Foil tape

3-foilbeginning-wm Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Have you tried crafting with foil tape yet?? I just started and let me tell you... I can't get enough of it!! I buy my foil tape at the local dollar store and e…

Learn to create beautiful and shiny art pieces on textured foil with step-by-step embossing and acrylic painting instructions. Mixed media using acrylic paint and aluminum foil.

Description A step-by-step tutorial for creating embossed metal backgrounds on ATCs (or anywhere else, really!). The tape referred to goes under different names - you'll get it at the hardware store (not your local art shop). It's used to repair metal roofs. It's aluminium, usually, with a sticky black gunky backing, and comes in various widths. Examples of the technique in use: [link] [link] [link] [link] [Thanks to *Athalour for Photoshop consultation services!]

Have you tried crafting with foil tape yet?? I just started and let me tell you... I can't get enough of it!! I buy my foil tape at the local dollar store and e…

Ever see a craft online that you just HAVE to try right now? That was the case when my friend Renee sent me this video on using metal tape for mixed media scrapbooking art: [video link] And in case you can't watch that where you are, here's Rachel's finished product: SO COOL. The best part is all you really need is metal tape, something to put it on, and a little craft paint - so you might already have everything you need in the garage, like I did: I decided to test this out on a little…

Here's a quick tutorial for a super easy image transfer to metal tape! It only takes minutes to do! I'm using Ranger's Inkssentials...

Here are some pendants, made from polymer clay medallions, little tiny mirrors and plastic Mah Jongg tiles. They share a shocking secret, which I have kept locked within my breast for the past six years. Today I reveal all. The secret: each object was turned into a pendant in one minute or less! The method: This is foil duct tape from the home improvement store. This is no la-di-dah decorative crafting duct tape. It is metal. It is strong. It is not playing around. Once in a while, I want to…

Want a quick and easy gift to give? Have I got the tutorial for you! First you've got to do a basic tape transfer. Check out my video below for the how-to: (What do you think? My friend Kim has been bugging me forever to do one-minute technique videos and I finally did the first one! I think one of my 2011 resolutions is going to involve a whole lot more of these!) Once your tape transfer had dried, grab some fragments. Fragments are plastic pieces from Tim Holtz. You can get them with or…

Always looking for a new way to use alcohol inks, I decided to try them out on glass gems. You know, the kind you buy at craft stores ...