Crafty As L

This week’s card has no stamping at all but is foiled.   I used the Spellbinder’s Glimmer Hot Foil System and Birthday Candle Background hot foil plate. To start, I cut the panel for my card and hot foiled the candles using a rainbow foil.   I’m still learning the foiling system and, despite chanting the layering order, I still sometimes put the foil the wrong way up, hence my rainbow candles!   Fortunately, this does no harm to the foil plates, it just wastes your foil. I then foiled more candles and the sentiment, which is Spellbinder Be Bold Glimmer Sentiments.   The candle plate comes with 2 dies so I die-cut a few candles together with the sentiment.  As you can see, I've foiled the sentiment plate too - doh! To add dimension to the card, I popped-up the die-cut candles and sentiment on foam tape.   The panel was matted onto black card before attaching to a top-folding card base. Quite simple but I love that rainbow foil!     ...

  Do you remember my post last January when I said I was going to try to make a few Christmas cards each month so that it wasn’t all a frantic panic in December?  Well, that lasted all of one month and I made a grand total of 2! Doh!! So, a new year and a new attempt – fingers crossed this one will go better?  I’ve been feeling a bit fed up lately due to not being well so thought I’d treat myself to this stencil set.  It’s by Taylored Expressions, a new company for me, and it’s designed to make mass-producing cards easier as you create 4 backgrounds with the stencil.  It's designed for the US sized version of A4, which is slightly shorter and fatter than the UK version but it works just fine. For the leaves, I blended SU! Old Olive ink through stencil 1 and SU! Garden Green through stencil 2 onto SU! Crumb Cake card.  You can use the same green for each stencil though – that’s what I did for my envelopes as I like to use a waterproof ink on them....

    Recently, my Mum has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.  The doctor said that learning new things could be good for her so I invited her and my sister round to make some Christmas cards.  My mojo is still not in full flow so I wanted to something relatively easy so decided to try out a new product I’d bought to make some foiled cards. We started by blending a variety of Distress Oxides to make the background for our snowflakes.  After blending, the card was spritzed with some water to create the distressed look. Next, the Newton’s Nook Snowfall stencil was taped in place before applying a thin layer of Deco Foil Transfer Gel Duo.  The stencil was removed and the gel left to dry, when it will be clear but it is still sticky.  The duo part of this gel means that it can be used to foil either the usual way with heat in a laminator or by pressure using a die cutting machine.  For the snowflakes, I used the pressure method....