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ninajeanette - 19 July 2008 12:53 AM

Can you do this techiniqe withou the stensils?

Hi Yes you can, if you slowly run along the foil it comes out just as well free had, I do that with swirls and scrolls. xx

fantastic tutorial Nicola! thanks so much for posting it

I must try this again, I just not got the knack

wow this is really profissional but what is that powder that you add at first i really wanna learn this technique
i’ll try but i’m not sure i can find the required stuff in my country anyway thank you so much

Wow thanks for this technique. I bought loads of this stuff and just couldn’t get it to do anything? I thought i had wasted my money! I already own a low heat stylus, ( it’s an Encaustic Stylus) so i ca n try that out tomorrow!
ONE TIP????( i just thought of this?)
I have a range of tips with my stylus, including a thumb nail sized micro iron tip, SUPPOSE you do this technique with the micro iron tip, what wonderful free style effects you could achieve?
Thanks again.
Pammi

HI Pammi I still never got the hang of it, you have the proper stylus,
I got one of these battery ones, I think that is the problem,
good luck would love to see how you do hun xx

Thanks Maggie, i didn’t get round to doing it today, but tomorrow i will.
My stylus was only £24, i use it for Encaustic art, but this will be brilliant if it works with my foil? I just came back for another look at the instructions. Will show you what i achieved, when finished

Love to see it thank you, these seem to work good with Nicola xx

Don’t know if my foil is the right sort, i bought it as hot foil BUT it won’t work like the way it does here? I am so disapointed, i really wanted mine to work?

I was the same Pammi I tried it lots of times,
Nicola said you have to go really slow I need to try again

I went realy slow with the pen tip on my stylus, and even changed the tip for the micro iron tip and left that on it for ages, but it didn’t do anything at all?
I am convinced the foil i have isn’t what was used in the photo’s? The craft shop said it was for hot foiling, it has a grey backing and they used it for their hot foiling machine so said it was top quality? I realy wanted it to work.

I really don’t know what else we can try I thought yours would be ok
having correct tools

I know Maggie, it’s so annoying?

HELP me Nicola, is there a way round this please?

Nicola has tried to drum it into me with no joy xx

I’ve never heard of this before. It looks very interesting though…