Drum Roll, Please! Foil Heat Transfer Christmas Card #6!

Here it is. . .my final foil heat transfer card using the card kit supplies from my October scrapbook shop class!  And, as in most of my other five cards, I finished this one at home as well, because of mojo inspiration during the class that told me I had some items at home that would enhance my finished card.

On this card, I chose a Have a Very Merry Christmas tag to use, to which I chose to add a Christmas green foil heat transfer.  My home adds were a green foil layer and a white backing cardstock to my vellum.  I followed the same plan with my green foiled tag, using green foil and punching the top with my Stampin' Up Ornate Tag Topper punch.  Though the tag topper is only built for a two-inch tag, I was able to insert my 2-1/16" larger tag into it very carefully, by holding the tag above the 2" path and an angle and watching for it on the underside of the punch...making sure it was inserted evenly from side to side and top edge to top edge.  I punch my 2-1/4" green foil backing layer in the same manner.  I was really happy with the way this turned out. . .and now with care, I can repeat this process in the future.  I added Pink Posh sequins to my shaker envelope to match my card colors.  I also added a Christmas green 5/8" double-sided satin ribbon to dress up the top of my card.  I've always like using true Christmas green rather than off shades, like olive, on my Christmas cards!

Recipe:  Bazzill: White cardstock.  DCWV Foil Cardstock Stack (green).  Studio Calico Seven Paper Amelia Gold Dot Vellum.  Heidi Swapp Minc Tags (. . .Merry Christmas) (made with Minc Heat Machine + Minc Reactive Foil: Green.  Stampin' Up: Ornate Tag Topper.  Pink Posh: green, gold, crystal mini sequins.  Offray: 5/8" Double-Satin ribbon.  WRMK Photo Fuse sleeve (made with WRMK Photo Fuse Tool).  (Size: 4-3/8" x 5-7/8").

Christmas Heat Transfer Card #5!

Oh yes, I have more; that is, six all together, and this is only #5!  I do love these techniques. . . creating shaker envelopes, made to size by using my WRMK Photo Fuse Tool, and the foil heat transfer technique, which in the class I took at my local scrapbook store, was accomplished using Heidi Swapp Minc Heat Foil, Tags, and her Heat Machine.  As mentioned in a previous post, the heat machine is very much like a small laminator only a bit more elaborate, as it has six heat settings.  I also might add that it is a pricey little machine as well ($79.99 retail).  Thus, if you've read any of my previous posts, I have mentioned the use of a inexpensive laminator and using a laser toner printer or laser toner copy machine to create your heat transfer item.  A trip to your local copier business might be in order if you do not own a laser toner printer/copier as inkjet printer/copiers do NOT work.

My fifth card used most of the items offered in the class card kit, but again, I had some ideas of my own. . .after all our instructor challenged us to make our cards different than the samples offered in the class.  Give me a challenge, and I will certainly try to accommodate!

I decided to use the olive-colored Holly Jolly sentiment tag in my card kit and to heat transfer a small and a large snowflake with the gold heat transfer foil and layer the snowflakes together by popping the smaller snowflake up on the big snowflake.   At this step, once again, I had to stop because my creative mojo was telling me I needed to use a bit more of the olive color in my card to tie it all together.  I also wanted to use both the gold-dot foil cardstock and the gold-dot vellum and I needed some white cardstock to back the vellum so that the gold foil would not show through the translucent vellum.  My thinking was that this would show off the gold foil snowflakes in my my shaker envelope better.  I made a large-sized white cardbase and added an olive cardstock layer to it before I added the gold-dot foil and gold-dot vellum layers.  I also added olive sequins to my shaker bag.  Now, I was satisfied that all my colors and elements tied together to creative a cohesive looking Chirstmas card.

Recipe:  SU cardstock: Whisper White, Old Olive.  Jen Hadfield Gold Dot Foil.  Studio Calico Seven Paper Amelia Gold Dot Vellum.  Heidi Swapp Minc Tags (snowflake) (made with Minc Heat Machine + Minc Reactive Foil: Gold.  American Crafts: Remarks Holiday Dimensional sentiments.  American Crafts Christmas Sequins & Buttons.  Cake Sprinkles (snow).  WRMK Photo Fuse sleeve (made with WRMK Photo Fuse Tool).  (Size: 4-7/16" x 5-9/16").

Christmas Deer Foil Heat Transfer!

Again, I'm posting another foil heat transfer card that I finished after my demonstration tool card class held at Running Scissors in Kent, WA almost two weeks ago.  I really love this heat transfer technique, but there are other ways to achieve almost this very look, which I thought I'd throw out there.  I have a deer-head die, by Savvy dies, almost identical to the deer-head tag that was in our heat transfer pouch of tags that we received at the beginning of the class.  I think that if you die-cut this deer-head die with a gold foil cardstock and adhered it to a piece of white stock and then trimmed the white cardstock to whatever shape you desire, you would end up with almost the exact look!

The deer-head tag on my card was achieved by heat transferring gold transfer foil onto my specially designed tag, which was manufactured to accept foil heat transfers.  I finished my card at home, because I wanted to add several other features that required materials that were not offered in our card kits.  These were:  a red cardbased upon which I layered white glitter cardstock.  I also wanted to back my gold dot vellum with a piece of white cardstock and then frame it with a red foil layer.  I layered my deer tag with red foil cardstock as well, and to the cake sprinkles and gold sequins provided in my kit, I added red sequins to tie all my card colors together with the shaker envelope goodies.  I really love these trendy deers that I see popping up all over Pinterest!  Here is my little deer-head Christmas card for your viewing:

Recipe:  SU cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White.  Core'dinations Silk Glitter: Opulent Opal.  DCWV Foil Cardstock Stack (red).  Studio Calico Seven Paper Amelia Gold Dot Vellum.  Heidi Swapp Minc Tags (deer head) (made with Minc Heat Machine + Minc Reactive Foil: Red.  American Crafts: Remarks Holiday Dimensional sentiments.  American Crafts Christmas Sequins & Buttons.  Pink Posh: red mini sequins.  Cake Sprinkles (snow).  WRMK Photo Fuse sleeve (made with WRMK Photo Fuse Tool).  (Size: 4-3/8" x 5-7/8").

Photo Fuse Christmas Shaker w/Foil Transfer. . .

I want to show you my third shaker Christmas card that I made using the WRMK Photo Fuse Tool, which makes your acrylic shaker envelope by heat sealing the edge.  Inside my shaker envelope I chose to use the 'tis the Season... tag after using the Minc Heat Transfer technique that adhere red foil to my tag.  As I noted in several previous posts, I recently saw these tools demonstrated at a card class held at our new Running Scissors scrapbook store in Kent, Washington. 

To my shaker tag, I decided to adhere a red foil cardstock layer to my tag a cut their corners using the WRMK Deco corner punch.  I added several layers to my white cardbase using red foil cardstock and a Christmas tree patterned paper featured just under neath my tag shaker envelope.  Next, I dressed it up with a little sheer organdy ribbon that a colored with my Copic markers to move its color shade a bit closer to my patterned paper.  I am really pleased with the results, and I hope you like it as well!

Recipe:  SU Whisper White cardstock; red foil cardstock (2015 Holiday catalog).  DCWV Christmas Mat Stack.  Heidi Swapp Minc Tags ('tis the season...), Minc Reactive Foil: Red (used with Minc Heat Machine).  Pink Posh: red mini sequins.  Craft Medley: green sequins.  WRMK Photo Fuse sleeve (made with WRMK Photo Fuse Tool).  Cake Sprinkles (snow).  Offray 5/8" Sheer ribbon (colored with Copic marker).  (Size: 4-5/8" x 5-3/4").

Another Christmas Class Card!

For my second card from the Running Scissors card class presented by Darcy Christensen, Regional Manager for American Crafts, I used a Nordic patterned tag and decided to do my foil transfer in red using the American Crafts Minc heat machine.  I had an idea in mind to use this patterned tag with an overlay of a glittery white reindeer, using a punch I had recently purchased, so I decided to wait until I got home to finish the card.

I also wanted to use a red card base and a second layer of the white glittery paper to coordinated with my little reindeer.  I added white cake sprinkles for snow and some mini red sequins from home to complete my shaker.  Once again, I used the WRMK Photo Fuse to size seal my shaker bag to the exact size I wanted.  Of the sentiment tags package we were given, I chose the red with white Merry Christmas.  I am super pleased with my results using these clever tools.

Recipe:  SU cardstock: Real Red.  Core'dinations Silk Glitter: Opulent Opal.  Jen Hadfield Gold Dot Foil.  Heidi Swapp Minc Tags (Nordic pattern), Minc Reactive Foil: Red.  Paper Studio punch: Reindeer XXL.  American Crafts: Remarks Holiday Dimensional sentiments.  Pink Posh: red mini sequins.  WRMK Photo Fuse sleeve.  WRMK Photo Fuse Tool.  Cake Sprinkles (snow).  (Size: 4-3/8" x 5-5/8").

Christmas is Coming!

I've been attending several fun cardmaking events and have made about 20 of my Christmas cards so far.  Tonight, I went to a great event at the new Running Scissors scrapbooking store in East Hill Kent.  Darcy Christensen, Regional Manager for American Crafts, was visiting the store to give a card class and demonstrate two new American Craft tools, the WRMK Photo Fuse Tool (which makes wonderful shaker card envelopes) and the Mini Minc Machine using the Minc transfer foils.  Note: There are other brands of heat transfer foils on the market as well, such as: Therm O Web Deco Foil, iCraft Deco Transfer Foil, etc.

We were given six white card bases, envelopes, embossed gold foil paper, vellum foil, Minc Tags to use with the Minc foil and the Minc Heat Transfer machine, Photo Fuse sleeves to use with the WRMK Photo Fuse Tool to make clear shaker envelopes, sequins, white cake sprinkles (for snow), washi tape, and American Crafts Holiday dimensional sentiment tags.  We also received paper cutting instructions for the six samples cards Darcy had created for the class.  We started with mostly different Minc tags than Darcy used plus a few that were the same.  She challenged us to come up with six cards that were different than hers.

For my first card that I completed at the store, I chose to make my snowflake red with the red transfer foil.  I added not only white cake sprinkles for snow but some round red, green sequins with a few gold star sequins to coordinate with the gold foil dot background.  I added the kraft sentiment tag with holly berries and finished it off with holly berry washi tape at the top.

It was so much fun to use the new American Craft tools.  I have my own brand new WRMK Photo Fuse tool and have used it a few times in the past few weeks, and loved every moment.  I hard of applying foil via heat transfer, but had never seen the Minc Heat Machine in action.  It was impressive, and I love the results.

Recipe:  SU Whisper White cardstock.  DCWV Foiled Cardstock Stack.  Jen Hadfield Gold Dot Foil.  Heidi Swapp Minc Tags (snowflake).  Minc Reactive Foil: Red (used with Minc Heat Machine).  American Crafts: Remarks Holiday Dimensional sentiments.  American Crafts Christmas Sequins & Buttons.  Cake Sprinkles (snow).  WRMK Photo Fuse sleeve (made with WRMK Photo Fuse Tool).  (Size: 4-1/4" x 5-1/2").