Stray Embossing Powder Splitcoaststampers Tutorial

Hi stampers! I am so happy to have a guest tutorial on Splitcoaststampers today, and I am sharing a fun stamping technique, with which you can't go wrong. We have all been annoyed at stray embossing powder at some stage and in this project we are going to embrace the stray powder, and even create some of it on purpose. 

I made two tags, but you can also do a card or an art journal page instead. Stray embossing powder can give great texture and add highlights and interest to a project. Since it acts as a resist, the areas with powder will stay white when you ink the background or watercolor the flowers.

I used the Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flowers set, but any stamp with some open areas will work well. 

Here is the video showing you the process. You can also watch it directly on YouTube here. You will also find step-by-step photos and instructions over at Splitcoaststampers.

In the video, you see me color the purple flower. These are the inks that I used for the blue one. 

The result of this technique will be different each time you do it. I liked the background on my blue flower tag best. Note how the dots stand out even when there is powder almost all around them. 

The powder will reserve some areas white when you color and give great highlights and texture to the flower.

The sentiment stamps also comes from the Thoughtful Flowers set. Stamp them on Tim Holtz Journal Cards and cut into strips. Ink the edges.

As a border, I die cut Crochet pieces from Journal Cards, inked and layered them together with a piece of lace trim and some twine.

Don't forget to add some powder to the leaves too.

This background has more solid areas of white on the background, probably because it is the one that I did on the video. I was a little too heavy-handed with the embossing ink, since I wanted it to show clearly on the video. 

The embossing powder gives such nice texture.

I also added sequins to the tags, from the Simon Says Stamp Blue Moon set.

You can find the tutorial at Splitcoaststampers here and you can also link your projects to the Stray Embossing Powder gallery.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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