Texture Plates

Texture plates can be used in several different ways with a number of different materials.  First decide which texture plate will work best for the project you are creating. Place the texture plate onto a flat surface.  (The texture plate fits onto the Shape Boss which is extremely helpful to keep your project in place.)  Cover the texture plate with the material you wish to texture and secure into place with low tack tape.  You can texture with a stylus, a bone folder, colored pencil or crayon.  What you texture depends on what material you are texturing and what you wish to be the end result.

Scribble a colored pencil or crayon back and forth across cardstock until the design shows through.  This sort of texturing is great for adding pizzazz to die cuts, photo frames and backgrounds.  Texture first then cut out a shape.

Using a bone folder works well on almost all materials, cardstock, metal, vellum suede paper etc.  I use this tool specifically if I wish to detail cardstock.  I can rub the cardstock with the bone folder until the design shows through, then with a stylus I can detail any or all of the design as I choose to.

Using a stylus gives the most detail in use with the texture plates.

Some textures appear best when you go over the designs multiple times using a cross-hatch pattern.  Other textures with a vertical pattern such as lines appears best when you go with the grain of the pattern only.  Experiment on scrap paper to determine the best results.

When working with lightweight foils, try using your finger to texturize the foil, rather than the stylus.

When adding textures to your designs, the large ball of your stylus works best.

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