CURSES, FOILED AGAIN!

 

I am aging myself with the image above. Many may not be familiar with Snidely Whiplash, the archenemy of Dudley Do-Right on the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show.  You most likely had to grow up in the 60's to know about Snidely Whiplash!

Anyway, on to crafting....

A favorite technique in the Nook is foiling, There are several tools and techniques!

My favorite is foiling with toner prints and Deco Foil.

One can purchase pre-printed toner images, but one of my favorite things to do is find black and white images on Pinterest (which I have saved to a Board there), take screenshots of them and create a word document to print on my toner (laser) printer. It must be a laser printer. This technique will NOT work on an inkjet printer.

Deco Foil is placed pretty side up on the image, placed in a carrier sheet and run through a laminator, Minc or Fuse machine. 

More samples of toner prints with Deco Foil.

Gina K, Heidi Swamp,  and others have great products to be used with the toner method. One of the newest (2023) items is Gina K's Poly Glaze designs which react to Deco foil or Gina's Fancy foil sheets. (Poly Glaze is pictured earlier in this blog entry.)

Another method with Deco Foil is to use Transfer Gel with stencils or coating die cuts with the gel, Ideally, the gel should dry 24 hours (removing the stencil carefully after applying the gel). After the stencil is dry, the Deco foil (or Fancy Foils)  should be placed on the design pretty side up, placed in a carrier sheet and run through the laminator, Minc or Fuse.

There is another technique and that is hot foiling with a Go Press, or Glimmer machine and hot foil "stamp/dies". Deco Foil will NOT work with this method. The foil is special "hot foil" foil, such as pictured below. It is also manufactured by other companies, such as Coutour Creations. 

                                              Below are some cards created with the hot foil method. 

Another way to create cards is with foil card stock and embossing folders. 

In the card on the left, I cut the pieces out with foil cardstock. On the card on the right, I used an embossing folder with the foil card stock. Same for the photo below:

Other examples of dry embossed foil cardstock:

One can even emboss aluminum foil. I wrap the aluminum foil around a piece of card stock and run it through an embossing folder in a Cuttlebug or die cutting machine. Below is an example: 

Finally, there is the Quill Foil pens that one can use in card making.

There are a plethora of You Tube tutorials on Foiling with the methods mentioned above. Some of my favorite tutorials are by Jennifer McGuire, Gina K, Stacey at Scrapbooking Made Simple and Nancy Stamp, among others. Check You Tube out for great information and demonstrations.

Your creations are guaranteed to be stunning!

WOMEN’S MINISTRY CRAFT NIGHT

 

On November 3, 2023, I shared my passion of paper-crafting when women gathered together to create Fall and Christmas/Winter cards. Each attendee could create 4 cards. 

In preparation for the event, I die cut images with metal dies, electronic cutting machines and paper punches. Card bases in a variety of colors were created.Sentiments were printed and cut into strips.

Embossing folders in a variety of designs  and Cuttlebug machines were available to the women to embellish their card bases.

My neighbor and friend, Laura, was my assistant for the event.

Delicious refreshments were available!

Memories were captured!

Before the evening began, we prayed that the cards created would bless the recipients!

As the women arrived, they wrote their name on a card for drawings. 

Sets of handmade cards that I had created, along with mini-banners and seasonal bookmarks which I also made were awarded to the lucky recipients whose names were drawn.

At a recent event with children, pop up box cards were created. Six ladies won kits to create a box card.

More memories of the evening were captured along with the fantastic creations!

On display were a variety of other card designs - cards that have steps, cards that flip, easel cards, shutter cards and more. I also shared a lighted shadow box I created.

It was a joy to have the opportunity to share my passion for 

#sharehandmadekindness. 

It has also been and continues to be my honor to create cards for many occasions along with bookmarks that are sold in our church bookstore. 100% of the proceeds support Missions. 

Please contact me if you would like individual or a small group time in my craft ‘Nook”.

To learn more about the Nook, click on this link;BRENDA’S Nook