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

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