Tutorial: Creating Foiled Designs using Digital Stamps with your Silhouette + Foil Quill!
If you’re anything like me, your foil quill sat in the box unused for months after you got it! Or maybe your cutting machine is still sitting in the box 😳 but the My Person digital stamps finally gave me the courage I needed to bust that quill out of its plastic prison and boy am I glad I did!
Today’s tutorial is foray #2 into the “okay, I bought digital stamps, now what?” series of tutorials that I’m creating to teach you just how fun digital product can be for hybrid scrapbookers!
Skills learned today will include:
How to use your digital stamps in the Silhouette Studio
How to use the Silhouette Studio to foil instead of cut
How to offset your foil lines to create perfect cut lines
How to USE your foil quill with your silhouette machine
Here’s a look at the layout created with my three rose gold-foiled pieces created in this video:
To follow this tutorial exactly, you’ll need the My Person digital stamps:
Let’s take a closer look at that beautiful rose gold foil 😍
Video Tutorial
Step-By-Step Instructions
Plug in your foil quill to get it warming up! If you have a Cameo 4, use pen holder D with carriage 1 to place it in your silhouette.
Open a new canvas in Silhouette Studio sized to a printable canvas for you (8.5x11 in the US)
Drag and drop the stamp you would like to foil onto your canvas and resize as necessary.
Select all your stamps and open the offset panel. Add an offset at the size you like to create dielines for the stamps. I used .075”
If you need to delete portions of your dielines that you don’t want cut (like the insides of the hearts on my example, select your cut lines, right click and “release compound path” then select each portion of the cut line you don’t want and hit delete to remove.
If you’re having problems selecting the correct lines, select the foil lines, right click, and “send to back”
If you need to, you can use the edit point tool to delete places in the cut lines where it might be too close for comfort
When finished, you can rejoin the path together if desired by selecting all portions of the cut lines while holding shift and then right clicking and choosing “create compound path.”
Arrange your stamps toward the bottom of your silhouette mat/canvas to make it easier to remove foil without removing the mat from the machine in the future.
Remove the cut lines from the mat by dragging into the gray space
With only the foil lines on the mat, go to the send panel
For “action” choose “sketch” instead of cut
For “tool” choose pen
I found that the auto settings for the pen tool worked well, if a little fast, so slow it down if you’re not getting a good transfer
After you have sent the foil through the machine, WITHOUT REMOVING YOUR MAT FROM THE MACHINE, remove the foil piece you used for transfer.
Back in Silhouette Studio, go back to the design panel and hit “ctrl + z” or “cmd + z” until your cut lines go back to surrounding your stamp
Delete the stamp and foil lines
Put your auto blade back in carriage one, then go back to the send panel, make sure the appropriate settings are chosen for cut, and cut out your design.