How To Use Metal Leaf Sheets

Applying gold leaf is called gilding or gold leafing.

How to use metal leaf sheets.

Blick carries gold copper and silver leaf in sheets flakes and leaves. Add shimmering lustrous effects to your artwork and décor projects with gold leaf. Take the book and cut off the binding edge to facilitate easier handling use good scissors. Or try an all in one kit to get started.

Imitation gold and silver leaf is an inexpensive alternative great for beginners and experimentation. How do you apply gold leaf. Metal leaf sheets multi pack by barnabas blattgold 300 sheets imitation gold leaf 100 sheets imitation silver leaf 100 sheets copper leaf 100 sheets 16 x 16 cm. For some projects you may need to use painter s tape.

If desired you can spray an optional clear glaze on top. Sure but you need to base coat the surface an appropriate color first. Remove unused leaf smooth wrinkles with your fingers or a clean dry paintbrush. Discard unused leaf but be careful not to damage the edges of the desired design.

For gold leaf the primer coat is traditionally a dark barn red. Gently smooth the leaf over areas of adhesive. I prefer to use a very dark teal grey color but others may prefer dark grey or even black. Lift off the necessary number of sheets leaving the separator papers in place between the leaves and place by your project.

Gold leaf and metal leaf. Applying the metal leaf. I use scotch blue 3m painter s tape. Kinno gilding flakes color 2 5 imitation gold silver color 0 real copper 3 bottles metallic foil flakes for painting arts and crafts nail art.

You can see an example of how i use it in this project. Because sheets of metal leaf are very thin and tear easily consider wearing soft cotton gloves.