Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques with Mona Toth
Posted by Spellbinders Team on January 17, 2019

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques with Mona Toth

Hi, it’s Mona Toth here, with a step by step photo tutorial. Today I will show you how I made these quick and easy cards using patterned papers. In this post I am featuring Glimmer Hot Foil Machine. Let's see my creations.

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

Step By Step Instructions:

Check out the step by step instructions below for this project:

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

  • Cut the foil to the Hot Plate's size

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

  • Put the Hot Plate on your Glimmer Hot Foil and position it

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

  • Turn on the "timer" on your machine
  • Add the Hot foil with the colored side facing downwards

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

  • Chose a patterned paper from your stash and put it on the Hot foil

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

  • Place your shim (plus an extra shim, a sheet of cardstock, if needed) and the Spacer Pad on the top.

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

  • Gently put all of them to your Die-cut machine and slowly run them back and forth.

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

  • Remove your foil

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

  • If you want you can repeat the process with more patterned papers (here I made cacti and another sentiment), don't forget to cut your foiled papers to the right size

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

  • Embellish your card

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

  • And the project is done

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

Spellbinders Supplies:

OTHER SUPPLIES:

Patterned Paper; Sequins; Scissors; 3D adhesive; Glossy Accents glue.

Thank you for reading my post, I hope that I have inspired you! I am very thankful to be a guest at Spellbinders, see you next time. Hugs, Mona.

Glimmer Hot Foil Techniques & Handmade Greeting Cards with Mona Toth for Spellbinders

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