Hi, everyone, it’s Charlotte C with a very quick post this
week. I learned something recently and
just had to try it and share it with you.
Foiling is such a rage recently, and I know a few of us have a Minc
machine. I have the Heidi Swapp
Minc. However, if you don’t have a laser
printer, but you use vinyl, you might like to try this. I know for vinyl users there’s always scraps
of vinyl to be had and this would be a good way to use up those scraps to color
coordinate them to a project. The Hello
on the card I’m showing here was actually a scrap of matte teal Oracal 631
vinyl, but notice it’s pink and matches the foiled card front exactly.
Using your Cricut or a die (I used a Lawn Fawn die here),
cut your word or image. Weed all the
vinyl except your image and leave the image on the backing sheet. Trim the backing sheet close to the image. Run
it through your Minc as you would anything you want to foil. Now you can use your transfer tape to remove
the image and place it where you want. Do
not put transfer tape on the vinyl before foiling.
Haven’t tried glossy permanent vinyl yet, but I’m sure it
will work fine, though I don’t know if you put it outdoors how the foiling on
vinyl will hold up. I might have to try
that and report back. I have used black
vinyl, cut out a star and bow, foiled them with pink and gold sheets and they
came out great.
Thank you, Sheila, for inviting me here again. Hopefully this post will inspire more use of
the Minc machines.
Thank you, Charlotte, for sharing this technique. Your card is just beautiful! Off to try this out! : )
ReplyDeleteVery nice technique!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteWow! My Minc (the Anna Griffin one) just arrived, and now I have something new to try out with all of the other features. I haven't tried anything vinyl, but this is great to know. More Minc info, please!! Thank you so much for sharing this info.
ReplyDeleteHad to look up some of the terms to figure out what you were doing. There are many types of transfer tape. What kind did you use? Very ingenious of you to run a piece of vinyl through the foil machine. I bit the bullet and bought one after watching a video of someone running things through a laminator 4 times to get the foil to stick, ha-ha! Waiting for it to arrive. Does the vinyl usually come WITH transfer tape? SO many questions, I know!!! ;) Thanks for showing us a great new idead!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful card and thank you for explaining how you did this. It is just awesome.
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