I chose this sort of lettering style because the hand punched metal letters goes well with the irregular Tudor structure. First, I tried blind embossing the letters with a view to painting over them so that the flooding of the watercolours will go into the indentations and make them show up. This works well if you can do the embossing with a softer surface under the paper, as the embossed letters punch deeper. But this paper is stretched on board, so the indent was too shallow to make an … [Read more...]