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(slow jazz music)

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- When you're working
with rubber stamps and ink

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and you wanna emboss something,

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this magical transformation will happen.

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You're gonna sprinkle on a
powder, hit it with some heat,

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and all of a sudden it'll
become raised and glossy.

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It can become eventually
metallic or even glittery,

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and it's a nice way to add
some pop and some punch

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to your stamped designs.

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For all embossing, you wanna be working

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with a slow-drying ink and pigments

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are gonna be ideal for that.

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If you have any questions about it,

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you can always check the packaging.

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You're gonna stamp as you normally would

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and while the ink is wet and working

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on a scrap piece of
paper that doesn't have

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any stamping on it, you're gonna
take your embossing powder,

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we're gonna start with
our metallic silver,

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and you're just gonna
spread it very liberally

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over your stamped image,
tap off the excess.

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And right now you have embossing
powder stuck to your ink.

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This isn't permanent at this stage.

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The powder is just sitting in the wet ink.

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If you let this sit too long and it dries,

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you won't be able to emboss.

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If you run your hand across it or laid

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another piece of paper
on top, it will smear.

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You have to heat set it to
actually make it permanent

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and for that magic to come alive.

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Just gonna set that aside and
recycle my embossing powder

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back into its little container,

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which is why we work on scratch paper.

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And cap this.

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I recommend that just
because you can very easily

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tip these over and then you'll be sad.

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And then to set this and
to make it really pop

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silver metallic, which is the
color of the embossing powder,

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we have to use our heat tool.

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And this is am embossing gun.

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An embossing gun works like a hair dryer,

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but it's not the same.

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You can't substitute
a hair dryer for this.

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The embossing tool has less
force and way more heat,

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which is gonna activate
our embossing powder.

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If you were to use a hair dryer,

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it would just spread your
embossing powder all over it

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and you wouldn't be able
to get that nice clean

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finished embossed image.

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You wanna turn this on and
move it around until you see

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your embossing powder melt.

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(machine whirring)

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Once it makes that magical
transformation, it's ready.

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You don't wanna put your finger in it

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because it's still warm
and can be a little tacky.

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But once it comes down
to room temperature,

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this is gonna be permanent.

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It's gonna be water resistant,
so I could watercolor

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on top of this.

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And it's gonna give you
this really beautiful

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metallic foil finish.

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And once that comes room
temperature, that is set.

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Let's do a glitter embossing powder.

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Now using a glitter embossing
powder is the only way

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to get glitter with stamping.

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You can't just sprinkle regular glitter

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on top of wet ink and
hope that it'll stay.

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That's not gonna work.

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Let's go ahead and make our stamp.

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This is set, so it's fine,
it's not gonna attract

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this other embossing powder.

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I'm gonna use a Chocolate Twinkle
is what this one's called.

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It looks just like glitter.

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Again, I wanna just tap
it off, and the glitter

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has a tendency to stick more,

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so you usually wanna flick it a little.

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Anywhere you see any little
remnant of embossing powder

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or glitter, once you
hit that with the heat,

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it's gonna become permanent.

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So you really wanna remove
any extraneous little bits

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of that embossing powder.

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You can use your finger
or you can even use

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a really small paintbrush.

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I can set that aside and recycle.

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And we're gonna do the same process.

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Now the glitter is gonna be
a little bit harder to tell

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when it's actually set.

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(machine whirring)

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But you will see a slight change.

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It's almost like it sparkles a little more

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and becomes a little glossy.

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That's set.

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And then you get that
cool shimmery effect,

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unlike the metallic which
is a pretty solid foil,

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this gives you more of
a glitzy glimmery look.

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Some glitter embossing
powders are gonna be

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a little more sparkly or vibrant,

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and that depends mostly on the color

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of the embossing powder
and sometimes the brand.

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If you are using something,
it doesn't feel like

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it has quite that punch that you want,

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then what you wanna do
is pair your ink color

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with your embossing powder color.

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So if I'm doing silver,
then I wanna use silver ink

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and silver embossing powder.

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Same thing for like a sparkly red.

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You're gonna get a more
vibrant punchier glittery red

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if you use a red ink as well.

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Again it's gonna be
raised off the surface,

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water resistant, and I can
continue embossing on this page.

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The clear embossing powder
is actually going to reveal

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the color of the ink below.

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It's still gonna give you that
nice raised glossy finish,

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but it's not gonna add any color.

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So if I'm using the clear
embossing powder with my teal ink,

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my finished image is gonna be teal.

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You can also use it with
clear embossing ink,

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and what happens is
actually the paper itself

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is what's gonna show through.

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So you get this really
nice tone on tone effect

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still with maintaining
that raised glossy surface.

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Sprinkle that on top.

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You can see it looks frosted almost.

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So we're gonna heat
this up in the same way.

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(machine whirring)

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And then you can see that that teal color

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is what's gonna show through,

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but you still get that nice
raised and glossy effect.

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And that's embossing.

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It's a great way to add
relief, color, sparkle,

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and texture to your stamp designs.