How to Emboss Posters
Embossing with powder is a way of adding color and dimension to plain card stock and other paper. Embossing artists often use rubber stamps and slow drying ink to create an image on the paper before adding the colorful embossing powders. Embossing posters and existing images is also possible with an embossing pen. The pen offers the flexibility of tracing over letters and images on a poster or creating your own freehand designs. The embossing process is the same following the ink application from either the stamp pad or the embossing pen.
Things You'll Need
- Loose craft paper
- Antstatic dryer sheet
- Poster
- 4 weight braces
- Embossing pen
- Embossing powder
- Heat gun
Instructions
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Cover a flat work surface with loose craft paper. The loose paper will help you save the excess embossing powder. Wipe an antistatic dryer sheet over the face of the poster. The antistatic sheet will help keep the embossing powder from clinging to the poster paper.
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Place the poster face up on a flat work surface. The poster should also be flat; brace the corners if necessary with weighted objects.
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Trace over a small section of the area you'd like to emboss with an embossing pen. Embossing pens write clear in preparation for the embossing powder. Work in small sections at a time so that the ink from the embossing pen will remain wet.
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Sprinkle embossing powder liberally over the wet ink from the embossing pen. Continue to trace the poster with the embossing pen in any area that is not covered with excess embossing powder. Continue to ink small sections at a time and then sprinkle the embossing powder.
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Remove the corner braces and tilt the poster up to remove the excess embossing powder. The powder should fall onto the loose paper. Tap the bottom of the poster to remove as much powder as possible. Place the poster aside. Lift up the loose sheets of paper, shape each one into a funnel and pour the excess powder back into the container.
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Add more loose paper to your work surface if you still need to add more embossing powder to the poster.
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Place the poster back over the paper and brace the corners, if necessary. Turn on the heat gun and direct the heat to the embossing powder that's sticking to the ink. Work the heat gun back and forth over the powdered areas until the powder melts together to become a raised surface. Heat all of the powdered areas completely.
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Continue to trace the poster with the embossing pen, add the powder, remove the excess and heat the powder until the poster is embossed as you like.
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