Diy + Mass Giveaway: Monogram Bill Of Fare From Position Your Postage Stamp On It

The folks at Chronicle Books conduct maintain sent over a lovely DIY - perfect for a concluding infinitesimal Mother's Day Card Idea an excerpt Meagan Lewis' book, Put Your Stamp On It!  As Lewis explains inward the niggling video clip (below), people may non realize how tardily it is to brand your ain stamp.  So amongst that said, she's offering us her instructions to hand-carve an adorable monogram postage stamp in addition to hence alos how to emboss it spell you're at it!  And hence afterwards, instruct into (by leaving a comment here) to win a re-create of the book!  Good luck!

Embossed Monogram Stationery Set

Personalized stationery makes a thoughtful in addition to useful gift. Use a monogram from the template provided or create your own. This projection requires embossing—a fun in addition to relatively tardily agency to give cards or envelopes an elegant in addition to polished look. Similar inward number to thermographic printing in addition to engraving, embossing is accessible in addition to inexpensive, in addition to requires relatively few materials. The embossing pulverization is heated in addition to transforms the stamped blueprint into a raised in addition to shiny print.

Materials
• Basic carving materials (artist carving rubber, linoleum cutting tool, scissors, arts and crafts knife, cutting mat, metallic ruler, graphite pencil (6B), os folder, paper)
• Double-stick record
• Clear embossing (a.k.a. “watermark”) ink pad or paint ink pad

• Cards in addition to envelopes, a venture color other than white
• Scrap newspaper
• Embossing powder, white
• Fine-point tweezers
• Embossing rut gun
• Monogram Template - click here to download

Step 1
Choose the size in addition to number of letters for your monogram. For a monogram 11⁄3 in/35 mm tall, ready your copier to enlarge the template past times some 150 percent. For a two- or three-letter monogram, brand an enlarged re-create of the template in addition to cutting out the letters. With double-stick tape, mountain the cut-out letters onto a novel slice of paper. Make certain the letters are direct in addition to spaced evenly apart. Create a novel re-create hence that y'all conduct maintain a unmarried canvass from which to describe in addition to transfer the blueprint to the rubber.

Step 2
Apply ink to your postage stamp amongst the clear embossing ink pad in addition to impress onto the card. Because timing is critical when embossing, postage stamp exclusively i carte du jour at a time, in addition to consummate the next steps earlier repeating the process.

Step 3
Place a slice of fleck newspaper underneath the stamped card, hence pour the embossing pulverization onto the moisture print. Cover the impress completely in addition to generously. You tin milk tremble it always hence lightly to ensure the pulverization sticks to the print.

Step 4
Gently tap the carte du jour over the fleck newspaper to instruct the excess pulverization off. You volition meet that the pulverization has stuck to your printed monogram. Any remaining pulverization tin hold out carefully wiped away amongst your finger (or, for pieces stuck inward isolated areas, removed amongst fine-point tweezers). Any pulverization on the carte du jour volition melt in addition to stick to your card, hence y'all desire to brand certain y'all instruct all the unwanted pulverization off! Excess pulverization tin hold out poured dorsum into the jounce of embossing powder.

Step 5
Hold the embossing rut gun at an angle to the card, away from y'all in addition to the paw that is belongings the carte du jour inward place. Turn the rut gun on in addition to motion the nozzle about to distribute the rut about the print. You desire to conduct maintain the rut gun almost a finger’s length from the print. The pulverization volition conduct maintain xx to xxx seconds to melt in addition to seal. Once y'all meet i surface area of pulverization melt, motion the rut gun to whatever other areas that conduct maintain non nevertheless melted. Turn off the rut gun in addition to piece of employment out to cool in i lawsuit the entire impress has melted. Your impress is directly permanently sealed to the card. Set the carte du jour aside in addition to allow it to dry. Repeat steps 2 through v for each card.

Extra hints: embossing colors
In this projection nosotros used a white embossing powder. It turns opaque when embossed hence the color of ink underneath volition non exhibit through. If y'all would similar the ink color to show, y'all tin buy clear embossing pulverization in addition to impress amongst a colored paint ink pad. When embossed, the clear pulverization volition melt in addition to the color of the ink volition exhibit through in addition to appear shiny in addition to raised.

Please instruct into to win a re-create of Put Your Stamp On It, past times Meagan Lewis past times commenting below.  We volition denote a winner Tuesday, May 14th!  Deadline to instruct into - 6pm Monday, May 13/13. Good Luck!

Put Your Stamp On It
xx Adorable Projects Plus Instructions for Hand-Carving Beautiful Stamps
By Meagan Lewis
ISBN 9781452115719

Update:  We conduct maintain a winner! Congrats to Julia Marchionna! Please contact us for details!  Jan