If you are a regular visiter to the Cupboard you will know that I like to emboss straight onto my cardstock as well as using them for matting and layering. What I want from a folder a creasefree result, no breaking of the surface fibres of the cardstock, a full size A6 folder with a repeating pattern. I'm not fussy or hard to pleased, am I! (lol)
I have just bought 4 new folders from my supplier, Liz. They are new additions to the Crafts-Too-you range and after testing them - I'm impressed with them!
All of the examples are embossed on coloured copy paper. Only a very small section of one folder (spots)where I embossed over the centre fold actually cut the paper - my mistake!
All of the folders embossed with no creases, and the patterns on all are REPEATABLE! If you click on the pictures you can see if you are able to spot where the join is!
Folder: Spots
Folder: Hearts
Love Hearts
Damask
From my experiments I have found:
1: All of the patterns deboss as well as emboss
2: On very thin copy paper the folders do not crease or break the fibres, on heavy cardstock the embossing is good.
3: All of the folders have repeated patterns - I have embossed onto a 6" square paper
4: The Heart folder opens the opposite way ie from the top
5: The folders emboss a full A6
Tips: If embossing a larger square card, start with the folder at the edge and emboss towards the centre fold.
Place the top B plate slightly over the folder so that you don't get a line from the folder. On the next run, reposition the folder by overlapping the already embossed pattern. Feed the back of the card through first, this time the B plate is best placed well over the pattern already embossed, that way you will not get a pressure line from the folder. (This has been difficult to explain - not sure if I have it clear!)
5 comments:
Thanks for these tips and the heads up about these folders - it annoys me too. I must check these ones out. Jaqui x
Many thanks for sharing this useful information - very helpful and good to know. These th8ings are always much easier to do than to explain!!
thes are lovely thanks for sharing,my fave has to be the little hearts,any advice on using border type embossing folders? I have a set that always seem to crease up the card so just dont use them :( would be grateful of any tips,Julie.x
Thanks for that information, the only drawback with the cuttlebug folders is that the pattern (with the exception of Swiss Dots) is not repeatable. I'll have to check this new kind out.
Lynn x
These are really, really good, Ikki. I'm another one who's found the Cuttlebug folders somewhat frustrating at times! I recently got a set of Fiskar's Texture Plates that work really well - nice and big, and double sided so you get two patterns for the price of one! They deboss really well too. I haven't checked out whether the patterns match up but they are so big it doesn't really matter. Nice designs, too!
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