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Post by MichyM on Mar 7, 2024 22:51:51 GMT
If so, what are your most used plates? I decided to treat myself and it'll be here next week. In the meantime I supposed I ought to purchase a few press plates so I can actually use it ;D
Besides the paper that comes with it, do you have a favorite, or will pretty much any good CS (I use Hammermill) work? I know I need to go dig up some videos but if you have any in particular to recommend, I'll all ears. Thanks!
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hockeyspaz62
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Post by hockeyspaz62 on Mar 7, 2024 23:56:12 GMT
I only have the plate it came with. I bought three sets of word plates, if that’s what you would call them. I not interested in those type of items.
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MDscrapaholic
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Mar 8, 2024 0:29:25 GMT
I bought one right after Christmas on sale. Also ordered a couple holiday plates and all the inks when Spellbinders had a sale.
Haven’t even taken it out of the box! Following this thread so I can learn something too! LOL
I like that Altenew has plates, and I believe PinkFresh does too. Was going to sign up for the spellbinders monthly club but haven’t yet.
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Post by karinec on Mar 8, 2024 4:01:49 GMT
My initial purchase was two background plates. I chose ones with matching dies, because I enjoy having matching dies in general. I used the Trellis background quite a bit already and love it. I posted a number of cards yesterday if you want to see: www.instagram.com/karinemakesstuff?igsh=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr I love the look of the Fairytale background/frame but the finished size is slightly bigger than an A2 card. I make almost exclusively A2 because I don’t like dealing with all different size envelopes and cutting different sizes of cardstock etc so I have been using it less. I wanted to try out stencils with stamps and I really loved what I made. Other than that, I hadn’t purchased stamps and dies in a long time so treated myself to a bunch of stuff from the latest Pinkfresh release. Still waiting on a couple items. I did buy more plates but will likely not buy many more unless a design is really different or exciting. Carissa Wiley has a video on using regular cardstock in the Betterpress: youtu.be/FpRYA_qJXxg?si=GTI3SUf6HCuD8NTk
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Post by twillerbee on Mar 8, 2024 4:42:44 GMT
I have betterpress and love it. Betterpress plates also give better results for hot foiling. I have some plates from spellbinders and bought some from Pinkfresh in dec when they came out and also some from their recent release. This one is my most favorite press plate.
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MDscrapaholic
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Mar 8, 2024 15:48:51 GMT
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Post by MichyM on Mar 8, 2024 17:00:36 GMT
My initial purchase was two background plates. I chose ones with matching dies, because I enjoy having matching dies in general. I used the Trellis background quite a bit already and love it. I posted a number of cards yesterday if you want to see: www.instagram.com/karinemakesstuff?igsh=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr I love the look of the Fairytale background/frame but the finished size is slightly bigger than an A2 card. I make almost exclusively A2 because I don’t like dealing with all different size envelopes and cutting different sizes of cardstock etc so I have been using it less. I wanted to try out stencils with stamps and I really loved what I made. Other than that, I hadn’t purchased stamps and dies in a long time so treated myself to a bunch of stuff from the latest Pinkfresh release. Still waiting on a couple items. I did buy more plates but will likely not buy many more unless a design is really different or exciting. Carissa Wiley has a video on using regular cardstock in the Betterpress: youtu.be/FpRYA_qJXxg?si=GTI3SUf6HCuD8NTkThank you, your cards are lovely! And thank you for the link to the video, much appreciated! MDscrapaholic, thank for the heads up. I just ordered some plates <3 twillerbee, thanks for the link to your favorite plate. It hopped into my shopping cart too
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