Monday, March 7, 2011

Embossing Fail

This weekend I finally got around to making a mock up of our invitations.  I ordered supplies ages ago from the absolutely amazing Paper Circle.  Paper Circle is based in Canada, has fantastic prices and some of the most amazing customer service I’ve experienced.  Plus their products are top notch!

I wanted to make a mock up so I could know if:

  • The design in my head would translate into the real thing like I hoped.
  • I could print on beautiful shimmery paper with our laser printer.
  • My ideas would work without having to sacrifice oodles of supplies.

All in all I was really happy with how my mock up turned out.  The laser printer did a great job on the shimmery paper.

There was however one thing that didn’t work out.Picture1Embossing was a bit of a fail.IMGP3086I love the idea of a white embossed graphic on black, but check out how messy it looks.  The edges are not crisp and there is white embossing powder flecked around the image.  After using the embossing heat tool to set the powder the cardstock warped.  I was not pleased with the result.

I’m worried about wasting a lot of cardstock to make the embossing work.  I’m also a bit of a perfectionist and I’m not so keen on sending the invite out if the embossing is going to look like this.  I’ve tried this stamp on different surfaces before (envelopes, magazines) and it turned out really well so maybe the powder is sticking to the cardstock?

I’m leaning towards ditching my plan to emboss something on our invitations.  Do you have any suggestions on what I can do to make this work?

6 comments:

Keith said...

You mean you aren't creating an event on facebook and sending out invitations that way? How, how, quaint!

I got nothing on paper embossing.

Meg said...

Does it work better with silver ink? It would be stamp not embossed, but similar look maybe?

Danielle said...

Oh no!! I love the embossed look, that sucks that it didn't come out right.

Btw- I LOVE that stamp!

Unknown said...

After dumping the powder on, tap the edge of the paper onto the table a few times and blow on it to get rid of the extra powder. And if your paper warps, try holding the gun farther away (takes longer, but can avoid the warp) or try another method for heating, like holding above the iron or over a tin pie plate on the stove burner...

Saying I do said...

no suggestions here but good luck!

Nicole @ Haute Runner said...

So cute but I understand why you aren't happy with the finished product. No suggestions- my embossing gun is still in the package...