Rubber Stamping Using Foils

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Sparkling Koi by Daylene Strickland

1) Stamp Koi on acetate with permanent black ink. Run the acetate through the Xyron or apply double-sided adhesive to the piece. (See Picture 1)

© Daylene Strickland Closely trim around the image.

2) Remove the protective backing to expose the adhesive side. Apply red variegated foil to the piece. Use fingertips to smooth and adhere the foil. Remove any excess pieces of foil and store them for future projects. Completely trim the piece and run it through the Xyron a second time making sure the foil side is down. This will give the piece the adhesive to apply it to your cardstock.

3) Trim card and layers. Stamp and emboss lily image around edges of card using copper embossing powder. On blue panel, stamp water in black ink and color edges with black markers. Add brads with stickers to spell Koi.

4) Ginko embellishment – heat black craft foam until softened. Immediately press Ginko leaf stamp firmly into the foam. (See Picture 3)

© Daylene Strickland Trim the shape and use ink to color. (Stamp by Rubber Stampede; inks – Brilliance Dew Drop Pearlescent Rust and Rocket Red Gold.) Brilliance ink does not dry on craft foam. After coloring the foam, heat one of the shapes again with heat tool and the foam will lose the texture but it will retain the definition. It will also slightly shrink in size. The coloring preserves the outlines of the image. For the second leaf, allow some drying time for the ink and then use short bursts of heat from the heat tool to dry the ink so as not to shrink or flatten the craft foam. Use a brad to connect the two and The Ultimate! Glue to adhere to card. (See Picture 4)

Foiled Pressed Flower by Maria Adams

Stamp Stampington & Company’s ‘Pressed Profile’ flower on acetate, using black Staz-On ink. Trim to size. (See Picture 1)

© Stampington & Company

Run your stamped acetate through a Xyron machine, or stick the acetate onto a piece of double-sided sticky sheet, remembering to keep the top of the stamped image uppermost. Trim to size if you have used the sticky sheet. Remove the backing paper and place the acetate on a sheet of scrap paper, sticky side up. Sprinkle foil flakes on top. Press in well to cover the back of the acetate entirely. Rub with a paintbrush to burnish and brush off the extra flakes. Return the unused flakes to your container as these can be used again. Burnish the back of the acetate again to make sure that there aren’t any loose pieces of foil. (See Picture 2)

© Maria Adams

Run your image through the Xyron again, image side up, or use double sided tape, and stick your picture to a piece of bronze metallic card approximately 1/8” larger all around than your stamped image. (See Picture 3)

© Maria Adams

Cut some copper corrugated card to about the same size as your mounted picture and place on an 8”x 4” folded pearlised brown card, about 2” down from the top, to the left of the card. Add your stamped and mounted image a little higher and to the right of the card. (See Picture 4)

© Maria Adams

Center a K&Co ‘Life’s Journey’ copper sentiment tag just under your image. Fix to the card with copper brads. Finish your card by running a gold Krylon pen around the edges and adding 3 copper sticker dots at the top left and the bottom right of your card.

Pebbled Water by Nancy Thaut

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Begin by trimming a Kleenex box top and covering it with heavy duty foil. Stamp vase (http://www.firecrackerdesignsbypamela.com) Fire Cracker Designs with StazOn black ink. Outline vase, water and vase trim with gel pens and use crystal color lacquer by Sakura to fill is all that was outlined with the gel pens..

Take a 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" piece of deep rose cardstock, glue a 3" x 3" square of cardstock and place into a triangled angle as shown, to determine how additional stamps will fit. Take Fire Cracker Design paisley and scroll designs and stamp with Black Brilliance ink and emboss with silver embossing powder. Stamp and emboss each item separately. Taking a silver gel pen, add doodles on two sides of cardstock, mount foiled vase piece with pop dots for depth.

Flower on Foil Grid by Karen Slusher

1. Cut foil sheet to 3" x 3-1/2". Align foil on Empressor Guide (Chatterbox) so that it aligns with the 1/2" grid lines. (See Picture 1)

© Karen Slusher Using the Empressor tool, emboss the foil along the edge of the guide. Move the foil to the left and align at the next 1/2" grid line; emboss again. Continue across the foil rectangle. (See Picture 2)

© Karen Slusher

2. Cut a piece of Twilight cardstock to 5" x 10" and fold in half to create 5" square card. (Note: This cardstock is from CTMH and has a white core. To recreate this distressing technique, the cardstock must have a white core.) Using sand paper, sand the surface of the front of the card. (See Picture 4)

© Karen Slusher

3. Using silver brads in each corner, attach the foil grid to the front of the card (align by centering horizontally, but only ½" down from the top fold).

4. Cut a piece of white cardstock to 1-1/2" x 2-1/2". Using Twilight dye ink, stamp the flower outline (CTMH) as shown in sample. (See Picture 6)

© Karen Slusher Edge the white cardstock with Twilight ink using a finger dauber and attach to the foil grid.

5. Cut a strip of white cardstock 5" x 1". Using sticky-notes, mask off stripe sections and ink with a dauber in Twilight and Sweet Leaf inks. (See Picture 9)

© Karen Slusher Daub some lightly and some darker in each color, create narrow and wide stripes, leave some narrow and some wide white stripes in between. Adhere to the bottom of the card front. (See Picture 10)

© Karen Slusher

6. Attach a length of white grosgrain ribbon to a silver photo hanger using a silver brad. Loop another length of white grosgrain ribbon through the photo hanger’s loop and secure the end with another silver brad. Attach this entire piece to the card across the top of the striped cardstock. (See Picture 11)

Faux Etched Opal Pin and card by Linda Strawn, Design Team Leader

I love the way different colors dance thru opal and so I set out to create a faux piece to mount on a card and made it into a detachable pin. The picture does not begin to show the colors which dance thru this piece. Make one and see for yourself the beauty of faux etched opal.

1: Fill a melting pot 3/4 of the way full with clear UTEE and about 3/4 scoop of flex. Turn on high setting and cover. When UTEE is melted, stir slowly with wooden dowel to mix in flex. Be very careful to stir slowly and not induce air bubbles. (See Picture 1)

© Linda Strawn

2: On a Teflon sheet, place a piece of opal foil color side down and a piece of holographic cellophane side by side. (See Picture 2)

© Linda Strawn

3: Cut a piece of cardboard into a desired shape for your pin. See pic 2, dip cardboard piece into hot UTEE and quickly place it on top of foil. (See Picture 3)

© Linda Strawn

4: When cool, peel off cardboard piece and you will see the foil has adhered to the hot UTEE. (See Picture 5)

© Linda Strawn Grasp the edge with a pair of tweezers and quickly dip piece back into hot UTEE and remove quickly and place the piece of cellophane over the piece.
(See Picture 6)

© Linda Strawn

5: Ink up dragon fly stamp #H1927 from Stamp in the Hand with platinum Planet Brilliance ink and set aside. (See Picture 9)

© Linda Strawn Use a heat gun to heat cardboard piece and while still hot stamp dragonfly image into hot UTEE. Let set till cool and remove stamp. You will see a faux etching into piece. (See Picture 10)

© Linda Strawn

6: Using fabric glue adhere white felt to backside of glass piece. When dry, add a pin back to backside of glass piece.

7: Using light blue cardstock cut an 8-1/2 x 11 inch piece in half and fold into card. Matt with a piece of glitter silver cardstock. See finished picture at top.

8: Now we will prepare our dragonfly background piece. On black cardstock, using versa mark ink, stamp # 1132-F Celtic dragonfly available from Stamp Oasis, randomly, going off the edges and turning stamp different directions. See finished picture at top.

9: Using a small paintbrush and several colors of powdered pearls, tap small bits of powdered pearls all over stamp piece randomly. (See Picture 12)

© Linda Strawn
, I used blue, green, violet, red, and gold.

10: Using a stipple brush stipple over powdered pearls to mix colors, this will help the pearls to adhere to the stamped images also. (See Picture 13)

© Linda Strawn

11: When done use a soft cloth to remove the excess pearls, you will see the the pearls stuck to the stamped images and will give you a soft glowing metallic look. (See Picture 14)

© Linda Strawn

12: Using Encore UM-10 gold stamp pad from Tsukineko, stamp #156-E, dragonfly word across images randomly. (See Picture 11)

© Linda Strawn Let dry and mat on card. See finished picture.

13: Add a square of dry rock tape across the front of card and stamp dragonfly onto a piece of blue cardstock and tear edges and mount on top of drywall tape. See finished card.

14: Pin dragonfly pin thru card to the bottom right and stamp a gift for you inside of card. Add a small brass dragonfly charm to finish off your card and gift. Now you have a card and small gift to send to a friend.

NOTE: You can also do this technique with a piece of real glass; I like to use memory glass or sea glass. It makes the card a little heavier to mail but makes a very pretty looking piece of artwork.

Imagine by Daylene Strickland

For this project Heat Activated Glue Powder was used to adhere the foil (purchased from Blockheads).

1) Stamp image (Above the Mark) with VersaMark or embossing ink. Sprinkle glue powder over and gently tap off excess. An anti-static bag may also be used prior to stamping to prevent stray specks of the powder. (See Picture 1)

© Daylene Strickland

2) Emboss until powder becomes clear. Do not overheat. Use stamp positioner to line up the image and emboss a second time. (See Picture 2)

© Daylene Strickland The embossed area will be tacky.

3) Apply gold leaf foil to the image and use fingertips to remove larger pieces. Store these for future projects. (See Picture 3)

© Daylene Strickland Rub the foil firmly across the image with fingertips. Use a medium to firm brush in a circular motion to remove the remaining foil. Wear a mask if desired as foil flakes are very tiny and airborne. To completely finish this task, use a 100% cotton, soft old t-shirt to wipe down the cardstock.

4) Trim a section desired for card. On a piece of vellum, stamp and emboss the word “Imagine” in gold. Repeat stamping the image with navy ink offset. (Word by Stamper’s Anonymous.) Fold edges of vellum under foiled cardstock panel. Embellish with gold tassel. Secure panel using dimensional dots to ivory card.

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