Susanbcards: How to Layer Three Different Colors of Hot Foil Using the BetterPress Registration Plates!

Today I'm using Happiest Holidays BetterPress Registration Press Plates from the Spellbinders City Holiday Collection by Yana Smakula. You can see the entire collection HERE.

Using the BetterPress for Glimmer hot foiling is probably my favorite, the way the foil is pressed right into the cardstock is so beautiful.

Regular BetterPress plates are easy to use, put the plate face up on the Glimmer hot foil base, cut foil to size, place foil pretty side facing the plate, paper on top, run through the BigShot (or whatever machine you have). Done.

BetterPress Registration sets are different. They consist of more than 1 plate, so each can be inked up in a different color. There is a registration "map" that is made from acetate, you place this down on the BetterPress so you can place the proper plates down for each color. If you leave it and the cardstock in place, each will properly line up on your card front.

But I wanted to Glimmer hot foil each layer in a different color! I wouldn't put the acetate on my hot Glimmer, it could melt. It gets very hot. So, I tried lining each layer up. Too hard. I finally realized I could copy/Xerox the acetate map by placing a piece of white paper behind it and I had a paper "map". I cut it out and taped it to my Glimmer hot foil machine so it wouldn't move.

Then I created a "hinge" with another piece of tape and attached the cardstock I wanted to hot foil. Keep that in place for each layer. It's hard to explain, so here's a video!

The blue card below is in a blog post from the other day. It can be found HERE.

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You can see the entire City Holiday collection HERE (it's gorgeous).

---- https://tinyurl.com/yd8nrmuv [Spellbinders]

---- https://tidd.ly/41D8D9q [Simon Says Stamp]

---- https://tidd.ly/3Vxo2ob [Scrapbookcom]