Splitcoaststampers.com - the world's #1 papercrafting community
You're currently viewing Splitcoaststampers as a GUEST. We pride ourselves on being great hosts, but guests have limited access to some of our incredible artwork, our lively forums and other super cool features of the site! You can join our incredible papercrafting community at NO COST. So what are you waiting for?
can you/have you used aluminum foil on cards? I'm talking the kind you use in the kitchen...also, is there anything else 'around the house' that you use on your cards...?
I have used aluminum foil, yes. I put them through my punches and through my Sizzix. Not only does it make great, cheap silver paper, but it sharpens the punches and Sizzix dies at the same time!
I have also used a heavier weight aluminum -- the bottom of a disposable cookie sheet. If you cut off the edges, you end up with a large sheet of a more heavy-weight aluminum.
You can reverse dry-emboss it by putting the brass template (or any kind of template) on TOP of the aluminum pan or foil and tracing it like usual with your stylus. It creates enough of an indentation to look like regular embossing (although it will be reverse image). I hope that makes sense!
I forgot to answer your question about other "around the house" supplies.
I've been scrapbooking so long that my first eyelets (before they were widely available for scrapbooking) were actual grommets from Home Depot! And my first brads came from Staples and were HUGE! :lol:
I've also used dryer sheets on cards. (You can do a search for that here and find some beautiful examples of that.)
You can use drywall tape as a substition for Magic Mesh.
Off the top of my head that's all I can think of right now ......
you can use foil for stained glass technique.
Stamp with stazon on acetate,
color in with sharpies,
cut piece of foil,
crumple foil,
flatten out,
use crystal effects and glue foil on acetate.
Mount onto cardstock.
cool stained glass effect
my demo showed me this BEFORE she became a demo.
good thing she's a demo, now she can share ideas with others!
Have you tried using your crimper with foil? IT IS SO COOL!!! On the day I got my crimper, I was crimping everything in sight! Anything I could get my hands on got crimped! Try it - you'll love the effect!
You can reverse dry-emboss it by putting the brass template (or any kind of template) on TOP of the aluminum pan or foil and tracing it like usual with your stylus. It creates enough of an indentation to look like regular embossing (although it will be reverse image). I hope that makes sense!
I haven't ventured into dry embossing yet, but I was thinking, could you put the template upside down on the foil, so the image wouldn't be reversed? :?
aluminum foil on cards? and other questions...
