Hi and welcome! I'm thrilled to have been invited to be a Surprise Party Guest at Seize the Birthday for July and August. Seize the Birthday is a fabulous challenge because (a) who doesn't need birthday cards? (b) as well as a theme, there is always an Anything Goes birthday card challenge; and (c) the design team create the most wonderful cards as inspiration.
Today's challenge is Metallic. Lately, whenever I think metallic, I think hot foil, so that's the direction I went with my card:
Apologies for the photo - it's quite hard to get that metallic shine while still keeping the rest of the card looking normal! For my card I hot-foiled the A2 rectangle plate onto a white panel and also hot-foiled several stars and the sentiment - all from gold hot foil.
I then die-cut the stars with the matching dies and interlaced them by cutting through the bottom layer and hiding the cut behind the star on top of it. The sentiment was die-cut with a sentiment label die and added with foam tape.
Products used:
Cardstock: White
Dies: Nested Stars Hot Foil, Nested Stars (Pink Fresh), A2 Layers Hot Foil (Waffle Flower), Essential Glimmer Sentiments (Spellbinders)
Cheers
Karren
12 comments:
Love your beautiful gold foil stars Karren. Great layout too. Glad to have you joining us on Seize the Birthday.
This is fantastic Karren! Perfect for the challenge - love how your stars are all interlocked together. I have yet to try hot foiling - on my to-do list. So glad you are joining us at Seize the Birthday.
Welcome to guesting! Gorgeous start. Love your watermark too 😊
Welcome to the challenge so glad to see you here! Nancy knows How to pick them. I absolutely love this card and I can see many occasions for it. Birthdays are only one, there are congrats, anniversaries and special occasions. Now I am sorry that I left my hot foil machine in Florida where we winter. Well, something to look forward to as I will be pinning this card.
Gorgeous Karren. Love the modern graphic look.
I had to come by and leave a proper comment even though I got a sneak peek at this. LOL Welcome, Karren! We are thrilled to have you designing alongside us for the next two months. As for your debut card...I love your foiled stars and how you linked them together in your design. Awesome job! Have a great weekend!
Wonderful metallic card Karren, love the look of foiling and have got the gear but am yet to try it! You've inspired me to give it a go, thankyou for being our guest at STB, Cathy x
So cute. Regine
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Fab card! Karen! Clever interlinking, and I love how the big star is chopped off at the edge. Great to have you join us as our surprise party guest
Welcome Karren to STB, we are so happy to have you as our Special Party Guest! And thanks for such an awesome birthday card. I love all the foiling and who doesn't love GOLD!! I look forward to seeing more of you designs in the next two months! Heart Hugs, Colleen
Dear Karren
Welcome to the Seize the Birthday Challenge
I came upon your blog by accident and I am so happy I did. I made two birthday cards for my dear Grand daughter Rashida and My lovely Son in law Ciaran who are celebrating their birthdays next month and they are in Christchurch too. I am in Sri Lanka and i had to make the cards and post them early. I posted them and I wanted to forward them to a challenge and here I am.I come to Christchurch often and the next time I come I wish I can meet you permitted you like it. I am so sorry to hear about your loss and pray that God gives you and Your family the strength to bear the loss.I know it is not easy to lose a child but God always has a plan. With loads of love and blessings
I am in love with your card, Karren! Stars, gold, more stars, foil and one more star - love them all!! :D Thank you for joining us at Seize the Birthday and looking forward to playing with you in the coming months!
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