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Hello crafty friends! Lauren here, trying a technique I've seen people using lately with embossing folders and ink, and I thought “I should try this with foiling!”. I am posting a reel on my Instagram that shows my process as well. In the videos that I’ve seen, creators have used embossing folders and then rolled a brayer with ink across the raised part of the design. My idea was to brayer a transfer medium across the raised design to stick to the DecoFoil!
Make sure that you have something on hand to wipe up your craft mat and brayer, as the liquid adhesive or duo gel will dry sticky!
Put your cardstock through the embossing folder as you normally would with your regular die-cutting machine. I used a scrap of gelli-printed paper for the teal card, and plain purple and black cardstock for the other two.
Put a dollop of liquid adhesive or Duo Gel on a craft mat and brayer it into a thin layer to coat the roller. It must be one of the adhesives or transfer gels that dries tacky! This technique will not be run through a laminator.
Run the brayer gently across the raised areas of the embossed cardstock multiple times until the areas are well covered
Allow the adhesive or gel to dry fully
Take your foil color side up, and burnish it over the sticky areas. This works best if you work in small areas at a time and press firmly. If you peel up the foil and it's too patchy, you can go over the same area multiple times until it is filled in.
This particular technique won't get you perfectly smooth coverage - it's a more “aged” or “distress” look to the metallic shine.
TIPS:
I use small foil pieces at a time; larger pieces tend to get stuck to other areas while I'm pressing it down
Use an adhesive eraser to remove unwanted liquid adhesive or transfer gel when it is dry
Use a sanding eraser to clean up any stray areas after everything is foiled
If you are unhappy with the coverage in a particular spot after foiling, take a small paintbrush and add more liquid adhesive or transfer gel to that spot, allow it to dry, and go over it again!
Here are the final results!
Hope you give this a try!
By Lauren Lovato
