{Spotlight Project} Cornelia's Burning Question: Are You Foiling Yet?

Hi! Cornelia here today, trying out foiling. I have been enamoured by Jennifer MeGuire and her foiling techniques the moment I saw it. Bought the foil and ever since it has been laying around and I was too intimidated to try. But thanks to the spotlight feature, I got over my procrastination habit and tackled it. Now, any sensible human being would have watched her video again, but I thought I remembered it well enough....I am not one for watching lengthy videos - don't have time for that. I much rather look at a bunch of pictures...

So here are my supplies:

• black card stock
• foil
• a stamp from the Celebrate Artsy set
• glue

I did not buy the special glue, but decided to use one from my stash that I bought awhile ago for glittering and have not yet used. Here we go again...I would think that any kind of glue works, as long as it does not dry immediately.

  

I "inked up" my stamp with glue and stamped it four times.

I put the foil on with the foil side up (the backside is silver) and rubbed the foil against the stamped image. You can use a bone folder, but I preferred to use the back of my fingernail with a clean piece of paper over the foil to protect it.

I lift off the foil and let the whole thing dry. I did that late at night and then finished the card the next day.  You should wash off your stamp immediately and not dance around looking and admiring your beautiful foil work - you pay for that.....admire it AFTER you washed off that glue.

I finished the card with a sentiment from the SENTIMENT BUILDERS: Thank You set and a die-cut "thanks" which I diecut from copper shimmer paper. Added a thin copper strip on the side and copper thread.

Hope you liked this - see you in two weeks!

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