Something Saturday - What you can do with the Hot foil without a machine

 Hi There Creators

Yep we're back on the "hot foil" only we're using it cold this time🤣  I happen to know that the Stampin' Up! hot foil machines were so popular here in Australia that they didn't last long when they got released, so we're waiting on a new shipment (around September time), however in the meantime the foils themselves and some of the dies etc are still available, so..... I figured while you wait you might want to start ordering the bits, so you don't have such a huge outlay in one hit (plus you can still use them in interesting ways).

Equally if you are thinking of getting the hot foil machine, I can totally recommend joining my team (check it out here) because the machine is $280, (currently includes a $53 class in the price), and if you join which is $175, you get a voucher for $240, so potentially the outlay is the $175 plus $40 = $215 and not $280!  Yay think I finally got the maths right (didn't do so well in the video!) PLUS then you get an ongoing discount on the rest of your goodies (win, win) AND you get first dibs at new goodies coming out.  Plus you get a really cool welcome box worth $114!  and there's more, like Demonstrator only gatherings/ Facebook groups......... What's not to love?!  You also need a Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine (the bigshot doesn't work, as the foiler is a tad wider), so if you don't have one of those you're definitely going to want the discount!  (convinced yet🤣)

Ok, onwards to what you can do with the goodies:

First up you can emboss with the hot-foiling dies using the Impressions Plate, then, you can paint glue onto them and add foil (by pressing it onto the glue and it just sticks!😃🤩

With the Butterfly Flight Bundle you'd need to do the masking, then cutting then embossing, and lastly adding foil.  This photo shows both sides of a butterfly (bottom one is masked first)

Then you can also just do a line of tear & tape adhesive and press the foil directly onto it (great way to use up scraps! (looks way better in real life than the photos give it credit!)

I've also done a comparison photo for you, first up is the official hot foil, using the foiling machine, then the one where I've added glue and pressed the foil on, third is not using the foil, but using the brayer to add colour to the embossed butterfly, then the multicoloured ones are using the masks, and the last one underneath uses a brush to colour it in. (does show up the embossing nicely!)

Then I have a second card to show you (again looks better in real life!) sigh!

Then of course I had to utilize some of the butterflies that I'd actually hot foiled (just in case you weren't convinced you needed the hot foil machine 🤣)

The top one uses the gorgeous Botanical Glow Bundle, Oh why didn't I buy this sooner? lol, then I've used the "negative" (left over foil from the original card) to create the second card.

If you missed the video here it is:

I hope this inspires you to create

God Bless love 

Heather xox