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Real question by NomNom: how can I make gold foot prints on paper?
I have my sons foot prints on paper with regular black ink. I scanned them so I would be able to print them out, but I know they don’t sell metalic ink for printers. I can’t re do his foot prints, my son passed shortly after birth.
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Answer by anonymous
CHARCOAL (art store). this would give tremendous detail and would look great, and it will wash off with soap, then print in dark yellow ink.
Answer by E Money bagz
I think your best bet would you have the pictures of the feet scanned online….theres many photoshop editors that you could change/add effects such as the color of the feet from black to gold…and then just print it out..I usually use the link I listed for you below it’s free quick easy to use edit/photos you should check it out and try to change the color to gold
Answer by ?
Years ago I worked in a wedding invitation shop. To put a gold leaf look on the text in the wedding invitations, we would print on a laser printer/copier, put foil over the print and run through a heat machine which would “bake” the gold onto any area that had the black laser toner.
Maybe you could speak to a wedding invitation type place and see if they would be able to copy the footprints and gold foil the print. Hope that helps 
Answer by felineroche
Get rubber stamps made of the footprints. There are place online that do an A4 sheet of clear stamps at low cost. From a craft shop you will need one acrylic block to mount the stamps (as they can removed and replaced on the block) and a small gold ink pad. Small because the pad is raised and you just dab it lightly all over the upturned stamp. Staff at the craft shop can show you how to do this.
Gold ink looks best on a dark background. If you want to make it stand out more you can heat emboss the print using gold or gold sparkle embossing powder and a heat gun. Again ask the craft shop to demonstrate.
Answer by Diane B.
First I’m very sorry for your loss. Doing things like this to honor your son and put your memories into concrete form can really help in my experience.
As for making your son’s copied footprints gold, there would be several ways to do it:
1. As mentioned by the answerer called “?,” there actually IS a way to “print” in gold or other metallic colors using “heat transfer foils” (you can do it yourself or have it done maybe even at Kinko’s or another print shop).
The foils will stick to anything sticky and one way to make something sticky is to print it out on a machine that uses “toner” (not inkjet ink), in other words using a photocopier or a laser printer. Then the foil can be adhered to the black parts of the image with heat (from running through a toner-based machine again since they use heat in the process of printing, or even with an iron, etc).
This site has a video on the basics, but uses a “laminator” to create the heat necessary (you could use the other ways):
http://www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk/products-Laser-Transfer-Foils_FOIL-LAZ1M.htm
You can also check out these sub-boards at Craftster for getting info about using transfer foils, though some of those will be non-metallics onto t-shirts, etc, but some of the same processes and they should know about the foils too:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?board=147.0
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?board=146.0
2. You can also “cold” transfer those same foils by just making sure the image is drawn or copied with something that stays sticky or tacky, or at least for a while. In that case, no heat is needed with the foil is placed on the image, just pressure. Some of the things that will work (though may not be best for your kind of image?) would be hot glue (allowed to set), permanent white glues like Elmer’s GlueAll and many others, glycerin, ball point pen ink, “pigment” stamp pad inks, some colored “brush pens” used for stamping, and some special “clear” markers and pens sold for (hot) “embossing” which are basically filled with glycerin.
For some of those, the foil needs to be applied fairly quickly, but others will stay tacky for awhile. You’d just press the sheet of foil onto the image, press the foil down on the image areas, then remove. Most of the image would then be covered with the foil, but if not repeat with unused areas of foil on the unfoiled areas.
3. You could also use *embossing powders* along with heat (that’s called “hot embossing”) plus one of the sticky substances listed above. I believe the toner copy would also stay sticky for a short time so you could pour the embossing powder over the image (you’d use a gold embossing powder). Then you’d tap the paper to remove any powder not stuck to the image (and put back in the bottle), and apply a heat source to melt the powder into smooth lines and shapes (an embossing gun is often used, but can also be done over a lightbulb, etc).
It’s good that you have a scan of the footprints so that if you make any mistakes you’ll be able to try again with a fresh image!
And btw, the hot foil transfers even work for fabric so you could also do that. And the regular “transfer papers” that work with inkjet and/or toner printers and copiers can also be used without foil to make images on fabric in case you wanted to make a quilt or pillow or something else fabric with b&w white images of the footprints (which you could also combine with other images or techniques). Those can be purchased in quilt shops or actually in many places–be sure and note any differences between types though (e.g., “for inkjet printers” for example, or transparent regular transfer papers vs transfer papers “for dark fabrics” which will be opaque).
Diane B.
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