A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Wednesday 13 October 2021

Foil and Snowflakes

Recently a few of us played with foil over Zoom.  One of the techniques we tried was dry embossing foil cs and then sanding off some of the raised layer to reveal the core colour of the foil cs.  See this video by Jennifer Maguire.

I enjoyed the technique so much that I used it to create a card for a couple of October challenges that call for snowflakes.  Here's my card:

I embossed a piece of blue foil cs with a snowflake swirl embossing folder and then sanded off the raised area.  It revealed a silver colour under the blue so I added it to a silver shimmer card base and die cut a couple of snowflakes and a Tim Holtz sentiment circle out of the same silver shimmer cs.

For these challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round "Something that Starts with S or T"

Christmas 24 Challenge "Simply Snowflakes" 











Supplies:
Paper - blue matte foil and silver shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Cuttlebug embossing folder, TH snow circle die, Impression Obsession snowflake dies

8 comments:

  1. The technique sure does produce a unique and beautiful effect. A stunner of a card Susan x.

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  2. Your results are just beautiful. A fun technique that made a gorgeous card, Susan.

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  3. So beautiful, love the colour..
    Thank you so much for sharing and joining in with us at CCAYR...[ Christmas Crafts All Year Round]

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  4. Beautiful Susan, love the embossing folder- it's such a pretty design :)

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  5. Beautiful job with this technique! I have some colored Shimmer Sheets here and embossing folders I never used so thank you for the inspiration. Love it on the blue!

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  6. This technique and the blue foil work beautifully for snowflakes, Susan! A beautiful card!

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  7. Fabulous embossed snowflake card, Susan! The sanded silver part shows so beautifully, and the silver shimmer card base and die-cuts give the card a sense of unity.
    Hideko xx

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  8. This is beautiful, Susan. I really love this technique. Using foil card stock really ups the elegance of a card. xx

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