I was thinking about how to improve the contrast of the silver griffin prints, and remembered that I had some silver thermal embossing powder.

The left half of a landscape-format piece of paper has been colored blue with watercolor paint, and the right half red. Embossed in metallic silver is a left-facing griffin (a beast with the head, wings, and front claws of an eagle, and the body of a lion) passant (standing flat with one claw raised) surrounded by a rectangular border. The print is signed with a stylized A in the lower right corner. The background (behind the print) is purple.
Embossed Griffin Print
Two prints for comparison. For each, the left half of a landscape-format piece of paper has been colored blue with watercolor paint, and the right half red. Each is printed with a left-facing griffin (a beast with the head, wings, and front claws of an eagle, and the body of a lion) passant (standing flat with one claw raised) surrounded by a rectangular border.The top print is embossed in silver. The bottom is printed with a flatter metallic silver ink. The prints are signed with a stylized A in the lower right corner. The background (behind the prints) is purple.
Embossed vs. Flat Silver Griffin Print Comparison

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The left half of a landscape-format piece of paper has been colored blue with watercolor paint, and the right half red. Stamped in black is a left-facing griffin (a beast with the head, wings, and front claws of an eagle, and the body of a lion) passant (standing flat with one claw raised) surrounded by a rectangular border. The carved pink eraser stamp that made the impression , stained with black ink, is standing on one long edge in front of the lower left corner of the print. The background is handmade black crepe paper (chirimen).
Griffin Passant Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp
A white rectangle of paper imprinted with a stylized image of a fountain pen nib engraved with spirals and the Evermore ambigram sits on a surface covered with handmade dark brown paper. The hand-carved eraser that made the print is laying horizontally above the print, leaning against a translucent pen stand. Part of a bottle of writing ink is also visible in the background.
Fountain Pen Nib Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp
A white rectangle of paper imprinted with the image of a bookshelf with eleven books of different sizes. One book in the middle is tilted to the left within a larger gap. The books have been colored in with brown, blue, green, red, orange, purple, and yellow. The hand-carved white blocky eraser that made the impression is laying face-up across the upper right corner. Both are on a brown surface.
Hand-Carved Bookshelf Eraser Stamp
A white rectangle of paper imprinted with Calcifer, a stylized flame with two eyes and a mouth. The print has also been colored in with yellow and orange watercolor pencils. The print is signed with a small A and is resting on a background of crinkled brown paper (momigami).
Calcifer Eraser Stamp and Mixed Media Prints

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