Hot Foiled Encouragement Love Card

I haven't given enough love to some of my newer products from Erin Lee Creative. Luckily, I had the day off from work today. You know.... the job that pays the bills?  Haha. It was a very crafty day, getting lots done, including some hot foiling. I adore hot foiling! We all know, it can be problematic to get decent photos of foiled cardstock. Lighting is tricky as is the case with today's card.  Not to worry though. Scroll down for more

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As a designer, I generally don't foil much with silver toned foils because of photographic issues. However, I'll foil all the things for my own personal use just because it's so gorgeous in person. Since I can't quite capture the beauty in a front shot, let me share this 15 second video that I posted in my Instagram Stories. 

I've spent so much time talking about photography, now let me share a few details about this card.

I'm using two different hot foil plates from Erin Lee Creative on this project. The Burst hot foil plate was a new release that came out right before Easter and I initially purchased it to make a few Easter cards .  I thought it would look really cool to use the Burst plate for some partial foiling on my card panel.

I basically offset my foil and cardstock when hot foiling, moving my hot plate around on my Glimmer Hot Foil System, as needed, to keep everything within the confines of my Glimmer surface.

The other hot foil plate is called "Loved" and I purchased it solely for one of the sentiments included in the set. You can view that card here, if you missed it. Because this set has so many wonderful words of encouragement, I definitely wanted to get more use out of it. 

I foiled my sentiment with pink hot foil. Also, underneath my card panel is a sheet of adhesive foam which I also foiled. Hot foils can definitely be used on adhesive! Both the silver and pink hot foil are from a Spellbinders 4 pk set. Check out my supply list at the end of this post.

Lastly I embellished my surface with some sequins and some cute acrylic hearts that a crafty friend of mine made at Lacey Ann Designs. 

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Terri

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Watercolor Card with Cotton Ball Technique for Altenew

I'm thrilled to share this watercolor card for you today, created for my lovely friends at Altenew. Have you ever had a plan in your mind for a card but it just didn't work out? I think that happens to many of us from time to time. I ended up switching gears and this is the result!

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Plan 1 wasn't working out so I jumped to plan 2, watercoloring an entire panel with just two of my Altenew pan paint colors, filling in color randomly. After my panel was dry, I ran it through my Platinum 6 using the 3D Cloudy Day embossing folder. I tried to emboss my watercolor panel before coloring however, the wet watercolors seemed to flatten out the embossing a bit. It worked much better to emboss after allowing the watercolor painted panel to dry.

Next, I poured a touch of  Ranger acrylic white paint onto a craft mat, grabbed some cotton balls and used it to gently blend over the embossed edges of my clouds, also blending out a bit in a circular motion.

Check out my short process reel on TikTok or Instagram.

I think this card turned out so much better than I could have ever hoped. It's truly easy to re-create too! I chose the Kind Words stamp set from Altenew specifically to use with my embossing folder. That Martin Luther King Jr. quote fit perfectly for my scene. 

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Terri

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Catherine Pooler New Soda Pop Collection

The Soda Pop release from Catherine Pooler is live and we are all so dizzy, I mean fizzy, over this collection, haha! The gray inks which are also newly released today are also available as well. If you just can't wait another minute and want to head over to the CPD website, click here. But come back and scroll down to see how my craft knife played into today's card!

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Some of you are already planning on getting the hole enchilada in this release, the entire bundle. Yay, you! Click here to view the entire bundle.

There are several individual bundles within the Soda Pop collection too. In fact, I've been working with the Feelin' Fizzy Bundle and I love it soooo much! Click here to view this bundle. My heart tells me, this one may sell out super quick!

 

We've all been anxiously waiting on the new grays to hit the shop and your wait is over. Click here to view the new inks!

Now, let me share some quick details on my card. Because the bottle cap stamps from this set have negative space after stamping, I really wanted to get some of my ink colors into that space. I decided to make a "faux" stencil by stamping my bottle cap stamp on plain copy paper, then trimming out a circle around the wording. If you have the right size circle punch or small circle die in your stash, you can see if that would work. Unfortunately, I did not have this so I used my craft knife.

Make sure you have a surface that can be cut on when using your craft knife.

Next, I used my ink and blender brush with my homemade circle stencil and blended ink in random patterns around my A2 white card panel.  I wanted to create mostly gray ink circles (Pebble and Hoodie) with just a pop of color from the Sixteen Candles purple ink.

Don't worry if your edges aren't completely smooth. It won't matter once you stamp on top of your circle.

Once I was done with my circles, I began stamping with my bottle cap stamps using my CP Midnight ink. However, I quickly realized there wasn't enough room for me to perform the offset stamping on my A2 sized card panel using my Mini Misti, so I had to move up to my size larger Misti. 

If you don't have a larger Misti, your other options are to hand stamp with an acrylic block for offset stamping, or trim your card panel down a bit. I typically do trim down my card panels but for this card today, I wanted my card panel to be front and center with no other background layers.

Next, I stamped my soda bottle with the Pebble Ink and Sixteen 
Candles ink, as well as the remaining images, and used my coordinating dies with my Platinum 6. I also masked the area around the bottom of the bottle to ink even more with my blender brush to give a more realistic depth of color.

Lastly, I trimmed some checkerboard card stock from the Arnold's Drive-In paper pack that coordinates with this stamp set and popped it up on adhesive foam, as I also did with the other die cut images.  I glued on some pretty sequins and called it a day!

Did you see the other cards that I made with this release, posted a few days ago? You can view details on my Love and Bubbles Card here.

And, you can view details on my Pops Soda Pop Card, here.

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