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Gold Leaf Flakes &
"Foil and Flocking Powder"
Contributed By: Martha
Meyers
At a recent "find" of mine was a jar of "Foil
and Flocking Powder". I don't like messing with glues (and
I have them all!) when I use gold leaf/flakes. You can use this
powder exactly like embossing powder and it heat sets to a tacky
finish. So you can ink a stamp with clear embossing ink, sprinkle
the powder on it, heat set, and then apply your leafing to it.
This "stuff" also works with foils, glitters, flocking,
etc. I've also used it with Powdered Pearls and Pearl Ex to create
neat backgrounds.
Gold Leaf Flakes
Contributed By: Nancy
Amy's magic leaf is tissue thin
heat resistant foil or flakes. You can use several different
kinds of adhesive with it. Amy's adhesive, USArtquest's duo glue
or perfect paper adhesive,wonder tape, or even Art Insitute's
dries clear. If you are going to emboss on top of it, make sure
that your adhesive is heat resistant or it might lift. I have
used it as a total background and as an embellishment. If you
can get the adhesive to stick to a surface, you can foil about
anything. Paper, UTEE tiles, flower pots, the children(just kidding,
but it does stick to them). Except clothing. I haven't done that
yet. I will try to get a link to a card that I used the foil
for a background and embossed the image on top.
Amy's Adhesive does have a little bit of an odor when it is right
out of the bottle. It goes away when it dries, but if you are
sensitive to glue odors, you might want to have good ventilation.
When I used the adhesive and the flakes
(I used Amy's flakes), I brushed the adhesive onto the object
I wanted the leafing on. If it is a large item, don't do it all
at once or your adhesive will dry before you get it all covered.
Then I put the flakes on the adhesive, pressed the flakes gently
down and burnished it with a sponge until it was nice and smooth
and the flakes were all in place. The extra pieces and flakes
I swept back into the container of leafing flakes. Like you would
extra embossing powder. You can use it next time. The flakes
stay where they are glued.
You may find a product in Art Supply Stores called Magic Leaf
by Accent which is very similar if not the same. I have seen
these same foils sold under three different names depending on
who packaged it. All of it is great.
Gold Leaf Flakes -
Fast project to try!
Submitted by - Kathy
Use your hot glue gun to drizzle glue
on in a random pattern on blank card stock or on your collage
card and when glue cools rub on the magic leaf and it will stick
to the glue and adds wonderful dimension to the card. I used
this technique for Christmas cards on burgundy card stock and
the multicolored leafing and drizzled my glue in a tree shape.
It went through the mail with no problem and arrived with no
damage.
This is an idea that has been around for a while and has been
shown on TV.
(It's really is a WOW type of project)
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