastic embossing powder is just finely finely ground plastic so when it's heat sets it forms its plastic form again so you don't really want to be getting this on your skin but I thought I'd leave it in just so you can see what happens and you know that this does happen as well so you do need to be careful don't touch it initially and then this one again is one of my favorites this is using a platinum colored embossing powder on a glittered non-shed background so this is a glitter background and I think that looks absolutely stunning can imagine that on a lovely anniversary card and yeah I'm really really pleased with the results so these are a couple of the cards that I've done just you know again kept that sunflower stamp throughout just so you can see this is a real nice green on green and this again is a pearlised card stock and then that was that one there that I showed you before okay so first of all I want to show you how you want to prep your card and this is what you will do whether you're using vellum acetate whatever surface it is you need to prepare it so I'm going to use also a couple of different weights here so I'm going to start off with just simple kind of card stock I am using a pearlized one so I've got a pearlized 120 paper more so and then this one here is a 240 card stock okay the reason I'm using two different weights because I want you to see about the warping because one thing I will say is that I had a pink embossing heat gun and I found that I got a lot of warping with that heat gun it wasn't until I started using this one here then this is a stamping up one and I found that although it has the same kind of power in terms of you know the the I guess how fast the heat comes out it doesn't it's not as intense but it still gets great results and I find that I don't get the warping that I used to get so obviously I know it's hard for people to be able to go out and you know change heat guns I'm not saying that but certainly look at your settings so it went on then I've got one and two on this but maybe if you've got something and you're always putting on a high power maybe think about dropping it down and then using it because I think you might see a difference with the warping kind of aspect to the card so just have a play around with that okay so we'll touch on that again a little bit more in the in a moment now you need to basically you want to remove any kind of static from your surface that you're using now the best way to use that is by using an anti static I've got this little what they call the anti static buddy and it's basically a little pillow filled with well it's going to be something like a cornflower something like that and people do make their own I've seen people have that got an old sock and they filled it with cornflower and they use that on their projects um so I've also seen people use dry sheets okay so you don't always have to go out and buy the the latest thing but what I would say is this one here I think I paid $2.99 and I had it probably now about three maybe even four years so they do last a very very long time so it's entirely up to you but you will need one of these now we will start with let's start with this one here so I just like to kind of dab it first so you get all of the kind of powder coming out you can see it all there and this will brush off and also you can apply a very very very damp almost dry cloth over your project at the end and it will just kind of I guess bring that vibrant color back out again that may have gone when you rubbed it with this so you want to cover your whole area okay I've cut all of mine to the width of five but the length is eight and a quarter I think it's just um the A4 length now I'm covering all of it there try not to uh creature paper and then I'm just going to bring in some poppy paper and what I would say first of all is test your sheet so I'm going to grab here I've got this paper mania silver embossing powder and I'm going to just tip it over the paper and then let it shake off and if any of it sticks then you know that there is an area that might have a bit of grease on it it might have some glue that maybe it caught on something in your craft room you you want to make sure you're rubbing that all off so although it's an anti-static it's not just about the static it's about removing grease and anything sticky you want your powder to be able to run freely from your paper and only stick to wherever it is that you would have applied your watermark okay so that is a good little kind of test first is just tip your embossing powder on and if it doesn't stick then you know your paper is ready okay so I'm just going to dump this all back into my pot okay so this is all now prepped and I've just got my stamp there and then you want a watermark pad okay so this is a watermark stamp pad by VersaMark this is the one I've pretty much always had but I do also have this one here which is the emboss embossing stamp pad and I've got my name on the back there you know there's lots of kind of different ones out there but also I've seen people use Vaseline basically what VersaMark is is it's going to be it's as a watermark so it will stamp whatever it is that you have onto your cardstock and then it will be a sticky area for your embossing powder to stick to embossing powder will melt even if you don't stick it but obviously as soon as you apply heat the embossing powder will blow away so the VersaMark is there to keep it in place for it to melt but if you were to wow I wouldn't do it in this plastic because the plastic will melt but if you were to tip that maybe onto that metal lid if I just tip that in there and kind of contained it it would melt so it doesn't need this to melt but you do need it obviously to stop it blowing away so I think sometimes people think that this is what this and this together it kind of you know works to melt it doesn't that will melt without this but this is what you need to create your lovely stamped images I hope that makes sense just like I said trying to cover everything so I'm just going to ink this up now you do want to make sure that your pad is nice and juicy you can get refills for these you will start to see a difference if they're not okay so I'm going to stamp this right in the center like so and then now I don't know how well this is picking up it will pick up better on the black one you can just about see it but when it catches on the light you can see there we go okay you can see my flower but now I'm just going to go over this and start covering the whole piece because like I said I do want to make cards out of all of these at the end and I'm just going to go over it now if you touch any areas what I sometimes do is I add some powder to my fingers or just rub my finger on that pouch okay that will also take any grease any natural oils that you have in your hand you don't want them going on the paper so now I can touch this paper and I'm not going to transfer you know like I said you might have hand cream on all those kind of things moisturizers they will attract this embossing powder and it's that that we we don't want we want it to just stick on this beautiful image so I'm going to just cover this whole kind of area here just as you would any other stamp just treat it just as you would stamping with a normal ink this time though you've got this obviously watermarked kind of finish so it can be a little bit tricky to see on lighter paper like this but you will see it much better on my other examples okay so I've covered that next is the fun stuff so I'm now going to dump this out because I've got my copy paper underneath I'm just going to dump the whole thing it might stick to a little bit where I've kind of overlapped my image but um that's okay and then I'm just going to carefully lift up a corner and then start to move it around so I can see though there's none in that corner so I can kind of use that to hold the card and just kind of roll it all over and I can already see that that has stuck to everywhere apart from the background it's stuck to all of the flowers now if you do see I I literally don't have any because you really if you really cover that and this is the thing I can't stress enough you really do douse this with the powder you shouldn't ever have any problems with heat embossing it's the warping that will be another thing which I'll talk about in a moment but just you know tap the back there just to make sure that there is nothing where it shouldn't be but I don't even need to but if like I said if you do want to get anything off very very small paintbrush even cuts maybe a bigger paintbrush that you don't really use just so you've got a few bristles and you can just go in and move any off and then just kind of gently blow on it okay you don't want any moisture from your kind of mouth coming out but just very carefully I mean I'm kind of making up because there isn't any to show you but that is now ready to heat set okay so before you get your heat gun going make sure you put your powders all away I have done before put my heat tool on and I've moved and my powder's just gone kind of gone everywhere you don't really want that to happen now I probably could put another one there but I just will work more with that bit when I go to do my card so I know with this one here that I can have it on two and it's fine for you know pretty much anything that I heat emboss but if you do have settings sometimes we forget that there is the set in there we just automatically put it on but do have a look and do check and do do play around because you may see quite a difference with your warping now I'm using a paper here so I'm going to put mine on one because this works very well on a heavier weight cardstock but I just want to kind of for myself have a look as well but also show you the difference in warping between this one and this one because this is more of a paper so what you want to do is turn on your heat tool and leave it obviously don't you know make sure it's not aimed at anything but just hold it up away from you for a good 30 seconds even 45 seconds you want it to be so warm and I think sometimes when we watch demos obviously they're doing it for TV and they've got the clock against them you might see them just going into it straight away and they're holding that heat on that card for such a long time and it's that unnecessary heat that will create more warping you literally want this to be so hot and ready that as soon as it touches that paper that embossing powder will melt and you're moving it straight on so if anything it's just touching the embossing powder and not really touching your cardstock or paper and that's great that's what we want because we don't want that warping okay but if the warping does happen I will tell tell you and show you some ways that you can help that anyway so I'm going to let this go on I'm going to turn the volume off and you'll be able to see what I do so while that's warm I'm just going to hold it but you don't want to put your hand on it instantly because you do this will dry almost instant but don't put your hand on it straight away because it might come off but just hold it down flat but now that is a paper that has just had an intense heat on it and the warping is minimal that is going to be very easy to add some double sided tape or wet glue and stick down to your project or wrap around something but the results are perfect okay so you will have noticed in that quick little because I would have you know didn't want you to listen to the sound of the the heat gun but as soon as it catches move the heat and keep it moving in a circular motion it's like I said if you were to just test and just hold that heat and just leave it on your cardstock moving it very slowly it will either start to go brown where it's going to catch and actually set a light or it's just going to warp terribly so but that there is almost lying flat and that's a paper so by applying that same technique onto a thicker cardstock you should almost have no warping and you can see that in my samples my samples are pretty flat and you know look at that thick beautiful glitter card there it's just got a slight arch on it so you know some cardstocks even come like that again with the rose gold there that's no that's pretty much no different to my cardstock and even down to the slightly thinner black one here I mean that's wow that's perfect so you know it's not going to have any problem sticking to anything and the vellum is just again really really good okay so I'm going to now on high speed I'm going to again I'm going to now prep this one exactly the same way really rubbing it over my surface put a bit on my fingers again and and get this all stamped up and then we're heat set that again exactly the same way just to give you a comparison okay this one here I'm using the wow opaque bright white super fine this is a beautiful embossing powder and again I'm going to go over this one I think the white's going to look beautiful against this turquoise color I am almost out so I will have to go a bit careful with this but you'd be surprised how long embossing powders last and how you know far they will go but look at that hold the wrong end there let's put a little bit on the end there again tap off all that excess okay so you can see here that's where I put my thumb you see I've got a little bit there just rub that off and again there that's where I've touched it with my finger but everywhere else all in here there are no white bits now when you're using something that's a bit darker so that was quite light really in terms of color you're not really going to notice if there's any extra specs but something like this that's got a bit more of a darker tone people like to heat set underneath now I don't I sometimes I think yeah do it another times I think not the reason why I'm more not against it but I don't do it is because you are applying so much heat to the cardstock before it even gets to the plastic to the embossing powder I prefer just letting my heat go and get really really hot and then just blasting it straight on top but there is that slight risk of it blowing off the odd little piece that then might land somewhere else and then set now what I would say if that happens what I tend to do is I use my little pin on the end of my pokey tool and I just carefully scratch it off that's if that happens but if you tap it enough and make sure you've got that excess all off you shouldn't have any flying around it should have already dropped off so yeah it's again anybody new to this just play around a lot first and kind of find what works for you I've been doing this a long time and this this is just it it always works so I'm just going over the same way I did before just being very careful not to touch the image but get off any loose pieces so again I'm just going to pop my powder away now I know some people they have a tub for all their kind of loose pieces and they have like a beautiful kind of embossing mix of just all kinds of stuff so you can you know do that as well okay so I'm now going to heat set this one exactly the same way again okay so there's that now done it's still warm I'm just kind of just push it down there make sure you don't go over the last piece you've kind of added the heat to but it's nice and cold over here but look it's it's pretty much flat it's very very very slight warping so you know there's your lightweight paper this is my thicker cardstock so you can see there you can definitely see more warping with the paper but because it's lighter it's still very easy to use so yes you can use you know any any surfaces that you want there so now you can see also there's a little bit of white that's gone there so I can just get this here and just very carefully just rub it off like so okay but that is a beautiful background now for a card it looks absolutely stunning okay so that's cardstock the cardstock I'm using as well is this card that was given to me from the paper box so they sent me these great swatches with all the names on everything and the weight so when I go to order the cardstock I can just flick through these which is brilliant I'll link their website below but I've got here that was the pearlescent paper so it's 125 oh sorry the purple year 120 was the purple pearl and then this is the beautiful cardstock here so actually they're slightly different oh this was 219 not 250 so even I did think actually it felt very very thick yeah turquoise pearl card was the one I used 290 gsm beautiful cardstock okay right let's do the acetate so I think there's going to be quite a few people interested to see that one so I've got my heat acetate here now I use the crafters companion heat resist acetate but I must admit I kind of got it mixed up with my normal acetate so what I would say if that happens is just get it with your heat gun and just blast the corner and if it you'll know if it's not because it just literally kind of just goes and just all melts and yeah it just turns almost to like liquid plastics so be careful but that's the easiest way to test it I do find as well that the heat resist acetate has a slightly I guess cloudy look to it it's not as clear it's the easiest way to to explain it there so this is a piece here it's going to be enough for me to make a shaker window out of that so exactly the same way oh that's a rub that on there you will apply your powder just as you would paper okay now I don't know whether this is going to cause any kind of abrasion it's very very soft powder so it shouldn't do but by all means you know if you are making your own then do check that because the last thing you want to do is scratch your plastic now I'm doing both sides on this because you will be surprised where this powder can go it can turn up everywhere so you don't want it sticking to the underside so I'm actually going to bring in a fresh piece of copy paper here as well and just go over that again okay for this one I am going to use a black embossing powder because I think it will show up really well mostly embossing powders I have are the well ones I've got a lot of these and I've also decanted some of them into this overflow one here and I should have a black fine black that's silver black embossing powder do you need to get some of these filled up that's a nice one as our black sparkle but go with a simple black so I think it'll look quite nice there's also the clear embossing powder which you can get great effects with so if you don't have you don't have to have all the colors of embossing powder if you just buy clear and use your colored inks it will look like you've got colored embossing powder so that's a good one but I'm not going to touch on that today but there's also the sticky embossing powder which is great for foiling as well but today is just about standard simple kind of embossing heat embossing okay so I'm going to ink this up the same way now because this is a shiny surface it's non-porous surface so literally whatever you put on it is just going to sit on the top rather than see pin you might find it easier to use a stamping platform but that might take a bit more time which is why I like to just use my clear block okay but what you will get with the stamping platform is it will push the the watermark onto the surface and there is no risk of it shifting whereas with this that you do have that risk but if I just show you what I do so that's all prepared and I'm just going to very carefully drop it down and let go and then just tap it just to make sure that it all kind of you know does print okay and then hold the acetate and then very carefully lift it off okay again this is going to be hard for me to show you bring it up you can just about make out the there we go you just kind of see it so it is there you will be able to see it much much better in real life it's just not picking it great on the camera so don't worry if you're thinking there's no way I'm going to see it you will promise you now I can see that as clear as day okay because it does catch in the light so I'm going to cover my acetate exactly the same way so each time just kind of hovering it over placing it down let go and then just tap it okay and then hold and lift it off the reason I say to hold and lift it is because if you just lift it up it might slide so at least if you're holding it down it's just it's going to pull straight off okay so I'm going to get this covered okay so I'm happy with that and then I'm going to bring in this black because like I said it's going to be very easy for you guys to see it and I'm just going to cover and this is a real soot black it's it's lovely don't that all out on there and then carefully see once you start to lift up the acetate you'll be able to see where it's not quite stuck bring it over and again tap it as soon as you tap it will drop off because when you sometimes pick the acetate up there is black stuck everywhere but it just needs tapping now I've got a few bits here I don't know how well that's coming just there see that little area that shouldn't be there I'm just going to brush that off and I'll show you quickly another great technique using well you can use it again on any surface but it does look good on acetate but other than that and a little bit there which I think I caught with my finger that is just on the stamped image and nowhere else so I'm just going to clear all this away and again I'm going to get this heat set okay it might take a few seconds longer to set on this because it's plastic on plastic but look at the results fantastic really really good and then what you can do now is when you're you know that's completely cooled down is wipe it over with a wet cloth even put it in the water it will not come off and it will come up lovely and clean and that's a lovely now kind of window sheet or just a lovely effect on something you know that you're going to be making so again I just used it exactly the same way it's nice and hot and use circular motions motions and just you know you can watch it kind of melt because it goes shiny from that matte powder that it starts off with and you will know if it's not heat resist it will not stay like this it will completely just fall apart and again the warping is minimal you know once you've got your kind of frame on this and you stick it into you know onto a card and stuff it's going to work great another quick thing I'll show you with the acetate to use this piece here is if you just you don't even now need to add but if you're covering a whole surface with embossing powder you you don't need to prep it with your anti-static because you're just covering the whole area anyway so it doesn't matter so what I'm going to do now is I'm just literally going to brush this over this acetate here just to create let's get rid of that bit there bring in a fresh piece of copy paper here just because I don't want to get any powder on my pad and I'm just going to swipe it across like so and I can see there yeah and then I'm going to use my gold because I think this will show up read actually those new silver because I haven't done much with the silver and just kind of let it just cover and can you kind of see where it's got those like little markings there and stuff that's what I want I'm just going to put this back in my jar and then I'm going to get that heat set okay in there if I bring that up look at that awesome effect you get all that grain detail this would look so good for different things especially like a mixed media kind of thing but also if you just want to do a background how lovely is that and then you've got room here to stamp you could use your stays on inks and stamp directly onto your embossing powder that way but it's you know you don't always have to have a stamp you can just use the pad itself and I think you get really really good results okay so I'll give you examples there on acetate and on cardstock it's exactly the same when you use a mirrored cardstock because that has a surface just like you know your acetate is non-porous so there's the watermark there is just going to sit on top so that I don't think we need to show you let me show you the vellum because I think that's quite fun and the glitter cardstock again I don't think you really need to see that one because it will work exactly the same way but vellum is again really really lovely to use but what I will do as well is I mean I don't know how sticky that's going to be but let's use let's use this lovely lilac here and I'm just going to put it on first and test the area okay like I said before okay can you see there where it's stuck how well that's showing up hopefully this will pick up but there is some purple stuck here that's why it's good to do the test first there's also some catching there so what I then will do is pop this back into its little jar and then I'll go over it and kind of really work in those areas but everything else was fine didn't really stick anywhere around but just go over it so that's probably my top tip is test your cardstock first before and after so now I've stuck that so now I've just covered that I can then tip it all over again can you see just how freely it moves it doesn't stick anywhere and that's what you want that is completely clear of anything okay even if you thought it was before it definitely is now so that is ready for me to stamp okay and that's the vellum it's still a bit warm but again once you're happy that was the last one that I just heat set just keep it you know you can put it in between something on a book or something like that but that's not that warped that you can't use that that's going to be perfect for for using you know sticking down putting in your junk journals art journals all kinds of things it looks brilliant and I love it on the vet it looks really wet looks it's just such a great effect okay so that's that way then I just wanted to quickly show you before I start putting all the cards together how to create this kind of metal look it's really really easy really really fun to do okay so I've just ran through the hello again that I've used on these cards here okay and that's from the bright roses sentiment words die set now I some of you that have followed me for quite a long time would have probably seen me touch on this in other tutorials because I can't remember if I have done one just on this alone I don't think I have I will have a look back never how I link it in so this is just a really really nice way to bring texture to your cards and it is that faux metal I guess technique that they call it so I've got my die cut image you can do this on any image I understand that that's white on white but in a minute you're going to see it anyway and then using your pad you just want just cover the whole thing with the with the watermark okay like so so you don't need to use your embossing buddy if you want to be really detailed and maybe just do certain sections like you might want to do this end purple then I would use your anti-static buddy on this side so that then the powder would just all slide off but otherwise I'm just covering the whole thing I'm also just going to go over it there because it didn't look like it would it covered it there we go and then what I would say is pick your paper over and then sprinkle your powder on this side so let's do a silver again because I've done gold on those cards I'm going to do silver on this one so I'm just going to cover the whole thing now also when you're holding it it can get quite warm so I've just got my tweezers here but I very rarely use tweezers I just work from one end and then I turn it around so I'm going to use them just to kind of lift this out so I don't get my hands completely covered and just again tap off that excess like so now this time I don't want to keep dumping it back into my tub I I did used to have them in big kind of lunch boxes but I don't I love embossing heat embossing but I don't use it every single day which I know some people do so it just took up too much space so that's why I kind of decanted them down and put them into smaller things so I'm just quite happy doing it this way so I'm just going to step I'm just going to pop that to one side because I'm going to be just pushing it in that each time so this one's all about you're going to add lots of layers the three layers is what I tend to do some people do more some people just do two but you certainly want more than the one layer so what I'm going to do is heat set this again always make sure this is really really hot doesn't matter what you're doing always leave it on fresh for about 30 seconds 45 seconds something like that okay so that is got its first layer of silver embossing powder on now you'll notice it's got quite a mottled maybe like a hammered metal look and that's perfectly fine you know but if you want to get that smoother more of a molten kind of metal look then that's when you want to start adding some more layers so I'm going to bring in this second piece here and you're just going to repeat it now you can if it's warm enough and you're very very and you act very quick as soon as you blast it with heat right along it and you can stick it straight back into the powder because it will still be kind of warm but I don't tend to get the best results when I do that I prefer letting it cool and then just doing a separate layer in between so again I'm going to just cover this with the VersaMark okay and then this time I'm just going to kind of push it underneath because it's such a little delicate sentiment again tap off your excess and I can see it's covered everywhere but can you see this end here still catching in the light obviously didn't get VersaMark on it don't go back in with the VersaMark at this point because all you're going to do is get all this loose powder onto your pad you don't want that heat set it you can just go over it again so now I'm going to blast this again with my heat gun okay so now that's with two layers and you'll notice you start to get more of a smoother kind of finish so this area here is really smooth it's a little bit of kind of dimpling there and there but now the next layer we put on again we'll smooth that out even more and like I said if you do want to do four even five layers it will become very dimensional and once it's kind of on your project will look like a real kind of metal embellishment so again I'm going to repeat this now another time okay and now you've got this thick lovely die cut sentiment such a lovely effect it really is and because this is so like kind of delicate I'm just holding it quite straight there just while it kind of cools down and that will stay nice and flat and that is just how I got these effects here so you can see it in the gold and you can also see it there in that green okay so here are all my lovely samples so I'm now going to make some cards and then I'll come back and show you what I've done okay so I've got a few cards here to show you I haven't done everything yet but I will post pictures as and when so that's the finished purple one so that's that lovely metal look that you saw me create and I think it looks yeah really really effective and then that was the original one and I just put a sheet of vellum behind there just to help that really pop and stuck that piece just directly over that piece the green just on the white there really nice this is my thank you one love that one so I just die cut an oval kind of like an aperture there and then put that on foam and then I heat emboss the thank you in the back there then this one here I've really liked so I've done a kind of loosely done the eclipse technique I didn't do the same paper on the happy and the birthday I just used the glitter but really really sparkly I'm probably going to add a bow and some few other bits to that as and when just in a really kind of simple one there more like a sketch challenge kind of card that one is but I just wanted to show off that nice strip of it and I've got another piece still left so I'll probably do another one the same and then that one I've started to do so that's the black and I've got this little border trim and again I'll do a nice little sentiment and something in the middle sometimes I do this I just have lots of cards kind of ready like the base is done and then I just need to add the sentiments and a little bit of decoration started this one this will be a wedding card I've just done these strips here because I put a thin strip of double-sided tape underneath the vellum and you generally see that so I've put this strip of craft card over it on each side probably going to have some bunting hanging here and then on your wedding day something like that I've done it as a top folding one so I think that'll look nice and then that was the other piece of acetate so I was going to do a shaker but as soon as you put kind of shaker parts in it that match or kind of complement it they kind of got lost so I just thought you know I'm just going to put it against that white and it's got real nice texture to it and then I'll put a nice sentiment over that as well okay so that's the cards just to give you a bit of inspiration then I'll just do a quick recap really on the embossing powders so the main ones that I have are paper mania wow and nuvo I do have some more of the nuvo ones but they were kind of like more of the fest kind of ones that I brought and so that a lot of them have gone so I'm going to call this part one and maybe in a couple of weeks I'll follow with part two and within that one I think I'm going to go into more even more things that you can do and the different other kinds of embossing powders so for example I touched on the sticky embossing powder and this is great for using with foils and lots of other things so I think I'm going to do a tutorial with this one and also using the ultra high embossing powders so these ones here can you see they've got a really thick grain okay and there's some really fun things that you can do with those what other one and then just to really show you I would say if you're starting off and you don't really know what colors to get get a gold get a silver they're going to be your kind of you know the ones that you go to all the time and will match pretty much everything and then get a white white's really good to do and again you can do great the emboss resist technique with white looks really really nice and also clear so there's my clear embossing powder and there's so many great techniques that you can do with this one and then like I said I've got my wow I found my other one here this is my opaque bright so I can just dump the rest of that one into here and then slowly over time some of this has come from kits that I've got I purchased that one there that's beautiful that's the Salsa that's the one that I showed on the holographic really lovely I mean it's just absolutely gorgeous look great on a mermaid's tail but the super fine ones if you can get those they're great for you just go if you've got a detailed stamped image or something like that you're just with the super fine it's going to be able to grab on to all those real detailed pieces and hopefully you'll get a beautiful image and then I've just got nice ones like I said through kits and stuff that one there is the raspberry cooly and then I've got the shampoos that's another beautiful one and then there was that platinum one which is here so yeah just slowly build them up but definitely silver and gold and white and then black because the black looks great on white as you can see oh no no I done that on the acetate wasn't it that was the white on the black which looks fantastic so yeah so that's it I mean like I said I don't want to go too too detailed I just wanted to really touch on the basics and just highlight that hopefully you've picked up lots of good tips from me and for anybody new this is maybe helped you go for it and not be scared to do it because I know lots of people are like no I don't like doing it I get it everywhere and just take your time with it clear everything away have a nice clean work station and yeah just play around and at the end of the day have fun with it but um just prep prep prep and then you can't go wrong okay I'm going to go now hopefully you like the video please give me a thumbs up if you do and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye