What hot foil is and how you should use it within your wedding stationery

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What is it?

Hot foil is a process that uses heat and pressure to apply a metallic finish to card or paper. A magnesium or brass die is made of your chosen design, this is placed onto the machine and heated up. It is then pressed against the card with a layer of foil in between. When the pressure is released, the design is ‘stamped’ into the card with the foil.
This finish is luxurious and in my opinion looks so much more expensive than digital foil.

Where can it be used?

Hot foil can be used on all paper types and looks great on smooth or textured card. It is recommended to use a thicker card, just because the overall finish looks so much nicer! It can be used on save the dates, invitations through to your day stationery and thank you cards.

As a die is made for each design, it’s not recommended to use hot foil for place cards, just because you would need a different die making up of everyone’s names however, it is possible you just need to be aware that it would be costly! The alternative would be to have a generic design, such as a moon and stars if your theme was celestial and then use that on your place cards along with the digital printed name.

It’s not used on big signage either, just because you’d need a very large machine to be able to ‘stamp’ the design onto and it’s just not possible so the alternative to this is using metallic vinyl.