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I'm looking for a recommendation for a nice, bright, snow white embossing powder. It seems all mine are 'specialty' whites. What do you like, that's readily available to order online?

Shoot I wish I had checked on Friday in Julie's class what we used. It had a very nice white glossy finish. I noticed that most of the bottles of powder were unmarked. I'll check with Paper Garden. Julie is still there today so hopefully I can find out.

That'd be great, thanks.

Don't order the opaque white from Stampendous. It has a slight ivory cast. Everything else I have is a speciality, like Pearl.

I'll be interested to know what was used in the class, also.

Just called PG and found out that the white embossing powder we used Friday is exactly what I've been using for several years since I took a JudiKins class that Judi Watanabe taught at PG....JudiKins Opaque White. It's really a nice glossy solid white.

Good to know, thanks!

I actually found some Recollection brand at Michael's - labeled "snow" that I like and another on I've had for a long time is "Zing" by American Crafts.

I usually try and buy ones that are labeled "detail" and I think my last brand might have been Ranger. People also seem to like WOW embossing powders. JudiKins is an excellent brand, but not something you'll likely find at Michaels.

Based on recommendations here I ordered the Judikins white embossing powder and am very happy with it. Here I've embossed on watercolour paper as a resist and then coloured with Distress Oxide inks. I didn't have embossing ink in my hotel room so used light colours of regular distress ink which you can emboss with, which didn't affect the whiteness of the powder at all. The oxide colour combination on the left is my favourite so far: broken china, cracked pistachio and iced spruce. On the right I added some vintage photo to my spiced marmalade/worn lipstick/fossilized amber combination which oxidized into a slightly mauve colour, very nice IRL. Some day these might become cards, LOL.

Looks very nice Keitha!!

Gorgeous color combinations! They'll make very nice cards.

Oooh Keitha, these are both terrific! Your coloring blending is awesome and they will make great cards for sure. Glad you had some down time to play. How did you apply the inks? Sponge applicators?

I just posted a similar idea with stamping and embossing with white powder, then watercoloring the ink on with a water brush. So much fun!

paddlegal wrote:Oooh Keitha, these are both terrific! Your coloring blending is awesome and they will make great cards for sure. Glad you had some down time to play. How did you apply the inks? Sponge applicators?

I just posted a similar idea with stamping and embossing with white powder, then watercoloring the ink on with a water brush. So much fun!

I love the results from putting ink on the craft sheet and spritzing it with water, then dragging the paper through it. For the blue/green card I stopped after one good drag and then once more to pick up a bit more colour where there wasn't any. I think you get a more translucent look with more defined edges to the colours that way. For the one on the right I dragged the paper through the ink several times, probably adding more water after a couple of drags; that tends to give a more opaque, blended colour application which is softer looking. Then I flicked some water drops on top.