Hi Friends
Well, as you know I received my Christmas Pressie at the end of the day yesterday and had to prepare dinner and so on, so my evening was getting thin for time to play with it after I have shockingly read the instruction book. Mark was shocked I had taken the time to read it first. A first! hee hee
Anyhow, I played for about an hour but my printer network was giving me strange messages so I ended up having time to try one thing. That was all so I did try to take the best pictures as I could given that foil on camera is not always an easy thing to show, but that won't stop me from trying to show you what it did for me on first try. But this is not a done project by far. I was just playing around getting to know my machine and the heat that must be applied to card stock is also another fun thing to figure out but I will get there. For now here is what I made last night and will not be part of any card because I know it can look so much better than this. So folks, do not take this example as a best piece this machine can make. Nooooooo! By the way it works along with a laser printer. In order for the foil to adhere well to the ink it has to be printed by laser. Cheap and good quality machines are available online.
So here we go. When I get a full project finished I will post it and explain the process so if you are curious and interested about this foil machine, stay tuned, I will show you more and explain a little bit more in details. A friend of mine has a machine too and we are exchanging tricks between one another so we get better at this so bare with me. Please.
So basically, this is work in progress. I am not implying that I have done the perfect first piece but it is surprisingly good considering I had no idea what temperature to set my machine at and got this result.
Because I have not printed a high quality black print for the pattern it didn't absorb the gold as much as it would have done it with really dark laser print on my card stock. I also beleive that the quality of cardstock will make a huge difference with the gold imprint. I must try a better quality card because this one I used was for my cutting machine which is thin and has no soft feel to it. I like to use cheaper paper when I am practicing though.
I will post more as I go but first I have tons of cards to make so I will be a little quiet for a few days once I start making cards I try not to get distracted.
Have a fantastic day, smiling is contagious, try it, you'll see immediate results!
