How to use a glue pen with the Heidi swap Minc machine

When wanting to foil while using your silhouette machine and a Heidi Swapp toner pen is out always easy. I have found in the past that the toner pen is very problematic. It can run out quite quickly as it constantly needs to be primed to get ink through the tip.

So I tried to look for an alternative.  And after looking at what I had at home and one of my staples in my stash was a quickie glue pen. You can buy them from your local craft store or on Amazon .

I tried the glue pen in my silhouette 3 and it worked great.

Below is a quick tutorial on how to use it.

1- Open your software program. I am using silhouette studio software. Click on the text icon.

2- Select your design. Click OK.

3- Click on the fill icon.

4-Remove the fill color.

5- Go to the send screen. Change the action from blade to sketch tool.

6- Place the glue pen into the pen holder.

7- Send the design to the silhouette machine. The glue pen will start drawing your design.

8- You can see on the card that the design is drawn with the glue pen. Make sure the glue design dries before you prepare it to go through your minc machine.

9- Place your card in the transfer folder, then carefully place the foil on the top.

10- Turn your minc machine on and set to 2. Run through the machine.

11- Your design is foiled.

How to use reactive spray with the Heidi swap minc

Hi there everyone!!!

Today I will be sharing with you how to use the Heidi Swapp reactive spray.

I was a little hesitant regarding the spray at first as I really did not know what id use it for in terms of foiling.

After trialing the spray I found a few things about the spray. 

Firstly ALWAYS clean the spray nib after use. if you don't it blocks and you can't use it again. 

Next, when you spray, use a heat gun to dry it. If you let it air dry it can take hours depending how think its sprayed.

Lastly, I realized at a pinch you can use the spray as a "paint" and you can do some lovely handwriting with it. I will make a new post on this at a later date.

Ok so lets give it a go shall we?

1- The Heidi swap reactive mist is a product that can be used with the Heidi Swapp minc machine to create a spray effect. You can use any liquid glue to create this effect but the reactive mist works great.

2- Spray your mist onto your cardstock. Once you have finished, make sure you clean out the spray nozzle as the liquid can clog it.

3- Using a heat tool dry the reactive mist. You can also let it dry by it self. This can take up to 30 minutes.

4- Once dry, place the foil over the card and then put into your transfer folder.

5- Set the minc machine to 3 and once heated up run the transfer folder through the minc machine.

6- Let cool and remove the foil. The spray effect is now foiled.

Silhouette Mint Review and Tutorial

Hi there Everyone!!! Today I have a tutorial on how to use the Silhouette Mint.

What is a Silhouette Mint you ask?? Well it is the latest gadget to come out from Silhouette America.

Basically it is a stamp maker. What I like about this tho compared to all of the previous stamp makers out on the market is that its simple! Yup simple.

The ones like the Theresa Collins stamp maker revolve around using a UV lamp printing a bunch of stuff on various films and "curing"your stamp. Sure the final product was a clear stamp you can re use over and over, but man a PITA to do!!!

The mint machine works with a variety of different size stamp sets. from the tiny 15x15mm ones to a 30x90mm there are plenty of variations to pick from.

The machine comes with all you need to create your first 2 stamps, and then you will need more sets.

At first I really did think that this was an expensive tool to make stamps, but really in the scheme of things its not too bad.

I usually spend on average AUD$25 to get a 15 x 60mm self inking stamp made at somewhere like vistaprint., and once you have the actual stamp set all you need to do it re purchase the stamp sheet sets and interchange in the blocks. (I will show you this shortly.)

So lets check out how it all works.......