Showing posts with label Foil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foil. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 November 2018

Modern or Retro Christmas Bauble card - DT Member: Verity


Hello! So good to be here. It's Verity here from Pretty Little Button with another card for you today. I have another card today using the Peace & Joy stamp set from Colourific. Today's post features two cards using this stamp set to create a modern or retro style card and a very easy to make if in a hurry!

Modern or Retro Christmas Bauble card details:


For the modern card, start off by stamping a variety of the baubles onto white card. You could do this in a variety of different coloured modern inks or heat embossed for a metallic look. To create these cards, I had the digital file and therefore foiled them. However, you can foil them with either a glue pad, or bonding powder. 


Once you have stamped a collection of baubles, fussy cut these out and adhere a piece of white thread to each one to 'hang' the baubles from. I used kraft card for my base and panel, as I wanted to add white paint splatters to the background. Once these were dry, you can adhere directly on to the panel or foam mount your bauble.


However, pay attention to the threads, as you may want to mount some of these underneath a bauble. When you adhere a bauble, pull the thread taught a wrap over the top of the card panel. Using some tape, adhere the thread down to the backside of the cad panel.  Lastly, stamp a sentiment from the Christmas time text stamp set and mount this onto the card.


For the second card, I went for a more retro look. Again stamp out a selection of baubles in ink or embossing powder. As I only had access to the digital file, these baubles were foiled which you can do with a glue pad or bonding powder.


Before fussy cutting these out, I used 3 Zig Clean colour real brush markers to colour some of the baubles in. This colour combination paired with the gold of the baubles gave a retro feel to these baubles.


The baubles were adhered onto a tall card panel as with the card before. To change up the background, I used gold Nuvo drops to create shimmer and depth to the background an. This card was finished off by matting another stamped sentiment from the Christmas Time Text stamp set.




 I hope you love today's card and don't forget to check out the stamp set, link below. If you loved this card please leave a comment below as we would love to hear from you. 




Until next time!

Verity



Saturday, 27 October 2018

Soft watercolour Christmas Card - DT Member: Verity



Hello! So good to be here. It's Verity here from Pretty Little Button with another card for you today. Today is my first post using the lovely Christmas stamps by Colourific. The Peace & Joy stamp set has a lovely collection of baubles which I used for this card today.  


Soft watercolour Christmas Card details:

To start off stamp the baubles in clear versamark in and heat emboss in metallic embossing powder. Alternatively, to get the foiled look like I have, either use Bonding powder from WOW! embossing powders, or a sticky glue pad. Once these are heat set or dry, you can run this through a laminator or Minc machine with foil. 


 Next, using a selection of watercolours, colour in your baubles. The embossing powder or foil will resist the watercolour, so you just need to make sure you don't go outside the bauble itself.


When completely dry, fussy cut the baubles out and put to one side. For the background, trim a piece of white card down 1/2 smaller than your card base. I went for a 6" square card base. You can use watercolour paper, but I wanted white card. As I wasn't planning on using a lot of water, I just made sure I used a heavier weight white card. 



Apply some clear water to an area of the card panel and drop in colours for a lose watercolour background. When dry, foam mounts the baubles onto the front, making sure you attach a small piece of thread to the back of them. Attach the other end of the thread to the top back of the card panel to give the illusion of hanging baubles. 



I added a stamped sentiment from stamp set coming soon and embellished with a few platinum nuvo drops. 



I hope you love today's card and don't forget to check out the stamp set, link below. If you loved this card please leave a comment below as we would love to hear from you. 




Until next time!

Verity



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