Pretty in pink

This is the theme over at Stamping Sensations this month. Rather than go for pastel shades again, after my twee Tea Party card I went bold with Fuchsia, metallic and black.

I first used a Prima doily stencil with Pan Pastels on both my white cardstock and my black base (I used a spellbinders die), a light blue and light mauve.

I stamped the dress form stamp (Impression Obsession) with Versamark and embossed in clear. Yes in clear....
If you keep abreast of what's hot in the craft world then you'll know that foiling has made a comeback in the US and this trend is just reaching Europe. There are special foiling machines, but apparently laminators work as well.

I don't have a laminator...

Then I saw this video from Jennifer McGuire and thought maybe this could work with a clothes iron and set out to try.

Once embossed put the foil over your stamped image and place a piece  of paper on top.
Iron the whole thing and voila... foiled image. Now you'll want to know how hot, how long and to be honest I haven't worked out yet the best settings, but I have found out the following:

- not too hot : Wool or less
- not too long : one pass should be enough.

Too long or too hot the embossing sinks into the paper and the foil doesn't stick to it. You can see from my piece that some foil has stuck elsewhere too. In my case I didn't mind  but that could be a problem.

I have also foiled the border of my card base and my sentiment but this time I sponged glue to apply the foil.

Let me know what works for you if you try the Iron Foiling technique!

Also entering the Polka Doodle, Pan Pastel UK and Bunny Zoe's Crafts