The blog's been pretty quiet recently, but we've returned from our week on Chautauqua Lake, and I've got just enough time to enter a couple of cards made for some guys in the family using the current challenge at Seize the Birthday: Metallic!
Having a hot foil machine has definitely increased my production of cards with metallic shine. I particularly like the many geometric designs that can be used for backgrounds. They're great for masculine cards.
This one uses the Art Deco hot foil plate from Pinkfresh Studio, foiled in gold. I die cut it with a square die from the Essentials line by Ellen Hutson and added it to a black card base.
The gold embossed sentiment from The Greetery's Everyday Labels is one of my favorites.
Next up is a navy and silver foiled card using Spellbinder's Skinny Stripes Background.
Foiling on colored cardstock can be a problem, but I've found that the cardstock from The Paper Source is quite smooth and foils easily.
The sentiment die cut in silver and layered onto a vellum shadow die is also from Pinkfresh and layered onto a Crimped Circle Die from The Greetery.
My daughter and her family came home with us to spend a few more day visiting with family before heading back to Wisconsin. It's the first rainy day we've had in quite some time. Needed not only by the plants and flowers but all of us as well!
