{"id":6017,"date":"2024-01-11T17:09:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T00:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stampalosopher.com\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2024-08-21T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:30:23","slug":"foiled-christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampalosopher.com\/?p=6017","title":{"rendered":"Karen Decker’s November 2023 Shoebox Event-Foiled Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

What fun! Using foiling to create Christmas cards!\u00a0 \u00a0I purchased the ‘Merry & Bright’ foilable kit from Pink & Main which included toner card fronts in three different styles so – of course – I needed to make some of each style!\u00a0 The red foil is Pink & Main’s ‘Shattered Red Cheer Foil’.<\/p>\n

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When you foil, you have a left over piece of foil where there was no toner image and I used that leftover sheet and an oval die just a little larger than the inside oval to make a lovely border.\u00a0 If you look closely at the inside of this card you can see that the border around the oval is red foil with white images showing through from the cardstock (using the leftover piece of foil), whereas the strip at the bottom is white cardstock with the red foiled images just like the front.\u00a0 I added a little strip of red foil to match the border on the front.\u00a0 The greeting uses Stampin’ Up! red glitter embossing powder for a bit of extra sparkle with Stampin’ Up!’s ‘Very Best Occasions’ stamp set.<\/p>\n

For the Merry Christmas I used a ‘poppy’ die.\u00a0 I cut it out of the red layer that I used on the front under the decorative toner sheet.\u00a0 I cut out two additional Merry Christmas Flourishes to layer with the red, which is so much easier than trying to pop up such tiny little areas.<\/p>\n

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One of the toner card fronts was holly leaves so I used some green foil from Heidi Swapp which I ordered when I ordered the Minc machine before I learned about Pink & Main.\u00a0 The green foil is 12 1\/4″ wide and more suited to scrapbook pages than small card fronts.\u00a0 The Pink & Main Cheer Foil is 6 1\/4″ wide and much easier to use.<\/p>\n

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I purchased full black toner sheet card fronts to foil a layer to go under the foiled designer toner card front but found out it really wasn’t necessary.\u00a0 If you cut the foil exactly the size of the layer you want and center the toner card front carefully, you have a perfect border for your foiled front.\u00a0 I did that with the following card’s red foil strip at the bottom of the inside.<\/p>\n

You can really see the ‘shattered red cheer foil’ in this picture.<\/p>\n

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Yes, Sal, and that card was mailed before Christmas.\u00a0 Can you imagine calling someone and asking them to take a picture of the front of the Christmas card you mailed them so you could post it on your blog.<\/p>\n

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This third card really surprised me with how effective the foil turned out.\u00a0 I used Pink & Main ‘Rainbow Cheer Foil’\u00a0 which has little stars in the foil!\u00a0 It looks so much better than this picture but you get the idea.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the toner card fronts, the ‘Merry & Bright’ kit comes with several toner greetings and sheets of small greetings in black on white or white on black.\u00a0 The black is the toner so you can choose where you want the foil- a foiled greeting or a white greeting with foil around it.\u00a0 \u00a0I cut the foil large enough to give a border around the greeting, foiled the greeting, using the black on white,and then glued the left over foil piece behind the foiled greeting for a nice border.<\/p>\n

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This last foiled card was an experiment.\u00a0 I had purchased Pink & Main colored toner sheets and used the left over foil sheet from foiling the card front with red holly leaves and then ran the left over sheet through the minc machine on top of a green colored toner sheet!\u00a0 It worked!\u00a0 I used regular red foil cardstock for the layer and a green card base.\u00a0 Gold foil card stock was used for the greeting and several gold jewels were used to embellish the front.<\/p>\n

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The inside greeting is from Stampin’ Up!’s ‘#Elfie’ stamp set.\u00a0 I used circle dies and gold foil cardstock to tie in the gold from the front.<\/p>\n

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That’s my stye, Sal!<\/p>\n

Recipe Basics<\/h3>\n

Card 1 & 2-Vertical<\/p>\n