Steampunk Idea Box with Gina's Designs

Hello blogger friends!

I'm here today with another project for Gina's Designs.  Embossing is one of the easiest and most versatile ways to enhance metal and using an embossing folder makes it even more effortless. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to emboss a chipboard piece that is covered in metal foil tape. The added dimension of embossing combined with the luster of the foil creates a fabulous finish that will add vivacity to any artwork.

Step One:Place a piece of chipboard on the sticky side of the metal foil tape.

Step Two:  Cut around your chipboard shape with a pair of scissors. You'll need to leave enough tape to be folded over the edge.

Step Three: Rub the surface of your chipboard to make sure it's adhered and fold the edges of tape over the chipboard.

Step Four: Place your chipboard piece in an embossing folder and run it through an embossing machine.

Step Five: Coat your piece with acrylic paint and a paint brush. Set it aside to dry completely or dry it with a heat tool.

Step Six: Sand some of the paint off with a sanding chip. 

Step Seven: Coat your piece with a different color of paint and allow it to dry completely.

Step Eight: Sand some of the paint off with a sanding chip.

Step Nine: Squeeze a few drops of alcohol ink and blending solution on the felt of your blending tool and rub it on a few areas of your chipboard piece. 

Your chipboard pieces are now ready to use on your project.With a few different embossing folders you can create a quilt like effect on your projects and really change things up. The metal foil tape can also be applied in strips to a larger piece and a rectangular sheet would make a wonderful book cover or canvas background. For my other chipboard pieces I painted them black and added a clear layer of distress crackle paint. 

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and will try this technique soon! 

Supplies 

Chipboard pieces from Gina's Designs (Steampunk 2 Shape Set)

Alcohol ink

Blending tool with felt applicator

Blending solution

Embossing Folders

Embossing machine

Acrylic paint

Metal foil tape

Sanding chip

Scissors