Embossing with foil
Kathy has a wonderful card on her blog that she made with embossing on foil. A couple of Christmas’s ago I tried embossing with foil in my Cuttlebug embossing folders and the results were really so-so and when I stuck my shiny embossed foil on my card, the texture got squashed. When I saw Kathy’s card I decided to give it another go but this time I’m doing it differently!
1. I cut a random piece of card into the size I wanted to use on my card and I cut a piece of kitchen al-foil so it was a little bigger than the card stock.
2. I covered one side of the card with glue and smoothed it onto the foil. I made sure I glued it onto the ‘dull’ side of the foil.
3. Put a line of glue around the edge of the card.
4. Fold over all the overhanging foil. This gives a nice edge. Don’t forget to do ‘hospital’ corners so there’s no ugly little bits hanging over the edges.
5. Now you’re ready to tuck it into an embossing folder. Make sure the nice foil side is directly against the ‘inny’ side of the embossing folder.
6. Ahh, shiny! Now I have a beautiful silvery embossed image and because it’s stuck on a piece of card, I can’t squash the texture!
And here’s the card I ended up making with my pretty shiny embossed foil. Yup, another ‘wow’ technique rose. Can’t help myself!
and a nice close up of the rose… Why, oh why wont the colours come out right??
Card ingredient list:~
Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, So Many Sayings
Card: Basic Black, Ginger Blossoms dp, Shimmery card
Ink: Versamark, Rose Red, Regal Rose, Summer Sun
Accessories: Wide vanilla grosgrain, black gingham, silver brads, Silver EP, Black EP, dimensionals, aquapainter, word window punch,
I did silver embossing on the silver brads, because they were the wrong colour silver!
And I have a complete mental blank about the name of the Cuttlebug embossing folder… was that textile texture? Can’t remember…
Thank you again Kathy for the inspiration.
5 comments:
Wow! When you get going, you don't stop. Hoooraaaaay! I love having had a hand in jump starting you. This is so cool, how you wrapped it around cardstock. Hospital corners! I used the heavier foil, but I also had to be very careful with Russel's card, laying the doublestick tape on the cardstock, not the foil, and putting it down gently. Will try your way next time. And there can never be too many Wow roses out there.
P.S. You were right! CB folder is called "Textile."
Ohhhh, you're being a clever talented blogger again! YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, I MISSED YOUR BLOGGIES!
What a great idea with that beautiful rose. I love your creations. Your color choices are always so professional.
Oh my goodness! This totally is a Wow card!! So glad I stumbled onto your blog tonight!! I'm off to check out your other goodies and adding you to my Reader!! Hugs, Anne
Love the idea of embossing with foil. Thanks for the tutorial - can't wait to try it!
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