How To: Foiling with a Laminator 

You're welcome Marion. I hope you enjoy foiling! I'd love to see what you create x

Thanks Catherine. I'm glad you enjoyed it

You're welcome Laurie. I'm glad you found it helpful. I'd love to see what you create!

Awesome! I'm so glad you found something that worked for you!

May I ask what laminator you bought? I am trying to figure out what laminator to buy for foiling, and a bit overwhelmed with the number of products different people are using.

Me too. Trying to figure out what laminator, where can i buy and how does it works.

Jocelyn Kwan I bought a Scotch laminator. It has two settings. I set it to the highest setting (5ml) and let it heat up for ten or more minutes. I get perfect results using the thin parchment paper as a carrier. I love it and it only cost $16!

do you use laser printer??

Glad you enjoyed it! There are lots of new ways to foil coming, but this is really the most simple. Thanks for watching!

I'm so glad you found it helpful! Enjoy x

You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.

Glad you found it helpful Elsie x

Thankyou Sheila. I'll be doing the experiment video very soon.. just need to find the time to film it!

Thats a great idea. I'll try that next time!

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You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful!

Let me know how you went Duari!

YAY!! Glad you enjoy my videos Nicole!

Oh thats so awesome! I'd love to see! Tag me on Instagram @plum_mashable!

I've got to try this 😍💕🙌

I love it so much. Foiling is a lot of fun!

Aww.. thanks Tina. :) Glad you enjoyed

I don't think I've ever said Crikey! Lol! but who knows, one day I might be moved! Thanks for watching!

No worries Kella. Glad you found it helpful.

Thanks lovely x

So glad you enjoyed it Jackie! :)

Ha ha! It's a scary hole to fall down, but its so much fun!

but what printer are you going to use? is it laser print? can you update us on here? I wanna start also..

You have to use a laser printer to use the foil, thats how it transfers.

Thankyou!

So glad you found it helpful Liz! Thanks for watching!

Thanks Evelyn! I'd love to see what you create with it!

I do like the crinkles to be honest. :)

So glad it worked for you Julie! Have fun with your newly discovered technique! I'd love to see what you create too.. tag me on instagram if you share (@plum_mashable).

Thanks so much! I am glad this helped you! Let me know how you go with it!

Great tip.. thanks Betty!

Awesome advice Ana! I'll make sure to give that a try with my next foiling project!

Do you use an inkjet printer or a laser printer?

Thanks Monique! :) I love peeling it off - and its actually one thing I do enjoy about doing it with a laminator - and being surprised by the result.

I'm totally going to leave it up to the experts for now!

Wow! Thats fantastic that you found something that works and it has been for so long. Thanks for sharing!

Great tip! I'll try that!

Im wanting to put a quote onto canvas and then foil it . Not sure how to go about it

Canvas is highly textured so you'll only get foil on the high spots. This mayor may not be your desired effect.

机Olga I tried that and it didn’t work for me 😩

@@jennyharris782 I know you brought this up 3 years ago!!! OMGOSH but hey still interesting and relevant today. Ok printing via laser printer or copy machine that uses TONER not ink onto canvas will be difficult no doubt. Most people would cut a design out via digital cutting machines yes script and words too and transfer with iron on vinyls which do come in glitters and foil or metallics too not just matte colors. Also you can achieve great results just with a home iron as long as you follow directions to a T and do not move iron around much but press for so many seconds then move to new section with some overlap and press hard down again. They now have PENS similar to woodburning type tools that heat up and have writing nibs on their ends that you can place this type of foil in this video onto a fabric and WRITE right over it with the heat pen. Some great great results others not as good as you may like or can do with printer and digital works. You can also cut patterns and letters out via metal dies and embossing/die cut machines and again use iron on vinyl in colors and designs of your choice and usually it's best to use transfer paper a clear type of tape that allows you to pick up the design after weeding and go check out what weeding is here on youtube but once your design is the only thing left you lay the tranfer tape over it and move it to your fabric. Usually you want to place a teflon sheet over that and then start ironing or if you have a fabric press etc. follow their directions too. Different brands and styles of vinyl has temperature recommendations and now long to press. If however you are doing it with an iron always do a couple of trials to make sure you've got the right temperature. Some you remove cold some you remove while still warm again it depends on brands and their adhesives used. It usually is best not to try to lay down twice where you do your base design and then apply over it more vinyl and iron again. That can cause damage. Not in all cases but they recommend you don't if at all possible lay the entire design even mixed vinyls at one time via transfer tape and then start ironing over a teflon sheet. Teflon sheets are reused over and over and are relatively inexpensive. Transfer tape is usually clear with or without a grid. Sometimes you can find a bundle start up pack of several smaller transfer sheets with a few teflon sheets and that allows you to learn and work through a learning curve and maybe figure out what you want to do and enough feed back to send you searching for better tranfer paper that meets your sizes and needs best or it's just all you want to begin with. Watch VIDEOS here on RU-vid. There are people tranferring designs via iron on vinyls to canvas and fabric. I myself am making a couple of custom made yarn totes for a friend and want her name and or initials on the pocket flaps. So on one tote it will be all canvas and expect no problems. But the main tote has vinyl pocket flaps and cording for added support to make it stand up better on it's own when empty and so some vinyl upholstery fabric will handle being ironed over if you use the teflon sheet others is too temperature sensitive and will melt. I've yet to do my trial with the one I'm using. If it doesn't work then I will run her name across the back side right onto the canvas itself which I know works. I haven't meantioned you can also purchase quilters cotton fabric that's treated on back side with adhesive you also iron on but it runs through inkjets and I believe they make it for laser printers too. In this case you could print any design you love right onto the WHITE cotton treated sheets usually 8.5x11" size but one sheet at a time hand fed to insure it doesn't jam. Some laser printers do not like any thickness at all so a copy machine with toner might be best for those. And then they actually make clear vinyls you can print on again any design and or T-shirt design decal paper that you then again print any design but it needs to be mirrored so when you flip it over to iron onto the canvas in your case or shirt etc. It transfers with the letters going in the right direction. Ok lots of possiblities here. BUT if you are after that Metalic BLING the first few methods using this foil is the way to go. I am curious myself however and will one of these days try it out but if I ran a cotton gulters fabric through a black and white laser toner printer would I be able to then with an iron or heat press apply foil to that or will the cotton soak up too much of the toner or maybe it's treated with something that won't let you. Until I try or run across someone who's tested that theory out I myself don't know the answer. I bet there are some other ways too that I haven't thought of. Again start watching some videos and search for foiling canvas and fabrics and I bet you'll narrow it down. Meantime Jenny I bet yo've already succeeded in your project years ago and hope it was amazing.

I think this one will always be a little useful.. still surprised how many people watch it!

I'm so glad the video helped!!

You're so welcome! I'm glad it was helpful to you!

Thanks Mel. I love making them! They are.. its one of the best things about them - that and that they actually work!!

oooh.. that does make sense. I'll have to give that a try!

Love it. It’s what I do as well. Thanks. 😎

You're welcome Life Worthy :D

Thanks Cindy!

Thanks for the tip! I haven't seen too much of a Go Press machine.. I'll have to do some investigating! :D

Great tips Joanne! Thanks so much for sharing them!

great tip!

So welcome Nancy! I hope it all works out for you!

You're so welcome Beth. Thanks for joining our little community. I'd love to see how your foiling comes up!

Absolutely you can print at a store and then take it home. The foil reacts with the toner whether it was printed 10 seconds or 10 years ago. Great question!!! Have fun!

No worries Judy! Hope you enjoy the results!

Aww.. Thanks so much! I love the peeling bit too, but some people might find it not so much.

Thanks so much!

There are lots of other ways you can add foil, like with glue! Check out my full foiling playlist for more videos on how to add foil to your projects!

@@PlumMashable thanks a lot

Oh see I’m glad i read all the comments 😆

Thanks Natalie. I'd love to see what you come up with too!

Oh great tip Gypsy! Thanks so much!

You're welcome Robyn.

If you are in the US, you can have items printed at Office Max or Staples on their laser printer until you can purchase your own!

I have tried that and gotten better results. :)

2 years later... what about aluminium foil so more heat transfer? 🤔

@@JojosCraftyLove that's funny

I'm so glad!

Great tip Dianna. I need to get me some parchment paper. Thanks so much for sharing!

I'm not sure what the temperature is, but I have experimented with using other household items to foil with. Check out this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q9F2HXz-moA.html&lc=UgxvvucZqChuKe-T0il4AaABAg

That’s what I was thinking also!

Sadaf Azhar you can print something with black toner on a laser jet (not inkjet) printer and use that and some foils (“heat reactive”) will fuse to the toner. You can also use “reactive” sprays and pens, as well as thermo-web gel.

Thanks for answering Margaret. As she said Sadaf, its the toner of the laser printer that allows the foil to react. There are lots of ways to add foil and glitter though, and glue, as you mentioned, is also a good way. Hope that helps!

@@msdixie1972 thank you 🌹

Sadaf Azhar you’re very welcome!

Thanks so much Andrea. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

Glad it was helpful!

I don't find they scratch off at all. Pretty permanent.

Plum_Mashable great thanks

Unlike the book pages that she showed, which are coated during the process, these are not considered to be sealed, but applied to the surface so they are subject to scratching eventually.

These were a downloadable from my Planners Anonymous subscription box. But I have been able to replicate something similar just using photoshop and repeating the pattern over and over. I'd love to see what you create!

We r memory keepers has a heat tool that creates foil lettering

I do like my Minc, but I have had issues with both the ones I have had and I've killed them. Rather than rushing out to buy a new one, I'm just happy with my laminator for now and if I kill this then perhaps I'll consider the Minc again. Either works though, so enjoy what you have!

I know! I love the shine!

Foiling is just adding a metallic shine to parts, or all of, a project. You can add it to anything as long as you can print it with a toner printer.

LOL! I very much doubt it Lola, but thanks for the comment!

haha right.

You're very welcome Sonya. I hope it helps you x

Thanks so much Shera!

It's nice having all these lovely items, but it's the space required to store and use them and an iron sounds logical .. its heavy and it hot! According to which setting is used.. great improvising!!!

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Ok oi oi :)

Husky Lover it's Aussie slang lol - we yell it out quickly in happy times, Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oiii!! Is great when groups do it-a slang national 'anthem' of sorts, just basically yelling and yes, we're a strange land lol 😂

Thanks for watching Kathy!

Thanks so much Christina. I'm glad it helped!

highonlollypops Because it heats up the toner onto the paper so when you put it through the minc or laminator it heats up the toner again and makes it sticky for the foil to stick to. Inkjet is like a pen and just ink. There is no heat that bonds the ink to the paper.

Thanks for the explanation Rebekah.

They have a pen you can use to draw on what you like. You can also trace if you’re handwriting isn’t as you would like. :) that way you don’t have to go buy a laser printer.

Lola Rodgers what is the pen called?

Jojo Smith it’s a toner ink marker. Some brands are better than others. Heidi swapp makes one too.

Wow. So lucky! I'd love our stores here to have 75% off sales here! :(

No worries at all. I hope you liked it!

Let me know how you go with it, and let me know if you need help at all! :D

You're welcome! Enjoy!

You're so welcome Tina. Thanks for watching!

You should! I hope it all works out for you!

You're welcome Bam Bam! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks so much! :)

Thanks Shannon!

Thanks so much for the advice tabbertmj! I'll make sure to do that from now on! Thanks for watching!

You're so welcome. I will admit I still miss my Minc (I broke mine), but the laminator does a great job most of the time too.

Thankyou

You're welcome Hong. Thanks for watching!

Glad to have you as part of the family Deb!

thanks so much for watching and for your comment x

Thanks so much!

Thanks for watching Shawn!

Thanks Snoke! :)

Thanks :) My Cricut is still not as well used as it should be, but I do enjoy having one. What do you want to use it for?

Plum_Mashable Currently I handcut all my Vinyl for prints and wall decals and personalising items and quirky shirts. It takes sooo long!

Thanks Pat! You're awesome too!

So glad it helped. Thanks so much for watching!

So welcome Chrysi, I hope it was helpful x

I have heard of it, but never tried. I will have to give it a go! Thanks for the tip!!

You're welcome!

You're welcome. I'm glad it was helpful!

You're welcome Geraldine. Just make sure its as dust and dirt free as you can before you foil