Crafted by Nicole LeBlanc

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Make your own beautiful floral cards with foil accents

Hi crafty friends! This week I am sharing this floral card that uses mostly Pinkfresh Studio products. There is a lot of die cutting with this project, however, it came together pretty quickly as there is no coloring necessary for this card.

Handmade Hello Card using Pinkfresh Studio dies and washi tape

If you would like to see a video tutorial of this card, please click here:

I began this project by sticking by adhering the Anemone Magic washi tape onto some heavy weight cardstock. Since I had the washi out, I decided to adhere a few different strips of the washi down at once. I then cut out the images with the coordinating die cuts. I also ran the die through my Gemini die cutting machine with just some cardstock (without washi) to make some layers to add some dimension to some of my die cuts.

For my card design, I really wanted to work in some gold foil to coordinate with the gold accents on the Anemone Magic washi tape. To do this, I decided that I would run a large rectangle die from the stitched scalloped rectangle die set. I cut the rectangle out using a combination of gold foil cardstock and white heavy weight cardstock. Since the scalloped rectangle die cuts out 2 rectangles at once, I decided to cut it from gold foil cardstock and divide the rectangles for 2 different card projects. I created my card’s background panels by using the stitches background die from Pinkfresh Studio.

For my sentiment, I decided to die cut out both a happy birthday and a hello sentiment , using a combination of gold foil cardstock and vellum. I also die cut the sentiments out of some white cardstock and adhered it behind the foil die cuts, to add dimension to the sentiments.

Once all of my pieces were die cut, it was time to start assembling. For my card base, I used some 110lb cardstock  trimmed down to the size of an A2 card. I used a combination of tombow mono multi liquid glue and some tape runner to adhere my cards together.

Floral birthday card made using Pinkfresh Studio’s Anemone Magic washi tape and die combo.

I should also note, if you are interested in these fun washi products from Pinkfresh Studio, I previously made some cards using the Indigo Vines Washi tape. You can check out those products by visiting here.

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Foil Stamping – Making Pride Cards and Birthday Cards with minc toner ink

Hello! Today I am sharing these super fun, one layered, foiled llama cards. I turned these llamas into a mix of birthday and Pride cards. June is pride month, and Happy Pride to anyone who is celebrating this month! For information on the products used and how I made these cards, keep on reading.

Rainbow foiled llama card

There is also a tutorial video that you can find on my YouTube Channel for this project. Click here to watch.

https://youtu.be/VwAVVVMH6y8

I had tons of fun making these super fun foiled llamas using Llama tell you stamps from Colorado Craft Company. I really like the general sentiment stamps “Llama just say” for the front of my card. This left me plenty of options to customize the rest of the sentiment on the inside of the card. I ended up stamping the happy birthday in most of my llama cards, as birthday cards are the ones that I tend to use the most. I also used some rainbow foil on a few of my llamas to wish some amazing people a happy pride month. I am thinking about maybe making a few more of these with the insides blank… to have on hand to customize them later when I need a specific type of card.

I began these cards by trimming down my heavyweight white card stock to 8.5×5.5 inches and scoring it at 4.25 along the longer side to make a side folding A2 card. I then pulled out my MISTI tool and stamped the llamas on the front of my cards using some black dye ink. Once I was done stamping the llama bodies, I moved onto the foiled glasses.

To create the foiled look on the llama’s glasses and on the sentiment, I first loaded my stamps into my MISTI tool. I then stamped these images using Minc Toner Ink. The toner ink is key in the foiling process and must be used for this technique to work. Anything that you stamp with the minc toner ink, will later adhere the foil. I used a brayer to apply the minc ink to my stamp.

If you are looking for more details on how I apply toner ink with a brayer, I would suggest that you also take a peek at this previous video that I made:

Once the stamping with the toner ink was finished, I layered on the foil over my card panel and ran my project through the carrier sheet for my minc machine. I peeled off the excess foil and was left with beautiful, shiny stamped images. I used a mix of gold deco foils and rainbow deco foils on my llama’s glasses and for the sentiments as well. I decided to turn my rainbow llamas into pride llamas to send to some amazing people celebrating pride month. For my gold llamas, I added a happy birthday inside to finish off the sentiment. At this point all that was left to do is stamp a sentiment inside my cards and fold my card bases with a Teflon bone folder.

My final projects

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