Simon Says Stamp | Snowflake Edges – Combining Hot Foil Stamping & Heat Embossing. Video

Hello and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! In today’s video, I will show you how to combine heat embossing and hot foil stamping. Both of these techniques require heat and one can damage the other if done in the wrong order.

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

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CARD DETAILS

My idea is to foil a sentiment in matte gold foil on a panel of Simon’s Soft Navy cardstock and add the snowflakes from the Snowflake Edges stamp set around the sentiment framing it, in white. Whenever you want to combine heat embossing and hot foiling you have to save the embossing for the last step. The heat from the hot foil machine can re-heat and re-melt the embossing powder messing up your hard work. The heat from the heat gun, on the other hand, will have zero effect on the hot foiling, so it is safe to heat emboss over a foiled panel.

Begin by foiling the sentiment in the center of the panel. If you have trouble foiling on Soft Navy cardstock, be sure to watch my video for tips. Next, heat emboss the Snowflake Edge above and below the sentiment creating a beautiful snowflake background. I embossed mine in Simon’s Fine Detail White embossing powder.

At this point, you could keep your background as is. I like to step things up, so I added some subtle shadows to the snowflakes using a C7 Copic marker. It is quite a tedious process to add all of that shading, but I didn’t mind. What you could also do, is re-stamp the same image over the heat embossing, but offset it slightly – this will give you that pretty drop shadow look. If you stamp it in watermark ink, you’ll get a similar result. The shadow might not look as dark, but that’s definitely another and easier way to achieve this look.

At this point again, you can call your background done, but I wanted to step it up even more. I added some subtle ink blending around the edges darkening them. This helps to direct the eye to the center of the panel. I used Hero Arts Navy ink and Simon’s large ink blending brush and blended this color around the edges.

I trimmed this panel down slightly, not too much, just about 1/8” from each side, and foam mounted onto an A2 white top folding card base. This gave me a faint white border around the design. I also embellished each of the snowflakes with gems – I used silver gems from Spellbinders, and lastly, I added lots of little white dots using a white jelly roll pen. I clustered them mostly in between the snowflakes – adding more white to the background of my card.

Have fun stamping!

SUPPLIES

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

Simon Says Clear Stamps Snowflake Edges Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Gifts of Christmas Sentiments Glimmer Hot Foil Plate Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System Shop at: SSS	Glimmer Hot Foil – Matte Gold Shop at: SSS
Spellbinders Quick Trimmer Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Quick Trimmer Replacement Blades Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Blending Brush Set Large Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp White A2 Top Fold Scored Cards Shop at: SSS
Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Soft Navy Cardstock Shop at: SSS	MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS	Sakura Classic White Bold Line 10 Pen Shop at: SSS
Hero Arts Navy Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Clear Embossing & Watermark Ink Shop at: SSS	Ek Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS
Sakura Classic White Gelly Roll Pens Set of 3 Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker C7 Cool Gray Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Best Ever Craft Tape Shop at: SSS
Bearly Art Mini Precision Craft Glue Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Silver Mix Color Essential Gems Shop at: SSS	Wagner Precision Heat Tool Shop at: SSS