I have to confess that I am so awful at heat embossing. I tried to do this challenge, but I sold off almost all of my embossing powders and my Versamark pad is quite dry. I never have been able to get a result that I was happy with, so I finally let most of those supplies go. I did try to smudge and emboss the edges with an old powder I found. It added a nice distressed edge I think.