Susanbcards: More Ways to Use a BetterPress Plate!

The Spellbinders March 2025 BetterPress of the Month is "Quilted Memories". Most months, I use the BetterPress of the Month with the Glimmer Hot Foil machine, it looks good and there's no mess.

The gold one above is gold foil paper embossed. I then took some black acrylic paint and with a paper towel, rubbed it onto the paper, let lightly misted another paper towel and wiped it off. The paint dulls the shine of the paper and colors in the recessed areas.

For the diecut center, I used the same metallic paper and diecut the flowers and the arch. The dies are from the Large Dieset of the Month.

This month, I did ink it up:

It's a pretty design, an outline of some florals. There is a Stencil of the Month that matches this that beautifully colors this design. You can see the Club Kits for Match 2025 by clicking HERE.

I saw a Jennifer McGuire video where she took a floral BetterPress and embossed paper with it. It looked interesting but me being the kind of person who really likes an embossing folder, I knew I would be more interested in using a cover plate BetterPress plate to emboss.

The way I often use 3D embossing folders is with ink, so that is the idea I had. Emboss with the BetterPress Plate but ink it up first. I made a YouTube video you can watch here:

The photo below shows other ways I used the BetterPress, the gold background is gold wrapping paper! A cost saving way to emboss paper for cards. I just cut a piece of wrapping paper and embossed it, then trimmed it to fit my A2 card.

I used my Sizzix Big Shot to emboss these papers. The sandwich I used is: The Multipurpose Platform set on 1 for embossing dies, a bottom plate, a flexible silicone mat, the paper/cardstock, the BetterPress Plate (inked or not) and a top plate.

The purple background, above, left: inked and embossed onto purple shimmer cardstock (I think it's from Box 10 of Your Paper Insider). The glass die is Spellbinders, the paper inside the glass is a scrap of alcohol inked yupo paper.

The multi-colored background, above, right: black hot foiled onto Your Paper Insider paper. The Sunset in a Glass die is cut from scraps of colored metallic cardstock.

The gold background, above, center: embossed wrapping paper from Michaels.

I also used Solar Pastes on black Mixed Media Paper, inked up this BetterPress plate and embossed it.

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March 2025 BetterPress of the Month Kit