I spent a morning hot foiling some backgrounds last week, and ended up cutting one of them into pieces and creating three masculine cards. I wish I'd thought of this before!
I hot foiled the Pinkfresh Studio Geo Blocks on Concord & 9th's Dove gray cardstock. The cardstock is so smooth, the hot foiling is perfect every time. I only used one of the three coordinating stencils to add a darker gray to the panel. I liked the overall look, but thought it might be divided as well, and I do like all three versions.
The sentiment for this card is from Papertrey Ink's Banner Sentiments. I used a shiny silver border for the hot foiled piece and some silver nailheads as an accent.
The second card is a top-folded card and very Clean & Simple:
The sentiment was also hot foiled with Pinkfresh Studio's Wonderful Words hot foil plate--one of my purchases with a Christmas gift card.
Just by chance, I happened to find Simon Says Hexagon Greeting and die. Who would have guessed the hexagon was an exact fit to the hot foiled design?
More metallic nailheads here as well. I think they're a perfect embellishment for masculine cards. I need all three of these for birthdays in March so it was a very productive crafting session. I'm sending one of these off to Time Out: Anything Birthday and the CAS one to Tic Tac Toe Challenge (top row across: CAS, Metallic, and Word Die,) hoping that the die cut stamped sentiment counts for the last element.
