Here are some photographs to show how to do the Josephs Coat technique. Click each photo to enlarge (may take a little time to download).

Ink your stamp with a clear embossing ink such as Top Boss Clear, rather than a tinted pad. Make sure you cover all the stamp, as it can be difficult to see where you've inked.

Cover the stamped image with a clear embossing powder and tip the excess powder off, making sure the entire image is covered.

Heat the image with a heat gun until the embossing powder has "turned" and your image appears on the page almost like a watermark.

Colour random areas on the image with bright brush markers until you have no white areas left.

Wipe the image with a tissue to remove the ink from the embossed areas, then cover the entire image with a pigment ink. Here we are using a pale blue, but for different effects, try different colours of pigment ink: gold works very well, and black will give an effect similar to Chinese Lacquerwork.

Quickly cover the entire image with clear embossing powder, tip off the excess and heat until the powder has "turned". The original embossed image will have acted as a 'resist' for the brush markers, and will pop through the top covering of pigment ink. This covering of clear embossing powder will act almost as a laminate, sealing the colours.

Cut out the image and gently curl the petals to form a flower shape. Place two or three flowers on top of each other to form a pointsettia. Here, the top flower has been inked using a gold pigment ink before the final coat of clear powder was applied, wheras the bottom flower had pale blue ink rubbed over it. However, the same colours of brush markers were used on both images!