Want To Make Your Cards Stand Out?

Hot Foiling

The first step is to do our hot foiling. And, there are a couple of things you can do to help with the quality of your foiling:

• Use very smooth cardstock
• Add a shim if you need one
• Make sure that your foiling machine is hot enough (let it warm up even longer than the manufacturer says to)
• Take your time

For this card, we’re going to use the gold foil that comes with the monthly kit and a piece of 5″ x 7″ white cardstock. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions for your foiling machine to do your foiling. You might as well foil the sentiment too while you’re at it.

Stand Out Coloring

After the foiling is done, we can now begin to color the image. I like to use water-reactive colored pencils to do this because you can achieve vibrant colors and beautiful blending. To achieve bright colors like mine, you’ll want to add a lot of pigment to the images. Color them in like you would in a coloring book.  These are the Derwent Inktense colors that I used:

• Cadmium Yellow
• Golden Yellow
• Cadmium Orange
• Beech Green
• Hooker’s Green
• Felt Green

Additionally, you can add detail and shading by blending different colors. For example, add a little of the yellow-orange pencil that you’re using on the center of the daffodils on the petals where they meet the center. And then, color the rest of the petals with yellow. When you add water to activate the pigment, you’ll blend the two colors to create beautiful shading.

Same with the leaves, I always add a little bit of yellow at the tops of my leaves to make it look like the sun is hitting them.

Die-cutting and Assembly of the Stand Out Daffodil Spray Card

Make sure that your panel is good and dry before going on to the next step. Go ahead and die-cut the sentiment with the coordinating die that comes with the glimmer plate. And then, cut three more from white cardstock.

I like to use rectangle dies to trim my card panels. As a result, they are perfectly square. This is important to me because I have a hard time getting things lined up as it is. So, I used a stitched 4 1/4″ x 6 1/4″ die to trim the foiled card panel. Then, I used a plain 4 3/8″ x 6 3/8″ rectangle die to trim a saffron panel.

Now, all that is left is to assemble the card.

Fasten the foiled and colored panel to the saffron one with a tape runner. Then, center it directly onto a 5″ x 7″ white card base using the tape runner again. Now, layer the sentiment pieces together with liquid glue making sure that the one with the sentiment on it is on the top. And finally, attach the sentiment to the card base with liquid glue.

Stand Out Burnished Gold Daffodils