Happy Friday, everyone! It may be winter, but today we’re turning up the heat with our friends at Therm O Web, who are sharing their new line of Deco Foil HOT Foils! Foiled elements are a big papercrafting trend right now, and this new range of beautiful foils will help you to amp up your foiling game, and give you so many more options foiling! Let’s take a look, and don’t forget to find today’s giveaway, as well as last week’s winner, at the end of this post!

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Hello, SCT friends! We are so excited to be with you today to share a brand-new Therm O Web product release: Deco Foil HOT Foils. Available in a range of beautiful colours, including solids and holographics, Deco Foil® HOT Foils will help you make every project sparkle and shine!

Designed to work with most standard hot foiling systems and your favourite hot foiling plates, Deco Foil HOT Foils can be used on a variety of materials, including cardstock, ribbon, leather, and fabric. You can also create foiled designs using wafer-thin metal dies, great for borders and other details.

Here, Suzanna Lee used our Gold HOT Foil to add delicate foil touches to a special layout documenting a sweet family holiday tradition: buying a new collar for their cat, Luna. Have you thought about adding foil to your layouts? Those same colourful branches, leaves, and berries would also look stunning on holiday cards.

If you’ve used our Deco Foil Transfer Foils, you might be wondering, “Why hot foils?” As more and more papercrafters expand their foiling tools and skills, we wanted to provide a fun range of hot foils to complement our original transfer foils, which do not work for hot foiling. And, with so many people searching for “What’s the difference between Deco Foil and hot foil?” we thought we could make it a little easier to understand since we now offer both types of foil.

Original Deco Foil Transfer Foil in the black label is for toner-printed items like Deco Foil Toner Sheets & Card Fronts that work with a hot laminator to transfer the foil, as well as our wide range of Deco Foil Transfer Gels & Adhesives. Some Deco Foil adhesives require heat from a laminator, some only require pressure from a die-cutting machine, but they all require some sort of adhesive or toner printing. Transfer foil comes in 6”x12” sheets (in a tube) or 12.5” x 25-foot rolls. It is also slightly thicker than hot foil. It will not work with hot foiling plates and hot foiling systems.

New Deco Foil HOT Foil in the white label is only for hot foiling systems like the Spellbinders Glimmer and Crafter’s Companion Gemini Foilpress. You must use hot foil (also known as “hot stamp foil”) with a hot foiling system and hot foiling plates; the adhesive is built into the foil sheet itself and is activated by the high heat and pressure from the hot foiling machine. Hot foil comes in 5” x 15-foot rolls. It is also slightly thinner than transfer foil. It will not work with toner-printed items, laminator techniques, or Deco Foil adhesives.

Amanda Wilcox used our Copper HOT Foil to add a sentiment and shining accents to a colourful autumn card. Such fine foiled details are easy to create with hot foiling plates, without the need for any additional adhesive. Many hot foiling plates also come with coordinating dies, allowing you to create unique embellishments fast. To pop up her foiled leaf die cuts, Amanda used our iCraft 3D Foam Tape.

Shemaine Smith created a festive pair of holiday cards using our colour-shifting Twilight HOT Foil for the bold poinsettia design and our faceted Gold Unicorn HOT Foil for the sparkling golden sentiment on the petite poinsettia card. The Twilight HOT Foil looks like a deep navy blue at first glance but turns it in the light to catch glimmers of teal and purple. It’s magical! And the Gold Unicorn is like a micro-mini version of our popular Gold Shattered Glass transfer foil; so, so, so sparkly!

Speaking of sparkle, here’s a peek at our Silver Unicorn HOT Foil, showing how the hot foils look equally incredible on dark and light backgrounds. Look at all that rainbow-hued, diamond-like iridescence! And a quick tip: while over-foiling can sometimes be an issue when using hot foiling plates, we found that a light touch with a piece of our Pixie Tape easily lifted light over-foiling from our cardstock.

Katrina Hunt created two types of hot foiled embellishments for her beautiful “Always Take the Scenic Route” layout, using just one piece each of our Gold and Orchid HOT Foils: outline butterflies on vellum and solid butterflies on cardstock. The step-out photos show the process of first creating the outline butterflies using the Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate from Pinkfresh Studio, die cutting them, and then using a solid hot foiling plate to foil the “negative” onto a piece of cardstock to create solid butterflies that are also die cut. We love no-waste foiling techniques that result in twice as many ready-to-use embellishments! Refer to your hot foiling system owner’s manual for the best results.

Justin Adkins created a shining trio of hot foiled cards that showcase six HOT Foils colors: Gold and Rainbow Dreams for the Thinking of You Card, Silver Stardust and Pool Blue for the Let It Snow Card, and Chili Red and Gold Unicorn for the Hello Card. Justin shared the how-to’s in a Facebook LIVE earlier this week; you can catch the replay on our Therm O Web YouTube channel.

Finally, since we’re less than a week away from Thanksgiving here in the US, we had to share Larissa Heskett’s sweet, foiled pumpkin Thankful Card, featuring our Gold Stardust HOT Foil. We think every card should shine with foil, whether you choose new HOT Foils or our original Transfer Foils.

Deco Foil HOT Foils retail for US $5.99. To celebrate the launch, now through the end of November, HOT Foils are Buy 3 Get 1 Free at thermoweb.com! Click HERE to shop this special offer now!

Deco Foil HOT Foil is the newest addition to our line of Deco Foil transfer sheets, tools & adhesives designed for pressure-sensitive, laminator, and toner-printed applications. Now, Deco Foil HOT Foil expands the line to even more foiling techniques, in 19 gorgeous shades to fire up your creativity!

Deco Foil HOT Foil will help you turn up the heat on holiday cardmaking! To enter for a chance to win THE COMPLETE COLLECTION, all 19 colors, just leave a brief comment on this post telling us your favorite holiday cardmaking theme. Are you all about snowflakes, poinsettias, or reindeer? We need some inspiration! Comments will close at midnight ET on November 23rd, and a winner will be announced here on November 25th. Until then, we wish you everything you’re most thankful for!

Good luck, and be sure to share what YOU create with our products with us on social media by tagging us @thermoweb and using the #thermoweb hashtag!

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GIVEAWAY WINNER!

What a fantastic giveaway from our friends at Therm O Web! Good luck, everyone!

Let’s find out who won last week’s SCT shop gift card giveaway:

“I would love to finish a crocheted sweater I am working on for myself. Projects for me, which don’t happen often, always get put on the back burner. This will be the first item of clothing I have ever done for myself.” ~ Lesley

Congratulations, Lesley! And we are totally rooting for you to finish that sweater this season! Please email meghann@scrapbookandcards.com to claim your gift card!

BEFORE YOU GO…

Did you know that both of our new SCT Delivered classes are ready for registration? Learn more about them at the links below and get ready to live your best creative life in 2023!

 

Learn more about Planner 101 with Jennie McGarvey and register today for class to begin on November 25th!

 

Click HERE to learn more about Photography 101 with Lisa Varshine and register today!

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! We’ll see you next week for more inspiration, creativity and fun!