Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Peace, Love and Joy Foiled Beauty


I fell in love with this card on my friend Verna's blog and knew I would be casing it when I had time to play- and I finally did! I just loved the look of the Amber Watercolor Deco Foil on the green cardstock using Tim Holtz's Festive Stencil! How do you do that, you ask? Just use temporary tape to hold the stencil and cardstock in place and apply Therm O Web's Transfer Gel through the stencil with a palette knife. It goes on white and needs to dry until it is clear. Then lay a piece of Deco Foil over the dried piece and run it through a hot laminator. Isn't that background gorgeous? I attached it to a top folding cream colored card with a gold strip of sequin tape. 

I have a thing about adding a sentiment to the front of a card- I pretty much HAVE to in my world. But sometimes the background is too busy to stamp on or put a die cut sentiment on. So an easy solve to that problem is to use vellum. I die cut a stitched circle  of vellum (Lil' Inker die) and then attached the beautiful "Peace, Love & Joy" die cut from Penny Black so it stands out but does not totally cover up the lovely background.

I am entering this card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday. Thanks for helping me #share the joy of creativity!

8 comments:

Brenda in IN said...

Ow wow, this really is beautiful. That foil is gorgeous. I need to try this for sure.

SewPaperPaint said...

WOW! I love the idea of this gel and your gorgeous foil work. Stunning! I can see why you wanted to give this a try. Hugs, Autumn

kiwimeskreations said...

What an amazing card Karen - it looks fabulous.
Blessings
Maxine

Lorraine A said...

Gorgeous card Karen :-) the foiled stencilling is awesome!! oh I love this, I am going to have to see how you made this and give it a go!! LOVE it :-)

thanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Luv
Lols x x x

Verna Angerhofer said...

Great job on the foiling and I love the shade of green you used for yours. That really makes that foil stand out. I am glad you were inspired by mine.

Craftychris said...

Stunning card! Beautiful colours - I love it! xxx

Fikreta said...

Its so nice!

Barb said...

Wow this is stunning Karen. I love the foil stencilling. Barbxx