Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Aug 8, 2015 16:10:01 GMT
'Meet the Silhouette Curio™. This machine is more than a cutting tool. It can cut, emboss, sketch, stipple, and etch—and that’s just the beginning.
The Curio is taking giant leaps forward with its new features. Along with the new stippling and etching functions, Silhouette is proud to introduce three types of embossing methods—Path Emboss, Score & Emboss, and Print & Emboss. Because of Silhouette’s new dual carriage, you can also emboss and perform another function—like sketching or cutting—in one pass.
With Curio, you can now cut thicker material. When used with Silhouette’s new deep-cut blade, you can cut up to 2mm thick materials. The Curio boasts a 5mm clearance, which allows you to feed thicker materials through the machine. The thicker clearance allows users to utilize entirely new project pallets, such as wood to sketch stencils onto, or to cut thicker materials, such as foils, leather, and more.
It’s all driven by powerful Silhouette Studio® software and the Silhouette Design Store. Every design in your library can now be repurposed for embossing, stippling, and etching projects. The Curio is the only machine that can unlock the embossing, stippling, and etching, and dual carriage options that will now be available in Silhouette Studio®.'
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Aug 12, 2015 14:01:17 GMT
It has arrived! Have to wait until Mr FP is out to play with it. He likes to interrupt when I am just getting stuck in to my crafting! Fabulous service from the craft company I bought from and Graphtec GB. Brian from Graphtec has made some videos to help us get started as it is more complicated than the Silhouette Cameo.
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Aug 12, 2015 20:45:47 GMT
I use Craft Artist 2 for that Frazz because you can make 2D look 3D and do other effects to trick the eye. It's very clever. The Curio is for my hybrid crafting so I will design my card or scrap page then print it then send it to the Curio Software so that it will cut and emboss etc in real life , then I glue it altogether ( in theory). I am hopeless with a pair of scissors but the software can get the machine to cut out very intricate designs in all sorts of materials, not just paper. I only use this for special projects. Some of the things talented crafters can make with this sort of machine are lovely.