 My name is Sarah, I'll be your teaching artist today, and this is my wife. Hi, I'm Lex. And you are in our home studio where we will be filming and creating some amazing foil embossed artwork. Stay tuned. Okay, I'm gonna introduce to you the different materials that we're going to be using for this project. The first is our foil, our cardboard, paper, last but not least, our coloring tools. So I have in this cup some tempera paint sticks that are a lot like oil pastels, which are really fun. And some Crayola washable markers, as well as a permanent marker, a Sharpie. And let's get started. Step one. The first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna cut out a piece of cardboard as our base. So you're gonna need your scissors, your cardboard, pencil, and ruler. I'm gonna start off by making a five by five inch base. So just by looking at this is already isn't big enough. So I'm gonna put that aside. And I'm going to measure out five inches from the corner. And I see here that it's already five inches. So I'm just gonna mark where that is and know that it's along that crease. And then I'm gonna measure out another five inches. I'm gonna make this flush up against the edge. So it's a nice straight line. And then using my scissors, I'm gonna cut this square out. Okay, step one. Step two, you're gonna plan your design. So for this, you need your paper and your pencil and your cardboard base. I say you need your cardboard base because it's perfect for getting the idea of how big of an area you have to work with. So what I do is I trace along cardboard to create that template in here. And for my design, I'm planning on creating a rainbow. And I want the arches of those rainbows to connect to two clouds. So I'm going to draw my clouds first and then get these arches in. And I'm just gonna count them out and label them. So red, orange, yellow, green, blue. So one, two, three, four, five. Awesome. So step three is we are going to use more cardboard to cut out pieces inspired by my design. And I just cut out another piece of the five by five because again, I know what I have to work with, the area that I have to work with. And I'm going to very gently again, sketch out this idea. But I'm gonna use my marker just so that I have a better detail of what I'm doing. I'm gonna get these clouds again. No worries if your first initial sketch doesn't match up to what you end up creating. That's what art's all about. It's all about planning and sometimes things don't work out the way you first planned it. Okay. So when you're creating this embossed foil, you wanna make sure that you give it some space in between these areas so that the foil can fall between those surfaces. So I'm just gonna make like a deeper line here so you can get a sense of where there's gonna be an empty space there. And again, we have red, orange, yellow, green, blue. So I can actually make this one come down a little more. Also, okay, we're gonna start cutting now. What I like to do is I like to cut off the corners as much as possible. Here we go, I'm gonna cut these all out. Now I'm gonna just cut around these arches so that I separate the clouds from these pieces here. And I'm gonna cut up into halfway and then just cut the other way to meet them. When you're cutting with curves, it's best to move the cardboard versus your hand moving. It's best to just have the cardboard move. Okay, so I'm gonna go in and just clean up these pieces. This one doesn't need as much. Let me see where the black is and I can cut all that off. I'm gonna get my clouds. So now I'm just gonna clear off that space and I'm going to just lay out these shapes and see what I got. Let's see what I missed. I missed this part here. Just gonna lay them out. I'm noticing that there's a little too much black so I'm gonna go in and get some of these out. And one trick that I like to do with this sort of cardboard is I like to peel off one of the layers to expose the inner layers. So I'm gonna do that with this so I feel like it would add a nice texture to them, bossing. And then you can always use your nails or whatever you have with you to get more of that texture out. Okay, you got all our pieces now. Okay, step four. We are going to glue the cutout pieces onto the base. So we have our base here and all of our pieces. So for me, I have my arches. What I like to do when I'm gluing is I like to just use a scrap piece that I have and just put that bit of glue. When using glue, less is more. You can always use less if you need to. You can use your finger if you want to glue this. You can use a stick. I have a paintbrush so I'm just gonna start by gluing on these clouds first. I'm gonna position them this way. I'm gonna add some more glue. Like I said, less is more. So I can always add more but you can sometimes with glue, it's harder to put it back. And I'm gonna start off with, let's see. I'm gonna start off just by laying them out one more time just to make sure everything is where it should be. Awesome, okay. So I'm gonna glue. Also feel free to edit anything you wanna edit. So I think I'm just gonna cut this one a little bit. Okay, all of our pieces are glued down. Now we have step five. This step, we're gonna wrap the project with foil. So I have my piece here. And one way that you can make sure that the pieces are all glued onto your base is to turn it over and give it a little shake. And if nothing falls off or if nothing looks loose, you're good to go. And I'm going to get my foil. I'm just gonna line it up with the artwork to see how much off the end it is. I wanted to have a little bit of space so that I can wrap it around and cut that. And then I'm going to just lay it in the middle. And then I'm gonna work from the center of it because I feel like this is where most of the attention would exist and I just wanna make sure that it gets as much attention to it as possible. So I'm gonna go in here and crease all these different edges of your cardboard. And then you'll start to see those pieces coming up. You wanna be pretty slow with this. You don't wanna be too quick because the foil isn't extremely durable. It's pretty delicate and you wanna make sure that you're not rusting this that way that your foil doesn't rip. And if it does rip, you can easily add some glue and glue those pieces down if it does rip. No worries. And then this is my favorite part, these little clouds. You can see them going across for some of them. Just getting that cloud of edge in. And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna lift it up and I'm going to put it on top. And then with this I'm just gonna do like you would wrap a present. I'm just gonna push these sides over, flatten that, flip these sides over, flatten that. And then I'm going to fold these in like this, and then like this, this way. You could use tape, you could use glue. I'm just gonna leave it open for now. Let's see what this does. If you wanted you could also add another square if you had one of cardboard and you could just like put it on the back and maybe like have an attachment here and you can hang your artwork. I'm gonna put this back over. I'm gonna go over my foil and emboss it a little more to make sure it has those edges nice and flat in there. And there you go, you can get a pretty good view of all the different pieces of cardboard underneath. And now we're on to our next step. And our last step is step six. So now we're gonna use our markers or different coloring tools to decorate our embossed foil. I'm gonna start off by using the permanent marker just because I want to get an idea of the contour of these outlines, of these different lines. So I'm just gonna gently go in making sure that you're being very gentle. I'm not applying a whole lot of pressure like I said because it might rip into the foil. So you just want to do time. It's definitely a patience practice. Okay, so I got that outline. Actually, that's fine. Okay, see the permanent markers on there now. I'm gonna use my tempera paint sixes because I feel like they're really fun and easy to use. Like I said, they're a lot like oil pastels. I'm just gonna go over this will be my red. Last but not least, this white. Colored in all these different areas. I can go back again if you want and push down in areas that you want to push down. But this foil is now in a embossed. Okay, so I hope you all enjoy your artwork. Like I said, if you wanted, you can attach anything to the back to sort of hang it or you can add magnets. You also can emboss the foil by using any kind of string. If you have yarn, you can glue the yarn down or any found objects, buttons, rocks, leaves, whatever you can think of can get put onto your base and then the foil can be put on top to create this nice embossing texture that we have here. Studio 54 was all about high fashion. Continue to use your foil at home by creating wearable art. I decided to make this really cool bracelet. Have fun with this next month where you will be creating a recyclable artwork with our teaching artist, James and his special assistant, Isani James. Thank you so much. Goodbye and thank you for making art with us today. We hope you all have these smooth this week moving forward.