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Create a faux leather or marble-textured background by scrunching white card and layering grey and gold inks with embossing powder. This technique produces deep creases and a luxurious, dimensional finish that looks like expensive specialty paper.

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Start with a piece of white card approximately 7 by 5 inches. ▶ watch 8:00
Scrunch the card up tightly in your hands to create deep creases throughout. ▶ watch 8:15
Manipulate the card with your fingers to add creases in areas that need more texture. ▶ watch 8:45
Brush a pale grey ink pad (like Versafine clear) lightly over the creased edges. ▶ watch 9:00
Dry the inked card with a heat tool to set the ink. ▶ watch 9:30
Run an anti-static bag over the grey lines to protect them from the next step. ▶ watch 10:15
Scrunch the card up again in different places to create additional crease marks. ▶ watch 10:30
Brush an embossing ink pad over the new crease lines, applying light pressure. ▶ watch 11:00
Sprinkle gold embossing powder over the embossing ink. ▶ watch 11:30
Tap off the excess embossing powder and collect it for reuse. ▶ watch 11:45
Heat the embossing powder with a heat tool until it melts and sets. ▶ watch 12:00
Add more grey ink to areas that need additional colour depth and layering. ▶ watch 13:15

Tips from the show

You can reuse scrunched card pieces to create different texture effects.
This technique works well with different colour schemes depending on your project needs.
The texture effect works particularly well on coloured card as well as white.

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