Did You Know? Fun Facts and Crafty Tips! June 2019 Edition
Welcome! It’s Shari Carroll here bring you the June 2019 edition of our Did You Know series.
If it’s your first time seeing this feature, each month we bring you fun facts, creative tips and even crafty hacks about your favorite supplies and brands; you can then use these awesome tips that you learn in your next crafting projects! Are you ready to learn some fun tricks? Keep on reading!
I’ve chosen a few of my favorite products to share and I seem to have a running theme of shiny goodness!!
Two Piece Word Dies
Word dies are really popular in cardmaking, they are a great addition to beautiful backgrounds. I love the word dies that have a two-piece element because they give me more options. You can use them together where the outer die looks like a shadow which is also easy to mount on your card. You can also use the outer die to cut a recessed area in your card to create a shaker element and place the more intricate word on top.
Stick-It sheets are a very thin double sided sticky sheet that can be used for various projects. It is especially handy for using with intricate dies to attach them in place. You can also use it sticky side up to add glitters and foils to your die cuts.
Have you ever wanted to use glitter or foil with your stamp images? The Moxie Glue Stamp pad might just be the answer you’re looking for. This ink pad comes with a refill bottle to replenish the glue on the pad. It’s simple to use, add glue to the pad, tap onto your stamp as you would with ink, stamp onto your cardstock. Finally, add glitter or foil to the stamped image! Tip: All types of foils can be used with glues and adhesives.
Foiling Machines with Foiling Plates
Keeping with the Foiling theme, hot foil plates and machines make it possible to create gorgeous cards using your thermal heat foils along with specially designed metal plates. The foiling plates look like dies but the area of the design is solid, there is no cutting blade. The foiling machine base heats the metal plate, then foil and cardstock are placed on top. Finally, you run the base with all the suggested layers through a die cutting machine to set the foil. Any thermal type foil can be used.
Tip: There are three brands of machines to look into, the first two being Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System and Couture Creations GoPress which can be used with a standard die cutting machine. The Crafters Companion Foilpress machine is to be used with either the Gemini Jr. or Gemini die cutting machines. All foiling plate designs can be used with these machines.
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Such fun techniques. Great cards!
I love how there cards look. :)
Thanks for sharing the great tips and fun facts!
Thanks, I learned a few things today
Great tips. The Moxy Glue Pad looks very interesting. Love the idea of using stamps with glittter and foil.
Brilliant highlight on a few products I’ve not seen before. Cards are great too.Thank you x
I love this series…. wish it was more often than once a month ?
Beautiful cards and great tips Shari!
Thank you for these wonderful tips!! I’m always in the mood to learn new techniques!!
Great tips and tricks! I love these cards! Great diecuts!
Thanks for the great tips and fun techniques!
Thank you for all the information :) Lovely work!
Love these tips and techniques!
Good tips. I like the background on the first card with the Thank you.
I especially like the first one. I have never thought to do that!
I love Shari’s tips, especially the one about using a glue pad for foiling. I love the look of foiling, but I don’t have a foiling machine can’t justify the expense of buying one. This may be the answer I’ve been looking for — I’m definitely going to give it a try!
Thanks for the great tips!!!!
Fantastic tips and cards, the glue stamp pad looks like fun!
Great techniques and cards. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Thanks for the tips!
I think I need the Moxie glue!! That sounds awesome to use with all the different color glitters I have. And the stick it sheets, too, for my intricate word dies especially. Goodness, I hate putting glue on them. lol
Great idea with the two piece word dies.
Moxy glue stamp pad sounds cool to me, it seems like a lot of fun to try out glitter stamping.
I love this fun facts and crafty tips edition, it is so useful.
What a great series, looking forward to more crafty tips.
Love the cards. And these products are so great!
I love Stick It! Can the new Glue Sponge be used like the ink
Pad you mentioned with fouls?
Love the idea of this blog post — much appreciated. Sometimes I feel like all I do is collect new stuff and never again use the “old” stuff. Nice to have ideas on how to use something more than once.
Thanks so much for these great tips!!
I do so love this series Shari… even at my age I love learning new tricks! I have the sticky adhesives but haven’t used it yet.
Some great ideas, Shari. I hadn’t seen the glue pads before. Fun idea!
Excellent idea of having an area for tips and hints.
I love all these tips from Shari. This is a great series that I enjoy very much. Always good to review products and techniques that I didn’t know about.
The Moxy glue pad looks fun to try! I would like to foil by just using glue. Thank you for the tips!
Love these dies too!
Great tips as always!
These are great tips! Now I really want to try the Moxy Glue Stamp Pad. :)
Great tips and beautiful cards!
Love this monthly fun feature! I have learned something new each time the post has appeared and I look forward to it. Great cards!
This was the first time I noticed “Did you know?” I didn’t know about the Moxy glue pad. Thanks for the info!
Great cards and useful tips! Thank you! The one I’m looking forward to trying soonest is the glue stamp pad! DGD is always looking to play with glitter!
Love learning new things–thank you.
Thanks for all these great tips.
Great techniques!!! Love the glitter flowers!!
Great tips and products
Great tips, I love the glitter tip with Moxy glue pad!
Great tips. I have to dig out some of my word dies and make some shaker cards. Never thought of that. I already follow by email.
Great information…love the glue pad.
Great tips! Love the cards…
Thanks for sharing.
Great tips! I need to play more with my foils. :)