It’s Not MAGIC… You Can ‘Widen’ the Lines of Hot Foil!

Have you ever Hot Foiled a ‘regular wafer-thin die’? Did you notice how fine the lines are? Well, today Therese shares an easy fix to make those lines ‘wider’!

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Hi there! It’s Therese here, and you may already know that I love to stretch my supplies. I have been having a blast with the recent Birthday release and the Pyramid Box Party Hat Add-On along with the candles from I Lost Count were perfect for my technique today.

But first, what if you don’t have a Hot Foil system, don’t worry, these are regular dies, and with a couple of simple passes in my Die Cutting Machine I had a bright fun birthday card design to share.

You could add a ‘foiled look’ by die cutting some of the pieces from metallic cardstock, but today I was in a bright mood lol.

But, did you know that you can use your regular thin dies with the Hot Foil machines? Yes, it’s true!

Hot Foil is a unique and fun way to stretch your supplies. You will never look at your dies the same ever again!

TIPS

• You can Hot Foil a regular thin die using the exact sandwich that you would for a Hot Foil Stamp/Die
• This gives a ‘fine’ foiled line and looks amazing, but what if you want a ‘thicker/wider’ line…
• Then the Magic Trick is to use acetate. Simply place a piece of acetate between the Hot Foil Stamp/Die and the Foil and layer up your sandwich as usual. The result will be a noticeably wider hot foiled image!
• I used heat resistant acetate (I have also seen plastic packaging used.. but I would do a small test first)
• You can also reuse the piece of acetate multiple times
• Don’t forget you can also use the Press Plate to foil the ‘waste’

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