To heat emboss you will need an embossing ink some embossing powder and a heat gun. For this card I have used a red tinsel embossing powder I have had for about 15 years or more so the powder will never go off!
To heat emboss you ink up your stamp with an embossing ink and stamp onto your card. Then cover your stamped image in your embosssing powder as you used to do glue and glitter as a child. It's a good idea to have a scrap piece of paper under your project so you can pour the excess powder onto it then back into the pot. You will notice just how little you will have used. Give the card a good few taps to get the excess off the card. If you have trouble with embossing powder sticking to other areas of you card try wiping an anti static bag over your card before you stamp, it really dose help.
You then need your heat gun. Now they may look like a hairdryer but they don't blow like a hairdryer and get much hotter. If you use a hairdryer you will just blow all the powder off your card, nothing else. Now as I said the heat gun dose get hot so if your card is small you might want to hold it using a peg so you don't burn you fingers and of course don't let children do it.
Turn your heat gun on and let it just run for 10 seconds or so to get hot, every heat gun is different and you will get to know yours. Once it is running hot hold it over a part of your image and wait for it to melt, it won't take long and once it has melted to a smooth surface immediately move on to the next bit. Keep going until it is all melted to a smooth shiny surface. Don't keep it on a melted part or it will melt into the card and don't wave it over the image or it will not melt evenly. Leave to cool before you touch it. If you find places where it hasn't melted then just go back in and melt it down.
This process is mesmerising, no matter how many hundreds of times you see it happen it is still magic!
So perhaps have a go at stamping or embossing if you have never tried it before it dose open up a whole other world. Or if, like me you haven't done it for a few years, get out your embossing powders and play with them.
You can find all you need for you card in the shop
The Woodware Berry Wreath stamp -
http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/woodware-clear-magic-stamp-berry-wreath-26345-p.asp
Acrylic blocks -
http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/acrylic-block-5-x-3-12-10780-p.asp
http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/acrylic-block-6-12-x-5-10776-p.asp
Embossing Ink for you stamp -
http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/embossing-inks-407-c.asp
Embossing powders -
http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/cosmic-shimmer-embossing-powders-312-c.asp
An anti static bag wiped over the card before you stamp and add you embossing powders really dose stop the powder from sticking where you don't want it, so only on the ink!
http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/woodware-magic-anti-static-pad-23796-p.asp
If you have any questions about stamping and heat embossing please ask me, either by email or here or on The Fruit Pixie face book page and I will do my best to help.
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