As I skimmed though the Dollar Tree, I notices some textured mylar foil in the gift wrap section. Too bad you can't emboss that stuff. Or can you...

I tried two methods: First I tried white school glue, applied it to cardstock from my scrap pile and let it dry. The second method, ran the cardstock though my Xyron 510. There no real difference in the results. The glue allowed for more adjustment of the mylar when smoothing it down, but it softened the cardstock which warped while drying.


Above is the silver mylar over orange cardstock, applied with glue. After embossing with the Cuttlebug Boo to You embossing folder. This one I inked over w/ Brilliance Graphite Black.



This one is the back of the blue mylar which is silver over Xyroned (That's right, xyroned is a verb!) orange cardstock. I used the brayer to ink over the embossing.



Here is my favorite result. Xyroned over orange. This time, I inked the folder with a brayer and Brilliance Jumbo Java before I embossed the mylar/cardstock combo. (I would have used black again, but I was getting impatient while inking the brayer and went for my JJ re-inker.



Here is the entire plate mounted on a card. I really like the effect. I can't wait to use it some more.

A couple of things that didn't work: Inking the folder w/ alcohol inks, they dried too quickly and it was difficult to keep the ink in the depressions of the folder. The other failure was sanding. I thought it would be cool to sand of the mylar and expose the cardstock beneath. I looked like it might work at first, then the mylar tore and separated from the cardstock. This happened with both the glue and xyron.

Now, get thee to the Dollar Tree and play!

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