Welcome! Today I've played along with the My Favorite Things Stamps Wednesday Sketch Challenge, WSC476. I used several newer products, including the All About You stamp set and coordinating Die-namics, the You Impress Me Die-namics and Berry Hot Foil, and the Love Is in the Air Stencil. I kept it pretty simple; when you've got that red foil shining, you don't need much to distract from it!
Let's talk about hot-foiling for a bit: almost every time I've had a problem with extra foil around my image, it has been solved by heating my plate/foil/cardtsock sandwich for LESS time. So give that a try if you find that you have excess foil sticking to your cardstock--cut the heating time a bit and see if it helps.
The other trick that I have finally learned has to do with getting my foiled images centered in my cutting die. Having messed up many nicely foiled images when I die-cut them, I finally found that if I take my impressive die and lay it face down onto my foiled image, feeling for when it nestles exactly back into place on the impression, I can pencil a light line around my impressive die; when I remove it, I have a pencil line with the foiled image perfectly centered. Next I take my regular cutting die and center it inside my slightly larger penciled lines and tape it down with Post-It tape or washi tape before running it through my die-cutting machine. I get a perfect cut almost every time that way. Hope that makes sense and helps!
Would you like to play along with the Sketch Challenge? Check the MFT Stamps Blog for more details and more sketch inspiration as well! Thanks for stopping by,
