Designer Craft Connection: Rinea Foil Blog Hop May 2017

GOT BUSY PLAYING WITH RINEA FOIL AND MADE A COOL CARD TO SEND TO A FRIEND!

I have never much worked with foil in the past, so I felt this was a good opportunity to try my hand at it.  The funny thing is I made a card, to most that is not a big deal but to me it is very much so.  I am not a card maker.  However, recently I bought a box of pre-folded cards from a local craft store thinking that might help me to want to make them.  It has.  

When I received the Rinea Foil®, I took the time to look it up on YouTube.com to get a feel for what others are doing with it.  I wanted to work on a card for a friend and figured I would take the Rinea Foil® for a test drive and see what I could come up with.  

Rinea® paper-foil is a specialty craft paper imported from Germany. It is made up of a thin sheet of paper sandwiched between two layers of thin aluminum foil - the paper gives it sturdiness and stiffness while the foil gives it the shininess and the malleability to maintain the shape however you bend or fold it. It is more than just origami paper due to the specific thickness and the quality of the foil used, making it ideal for many interesting crafting ideas. The paper does not wrinkle like foil and does not cause painful cuts like thick, sharp kitchen foil can.

The paper is as popular in Germany and parts of Europe as construction paper is in the US. In Germany it is known as Alu-Bastlefolie which means Aluminum Handicraft Foil Paper. It is very difficult to find this paper in the US and those that want it have to import it from Germany. Our goal is to introduce you to unique and interesting crafting ideas popular in other parts of the world made possible only using this paper and, at the same time, make it easily available in the US. The paper comes in a variety of colors with shiny, matte, and embossed surfaces giving you endless options to spark your creativity!

I created my own inside foil lining with a ghost rose imprint and then made a matching mixed media inspired front for the card using the foil and Tattered Angels spray.  Be sure to scroll down and check out all the other awesome designers that joined in on this hop and the cool projects they created.

 

Gather up your supplies.  

Products used: Rinea Foil, Tattered Angels Chalkboard Paint "Priority", Beacon Adhesives, 3-in-1, Golden Gel Medium Molding Paste, Core'dinations A2 card and envelope, Rose Stencil.

 

Place the stencil 

Using a stencil and Heartlfelt Creations Flower Shaping tool to make a scratchy imprint on the foil in the shape of the roses on the stencil.

 

The finished foil with the indentation.

Close up of the scratched surface.

Slide the foil square into the envelope, leave some area on the flap and fold over with the flap.

Add some liquid adhesive around the edges of the foil.

 

Fold the flap down again and it will automatically be positioned correctly.  No need to glue anywhere else.

Place the stencil over the foil for the front of the card.

Add Golden Gel Medium over the top of the stencil to give it a dimensional look.



Once dried but still a tad tacky, spray some Tattered Angels Chalkboard spray and place a paper towel over the top. Pull the paper towel off slowly and it will leave an imprint and leave a cool sprayed color effect.

Please visit the other designers that have created great projects with Rinea:

Julie McGuffie  http://juliemcguffee.blogspot.com/2017/04/summer-party-lights.html

Lisa Fulmer  http://lisalizalou.blogspot.com/2017/04/cardmaking-and-collage-with-rinea-foil.html?m=1

Ann Strecko Koehman  https://annmakes.blogspot.com/2017/04/pinwheels-for-spring-with-rinea-foil.html

Susie Madden Bentz  http://mytime2play.blogspot.com/2017/04/mixed-media-cards-with-rinea-foils.html

Maria Chuy Soto  https://chuy-creativity.blogspot.com/2017/04/card-making-with-rinea-paper-foil.html

Michelle Frae Cummings  http://faeriedustdreams-michelle.blogspot.com/2017/04/creating-with-rinea-paper-foil.html

Anita Scroggins https://goo.gl/6ioh9D

Lynda Kanse   http://wp.me/p6XQZr-1uQ

Susan M. Brown  http://sbartist.blogspot.com/2017/04/add-little-bling-to-your-cre8time-with.html

Steph Ackerman   http://stephaniescraps.blogspot.com/2017/04/sew-sweet-card-with-rinea-foils.html

Erin Reed   http://scraps-of-reflections.blogspot.com/2017/04/cute-little-girl-ladybug-costume.html

Trish Cortez  http://tuneintotrish.com/Gold Daisies featuring Rinea Foils Blog Hop/

Lorrie McCullers   https://lorriemccullers.blogspot.com/2017/04/mothers-day-card-featuring-rinea-foil.html

Nadine Carlier   http://myscrapnstuff.blogspot.com/2017/04/dcc-blog-hop-with-rinea.html

Marilyn Gossett  http://marilyngossettdesigns.blogspot.com/2017/04/rinea-foil-paper-spring-garland.html

Yolie Burke  http://www.justyolie.com/2017/04/rinea-foil-blog-hop-designercraftsconne.html

Terry Ricioli    http://terryriciolidesigns.blogspot.com/2017/04/may-day-cone-with-rinea-foils.html

Tammy Santana  http://www.tammysantana.com/2017/04/rinea-foil-blog-hop.html  and http://www.diyplannergirl.com/2017/04/rinea-foil-blog-hop.html

 

 

 

Enjoy

Candy Rosenberg
www.AVintageGirl.com