Month: June 2017

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Baby Card

My co-worker had a baby girl, she is so cute!  I wanted to make a card to go with the gift and dinner I took to her family.  It gave me an excuse to buy the Lawn Fawn Little Bundle stamp and die set.  It is just adorable.  I also picked up the Perfectly Plaid paper pack to use along with it.

I stamped several different images and then after changing my mind so many times I chose the onezie, the dress and the blanket.  I stamped in black ink and clear embossed the close line poles after stamping them in brown ink.  The grass was also a Lawn Fawn die – Grassy Border.

This card was so much fun to make.  I look forward to making more baby cards with this set.

 

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Foil Effects

I have been seeing a lot of foil being used lately so I thought it was time to finally use the Minc my husband so lovingly bought for me for Christmas.  I have been wanting to try the Deco Foil Transfer Gel from Gina K Designs.  She has a great YouTube video using it.  Everywhere I looked was out of it.  I decided to try an experiment with what I had at home. 

I mixed the embossing paste with the Minc Reactive Paint on my craft mat.  Using watercolor paper I taped down my stencil and spackled the mixed paste over my stencil.  I set it aside and let it dry overnight.

I used the silver foil and ran it through the Minc.  It came out pretty good.  My paste wasn’t as smooth as I would have liked but not bad for an experiment.  I then decided to try the reactive paint as it was intended.  I painted it onto another piece of watercolor paper.  I also let it dry over night and used gold foil on it.  It was a nice effect.

Lastly I tried the Reactive Mist.  That was fun.  I did the same as before putting it on watercolor paper and allowing it to dry over night.  I used the holographic foil on it.  That too had a nice effect.

This has inspired me to clean out my craft room to see what other treasures I have forgotten about.  I’ll let you know what I find.