[Nfb-krafters-korner] embossors - how to made one idea

[Carol Osmar]

Are you saying you would use this homemade embosser the same way 
you use a stamp? Have you ever used one like this? Maybe I am 
missing something but it doesn't sound like it would work.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rovig, Lorraine" <LRovig at nfb.org
>To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
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>Date sent: Mon, 5 May 2008 16:12:16 -0400
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idea

>homemade embossers:
>To make the pattern, have a friend who is sighted cut out the 
current
>size and shape of praying hands from a print item (church 
newsletter,
>online art?) and glue the cut photo to a chunk of wood that fits 
the
>hand as it will become your embossing stamp.  The sighted friend 
takes
>thin strips of edged metal and, as they do in India with brass 
strips
>for table top designs, uses a rubber mallet to pound the strips 
into the
>wood, following the design of the hands.  Perhaps the copper wire 
sold
>at craft stores (which is round, not edged) will permit embossing 
a
>design on card stock without tearing a hole in the paper.  I 
suggest
>trying 26 gauge and 20 gauge to see what works.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces+lrovig=nfb.org at nfbnet.org
>[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces+lrovig=nfb.org at nfbnet.org] On 
Behalf
>Of Dan Brewer
>Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:07 PM
>To: List for blind crafters and artists
>Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] embossors

>I found praying hands at Walmart.  They were metal and stuck to a 
napkin
>ring I was making quite easily.  I think you are thinking of 
"blind
>Hands", I'll have to keep looking.

>I will let Carol tell you about her embossing set.  You know! I 
bet
>someone could make a templet for the hand you are looking for and 
you
>could use the tool to trace it on your card.

>HenriettaAt 10:35 PM 5/3/2008, you wrote:

>>You mentioned an embossing tool.  Please tell us a little about  
this.

>>Has anyone ever come across hmmmmmm a sticker in the shape of a
>hand???
>>Need it to fit on a businesscard and be tactile enough to feel 
the
>shape.

>>You got the wheels spinning now!

>>Joyce



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