I just wanted to tell you thank you so, so, so much!!!! I don't own a hot foil machine, nor do I want to buy one because then I have to buy hot foil dies. I don't even own a laser printer. I had your black page download printed at OfficeMax, rushed home to try it out and I'm absolutely in love! It works beautifully! I will be buying a laser printer (I can justify it easier since it will allow me to foil using my existing dies), if you have a new laser printer suggestion as of 2020 (since this is an older video), I'd be ever so grateful! Thanks again!!!! You're absolutely amazing!!!!!
Jennifer what a great tutorial about foil and the different ways to apply it. Like you I found out that my foil wasn't doing a clean enough job because my laminator just wasn't hot enough so like you I let my machine warm up for about 20 / 25 minutes and it was really nice and warm. I put my pieces through and they laminated beautifully. what a joy to see the beauty of it. Mine is a Two Cows laminator that I got at Costco's and it was just about $18. I can say it works fine as long as you give it time to really warm up properly. Then you can laminate in peace. I didn't want to make the big investment of a fancy machine as I didn't know how I would like working with foil. I love it. As long as my machine holds up .... I'm going to keep using it until it dies on me. lol. Then maybe I'll have the funds for the fancy ones. Thanks Jennifer another great video. pat
Thank you so much for this video! I was so desperate to find a glue and not buy something that doesn't stick. Since I don't live in America and they don't ship many stuff like these to where I live, I was sad. Seeing this video, I have a way now to make this work! Thank you again
A tip if you don't mind...I take a black sheet of cardstock and 10 sheets of white cardstock with me to Office Max and copy the black cardstock onto the white cardstock! That way I can use dies, punches, and die cutting machines!
HI Jennifer I just started watching craft videos on RU-vid. I am so glade that I found You Tube craft, because I found your website. I really like most of your videos. You describe everything so clear and precises. Thank you Now I will start use my laminator again. I will definitely be watching your videos more often.
Hello Ms McGuire, I am new to card making and I enjoy most of your videos. The most difficult thing about this new hobby is the expense. I want to try every technique and keep buying more and more supplies. And now I’m in love with foiling. Thank you for showing how to create these beautiful cards.
Jennifer, I am watching this video 5 years after you made it! It's now 2020 and I am just discovering the foil technique. Thank you for this wonderful video explaining how it's done. Of course, I've purchased the laminator you've suggested from Amazon and a variety of colourful foils. Can't wait to use some beautiful red foiled titles on my holiday cards this year!
Gosh Jennifer I'm new to Card Making so I just love your videos which are teaching me a lot. Only trouble is I'm spending such a lot of time watching your videos. :-) :-) :-) Just love the way you explain everything. Thank you.
I want to share a tip with you too, Jennifer. I bought some fuseable webbing at Joann's. The kind that is used in sewing. I bought a light weight webbing. I cut out one of my dies with it and used it in my laminator. It worked beautifully. You could also use it with an iron. Just wanted to share.
Wow, Joyce B !!! What an Awesome idea !!!!! Wondering if the webbing could be used with intricate paper die cuts ??? I’ll be trying this asap 😀 Thank you so very much for your super idea 😃😃😃
I was actually wondering if fuesable web would work while watching the video. So I'm glad to read that you've tried it and had success... thanks for sharing your experience! :)
I was wondering for my Christmas cards I want to do foiling. If I printed the message for the inside of card with laser print would that work with foil? Plus how long will the laser last for me to run the foil on it. Say I printed 20 laser jet but couldn’t get to them for a couple days will the laser print still work? F so what type of paper do you use with a laser jet? I think mine only allows typing paper.
You are such a great teacher. I am amazed at how articulate you are while you are showing us what to do. Such wonderful multitasking! Thanks for the work you do to help us improve.
Hello Jennifer. Can you tell me what thickness fun foam you prefer to use. I didn't realise how many different thicknesses there were. I just love your tutorials and you are so pleasant to listen to. I could watch and listen to you all day. Thank you for all your inspiration. Juliann (Australia)
You so much for teaching me how to use the foiling. I had some given to me several years ago but never had good luck with it until now thank you so much.
I just discovered your channel today and find it's amazing. The foil techniques are relly great for many different works, I love it! I dont know if you're gonna read this comment, since this video is old, but if it helps, what makes the foil stick to the laser toner is that the toner they use in laser printers is based on wax, the laser just heats a wax powder and melts it making it stick to the paper, so when you use your foil technique with the laminator, the heat melts the wax again and makes the foil stick to it :) I hope that bit of knowledge can lead to other techniques as well :)
Hi Jennifer. After discovering you and your fabulous videos, I am back into stamping in a big way and your foiling videos really got me hooked. I did discover though that not all laser printers use toner; I printed out your toner .pdf (thank you) and put it through the laminator many times with no success. Well, I thought to myself, maybe the laminator wasn't working, so I tried it and it worked just fine. I was so disappointed until I thought to ask my husband, who told me ours has some other kind of ink - I thought this might help if others are thinking of getting a laser printer. In other news, my Joann's has the Minc foil and accessories on clearance at half off!! I ordered a different, cheap laser printer which comes tomorrow so I'm very excited. Thanks for your inspiring videos!!
Thanks for sharing so many options. I've tried them all plus Tim Holtz sticky embossing powder. They all work but I personally love the toner method. I find it leaves a much smoother service.
Wonderful video...thanks for these tips! I’ve never foiled but I just got my laminator and I am waiting for my foil to come in the mail...this video really helps!
Thank you, so ready to do this technique. You are so generous with your time and talent. Thank you for sharing. Your videos are very inspirational for me. May you continue to be so very blessed.
Perfect timing since i just got some of this Deco Foil on clearance this weekend. I need to go back to Michaels tomorrow and see if they still have any left. I used it with the double stick adhesive and it did awesome. Thanks for the idea of using with the pretty open dies. I have some pretty florals like that that I will try. Great job as usual jennifer. Thanks.
love all this foil! I'd be curious to see something with the foil after used? Kind of like the "negative". it might be pretty having the image in the foil instead of the foil in the image if that makes sense? Just thought the squares piece of foil after peepling it off the rose was pretty :)
Very nice video, Thank so much for the alternative method, as I have a injet printer. 1 question, do you think cold foil will work for the embossed paper/ laminator tecnique, or only heat activated foil.
foiling rules! shame thermo web is hard to get in the netherlands, but i have the wow foils and love them too, your idea of die cutting is of course absolutely fabulous as usual!
I'm off to watch your No heat foil technique next up. I'm searching for methods to add foil to faux leathers and vinyls without worry about melting the plastic materials of course. So finding your tutorials today very helpful and providing ideas that might work well too. (I also have a few glimmer heat embossing dies so of course they require HEAT. A full set of Zodiac night sky star shapes in these heat embossing dies. SO of course I want to use vinyl because I am making personalized itty note books for an office of 5 people who for fun I thought it would be nice to do their Zodiac Signs on their favorite colors but in vinyl so the covers hold up better than cardstock. There are several difficulties with this and one is just being able to squeeze the vinyl thickness into a paper punch and then not melting vinyl via any form of heat, iron, laminator or a specialized glimmer like item. I think I'll try to laminate anyway as I have 3 laminators all over 20 years old but one is what was called a BIG Mouth which meant it accepted a foam board about 1/8 maybe a big thicker I don't recall but I still have some of the materials to check it out. Any way this laminator if needed might help. Another thing I was thinking in both this video and your 5 favorite ways to use foil was when using the thin double stick materials you could actually run it through the embossing machine to add more pressure than maybe using the bone smoother would accomplish. But such great shares on different techniques. I'm off to play. I also have heat a pen that heats up to free hand write with it. Again worry if it's too hot for the vinyls. I see on line where people have bought A5 and A6 note journal books made of vinyl and some foil with heat well others do not. But I have a few more ideas to use faux leathers with foiling and just hope it works. Thanks again for your shares.
Have you ever considered releasing the toner onto say, wood or something like that? Then, once there, do you think it'll still stick? Because now the toner will be part of the piece. I just wonder cause I do a transfer of the toner with acetone from a reverse image.
Hi Jennifer! I have no idea if you are still going to read this, since it is a tutorial from 2 years ago, but a great one ;), I wanted to ask, if you do not have a laminator, can you do these thechniques with an irion, specially the last one? And do you know why the foil stays on the embossing? It sounds so stange, cause there is nothing "special" about an embossed stamp that would make it so that foiling sheet would stick to it. I am curious if it would work without the embossing, just stamping with the versa. I have loads of video's to catch up on. but i have learned a lot already! thanks you for your great tutorials grts Anke!
I recently ran across this video and thought I would try foiling with my laminator. I looked at some Deco Foil on Amazon, but it emphasized that it would not work with a laminator. Has this product changed since you made this video? Is it still possible to foil with a laminator? If so, what foil should I buy that is available now? Thanks! ❤️
Great video! I don't have a laminator and don't plan on buying one. Do you think that using an iron as the heat source could produce the same or similar results?
Jennifer, isn't there foil that doesn't need an expensive heat embosser for us casual, normal crafters? I remember using foil years ago that stuck with glue. Is that not available anymore?
Does it have to be cardstock that the toner is printed on? I was so excited that I did it on regular paper and I don't think it working right. lol. Can I just glue the regular sheets to cardstock or should I just start over?
Any suggestions on how to avoid the unwanted foil to stuck on other area than the area that you wanted? I printed an image and the laminate it just like in one of your videos. Not a lot but it is obvious 😫
Hi Jennifer, any thoughts on the Royal Sovereign laminator compared to the other you used on one of you other videos. The Royal Sovereign is not readily available here in Australia and the 'one' I have found is a bit expensive. But would consider it, if it makes a big difference to the end result
Jennifer McGuire Ink - I went back and looked at your older foiling video and yes it's the same laminator. I just assumed that since you said it was an inexpensive machine it must have been a different one. Wow that RS laminator is $100 plus here.
I love your channel! I really want to try this foiling technique with the laminator for my wedding invitations. I'm planning on getting the same brand of machine. Do you know if i can double stack the paper & foil when it goes through the laminator? Also can post-it tape go through the machine (to block off areas i dont want foiled) without damaging the card?
Hello Jennifer, which foil do you need for the stripes on the site of the card? This is the tone in tone foil i think. What is the name of this color? Thanks Daniela
I just got some sticky embossing powder that supposedly doesn't require the laminator or other heat source. Are you ever going to do a video about using sticky embossing powder?
it actually does require a heat source. it is called a heat gun. you stamp with versamark, pour the sticky embossing powder, zap it with the heat gun , and once melted, quickly put the foil, and wait to cool. also try the nuvo glue or zig two way glue pen on your stamps. put the foil and run it through your big shot or die cutting machine. also scor tape will work with foil. but it's nice to print out your own designs or die cut them. my laminator was under 20 $ at Walmart
