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Crafted by Nicole LeBlanc

Spreading happiness... one card at a time.

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Card making ideas for Christmas 2021- hot foil & layering stencils

December 4, 2021

I am so excited to share another Christmas card project with you today! This project was a fun one for me because it utilized two of my favorite crafting items: hot foil and layering stencils.

Merry Christmas card set featuring Spellbinders’ hot foil stamp and Pinkfresh Studio’s layering stencils and inks

You can check out a video tutorial for this project by clicking here:

To start the project, I trimmed down some white, heavy weight cardstock panels to 4.25×5.5 inches. I then used my Gemini Foilpress and Gemini Jr to hot foil on this beautiful Merry Christmas sentiment from Spellbinders using some gold foil.

After the foiling was complete, I pulled out my Wendy Vecchi Make Art Stay-tion and began ink blending. The stencil I am using today is from Pinkfresh Studio and it is called Holiday Botanical Background. I used both the over the hill and garden stroll ink cubes with some blender brushes to apply a variety of green inks. Since our finished project pretty much is a one-layer card, I tried to create some dimension by blending different greens together over the leafy, open areas. I also added a bit of interest around the edges of my card panel by blending in some greens from the edges of the card.

I just love the shine on the hot foil stamping!!

Once the greenery was stenciled on, I moved onto the berries. Instead of inking the berries on, I used some Gina K gold Glitz Glitter Gel with a Nuvo spatula. If you are using this glitter gel, be sure to wash your stencils very quickly to keep them in top condition.

Once my glitter gel was dry, I adhered the panels directly down onto some A2 card bases using some tape runner. And that’s it. This project is done!

Merry Christmas card featuring Pinkfresh layering stencils and Spellbinders Hot Foil stamp

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