Looking for ways to add foil to your crafts without using heat? Here are some hacks, tips, and techniques to using foil for your cardmaking and paper crafts.

A while back, I did a post on how to add foil to your cards with and without a laminator. I’ve gotten lots of request to see more ways foil techniques that require no heat.

For this cardmaking tutorial, I decided to use a combination of craft foil and foil cardstock. Foil comes in many different colors and finishes, and it is one of my favorite paper crafting techniques.

For the cardmaking video, you can watch below or over on YouTube.

Foil Hacks Using No Heat: Foiling Tips and Techniques For Paper Crafts

Foil For Paper Crafts Supplies

Foil Hacks Using No Heat_ Foiling Tips and Techniques For Paper Crafts Ideas

Here I used am embossing folder with foil cardstock.

You can also use an embossing folder with craft foil.

Another way to add texture is to crinkle the foil.

Here I just taped foil to the back of a die cut window.

I then colored the cutout to use on another handmade card.

A glue pen and some craft foil made it easy to foil a stamped image.

I used a combination of craft foil and gilding flakes here.

Finally, I used some glacier paste for this foil effect over a stencil.

Foil Hacks Video Tutorial:

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