Create Handmade Foiled Cards without a Foiling Machine

1. Create Foiled Handmade Cards without a Foiling Machine: Hi there. I'm sure I'll welcome to creating foil cards without a foiling machine. Now, foiling has been around for a few years now. But to be honest, when it first came out, I thought it was a fad and I thought it wasn't here to stay. Clearly, I was wrong on that. Now, even though foiling has been around for awhile, I'm still hesitant to invest in a special foiling machine and different boiling plates while I liked the look of it, It's kind of an investment. So I was excited to discover a different way that you can create foiled cards without needing a special foiling machine. Let's go take a look at what we're gonna cover in this class. Now the method we're going to use with foiling in this class requires either heat or pressure. Now, for this class I'm gonna be using pressure with my big shot die cutting machine because that is a tool that I already have. And you could use a dye cutting machine and doesn't really matter which one you have. As long as it applies pressure in order to do die cutting, you can use that with this. The other method using heat can be done with an inexpensive laminated machine. If you don't have a die cutting machine, but have a laminated machine that will work as well for these ones, obviously, you're going to need to have a decoding machine to do the foiling method with the dicot. But like I said, it's a tool that I already have and that's what we're gonna be using in this class. These are the four card designs that we're going to be doing in this class. A couple of them I've done in different colors just so that you can see the first one here we're going to be using a stencil and create a foil design with that. The next one we're going to be using two different stamps and create a foiled card with a stamped image. For the third one, we're gonna take that stamped image and then we're going to add a second foiling color and I'll show you how to do that. For the last one, we're going to use double-sided tape and a die in order to create a foiled card that way. Now all the supplies that we're using throughout this class are listed on the supply sheet that is included in this class. And those supplies were also linked to where you can purchase them if you choose as the designs that we're doing in this class. But you could easily swap out the stencil, the foil color, the stamped image, or the dye, and create ones to your own taste, to your own color palette, that sort of thing. Now let's cause create some cards. 2. Foiling with Paste and a Stencil: Alright, so the first card that we're gonna do in this class is this roses card. We're using an opal foil and the foil comes in a package like this. And there's five sheets in there that are six inches by 12 inches. So typically, you can do about three cards with the front of this, but I'll also show you how to stuck on my panel here. I'll also show you how to use the back of It's all right, I'm gonna have to rip this. There we go. Alright, so I'm going to cut my foil just to cover the front of my card. All right, so I'm going to have that to the side. I'm going to demonstrate on black card stock because you're gonna be able to see on camera what I am describing a little bit easier than you'll see it on white card stock. I've got my black piece of card stock right here. I'm going to put it down on my surface. I'm going to tape it in place. And then I'm going to place my stencil where I want it to go. And I'm going to tape that in place with a little hinge. And the reason I do that is so then when I lift the stencil, if I accidentally get, lose hold of it and it drops, it drops exactly the same spot. So I'm not going to mess anything up. There are parts of the central that I don't want on this with the front of this card. So the easiest way to avoid that is just to use pieces of tape and close and cover them up. That way you don't accidentally get to paste in those areas. You don't necessarily have to do it, but this way, I don't have to worry about it quite as much. So the paste I'm going to use is deco foil transfer gel. So this works in two different ways. You can use it with heat or you can use it with pressure. We're going to use it with pressure in this class. So I've got a palette knife here. I'm going to take some of the gel. I'm going to push it into the stencil here. I'm not worried about it going off of the car because it will clean up off my desk super quickly and easily with just a baby weight. But I do want to make sure that I get a nice smooth layer because I've got areas tape that I don't want the piece to go. I don't have to worry about being super, super careful on this side of my part because I know it's not going to go into areas I don't want alright, once that is all filled, I'm going to put the excess in the container, lift my stencil up. And like I said, I can just lift it up if I lose hold of it, it'll just fall in the same spot. And then I pull my stencil up. This needs to be cleaned fairly quickly because that is basically glue that you're putting on your card based. Now you see how it's really white. We need to wait for it to dry until it's completely clear like this. And this is what I meant by being able to see the difference on black card stock better than white. On white, it's harder to see when it's completely clear on camera. So you can see it very easily on between the black and the white there. So I'm going to put that aside there. And I'm going to clean this up quickly with a baby wipe because we want to get all the glue off. Now the only other thing that I did on my card base that we're going to use is I put a little bit of this onto my desk here, just like this. And then I check the edge of my card stock piece. And you can do this in two steps if you want. And I just rubbed it through because I want to have a little bit of that foil showing on the side of my car, just a foramen and it's not gonna be super even. But I just want to add just a touch to frame it a little bit. If you want to do that at the same time, you can, if you would prefer, you can foil your piece first, then do that and do it in two different steps. But you want to make sure that that dries completely before you move on to the next step. And once again, let's clean this off here. Let's move the sample card aside. In order to use pressure, what I'm going to use as my die cutting machine. I'm going to take that foil. I'm going to lay it on the front of the card around my die cutting machine. Now when I do this, I do make sure that I use to very flat plates. I don't want to use my plate that's like this because that's going to add some texture to the front of your card. So I'm going to use two very flat plates. Put it on there, put the other plate on top of it, and then run it through the machine. One time is probably enough that I typically do it back and forth just to get the pressure for going from both sides. Some of the glue must have gotten to the back of my car because it's sticking to my plate there. Let's move the machine out of the way. We can lift up our foil. Because of that pressure, it is stuck to anywhere that I have had any of that glue. So now we can simply glue that to the front of our card. And I'm just going to use some distress collage medium to do that. I'm going to center it. I didn't didn't cut this down, so I have a frame. So this one here, we just don't have a matter around it. That's okay. Typically, what I would do ahead of time is cut it down so that there is a bit of the card-based behind it. Like I said before, I didn't really like this oval as much on the black. I found it showed up nicer on the white. But this way you can see what it looks like on black. Right here. I had not waited long enough for my gel to dry, so some of it ripped when it came up, but I was able to put gel again and then redo it where you see it darker here is where there's two layers of foil on the gel just to be aware that you can fix it. But that's the effect that you're going to get. Then if you wanted to do a different color that is just gold on the black. Then finally, you can have fun with a bunch of different colors. So this is just a bunch of different home. He's got a gold red, purple on the back as well. So you can use a few different colors and foils come in so many different colors, the sky is the limit really. But that is how you're going to use the gel through a stencil. In the next section, we're going to be using it with a stamp. And I'll show you how to do that there. And we'll see you then. 3. Foiling with Paste and a Stamp: All right, So for our next card, we're going to use some foiling with a stamp. Now there was a slightly different process to this, as with using it with a stencil. We're gonna use the same transfer gel paste. But what we're gonna do is I have a piece of fun foam here is on a piece of foam core just to give it a little bit of stability when I'm holding it, I'm going to put a nice thin layer as if creating my own stamp pad. And then I'm going to stamp the image and then stamp it to my card stock. Now I do keep my piece of foam in a plastic bags to give it a little bit of life so that it doesn't dry out on there. I'm going to show you stamping on a black card. We already see how it's going to look on the sample here. And then we're gonna do it on a piece of white just to show you what the difference looks like. A very first step is taking some of the transfer gel. And we're gonna put a nice thin, thin layer on our piece of fun foam, trying to get it as thin as possible. And as even as possible. The palette knife makes it nice and easy because there's a nice straight edge there. So it's almost like putting icing onto the piece of foam there. I'm gonna take my stamp. I am tapping it a couple of times just to make sure that I get it too all over the place. Then I take a look at the gel is white so I can see exactly where it is. I'm going to stamp it on my card is not card stock. You want to make sure when you're stamping it, that you are very careful not to let it slip because it is a little bit slick and it would be very easy to slide on your card stock. So that needs to let it needs to dry so it's completely clear, just like the the paste and the stencil. Once again, it's much easier to see the black then on the white. Now I'm going to stamp a sentiment. And once again, I'm being very careful to try not to have it slide on my card stock. Then I need to let that dry. I'm gonna pause a minute. I'm going to clean all my supplies and put this away, and then I will be back. I have my white wine here that's completely dried for the stamping. You don't need to wait quite as long as the paste. The paste I want to say you probably have to wait a couple of hours so it's completely dry because it's quite a bit thicker with a stamping, it's not nearly as thick, so you don't have to wait quite as long, but you still want to make sure that it's completely dry. You'll be able to see exactly where the stamped image is because there'll be glossy. It'll be completely clear. I'll see you in just a moment. All right. So my area in my pace is all cleaned up. We're ready to foil, so I've got my piece here that has the dried foiling gel on here. Now, my piece of foil here I'm using a piece of holographic foil is not quite big enough to cover the butterfly plus the sentiment. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to cut it. I'm going to put my sentiment piece down. Then I'm going to put my piece over my butterfly. Now as I said before, this gel can be used with either pressure or with heat. So as I've said, I'm using a cutting machine, I'm using a big shot to apply pressure. If you didn't have one. You could also use an inexpensive laminator that would work with this gel as well. We can lift this up. I see there's a few spots that are missing, so I'm just going to turn this over a little bit. Then I'm going to add an extra piece of car stuff underneath just to tighten the pressure a little bit and see if that helps. Put it through rate again, 1 second. This is a great way to foil without a foiling machine, but your results are gonna be slightly different. It's going to have a slightly different look to it. That's to be expected. But it's still helped a lot. It's still nice, inexpensive to be, inexpensive way to be able to get foiling on there. Now, let's move this stuff out of the way here. I've got a tiny little bit of foil on here. The way to fix that is to use an adhesive eraser. You can just erase and it'll remove those areas. Now we can do this to the back of our card here. Now for this one, I didn't use anything to frame it as I did the first one. In the next card, I'm going to show you a way to frame it. That is actually a little bit easier, plus a little bit more precise. It just frames it a little bit nicer than the method that I showed you in the first video. Now this matte doesn't really show up on the back of the cart or from the card. So probably what I should've done was picked a different color for the card-based just to kind of bring out the colors in the holographic foil there. Because this didn't really do it as much as I would have liked. But still, actually I think I'm going to do that. I'm going to grab another piece of card stock. I'll be back in a moment and we'll fix it, right. So I've got grabbed a pale pink card stock and it's just going to let the color of the holographic foil showing through a little bit better. It's going to frame this a little bit better. Yeah. Definitely a nicer look than just putting it on plain white. There you go. So very simple to use stamps. Now here's the one thing that I wanted to say. I chose a stamp that has some detail but wasn't super, super detailed in that set. There's another butterfly here that's really, really detailed and has a lot of lines in it. That particular stamp didn't foil nearly as well as this one did. So you're going to have to pick and choose which stamps you use. Here's another one that is just the gut finer lines to it. And once again, that one didn't foil quite as nicely as I would've liked. You will have to play around with stamps that work better than others. So be aware of that. But it's a great way to get some extra use at your stamps in a different way. As well as the fact that you don't have to buy a foiling machine in order to do this. I see it a little bit of a line here from some foil, so I'm just getting rid of that there. But there we go. The same color foil to different backgrounds and just shows you the difference between the two. Another one is right or wrong, both their personal preference, but they still look absolutely beautiful. And obviously the sentiment could be swapped for any one that you have, same as the image I'm sharing with you on our supply list, all these ones that I'm using for this class, but you could easily change stencils. You can use images. You could change foil colors and customize it to your own preference. Will see you in the next video. We're going to take stamping and oily and we're just going to tweak it just a little bit adult, few more extra elements to it. 4. Foiling with Paste, a Stamp & 2 Sided Tape: All right, So this here is the third card that we're going to do. The start of it is very similar to the second one. We're going to stamp the IV and then we're going to foil it. And then we're going to add a few extra accents to do the read, as well as my favorite way of outlining that in a way that you get a nice clean border. Very first steps, same as the first. We're going to put a little bit of the gel down on this block now I probably don't actually need to do this because I just did the other card. But just so that you see and putting a fresh amount each time is a good thing. Once again, nice thin layer. I'll take a look at your stamp before you stamp and make sure that you've got the gel on all the surfaces. We don't want to miss areas. Police your stamp where you want it to go. Press nice and firm. And I do jiggle it kind of a little bit just to make sure that I've gotten all the edges of the stamp, this needs to completely dry till it's clear. I have one here already to go. So let's move this out of the way. Put my phone back in the bag here. Like I said, this bag does get a little bit of messy, but it's nice to be able to use that fun foam over and over again and have a sealed area for it to live. Grab my machine. Now all these pieces of foil that we're foiling with, don't throw them away. The last card I'm going to show you a different way, a different way that you can reuse all of those bits and get them used up because foil in itself is not the cheapest thing. It's always nice to be able to use all of our supplies. Once again, I'm going to put the plate down and I like to try to make sure that my plate that the foil is as flat as possible. Run it through. Then remove that foil now once again, same as last time, it didn't feel quite as much as I would like. So I'm going to add a piece of card stock balloon just to thicken up that sandwich. Actually I'm going to add just to tighten it up a little bit. And it's best to use card stock because card Scott card stock has some give to it so you don't want to use anything that's very rigid and ruin your machine. There we go. That's better. All right, let's put this to the side. Now the first thing I'm going to do is use the state to go around the edges. So I have a tape that is an eighth of an inch here. This is the thinnest this tape comes. I'm just going to place it around all four edges and cutting the ends so that they get nice square edges here. I'm trying to bump this up as close to that other tape edges possible because if there's a gap, you're gonna see it with the foil. There we go and one more side. And then here I'm cutting that to the edge of the tape, not the outer edge of the inner edge. So put the tape to the side. Now the last thing before there it is, before I well, I'm not going to foil quite yet. I'm taking some Tombow Malte glue and I'm putting it over every place that I think there's a berry. Now Tombow multi glue is a glue that is really lovely when you're using it for crafting. When you put it with two pieces of paper together, it sticks and you can't rip anything apart. If you just let it dry on its own, it dries to attack you finish. So it's perfect for foiling. But once again, you're limited to what shapes and stuff like that you can make with this. So I tend to use it for berries and just dots and stuff like that. So I need to let this sit until it's completely transluscent is going to have a little bit of a yellow tone to it, but you're gonna be able to see through it and it'll be back once that is ready and we'll continue. All. So our glue is pretty much dry. There's a few areas that are onDestroy is I would like them, but I think it's going to work. And if not, it's going to show you what happens if you don't wait quite long enough. I'm taking the backing of that tape off. I'm just using a pair of tweezers and tucking the tip underneath the backing and then grabbing it to pull it right off. I've got a piece of scrap foil here. This tape sticks really, really well. It's a great way to use up that bits because any part here that's got foil on it, you can absolutely use. When you put your foil down, I tend to try to put a pick an area that's pretty much are pretty well covered with foil so that it goes onto my tape. If there's a part that doesn't have foil on it, it's going to remain sticky. But then I can take a different part of the foil and put that on the tape. So it's a great way to use this up. So any foil that's on there gets used up. It does get to the point where even though you've got a tiny little bit of oil left on your sheet, you might as well just toss it because It's really hard to get it off. But this technique is a really great way to get some of this used. Because why waste it? Now that the edges are done. Now I can do the berries, and that just requires pressing down on those blue dots. Now I do want to make sure for that, that I am also using a red part of the foil and not the clear because if it's clear, there's no foil left on it. There we go. We've got our piece here, foiled around the edges and foiled in this denture. I'm gonna glue it onto my card base. Just using some distress collage medium. It dries clear and it dries matte. So if anything happens to seep out, it is going to be invisible. No one's going to be able to see it. Hold that down for a few seconds. Like blue starts to hold. And then for me this looks slightly a little bit plane, even though it's nice and foil, there's just not as much dimension as I would like. So I typically like to just add a little bow. Just give it a little bit dimension. I've just got some thin gold. Ruben here. I like to cut the edges of the tails with a ribbon at a little bit of a slant. Then I use the distress collage medium to hold it in place now because it's a liquid glue, it does need to sit and dry. If I move this around, it's likely going to the Bose, likely going to fall off. I do just let that completely sit and not be disturbed for awhile so that that glucan dry completely. And now that I said that I'm going to lift it up so that you can see it. But there we go. Another foil card with stamping as well as the tape in two different colors, will see you in the next video. 5. Foiling with a Die & 2 Sided Tape: For our last card, we're going to use a dicot and we're actually going to use the same tape as our narrow tape, but we're going to use it in a thicker form. This even comes all the way up to 12 inches wide. This one here is a five-inch rule. Perfect for card making because it's perfect size to go on the whole front of the card. I have some thin card stock here that I've already put the tape on and I'm going to die cut it. I've tried to do this technique with just die cutting the tape that comes in individual sheets. And it's really finicky to try to pull that backing off without ruining the tape because this is a little bit a little bit stretchy. It's really doesn't work quite so well. It's a little bit finicky. So I'm gonna put my die against my tape, put it in my machine, and we're going to die cut it. So in order to not get a ton of dimension, I've used thinner card stock. It's still going to add a little bit the stability to that tape and it's not going to get ruined as I'm taking it out of the die. But it's just going to be a lot easier to work with than just the tape on its own. I've done the tape on its own for simple shapes like stars or whatever. And it's worked that way. Something like this is a little bit too intricate for that. So take that out of there. Now because we're using this tape, it sticks really, really, really, really well. For this card, we can use some of our Foil scraps. So this is where I was saying, don't just have to make sure that that was cut down. Don't throw away your scraps because we can use them for this one, my sample card, I did goal so that you could see it really, really well. For this one, we're gonna use the extra pieces of our OPO foil just so you can see the difference between the two colors. So to start, I'm going to do the same outline with my tape as I did on the last card. It just gives it a really nice frame. And when you do it with the exact same foil as your card, you don't have to match it with something. Coordinating. Works perfectly just like this. Then the last side, it's very stoked mid-sentence. There. There we go. So our outline is done. We can put our taped to the side. I'm going to tape that, take this dicot and I'm going to glue it to our card front. I'm just using some distress collage medium for that. I like this glue because if anything happens to seep out from under the dicot, it is Matt and it dries completely clear. So you don't actually see any glue. You don't have to worry about it quite as much as you would say if it's a glue that dries glossy. I'm not putting a sentiment on this card. Typically I leave my cards without sentiments and I wait until I plan on using them and then I will add a sentiment to it. Just going to hold it down for a second to let that glue really stick. Then the other thing I want to do is I'm going to cut this dicot rate at the edge of the inner edge of that tape. There. There we go. I have a white card base here. I'm actually going to use that other piece of the pink because I know that coordinates really well with that oval foil. So while I'm waiting for this glue to dry, and especially in that bottom part of that stem there, I'm going to score my card and get that ready. There we go. There we go. All right. So I can take my tape off of here. If you have a hard time taking it off, tweezers often help. Really fine tip tweezers. And I find that if you just try to slide it underneath the backing, you can often quite easily pick it off of your card front. Now for this one, we are going to be using pressure, but because this tape is so sticky, the pressure just from pushing it with your hands is enough so we don't need to run it through the die cutting machine. My stem there's not stuck down as well as I would like. So I'm going to try foil it carefully and then I will stick it down again afterwards. I'm going to use, if you use Foil scraps and I'm gonna do the outside first, just line it up and then pull it off. Here we go. Because we've already used it. There's some places that are opened that don't have any of the foil. So all you do is you just move it onto a different part of the sheet and fill in those areas. Not quite as easy as just having the foil do it all in one shot, but it's a great way to reuse. Use up this foil and not waste it. Because like I said before, boiling isn't super cheap or foil isn't. Supplies are not super cheap. It's nice to be able to use them. For those long edges I tend to like to use, here's a good full piece. I tend to like to use strips that I don't have to necessarily fill them in. Some foils you'll find, you'll have an easier time sticking them down than others. There's anything that's not, doesn't have foil on it. You can just take a piece of your backing there and put it on. I think we've got it mostly covered with a few areas on the edge here. And you definitely want to make sure that you have everything covered with oil. Otherwise, you have exposed tape that is going to stick to it pretty much anything. So we don't want to have exposed paper. All right, so let's move our foils to the side. Then we can glue this down to the card. Once again, I'm going to use that same distress collage medium. There we go. And this has actually gotten glue down with the pressure of doing our foils. It's gotten glued down enough, so we're good with that. If you find you have an area that's not stuck down as much as you are not stuck down, not foiled as much as you like, you can use an embossing buddy to just add a little bit of thought. I had mine sitting here but I don't see it. Just add a little bit of powder that will take the stickiness off of the tape, but I'm not feeling anything here. The other option is if you do feel an area, you can just take your foil and try to foil it a little bit more. There we go. We've got our flower embossed or foiled with OPA foil. And then we've also got it foiled with goats, gold foil. And once again, you can use whatever colors you want with this. Any color will work, but a great way to use your Foil scraps. 6. Create Foiled Handmade Cards without a Foiling Machine Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for this boiling class. I hope you enjoyed learning some different ways that you can add foil to your cards without needing a special machine to do it. Now, don't forget there all the supplies we used in this class are on the supply list, but you can easily swap out the foil color, the stamp image, the stencil, or the dye, and create cards to your own taste, hope to see you soon in another class.