• Card making
• Enhancing paper work for Scrap Booking
• Creating elegant wedding work

Basic Supplies

• Card stock no lighter than "index card" weight
• Medium embossing tool
• Brass template

Additional Supplies

• Light box
• Chalks
• Water based markers
• Glitter for direct enhancing
• Removable tape so you do not remove fibers from your paper when you remove the tape that you applied to hold your brass template in place.
• White core paper for embossing on colored backgrounds.
• Emery board (thicker style) for sanding images on white core paper to reveal design in white.

Technique

1. Lay down your brass template face up on the right side of your cardstock. Tape the template lightly to the cardstock at the top to hold the template in place.
2. Place the card and template face down on your light box so the template is directly against the light box over the lit area.
3. Rub the surface facing you before you emboss with waxed paper to enable your embossing tool to glide. (you will be working on the wrong side of your paper, or the back side)
4. Trace around the outline of the template and the outline of the design with the embossing tool.
5. It is very effective to use colored cardstock to emboss on. However, solid darker colored cardstock is not appropriate because you cannot see through it to emboss the image. You need to use white core cardstock. After embossing, take a thick emery board and lay flat on your project and "sand" to reveal the white core which also defines your image with a white outline.

That is all there is to getting started. Some templates are more diverse than others and we suggest starting with the oval rose template as it has the oval outline, two roses, a rose bud and bubbles. These outlines can all be placed differently at random on your paper to create different cards. You can create a gift tag just using the bud and maybe some bubbles, very versatile. We would suggest the Deluxe Beginner's Kit to get started and have a lot of fun with a variety of options at your fingertips.