Stamping images and coloring them is one of the techniques that scrapbookers use in order to achieve some kind of effect on the paper they make scrapbooks out of. This is all good and fun. We all want to make stamps and color them afterwards. But heating images in order to make them embossed is something that only the most creative of scrapbookers can ever think about.
This process is called heat embossing, which is also known as stamp and heat embossing. The basic idea is to stamp an image unto a piece of paper, sprinkling it with powder, and applying it with heat. This results into a brilliant image, embossed unto the surface of the page.
So here are the instructions. First, use your stamp to print an image unto the paper, just like what you ordinarily do in your old scrapbooks. Then, generously put the embossing powder over the image. Make sure that the entire image is covered with the powder or else some parts will not be embossed after heating. Just make sure that there are no excess powder and that they are returned to their proper container.
Finally, using a heat gut, you can already heat your powder until it has melted and stuck to the page. Now you have your embossed image that is ready to use for your scrapbooks. You can use this process to replace your old-style scrapbook covers and go for something that looks 3-D.
ScrapJazz.com gives us some idea on how we can incorporate heat embossing unto our scrapbook pages. For example, you can use this to replace metal embellishments. If you're already out of gold bands, you can use your gold heat embossing powder to make your own metal embellishments. You can also use this to create faux metal embellishments plus other similar things.
Once you already have the right materials in hand, heat embossing is not a very difficult task to do. It only takes some eye for detail because you have to make sure that the powder stays in the line. But aside from that, this project should be a breeze.
