 Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to use the foil technique. I've got one that may, I may use the heat gun. I'm not sure. I'm still actually making these. I've just decided to start filming. So I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire. She recently shared a tutorial on how to use foils with no heat, no machine and it reminded me about my foils that I've got that I've been sat in my drawer kind of doing nothing. So I thought I would spend a lovely afternoon with a good movie and I've made lots of cards. So I'm going to show you all the techniques. This one here is with this lovely wood veneer that I've heat embossed and then this background is all done with double-sided tape and foils. You can see there it gives you a beautiful, lovely, lovely card. This one here, I love this sentiment. Leave a little sparkle wherever you go and all these are all with foils. I've just used a glitter sheet as the border there. This one, I just love the finish of it. So these are the hobby base rose dies which I've slowly fallen more and more in love with and I've used three different foils. So you see there's bits of gold mixed in there. So there's the gold and the pink, gun metal and then more gold in the stem and then I've just used that love die to match the border. This one here, real different kind of colours for me these but I thought I'd give it a go. Completely different look but again I just love that foil on the background. This one here, this is using the stencil and the heat gun. Do you know what? I prefer the finish and the results you get using the double-sided tape than what you get with the sticky embossing glue which is what is this one. This one's another really good one, just all gold and I've done that as an eclipse card. So it's really catching on the light there and you can see that that's raised up there. Just really really fun and then this one, another little Valentine's inspired one, really simple but you can see the other hearts and you do get this kind of mottled effect, a bit like aged like vintage glass mirrors which again it appeals to me. I just think that's really really nice. Yeah and it's really inexpensive and fun to do. Anybody can do this. So there are the cards I've done today which is good because it's filled up my stash so I'll be making lots of envelopes tomorrow. So today I'm going to show you, oh no, I'm going to show you, let's do, I'm going to do a whole background. So what I've been using, just get this so it doesn't all fall off, so I've been using for, when I do the kind of pattern striped background, so this one here, I've just been using this roll of double-sided tape. Mine is by Scotch, again I'll share links to that, I love this, it's what I use in all my tutorials along with the wet glue and basically I just kind of put that all across on my mapped piece of card. So that's using the double-sided tape but you also get really good results using the double-sided sticky sheets. So let me just remove one from the sheet here, the pack. This one's by Stick2Anything, again I'll share the links to that company, I really like their ones and they're made in Britain so it's always good. So you remove the backing and what you want to do when you remove it is don't take it all off, you can save every single piece of this. So as you lift it, I've got the sticky, this is the sticky side, I'm going to lie the side that you want, face it down on the sticky and then cover it back up and then all you want to do is just cut around that. So that means you're not wasting any of these sheets and if you want to use all this card you could then obviously cut off the bit that you wanted and keep that as well because that's double-sided card now that you've got to use. Sticky card, sorry. Okay, there we go. So grab, sorry I've got loads of stuff piled up on one side, I haven't got my bone tool, I've left it on my desk but basically just go over, just make sure it's all stuck down. Okay so that's all now stuck to the card and then you can peel off, just find the end there and just peel off the top piece. Now what I would say is maybe do it in stages, if you know the design you want to do then don't peel it all the backing off at once, just do it in stages because one thing you need to be careful of with the foil is don't let the, I'll make more sense in a minute, but don't let the, once the foil's stuck you'll have clear left on your rolls, don't let that clear hit the sticky because it's a bugger to get off, so it's just easy if you do it bit by bit. So I don't actually have an idea of a pattern in mind, I want to do a bit of a kind of mishmash, so because I'm going to be using lots of little bits I'm going to cut off just little sections of my foils, so the foils I've got here are a range really, these all on the tubes are from the works in the UK, very inexpensive but work brilliantly and then I've also got some from WoW and at the bottom here I've got a pack of ones from We Are Memory Keepers and they all work so there's a variety there and I'll be using a bit of all of them but this is just one of those ones off the roll and what you want to do is always place it down with the colour facing up, I know it seems a bit bizarre but basically this will once the sticks it rips it off of this clear backing that's on the top, so for example I'm just gonna let's just whack this here, stick it all down and then all you need to do is rub it with your finger and you will see it kind of lift it's just like rub-ons when you you're rubbing on those transfers and they start to lift off of the actual, it's the same as that however they don't always like this one isn't really doing that but that doesn't mean it hasn't stuck so just test a bit in the corner and I can see straight away it just peels straight off like so, now remember I said don't get that clear that's why it really does stick solid to your tape or whatever is on there so you just want to make sure that you know you can still use this but I would then go right the way down here so for example go right up there so I can get all that colour off and not waste any of this like so, so I'm going to do actually I'm going to do a bit as to quite an abstract style so I'm going to lay that back down again and this is just basically stop any accidents happening you know you don't want to end up ruining all your hard work so I'm going to go right over to this corner here and stick this again making sure I don't get any of the clear I can always trim this better again on my trimmer just a little bit there in the corner just go away with that okay so that's the red done then I'm going to use and if you do have bits left over keep them keep like a little scrap draw for your let's put some silver let's do a little bit of silver here cut a bit of this off so I'm just going to go over this whole thing until all that sticky double-sided sheet is covered with whatever foil it is so let's go down there and it will only stick to where the stick is so you can see it's not it's not adhering to the red at all it's just going to where that sticky tape is so again appeal it off and that's leaving quite a good effect actually so again I'm going to use that bit see it's really quick you can make some really really quick cards doing this I'm going to go along now and just cover this whole sheet okay so I'm just putting the last bit in the middle there the green and I absolutely adore this background it's turned out really really well I mean you couldn't get this in any other way so that's it all done I'll lift it up in a second but I just wanted to say that if you've got any bits maybe they didn't stick properly just you can dab it over always make sure you've got the the the color there you don't want to be doing it with that obviously because there's none on there so just make sure and you can just rub over it just kind of pick bits up with the colors that you've done and go over there now also the another thing you do is if you feel over it and you can feel anything sticky what you can do is just grab your anti-static powder your embossing buddy and just rub over it and it will just adhere to any of the tiny little bits that may still be sticky and it just means whoever you're giving it to the recipient and that won't have obviously anything sticky on their hands but that's another good way as well so I'm just going to lift this one up a little bit on the edge there but look really cool fun background so now that can be kept as a full background and then mounted on your card with a nice sentiment on it or you can die cut it so I will show the finished card at the end of the tutorial but that's one one way so there's like the stripes and then the pattern all the same colors they're brilliant and I've used all different ones here so this is the the cheaper brand this is the wow where was the one I used from I think that one blew off on the floor of use the ones from we are memory keepers and there's not much in it to be honest I don't think they're that different at all so that's that one so now I'm going to show you using the double-sided tape roll so I've got that one there let me just grab a base this is one I've got here and basically all you want to do is any pattern you want you might want to do a couple of stripes just on the left hand side you may want to do stripes along the top and on the bottom you might want to do a border on all four you might want to do the diagonal that I've got there just going all the way down you might want to do them going all the way up in a straight line there's just so many different ways that you can do this so let's do I'm going to do another let's see I'm going to do another one that's on an angle so basically you just want to make sure that you get a really nice and that's what I done first do the middle first so go from that corner all the way down to that corner and then you know that you'll get an equal space on each side you'll get the same amount so you just want to do one strip right now through the middle and then you can leave a gap I know Jennifer McGuire she left a white gap but I've gone right up and actually like going really close so I'm just literally hovering it until it's right next to it stick that down and just do that until your whole piece is covered okay so that now is all completely covered again it's on this mat it's easy to peel off so just make sure you're doing it on something that's peelable the silicone mats things like that you don't want to do it on any other paper and then you just want to start either end or you might if you've got a set kind of pattern so maybe I will do let's stick to I'm going to do two different kind of blues so I'm going to do this as more of a masculine card so with the stripes I'm just going to take off the very end on this it's tiny one that one but I'm going to do the strips quite long obviously they're going to stretch down that ends missing a few little bits so it's for another project so just cut that off so that very end one just need to pop it no I use this bit here just a smaller pop on the end rub it over and then that will stick down I didn't go right up to the edge I might start on the next one just lay that I'm gonna start right at the edge just so I'm using as much of this as possible back to the blue again just keep doing that but just take one off at a time don't take them all off because again you run the risk of ruining your time spent sticking it all down okay so I'm just peel that off I just need to trim it but there's another nice really fun background again I'll show you the final card when I finish that one that's really cool it's playing tune crazy things with my eyes that one is so that's that once again too really radical that's your thing I mean these are foils they're shiny they're quite out there so what should I do next let's do the heat embossing I'm just gonna clear this okay so I've just got some copy paper my mat that I'm gonna be used for my card and then I've chosen this honeycomb stencil these are I meant I've used these before and I'll feature those little tutorials I put a little icon up now but I've got an idea to use the hobby based bumblebee dies with this honeycomb and do quite a fun card with it so this one you just sit it over it doesn't quite I'll probably do this as a five by five card actually maybe no because the card the mat so I might be able to do six by six sorry talking to myself there okay so that's in place then we just need where did I put my masking washi tape and you just want to stick down the card just a little bit I'm just putting it right up to the edge there just so it doesn't really move underneath that stencil that'd be enough and then get your embossing buddy your anti-static and again just wipe over that card just to remove any grease we're going to be covering all of this it doesn't matter too much but it does just help still and then just lie that over the top and I'm just lining it up at the bottom of the mat the card underneath and then again just pop a couple of bits of washi on either side like so this is just to stop it really moving around so what we're doing now is we're gonna ink over this with our verse marks this is the watermark pad and this is what are there now a sticky embossing powder will be added to which is our powdered glue basically and then we will add the foil onto that so I'm just going over and just really making sure that that is covered now just peel off the stencil carefully yeah I can see already I'm not sure if it's picking up oh yeah is in the camera you can just see where it's obviously stuck to the card so I'm really pleased with that got nice coverage and then just carefully take off so then I'm using the so this is the Ranger sticky embossing powder so I'm just literally going to pour it all over I can hold one of the ends because I can see it's not gone right to the edge and you'll see it all stick and this will dry clear so it goes on there like a snow looks like snow and then it will like I said it will dry clear once we add our heat to it so I'm happy that that's all covered pop that one there and then just pull this back okay so then you just want to get your heat gun and just spend some time I'll try and pick it up in the camera make sure it gets nice and hot that's the key thing when you do any embossing you want this to be very very hot so I'm just kind of put my hand over it until I know it's unbearable so be very very careful and basically just start off just working down the bottom there circular motions are straight away I can see you can see it's changing in the video so although it's clear it is easy to manage and see what you're doing very fingers and already I can feel it's sticky we're blowing on my foils off my desk so like I said this is just a powdered glue when it goes on and then you when you melt it you it forms a glue so now when you touch that it's sticky okay so that's all in place and now I'm going to use gold on this because it was a honeycomb theme I'm gonna use a different one I've got this one here which has got kind of a shimmer through it picking up there yeah really nice so just prepare two bits here it doesn't matter that it doesn't all cover it because you still actually get I didn't cover that whole thanks one that's when I showed you earlier because obviously this these are only I think about three inch wide rolls you can get bigger sheets these ones here the we are memory keepers ones they're bigger ones as well so but I'm showing you ways you can still do it with these ones and basically you just want to sit it over the top you don't want this to go so cold you want it to still be warm to touch and you don't want to use a bone folder I wouldn't encourage a bone folder or anything like that on it not until it's really really hard and you just want to start rubbing and you will see again it's like I said before it's kind of like that the rub-ons so once it starts moving off the top like that yeah I can see you see already it's starting to take just keep working over that until that's all stuck down so there you have it and if there's any slight little imperfections then that's fine this is you know it's the honeycomb design it's not meant to be completely perfect and again I'm just going to rub my anti-static over it and it just gets rid of any other little bits that you just can't get to and it still keeps it shine so that's that one there so I think I've kind of shown you I mean this one you can just do the these in any direction you want and then obviously die cut I've done this one as well which I didn't show this is something I done before just a strip of the pink and the red and I'm going to die cut more hearts all the way up this and do a card with that so I'll show you that one I'll show you the card for that one this one and also I think that's my favorite so there you have it there's four that I've shown you one with the heat and using a stencil and the others just using just normal double-sided tape and I really love I think this these are my favorites so I hope you enjoyed today's tutorial I've had lots of fun lots of mess now I need to tidy it all up but I hope you've enjoyed watching the tutorial and please hit the like button if you enjoyed today and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye