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How To Emboss Metal Templates...

This tutorial is to show you that you can emboss with your single stand alone metal templates (non folder) within your Big Shot or Cuttlebug machines.  Did you know that you could do this!?  Not a lot of people know about it - so I thought I'd share...  Thanks for looking!!!


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Metal Embossing Kit
So here is the "magic" kit.  You can purchase these at my store - located at: www.littlecs.citymax.com.  Basically, it is a kit made up of 5 shimmies, and 1 leather pad.

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Here is what else you'll need. Your Big Shot or your Cuttlebug, the cutting pad, and sandwich pads, your metal template and cardstock/paper.

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You will layer and sandwich in this order (fr bottom up):  Cutting pad, 5 Shimmies, 1st sandwich pad, leather pad, metal template, paper/cardstock, 2nd sandwich pad.  Level up, and run through your machine.

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This is the results.  As you can see - it produces the same beautiful work - but in a much faster time!!

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I will show you what I've done with my embossed image - so you know what became of it.  Here I've used my watercolor crayons to color the water around my Kois.

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Next I've outlined the Kois using the template.

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Here is the outlined image.

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Colored in with my markers.

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Finished by layering on gold CS, then embellished with eyelets, and adhered to my cuttlebug background.

 
   
 
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