Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. I personally never tried the cricut mini press. So I am not sure what the temperature settings are. If you can have a low temperature setting on the cricut mini press. Than it might work. An issue might be that the mini press won’t be able to reach all the corners on a hardcover book and it will leave some of the corners without any gilding. But that depends on the size of the mini press and the size of the book. And I did try to use the foil without glue. It is possible with certain foils. But I found the result to be less consistent. I needed to use a lot more foil and keep applying it over the same edge to get it to stick. Which made the result slightly patchy. In this video I did it without glue. So you can see for yourself how it turned out. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nZmooMSfq5aUk5s.html

Hi, so it might look red chrome, but it's plain old red. If you apply it correctly on a very smooth surface, it will appear really shiny/chrome. The brand I used was from a store here in the Netherlands called Action. The brand is Foil Art. I believe this brand doesn't sell anywhere else. But to be honest any brand will do. Since it is just red color. I get the best results from iCraft deco foil. www.amazon.com/iCraft-Deco-Foil-Transfer-Sheets/dp/B00SW79UM2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HYGEB6U374SZ&keywords=icraft+deco+foil+red&qid=1660918424&sprefix=icraft+deco+foil+re%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-1

Hi, so it definitely is possible to use the same gilding process on a pack of cards. In this video in tried to gild a note book with rounded edges. And it worked well. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bdh9db1nrNaseIE.html Hope it helps.

@@AnnaMarieReads This is really exciting, I can't wait to try this! Thank you!

Be careful with temperature because playing cards (at least the ones I had as a kid 30 years ago) sometimes have a waxy coating that might melt with heat. Granted, modern playing cards may be made completely different. I just wanted to mention this possible issue.

​@@Boogie_the_catmassively good point. Most cards have a plastic coating that will melt if heated too much

I have never tried to gild a bible with tabs cut in. But I would recommend leaving the tabs ungilded. So making sure there is no glue where the tabs cuts are made. And just apply the foil on to the straight edge. I think that would give the cleanest look. When it comes to glue being to sticky. It is not supposed to be. I water my glue down until it has the consistency of milk and doesn’t feel sticky at all. After applying I make sure the glue is almost dry and is slightly sticky. And that’s when I apply the foil. By starting with applying gentle pressure with the iron intro to make sure the foil doesn’t shift. You always need to start out with gentle pressure and increase it over time. When you can see the that the foil seems to have stuck to the edge well. As in there are no air pockets underneath the foil. That’s when you should increase the pressure. It takes a lot of patience. Also I let the foil cool off completely before very slowly and carefully removing it. Hope this helps.

Hi, so you can dampen the iron by tying a piece off cloth that can handle the heat (so no polyester) around the iron. Something like Jersey or some other cotton material could work. Doing this will start to burn the fabric at some point though. But that’s what I usually use. And I just change out the fabric when it becomes too burned. Make sure you fasten it in a way so there are no wrinkles in the fabric around the ironing part. This will scratch the foil too.

I bought it on Amazon. The brand name is: JAMARA 172130