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I have both SU real red glitter ep. and the emerald envy glitter e.p. Are there any tips to achieve good results with these types of e.p.'s? Should I be heating from the underside of the c.s.? Not having a great time using these.
I don't have the SU, but do have some glitter EP's from other brands. I do find heating from below helps, it melts the powder so the glitter can stick, and doesn't tend to blow the glitter away! Also, I think it helps to make sure you have a really juicy embossing pad, the more ink for it to stick too, the better.
You're welcome! I enjoyed watching it too. Google is one of my best friends! LOL. Well actually it wasn't Google but its sister YouTube! I typed in stampin up red glitter embossing powder and chose the one I thought might be the most helpful.
I also watched one by dawns stamping thoughts, but it was from 2016! I didn't know they had red glitter embossing powder back then! She didn't give any tips, other than just make sure you don't overheat it, so I didn't link hers.
Just to add what you could already be very familiar with - to heat your heat gun well - 20-30 seconds usually - before using it on any embossing powder. Maybe the video says that. For some reason I can’t watch it right now.
ETA And that’s just for the first time. If embossing more than one card fairly quickly after the first, I don’t preheat after that. Or maybe just a few seconds.
Good basic embossing techniques - other tips I've used are to use a wooden clothespin to hold your card so you don't burn your fingers as the heating tool gets very hot! Also my box is about the size of a pan 13 x 9" and I line it with foil. The foil seems to help generate the heat more evenly and faster and accommodates many card sizes. It's also easier to collect all the glitter/embossing powder so it doesn't fly all over. I have found that the boxes used to put 12 cans into (like those in a grocery store) work perfectly so I have a collection of these boxes. They are also good to put the pieces of a project into and then store them so the items are all together for when you need to finish up the project. You can easily label the end of the box with the project name if you have a couple you are working on. Just make sure you don't put the box away without taking out the items you will be using again (inkpad, diecuts, stamps) - I have done this accidentally lol. Mary www.doggandponyshow.blogspot.com
Shake well -- the ep and the glitter components need to stay well mixed and tend to settle in the jar. Also, I always use an embossing buddy, any ant-static trick will do, because any stray flecks are very noticeable with glitter powders.
Mary Beth
As already mentioned, shake it really well. I also double emboss. Heat the first layer, and while it's still hot, pour another layer of e.p. Heat that just a little, because it should start melting on top of the hot powder as soon as it touches it.
I do what Scrapjanny does sometimes. And sometimes do separate layers cooling in between. Jennifer McGuire has a few video about that, and demos using layering dies.
I've tried double embossing, but whenever I have tried, I get extra spots where the ep stuck because of the previous heating. And you can't really use the embossing buddy while its hot.
Right, that’s one way - working quickly so the anti-static powder is also still there. The other way is to let it cool, which is what I do more. I’ll try to find a couple JM videos. She taught me... not personally. ;)
Here’s the first video. It works best for me with stacked die cuts for added sturdiness. Once I used heavy CS - 120 or 130 lb? While this is for a metallic look, it works for other powders.
(It’s from 2016 so she’s using an old stamp runner that makes it easy to remove unwanted adhesive. It’s not sold any more though I bought about a million refills so am still using it.)
That works good when you are diecutting the things you are double or triple embossing because you don't have a card front to attract extra specks. I've done a piece or two like that.
And last - for now! - one on layered heat embossed backgrounds. Again cooled with the anti static powder tool used in between. I didn’t find the video I was looking for but this is enough! (Can you tell heat embossing is still my favorite jam?)
bjeans - my favorite jam, too. It is still magic to me - was the first time I did it, and still just makes happy inside when I use it. I don't know what's with that, but then, I'm ok with it, so I don't really care! Heat embossing is da bomb!
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Be very careful not to overheat. If you do, you can melt the glitter which means it loses its shine. If the embossing powder is too see-thru, try colouring the paper underneath or using coloured paper so you don’t need multiple layers. It wastes powder and you are more likely to overheat it. Adding lots of layers works great for solid images with normal powder but not so much with glitter. You don’t have to heat all glitter powders from the bottom but the chunkier they are the more likely they are to require bottom heating. I find fine powders are fine from the top and that makes it easier to see it melt.
Shirl I dont like this product much to be honest. A bunch of them for me did not have enough glitter so the result was very anemic. Very disappointing. For me, I don't really want to get into having to double stamp in this case.
I have a couple that are ok. Maybe it would be helpful if people tell us which brands they feel work really well?
I totally agree about shaking and that's for reg EPs too for sure.
Shaking regular embossing powder? Since every particle is the same, why? Maybe it depends on the brand, but I’ve never shaken it and results are always as expected. None of the roughly 2,000 videos I’ve atched has mentioned it either, but there are probably 2,000 more out there.
Exceptions: embossing powders with different colors or different size chunks (which isn’t “regular.” But they’re not my jam so haven’t used them in ages.
Maybe to break down chunks that form? The last time I opened an embossing powder I hadn't used in a while, there were big chunks that had to be broken.
Mine was Stampin Up. It was cherry cobbler. And its still in the little tub they sell them in. My clear and white haven't clumped up, but I have them in Rubbermaid containers because I wanted a larger tub to dump them in since I use those two the most
Mine are mostly Hero Arts with some Ranger and Wow - a couple others. Like you, the clear and white are in containers (Klip-It) since they’re used the most. I MUST make two cards with gift card holders in them today or tomorrow and all this talk has guaranteed there will be much heat embossing.
bjeans - my favorite jam, too. It is still magic to me - was the first time I did it, and still just makes happy inside when I use it. I don't know what's with that, but then, I'm ok with it, so I don't really care! Heat embossing is da bomb!
You are not alone! I can say the same, and loved how you said it. It IS magic, lol....
When using embossing powders and glitter ep, I always stamp with a co-ordinating colour of pigment ink. Pigment ink takes longer to dry so therefore great for embossing and the co-ordinating colour means that if the powder is a little uneven the colour of the pigment ink will show through and not the colour of the paper. Ranger's Archival inks or any other pigment ink is great. HTHs.
When using embossing powders and glitter ep, I always stamp with a co-ordinating colour of pigment ink. Pigment ink takes longer to dry so therefore great for embossing and the co-ordinating colour means that if the powder is a little uneven the colour of the pigment ink will show through and not the colour of the paper. Ranger's Archival inks or any other pigment ink is great. HTHs.
tips for glitter e.p.
