ArtEmboss Earrings Experiment

I forgot I had a brand new roll of copper ArtEmboss until I dug through a messy drawer.  ArtEmboss is a nice accent for earrings, especially like it paired with these copper hoop earring findings.  I thought they would be perfect to do an experiment: hand emboss vs. machine emboss.

A few years ago I was lucky enough to get an idea of mine published in Stampington Publishing’s Green Craft Magazine.  The pay scale was 30% more if I accepted a gift card to shop at Stampington’s Online store.  So I opted for the gift card and had so much fun shopping.  That is how I got the “Artisan x-plorer” and I really haven’t utelized it as much as I should.

I stacked the metal embossing plate sandwich and ran my ArtEmboss copper foil through it excited to see how the pattern looked.  When it was done,  I flipped the piece of ArtEmboss foil to the backside and traced the outline of the earring finding on the back and cut it out.

Part two of the experiment, I traced the outline of the earring finding on a plain piece of ArtEmboss and used the wood stylus to hand emboss, then I cut the pieces out following the tracing lines.

I used stain on the machine embossed set and left the hand embossed natural.  It was a fun experiment plus it was nice to finally get some use out of my embossing machine!