Foil Tiles

I bought 4 black tiles from a tile shop, and 10 white ones. My aim with the black ones was the use the foiling technique and give my creatures a dark, deep sea kind of effect by using the shiny and brightly coloured foils. I was really excited about this process and was sure that (if it worked) my tiles would look good. Then it all went wrong!

This is one of the designs with just the glue screen printed on to it, and then left to dry for 20 minutes.

This is another tile and design with the foil over it, ready to put in to the heat press.

This was the first tile i did, it didn't work very well as i think i used too much glue and it showed up on the tile where i had cut the foil into separate strips.

This is another tile, the foil didn't stick to the design properly and i was left with patches of glue.

Here are the 4 tiles all together. The bottom right one cracked in the heat press and the foil didn't stick to it properly. I had the same problem with the top left tile.

If i had more time i would have probably come up with a better plan, someone suggested ironing the foil on to the tiles to prevent them cracking in the heat, so that is a possibility to experiment with.