Great, saves buying another piece of kit to store. I'll try it out once I get a plate or two.

Thanks - wanted to figure out how to use the beautiful images I have without buying more!

❤❤❤this idea. Nice job I will try this.

Thank you so much for sharing this process. I like the look of the letterpress but am not going to buy another machine, Off to buy a crease pad !!

Distinta card,muy bonita.

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Wow! Thank you for sharing. That was very informative 🙏

Thank you, great video. I just got a Stampwheel and I've been trying to unsuccesfully use turnabouts, this video is just what I need! I didn't know that Altenew had a black grip for the Stampwheel, I'll definitely be ordering one. Again, thank you!!

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Thanks Tara for this brilliant scene building video. I just had to have the background stamp but had no idea how to use it. I now need to order the wee critter stamps they are so cute. Can I ask where you got the sticky note tape ? 💟

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This is so cute. Thank you for giving a new perspective on stamping and decoupage ❤

Very interesting thank you

Hi Bev, great card! Love the colour combo. Just wanted to say that although it doesn’t really matter, you haven’t removed the protective film off the clear plate of the Stampwheel. Still works fine obviously but it will be crystal clear without it. Also, Altenew are coming out with a larger Stampwheel soon!

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I’ve not seen anything like this before. Great demo. Thanks.

Hi Tara , thanks so much for your video , you have really shown how to do masking and scene building., I find it really difficult to do !! But I think you have given me some hope 😊your card is so cute and your colouring skills are really good

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Could you post a link for that clearly sticky mount, please?

I thought the same thing, I wanted to be able to have a slide up/down shade on the big window as well... Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this!

Thankyou for showing an alternative idea. Personally the Betterpress is not for me as it's just another purchase I think I can live without.

Could you put a piece of computer paper between magnetic plate and the stamps for easier lift off when done?

Very helpful. Thank you!

Thank you for this. I had seen that you could do this and could not remember the steps. So Yay, yay I just purchased a crease pad. Bonus.

Did you use better press ink?

I knew there had to be a way to do this!!! Thank you for showing this. I just preordered a die cutter. Can't wait to try. I appreciate you showing all the results from trying.

Thanks so much. I didn’t want to buy a new platform to use in my BigShot and this shows me it is possible to not need the platform

Thank you so much for sharing. I'm a bit late to the party! I love the look of some of the letterpress plates but really don't want to have to buy another machine. Off to buy a crease pad now.

Excellent video, well done. I like the betterpress effect but like many fellow crafters I don't particularly want to buy another machine. And I understsnd that for the machine to produce the best results you have to also buy cotton paper and special ink So this option is much more attractive. Thank you.

OK I did more investigating the inks used here. It appears to be Tsukineko, Claire and they are a pigment that stays moist longer than dye inks. This can be used to your favor if you want to emboss especially helpful but you can use a heat gun to help dry just don't linger too long on any part of your design. Now as to my situation. I did want some bling even subdued bling but BLING none the less. So here's what I eventually tracked down there is also Tsukineko, Delicata and that has what they call shimmer to them. Stars on their boxes help identify these ink pads. Again it too is a pigment ink. I ordered that in Rose Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver, Emerald Green, Ruby, and a Pink. They make a shimmer brown and even a black and white. So I skipped the black and white for now because I already covered those just not in shimmer colors. Most people like the shimmer effect but sometimes people insist they can not see any shimmering effect at all. Not sure what would happen but I'm thinking it could do with media and how saturated your dies were or how many times you added more layers or reinked your dies and repressed with your ink press or block. I'm not sure if there's a way to get a total high gloss silver, gold metallic tone but I'm happy to know I get a little bit using the Gold and Copper and Silver. I'm not after mirror shiny. In other words not trying to get a full foiling look here like you get using foil sheets and heat pressing. I am not positive but several other sites doing similar and slightly different uses of their foiling dies to emboss or deemboss also recommend pigment dies more than other dye inks. Tsukineko, makes a number of leading inks including the StazOn inks. Not the other way around. So Claire is for basic colors no bling and Dleicata has a metallic element. Hope this helps. I intend to try inking with clear embossing pad and then adding embossing powder in fine or ultra fine silver and gold to see if I can achieve close to foiling without foiling. I have plenty of foiling sheets too but doubt I can get it to stick to the embossing fluid. Or any ink pad even pigments. Hope I didn't make this more complicated than it is. PS today JoAnn has the Dleicata in a few colors on really good sale with 1.99 shipping. I took advantage and ordered 4 of her offered colors. I already have over 8 different colors of the Claire used on this video.

Thank you for this hack! I just do not want to buy another machine but I really love the BetterPress look. TYFS 💛💛

Well done 👏👏 on such a great video. Well organised, to the point, and helping people to save money not spend it. Thank you 👍👍

Great video and very well done! So helpful. 😊 I use Anna Griffin Empress with my plates.

Thank you for your video on this. I googled this very subject how to use these letter press dies without a Betterpress. Voila here YOU ARE with the Answers and MORE. For those who are curious the ink being used is Tsukineko I think it is made by StazOn or someone makes both and other lines of inks too. I just happen to have lots of glimmer dies and though I love the foiled effects they create there are tricks to getting everything just right and over time I've let my glimmer ware and dies just sit in the drawers unused sadly waiting on life. NOW I get to give them an entire NEW LIFE. I love embossing plates. And yet fight their limitations. The smaller ones can leave lines around larger sized card stock forced then to cut it down to size. This too happens with the smallest of embossing folders you end up having to cut them out and adding as a topper glued onto your card. This may work for those too. I have Sizzix and Spellbinder die cut and embossing machines plus two other electrics that probably won't take this sandwich but my others will. The Gemini does not have a wide mouth opening and I'm not positive how the new Empress works as I haven't opened it and set it up yet. (I got it on a huge sale almost half off. I couldn't resist trying one more time for an electric machine though my past history tells me forget that. I hate the Gemini it's ruined several Tim Holtz cut and emboss special 3D extra deep folding shaped emboss dies. Pretty much quit using it and it's also very very loud. The Empress is suppose to be whisper quite. I have a nerve condition that makes me sensitive to sounds. So here we are and loving it today. Your video is so helpful. I have grease mats in 2 sizes it turns out on hand. I forget why I bought them a few years back but I have brandnew ones waiting in the wings. I also find the Sizzix and the Spellbinder machines are very similar. I have both their normal solid platforms with and without the magnets and the flip book platform for the Sizzix as well as the newer Universal platform system for the Platinum. The hope here was to use my many Diamond Press dies in these bigger machines. I just ordered a special plate addition or not sure what one calls it a plate or platform add on for the Sizzix machines that helps cut the very thin to thinlit dies they carry and Tim Holtz makes. Meantime that plate should transfer to the Spellbinder machines too. I have both the regular 6" and the Platinum 8.5". All in all I am a HUGE FAN of thinking outside the box and DIY hacks if you will but I hate the word hack. I just believe in using common sense and being safe but also working through how to achieve things and coloring outside the lines so to speak. Love your showing what you tried and how it didn't quite make it and taking us through to what did work. I'm off to find a few colors in the Tuskineko inks . I live in the heart of the Rocky Mountain NW MT Forests with over 200 mature pine trees on our property so love love love Pine cones and pine branches and ordering a pine bow Letter Press plate today and knew I didn't have nor wanted to invest in yet another produt if I could. You were a twofur today as the saying goes. How to adapt my glimmer plates into letter press plates and then how to letter press outside the lines to boot. Hugs and kisses and all that messy stuff. Thank you....

I honestly believe you can get a really good similar effect with a die and a rubber mat and the right depth of sandwich . It's just something else to buy and stand on the side of your craft room !!!

They are like embossing a design on your card stock cool. But I am not sure if I need more things. I am sorta interested, though it looks real good

Thank you for answering one of my questions there ❤

Have you ever heard of cough drops????

Try spritzing with a bit of water, you get more definition. I put a piece of copy paper under die when inking then pull out before making my sandwich, that way you don't get over inking onto your cardstock.

I blew up a crossover machine by trying something that should not be done so a very expensive try (400,00) so I do only what Should be done with machines. We are not forced to buy things if you can’t afford it don’t buy …don’t buy those expensive Coffee for a month and you have a machine.

Great video! I’m a newer crafter. I knew of letterpress before betterpress came out but never watched how to do it. I’ve seen some videos of using different paper and inks but it was all with the betterpress system still. I figured eventually I’ll buy one but I don’t want to add an extra thing while I’m buying all the other staples.

Thank you for this video. I have seen the examples of the better press machine and thought “that’s nice, but will I really use it?”. I’m glad you showed how to use the plates with a regualr big shot machine.

Thank you

Excellent job creating a big window! 👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻👍🏼💖

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The Better Press is overpriced like all the machines that come out. I'll use what I have just like you do!!😊

Thank you!!

Did the water color work ok on card stock or should you use watercolor paper?

So glad that I saw your video...much easier than using yet another new gadget. Does it matter which ink you use and have you tried using cotton watercolour paper as well? Would be interested to know and then I might buy one of the dies.

That crease pad makes tbe best letter press! Fabulous.