Sunday Stampers Challenge Week 246 - Texture

Hello Fellow Bloggers

Last week I recorded a programme where Linelle Harlow, the owner of Dreamweaver Stencils was demonstrating techniques with embossing paste and I was so taken by one of them that I had to have a go.  I have made a couple of pieces but this one fit nicely into the challenge set by the lovely Hels Sheridan which is based on the song 'You Raise Me Up' and the theme is Textures.

I was very lucky a few weeks ago and won some fabulous new Wendy Vecchi Embossing Pastes, in both silver and white, from Wendy herself!  How lucky am I?  I am fairly new to embossing paste so I have had to do quite a bit of practicing and here is one of the pieces I did.

I started by covering watercolour card with Distress Paints in Salty Ocean, Broken China and Spun Sugar.  I used a Dreamweaver stencil and applied Wendy Vecchi Silver embossing paste, using a palette knife.

This technique takes quite a few minutes to do and you need to work quite quickly.  I had a number of different colours of Perfect Pearls powder at the ready along with a large soft brush.  I used the brush to gently sprinkle purple on the butterfly, red and gold on the flower and green and silver on the foliage.  At this stage the powder tends to go all over but that's OK as you will brush it all off at the end.

Next, I heated the paste/powder with my heat tool - this bit requires a bit of patience as it can take a little while for the paste to heat to the point where it bubbles up.  If you try this technique you will hear little popping noises but that is quite normal.

Once heated, I let it cool down and then brushed off all the excess PP powder. (Click on the photo for a closer look)

You can probably see the dimension better in this photo.  It is a fabulous technique for creating a raised image and it is great fun when you use different colours to create it.

One thing I have found is that it works better with the metallic pastes than with the plain colours (black and white).  But it is all about experimenting!






To complete the tag I added a Wendy Vecchi Art Part tag topper which I coloured with Salty Ocean Distress Paint and then over-stamped with one of Wendy's stamps (Botanical Arts set).  I added some vintage ribbon which I coloured with Salty Ocean Distress Paint - it does make the ribbon quite stiff but it works well.  I finished off by adding some Tim Holtz Idea-ology pearls and beads and the words ' You raise me up'.

I hope you feel inspired to try out this lovely technique.  Hugs, Anne xx