ThermOWeb and Ink Blot Shop Collab | Adding Foil 3 Ways

There are so many ways to add Deco Foil to your cards. I'm sharing three card backgrounds featuring easy foiling techniques as part of the ThermOWeb and Ink Blot Shop collab! 

The backgrounds of these three cards really shine! Literally! I used three different ways of adding Deco Foil to backgrounds. They're all easy!

I wanted to try a bit of masking withe the Ink Blot Shop Superhero Bursts Stencil, so I sprayed the back of the negative pieces with Pixie Spray and arranged them on my card. I sprayed the back of the Wild Hatch Herringbone Stencil and placed that onto the cardstock on top of the masking stencils and used my Stencil Pal to spread Deco Foil Transfer Gel Blanco over the stencil. I removed the masking pieces and set the panel aside to dry. Once it was dry I transferred a piece of Rainbow Shattered Glass Deco Foil to the background using Deco Foil Parchment Paper and my laminator. 

I used a Let's Get Crafty Gel Pen to outline the bursts so that they would stand out and stamped a face from the Funny Faces Stamp Set in each burst. I stamped sentiments from the Spaced Out Greetings Stamp Set around the bursts and finished off this card with some adorable googly eyes.

My second background technique ends up with two cards! Bonus! I saw the numbers background sheet from the Brutus Monroe Really Radiant Toner Card Front Mixables pack and thought it would pair perfectly with the Teacher Greetings Stamp Set from ink Blot Shop! I transferred a piece of Glass Slipper Deco Foil to the Toner Card Front with my laminator using Deco Foil Parchment Paper. 

I cut the Toner Card Front so that I could get two cards from one background and used my iCraft Ultra Bond Liquid Adhesive Pen to adhere a thin strip of coordinating cardstock to give the eye a "break," I stamped the sentiments using the Teacher Greetings Stamp Set as well as the Spaced Out Greetings Stamp Set. Some pearls help tie everything together! 

Ready for the last foil technique? This one lets you create a full foiled background! I trimmed a piece of a Deco Foil Toner Sheet to the size of an A2 card and transferred Magenta Deco Foil to it using my laminator. I LOVE that I can customize foiled backgrounds to any color! I stepped up the background by heat embossing the Ink Blot Shop Starry Sprinkle Background Stamp onto the foiled background, Be sure to watch my video for tips! 

When paired with my starry background I think the Scribble Circle Stamp Set looks like a fancy planet! I added my "planet" to the left side of my card with 1/16" Jumbo Foam Tape and topped off the card with a sentiment that I stamped and fussy cut from the Greetings to You Stamp Set. 

I hope you've enjoyed coming on this fun foiling journey with me! I'll see you again soon! 

InkOn3 | Ink Smooshing with Atelier Inks

Can't stop won't stop with the rainbow Christmas cards! I used some Atelier Inks from InkOn3 to create a smooshy rainbow background for this punny card! 

I would like to start an official petition to bring back ink smooshing! Haha! It's one of my favorite techniques. It's effortless and easy to blend colors for an organic looking background. I pressed some Bee Sting Atelier Ink onto my work surface. I use a glass mat, but a piece of plastic packaging would work, too! I sprayed the ink once or twice with water and then used an old stamp pocket ( again, a piece of plastic would work just fine! ) and picked up some of the ink and pressed it onto a piece of watercolor cardstock. I repeated the process with Trinity Teal Atelier Ink and Sweet Petunia Atelier Ink, The colors mixed together giving me a rainbow background! 

I added a spritz of water to a drop of Shark Tooth White Atelier Re-Inker and used a paint brush to spatter some paint onto my background. I used Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink to stamp the adorable images and color them with Copic Markers. I trimmed out the images and added them to the smooshy background with foam tape. 

I wanted this card to shimmer and shine, so I added a good and healthy coat of Liquid Pixie Dust to the peas and the earth. That's all! I hope you try this smooshing tutorial! 

Peas on Earth

Hi! I picked up the Peas on Earth stamp set from Ink Blot Shop last Christmas and I'm ashamed to say I'm using it for the first time! It's such a cute stamp set! I love that it has images and sentiments for making classic Christmas cards as well as cute ones! I decided to use the cute peas and coordinating sentiment to make today's card!

I'm not very artistic....at all. And I have a small work area and I only have room for basic supplies on my desk. I wanted to watercolor a rainbow of colors in a circle shape in the middle of my card. Usually I sketch out a circle using a circle die or a bowl, but this was an impromptu card and I was too lazy to get up and grab something to create a perfect circle! Haha! So I tried to freehand it - and as you can see - it didn't work too great. Oh well! I wasn't going to scrap it! I never do! I used my Gansai Tambi watercolors and stamped the earth and little flourish with Versamark ink and white embossing powder. I wanted the sentiment to be in white, but I knew it wouldn't show up. Looking at it now I should have used white embossing on black cardstock.

I stamped the little peas and some Santa hats, colored them with watercolors, and fussy cut them. I adhered them on top of the earth with foam squares!

Thanks for joining me! This stamp set is one I will be using again!