...workshop this week - foiling. I've done gilding before but not foiling. As it turns out there's not a lot of difference except the foil isn't as delicate as gilding sheets or flakes which makes it 'cleaner' to use. No chasing bits of fine pieces as it doesn't need cleaning and burnishing like gilding sheets or flakes do. We used WOW products for the foiling - a bonding powder and the sheets. The bonding powder is used like embossing powder. The image stamped with versamark, the powder sprinkled on and then it's heat set until it looks 'plasticky' and has a sort of shimmer to it. The foil sheet is then laid over, sandwiched between a couple of sheets of copy paper and fed through a laminator to reheat the bonding powder and make it sticky enough for the foil to stick to (I wonder if an hot iron would work as well???). It's then allowed to cool for a while and, when completely cold, the sheet is lifted off, leaving the image foiled and the residue is left on the sheet for use on something else.
My thoughts on this are that a) the bonding powder may not be necessary and b) if it's not then the laminator probably isn't either (or iron). My thinking is that any glue, left to go 'tacky', would have the same effect so you could stamp an image and then, possibly using a glue pen, put the glue where you want the foil, allow to go tacky as opposed to wet and then use the foil - pretty much as you do to gild things. Probably the bonding powder and laminator would be better if the image being used was a solid one but a glue pen would be better for highlights. How about triple stamped flowers .... either highlight or do one of the layers with bonding powder ..... ??? Lots of potential methinks. Not sure I'd be too interested in doing sentiments, although that's a possibility.
My thoughts on this are that a) the bonding powder may not be necessary and b) if it's not then the laminator probably isn't either (or iron). My thinking is that any glue, left to go 'tacky', would have the same effect so you could stamp an image and then, possibly using a glue pen, put the glue where you want the foil, allow to go tacky as opposed to wet and then use the foil - pretty much as you do to gild things. Probably the bonding powder and laminator would be better if the image being used was a solid one but a glue pen would be better for highlights. How about triple stamped flowers .... either highlight or do one of the layers with bonding powder ..... ??? Lots of potential methinks. Not sure I'd be too interested in doing sentiments, although that's a possibility.
Anyways ... my card from the workshop. Pretty obvious what was foiled. Sentiment was stamped in black versafine and then clear embossing powder was used. The only embossing powder ever really needed if truth be told - if you've lots of different ink colours. Possibly a clear sparkly one as well for when a touch of sparkle may be needed but then a touch of glitter sprinkled on could work just as well.
Greeting stamp was from MFT Chalkboard Greetings set. The 'leaves' are supposed to be feathers but think they actually make better leaves - WOW Flights of Fancy. A leaf die, 8x8 texture embossing folder and a 6x6 frame embossing folder was also used.
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