Elegant Foiled Cards plus Hop Celebration

Hello friends. I'm joining some designer friends today to help my friend Deborah Hellman celebrate her Instagram follower milestone with an Instagram Hop. We are making celebration/congratulation cards for this event. You can visit my Instagram page here, look for the hop graphic. Tap @hellmad in my IG post to start at the beginning of the hop. There's lots of prizes up for grabs so follow the instructions to have a chance at winning some crafty goodies!

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My cards were created with the Pinkfresh Studio Peony Print hot foil plate. I used my Spellbinders Espresso Bean hot foil and my Glimmer hot foil system with my Platinum 6 die cut system.

My card duo actually incorporates 3 different foiled white A2 card panels.

The first foiled panel resulted in an all white card panel with the foiled outline of the print.

The second card panel was foiled using the negative peeling of foil left from my first foiling. You need a solid hot foil plate to achieve this. You simply heat your solid foil plate, place the negative foiling, shiny side down, place your cardstock on top, then your Glimmer plates and heat.

This technique results in a negative foiling, with the foil more prominent than the image.

The third card panel was created again with the use of my solid hot foil plate, a trimmed piece of espresso bean foil and cardstock to create a panel that is completely hot foiled with no image. I used this for the backdrop of my first card above.

I love to piece together foiled and negative foiled panels, so I used my nested rectangle dies to cut a center rectangle from the white foiled card (first photo). I also cut a frame for use on my second card.

For my second, negative foiled card panel, I again die cut a rectangle in the center. However, I adhered the remainder of my "brown" card panel to an A2 vertical card, then popped up my center with adhesive foam strips. I then adhered the white frame from the first card.

Look closely and you'll see that all my negative foiling (as pictured above) perfectly lines up and matches the white foiled frame from the first card. This results in positive and negative foiling all on one card. It's a lot of fun, you should try it!

My sentiments were hot foiled using the Spellbinders Slimline Essential Glimmer Sentiments and also popped up on adhesive foam strips.

If you'd like to browse or shop for any of the products I used today, simply click any of the highlighted text throughout this post. These are affiliate links provided to you at no additional cost, and direct you to shop at Scrapbook.com.

If shopping, use coupon code SMILE at checkout, for an additional 9% off your order, or 11% off orders over $100. This code expires Sunday night!

Have a great day!

Terri

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Cage Match at So Suzy Stamps!

It's the battle of battles at So Suzy Stamps.  Suzy has 2 main events today, in celebration of Leap Year, so you will find two blog posts from me today.  Number one, there's a blog hop, and a winner from the comments, who will win all the design team cards featured on the blog hop.  Number two, there's a cage match between Suzy's two design teams; the Stamp of the Month Club design team and the "other" design team.  Haha, yes, I'm on the SAM Club design team, so you know who I'm rooting for.  

The way this challenge works is, I'll be linking up the card below to the challenge link on Suzy's blog.  You go and vote for your favorite design team project.  Suzy sent random stamps to everyone to create with, so all the projects will have different stamps.  Which ever project wins the votes, that design team member wins the cards from the rest of the team.  Be sure you check out all the details on both events today at the So Suzy Stamps Blog. 

And, here's the inside:

The challenge comes to a screeching halt on March 3rd, 2016.  Good luck!

So Suzy Stamps Surprise Leap Year Blog Hop

It's the battle of battles today at So Suzy Stamps!  And, it's Leap Year to boot, so unbeknownst to the "other" design team at So Suzy Stamps, Suzy is surprising everyone by having the design team from the Stamp of the Month Club (that's me), duke it out with the regulars for a "Leap" Blog Hop and Challenge.  The challenge is for us to create something with the stamps Suzy sent out.  Everyone is getting something different and we'll see who really "brings" it!   And guess what else?  There will be winners.  Card winners, even.  Someone will win the cards created from the entire design team.  Wow!  

Now, if you arrived from Kymona's site, you're in the right place.  Let's get this show on the road.

Suzy sent me two stamps from the Congratulations series, one of which is actually being retired:

- Congratulations on Becoming

and

- Graduate

I've inked up my card using Suzy's brand new line of inks, called Ink Bites.  The set I'm using today is called, Coastal Breeze.  These are small cubes that pack a punch!  The colors I'm using are Egyptian Sand and Mermaid Mist and I've stenciled these inks using Clarity Brushes, as well as masking my sentiment.  I also used the same inks to make splatters on my page and embellished with DoubleClick Skittles and mini sequins.  All of these linked products can found in Suzy's online store.

Since I'm showing up and showing out today, I've finished the inside of my card with more ink splatters and the sentiment stamped in Egyptian Sand, as well.  Did I mention how much I ADORE these colors?  Oh my gosh, I mean really, I do.

Now, hop on over to my pal Jen's blog for the next stop.  If you get lost along the way, head back to Suzy's Blog to the beginning, here.

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