This month’s challenge theme is Fab Foils, and I couldn’t resist combining Fab Foils with fireworks! Fireworks look great on dark cardstock, but stamping won’t look so great. However, foil just pops off of black cardstock so foils and Fireworks are a match made in heaven. And yes, you can foil stamps with the aid of WOW! Bonding powder. So let’s get started!!
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Can you foil stamps: stamp with bonding powder
Start off by trimming down to panels of black cardstock to fit on a slim-line card. One of these was trimmed down to add a little variation in the size of the panel. Â Next, position the first layer of fireworks from the Catherine Pooler ‘Sparkle & Pop’ stamp set onto a card panel and stamp these in WOW! Bonding powder. In order to foil the stamped image, heat set the bonding powder with your dual speed heat gun. Whilst the image is still tacky – bonding powder melts and becomes tacking, cover with a colour of Fab foil of your choosing.Â
Make sure the bonding powder isn’t too hot when you burnish the foil in – 1, you want to be careful of you fingers, and 2, if it is still a little hot it may move and smudge under the pressure when you burnish it. For this first card, the Fab Foil colours used were: Blush, Rose Gold, Copper and Silver.Â
Can you foil stamps: adding multiple colours of foil
Once the first layer of fireworks is stamped, reposition the card panel into your MISTI and place the second layer of fireworks over the first layer. Again, stamp and emboss this layer with bonding powder.Â
Once more, cover with foil, burnish this on and then peel to reveal the foiled designs. The colours of Fab Foil used on this second card are Violet, Teal, Ice Blue and Silver.Â
Can you foil stamps: bringing the scene together
In addition, stamp and foil some of the smaller stamps from the set including the stars, foiling these in silver. To add more stars to the sky, splatter a couple of different colours from the Gansai Tambi Starry Watercolour palette onto the card panels.
To finish the cards off, add a few sentiments from the Altenew Sentiment Strips stamp set, or a Cheers die cut along with a smaller secondary stamp set. In addition, add a few Chalkstick Vintage Nuvo drops to embellish the cards.Â
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Can you foil stamps?
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 Sentiment Strips 2 – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  Good Stuff Inside – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |  New Year Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD |
 Sparkle & Pop! – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |  Cheers Layered Die – Paper Rose Shop at: SB |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
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 Teal Fab Foil – WOW! Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Blush Fab Foil – WOW! Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Silver Fab Foil – WOW! Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
 Rose gold Fab Foil – WOW! Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Copper Fab Foil – WOW! Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Ice Blue Fab Foil – WOW! Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
 Opaque Bright White -WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Bonding Powder – WOW! Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Premium White Cardstock: 8.5″ x 11 – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | LPT |
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 Powder Tool Aplicator – EK Success Shop at: CPD | SB |  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) |
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This post was produced as part of my design team work for WOW! Embossing Powders have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from WOW! Embossing Powder to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of and with products that I love.  The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert.Â
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Hi Verity, I just found your blog and want to let you know I find you work exciting. I look forward to following you on Instagram and Pinterest.. Thank you for the inspiration to look at my supplies in a different way. Kind Regards, Judy
Thank you Judy for stopping by the blog! So glad you’re looking forward to lots of inspiration and ways to use your supplies 🙂
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