Folk Floral Stem (with two kinds of foiling)

(Inside: happy happy birthday to you)

The floral image on this card was made with the Folk Floral Stem hot foil plate and coordinating layering stencils by Pinkfresh Studio. Gold Glimmer Hot Foil was used along with Gina K Designs Peach Bellini, Tomato Soup, Moonlit Fog, and Fresh Asparagus inks. The foil for the image was applied using the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil system and a die cutting machine.

I wanted a foiled, delicate script greeting that would fit on a 1/4 inch strip (and didn’t have an appropriate plate), so I decided to type my greeting on the computer instead. I used the “Yukikato” font (11 pt) for this card. In order to foil that, a different method was required. First, it needed to be printed with toner (and not ink), so I used a laser printer. This was then foiled with icraft gold decofoil and a minc foiling machine.

Metallic Gold card stock was used for the mats, and the inside sentiment stamp was called “Happy Happy Birthday” by dandelion designs.

For anyone new to foiling, each system uses a different type of foil and application tool and a different technique for applying it. The method using a hot foil plate pushes the foiled image into the surface a bit while the toner/minc method is flatter, but both methods give very similar looking results as far as shine. Here is some introductory information on using either the Glimmer Hot Foil System or the minc. And there are tons more videos out there showing other tips and variations for each.

It’s SO hard to photograph a foiled card as it’s hard to get the light to hit it just right! Here’s a photo of the card with less direct light hitting it…

While not used on this project, there is also a coordinating stamp set and a coordinating die.

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Idyllic Lighthouse Scene

(Inside: enjoy your day)

This card features a stamp from the Idyllic Floral Scenes series called “Lighthouse” (#IFS040) by Nellie Snellen and a greeting from GKD’s Birthday Blessings (retired?) both stamped in GKD Chocolate Truffle amalgam ink on Recollections White Dove card stock. I matted the stamped images with GKD Chocolate Truffle and Sea Glass card stock and then with a sheet from The Paper Studio’s Dalmuti paper pad.

I was going for a “sketched feel” so I left the image uncolored and chose a greeting stamp that looked handwritten. The inside sentiment is from Stampin’ Up’s “Two-Step Stampin’ Riveted” set (retired).

This is a quarter of the 12×12 patterned sheet that I used:

It’s a bit busy for me, but I think it makes an interesting mat. I can check off another sheet in my self-imposed challenge to use this patterned paper!

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Purple Birthday Fan Card

I saw this technique HERE for an A2 sized fan card and thought I’d give it a try!

I recently cleaned/reorganized my craft room and discovered LOTS of (probably discontinued by now?) paper that I forgot I had or couldn’t get to easily enough to bother with. Hmmm… maybe I never have to buy another piece of paper again???… Anyway, it was fun “shopping my stash,” and I came up with two prints for my fan card. The lighter print is “Soft Purple Ferns” from Hot Off the Press/Paper Pizzazz, and the darker one is “Fairy Tale” from Recollections. The solid card stock is “Edible Eggplant” (not black!!) from Gina K Designs (no longer available?).

The greeting is computer generated (font: CK Curly, 18 pt) , and I cut apart bits from a die cut called “Vignette Floral Branch” from Memory Box to tuck around it.

Deb pops her fan panels up with foam dimensionals, but I just glued mine down flat.

When the card is folded closed, the fan pieces line up with the edges of the card front, but as it opens, it appears to hang over until you can see the cut out shape.

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Another great technique to showcase printed paper!

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Split Panel Card and Others from a One Sheet Wonder

Inspiration for this card came from two places. I found a 12×12 “One Sheet Wonder” template that I used to create 6 different card sketches (10 cards in all), and this was one of them – sort of. In Mary Knabe’s video, one of her sketches had the focal panel (flowers) attached to the flap at the top, but there was nothing attached to the bottom so the card did not stand up/display very well. I had also recently seen her Split Front Card video and thought I could “fix” the card here by adding the bottom panel (as shown in the second video).

The focal paper I used for all the “One Sheet Wonder” cards is called “Floral Clusters & Leaves” by The Paper Studio. This OSW template works best with double sided paper as a few of the sketches call for flipping some of the pieces over after the sheet is all cut up, but this paper is one sided so I had to “cheat” and use a second coordinating pattern I had in my stash. (The peach strip above should have been the back of one of the pieces cut from my patterned paper.)

If you care to see the other cards I created with this One Sheet Wonder Template or a list of the supplies I used, keep reading…

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