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Heat embossing for me is usually a mess. I get the powder everwhere, burn something (usually me) and am really picky about all those extra spots even though I use an embossing buddy and paint brush to make the image as clean as possible.
But I do like the effect very much--I just find that I actually use techniques that are quicker for me to produce cards/pages in my limited stamping time.
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i love to emboss!
i must still be making mistakes!
i actually just bought some pink EP today! cause i heard about it here on SCS! if only i could remember the really cool project/idea that caused me to add pink EP to my wish list then i would be good to go!
i don't think they are 'hatin' on embossing. maybe just using different techniques or techniques that are a little more challenging or produce more dramatic results!
i am a simple kind of girl! some may look at my 'stuff' and think i am relatively 'new'... i love the elaborate cards i see here, but that isn't my style.
Really? I haven't seen that thread, but I'm all for embossing, heat and dry!
In fact, 3 years ago when I began making cards, I bought tons of Lasting Impressions brass templates and used them everyday. Now I don't use them much anymore, but I DO still emboss.
Heat embossing is AWESOME! I still do it. My fave effect right now is embossing winter white on black card stock! Also love using clear powder, makes great backgrounds!
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I personally love to heat emboss...love the look you can get with it. But recently I've been thinking that my stamping style is not quite "with-it", so maybe my affection for heat embossing is indicative of that. Oh well!
I was just reading that thread, and I think that what some were saying was that they embossed EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME, not that embossing is "out" or anything like that. I personally love to emboss if it is going to add the right touch to my card. There are so many techniques and styles that come and go "in style" but you should just do what makes you happy and satisfies your own personal creativity. I love watching the embossing powder turn shiny, too. Shiiiiiny..... lol
I'm not sure it's so much an anti-embossing sentiment - It's just that when we first learn embossing, it's so cool that we just want to use it ALL THE TIME! I kind of burned myself out on it.
I noticed in the "what did you used to do thread" a lot of people mentioned embossing like it's a beginning mistake.
Why does everyone hate on embossing?
Is it just out right now? Is it because dry embossing with the cuttlebug is so easy no one needs to heat emboss?
I don't emboss much, but it is one of my all time favorite effects.
My primary reasons for not wanting to heat emboss these days has more to do with speed and laziness, as opposed to anything else; if I can get away without doing it, I skip it. Occasionally, a project really does look best if embossed--when I want a copper, silver or gold effect, that is my preferred method to achieve it!
I haven't read through this thread entirely, BUT, if it helps to clarify my own statement, I don't consider embossing a beginning "mistake"--what I meant was, when I first started stamping, I thought I had to emboss literally *everything* because I didn't realize that you could still stamp something with a great ink, not emboss it, and it would still look great. :grin:
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I love to emboss images after I've colored them. It makes the colors 'pop' and protects the image. I just cover the whole image with Versa Mark then use one layer of clear EP. It gives it a slight pebbly texture, too.[IMG]//www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/images/icons/icon7.gif[/IMG]
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I think it all depends on the phase. I loved to emboss and then stopped for quite a while, one of the ladies attending a class asked about embossing, so I promised to do a class again. So, I had a class where we did three projects embossing and you would of thought it was the first time for many, but many had embossed quite a bit before, and they were so excited, I kinda got back on the kick again.
I love, love, love to emboss, to the point where I don't do it a lot on my cards anymore because I was embossing on every card.
I finally realized I could create some beautiful unique cards without embossing and now, I don't heat emboss alot, but I do heat emboss my logo on every card. That's my signature thing to do!
I'm not sure it's so much an anti-embossing sentiment - It's just that when we first learn embossing, it's so cool that we just want to use it ALL THE TIME! I kind of burned myself out on it.
This is my thought, too. well, actually I still emboss quite a bit, and I've been stamping a long time, lol. I just think, though, that when new stampers are introduced to embossing, it's a huge WOW moment. The tendency to emboss practically everything eventually winds down as new techniques are learned.
I don't think it's a negative feeling so much as people feeling they are "beyond" that initial learning stage of stamping.
Julie, I hear ya on the hair comment, lol! One of my husband's classic remarks was to silently look at my new haircut for a minute, only to say, "so.......is that the look you were going for?" And we'd already been married 10 years by that time, too!
I heat emboss quite often because my heat gun is easily to hand, but I very rarely dry emboss because I just can't be bothered to get my light table out for one little embossed image.
But I do cuttlebug a lot, lol.
I Love to emboss. It was one of the first "techniques" I was showed at a stamp club when I was "new" to stamping, and been doing it ever since. I Love making cracked glass too!
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I love heat embossing. I haven't done it in a while because right now I'm enamoured with the idea of using the Cuttlebug embossing folders with my Sizzix machine!
I tend to revisit other techniques every so often. I get so many ideas from this site and I often can't wait to try new things (well, new to me!). Techniques like embossing get pushed aside to try things that I've learned.
I love heat embossing and the effect it can give to a card of page layout. It's just another way to give a project a lift - another tool in your creative arsenal.
So I say "hrmph" to anyone who says heat embossing is passe.
i love to emboss..specially on xmas cards..nothin looks prettier to me than the embossed effects of snow, snowflakes etc..i hardly ever dry emboss..
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I love heat embossing! It makes cards look like they are little extra special. I don't use it on every card, but I love to heat emboss flowers. I love my cuttlebug too!
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[quote=Erin K;5907520]Ohmygoodness, embossing is so gross! If I get an embossed card I throw it right away. I think "Yucky beginner" and toss that junk!
I love my "melting moments" way too much to ever give up heat embossing! The heat tool is plugged in at all times in my stamp room, and the embossing powders are within easy reach. I do not emboss every card, but I definitely emboss frequently!
I love and will always love heat embossing!!! I still use it all the time, but not on EVERYTHING. I'm always trying to expand my horizons, but sometimes you just can't do without it.
Put me in the club with the other "dorks" who love to watch it get shiny!
I used to hate dry embossing because of the time it takes, but now that I have my Cuttlebug, all bets are off! LOVE it!!!!
Just Kidding!!! I "HEART" embossing also. Black is my favorite. It adds a lot of definition.
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Why is everyone so anti-embossing?
