Creating Foiled Toppers using Corner Hot Foil Stamps

This week I've been experimenting with some ways that corner hot foil stamps can be used to create card toppers.  These techniques can be applied to any corner hot foil stamps - not just the used I've used in my samples.  Some of the ones I've used may not still be available, but I've shown them so that as new designs become available, you will already have some ideas for how they can be used.

If you are making a square or rectangular topper with straight edges then it's best to cut your topper to size (with a die or paper trimmer) before you foil it.  But, if you are making a topper with a fancy shape then it's best to cut the card to a square or rectangle just a little bigger than the die you are going to use to cut it out and foil the card before cutting with the die.

Some corner hot foil stamps are symmetrical like these ones - if you imagine a line from the top left point to the middle of the longest side the pattern on both sides is a mirror image.

 

Others are roughly equal in size on each side, but the pattern is not mirrored - like these ones.

 

I use the plastic frame around the edge of the hot plate to line my card up against - putting it in one corner.  I use a magnet (the kind used with a stamping platform) covered with masking tape (so it has a handle) to hold my hot foil stamp in the correct position on my card.

Place the card on the hot plate, lined up with a corner, and hold the hot foil stamp in place with the card while I slide the magnet off using the tape handle.  I show you how to position the hot foil stamps in my video.

You can then repeat the foiling without having to heat the hot foil stamp again - just add a new piece of foil and rotate the card to foil the next corner.

 

If you are foiling a rectangle, you need to foil 2 corners diagonally opposite each other, and then re-position the hot foil stamp to foil the other 2 corners.

If the corner hot foil stamp is longer on one edge than the other - like these

 

Then just foil two corners and maybe add some die cut flowers, butterflies or other embellishments to the other corners.

Here are details of some of the hot foil stamps I've used:

Couture Creation  - Gentlemans Emporium Acanthus Corner
Gemini Foilpress - Lyon Border and Corner
Spellbinders Glimmer - Gilded Leaves Shaped Panel
Couture Creations C'est La Vie Hotfoils Stamp - Intricate Corner