I've saved my scraps and we still have not used them ...

You thought I had forgotten, didn't you?

There are two ways of bonding the foil onto your card or paper layers. One is to use heat and pressure - that is what your GoPress is doing. An example of foiling with a scrap is shown in the Foiling onto Chipboard lesson. The other way is to use adhesive.

Using an adhesive layer to bond the foil to the card or paper


You will need:

• an already used foil panel left after foiling with an embossing folder or a chipboard word
• double-sided adhesive paper - jac paper or Ultimate Crafts Die-Cut'NBond (jac paper or similar is an A4 sheet of adhesive with backing paper on top of and below the adhesive layer)
• card or paper layer to foil onto
• a bone scorer or Lil'Chizler tool to burnish the foil layer onto the adhesive layer
• a second colour of foil, or microfine glitter, or clear embossing powder, or microbeads - see step 6.

What to do:
(There are photos for you to refer to, below the numbered steps.)

1. Cut your jac paper or Cut'NBond to the size you want your finished foil panel.
2. Read all of this step before starting it. Adhere the adhesive layer to your card layer. There is a trick to this. Do not peel all of the first layer of backing paper from the adhesive panel. Instead just expose one corner of the adhesive. Adhere this corner in place then peel the backing out from under the panel pressing the layer down into place as you go. (It is like the way you might have adhered your registration sticker to your car windscreen if you remember doing that.)
3. Using the same technique as above, adhere the foil layer to the adhesive panel on your card layer. Save the paper backing from the adhesive paper for Step 5.
4. Use a bone scorer, or the rounded side of your Lil'Chizler, to burnish the foil onto the adhesive layer - rub firmly but smoothly over the entire surface until the foil is well adhered.
5. Carefully peel away the plastic backing layer leaving the foil adhered to the layer. Hold the foiled adhesive panel with the shiny side of the backing paper from Step 3. If you hold with your fingers the foil may come off onto your skin. Note - The non-foiled areas of the panel are sticky.
6. You have several options for covering the sticky part of the pattern you have just created.
1. You can press scraps of a second contrasting colour of foil over the exposed adhesive areas. Make sure you still use that piece of backing paper to hold the panel, and burnish the new foil on. Keep applying until panel no longer feels sticky.
2. You can sprinkle microfine glitter onto the adhesive areas. I take no responsibility for where the glitter goes once you have done this - on your face, hands, work area etc... 
3. You can apply embossing powder to the adhesive and heat-set it. I suggest clear powder as mine also adhered a bit to the coloured surface.
4. You can sprinkle microbeads onto the adhesive areas.

Piece of double-sided adhesive paper cut to size,
foil panel,
packaging from adhesive sheets I had at home.

Step 2. Just expose one corner of the adhesive.

Step 2. Adhere this corner in place. I am holding the adhesive paper
and will land it on the card layer you see on the table.

Step 2. Peel the backing out from under the panel ...

... pressing the layer down into place as you go.

Step 3. Peeling back a corner from the top of the
adhesive panel which is adhered to the card.

Step 3. Top left corner now adhered to card.

Peeling out the backing ...

... whilst smoothing the foil onto the adhesive.

Foil is now lightly adhered to the card layer.

Step 4. Burnishing the foil layer with a bone scorer.

Step 4. Or burnishing with the Lil'Chizler.

Step 5. Peeling backing away from foil - note the backing
from the adhesive being used to hold the right hand corner down.

Foiled panel. Above is the backing layer
from the foil panel. The white parts are still sticky.

Step 6. This picture and the one to the right show a corner
that has been heat-embossed with a clear
sparkly embossing powder.

Step 6. Part of the main panel after a second application
of gold foil to the white adhesive areas.

MORE WITH THIS TECHNIQUE:
In the same way, you can use your double-sided adhesive tape to apply a foiled border to a panel. Simply adhere strips of tape around the edge of your card layer then press the back of the foil sheet onto the adhesive.

Silver frame is a pre-embossed card panel with double-
sided tape adhered then silver foil pressed on.

You can also apply Zig glue (the blue glue that goes tacky
if you let it dry for a bit) and adhere to that once it is almost dry.

I believe that you can also use the GoPress machine and a flat metal shim - heated - to press the remains of a wording panel onto a card panel. I will add photos of this technique if I ever get it to work. The advantage of this is that the areas with no foil (from the first use of the foil) would not be sticky and would not need filling in.

The layering would be:
platform - machine on and heated
metal shim - heated
foil 'scrap' coloured side down onto metal shim
card - good side down
flat unused shim (not pieces that have been debossed by other uses) - enough layers to put even pressure over the card and foil layers

Heat this really well and roll slowly through your die-cutting machine - you may also need to wind from the other direction if your machine has 'soft spots'.

If you have had success with this last technique please send me a photo - you will get bragging rights and the photo will go in the gallery!