Letterpress Cards

Welcome to Kristie Kreates!

I'm glad you here to spend a little time with me.

Today I'm showing you a couple 

letterpress cards.

Letterpress is when printing or an image is pressed

into the paper/card stock

I used embossing folders to do this letter press

technique.

I inked up the raised side of the embossing folder, 

put the card stock into the folder and ran it through

my Cuttlebug.

I have found that a light hand with the ink works 

best for me, but it's kind of a hit or miss until you

find the right amount or color of ink.

Sometimes, I will do a second generation printing,

where I run it through once, then without inking up the

folder again, run it through with another piece of card stock.

It all depends on how much ink you have on the folder and

also the color of ink.

I cut the little birds from a die set that I have

in my stash and added them to the fronts of the cards.

I really love that pop of color.

For one of the cards, I used this little die cut bird

on the inside of the card, just to add a little pop of color

and interest.

I love this technique and should remember to use it more often.

Thanks for coming by today for a visit,

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

try some letter press printing.