Learn to emboss with your Curio 2 

Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful!

I'm so glad you found it helpful!

Me too up to some point... I didn't intertwine the cuttings to hold better my material... lol

Hurray!!

So glad I could help you with that!

Don't use washing tape, I did and ruined the mat. Learn from my error 😮

@@MimiJenkinssame here with my curio 1 so I had to buy a new one and got my curio 2 and won’t be doing the same mistake also…

@@studioplanetesilhouette glad I'm not alone🤣

Thanks

As mentioned, please don’t use washi tape. You can often get by without the plastic holders, especially if you keep your designs away from the page edge. The plastic tabs can get lost easily!

This is the latest/newest Curio 2 (it's for thicker materials), The Silhouette Cameo 5 and 5 pus are the new "normal height" cutting machines.

@@lici_lini- Thank you very much

This is the Silhouette Curio 2. It was released in Fall 2023 along with the Silhouette Cameo 5, the Silhouette Cameo 5 Plus, and the Silhouette Portrait 4. They are all the latest Silhouette machine. :) You can use the embossing tools shown in the video with the Curio 2 and Cameo 5 models.

Usually you can trust the default settings, but the embossing settings are leftover from the original Curio at the moment (v 4.5.770) and force 33 is way too heavy! I’ve requested that the software be updated to fix the default embossing settings. Force 17 for paper or vellum is about the max it will do with the fine embossing tool before it starts to push through. I like the look of vellum embossing more than cardstock embossing. I find cardstock embossing is often a little too subtle and takes a little more work and experimentation. But it’s on the list of tutorials to make! We do show the results of cardstock embossing on some of the live reels with @silhouette.inc on Instagram.

Unfortunately, the motor that lets the Curio 2 do all kinds of specialty tasks also means some of the cuts like perforations are slower. I’ll send a request to see if they can speed up the dashed line cuts!

@@KellyWayment thank you!

The black pieces are for “print and emboss”. That’s a process where you use registration marks with print & cut, then also cut holes for registration marks as you flip the design over to emboss. The black plastic squares are placed behind the registration mark cutouts. It’s a multi-step process, and I’ll make a tutorial eventually! (If you lose the black pieces, you can substitute squares of black cardstock.)