Woodgrain foiled hearts love card and foiling tips.

For all love occasion, here is a layered pop-up heart card with woodgrain and foil accents.

Sentiment:  Love is all you need.

This card was created using two hearts, layered and foiled.  The sentiment and ribbon were added as accent.  I kept the colors simple in black, gray and gold.  

I made a quick video tutorial showing the process for this project.

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Foiling Tips

There are a few different ways to foil with and without a laminator.  

Here are some tips for foiling using a preheated laminating machine.

My laminator works best by heating the foil face up on a piece of pre-embossed cardstock without using a folder to sandwich the foiling.  I think it is because my laminator has one heat temperature and feeding it though with one piece of cardstock and one layer of foil is thin enough for it to heat and attach the foil the best.  (Though "sometimes" a folded piece of paper to sandwich works for me like in the video example.)

Laminator and foil types are each different.

I am using a YourStory laminator/book binder.  It needs to be fully pre-heated (up to 5 minutes).  Sometimes it works with sandwiching the foil between a folded piece of paper and sometimes it works better feeding the paper with foil directly without the folder.  Before foiling with a laminator, have your stamping heat embossed and cooled.  Or use printed images using a laser printer and then foil without a folder. 

Toner sheets can be used to foil die-cuts and pre-designed toner sheets can also be foiled.  

Carefully practice if using your laminator with foiling.

Foiling without a laminator is an option using other techniques which will be covered in future foiling posts.

For more of my foil posts, see foiling.

Here is another look:

Supplies:  Unity Stamp Co. Wooden Heart, Prima patterned foil, iCraft gold deco foil, YourStory laminator, VersaMark ink, embossing powder, heat tool, Winnie and Walter dies, black ribbon, gold adhesive gems.

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