Savvy Saturday~Non-Traditional Embossing
Happy Saturday!
Today I want to show a savvy way to emboss!
Have you ever wanted to personalize your embossing…something just for you? With 3,000 pounds of pressure, you can emboss just about anything in our handy dandy Wizardâ„¢! So come and join me as I personalize my embossing with a non-traditional item (non-scrapbook item). I find that flat materials work best for me such as lace, onion bag and doilies.
From the bottom, the sandwich for embossing is:
White Master Mat
Mesh
Paper
Tan Embossing Pad
White Master Mat
Pass the sandwich through the Wizardâ„¢ once and take a look…wow, instant gratification!
Using Core’dinations paper, I embossed with mesh that was packaged around my wine bottle to give my card some texture. I used S4-161 Labels One #2, #3 to frame my image from JustRite Stampers which was stamped with Clearsnap Queue. I sanded the paper with fine grade sandpaper - love how it turned out! Then I adhered it with Scrapbook Adhesives’ 3D Foam Squares to pop it up. By using papers from My Mind’s Eye, Denna’s Penny Lane Collection, I was able to finish off my “DAD” card for Father’s Day.
Something really unique was embossed by Design Team Member, Janine Blackwelder. Can you guess what she used? The answer…a piece of gutter guard! Something you can grab from the hardware store or maybe some left over in the garage? Aren’t our design team members clever?! She embossed a piece of 12″x6″ foil using gutter guard to create a metal panel in the center of her very cool layout. WOW!!!
See what you can find around the house and emboss it!
Thanks for stopping by for Savvy Saturday!
Tags: Core'dinations, Embossing, Janine Blackwelder, JustRite Stampers, Margie Higuchi, My Mind's Eye, S4-161 Labels One, Savvy Saturday, SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES by 3L
June 6th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Thanks for the fantastic tutorial, Margie!! It’s a lot of fun to use found items and come up with really unique embossed patterns, I just need to do it more often! Thanks for sharing such wonderful samples and for the inspiration!!
June 6th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Janine, love your layout. You are one clever designer. Way to go!
June 6th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Love the Card! Gorgeous layout! Fantastic ideas
Thansk Margie!
June 7th, 2009 at 7:00 am
You always amaze me Janine. Your card is great great and your page layout as well. Keep em’ coming girlfriend!
June 7th, 2009 at 10:08 am
That layout is Va-Va-Va-VROOM!!
June 7th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Amazing as usual…I was in a mini retreat class taught by Janine in May, and part of the goodies was a pice of gutter guard…it does work well…and makes a cool background! Great layout and card Janine!
June 7th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
pice above should be piece…i kant tipe.
June 9th, 2009 at 4:26 am
What a cool idea! Love the scrappy page she did too!