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You may remember that a couple of weeks ago I decided to make a mock-up of our invitations. The only thing that I wasn’t happy with was my attempt at embossing. Just to refresh your memory, here was the result that I wasn’t pleased with:

I used white embossing ink with opaque white embossing powder. I didn’t like all of the flecks of white embossing powder that clung to the black card stock, despite a vigorous tapping on the table and blowing on the card stock. I didn’t want to give up on the bicycle stamp because this was going to be my attempt to tie a lot of our paper products together.

My friend Julie suggested stamping with regular silver ink, which sounded like a good compromise. BM D encouraged me to not ditch the embossing completely, though, because she really liked the raised texture.

I decided to try two different embossing powders—a purple and a pearly white. First up is purple!

This definitely looks a lot cleaner. It is a little dark on the black card stock in real life, although it does photograph really well!

Next up I tried a translucent pearly white embossing powder on white ink.

This one also turned out pretty well. I like the contrast between the white picture and the black card stock.

I’m a lot happier with how these two different powders turned out. The big question now is which one to go with? Which do you prefer—the purple or the pearly white?