Diy + Mass Giveaway: Monogram Carte Du Jour From Position Your Postage Stamp On It

The folks at Chronicle Books receive got sent over a lovely DIY - perfect for a final infinitesimal Mother's Day Card Idea an excerpt Meagan Lewis' book, Put Your Stamp On It!  As Lewis explains inwards the piffling video clip (below), people may non realize how slowly 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 and then alos how to emboss it spell you're at it!  And in addition to then afterwards, come inwards (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 slowly means to give cards or envelopes an elegant in addition to polished look. Similar inwards final result 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 enterprise 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 give away of letters for your monogram. For a monogram 11⁄3 in/35 mm tall, develop your copier to enlarge the template past times only about 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 conduct in addition to spaced evenly apart. Create a novel re-create hence that you lot receive got a unmarried canvass from which to line 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 solely 1 menu at a time, in addition to consummate the next steps earlier repeating the process.

Step 3
Place a slice of chip newspaper underneath the stamped card, in addition to then 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 menu over the chip newspaper to larn the excess pulverization off. You volition run into 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 inwards isolated areas, removed amongst fine-point tweezers). Any pulverization on the menu volition melt in addition to stick to your card, hence you lot desire to brand certain you lot larn 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 you lot in addition to the manus that is belongings the menu inwards place. Turn the rut gun on in addition to motion the nozzle about to distribute the rut about the print. You desire to receive got the rut gun well-nigh a finger’s length from the print. The pulverization volition accept xx to xxx seconds to melt in addition to seal. Once you lot run into 1 expanse of pulverization melt, motion the rut gun to whatsoever other areas that receive got non nevertheless melted. Turn off the rut gun in addition to run out to cool 1 time the entire impress has melted. Your impress is straightaway permanently sealed to the card. Set the menu aside in addition to allow it to dry. Repeat steps 2 through five 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 you lot would similar the ink color to show, you lot 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 come inwards 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 come inwards - 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 receive got a winner! Congrats to Julia Marchionna! Please contact us for details!  Jan

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