Welcome to Day 2 of the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® and Clearsnap® Blog Hop! It’s Angela here sharing a Fun, Foiled, Fall Card (try saying that 3 times fast!).
Here’s how you can make your own card at home:
1. Cut a 4 x 4 inch piece of water color paper. Make it wet. Pool 2-3 different orange/yellow Clearsnap Smooch Spritz inks onto a non porous surface and dip and swirl the water color paper into the inks. Let dry. Spray lightly with a brown color from the line.
2. Ink a textured background stamp with the Clearsnap ColorBox Archival Dye ink and apply to the watercolor paper.
3. Saturate the paper with Clearsnap Smooch Spritz-Sun Kissed or another transparent color (I added a few squirts of Cherry Ice for some red accents). Let dry.
4. Even though the paper looks too pretty to mess with any further, you want to take it up another notch by tearing some Adhesive Sheets – 4 x 6 into thin strips, peel off the backing and then apply the adhesive to the paper at random.
5. Lightly burnish the white backing and then remove-you’re going for an irregular appearance here, so don’t worry if not all the adhesive transfers to the textured watercolor paper. Apply the Clearsnap Designer Foil-Lucky Penny to the adhesive.
6. Burnish the foil thoroughly and remove the clear protective sheet.
7. Trim the square to 3.5 x 3.5 inches and die cut a leaf shape from the center.
8. Form a 4 x 4 inch card base from brown card stock. Using the E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable, adhere a 3.5 x 3.5 square of cream card stock to the card base at a slight angle. Frame the die cut and the outer edge of the die cut square of watercolor paper with 3D Foam Squares (I like the small ones for this as I can hug the die cut image with them and get the watercolor paper to lie down better this way).
9. Attach the water color paper to the card base at a slight angle. Embellish with a wooden pennant containing a preprinted sentiment and a leaf from the 3D Foam Leaves Designer Shapes collection covered with some more Designer Foil.
Voila! It’s that easy! I couldn’t let the beautiful die cut leaf shape go to waste, so I also created this fall place card using some burlap trim and die cut letters from another piece of watercolor paper as accents.
Love, love, LOVE this technique-the foil and Adhesive Sheets work so well together!
Remember, we’re blog hopping with Clearsnap this week! Comment on each post this week to win a fabulous prize pack from Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L®! Then head over to the Clearsnap blog to see their projects and comment for a 2nd chance to win!
Angela
Scrapbook Adhesive by 3L® Supplies Used:
Clearsnap® Supplies Used: Designer Foils (Lucky Penny), ColorBox Archival Inks (Mudslide and Fireberry), Smooch Spritz® Pearlescent Sprays (Sun Kissed, Log Cabin, Cherry Ice, Carrot Cake, Gingersnap and Gold Glow)
Other Supplies Used: Bazzill Basics Card Stock (brown, cream), Studio 490 by Wendy Vecchi Background Stamp, Spellbinders Fall Foliage die set, Maya Road burlap trim, Tim Holtz for Sizzix Alphabet Die, Jillibean Soup wooden tag.
By Sue D October 29, 2013 - 7:19 am
Great techniques and perfect colors for fall.
By marylouh October 29, 2013 - 9:16 am
The card is beautiful. The orange/brown almost looks like tree bark. thanks for the detailed instructions. Glad to see the punched-out leaf put to good use also.
By Julie A. Shearer October 29, 2013 - 9:54 am
Beautiful card . Thanks for the instructions. .
By Miriam Prantner October 29, 2013 - 10:10 am
Oh wow! What a gorgeous technique! I LOVE the foil!
By michalika1 October 29, 2013 - 10:19 am
thanks for the detailed instructions. gorgeous technique!
By barbara macaskill October 29, 2013 - 11:00 am
What an awesome card! LOVE the tutorial and will be putting it to use later today!! Thank you for sharing and for the inspiration!!
By Iris Soscia October 29, 2013 - 11:14 am
Such a lovely Autumn card – love the tutorial.
isoscia at aol dot com
By kath White October 29, 2013 - 12:02 pm
Wow this is fabulous!
By Amante del Papel October 29, 2013 - 12:26 pm
amazing and beautiful card, thanks for this fantastic tutorial!
By Deborah October 29, 2013 - 12:49 pm
This is a wow card the steps that you took with the paper turned out awesome! Your little banner is so cute too TFS
By sharon gullikson October 29, 2013 - 1:59 pm
The fall colors are gorge!!
By Asia King October 29, 2013 - 2:48 pm
What a fantastic card Angela – love it!
By Katie B. October 29, 2013 - 3:10 pm
Would love to try out this foil to see how it works. What a cool card! Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
By Janis in ID October 29, 2013 - 3:43 pm
Stunningly gorgeous!!! Love this effect. I haven’t ever worked with foils. Looks fun!
<3 J
jwoolbright at gmail dot com
By Dawn Skene October 29, 2013 - 7:26 pm
This is beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration and the chance to win.
By Robin B. October 29, 2013 - 8:31 pm
I love fall and the colors in this card are beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
By Carla Hundley October 29, 2013 - 8:49 pm
Wow, great looking
card and thanks for
the instructions.
Carla from Utah
By Teresa Melling October 29, 2013 - 10:55 pm
Thanks for the inspiration!
By Kathy Strawson October 30, 2013 - 2:26 pm
these are great rich colours achieved very creatively
By Jean A Marmo October 30, 2013 - 4:46 pm
Just beautiful!
By Marsha D October 30, 2013 - 4:58 pm
Wow, what a gorgeous technique and end result. Love the negative cut.
By Loly Borda October 30, 2013 - 5:00 pm
Lovely card! That foil panel looks fabulous! TFS
By Mary S. October 30, 2013 - 5:18 pm
I like the use of the foil..so fall looking!
By Brenda Treadway October 30, 2013 - 8:03 pm
Look the techniques used in this card. The punched out leaf was wonderful. Thanks for the instructions to created this great card.
By Brenda Treadway October 30, 2013 - 8:10 pm
Great card. Thanks for the instructions showing the techniques used. Love the colors.
By Sylvia Nelson October 30, 2013 - 10:12 pm
Angela, I love this fall card. Your techniques are fabulous! Using the adhesive sheets and the foil really caught my eye. Thanks for using the products in your sample.
By Corrine Ann October 31, 2013 - 2:27 pm
So many great techniques and not enough time!
Beautiful!
By Deb Tilton October 31, 2013 - 2:49 pm
what a fast fun cool idea. want to win the contest to make them
By Ann October 31, 2013 - 4:45 pm
Interesting techniques. Thanks for the instructions.
By Judy October 31, 2013 - 6:11 pm
Wonderful fall project. Liked the leaf cutout
By Anna Violette October 31, 2013 - 6:42 pm
That’s really awesome. I would definitely save my scraps for other smaller projects.
By Jean Bullock October 31, 2013 - 7:42 pm
Very cool technique!
By snazzy jj November 1, 2013 - 11:52 am
Love the mixed media shimmer effects and the instructions as to with 3L adhesives to use to make it work. Beautiful work Angela