Good morning! A few weeks back I shared a couple of cards created from a friend's Crafty Stash. When I was visiting Lea in Minnesota, we went to a crafty retreat, and while I brought just a few things with me, I was mostly packing from her supplies to bring for the weekend. I decided to raid some of her Simon Says Stamp sets to play with. I shared two cards before that were the results of that - and here a couple more that I created as part of that weekend of playing! This time, it was all about the hot foiling!
I actually hot foiled not only the background, but used a metal die to hot foil for these cards - and then put the Solid Hot Foil plate from Pinkfresh to good use to foil the reverse images - which made it super easy to create a set of cards, instead of just a single one!
For this first card, you can see that I used the Dainty Snowflake die to hot foil, and the coordinating die to cut the image out. It gives such a dainty foiled line when you hot foil with metal dies, since the lines are for cutting, and therefore thinner. I also layered on some extra snowflakes cut from the scraps of the reverse foil on the other card and using Harmony Snowflakes dies - these added great dimension to the first snowflake.
For this second card, I used the reverse foiled image from Dainty Snowflakes, again die cut with the coordinating die. Also a dainty effect, only more gold with the little fine white outline of the snowflake. I also layered over some of the same snowflakes as the last card, this time I just used white ones so they would pop against all that foil.
For both card backgrounds, I used the Slimline Falling Dots hot foil plate, and Teal Glimmer hot foil. One is the main foiled image, the other is the reverse foiled image. I alternated them, so that neither card would have an overwhelming amount of foil on it.
For both cards, I added a sentiment using Birthday Sentiments, stamped in coordinating ink, and hand trimmed into a small banner to mount on the snowflakes. I love how perfectly the sentiments fit these cards!
And in case I haven't mentioned before...hot foiling is SO hard to photograph! But these cards are so sparkly and fun in real life!
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