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Tutorial - How to Use Brass Embossing Templates with a Light Box All patterns, pictures and text found on Craftideas.info may be printed out and used for private purposes or school-room use only. It is NOT permitted to use our text or photographs on any website, any blog or any other form of publication. Here is some more useful information: Embossing images on paper is very easy and gives your paper a touch of elegance. Use the images to decorate such things as cards, tags, scrapbook pages, or artist trading cards. Supplies needed: Light box, brass stencils, stylus and paper or thin cardstock. Tip: If you do not have a light box, you may also tape the stencil and paper to your window. The light from outdoors will also reflect through the paper. Spring and Easter paper crafts - Have you ever made paper pinwheels or do you need Easter gift boxes? You will find these projects with instructions here, as well as many others to keep you crafting through the spring season! Creative paper crafts for all occasions >>> Would you like to learn about decoupaging or how to alter daily items into new treasures? Learn new paper craft techniques and Find these and other fun to create crafts in this section. Paper crafts for fall and Halloween >>> Decorate your home with typical halloween figures, embellish your window with pumpkin suncatchers or create a pumpkin luminary to lighten up dark evenings. Have fun creating these and more projects found in this section. Quick and easy paper craft projects for Christmas >>> Here you will find crafts to keep you busy at Christmas time. Create greeting card gift boxes, snowflake bookmarkers and a 3-D Christmas tree amongst other quick and easy fun crafts. Decorate your packages with these homemade tags >>> You have wrapped that perfect birthday present and need now the appropriate gift tag to finish it off? This section offers easy tag inpirations and ideas to help you decide what you would like to do. Artist Trading Cards to craft for summer and all occasions >>> Artist trading cards or otherwise known as ATC’s are like miniature works of art. Find out more about them here and examples to show you how you can start making them. Embossed Daisies Birthday Card Craft Here Step-By-Step Tutorials 1 Here you will find over 80 step-by-step tutorials with pictures. Step-by-Step Tutorials 2 Find even more step-by-step tutorials and instructions. New tutorials are being added on a regular basis. Easy Translucent Star 2   1. First of all you need a light box, light colored paper or cardstock, masking tape, brass stencils and 1 or 2 stylus pens with different size balls on the ends. 2. The next step is to take a small piece of masking tape and tape the stencil to the box over the light source. 3. Now lay your light colored piece of paper or cardstock over the stencil and also use masking tape to secure it. Any other tape may tear the paper once you remove it again. 4. Take your stylus and simply follow the edges of the images with it. Wider images may need a thicker ball and thinner and finer lines need a thin ball. 5. This is how the imaes look when you are finished. But this is only the backside... 6. Carefully remove the tape and turn your paper or card over and now you will see the embossed images. 7. You may choose to leave the images plain colored which has an elegant look to it, or you may choose to chalk them with artist chalks.   Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.craftideas.info