100pcs Imitation Gold Leaf Sheets, 14 x 14 cm Gold Foil Multipurpose Gold Leaf for Nail, Art & DIY Project, Picture Frame, Home Wall, Interior and Multi Artistic Decoration

For full transparency, let me start off by admitting I have no real idea what I’m doing with gold leaf. I’m a maker, I love trying new things, and I wanted to give this technique a shot. I watched a few DIY videos but mainly went in without any prior experience or knowledge just to see what I could do. I make a lot of 3D prints, and I thought adding gold leaf could be an interesting new finishing technique for some of my prints. My results were far from perfect, but I think the leaf did its job well, and the imperfections were mainly due to my own mistakes and challenges of trying to combine gold leaf plastic 3D prints.The technique I tried to use was applying white glue to the object and letting it dry until it was tacky. Then I applied the gold leaf and “brushed” it on and into nooks and crannies. Like other leafs that I have seen in videos, this has some structure to it, but will tear apart when it feels enough tension. This review isn’t meant to be a tutorial, but for those who are interested, if I were to attempt this again, I would use a spray adhesive (or something less goopy than white glue.) I also would not have attempted the entire body at once, and would have worked on one area at a time. Many of the “bald” spots on my print are from either my hands touching and pulling leaf away from the object, or from wet glue pulling leaf away while I was trying to clean up the design.As far as the leaf itself, I had no complaints. The color appeared to be darker than I expected, like rose brass when I took a sheet out, but as I applied it, it really does look like proper gold when its applied well. The sheets are separated individually with paper in between, so they aren’t hard to bring out or separate from the pack (although once you get them out of the pack, they might cling to whatever you put them on, so keep those little paper sheets around.) This pack could last you a while, depending on your projects. The cat I worked with was about 2″ tall, and I used about 1.5 sheets out of the 100 in the pack.I don’t know a lot about gold leaf, but in my experience, this seemed to perform as well as any videos I watched, and the results of my test give me confidence that I could make a better finished product with some experience and experimentation, and I would have no problem continuing to work with these sheets in that process. [...]