You can use your inkjet printer to emboss images with embossing powder. It’s really fun:
- From any software of your choice, open a clip art or write a title or word. Make it fancy or plain. I like it a little bit ornate.
- Use any kind of glossy paper, like photo paper or vellum in your printer.
- Set up your printer to print in high quality, selecting the appropriate paper.
- Have your embossing powder close and print your graphic.
- Immediately, pour the powder onto the graphic and with a soft brush take out the excess. Pour that excess back to the recipient where you have the embossing powder. Proceed to emboss using your embossing heat gun.
- Now you have an embossed graphic that you can paint inside (like watercolors) or you can use any other way to paint it if you like (markers, chalk, etc.) The raised embossed lines of the graphic is going to help you to stay inside the lines.
Pretty cool! You may need to experiment a little bit with the settings in your printer, but this method gives you great results.
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