I love the colors of toner sheets. I dont have any at the moment but, I’ll have to remedy that! I have so much waste foil and decided to use what I have. I took a piece of sticky paper and covered the front of a colored card. Took a waste piece and put it down over the sticky. Turned out great. Then just added fine glitter over exposed areas.
Wow! The purple butterfly is amazing! To bad I sold all my foiling supplies about 2 years ago. I was sick of getting funky missing bits of foil on my projects.
Double sided adhesive paper "tape" also works well with "waste foil" doesn't matter if hot or not. The adhesive takes the foil. from the sheet. I've used y Silhouette to cut a shape with the adhesive tape sheets and then exposed the waste foil to the sticky. :)
❤hello from Illinois, its always fun watching you create with foil. I didn't realize until after i used my toner sheet that the better press is not the always the best to use waste foil, so yes auditioning is best. I am not aftaid of Mistakes, its a learning process. Thank you Nancy
This hack is just in time. Finally jumped in and did some hot foiling today for the first time ever. Had some not so great results trying to foil the waste. Low and behold my Crafty Critta package arrived today!!!🎉 Including many toner sheets. I didn’t realize until this video that I could use the hot foil waste on toner sheets. Thanks so much for all your tips and tricks!! You are the foil empress!!!!
Great info, and so timely! I just got some hot foil from Crafty Critta, and didn't realize that the sample sheets they included with my order were actually toner sheets! Now I have a couple of samples to try out this new technique. Yay!
All of this presupposes that foiling actually works. Back when interest in foiling began, I decided that I would learn to foil with other techniques before investing in a machine. Toner foiling, glue foiling, and other methods notoriously did NOT work for me. I even bought a different laminator in hopes that my long usage of my original one had worn it out, but I had no more success with the new machine than the old. A different printer gave the same result; foil simply didn’t stick to my cardstock regardless of which (black) laserprinter or which laminator I used. I knew that there were different types of foil, but since the heat foiling didn’t work, I tried all the other types as well. Literally nothing worked AT ALL. My “best” result, after wasting eight hours in vain attempts on one particular day, was to have the barest sprinkling of foil speckles over the laserprinted text, and those sprinkles only adhered after running things through the laminator over a dozen times. There are many videos out there of folks who foil successfully without using a dedicated foiling machine. I can only say that it doesn’t work for me. Your method appears to also involve toner and a laminator, although I certainly don’t see any toner in this video. I cannot imagine how you’re getting the foil to adhere.
Use a minc over a laminator. Only certain laminators get hot enough. The sheets I'm using are toner printed sheets. They aren't just in black anymore. Good quality toner sheets, good quality toner or Textile Foils and a very hot minc machine. I have several hundred videos to help you out.
These are beautiful, will be adding some colour toner sheets to my wish list. Have you tried this with a laminator instead of the minc? Do you think it will work too?
Hi Nancy, i love your tutorials. I am new at foiling but I am learning a lot from you. I just bought a Mini Mini but it is taking a long time to warn up. I time it today, on number 2 and it took 13 minutes. It this a faulty machine ? Thanks.
This is the Pink Minc foiling machine from Pink & Main. Links are in description under the video. You can also use a laminator but let it heat up for 30 mins.
