Foiled Leafy Birthday

Two nearly identical cards, but I'll share them both anyway. I have many sheets of Gina K's toner printed sheets for foiling that I bought about seven years ago. I decided to foil part of one. (They are 8.5 by 11 inches.) I made two card-sized pieces and foiled them with a nice spring green color. I matted them with black and added a black strip with a silver-embossed sentiment on each one. Of course, I can't photograph the foil, so you just get to see a little bit of it.

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Turquoise Sympathy

We needed a sympathy card, and here is what I made. Nothing particularly special, but I think it's pretty enough. I used a set from Gina K - polyglaze image and sentiment to foil (with silver), stencils to color the image, and dies to cut them both out. They are, of course, popped up. I added some patterned paper on the left side and a thin strip of silver alongside it. It's really hard to see the foiling, so here is a little bit better view.

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Foxy Birthday

I do believe that this cute little fox has been in my parts since last January. I still have several more pieces to use that I made then. The dies are from Gina K. I cut out the frame with a die, also. I brushed a little green ink very lightly on the frame. The frame is popped up, as is the fox. The sentiment came from my parts, too, from many years ago. It was printed from the computer with a black background around white letters and then foiled. The background is from an ancient matstack from Die Cuts With a View. (I just realized looking at the photo that the eyes are different! One is die-cut and one is gel pen or Nuvo drops! I will attempt to fix that.)

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Gold Foil Birthday

A birthday card with gold foil over black. Really hard to see in this photo - well, actually impossible! You can see how it really looks in the photo to the left, except the top is not black, either. The image and die are from Gina K. I cut out the image from black cardstock, too, and offset it from the gold one and popped it up on foam squares. The sentiment was printed on my computer and foiled and also popped up. The background was embossed with a Sizzix folder and matted with black.

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Warm Birthday Wishes

My hand is healed up enough to golf now, so my card-making has taken a back seat. Golf, and other things like getting ready for winter and Thanksgiving and Christmas.

These cards are both made with Gina K foilable sheets and stencils and dies. On this first one, I added very thin metallic, scallopy stickers alongside the white panel. The flowers and the main sentiment are popped up.

I happened across some pre-made card bases from many years ago, and I used one for this second card. It's a tri-fold card with a hole in the front. One panel just folds over the holed panel. I added a piece of patterned vellum behind the hole. The image and sentiment are from the same Gina K set as the first card.

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Birthday Flowers

I saw this card somewhere and thought I would give it a try. It's quite simple, really. Here is a link to the video that I watched. I'm sure there are many others. I embossed the matting pieces with a Gina K folder. The die-cut flowers and leaves are from Gina K, also. I think the sentiment is from Gina K, too - it came from my card parts. It was foiled and die-cut.

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Card Parts Anniversary

I used two left-over pieces of shimmery patterned cardstock from a previous card for both of these cards. The sentiment on this first card is from Gina K and is embossed with gold powder. The flower is from Gina K, also, and is a foiled negative. I added a thin strip of cardstock above the patterned paper and also some gold sequins.

 This one is basically like the first one, but with different card parts. The vellum, foiled butterfly and the foiled sentiment were in my card parts book. They are both popped up on foam squares.

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Another Butterfly Anniversary

The white die-cut panel for this card was also in my card parts for years and years. I stamped the sentiment (from Gina K) on to it and then embossed it with a Gina K folder. The butterfly is also from Gina K. I stamped it with Versamark in, embossed it, and then hot-foiled it. Then I die-cut it and used a bit of color-blending on it.

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Foiled Birthday

Finally - a card! I don't know how life can be SO busy!! I used an Anna Griffin brass stencil for the main image. I used Deco Foil over it and used my Gina K Fuse to foil over it. The sentiment was also done using that technique. I embossed the border around the main image with a Gina K die. The image panel is popped up on foam squares. The card is done with ivory cardstock.

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Foily Birthday

I finally got a chance to use a few of my new things from Gina K. I think these are from my previous order and not my most recent. Too many new things, so little time! I used Gina's Poly-Glaze and foil for the images and sentiments, along with the coordinating dies and stencils. The sentiments are glued directly to the card base, and the flowers are popped up. I used a stencil from Picket Fence from my SCT class for the background.

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Foiled Snowflakes

I was looking through my book of foils, and realized how many pre-printed sheets I have from Gina K that need to be foiled!! I made a few of these snowflake backgrounds using some really fancy silver foil. I made three of these cards. The sentiment was cut from silver metallic cardstock and also white cardstock and layered, then placed on some white cardstock and matted with more of the silver.

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More 3D Embossing - with Color

 

I liked the brayered inked embossing so much, I made three more cards like that with my new folders. I added the same sentiment, also, and matted each sentiment with the cardstock I cleaned off the brayer on. The sentiment is pre-printed from Gina K and I used my laminator to foil them.

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A "Leftovers" Card

This card was made from leftovers. I had this green layer piece leftover from cleaning my brayer. The foiled sentiment was the leftover piece from the card I shared a couple of days ago. I matted each of them with black. I used patterned paper for my bottom layer, and you will see the leftover from that piece on a card soon - perhaps tomorrow. I thought this would make a nice "guy" card.

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Happy Hanukkah!

Here is my one Hanukkah card. I used stencils for the little bits of stripe and the stars. The stars are done with Deco Foil Transfer Gel and foil, with my laminator. I added thin strips of silver glitter paper on the top and bottom of the image panel. The sentiment is from Gina K. I foiled that, also, and it's popped up on foam squares. Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate!

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Happy December Birthday!

This card is for our daughter-in-law, whose birthday is today. The snowflakes are embossed with silver and cut out. I also added a slight bit of light blue to the centers. The largest one is popped up on foam squares. The sentiment was printed on my computer and foiled. (It's shiny silver.) I embossed the silver strip and the blue background piece with Sizzix folders.

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Sparkly Birthday Hearts

More stickers out of the drawer and on to cards. Yippee! These three hearts were left in a package. I also used the packaging cardstock - the green patterned "paper" couldn't be tossed. I also added two thin foily stickers on the top and bottom of the image panel. The sentiment was in my card parts - a gold-foiled, computer-printed piece.

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Happy Fourth of July???

Crazy, I know - but here is a Fourth of July card in September. You'll be seeing this image again next July 1 on my calendar page, but hopefully you'll have forgotten it by then. I know that I will! At any rate, I printed these cones and cut them out with my Cameo Silhouette. I added Star Dust Stickles to the white areas of the ice cream. The patterned paper is from Recollections. I printed the sentiment with my computer and used bright blue foil on it. Hard to see that in the photo.

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April Calendar Page

April has arrived!! Thank goodness March is over - it was much too cold!

This month's calendar page uses a two-piece umbrella die. I used gold foil cardstock for the frame and Michael's patterned paper for the main piece. I printed the sentiment on my laser printer and then used fold foil and my laminator.

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Hello and Thank You with Baby Wipes and Stencils

I tried a technique that I had tried quite a while ago but with no success. It worked a little bit better for me this time. I ink-blended ink onto cardstock, then ran it through my BIGkick with a stencil and a baby wipe. (From bottom to top: rubber mat, ink-blended cardstock, stencil, baby wipe.) On this card, I used regular cardstock and Gina K inks. The sentiment is a few layers of white, topped with a layer of metallic pinkish-purplish. I also spritzed each one with a bit of water, but that mostly doesn't show up.

For this one, I used distress inks and a super-super-cheap watercolor paper.

This one uses Gina K ink and the super-super-cheap watercolor paper. I stamped the sentiment (from Avery Elle) with Versamark and embossed with clear powder. Then I used foil on it. That technique does not work well for me, and I don't think I'll try it again. I mounted the matted sentiment on foam squares.

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In Support of Ukraine

In support of Ukraine, Gina K has produced this digital image and sentiments. They are available here. The full $3.99 price will be donated to the Global Empowerment Mission. The colors of Ukraine's flag are blue and yellow. Their national flower is the sunflower.

I printed mine on a laser printer and used a specialty gold foil on it. I colored with light Copic markers and matted with black. The sentiment is mounted on foam squares. The background was done with a cover plate die.

I used the "negative" piece of the foil with a toner sheet to produce this shiny gold piece. I know it's very hard to see the black-lined image, but it's there. I matted this one with black, also, and again popped up the sentiment. I hope you all will consider getting your own image, or helping, even just a little bit, in some way.

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