Hi Crafty Friends! It has been far to long, but I am glad to be back! Today, I am sharing a super fun project that uses a mix of hot foiling and ink blending. This was my first time using hot foiling for a project and I was blown away by the results. If you haven’t tried it yet, I hope you get a change to check out hot foiling.
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To begin this project I used my Gemini Foilpress to hot foil some Pinkfresh Studio small butterflies and a Spellbinder’s hello sentiment in some gold foil. I then used some Catherine Pooler blender brushes to color the butterflies using a combination of fairydust, yellow, and rise & shine. Pinkfresh Studio mini ink cubes and the coordinating layering stencils. I loved using my Wendy Vecchi stay-tion to hold all of my stencils in place.
I then used my Gemini Jr and the Pinkfresh coordinating dies to cut out the images. I also used the slim Moroccan tiles die from scrapbook.com to to cut out 3 slimline backgrounds.
Today’s card is a slimline, and the card base was made from a piece of 110lb white cardstock trimmed to 8.5×7 and scored in half at 3.5 inches. This results in a finished card of 8.5×3.5 inches. For my background, I masked off the front of my card base using some mint tape from scrapbook.com and blended on a combination of lemon whip, peach fuzz, and ballet slipper inks using the same Catherine Pooler blender brushes. I then layered up the Moroccan stencils on top using some Tombow liquid glue. The butterflies and hello sentiment were adhered using distress collage medium. And voila, this card was done!
I had some leftover butterflies, so I made this card an A2 size twin. All steps for this card were the same, except I used an A2 size card base and the Pinkfresh Studio Geofloral background die instead. It looks like this background die is no longer available, but you could try any background dies that you may have for a similar look!
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