Thursday, January 28, 2010

Embossing Tutorial #2

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to use a light box vs your Cuttlebug with a brass stencil

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Here is my cheap light box

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Same stencil as before and I taped it down.

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DSC_0041You HAVE to use light cardstock with a white core or you cannot see the stencil through the CS. Also if you are going to sand the image you need a white core. These are my embossing styluses.

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Then you just trace the image pushing with the stylus. You are supposed to rub the CS with waxpaper first so you don’t slide but I always forget.

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Awwww pretty!

Now to achieve the same effect in 5 seconds with your Cuttlebug.

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HA! ANNDD it’s glittery. The image is embossed SO well even the serial number embossed on the CS.

I read somewhere this works best if the CS is wet…BUT I didn’t have a mister to hand, so (light bulb moment), I grabbed my glimmer mist…now my CS is shimmery and wet :0). I ran it through the CB with this stack…A plate, Stencil, wet CS, tan embossing mat from Spellbinders, 2 pieces of CS to shim and 2 B plates….

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Enjoy!!!

3 comments:

stampmonkey said...

Very cool! Do you know if it's possible to use the Cuttlebug and not have the rim of the embossing folder depress into the CS too?

AaronB said...

I have some of those, you have inspired me to get them out! Great work!

whoistracy said...

Well aren't you miss craft tutorial maker these days?? I miss out on blog surfing and miss a lot over here! Hope you're feeling better!

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