I heard about heat embossing through various forms of wedding media. This is the type of DIY task that I could handle! I made a trip to Stamp On In in Lincoln Park and bought my supplies:
- heat gun
- embossing powder
- ink pad
- stamps
The manager was kind enough to show me how to heat emboss. My husband and I practiced later that week. It really is pretty simple.
- Wet your stamp with the ink pad.
- Stamp the item.
- Pour embossing powder over the item.
- Shake off excess powder.
- Apply heat from heat gun to powder.
- Admire your crafty self!
My first adventure in embossing was our candy buffet. A bride gave me her 40 leftover white chinese boxes. I also had about some glassine envelopes that were sold along with the candy buffet. Since that wasn’t enough containers, I bought 40 petite red chinese boxes.
Heat Embossed chinese cartons
Since I did red on red, it doesn’t photograph as well but looks cool in person.
The finished product!
Honey Bee Weddings 
your boxes turned out cute! i never tried heat embossing but was always fascinated by it and love the way it looks. we have take out boxes for our candy buffet too 🙂
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I was thinking of doing this to the text on my DIY invite. Sort of a DIY thermography…Do you think that it would work out?
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