A new card created for a family member. I wanted to try a new technique for the background I had seen recently and it worked perfectly…foiling with gel medium.

Images
I used the Waffle Flower Little Painters images as they are designed to poke out from behind another image, plus they’re very cute.
- Stamp your images on copic friendly cardstock with Momento Tuxedo Black or another copic friendly ink.
- Colour with alcohol markers.
- Cut out with matching dies, Brother Scanncut or fussy cut.
Background

- Ink blend background with Distress Oxide Inks in Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass and Mermaid Lagoon. Leave to dry.
- Place stencil – My Favorite Things Star Celebration – onto card and tape down to crafting surface to stop stencil and card moving.
- Using a palette knife spread Atelier Heavy Gel medium over stencil.
- Remove stencil carefully and leave panel to dry.
Tip: The gel medium is dry when the gel becomes transparent and drying times will vary due to climate.
Foiling
- Heat up laminator – Mine is the Heidi Swapp Mini Minc machine.
- Place a sheet of foil over the dry panel. I used Gina K Design Heat Reactive Foil.
- Place panel and foil in a carrier pouch – you can use a folded piece of copy paper if you don’t have the pouches.
- Run through laminator. I set the heat at a 4. The heat will reactive the gel medium to make it sticky and the foil will adhere to it.

Extra items
Congratulations
- Cut out My Favorite Things Congratulation circle die out of white cardstock and once out of blue fun foam. Using a blue marker that matches the blues in the card colour the die cuts.
- Adhere the coloured die cut onto the foam one.
- Cut out a piece of vellum with a circle die and adhere to the back of the stacked die cuts.
Foiling Numbers
- Cut the numbers out of cardstock using Altenew Bold Numeral dies.
- Use the negative portion like a stencil and place on top of another piece of cardstock.
- Using a palette knife spread Atelier Heavy Gel medium over numbers then remove stencil.
- Leave to dry, place foil over top and run through a laminator as you did for the background stars.
- Fussy cut around the numbers or use the original dies to recut the foiled numbers.
Finishing

- Adhere the critters when you want them positioned. The two back ones are adhered to the congratulations and the front one is adhered to the number.
- Adhere the numbers with two layers of foam tape to give them dimension and make them slightly higher than the die cut words.
- Finally adhere the central images to the background and adhere panel to side or top folded cardstock.
Thanks for stopping by and have a good day.
Handmade by Pip
Supplies List
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![]() Waffle Flower Little Painters Shop at: Krafters Cart NZ |
MFT Star Celebration Stencil Shop at: SSS |
![]() Altenew Bold Numerals Die Shop at: Krafters Cart NZ |
![]() MFT Congratulations Shop at: Krafters Cart NZ |
Gina K Design Heat Reactive Foil Shop at: SSS |
![]() Distress Oxide Salty Ocean Shop at: Krafters Cart NZ |
![]() Distress Oxide Mermaid Lagoon Shop at: Krafters Cart NZ |
![]() Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass Shop at: Krafters Cart NZ |
![]() Tools Mini Misti Shop at: Krafters Cart NZ |
![]() Momento Tuxedo Black Shop at: Krafters Cart NZ |
Love the card, so many great techniques used. Great blog post on how you have created your card too, well done! Southern Girls Challenge Tammy DT
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Super cute card, love the pops of bright colours and the little peeping critters. Thanks for joining us at Southern Girls Challenge ❤
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Super cute card…. loved all the colors and concept
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