Faux Embossing Tutorial

The greatest aspect of this technique is that you can create the look of using an embossing folder with any die from your stash! This way instead of being left with one pattern from an embossing folder, you can arrange any of your die-cuts in whatever order, numerous times, to create loads of different designs.

When using traditional embossing folders, I often like to colour in the raised designs even though this can be rather time consuming, however with this technique simply using coloured cardstock can product the same effect.

Three-dimensional embossing folders have become quite popular recently, and you can create that look using this faux-embossing method too. Simply use dies that layer up to give two levels of ‘embossed’ impression, such as the ‘Good Luck’ card, or even overlap your die-cuts so some areas have a higher profile than others. You could even develop this idea further and emboss an overall pattern first then add die-cuts on top, this would really emulate one of those three-dimensional folders.

Remember you don’t have to use the same colour of cardstock as your background, switch it up using different colours for even more variation.