I just love the way foil adds so much to a card. You can't see all the beauty in this photo but this rose gold foil looks absolutely stunning on this card. There are a few ways to get foil in your projects but this is the most fun and most professional look out there, I think. With the fine tip you can write and do tiny things as small as one inch. The medium tip is used for most things and the large tip will foil and fill in big designs.
I love to foil over stamps with a glue pad and run them through my Heidi Swapp Minc. Then I cut them out for using on my cards. But this is for all the electronic cutting machines like my Cricut Explore Air 2.
You can also get little thumb drives of line drawings but they all looked like pretty simple drawings to me. You can get much more sophisticated stuff to foil in design space.
HSN had them on sale 40% off of that price and on the easy payment plan it was a no-brainer. Even Amazon had them on sale for around $50. And Joanns recently had them at 50% off for only one day in July but you had to go online to see what the sale of the day was. It was a "Shark Week" sale just for July. Things were listed daily on their site and not tagged as a sale item in their stores or weekly sales ads. This sale snuck up on you... like a shark!
You place on the mat your card (or other material) and then the foil down held with paper tape, and the heat pen foils your design through Cricut design space. It comes with four attachments and fits most all machines. It will work on the Cricut Maker, Explore Air 2, Silhouette, Brother and most electronic cutting and scoring machines.
The starter kit comes with foil samples but you want to get some larger rolls to play with. Is there anything my Explore Air 2 can't do? Look at all these foil colors! You can also get them on 12" x 8 ft. rolls. These little pre-cut packs are 4" x 6" and you get 30 sheets. That's the equivalent of a 12" x 5 foot roll. Do the math. If you want to try a bunch of colors then get the pre-cut packs. Sometimes they are cheaper than a roll per square footage. Always check for a sale.
Cricut (and other electronic machines) say NOT to use any accessory that's not expressly made by them or you will void your one year warranty if your machine should need repairs. That includes pen holders made by other people but that never stopped me from using what I wanted with mine. The pen holder in the Explore Air 2 easily pops out and you can even make your own accessories that IMO will not damage your machine but it will make it more versatile. It's up to you.
UPDATE AUGUST 13, 2019
And, WRMK (We R Memory Keepers) just released the freestyle foil quill pens that you can use with stencils or freehand. They are on HSN today with an autoship for future foil and stencilling packs. Go get them - they will never be this cheap in the stores!
They come in four tips - fine, regular, heavy and calligraphy. You would use those on anything that won't fit under your machine head. Or, if you don't want to take a chance on voiding your warranty. I will have both sets. I love the intricate work that Cricut does with the foil pens and I love being able to freestyle my writing on anything.
Can you imagine being able to foil anything you want??? Anything! You can use stencils or trace over a light box OR print designs on thin paper and use that as a guide. There's a whole lot of possibilities for these pens. Love it!
All these new toys keep me so busy.
I love to foil over stamps with a glue pad and run them through my Heidi Swapp Minc. Then I cut them out for using on my cards. But this is for all the electronic cutting machines like my Cricut Explore Air 2.
You can also get little thumb drives of line drawings but they all looked like pretty simple drawings to me. You can get much more sophisticated stuff to foil in design space.
HSN had them on sale 40% off of that price and on the easy payment plan it was a no-brainer. Even Amazon had them on sale for around $50. And Joanns recently had them at 50% off for only one day in July but you had to go online to see what the sale of the day was. It was a "Shark Week" sale just for July. Things were listed daily on their site and not tagged as a sale item in their stores or weekly sales ads. This sale snuck up on you... like a shark!
You place on the mat your card (or other material) and then the foil down held with paper tape, and the heat pen foils your design through Cricut design space. It comes with four attachments and fits most all machines. It will work on the Cricut Maker, Explore Air 2, Silhouette, Brother and most electronic cutting and scoring machines.
The starter kit comes with foil samples but you want to get some larger rolls to play with. Is there anything my Explore Air 2 can't do? Look at all these foil colors! You can also get them on 12" x 8 ft. rolls. These little pre-cut packs are 4" x 6" and you get 30 sheets. That's the equivalent of a 12" x 5 foot roll. Do the math. If you want to try a bunch of colors then get the pre-cut packs. Sometimes they are cheaper than a roll per square footage. Always check for a sale.
Cricut (and other electronic machines) say NOT to use any accessory that's not expressly made by them or you will void your one year warranty if your machine should need repairs. That includes pen holders made by other people but that never stopped me from using what I wanted with mine. The pen holder in the Explore Air 2 easily pops out and you can even make your own accessories that IMO will not damage your machine but it will make it more versatile. It's up to you.
UPDATE AUGUST 13, 2019
And, WRMK (We R Memory Keepers) just released the freestyle foil quill pens that you can use with stencils or freehand. They are on HSN today with an autoship for future foil and stencilling packs. Go get them - they will never be this cheap in the stores!
They come in four tips - fine, regular, heavy and calligraphy. You would use those on anything that won't fit under your machine head. Or, if you don't want to take a chance on voiding your warranty. I will have both sets. I love the intricate work that Cricut does with the foil pens and I love being able to freestyle my writing on anything.
Can you imagine being able to foil anything you want??? Anything! You can use stencils or trace over a light box OR print designs on thin paper and use that as a guide. There's a whole lot of possibilities for these pens. Love it!
All these new toys keep me so busy.
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