Iris Card

Today's card is a little different.  I made this card years ago but still like its simplicity.  The majority of this card is made from foils. The rest is colored with embossing powders.

The trick to coloring with embossing powders I found was to have the best tool around for placing the powders carefully on the image you wanted to color. That tool is......(Drum roll)....a plastic coffee stirrer. 

All you do is cut one end at an angle and you have a little plastic scoop to pick up and deliver small amounts of colored embossing powders to the right spots.  Cool, huh?

I hope that you try this technique out. It is cooler than you think!

Lis

Faux Fleur De Lis Card

Hi everyone!

Today's card uses Liquid Pearls.  Liquid Pearls are like a dimentional paint in a small squeeze bottle.  When it dries, it is pearlescent or pearly, hence the name.  This is such a pretty card. It reminds me of the rich costumes that kings and queens used to wear in the medievil times.

For this card, I started by embossing with a Sizzix embossing folder and then applying gold foil to the raised sections using my Hot Foil technique.  Then I added my faux pearly fleur de lis and glued the white pearls on.

Below are the three steps to making a faux fleur de lis with liquid pearls.  Start by squeezing a bead of liquid pearls.  Using the nozzle (and while still squeezing lightly) pull a tail down.  This is the center.

 Now make a second bead with tail to the right of the first one.  You want to pull the tail in to join with the center tail.

 For the third one, make a third bead to the left of the center and again, pull the tail down to join the center. Voila! Youre done.

I hope that you get a chance to try making these delightful little accents.  Remember that you can add these to the top of a button, an brad, on a ribbon, anywhere!

Foiled and Embossed Cards - My Own Technique

Hi everyone!

Well, Today I am going to show you two cards using a technique that I created.  What you are looking at below is a HOT FOIL Technique.  I ironed foil onto the raised embossed designs in the two cards you see below.  I used a commercial Hot Foil (not the foil you use with glue).  I also foiled the letters LOVE with hot foil using the same technique.  Beautiful, don't you think?


The butterflies and dragonflies are punched out using mega punches and shrink plastic (search my blog for a previous shrink plastic project!).  I colored them with chalks and when I shrank them I gently folded the wings up as they cooled.



This next card was foiled using the same technique of HOT Foil.  All I added to this card was some ribbon, a skeleton leaf and a rose.  The picture doesn't do it justice.  It's a beautiful monochromatic yellow.



If you would like to read more about my HOT FOIL Technique, how to do it and what iron to use, please let me know.  Also, if you would like a sample of the hot foil I used, send me an email with your address and I will send you some.  For those of you not living in the United States (48 contiguous states), please email me anyway. I will look into how much it might cost to send you some sample foils.  The foils are very lightweight.

Let me know what you think!