5 HEAT EMBOSSING MISTAKES & How to Fix Them

When I only had dye inks but wanted embossed colour, I would ink with my fast drying coloured dye ink, then restamp overtop with clear embossing ink and clear emboss. Sometimes I'd just ink from the versaclear then immediately pounce into the dye colour, stamp and emboss. Worked great! I am an overheater though... and hand cream victim. 😂 thanks for the tips/reminders!

I do love your accent. I would only add that I would encourage everyone to use a stamp positioner tool of some sort. It can make all the difference in heat embossing. You can stamp several times in the same position and make sure you cover all the stamp area. Also, just to help with the dimpling effect we often get with heat embossing, you can place your card stock back in the positioner and do it again for better embossing image. Thanks for all your hard work teaching us. May God bless your company, too.

I already knew all of this stuff, I just clicked to listen to you talk. Your voice and accent together is very pleasing to listen to. All of that aside, I always love your videos! Thanks for all of your tips!

Your tips and tricks are fabulous! Thank you.

I always mess up heat embossing, so I've kind of given up, but after watching these tips and tricks I'm going to give it another go. Thanks Lou for the great tutorial

Thanks for the tips 😊

I've definitely under heated in my early days and got frustrated. What I'd like to see, Lou, is how to heat emboss with chunkier glittery embossing powders. I bought a couple and can never seem to get a decent result 😞 It's really frustrating because they're lovely colours and the sparkle is lovely

Also, if the cardstock has some sort of coating on it, not all powders will work the same. I went from a terrible image to a perfectly crispy clear one on the same piece of cardstock jut by swapping out the embossing powder to a different one.

Brilliant tutorial Lou I was like that when I first started heat embossing threw so much away thinking I'd over heating it or under heating it but now I know how to do it I feel these tutorials are very worthwhile to watch thanks Lou 🎉🎉❤❤ xx

I'm just about to try embossing so this is invaluable to me. Thanks Lou, another great tutorial 😊

Thank you so much.

Very helpful!!

Excellent video

Great tips!

Really useful video ❤

@CraftStash • Lou: Have you done or will you do a comparison of embossing powders on different types of stamps from fine powder to thick and detailed to solid stamps? Thanks.

Thank you Lou, great refresher as always

Thanks Lou, all very helpful.

hi lou! any tips on cleaning stamps after using versamark? I usually just rinse with warm water and fairy but sometimes it's still a bit tacky, what would be the absolute no-no's for different types of materials, I'm sure staz-on stampcleaner would take it right off, but I feel it might ruin clearstamps..? I just don't want my stamps to melt! (I tried handsanitiser on a clearstamp that I can live without, and it worked great, but I don't think it's recomended. the stamp survived... so far😂😂) stamp cleaning in general feels very trial & error

Thank you, I understand now. Going to practice