Personalizing license plates is a difficult process because of the restrictions placed on letter and number combinations. An easier way to add a personal touch to your car's license plate is to use hot stamping on the plate's frame. Unlike the plates themselves, you have the option of imprinting an entire phrase or an image onto a plastic frame. Campers can include the image of a tent and campfire on the top half of the frame with the phrase "Going Camping Again" on the bottom. For a bit of fun, split seemingly common phrases in two so that the lower half of the frame turns the phrase into a joke. The expected: "Been There, Done That" instead becomes: "Been There, Hit That."
Embossed stationery can be made grander by using hot stamping to imprint the image onto the paper. While this process might not be cost-effective for wedding invitations, company letterhead and business cards are usually ordered in bulk. The advantage to using the hot stamping process over other embossing techniques is that images transferred in this method have greater wear resistance. The foil bonds to the paper or card so completely that under normal use conditions (being stacked, folded or slipped into wallets) the image will not fade or rub off. Company logos, family crests and contact information are all different elements that can be embossed onto stationery using the hot stamping process.
Pictures are supposed to be worth a thousand words, but sometimes they cause only confusion. The hot stamping process allows event organizers to emboss the name of the event or group onto the frame itself. Companies who offer hot stamped products use graphics programs that produce tailor made dyes. This not only means being able to recreate a company logo, but also selecting the exact font style and phrase that you want embossed on a picture frame. Local house leagues can use this process on the paper picture frames that come with team photos to include the name of the house league and the year the picture was taken.