iCraft - 418561 Deco Foil Transfer Sheets, 6" x 12", Gold, 20 Piece

I used this with my Amazon Basics laminator to gold foil several signs for our wedding reception. My printer is an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdw. I purchased several Minc Transfer Folders to use with this foil. Although the foil DID NOT stick 100% to my laser print, it produced a kind of speckled appearance which I found quite pretty. [Difficult to see in photo since it was taken at an angle.] The text was more foiled than it was black, which made me happy. The foil that did adhere to my signs was firmly stuck and did not flake off. It really produced a glamorous element to our reception, and I was happy with the quality given that I was not using the "recommended"/"required" laminator. If I had been able to get more toner to lay down on the paper, it's possible that my results would've been better. NOTE: I did try initially to print and foil my messages on a textured, metallic navy paper. It did NOT work AT ALL. I assume this is because the paper was textured and all the toner had sunk into the paper rather than sitting on top for the foil to adhere to. Since the paper was thicker, my laminator also may not have been strong enough to heat through it and cause the foil to adhere. LESSON: Use perfectly smooth paper!

This product allows you to get very beautiful gold text on almost any type of paper. One method is to print the desired text on the paper (even dark colored paper). The foil easily adheres to the toner without messing up the rest of the paper when passed through a laminator. If there's no toner, mod podge is just as effective.

This gold foil delivers stunning gold text on almost any paper. I printed my design—even on dark paper—and the foil adhered perfectly to the toner after passing through a laminator, leaving the rest of the paper untouched. The foil is thin yet durable, giving a professional, polished look every time. It’s perfect for invitations, cards, or any project that needs a touch of elegance. Highly recommend!

The product works fantastically well ***under the right circumstances***. I can't stress this enough. You cannot cut corners if you want a professional result. After 10+ hours of printing wedding invitations, here's what you need to know: First, you must use a laser printer. That laser printer must lay down enough toner for the foil to stick. We borrowed 3 different laser printers, all with new toner cartridges, from an office. Out of those three, two did not lay down enough toner for the foil to fully adhere. The third printer was successful. You probably won't know if your printer is good or bad until you test it! Second, you must use a laminator. I tried using an iron but the results were terrible. You're not going to get the right temperature or pressure out of anything but a laminator. Third, the paper needs to be smooth. If you're using recycled paper, rough paper, velvety paper, or paper with any texture at all, this isn't going to work. With all that said, when you use it the right way and with the right equipment, this stuff is magical. Have fun with it!

I love the color and the deal of getting so many sheets of foil in one package (and not having to buy multiple rolls of foil). However, if you're looking to use this with a laminator, I'd suggest laminating a design that isn't very intricate. This foil tends to be a bit stiff and small details tend not to show up as defined when you lift the foil off. Also, I noticed that there may be some foil flaking off if the foiled piece is handled a lot. I made some personal cards and foiled them all in Deco Gold and Deco Rose Gold, and for some reason, both colors now flake onto my hands when I handle the cards. However, they are decent foil and somewhat inexpensive for the amount of fun you have foiling art pieces with many different colors. I'd still buy these if I'm working on low-stress, for-fun projects.

I bought this to recreate paper that was discontinued that I use for wood earrings. Works well and I can’t wait to add more colors. Easy to apply and is super shiny!

Do not buy Do not buy Do not buy It does not work for the cricut Explorer,Cricut maker nor the cricut venture. I bought it because the sheets were bigger than the cricut sheets. The cricut sheets work but for some reason these don't even if you set the default as more. It may work for something else but not for a foil project using these machines

I can't necessarily say I recommend this product, simply because it was so incredibly hard to figure out how to get consistent results. Granted, we were beginners in the "gold foiling game," so we hadn't he slightest clue what we were doing or what we were getting ourselves into. By the way, if you've gotten as far as considering buying this product, I'm guessing you're at least basically familiar with the gold foiling process already, so I write this review based on that assumption. If you're looking to complete a small project using gold foiling, i.e. a cute sign or 5 greeting cards or something, your life will be easier. It's the bulk projects that are more difficult, since the results are unpredictable, and you have to churn out much, much more gold foiling in order to get enough that pass the quality test. The process of incorporating gold foiling into about 100 DIY wedding invitations, "details" cards, and "RSVP" cards ended up being more finicky than we ever thought possible. Seems like every single variable had an effect on how consistently the gold foil adhered to the surface of the paper or card stock, so we went through a ton, and I mean A TON, of trial and error in order to get our final results, which were admittedly really good in the end. By "good results," I mean the gold foil adhered to the surface consistently, and by "bad results" I mean it didn't, and there were unsightly patches of black interspersed throughout the text we were trying to gold foil. And it's actually very unpredictable as to which kinds of results you're going to get at any given time, even if all of the variables seem to be right! The following variables seemed to matter a lot in our experience: which laser printer we used, whether the laser printer was loaded with authentic or knock-off toner, what types of paper or card stock we used, how long we allowed for the laminator to heat up each time before using it, the direction in which we inserted the thing being gold foiled into the laminator (no joke), the number of times in a row going through the laminator, giving the laminator intermittent "breaks" to heat back up, the direction and technique used to peel off the gold foil, etc. Again, after much trial, error, and frustration, here's what ended up working best for us. We used this gold foil in conjunction with: - This card stock: "Cougar Natural 100# Card Stock 8.5x11 - 100 Pk" (ordered from Amazon - $19.95 per 100-pack); - This laminator: "Royal Sovereign 9-Inch Laminator (CS-923)" (ordered from Amazon for $28.99); and - A large, office-sized HP laser printer, loaded with authentic HP toner (Sorry - I don't know the exact printer model). A few tips and pearls of wisdom stemming from our sorrowful gold foiling journey: - Authentic HP toner, for some reason, always produced the best results. Don't know why. - The heavier weight we went in terms of the card stock, the better the results got. (Although this 100# stuff listed above was the heaviest variety we tried.) The gold foil didn't adhere to regular printer paper very well at all. - Let the laminator heat up for at least 10 minutes before you begin using it. - If you're on a roll inserting sheet after sheet, like we often operated, let the laminator have "breaks" intermittently so it can heat back up. (If we were starting to get bad results and weren't sure why, we gave the laminator a 10-minute or so break and oftentimes saw better results afterwards.) - Yes, the directions in which you (1) insert into the laminator and (2) peel off the gold foil can absolutely matter, so experiment with different possibilities, and keep track of what works best for whatever you're gold foiling (particularly relevant if you're crazy enough to do a bulk project like we did, where you're going to be gold foiling the same sort of thing many, many times). For example, sometimes we got better results by consistently inserting something into the laminator either upside down or rightside up. And, after laminating, sometimes the gold foil adhered better when it was peeled off starting from one direction over another. And peeling the gold foil away slowly/gently certainly helps it adhere better. - If you're continually getting bad results seemingly no matter what you try, sometimes it helps to send the same thing through the laminator two times in a row. This, of course, was much more time consuming, but sometimes it helped the gold foil adhere better to the "more stubborn" text. - Along similar lines, if you get bad results and the gold foil doesn't adhere to all of your text, or if you inadvertently miss a spot, you can try placing leftover scraps of gold foil over the missed areas and running it through the laminator again. In keeping with the gold foil guesswork, sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. I'm sure there are more tips that can be offered, but that's all that comes to mind for now! Had we known from the outset what a pain this would be, we probably wouldn't have attempted it, but hopefully our anecdotes and advice will help make someone else's gold foiling process go much more smoothly. Good luck!