Watercoloured Poppy Embossing Folder Card

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Learn how to bring an embossing folder to life with watercolour techniques. This poppy design demonstrates layering water and ink to create dimension and depth, resulting in a beautifully coloured card with professional-looking results.

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Step by step

1. Cut watercolour cardstock to size, trimming down as needed for your card base. ▶ watch 12:15
2. Place your watercolour cardstock into the embossing folder, positioning it further down the plate to allow the machine to grip properly. ▶ watch 13:30
3. Run the cardstock through your embossing machine with the white plate, embossing folder, and B plate to create the raised poppy design. ▶ watch 15:00
4. Wet your brush with clean water and apply it to the first petal of the embossed design. ▶ watch 16:45
5. Pick up colour from an ink pad or watercolour pen and spot it into the wet petal area. ▶ watch 17:00
6. Pounce the side of your brush gently over the wet petal to distribute the colour evenly across the embossed lines. ▶ watch 17:30
7. Move to a non-adjacent petal and repeat the water, colour, and pouncing process to avoid colours bleeding together. ▶ watch 18:30
8. Layer a second colour into the same petal whilst the water is still wet, pouncing gently to blend. ▶ watch 22:00
9. Once the card is dry, enhance the design by swiping a white ink pad over the embossed lines to bring back detail and dimension. ▶ watch 30:00
10. For added luxury, apply gilding wax over the dried watercoloured design by tapping and rubbing gently with your finger to create a metallic finish. ▶ watch 37:15

Tips from the show

• Wet your brush enough so colour can be carried around, but avoid creating puddles on the page.
• Do not colour adjacent petals at the same time as they will bleed together; work on petals that are not connected.
• If you are unhappy with the result, you can recover the card by using white ink pad or gilding wax to enhance the embossed details and hide mistakes.

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