Posted by Emily Midgett
on June 20, 2023
Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today, and I have some shining inspiration using the beautiful new(ish) Magnolia Branches Hot Foil Plate and some of Hero Arts's hot foil-friendly Acetate Sheets! When I realized that the Acetate Sheets would work with hot foil plates, I was totally hooked. The super smooth surface of the acetate creates nearly-flawless hot foiling results... score! The results are even marvelous when using bolder images with thicker lines, like the Magnolia Branches Hot Foil Plate. Let's get started with the details on my project!
To start, I hot foiled the Magnolia Branches Hot Foil Plate onto an Acetate Sheet using some gold satin hot foil. It was just magical to see that beautiful foiled image when I pulled back the hot foil sheet! I love that you can do so many fun techniques with hot foiled images on acetate. I could have turned this into a shaker card, created a shaped window, or used it as I did as an overlay for a blended background.
To add some color behind the transparent foiled piece, I blended Cranberry, Pale Tomato, Cotton Candy, and Peony inks, working my way inward from the darkest to the lightest. I was trying to evoke a pinky, early spring sunset, when the magnolia blooms would just be starting to pop!
I wanted to keep the greeting simple, so I die cut the sentiment die from Big Hugs Stamp & Cut once from gold glitter cardstock and twice from white cardstock, adhering all of them together to create a dimensional die cut. I also heat embossed a coordinating greeting from the stamp set using gold embossing powder onto a strip of Peony cardstock.
Before I adhered my hot foiled acetate panel to my blended panel, I popped the sentiment strip up with some foam adhesive and adhered the sentiment die cut with Precision Glue, offsetting it to the side of my hot foiled panel. After I had adhered my sentiment, I flipped the hot foiled acetate panel over and added dots of adhesive to the back of the solid foiled images, as well as to the back of the solid sentiment die cuts, then adhered it to the blended pink panel. This keeps the adhesive from messing up the transparent acetate! Finally, I added a few Champagne Sequins for one last bit of textural interest.
Well, that's all for my project today! If you haven't tried hot foiling on acetate, you're missing out... it's so much fun! Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a marvelous day.
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