[stationery] next ridiculous question!
Jan. 3rd, 2025 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay! So! The notebook I have bought myself a decade's supply of (just starting year two) is the Pebble Stationery Co. A5 Cosmo Hardcover, which is covered with linen. (I actually have five blue and five grey, and I'm intending to alternate them.)
I had resigned myself to needing to keep things carefully organised and even then probably have to actually open the notebooks up when I find myself wanting to refer back to something, But Then a few days ago it Occurred to me that I know that linen-covered notebooks can be stamped with debossed designs, with or without (hot, I think?) foiling. I also (think I) know that this does not (necessarily) require the design to be stamped prior to assembly of the notebook (but maybe spines are harder???).
... I quite like the idea of stamping the year onto these notebooks (again, optionally with foiling), but I am having Difficulty finding information on (1) what kind of set-up I'd need given that I have this one extremely specific use-case, and (2) the extent to which foils contain Plastic (which I would not be able to justify). "Okay but can I also stamp the spines" is its own whole separate Thing.
Most of the information I'm managing to find focusses on cardmaking and involves a specialist printer that will accept materials of maximum thickness of around 2mm, which are not exactly, ah, relevant. But surely some of you have already fallen down this rabbit hole, or at least can tell me what I should be searching for to get slightly less frustrating results? How ridiculously expensive and impractical would a home set-up be given that I have no desire to set up my own stationery monogramming cottage business? Are there places that offer this as a service for notebooks that have already been written in as opposed to ones you're buying from them new??? etc!
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Date: 2025-01-04 03:07 am (UTC)There are ALSO hot foil attachments for various home craft cutters, though I think the journal is probably too thick to put in (the clearance on the one I have is only 3mm). However! The company that makes those ALSO makes freehand hot foil pens, and I know people who've had decent luck either cutting a cardstock stencil or tracing over a drawn template. Buuuut I can say for sure that the foil for those has a plastic carrier layer (not part of the final product, the heat activates the glue on the other side so it sticks to your object and pulls off from the carrier), and I have no idea how much metal is actually in the 'foil' layer.
Another related option is regular foil/leaf, which you can get with and without a plastic carrier, is definitely actually metal, and which can be stuck down with a variety of adhesives - the downsides there are that getting the desired pattern in adhesive can be hard, the stuff without a carrier is SUPER delicate unattached, and you don't get the debossed effect that you get with hot foil stuff.
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Date: 2025-01-04 09:50 pm (UTC)You are MAGNIFICENT and also a fount of knowledge, thank you <333
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Date: 2025-01-04 10:44 am (UTC)I hope you find a good answer.
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Date: 2025-01-04 06:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-01-04 09:51 pm (UTC)I want it to be PRETTYYYYY, basically, and am nervous of ink bleeding unpleasantly on the linen!
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Date: 2025-01-04 09:54 pm (UTC)I wonder if nail varnish and rubber stamps work well together.
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Date: 2025-01-05 01:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-01-05 08:49 pm (UTC)... I do have a box of scrap linen. Excellent point, thank you!