Dry Embossing with the Simply Scored Board.

Dry Embossing with Simply Scored

I remember the first time a dry-embossing kit at a mega mart store. The photo on the box showed a beautifully manicured hand using a stylus to meticulously outline tiny giraffe spot impressions from a plastic plate through a piece of card stock. Beautiful... and lots of time consuming tediousness that looked like too much work to be fun.

Flash forward about a decade. Yes, that's my hand and it could probably use a manacure. Even still, dry embossing is super popular in card making and scrap booking and is super easy. There are lots of tools for dry embossing to use with the Big Shot, but this article is about some simple and fast techniques you can do with the new Simply Scored scoring tool. The new Occasions Mini-Catalog has several cards using the Simply Scored for decorative elements on the card fronts. It adds texture and a dimensional element to the card without adding extra paper.

The Simply Scored tool has alleys evenly spaced at every 1/8” and a ruler going down the left side as well as across the top, so you can position your card stock on the board once and score at your desired intervals without having to shift the paper. Either side can be used, the valleys or the raised side. For a bead board look, I scored 2 alleys, skipped 3, score 2 and so forth. To make the lines on a perfect diagonal, I lined up the corners of the cut card stock along the side and top rulers so that they were equal distance from the corner. A simple plaid design consists of score lines at 1/2” intervals squarely across one side, then flip the card stock over and turn it 90 degrees to score the other side. Lots of options exist for all sizes of paper and card stock and it's fast and easy to do. Made a mistake? Flip it over to the raised side and “erase” it with your bone folder. Easy!

Enjoy this simple technique to enhance your next card or scrap book page!

All the best,

K