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Friday, March 4, 2022

Super Saturday at Magenta: Foil Your Stamping

 Hi everyone! I am also posting this card on the Magenta blog today, and you can see that post here.

I recently watched an excellent video by Therese at Lost in Paper. Therese is a very talented paper crafter from Australia, and she did a live video on how to use toner foil on cards with or without a laminator. You can see her very informative and fun video here. One of the things that I picked up that I didn't know is that you can use heat embossing to add foil to your cards. In other words, you can stamp an image, emboss with clear embossing powder, place foil on it and run it through the laminator, and it will foil your stamped image. I was amazed because I had never realized that, and guess what? It works really well!


The first thing I did was to use the Greetery Crimped Frame die to cut a piece of scrap paper. I arranged my stamps on it and stamped to get the arrangement I wanted and to be sure everything would fit. I then die cut a panel from Neenah 80# solar white cardstock and stamped the sentiment first. I arranged the Magenta Curved Leafy Branch stamp onto the panel at the top and then the bottom, to frame the sentiment. I embossed the leaves with clear embossing powder.


I chose a color of foil that I liked and then cut two pieces out for the top and bottom. This is transfer foil that is often used in a laminator. Hot foil used for Glimmer type machines will not work in this way.


The best way I have found to cut out sheets of foil is a rotary type paper trimmer such as the one above. It allows you to measure the piece you want to cut, and you can hold the foil down securely while cutting. It cuts the foil beautifully. I prefer a guillotine type paper cutter for paper, but I'm very glad I saved this trimmer out - it's perfect for this task.


I taped the foil in place to cover the embossed leaves. I didn't want the foil to shift going through the laminator.


I sent the panel and foil through the laminator using a parchment/wax paper sleeve to protect it. I recently got this Royal Sovereign laminator to replace my very old one. I thought it only had one setting, but apparently it has two: cold and hot. I guess there must be a reason that you would want to send something through a laminator using the cold setting, but I don't know what it is. Not knowing about the cold setting at first, I sent the panel through that way and of course I thought my new laminator was broken. Luckily the cold/hot switches were very apparent on the front and I set it to hot, waited for the "ready" light and sent it through again.


It worked perfectly and I really was amazed. I plan to use this technique a lot more in the future. This birthay card is going to my daughter in law, because I think she will really like it.

Magenta Products used:

Therm O Web Brutus Monroe Green Sketch
Foil Transfer Sheets 19029     
The Greetery GD-M-016 Crimped Frame dies
Versamark Onyx Black ink
Versafine ink
JudiKins Detail Clear embossing powder
Neenah Solar White 80# & 110# cardstock
PTI Pinefeather cardstock






11 comments:

  1. Amazing result with this also new technique to me too. Don't know if I have the correct foil but adding the wax paper as protection layer I guess it won't hurt the lamint or.

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    1. Thanks Mariëtte! It shouldn't hurt your laminator. I hope it turns out well!

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  2. Diane, too funny we are both posting the same technique this week :) two totally different cards XX

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    1. LOL did you see Therese's video too? How can one not try it?

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    2. yes, and it was a game changer for me, so many stamps that would look awesome foiled xx

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  3. Forgot to say love the effect with the leaf XX

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  4. Lovely effect Dianne and beautiful card! I do use the Wow bonding powder for things like this, then you don't need a laminator but using clear powder and then laminate is new for me, beautiful!

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  5. Nice technique, but an iron on low heat will also work, isn't it? I messed up a laminator before by putting a project that was too thick through it, so no.

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    1. Hi Ellie! It would be worth trying it with an iron - I'm not sure if you would get uniform results, but it would be interesting. This project is not very thick, and I have done it a number of times and no problem going through. It's not any thicker than using toner sheets with foil, which also work very well.

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