Aluminium Foil again

I was using aluminium foil bonded to brown paper recently to make some gift bags so I thought I would see what happened if I bonded it to fabric instead
The method is exactly the same.
I substituted heavy weight calico for the brown paper and put a layer of Golden Soft Gel medium on. I am sure you could use any type of medium, I just grabbed the soft as I thought it would be easier to apply.

The foil is carefully crumpled up and flattened out again before bonding to the fabric.

Next step is to apply paint. You need to mix Golden GAC200 with the acrylic paint so that it stays on the foil when dry.
For the first layer half the foil was covered in Dioxazine Violet-Purple acrylic.
This was then rubbed back. When you do this some of the paint settles against the ridges of foil giving a really nice effect.
I did the same on the other half using Quinacridone Burnt Orange.

When both these paints were dry I covered them in a layer of Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold. I still mixed it with the GAC 200 even though there was already a layer of paint on the foil. It is important to make sure the bottom layer of acrylic is thoroughly dry before applying a top layer. If it is still wet or even just tacky it will lift off when you put the second coat on.
I've put this close up in just to show you the different colours that the camera picks up all depending on the light source.
I decided to ‘road test’ this fabric to see how it behaves and what I could possibly achieve with it.

The colours in all the following photographs are nowhere near a true reflection of the actual colour of the painted foil.

So I started off by making the old favourites: Inchies, ATC;s and Postcards.

These two postcards also had machine knitted wire laid on top.
Close ups of them both.

Of course, I just had to make the ubiquitous Padfolio/Journal or whatever it is called now.
The first one is just your normal run of the mill type.
A black silk lining and notepad finish it off.For this one I machine knitted 0.20mm gauge wire with a Madeira FS Metallic Embroidery Thread in a lacy pattern. This was stitched on the top before constructing the journal.
The inside has been lined with black silk and the signatures are handmade paper which has been sewn in. There are four signatures in all with ten pages each - very meaty! I punched holes down the side of the first page and threaded the black ribbon bookmark through.

And finally, the box.
Thought I would like to do something a little different so:-


And just out of interest, the little dog inside is also made from knitted stainless steel wire by an artist called Sarah Jane Brown

If you follow this link here you can see more of her fabulous work.

Creating these pieces wasn't too much time wasted as it gave me a chance to see how this fabric handles.

More on this later.