A Floral Card

 

Today I am showing you a floral card. There is a little story as to how I made the background so read on it you are interested in that.

I don't have a hot foil machine. I have several die cut machines but none that I can use the hot foil machine with so I came up with another solution and to find out if it would work you need to try it right. So here is what I did to get that gold foil border on my background.
I printed a green colored digital paper from Nitwit Collections. It was from the collection Snow Family. I used my inkjet printer for this part. I found a nice border graphic on Creative Fabrica and I then placed the background paper I just pinted into my lasterjet printer and printed the border in black onto the background paper I just made. I then added a piece of gold foil onto the background paper and ran it twice through my heated laminator. I then couldn't wait to reveal it to see if my idea work. Guess what it did. It looks so beautiful and shiny. If in future any of my current machines will need replacement I may buy a Spellbinders machine but for now it works like a charm.

So and for the rest of the card I used the leaves of Papertrey Ink Into The Blooms Anemone set. I inked these with Distress Ink Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain and added some pearls on it. The flowers I made some time ago so I don't remember the brand. I was giving glitter centers a try and I saved them to use later and they were perfect for this card. The white panel is from Papertrey Ink Reflections September die. I added some white sheer organza ribbon through it. The Love sentiment die is also from Papertrey Ink and I cut it out of gold metallic cardsock. 

So that was quite a story to tell on this card. I hope this will inspire you to make your own foiled backgrounds without owning a hot foil machine.

I will be adding this to the following challenges:
Kaartjes Inspiratie #209 - Flowers/Bloemen
CD Sunday Plus #165 - Anything Digital Goes
The Flower Challenge #105 - Add Embellishments
Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Floral Goes
Creative Uncles #68 - Anything Goes
Dragonfly Dreams August 2025 - Lots Of Layers
Creative Inspirations August 2025 - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations August 2025 - Anything Goes
Creataliciious #292 - Anything Goes Optional Bling
Ally's Angels #97 - Anything Goes

Till next time
Renate