July 23 Dime Live

Today, Eileen offers free puffy foam with the puffy foam fonts!  She also demonstrates how to use puffy foam to really give your lettering some pop!

First, she showed the door designs people have been working on.
Puffy Foam Lettering

Then at five minutes into the video, she showed us the puffy foam lettering:

the fonts she showed us were the Kaufmann font, the Tiffany font, Greek, Chaotic, Varsity.

Puffy Foam and to match all your projects

Next, Eileen showed us the puffy foam colors available right now, free with those fonts, and suggested some thread color matches for each.

Here is the Puffy Font pack with the free puffy foam offer that Eileen announced:

Here are the thread matches that Eileen suggested for each puffy foam color:

Eileen suggested using a special heat gun for removing the little bits of puffy foam from your embroidery.  She showed a Drill Master heat gun.
As we heard from Kathy Winks during the video, embossing tools work, too!

What's special about puffy foam?

The Puffy Font pack with foam is a great offer. There are other sources of puffy lettering. How do you tell which lettering is digitized for puffy foam? Eileen answers that question at 20 minutes into the video:

tip: look for the caps at the end of the columns.

Using fonts with Embroidery Tool Shed

Lastly, Eileen shows you how to use the free Embroidery Tool Shed to change the shape of the lettering you createm, using the envelope feature:

By the way, which needle do you use?  Foam doesn't care about the needle.  Just suit your needle to your fabric.   As far as stabilizer goes, Eileen suggestes a heavy cutaway, to really handle the heavy dense stitches of puffy foam designs.

Here is the Puffy Font pack with the free puffy foam offer that Eileen announced:

And here is some great thread that she mentioned to go with the puffy fonts and foam, also on special this week!
  
And the free software for manipulating the font is:

Join us again for Dime Live* with Eileen on July 30th. Ashley Jones will be there, answering embroidery questions and showcasing the Embroiderer's Compass.