I made a pretty dang fantastic discovery the other day. I know I'm not the first but I am glad that I figured this out on my own and it wasn't something I found on pinterest or something.
I have been purchasing embossing folders for a while now, you know, the ones you use in machines like Cuttlebug, Sizzix, QuicKutz to name a few. I mainly use them for making impressions in clay mostly because I use clay more than anything else and because I don't own the proper machine to put them through to emboss or die cut paper. I also don't do a whole lot of scrapbooking or paper crafts so I hadn't even given the idea of buying a machine much thought. I just got some free embossing folders delivered from Overstock.com...(free courtesy of Crowdtap.com) and I was just fell in love with the floral design on each folder. So much that I actually wanted to see what it would look like on paper. I looked to my left, I looked to my right, I turned and cracked my right hand on my pasta machine.
Why is a pasta machine in my craft room? We have to head back to clay for the answer. A pasta machine is perfection for rolling out and conditioning polymer clay. Turns out it is exactly the right tool to feed an embossing folder through!
Now it doesn't work for all folders (Spellbinders folders are a bit thick) but it is perfect for Cuttlebug folders and probably others as well. Anyway, that's all. I felt pretty clever and wanted to share.
