Welcome to the final day of the Clearsnap and Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® blog hop! Be sure and check out all the posts from earlier this week with fantastic tips and design ideas!
Hello! Kimberly here again sharing how to create these gorgeous metallic-looking fall leaves. Something about gold and copper just makes me think fall and Thanksgiving. I can imagine a lot of possibilities with these beautiful leaves created with 3D Foam Leaves!
I started by using a piece of 12×12 paper for my card base. Then I adhered my other patterned paper layers with my E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable adhesive runner. Its my go-to basic adhesive.
My sentiment was trimmed from a piece of patterned paper. To give my card some dimension, I used 3D Foam Squares White Regular. I did not adhere the panel to my card yet though, because I wanted to be sure that the leaves I was about to adhere would work with it.
Tip: Leave the backing on your 3D Foam products until you are ready to adhere them to your project. It makes changing their placement easy until the design is exactly as you want.
Then I grabbed these gorgeous Designer Foils from Clearsnap. These are SO cool. They come in many colors and add amazing shine and color! And I knew they would make the 3D Foam Leaves amazing!
I started by placing my leaves on the project, leaving the top backing in place.
Then I removed the backing from one leaf and removed one of the Designer Foil sheets from its packaging. I gently placed a foil sheet over the top of the leaf and lifted up. On the right, you can see the foil on the leaf. It didn’t cover the entire surface, and that is ok, because that is what I wanted.
Over the same leaf, I placed a sheet of copper foil and lifted. The copper foil filled in all the empty white spots! You can see on the right how beautiful the effect is!
Tip: If you continue to have white spots showing, keep placing the foil over the top. You can gently press the foils down as well.
And there they are, all the beautiful leaves!
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Supplies: Adhesives-Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L (3D Foam Leaves, 3D Foam Squares White Regular, E-Z Runner® Permanent Strips Refillable),
Designer Foils-Clearsnap (Gold, Copper), Patterned paper-DCWV (Linen Closet)
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Here’s how you can make your own card at home:
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.
Love, love, LOVE this technique-the foil and Adhesive Sheets work so well together!
Aren’t those birds cute! I {heart} them!
