Hello my friends! I was inspired to try this technique by a video I saw by Becca Feakin. (I will share the link at the bottom of this post) She used her Spellbinders Labels dies and her laser printer to get awesome foiled borders! I have been wanting to try this for a while and now I finally have and I love the look. I am going to use my tag from my last post to help illustrate how I did this foiling technique (and some other ones!)
First I dug out some of my Spellbinders Labels dies
Now, I knew I would be isong these to creat tags, in this instance, so everything I did was with that in mind. You may want to make cards, as Becca did. if that's the case, keep that in mind as you position your dies. I will probably use this technique to make some cards as well. I chose the dies that I wanted to use and positioned them on some blank white card. I adhered them in place using a tiny removeable adhesive dot. I postioned them so that I could cut them out into tags. I should mention that if you are making cards, you could take a Card Creator or rectangle die that would fit the perimeter of your card panel and position that as well, to give your card panel a nice gold border too.
I positioned 2 smaller dies that I would use for sentiments alongside a tag on this sheet
I scanned and made a copy of these. I think Becca just put her dies directly on the scanner, but I wanted to have copies I could use again. Not only that, but I found that the copies weren't really dark in some areas, maybe because the dies are shiny and reflective. So I wanted to darken them as well with a marker.
Then I got some light cardstock, some white and some patterned and all trimmed to 8.5 x 11" to run through my laser printer. NOTE: You must use a laser printer, an inkjet printer will not work. You could also use photocopies, but your copy must be toner based!
I copied my images onto the card and cut them down into tags
Now for the foiling! I use a laminator and I find it works just fine, but if you have a Minc, you would of coarse use that. I use a plain copy paper, folded in half, as a carrier. I chose the foil that I wanted to use, placed it over the copied image (pretty side up!) placed it in the carrier sheet and ran it through the laminator. I usually run it through twice just to be sure.
Now I take the coordinating die, place it over the foiled image, cutting side down. I use some washi tape to hold it in place. If you have a look at your Spellbinder labels die, you will notice that the cutting blade is not at the very edge of the die, but in the middle.
Because of that, you end up with 2 pieces with foiled edges that you can use, the inner and outer die cut shapes. If you use a different kind of die with the cutting blade at the very outside of the die, you will only have a foiled edge on the inside die cut shape.
Now, how did I do the gold foil outside border? And the foiling on the flower embellishments? Stay tuned for another post on some different foiling techniques. I've been doing some experimenting and as soon as I get everything together to post, I will be happy to share. If you like foiling, you will love it!
I hope you have enjoyed this post and will give this foiling technique a try. Give Becca's video a watch, it is very helpful and she is really sweet and she makes it easy to follow.
If you liked my post and found this technique fun and informative, please share it! And let me know if you would like to see more technique based posts.
Thanks for looking, have an awesome and artful day!
Note: I use ThermOweb Deco Foil and Minc reactive foil
