Embossing Paste

[cath_evans]

I had a go at using embossing paste the other day and I put an example of what I made and a few photos of the technique on my blog. The link to this can be found on my blog. Go to the labels and then to techniques.

[Ariel]

cool technique. Love the stencil you used as well.

[bettybadger]

This looks brilliant, I will have to give this a try, Thanks for sharing

[wombat]

is this paste sparkly-how do you colour it?

[dozyrosy]

The stuff I have isn't sparkly and it comes in various colours, and you can also use paints ( acrylic ones I think it is) to tint the white paste. While it's still soft/sticky you can add glitter and microbeads, and it can also hold small embellishments resonably well.

I've used it a few times with stencils and have seen some lovely results where the paste has been used twice - the second time in a different colour and slightly offset. But I've mainly used it as a backing on ATCs: you can gloop it on all over the base card and heat with a heat gun which turns it all crinkly and bubbly and/or you can drag something like a cocktail stick through it to make more pattern and textures, and finally add stuff like glitter, microbeads, prima flowers, tiny gems, etc, while it's still warm and sticky.

Rosemary

[wombat]

so is it the same as Jo Sonja's texture paste?
It's just that Cath's example looks like it has been heat embossed and there is a subtle change of colour too-I was wondering how that was achieved?

[dozyrosy]

I don't know about the Jo Sonja stuff! I have Dreamweaver paste plus some unmarked pots that I got from Create & Craft a few years ago.

Cath's background for the trees has been coloured with several different toning glitters. Look at the smaller photos and you'll see the little pots of colours that she used. You do a section at a time and need to work from the darkest colour first to the light, just sprinkle it in before the paste dries and it will hold it. If you're careful which way you tip off the surplus you don't get cross contamination. It's the same method you'd use to do multocoloured heat embossing.

HTH, Rosemary

[craftsgalore]

I've got this embossing paste and stencil. I love what you've done with the glitter!

[cath_evans]

Yes, I used glitter to achieve the sparky effect. Just a word of warning think carefully which way you are going to tip off the access so it does not go on a bit that you want to be a different colour. Thanks for the comment!

[dozyrosy]

It's a lovely result, and really a very effective technique isn't it!

Rosemary

[scoobiesue]

I have the paste and the exact same stencil too, I did quite a few Christmas cards last year using it with some crystal Glamour Dust over the top and the effect is gorgeous and so easy. There is a video presentation on the QVC website, I'm glad I watched that before using the paste otherwise I would have wrecked my stencils by not washing them immediately after use LOL.
Tomorrow I'm going to make DH's Valentine card the same way, a heart stencil though not the tree one :D

[Terris chocolat]

I have used polyfilla in a tube spread through a stencil and the coloured and glittered afterwards ( but you could mix acrilic paint in with the filler first ) and that was very succesful but much cheaper, but you must wash the stencil immediately after spreading with a palette knife,

[Jimjams]

Great tip Terri - thanks! Always watching the pennies, and currently scouting for jiggy techniques!

[angelfish]

Me too Jemma!:D