How often do you emboss?

[BonnieBrown]

Not "dry embossing", but the other kind. Is that called heat embossing? Powder embossing? Anyway, I just wondered how often you emboss on cards. Every card? Every image? Every text stamp? Just sometimes? How do you decide when to emboss? If you emboss one thing on a card, do you emboss everything so it has a uniform look? I think I go in spurts. Sometimes I emboss a lot, but then I'll go a really long time without embossing anything. Just curious what others do.

[tay0479]

I think that 1 out of 5 cards I emboss on. I have no ryhme or reason to it.

[glenda s]

Rarely or almost never do it. Maybe 6 times or cards per year.

Glenda

[stampinfrog]

I never embossed as often as I wanted to. I never bought the tools you need to color the image in with. I have recently boughts some H2O, and I am practicing coloring with them with the embossing.

[TheresaCC]

I emboss with clear on almost every card. I like how it makes the colors more vibrant.

[HoosierMama]

It's called "heat embossing". I don't do it as much as I used to, maybe 1 out of 10 times? Although I've been using the emboss resist technique when doing the Zindorf style cards a lot.

My mom loves gold embossing powder and uses it all the time. It seems like the current trend is coloring in images, so embossing just isn't really needed as much?

[ebethneu]

I can't remember the last time I heat embossed on a card.


I do heat emboss on metal, glass and plastic though. But you have to so the image doesn't come off.

[Stampin' Annie]

I just do it whenever I feel like it. Sometimes I'll emboss on lots of cards, then go for months without it. It also depends if I have the right ep to match my color scheme.

[Mrsjvb]

weeeelllll, until I bought my CB..pretty much every other card was heat embossed. I still love it, but now..I am down to every 4th or 5th. Mostly cuz it's too dang hot to run the gun....

[MariLynn]

I don't do it very often maybe once or twice a month. Considering I make about 25 cards a month this isn't a lot.

[LateBlossom]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stampin' Annie

I just do it whenever I feel like it. Sometimes I'll emboss on lots of cards, then go for months without it....

That's me, too.

[JulieHRR]

When it suits the style of the project.

Granted, I probably tend to heat emboss more "formal" type projects (wedding, sympathy, congratulations) but, usually not my casual/everyday kinds of greeting cards.

So, a jar of EP can last me a long, LONG time. ;)

[403nellen]

If I'm going to water color an image I always heat emboss. It's easier to stay in the lines. The lines raise when embossed so it is very helpful. I just do alot of embossing. If you are doing something like words or an intricate design then just use the "detail emb powder". If you want a thick glaze or you want to crackle then use the ultra embossing powder. I love it - it was a WOW demonstration at least 5 years ago and every since then I keep my heat tool plugged in.

Have fun.

[MaryAnnK]

I heat embossed alot when I only used markers to color - it was easier to stay inside the lines. Now I mostly color with my Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol so I don't emboss as much. I did emboss one of the cards I made for today's technique challenge.
TLC177 - Asian Poppy by MaryAnnK at Splitcoaststampers

[geez.its.tegz]

not a lot, but when i do emboss, i love the look it gives to a card!

it's messy (for me anyways haha) so i tend to avoid it..

[Jaine Parr]

Probably not as often as I ought. I used to do it a bit more and have gotten out of the habit. Thanks for the reminder!

[sarashep]

I use embossing a lot...probably at least 50% of my cards have embossing...

[stamp2stamp2]

I really like the look of embossing. I wish I did more of it but somehow I can never find all of the right supplies at the same time. Well I solved that problem by getting a storage container just for embossing supplies. Now I can find everything at once - so I should be doing more with embossing. I especially like it when I use water color crayons or water color pencils.

Happy Stamping and Scrapping

rita

[jtax]

I'd say about one third to one half of the time I emboss *something* on a card.

[SDiegoGal]

I hardly ever emboss. I would emboss more if I could figure out a way not to burn myself or something around me! lol I have tried using a clothes pin to hold the paper and have tried doing it on my table. The clothes pin method seems to warp the paper at the corner where the pin is and when I embossed on my table, well, now I have a nice little warp there. I just don't know how to emboss!

[lutheran]

I emboss everything. My heat gun is like another hand to me. It was one of the first techniques I learned in the dark ages of stamping when I started and I still love it. Now, if only SU would bring back colored embossing powder stacks . . .
Mary Beth

[pear52]

Like so many others - it really depends on the project. It does seem I go in spurts of different techniques. Right now I'd be happy to just start stamping more often. I've been into using up scraps of paper and finishing stamping projects I began but didn't quite "finish up".

[toodlesyall]

I've gotten back into embossing because of Michelle Zindorf and the amazing creations she...uh...creates (it's late, sorry ). Her work is absolutely stunning? She makes it look easy. Here is her blog with tutorials: Blogs at Splitcoaststampers

[stamphappy1650]

Like others, when I feel like it, but more than likely because it enhances the card. I bought a pound of clear EP and it lasted me 5 years. This year I just bought another pound from a store that went out of business so I'm good for another 5 years! I don't use a lot of colored EP. Mainly clear, white, black, silver, gold, copper. Lots of gold as I have about 4 different kinds. Hardly ever use my distressing EP that I now consider a waste of $$.

[wendalyn]

I emboss on almost every card I make

[MSBetsyZ]

Quote:

Originally Posted by toodlesyall

I've gotten back into embossing because of Michelle Zindorf and the amazing creations she...uh...creates (it's late, sorry ). Her work is absolutely stunning? She makes it look easy. Here is her blog with tutorials: Blogs at Splitcoaststampers

LOL, yeah, I've been "zindorfing" lately, too! Even aside from that, though, my clear ep is never actually put away. It's just always sitting out because I often stamp and then dip it right into the container. I keep bulk clear ep in a large sandwich container so I can dip a whole cardfront into the powder.

I do like the look of thermal embossed sentiments, although I sort of look at it like mixing gold and silver-toned jewelry, lol...if the image is embossed, likely the sentiment will be too. Mostly to keep the look uniform.

[Cook22]

Not a lot. I like the effect, but I don't like the clearing up. Keep meaning to try a tip I read about using a coffee filter for the powder. I almost always spill some, and then I have to bring the vacuum cleaner up a ladder to tidy up if it's on the floor, and if it's on the desk it gets into everything.
I like sponging the edges of things with Versamark and embossing them with gold or silver, though. When I get round to uploading the card I made for Faith's Flourishes challenge this afternoon, I did it on that.
I like the effect of clear embossing on watermarks, but too lazy to do it myself.

[Zindorf]

I heat emboss occassionally, lol. No really, I love it and use it all the time!

[Brianya]

I quite like heat embossing and the look it gives. I use it quite a bit.