Most stampers get very attached to their heat tools for setting embossing powder. Any number of times I have read stamping lists where this person swears by this kind of heat tool and that person couldn't live without another kind.
I always wonder why people can get so caught up in the rightness of their favorite brand.
I've never had anything but a Heat-It tool, except for a brief time when I tried a torpedo model of heat tool because everyone said they were so wonderful. Maybe you love whatever you try first, but the torpedo was hard to handle and hard to store when hot. Anyway, the torpedo stopped working after about three months and I haven't missed it.
The Heat-It looks like a hair dryer, which means it has a nice handle on it so you can hold it more easily than trying to grasp and at the same time aim a wand-like heat tool.
But there's another advantage to the handle. An advantage I consider the best of all. Stampers are always looking for some safe place to put down a hot heat tool. The straight ones require all kinds of fancy stands to keep them from setting your work space on fire when you're ready to put them down and finish your card. The Heat-It tool doesn't have a metal tip to get hot and singe whatever you set it one while it cools.
You don't need a fancy stand for a Heat-It tool because you can use the handle to hang the it over the edge of a clay flower pot to cool.
You may order a Heat-It Tool from Whiskey Creek for $19 plus shipping. Clay flower pot not included.
Diane Haugen
Whiskey Creek Stamps
stamping@wcdd.com
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