Welcome back to my card making blog. Today, I’m sharing 4 cards I created with Foiling With BetterPress Plates. Yana has a new release over at Spellbinders; as usual, it’s lovely. I used Yana’s Festive Poinsettias and Home for Christmas Sentiments for today’s cards. The release also has Yana’s Amaryllis Etched Dies and Amaryllis Garden 3D embossing Folder, which are used in an upcoming post.

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Inks used on today’s projects are the Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Inks:  Pinks:  Bubblegum, Carnation and Sweets.  Greens:  Aspen, Sage and Pine and Browns:  Latte, cappuccino and Allspice.

As you probably know, you can Glimmer Hot Foil with BetterPress Plates, and I love to do this.  It makes the plates that much more usable and when you want a black background, you often have to ink the BetterPress plate numerous times to get good coverage, whereas if you black foil it, you do it once.

Taking the foiling one step further, I hate wasting the foil that remains after you do your initial foiling, so today’s video shows you how I “reverse foil”, and make another card from the same piece.

Foiling with BetterPress Plates

The steps for foiling with a BetterPress Plate are the same as Glimmer Hot foiling, except I like to add one additional piece of cardstock with my cover plates before I run it through the die cutting machine.  This ensures good strong pressure for transferring the foil.

Once you have foiled the initial image, you are left with the reverse (in this case the poinsettias and leaves), on the foil, as only the background has been transferred.  To me, this is such a waste, so I purchased the Pink fresh Solid Hot Foil Plate A2 sized, so I could reverse foil.

You want to place the Solid Hot Foil Plate on your glimmer hot foil machine and make sure it’s good and hot, then place the once used foil down, good side down, a piece of cardstock on top, and foil again.  This gives you the reverse of the image on your cardstock – hence, an additional card from the same sheet of foil.

Foiling with BetterPress Plates – Stenciling the Images.

Starting with the initial glimmer foiled image using the Festive Poinsettias BetterPress Plate, there is a coordinating stencil set.  In the video I show you each of the 6 steps and stencil the entire piece.

Next, cut the piece down to 3-3/4″ x 5″, then cut a coordinating matte 3-7/8 x 5-1/8.  Add foam tape strips to the back.

Then, cut a matte for your sentiment, for this card I used a piece of vellum 1-1/4″ x 3-7/8″ held down with a couple of glue dots while I wrapped ribbon over it.  Then, attached it to a A2 sized white card base (4-1/4″ x 11″, score and fold at 5-1/2″).

Finally, add a sentiment using the Home for Christmas Sentiments BetterPress Plates.  I also glimmer foiled these in Polished Brass Glimmer Foil and cut them out with the coordinating dies.

The second Card:

The second foiling results in a silhouette image of the flowers and leaves, the ones you stencil on the first one.  These are beautiful foiled onto colored cardstock and make a super fast and easy card.

Here’s today’s Foiling with BetterPress Plates Card making Video for you.  It walks you through each foiling step, then all 6 layers of the stenciling and finally, putting the cards together.

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Card Making Supplies used for the Spellbinders Foiling with BetterPress Plates Cards:

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