Holographic Sticker Butterflies Card

This card was inspired by "Heidi-the Yorkshire Crafter" on YouTube. She made a video to show how she made her card using Holographic Sticker sheets to make her butterflies holographic. I did not have any sticker sheets in the stash but easily found them on Amazon and placed my order.  Her card is larger than the one I made so her card has three butterflies on the front. I also do not have the butterfly die set she used but I dug through my stash and decided on the Butterfly Set by ScrapdivaDesigns.com for my butterflies. Here is a photo of the card I made:

Except for the sticker sheets I ordered, everything I used on this card is from the stash. I used light turquoise card stock, cut and scored at the top, for my card base. As shown in her video I used a piece of white card stock for my card front but for my background design I used a stencil from Divinity Designs:

This is their circles stencil and I only wanted to have a pattern in the center of the background piece and not all over the card front so I placed the stencil over my card stock and used tape to mask off the edges of the card front which I cut down later for the card front:

Used distress oxide ink, Salvaged Patina, for the center of the pattern:

Using a light hand I added both inks to this piece. The second colour I used was the distress oxide ink Wilted Violet. I added that lighter and darker in some spots:

With the ink blending done I removed the stencil, spritzed water on this inked piece and used a clean paper towel to remove water. Used a splatter brush and splattered white over this piece. Set it aside and I cleaned my stencil off.  For the butterflies I used the light turquoise card stock and cut those out using the die set:

I used similar inks on my butterflies as she did in her video - first a green, then a turquoise, then a purple, and the outside edge is a dark blue ink. Once these were ink blended I cut off the antennae and head using scissors. Laid these butterflies on the scrap paper I used and covered them with the sticker sheet using a piece larger than the butterflies:

And as in her video, I taped the dies over my butterflies and ran them through the die cutting machine to cut them out. This ride through the die cutting machine for a second time will press the sticker sheet onto the butterfly:

As she said in her video putting the dies over the die cut butterflies after you cover them with the sticker sheet the die will "lock" in place over the butterfly and it does. I used yellow tape to keep my dies in place over the butterflies:

A with the butterflies die cut with the sticker sheet on them I used scissors to cut off the antennae and head and then I used liquid glue to put the butterfly body on my butterflies that I had die cut out of matte silver foil card stock. Here is a photo to show those added and the shine the sticker sheets gives the butterflies:

I used an older sentiment stamp/die set from HoneyBee Stamps "Mini Messages" for the "Just a Note" sentiment strip on my card front. I embossed that on black card stock using WOW fine white embossing powder. Then I die cut that out using the matching die in that set. I cut a piece of foam strip to put behind the sentiment strip and before adding that to the card I ran a black Sharpie marker over the sides of that foam strip so it would be black like the card stock it is on. 

Added light turquoise and purple gems from the stash to the card front to add some sparkle here and there. Thanks to Heidi for sharing this card and all her inspiration with her tips and tricks. But my camera does not show the purple inks as purple but they look bluer than they are.  Easy card to put together and IRL the butterflies have lots of sparkle and shine using the holographic sticker sheets from Amazon. I bought a variety pack so I have different holographic patterns to use on future projects but for my card I used the star sticker sheet as she did on her card. The sticker sheets will come in handy for die cut pieces for Christmas projects ahead! So hoping to work with them again soon.....

Holiday Sentiments Foiled

Bought the Simon Hurley Wonderful Winter Sentiments hot foil/die set used and I hot foiled this using scraps and different coloured card stocks from the stash. Here is a photo of the packaging for this set:

I used scraps of card stock and different foils for the sentiments:

Then larger pieces of card stocks and I used silver, matte silver, gold, matte gold, white and red foil for the sentiments:

With all the foiling done I then used the matching die to this sentiment plate and cut out the sentiments:

Will keep all the sentiments together for holiday projects ahead. This way at holiday time, when time is so short, I already have sentiments foiled, die cut and ready to add to whatever I am making. Happy to have this new to me hot foil plate in the holiday stash......

Double Frame Terrazzo Card

Went through the background hot foil plates in the stash and I came across the Terrazzo Press Plate from Altenew.  I wanted to be able to use the dotted hot foil again for the background and while I had all the hot foiling items out I also hot foiled this plate with the striped foil. Here is a photo of the two rolls of foil I used:

and a photo of this hot foil plate:

First is the sample with the striped hot foil used straight up and down:

Second time I used this striped foil I put the foil on the plate diagonally so the colours look like they flow into each other:

I liked both of those samples but once I hot foiled the dotted foil I knew this would be the sample I would use for my card:

For my card I cut and scored a light turquoise card stock at the top. Wanted to add a frame to this hot foiled background so I used the Spellbinders Precision Layering dies and I picked out two frame dies and taped those together to die cut a rectangle frame using white card stock. With that done I put this frame onto the foiled background piece and trimmed the background to fit behind the frame. Wanted to have a second frame so I pulled out a piece of matte mirror card stock in blue and cut out another frame for the card front. I put the both frames on the background piece using liquid glue. Set these aside to dry.

Recently shopped a crafter's paper crafting sale and I picked up this hot foil/die set in a bundle of hot foiling supplies:

This is a Spellbinders hot foil plate with matching die from 2019. I hot foiled it onto white card stock using turquoise hot foil and die cut it out with the matching die. I also cut out a second piece from white card stock to put behind the foiled greeting piece to make it more sturdy for the card front and I used liquid glue to put those together. 

With the greeting hot foiled and cut out I put it on the front of the card using pop dots. I added three turquoise gems from the stash above and below the greeting and the card was done. Here is the finished card and as usual the camera did not capture the sparkle and shine of the hot foiled background well:

The plates from Altenew always foil nicely and this plate has an all over design of the larger and smaller speck pieces so it does look like Terrazzo -- which looks like the actual Terrazzo flooring pattern. Happy to be able to get more use out of the dotted hot foil in the stash as well!

Up & Away Better Press Plate

Hot foiled the new Spellbinders Up & Away Better Press Plate and I wanted to try this with different coloured card stocks and different coloured foils. Here is a photo of this new Better Press Plate:

With this Better Press Plate is a sentiment plate and matching dies for those. The sentiments included with this plate are:

Things are Looking Up

Glad You're Along

Let's See Where This Goes

For my samples I only hot foiled the air balloons plate. I used different foils and I started with black card stock and a matted silver foil:

Used a holographic turquois foil on blue card stock:

Then a silver and then an opaque foil on navy card stock:

These last samples were made using these two multi coloured foils - one is a striped and the other is random circles on the foil:

Here are the samples:

The sample on the left I cut the foil and turned it on the diagonal so the colours did not look like up and down stripes like the sample on the right where I laid the foil on the plate straight. This striped foil is very nice but thinking with such fine lines on this hot air balloon plate you can not see how the foil blends from colour to colour. Here is a photo of a Better Press Plate that has a fuller design and you can easily see the colours this foil has:

On this butterfly card I had also turned the foil on the diagonal so the butterfly would not have up and down stripes. This next hot air balloon sample is the one I used the dotted foil on and you can see all the colours in the foil show all over the design:

And next to the striped foil samples:

Happy to find a plate that works well with the dotted foil. IRL this dotted sample is a good background for a card/project since the colours are all over the design and there are no stripes - up and down or diagonal - to look past. Also Better Press plates foil beautifully no matter what foils or colour card stocks I try..... 

Red, White & Bloom Card

Spellbinders new Red, White & Bloom die set was used for this holiday card for July 4th:

The card stock base is navy card stock from the stash cut and scored at the top. I went through the stash of gingham checked card stock and found this blue checked pattern on the diagonal. I used the Spellbinders Precision Layering A2 B die set to cut the checked card stock for the card front. I put this on the card front using liquid glue. I used a smaller frame die from this die set and cut a piece of white card stock that I  embossed using this embossing folder:

This is the 3D Night Sky Celebration embossing folder. I put a piece of dark card stock in the folder for the photo to show the pattern. With this being a 3D folder I spritzed my white card stock with water first and then embossed it. Once that was done I used Shimmer Mist from my stash and spritzed that over the embossed pattern to add a soft sparkle and shine to the embossed image. When I laid this embossed piece on the checked card front it looked unfinished so I went back to the Precision Layering die set and took two frame dies and put them onto plain white card stock and die cut those and this gave me the white frame I used around my embossed piece:

Put the frame on the embossed piece using liquid glue and then put these onto the card base again using liquid glue. Set this aside to dry. 

I die cut the Red, White & Bloom die set out of scraps in the stash. Navy used for the hat, red mirror card stock used for the red band on the hat. Cut a white hat out as the base and assembled the hat with liquid glue. Cut out the leaves/greenery pieces and the flowers from scraps. Assembled the flowers using liquid glue and I used clear Wink of Stella on the yellow centers of the flowers for some sparkle. Used liquid glue and put the greenery and flowers on the hat. The large blue flower in the center of the hat has a pop dot behind it for dimension.

Die cut the flag and firecracker out of scraps and assembled those and put them behind the hat/flowers piece. Put these onto the card front using liquid glue. Used the Burst of Summer stamp set from Spellbinders for the "Happy 4th of July" sentiment and I stamped that onto scrap white card stock using red ink. Using the matching die I cut that out and put that in the center of the hat using pop dots. Here is a photo of the stamp set that has holiday and summer sentiments:

The July 4th stamp fit perfectly across the hat:

Fun card to assemble and another good use for the card stock scraps. 

Spring Stem Cards

Stash and cash - -  I bought the new "Spring Stem" bundle by Kristina Werner from Concord & 9th and I wanted to make a few cards using this new stamp, die, and stencil bundle. I wanted to make cards using card bases I already had cut and scored and I also wanted to use more of my cover plate dies in the stash. Here is a photo of this Spring Stem bundled set:

The dies:

The nice thing about the packaging sheet the dies are on is there is a die outline on the sheet as well as it is printed with what stamp that shaped die goes with. It also has a one sheet stencil to ink blend colour on your flowers, leaves, and stem pieces. Here is a card I made using this bundled set:

The cover plate for this card I used is the Crossed Stitch Die from Papertrey Ink. I used a card stock base out of a peachy pink and then I cut the cover plate out of white card stock. Put the cover plate piece on the pink card base using liquid glue. I wanted to have a frame around all my flower pieces so I used the PennyBlack Waves frames die set. This is a one piece die set and when you cut it out you get three wavy frames and three wonky frames from one pass in the die cutting machine. Here is the die:

With the die cut frames:

The wavy frame I used is the second largest frame in this set. Here is the yellow card:

I used a yellow card base for this card and the cover plate on this card front is From PinkFresh Studio and it is the Dotted Lattice. The yellow card base and wavy frame are very bright yellow and using the cover plate I did there was not enough contrast between the card front and the frame so I went through the scraps and found a lighter, softer shade of yellow card stock and I cut a piece of that to put behind the lattice cover plate piece. This way the bright  yellow wavy frame shows better on the card front behind the flowers. This next card is actually in purples although the camera shows it as blues:

I used a no-name cover plate from the stash. This cover plate is not an A2 size so it is shorter than the card front so I split the difference at the top and bottom of the card. Here is a photo of the full cover plate:

This last card I used a light turquoise card base and my cover plate on the front of the card is from LDRS and it is their Quilted Plaid die. I cut that out of white card stock and put that on the card base using liquid glue:

Once all card bases had their cover plates on them I worked on the flowers.

Stamped all the flowers onto white card stock and used black ink. Ink blended colours to match my card bases for the flowers. Once those were all stamped, stenciled, and die cut I used pop dots behind them to put them on the card fronts. I put all frames on the card fronts using liquid glue and tucked the stem under the frame on the card fronts. For the sentiments:

I used some of the sentiment stamps in the stamp set and stamped them onto scrap white card stock using black ink. Cut them out using their matching dies in the die set and put them on the card fronts on the lower right corner of the frame piece. Here is a photo of all the cards I made using this bundle:

This bundle goes together well and the stencil is a one piece stencil so you are not dealing with all the layers some stencil sets have. Glad to get more use out of the cover plates in the stash as well as the extra card stock bases in the stash.