Do you ever forget about crafting techniques?  You don’t mean to forget about them, but you sort of fall into a run and simply forget about things…and then you see a post and your like…”Wow, how could I have forgotten!!!”

That’s sort of how I have been feeling about embossing.  Well, embossing and distress inks really.  I sort of forgot all the things you could do with Distress Oxides and embossing powders.  So to make up for my oversight, today I am playing around with this technique.

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I started this card with some stencil work, using the new Uniquely Ocean Waves stencil, I blended some Faded Jeans, Salty Ocean, and Broken China Distress Oxides into a piece of cardstock.

I trimmed up the cardstock a little and then added some strips of trimmed navy sparkle paper from the Lawn Fawn Sparkle Cardstock in Autumn.

I then stamped the sentiment from the Couture Creations Brave Wings stamp set using some VersaFine ink and embossed it with some Ranger White Embossing Powder.  I then blended a little bit of Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide over the embossed image.  I matted the image with more Lawn Fawn Sparkle Cardstock.

Finally, I added an embossed stamped butterfly.  To do this, I pulled out the butterfly stamp from the Kaisercraft Indigo Skies stamp set and stamped it out in Chipped Sapphire.  I then quickly poured Ranger Clear Embossing Powder over the butterfly and heat set it.

What is your favorite Embossing Technique?  Let me know in the comments below.  Until then, Happy Crafting.