Foiling is a big trend in card making at the moment, but WOW! have been having fun with foils for a long time with their Fab Foil range. Today I’m showing you have to add foil to your card designs with several different fun fab foiled techniques. And you don’t need a hot foiling machine for all of them, so you can easily start foiling with a few simple supplies that don’t cost an arm and a leg. There are so many beautiful colours of foil in the Fab Foil range, so you’ll never struggle. And what’s more, the WOW! Embossing Powder Superior smooth cardstock is perfect for a smooth foiled design!
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5 ways to use foil in cardmaking: toner sheets
WOW! Fab foils work perfectly with toner ink – so if you love digital stamps, you can step them up by foiling them. This card features two different ways to use toner foiling on your card.
I created my own sentiment on my computer and then I printed the sentiment out on WOW! Superior Smooth Cardstock on my toner printer. It must be a toner printer, as the foiling will not work with inkjet-printed items. Cut down Dark Blue Fab Foil and Turquoise Fab Foil to cover each of the sentiments.
Place the foil over the sentiments with the colour side facing up, and put this inside a carrier sheet before running this through a Minc machine or through a laminator. The peel and reveal is the best bit as you see the foiled sentiment.
For the simple background, I used Peel n’ Stick Toner Sheets from Thermo Web. I die cut three layers using the Notecard Layers die and then foiled each layer with a different colour of foil: Dark Blue, Turquoise and Silver. Again, these need to go through a Minc Machine or Laminator for the foil to adhere.
All foiled elements were adhered to a white card base with foam pads for dimension and finished with white Nuvo drops to create a simple masculine card.
5 ways to use foil in cardmaking: adhesive sheets and die-cutting
Peel the back release sheet for the die-cut and adhere this down onto a white card panel. Next, remove the front release sheet to expose the adhesive.
Cover the adhesive with Copper Fab foil and burnish the foil down into the adhesive – a bone folder tool makes this nice and easy to do. Peel to reveal a faux metal embellished die-cut.
To finish this card off, add a stamped flower from the Altenew Stunning Starflower set in Shea Butter, Sauna, Orange Peel and Mandarin Spice ink. In addition, add a sentiment heat embossed in Rose Gold Embossing powder using the Celebrating You stamp & die set.
Lastly, add a few clear bubble embellishments to finish the card off.
5 ways to use foil in cardmaking:adhesive sheets and negative die-cuts
There is no point wasting the negative pieces from the die-cut which will remain in the die because of the extra thickness the adhesive sheets add. Due to this thickness, it didn’t cut through the back release sheet, so this has already been removed with the positive die-cut.
Place the die with the negative pieces inside it on a white card panel. Use a pokey tool or bone folder tool to poke the negative pieces down onto the card panel. The exposed adhesive on the back of the negatives will allow you to stick the negative pieces down in the shape of the die.
For this card, I used two Fab Foil colours: Ice Blue and Teal. Remove, a third of the release sheets on the front of the negative die-cuts. Cover with Ice Teal and burnish down before revealing the foil.
Repeat this with the middle third of the die-cut using Teal Fab Foil and repeat for the last third with Ice Blue fab foil. This card was finished with another flower from the Altenew Stunning Starflower set in Clay Mask, Polished, Rouge, and Merlot. Again, add a sentiment from the Celebrating You Stamp & die set.
5 ways to use foil in cardmaking: double-sided tape
If you don’t have adhesive sheets, you can also use them with your double-sided tape and adhesive foam tape
Add strips of adhesive foam tape at a diagonal across a piece of Coral Hero Hues cardstock. In between these stripes, add strips of think double-sided tape.
For the flower, stamp in Serenade ink a flower from the Lush Garden Craft Your Life Project Kit and foam mount onto the front. In addition, foil a sentiment from the Mini Everyday Sentiment Glimmer Hot foil plates and add to the front.
Finish with a few white nuvo drops to embellish the card.
5 ways to use foil in cardmaking: bonding powder
If you didn’t know, WOW! have their own media to foil with: Bonding Powder. This works similar to heat embossing but the tacky nature of the powder allows you to foil it!
For this card, create an abstract design using the mixed median brush to apply embossing ink to a white card panel. Cover with bonding powder and heat set. As this heat sets, it will go clear but remain tacky for a period of time.
Whilst the bonding powder is tacky, cover with Violet Fab Foil and burnish down. Remove the foil to reveal your abstract design. This card was finished with another flower from Lush Garden Craft Your Life Kit stamped in Do-si-do ink.
Another sentiment was foiled using a sentiment that comes with the Glimmer Hot Foil System. These last two foiled sentiments were foiled onto WOW! Superior Smooth cardstock because this is super smooth cardstock which gives you PERFECT foiling every time! This card was finished with white nuvo drops.
5 ways to use foil in cardmaking
Supplies
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 Stunning Starflowers Stamp Set – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  Celebrating You Stamp set – PinkFresh Studio Shop at: SB | BP | CM |
(Craft your life project kit) – Altenew |
 Stunning Starflowers Die Set – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  Circle Weave Die – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |
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 Celebrating You Die set – PinkFresh Studio Shop at: SB | BP | CM |  Shea Butter Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  Sauna Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |
 Orange Peel Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  Mandarin Spice ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  Polished ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |
 Clay Mask Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  Do-si-do Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  Rouge Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | BP |
 Merlot Ink – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) | CM |
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 Minc Foiling Machine 12″ – Heidi Swapp Shop at: SB | CS (UK) |  Glimmer Hot Foil System – Spellbinders Shop at: SB | CM |
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 Violet Fab Foil – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Teal Fab Foil- WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
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 Rose gold Fab Foil – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Copper Fab Foil – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
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 Dark Blue Fab Foil – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CPD | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Turquoise Fab Foil – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CPD | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  White Fab Foil – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
 Rose Gold Embossing Powder – WOW! Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Bonding Powder – WOW! Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) | |
 Coral Hero Hues Cardstock – Hero Arts Shop at: SB | HA | BP |  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Cardstock Shop at: SB | BP | CM |  WOW! Superior Smooth White Cardstock – A4 Shop at: CS (UK) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
WOW! Superior Smooth White Cardstock – A5 Shop at: CS (UK) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Original MISTI 2.0 – My Sweet Petunia Shop at: ALT | CPD | SB | HA | BP | CM |  Double-sided adhesive sheets – Altenew Shop at: ALT | BP |
 Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive – Tonic Studios Shop at: TS (UK) | TS (UK) |  Instant Dimension foam Tape – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version) Shop at: CS (UK) | WOW (UK) |
WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version) Shop at: CPD | WOW (US) |  Crafter’s Essential Bone Folder – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
 Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
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