Happy Fall Card with Foiling

 

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Today's card features the hot foiling technique using the Spellbinder Glimmer Machine. I tend to forget to do this technique and to use my Spellbinder Glimmer Machine. I have a tiny craft space so a lot of my crafting gadgets are put back on its box after its use. Yes, I keep this machine inside the box together with its accessorries and its other related supplies. It just helps me stay organized. Each time I have to use it, I have to get it out of the box, machine and all. 

My card is inspired by a sketch from Scrapbook & Cards as seen below.

I just changed the orientation of the panel and also the occasion, from winter to fall. Although, this sketch is recommended for a scrapbook layout, it does not mean, I cannot use it for a card, right?

I pulled out different colors of cardstock from my stash. I picked which colors I will be using for the background and for the leaves. 

I used the Trinity Stamps Autumn Rainbow Cut & Foil Die Set on this card. This set has 8 leaf foil pieces and its matching die. To make my foiling experience easy, I created a foiling template by die cutting the leaves on a carstock. 

I die cut the leaves when these dies are still unsnipped from each other. I laid this template on the Glimmer Hot Foil Plate with its corner lined with a grid on the plate. I did this before I fed this through the die cutting machine.

I positioned the leaf foiling pieces on the plate, matching the leaf foil piece with the opening of the cardstock template. You will notice on the photo that the Glimmer machine has the green light on which means it is hot. The Glimmer machine came with a magnet accessory to move the metal plates. Use this and don't get burned! You can also use a craft pick to move the metal pieces.

I carefully removed the cardstock template. I cut a cardstock big enough to cover all of the leaves. I cut the foil at the same size. I recommend this or have the foil smaller than the cardstock to prevent transferring the foil to the spacer plate. I repeated this process with the rest of the cardstock.

Once the plate blinks green, it is time to carefully remove the plate from the base and run it through the die cutting machine. 

 

I used a Sizzix machine for the foiling. Although, the foil transferred, adding a cardstock to the sandwich gave better results as you can see on the above photos. The photo on the left is foiling without an additional cardstock for a shim, and the photo on the right is foiling with an added cardstock for a shim.

Unfortunately, I have to snip the coordinating dies from each other since it is the mirror image of the foil plate that gets transferred to the paper. I matched the dies with the foiled image. To keep the arrangement of the dies intact, I applied a shelf liner on top of the dies. After running this through the die cut machine, I carefully removed the die cuts. I repositioned this on the next foiled cardstock panel. Some of the dies may not match the foiled impression but for the most part, it did. I just fixed the dies that are not on the right spot.

I die cut the burlap on a dark purple cardstock using the Honey Bee Stamps Burlap Background Honey Cuts. I trimmed a salmony-orange cardstock at 5" x 6" (A4). I rarely create this card size but making it larger than A2 prevents overcrowding of the leaves.

I positioned the burlap die cut on the A4 panel. I arranged the leaves to create a frame, just like in the sketch. I adhered the leaves to the burlap. I only used the smaller leaves.

I adhered foam adhesive to the back of the burlap, behind the leaves. Before I adhered the burlap to the salmon cardstock panel, I adhered three of the big leaves to the panel just to add some shine that will show through the burlap.

I fiddled with the sentiment. I prefer a die cut sentiment so that the intricacy of the burlap will show through. For this reason, I just want my font size to be just right. Well, my alphabet dies are either too small or too big so I did a bit of die cut surgery to create my sentiment. The original sentiment die is 'BE HAPPY.' I trimmed the E to make it into an F and an L. 

I adhered the letters to the center portion of the burlap.

I hope yo ulike today's card. Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

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Challenge #122~Amazing Autumn #53