Which Embossing Powders?
 

Okay, I was thinking last night about what I would pick if I could only have 3 colours of embossing powder. When I use embossing powder, its fairly minimal, so for starters I'd probably go for something basic and necessary like black. For my second colour, I always love a bit of metallic accent so I'd pick an antique gold. And for my third I'd go with a forest green, since I like foliage in my art.
What three colours would you pick? Just wondering. : )

Olivia

I'd choose detail black, clear, and a metalic silver for my 3 EPs.

Black, clear, and gold.

Clear, white and silver. Black and gold, too. Well, that's more than 3. Why limit yourself! The accessories will multiply overnight. Especially Stickles, glitter and liquid appplique. Then the punches....
Have fun. Seriously, buy what you think you will use the most. :-)
Stacy

Silver, gold and white.

I really love the copper EP.

White, clear and black would be my choices

good luck with deciding!! there are so many choices out there isn't there~!

Actually, I already have a rather large collection of embossing powders, I was just wondering what if one could only select 3 colours. Kind of like that question "if you were alone in the wilderness for a week and could only have 5 things". I just wanted to see what others would pick, simply curiosity. : )

Olivia

Clear, Gold and Silver
With my craft ink spots and white and black pads, I could always stamp with any color craft ink and emboss with clear for embossing in any color.

I am with everyone, I would pick clear, gold and silver for the embossing powders.

I have several too, but I usually pull out detail white, detail clear, and detail black!

Now that Stampin' Up! has discontinued their detail embossing powders, which brand do you all like and where do you purchase it?

I see such a huge difference with detail vs regular EPs that I will only buy detail from now on. Worse comes to worse I can use versamark and ink to color.

my choice would be black white and clear

Clear, Gold, and Silver. (I also have copper, which I haven't used yet, WW and VV, which I didn't feel worked great, and I've got a metallic purple and a metallic blue, that I'm going to try out.) But definitely Clear, Gold, and Silver.

Where do you buy ""detail" embossing powders?

Clear, Irridescent Ice and Gold, those are the colors I reach for the most, actually two of them aren't really 'colors' but they alter the stamped color underneath, which is why I like them. I actually don't own black EP, if I want that color I stamp using black craft ink and use clear on top.

Oops. I didn't name three to answer your question. I would also have to add gold and silver if I had to pick only three. I have the soft subtle EPs but haven't used them yet.

My most used ones for this time of the year are Puffy White, Detail Black, Detail Clear and Chameleon. Now for Thanksgiving cards they will be SU Earth tones and Detail Clear . For christmas they will be Detail Clear, Kaliedascope, Adirondek's Cranberry and Moss. I really think it all depends on the season. I love using EP on my cards. I have 31 jars of EP that I bought over the last year. For spring I will be using my pastel colors and so on. It is really hard for me to just pick 3 so I picked 4 as I always use my deatail Clear EP.

Detail EP
 

Here are a couple of sites I found for detail embossing powder:

http://www.stampin.com/online/accs/embacc.htm#detail
http://marcopaper.com/embossingjudikins.htm
http://www.scrapperdoodle.com/servle...ing/Categories

Thanks to everyone who's replying! :)
Olivia

MIne are..pewter,snowflake, gold, and many others..lol.
I have a question about the black.. i have been wanting to use it on a lamp-post for a xmas card..no matter how many times i run my EB over it and tap off the excess..i can't get rid of the black smudges it still leaves..it's so upsetting as the lamp-post looks awesome with the black EP..any hints?? thanks ahead for any replies..loves ya

Smudge Problem
 

Gail,

I'm not sure what 'EB' stands for.:confused:
Maybe you have too much ink on the stamp? When I have "smudge problems" I usually go through with a fine-tip paintbrush and remove it. The shorter the strands (for lack of a better term) on the brush, the more control you have.
Hope this helps. : )

Olivia

Blonde Moments
 

I recently started using Blonde Moments embossing powder............and I LOVE it!!
It works perfectly and all those colors are YUMMIE.......really nice to add a different touch to your cards etc..
Vronica;)

[EB=Embossing Buddy] I get frustrated with black EP for the same reason. There always seems to be flecks of it where it shouldn't be after I heat set it. Have you tried using black pigment ink, then using clear EP over it? Any stray EP wouldn't show as much.

Thanks, Kiko. I've never heard of the Embossing Buddy before, will have to look into it. : )

Olivia

You can buy the Embossing Buddy at Michael's, Joannes and SU sells them also. I use one as well and they work pretty good.