Hi Betty,
  Needless to say I am a bit behind here... Spent this holiday weekend in bed 
... I did a big NO NO! I ate some  candy and it did a real 
number on me... I know better but is sure did taste good when it went down 
. But then I have paid dearly for that action... and it is unlikely that I 
will do this one again for a very long time!!! !
*** Quoting Pat Knox to Bettie West dated 06-29-97 ***
>  BW> quilts and RS. I got into RS a little but I can't seems to make my
>  BW> embossing stand up like it should. I even bought the heat gun 
> cause
>  BW> I was afraid I was getting it too hot with my iron..but so far, no
>  BW> luck. do you have any suggestions and do you know if there is any
>  BW> difference between embossing powders..like I could pay more for
>  BW> them, but I found Wal-Mart carries them for less than 3$ a jar,
>  BW> being the frugal person that I am. I fugured,,,why pay more if you
>  BW> don't have to...but I may have made a mistake....yes ? Take care,
>  BW> be good to yourself. and I hope to hear from you soon. good to be
>  BW> getting back in the swing of living again..    
There are many definite differences in embossing powders... unfortunately 
some companies are not very good at all... and I have learned not to waste my 
money on their products.  Also some colors are easier to get good results 
with where other colors no matter the manufacturer, are very difficult to get 
to do what you want... 
  The company that is at the bottom of my list,  
is Stamp Affair. ... and believe me I have any number of their 
products... including stamps and EP's.... the EP's just don't measure up to 
the quality of many of their competitors. 
  Comotion puts out a fair product in EP's and I have a number of their EP's 
also...  Interestingly enough I have found the Comotion EP's cost a bit less 
than the Stamp Affair products here in the Detroit Metro Area.
  However there are a number of much higher quality EP's available.  Though 
you are not likely to find them in Walmart or K-Mart stores... Your craft 
stores like Michael's do carry some of the higher quality EP's ... 
but you have to look and be prepared for the higher price tags that go with 
some of these goodies...
 There are several companies that in my opinion make good to great EP's. They 
are Embossing Arts, Stamp'n Stuff, ... but there is another company that does great tinselettes that I 
like... again the price tags can be a bit steep for some of these powders... 
but the results are wonderful!  Any more I use mostly Stamp'n Stuff...Right 
now I have 64 different colors and textures of EP's that I can play with... 
many of them I buy in bulk so that I don't have to worry about running out or 
can get a good measure as part of a co-op that I have done here with other 
fido users.... 
  I have also gone to making my own RS's.  I market them ... as well as make any number of designs for my own 
personal use... I have found this to be a much more economically way to 
enhance my RS's ....  I just added another 24 stamp designs to my RS's here 
last month by making my own stamps. And the cost was minimal.
  Right now I am not doing much RS'ing because I am in a state of "flux"... 
as soon as my cabinets get here and are installed I will be able to stamp and 
quilt to my hearts content!!! And that should be in just a couple of weeks 
now... .
  I have lost count of the number of RS's I have any more but I do know it is 
well over 1000.  I have a number of stamps that are still awaiting mounts... 
I just have not had the opportunity to get to them to do the mounts ..
  I am also going to be doing some wedding invitations... These invitations 
will use 6 different stamps... All the stamps are now made up and ready to 
go... The paper is here... and as soon as the construction is done I will get 
with the bride to choose the embossing powders/colors and then get moving on 
the 200 invitiations that she wants done.  
 Once I get things settled here I  will most likely get in touch with Pat and 
Joan  about doing another EP co-op.  I was hoping to be 
able to do one before this but things don't always go the way you want them 
to ...
  Now since I have babbled on and on Bettie, can you be a bit more specific 
about the problem that you are having with the EP? Maybe there is a way to 
solve it for you with a bit of ease???  And what company  are you 
using...? Is there a specific color too?  As I mentioned all of these factors 
will figure into what it takes to get good results...
Julia
--- He Lives! 
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