Digital stamping questions

[Paula Anne]

Hi. I hope I am in the right place. In the past few days I have done a lot of searches on digital stamping. I have done a lot of looking through this forum for info on them, and although I can proclaim to have looked at every post, I still have a few questions.

First, when you use a regular stamp, you can use versamark to do embossing.
What are my options for embossing with digital stamps.

Printing images: Because I am on a limited budget, my resources for coloring images is limited to watercolor pencils. (I got a 72 pc set on ebay for $20!!!)
Typically when I use a rubber stamp, I use stazon black to stamp and stamp on water color paper for the coloring. I am very computer savy, but am not sure if watercolor paper is going to work to well on a printer to print out my image. What do you digi stampers out there do????

Since these are teh two big questions i have before I persue this avenue of stamping, I will stop there....but fear not, I am SURE I will have more quesitons in the not to distant future. LOL!!!

Thank you all, and enjoy your weekend.

Paula

[cat_woman]

I haven't had very good luck embossing my images printed out on regular cardstock. It works great when I use vellum tho and I get the embossing powder on there as its coming out of the printer. I can run watercolour paper through my printer without any problem, so I do use it once in a while. The one thing you need to think about also is if your printer ink will smear or run. I usually let my printed images set over night (or longer - I print out a whole sheet of different images). If I want to use them right away, I will give them a very light coat of spray fixative. I usually use either Office Depot or Staples 110# cardstock. For "special" occasions I use my Neenah cardstock. I also use bristol board and magna art paper. I really love using digital images. I'm sure you'll love them too. Just experiment with them and different papers.

[tortagialla]

Yes, I think it takes some experimenting with different papers and different inks to get the results you want. There are archival type papers and pigment inks that are permanent once dry, so it's easy to print out images and not worry about smearing, etc. In regards to heat embossing, I did read an article about it though I haven't tried yet http://rubberstamping.about.com/od/d...tampEmboss.htm

[craftdesigns]

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Originally Posted by Paula Anne

Hi. I hope I am in the right place. In the past few days I have done a lot of searches on digital stamping. I have done a lot of looking through this forum for info on them, and although I can proclaim to have looked at every post, I still have a few questions.

First, when you use a regular stamp, you can use versamark to do embossing.
What are my options for embossing with digital stamps.

Printing images: Because I am on a limited budget, my resources for coloring images is limited to watercolor pencils. (I got a 72 pc set on ebay for $20!!!)
Typically when I use a rubber stamp, I use stazon black to stamp and stamp on water color paper for the coloring. I am very computer savy, but am not sure if watercolor paper is going to work to well on a printer to print out my image. What do you digi stampers out there do????

Since these are teh two big questions i have before I persue this avenue of stamping, I will stop there....but fear not, I am SURE I will have more quesitons in the not to distant future. LOL!!!

Thank you all, and enjoy your weekend.

Paula

This link will take you to the 'digi' posts on my blog.

http://paperfriendly.blogspot.com/search?q=digis

[nottoocreative]

I saw somewhere that there is special paper that dries more slowly, so you can actually emboss with this paper...I didn't save the link or name, though :( The writer was also talking about using some kind of gel you can "paint" onto regular paper, in order to keep the ink wet again, and emboss it...she said that some people asked her if that would ruin her printer, but she had been using it in hers with no problems. It might be wise to use an older printer though, that you can afford to ruin if it does happen.
I know that's not super helpful, but it might get you started on what to look for!?

[craftdesigns]

Quote:

Originally Posted by nottoocreative

I saw somewhere that there is special paper that dries more slowly, so you can actually emboss with this paper...I didn't save the link or name, though :( The writer was also talking about using some kind of gel you can "paint" onto regular paper, in order to keep the ink wet again, and emboss it...she said that some people asked her if that would ruin her printer, but she had been using it in hers with no problems. It might be wise to use an older printer though, that you can afford to ruin if it does happen.
I know that's not super helpful, but it might get you started on what to look for!?

Inkjet inks don't dry quickly on non-porous surfaces...vellum, glossy cardstock, etc. I have an idea the gal is painting the paper with a gel medium (an acrylic product), allows it to dry, then runs the paper through the printer. The gel medium would result in turning plain paper from a porous to a non-porous surface.

Regardless of what you use, you do have to work quickly...any delay in getting the powder on the paper often produces spotty results.

Here's a gift tag I printed on vellum and thermal embossed. http://paperfriendly.blogspot.com/20...t-easy_13.html

Although this was clip art and not a digi, the technique is identical for either type of image.

[nottoocreative]

Quote:

Originally Posted by craftdesigns

Inkjet inks don't dry quickly on non-porous surfaces...vellum, glossy cardstock, etc. I have an idea the gal is painting the paper with a gel medium (an acrylic product), allows it to dry, then runs the paper through the printer. The gel medium would result in turning plain paper from a porous to a non-porous surface.

Regardless of what you use, you do have to work quickly...any delay in getting the powder on the paper often produces spotty results.

Here's a gift tag I printed on vellum and thermal embossed. http://paperfriendly.blogspot.com/20...t-easy_13.html

Although this was clip art and not a digi, the technique is identical for either type of image.

Yes! that was it, a gel medium...she also gave the brands of some papers that would work, so they must be the non porous kinds of papers (she didn't just use general terms like vellum or glossy, so I didn't catch that she could have been meaning those types of papers)

[bsktcse]

You can go over the part of the image you want to emboss after it's printed out with a Versamark pen - then put embossing powder on and emboss. Same thing with a Quickie glue pen - you can go over the parts of the image you want to put glitter on with the glue pen, then sprinkle on glue. Both give you a nice "touchy feely" effect.