Does anyone know how to make foil proxies?

[JamesPr]

When I went to Gencon a while ago there was a guy trading proxy mishra's workshops for like $40 in trade value.  I heard from someone else that there was a way to seperate the foil part of a card from the card face by submerging the card into water overnight.  I tried this, and the face of the card is still attached to the foil section. 

Does anyone know a way to seperate the foil section of a magic card from the card face?  If someone could answer this I'd greatly appreciate it.

[Jacob Orlove]

Do you mean peeling off the entire foil section to create a blank white card, or getting rid of the ink on top of the foil?

[JamesPr]

Well, what I mean is separating the translucent foil section from the face of the card itself so I can put the translucent foil layer over a proxy of a card to make it appear foil. 

[Outlaw]

I had made foil proxies by finding the appropriate foil basic land of before mirrodin and used a sharpie to precisely remove a section of a proxy (for a mox) from a print and glue it on.  I was able to move these very well to people and I have stores actually wanting to buy them off me.

[Kowal]

Hi-Val mentioned in a 5c article a couple weeks back that if you leave an oldschool foil submerged in water for a while, the top layer just comes off and the bottom layer kind of disintegrates.  Is that more of what you're looking for?

[Nefarias]

Also, in your experiment, did you use a pre-8th foil, or an post-8th one? I don;t know the exact differences, but the foiling process is completely different for the two and requires different techniques.

[Hi-Val]

You can also use vinyl laminates that you can print on to make them. I haven't tried it myself because I'm lazy and haven't found the right materials. The proxies that are directly printed onto cards are very likely actually done with stickers on blanked foil cards or someone has access to professional-grade printers. My own printer is way crappy and when I print on foils, it beads up. However, any way you cut it the foils will curve and bend savagely. Keep this in mind.