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After I played around with the embossing paste I decided to play around with some dry embossing.  This picture is the finished product.

Of course I picked black cardstock and light does not show through black card stock.  However, I was determined that was not going to stop me.

I taped down the stencil and turned it over to start the process.

I used a large paper stump and ran it over the card stock until I started seeing some indentions.  This allowed me to see where the design was and that would enable me to use my stylus and start the dry embossing.

I used the large end of the stylus since this was such a large stencil.  The stencil is from Paperwishes.

If you look closely you can see the lines where I went back and forth on the black card stock to get the design.  Because the card stock is pretty thick it was capable of handling a lot of manipulating with the stylus and because no one will see the back I wasn’t worried about what it looked like.

Once the dry embossing was done, I decided I would highlight it with the Metallic Cream Chalks I recently purchased.

I used the silver but as you can see it was not really doing what I wanted it to do.

 I used a Stardust Gel Pen to enhance the dry embossing after the Metallic Cream Chalks but I still didn’t get the “pop” I wanted to achieve.

I had put in a lot of time dry embossing and I wanted the Fleur De Lis to show up more.

So I pulled out my silver pigment ink.  I placed the stencil back on the card stock and took a dauber and started applying the pigment ink over the metallic cream chalk.

Now this is more like it.  I also inked around the outside of the stencil so the circle around the Fleur De Lis would show better.

I think I will stick to this technique when I’m using a stencil with a wide area to cover and then I’ll use the embossing paste for those stencils that have a smaller area.

I’m having a lot of fun playing around with some different techniques, now I need to make some cards.  I also need to work on my GD scrapbook.