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Dry embossing I view more as a texture -as you are kind of changing the shape of the paper and making a design in it.
Wet embossing/adding embossing powder thats more of a decoration and looks more like an embellishment.
Does that make sense??
I never looked at it as anything but a technique, but that's just me... that's why you have so many other opinions to listen to
I'm with you. I think of it as a technique. That would be where I would list it in a recipe....but that's just my opinion.
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That is okay I just wanted to make sure I was not missing something really cool. Again what is considered a standard card...and for future can you edit your messages?
a standard sized card is a card that measures 4 1/4 inches by 5 1/2 inches. It is a card that is basically one half of a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock so you can get 2 cards out of a piece of letter sized cardstock.
You have a few minutes after posting to go back and see an "edit" button at the bottom (next to the "quote" button). You can select that and edit your message . HTH!
ETA: Just an afterthought - if you see this, it means "Edited to Add" .
Okay here is a more silly question....what is considered a standard card on SCS?
This actually is more complex than you may think. I would think most forum mebers are from the US but nonetheless this forum has a worldwide membership and different countried do different size cards. In the UK the 'norm' for handcrafted cards is probably A6 although A5 is also very popular and square cards of 5" x 5" or 6" x 6".
In terms of a British perspective US cards are much smaller than ours so the Su background stamp is too small for an entire card background on many of our cards and other US things can be a problem too. The Cuttlebug is US made and we consider it as producing too small areas. We couldn't emboss using a Cuttlebug and have it fill the entire front of our card-it's too small.
I can't answer for other countries though I believe Europe to have a similar size card use as the Uk. Yes I know we're in Europe too but when we (British people) talk about europe we talk about it as if it's somewhere else and not here!!! That's why many Europeans get cross with us as they think it shows we don't consider us to be part of Europe!! Off the point there a bit-sorry!!
I would think of heat-embossing as a technique, but personally I would think of dry embossing as an embellishment. There are times that you really need to heat emboss for stuff to work, but in the days before Cuttlebugs and all the other machines, there wasn't a lot of dry embossing because it was so much more time-consuming.
Silly Question...
