Selective Embossing

Hello friends!

You and I know how FUN it is to emboss images.

When you set the heat gun, the powdery images immediately become RAISED and solid.

I am sure you were wowed at your first try!

Today I am sharing a card with only part of the images ( Penny Black Youthful) that are selectively embossed. The reason behind this is that you do not always have to fully-embossed a large image. With some colors and shine in the mix, the design is so eye-catching!

I find that adding part of embossing does give the stamped image a new limelight. 

It works particularly great when you want to add some shine!

When you see today's example, you will totally get it!

Before you set out to do this, you NEED two things:

1. MISTI or Tim Holtz Stamp Postioner
2. Embossing Dabber (such as this from Ranger or this from Stampendous).

👉👉you can check out my Instagram (yesvirginialu) where I share my self-made my Life-changing Brush.  It's very ghetto.... (LOL). The photo will disappear this evening.
That brush I made works beautifully with this technique!

I started out stamping the image with Distress Oxide (Broken China and Cracked Pistachio).
This can be easily done with a stamp-positioner.

Once the ink are nearly dry, I applied the Embossing Boss Gloss to part of the stamped image.
I then silver-embossed the image.


I decided to add some dry-embossing with the Square Frame Die (currently on sale over Scrapbook.com here). With the Tan Embossing Mat, I ran the entire iamge through the die cut machine. Thus, you get the subtle and gorgeous dry-embossed frame!

I hope that you like this simple way of adding shine to your stamped image.
I will have a new post about this Elegant Edger die soon.
Scrapbook.com is currently having a Die-Cut Sale!

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