I had to have another play with these beautiful Bella Flora dies from Ink Road Stamps and this time I decided I was going to foil them! I had an idea last night...yeah... while I was supposed to be sleeping. I remembered that there was a glue stamping pad in my drawer that I bought a loooooong time ago and hadn't ever used. I wondered if I could use that to glue up these dies and then run it through the Minc with some rainbow foil while it was tacky. Luckily, the pad didn't come "inked" up with the glue solution so it hadn't dried out... and the set I bought had the little bottle right in the package all sealed up and I was able to "ink" it up no problem. Then I cut the dies in white cardstock and smooshed them onto the ink pad and let it dry for a bit.
Through this whole process I let the Minc heat up so it was nice and ready when it came out. The die cuts came out pretty, but some spots were bare. I can only assume I didn't have good coverage with the glue or some of the areas had dried too much maybe. So I repeated the process and when it came out, it was very cool how of course the colors in the rainbow didn't match up perfectly so rather than blocked lines of color, the color was mixed in. It still didn't cover completely, but you know I don't mind the distressed look AT all... in fact I really love the way it came out!!
I wanted the florals to be popped up, and I was going to cut a couple extra die cuts and stack them when I though of the outline dies that come with this set, that not only are fantastic to cut out the stamped images in the stamp set but work wonderfully to cut an outline for the stand alone dies! And white glitter paper was just the ticket! I cut the two outlines using the outline dies and used liquid glass to adhere the rainbow foiled florals to the glitter paper. Then I used foam tape to pop them up and trimmed off the edges that hung over. I did use a couple of those pieces also to extend the floral and tucked them underneath.
Then this sentiment die from the set... I cut it in purple foiled cardstock and two in white and stacked them and then attached them with liquid glass. Isn't that plaid embossing folder by Tim Holtz so cool!! It added just the texture I wanted. Then three sequins... because I'm playing along with the Outlawz Twisted Thursday with an Optional Recipe Twist to use three of something.
One last peek... it's so hard sometimes to take pics of the shimmer and shine on these foiled projects but this one was surprisingly easy! Just love that rainbow Decofoil!
Now... keep this in mind... I will definitely play with this technique again, but I can't speak for whether it's ok to use the glue and run it through the Minc...lol! My transfer folder is a mess! Might be a good thing to use parchment paper with or maybe not at all... but I love it and I'll definitely try it again. Another thing... you could probably do the same thing with the pen or with the gel (scraped lightly over the top of the diecut), but I had the glue pad in my stash so I decided to give it a go!
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