Easy Card Making

As promised last time here is Part 2 of the Embossing Series…

This embossing requires a lot more patience than the heat gun and embossing powder method and you will find a light box is extremely useful if not essential.  You can use a stencil or copy an image onto parchment and then you use an embossing tool to press around the outline or fill in the middle sections.

This type of embossing is ideal for making little butterflies or flowers as embellishments or a whole parchment or vellum cover to place over the outside of your card.

There are several other techniques that you can use on parchment to compliment the initial embossing including colouring the parchment and stippling.

Pergamano is the name for a style and technique used in parchment to create intricate and delicate designs sometimes giving a lacy quality and is for the more advanced.  It is very pretty giving an intricate and delicate  design to your work.

There are many books about pergamano and it can be quite expensive to buy all the tools and patterns but you can practice this technique to start with by using one or 2 embossing tools and for pricking the holes in your design you could use a small pin although you will need to be very careful.  There are specialist mats that you can buy but when I did it I used an old mouse mat.  The effects are not quite as good but it is a great way to practice techniques and to see if you enjoy this type of craft.

For more details and demonstrations please visit my page embossing part 2 at www.easy-cardmaking.com

Next time I will discuss Embossing Part 3…