Stenciled Cards = 3 cards

These cards turned out to a bit more of a mission than I thought, but in the end I made 3 cards. 

I wanted to make two stencilled and foiled cards with the Kaisercraft stencil called Holly. 

I used some deco foil transfer gel on a separate piece of card with a palette knife over the stencil and then foiled them with my Mink machine.  The green holly one turned out fine, but for some reason the poinsettia portion of the stencil oozed underneath the stencil, so looked awful when I foiled it.  I had several more goes, but with the same result…. Agggghh!

I think the stencil has a bit of a buckle in the plastic, so it just won’t sit flat. 

Soooooo… I ended up using the same stencil and did inking through it, with a darkish red (Altenew Coral Berry) and that worked fine.  

Then I decided instead of wasting the foiled ones that I had done, I cut out some of the better poinsettias out of the cards I had done, and stuck them all over a card panel. 

To make up the three cards, I cut the bottom of the card panels on an angle, then mounted that onto my card front, stuck a strip of co-ordinating foil card along that and trimmed off the ends. 

Then on another piece of scrap card, I cut the same angle and stamped my sentiment onto that, and stuck that to my card front.

Lastly on the inked stencilled card, I stuck some flat back white pearls into the centre of all of the poinsettias, and for the cut out foiled poinsettias, in between them, I put dots of liquid pearls dotted around the break the white spaces. 

So three cards with a similar look but all done a little differently!  Sometimes when things go wrong, there is a way to selvage the card, you just have to think outside the square!

I have a video of making the card.

If you would prefer to see it in full HD then hop over to my You Tube channel here.

The materials I used to make the card are:

3 Card base 5“ x 7”

Spare piece of card for the bottom sentiment

Strips of foil card

Red Decofoil foil

Heidi Swapp mint foil

Decofoil Transfer gel
Mink machine

Carrier sheets

Kaisercraft 12 x 12 stencil Holly

Versamark ink

Ranger Gold embossing powder

Ranger Silver Embossing powder

Versafine Onyx black ink

Heat tool

Kaisercraft mistletoe stamp

Joy crafts sentiment stamp

Altenew Crisp ink Coral Berry

Ranger small blending tool and sponge

Ruler

Craft knife

Cutter Bee scissors

Double sided tape

Scissors

White flat back pearls

Rouge liquid pearls

Nuvo deluxe adhesive

Tombow mono eraser