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Take your newborn's footprints and turn them into a foiled keepsake. So sweet in a nursery or for a Father's Day or Mother's Day gift.
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FOILED FOOTPRINT ART FROM BABY HOSPITAL FOOTPRINTS

Take your newborn's hospital footprints and turn them into a foiled footprint art keepsake. So sweet in a nursery or for a Father's Day or Mother's Day gift.
Keyword: Baby, Footprints
Author: Cori George

Equipment

Ingredients

  • Original footprints
  • Paper
  • Laser printer (or visit your local FedEx Office)
  • Foil (this project used Therm-o-web's Deco Foil in Copper)
  • Frame

Instructions

  • Start by either scanning or taking a photo of your footprints. For this project a photo was snapped using an iPhone and Air Dropped it to a computer.
    Image of a baby's footprints
  • To turn it into a black and white file that could print and foil, the Trace function in Adobe Illustrator was used to turn the footprints into black and white vector files,. Make sure to size them at their actual size.
    Clean them up a bit and move them closer together, if needed. You can get the same effect by using the brightness and contrast sliders in Photoshop, and maybe even PicMonkey (not sure, but it's worth a shot). You could also try using different Photoshop Effects, especially those in the "Sketch" menu.
    Each boy's name were also added below their footprints, using the the font Aresenale White.
    Take your newborn's footprints and turn them into a foiled keepsake. So sweet in a nursery or for a Father's Day or Mother's Day gift.
  • Turn them each into a PDF and went to my local FedEx Office and printed five copies of each on a laser printer (you must have a laser printer, not an inkjet). The Minc hadn't been used before, and wanted to have extras just in case it took a while to figure it out.
    The Minc works like a laminator. You layer your print and foil (For this project Therm-o-Web's Deco Foil in Copper was used and loved the results! They have a TON of colors so you could easily match a nursery for this project) and put it in the clear transfer envelope.
    Then you just turn the Minc on, set a heat setting, and run them through!  Ended up setting it on Level 5, with two pieces of card stock below the print (without the card stock, the paper wrinkled a bit). Used another small piece of paper to cover up the boys names, so they wouldn't get foiled.
    Image of a MINC machine
  • Then trim each print and frame them. So simple!
    Image of a baby's footprints and personalized with first, middle and last name
  • Take your newborn's footprints and turn them into a foiled keepsake. So sweet in a nursery or for a Father's Day or Mother's Day gift.
  • Take your newborn's footprints and turn them into a foiled keepsake. So sweet in a nursery or for a Father's Day or Mother's Day gift.